Richard RIPPINGTON Sarah SIMS Harriet SIMS Emily SIMS Mary Ann SIMS Jane SIMS Charles Henry SIMS Fanny SIMS Richard SIMS Martha ROBBINS Ann RIPPINGTON Richard RIPPINGTON Joseph Simms RIPPINGTON Mary Anne RIPPINGTON William RIPPINGTON John RIPPINGTON Thomas RIPPINGTON Henry RIPPINGTON Charles RIPPINGTON Vincent RIPPINGTON Mark RIPPINGTON Edwin RIPPINGTON Joseph RIPPINGTON Mary SIMMS Mini tree diagram

Richard SIMS1,2,3,4

1799 - 1881

Butcher's Labourer

Life History

1799

Born in Marston, Oxfordshire

17th Mar 1799

Baptised in Marston, Oxfordshire

12th Jan 1824

Married Martha ROBBINS in Marston, Oxfordshire.5

1825

Birth of son Sarah SIMS in Marston, Oxfordshire

1827

Birth of daughter Harriet SIMS in Marston, Oxfordshire

1832

Birth of daughter Emily SIMS in Marston, Oxfordshire

1834

Birth of daughter Mary Ann SIMS in Marston, Oxfordshire

1836

Birth of daughter Jane SIMS in Marston, Oxfordshire

1837

Birth of son Charles Henry SIMS in Marston, Oxfordshire

1841

Birth of daughter Fanny SIMS in Marston, Oxfordshire

1841

Occupation Agricultural Labourer

1841

Resident in Marston, Oxfordshire

Sims (Richard) 1841 Census

1843

Birth of son Richard SIMS in Marston, Oxfordshire

1851

Occupation Butcher's Labourer

1851

Resident in Marston, Oxfordshire

Sims (Richard) 1851 Census pt.1
Sims (Richard) 1851 Census pt.2

1861

Occupation Agricultural Labourer

1861

Resident in Loder's Lane, Marston, Oxfordshire

Sims (Richard) 1861 Census

1864

Death of daughter Mary Ann SIMS in Headington Registration District, Oxford, Oxfordshire

1871

Occupation Labourer

1871

Resident in Marston, Oxfordshire

Sims (Richard) 1871 Census

1872

Death of Martha ROBBINS in Headington Registration District, Oxford, Oxfordshire

1881

Died in Headington Registration District, Oxford, Oxfordshire

Notes

  • He was baptised with his mother's surname of Sims but the father is not named.  Whilst from the name of Richard it might be suspected that Richard Rippington was the father there is a great bit of oral evidence that passed down through the family.  According to one of his descendants Jennifer Wright there is a family legend.
    "My grandmother told me that her mother Jane Gurden (nee) Sims had told her a story about a Sim(m)s being brought up in the wrong household and that they should be wealthy. Jane Sims was married to James Henry Gurden and he was the son of James Gurden and Sarah Simms. Sarah was the daughter of the illigitimate Richard. So now after some years of research I think this is what she was talking about. I had always assumed that it was Jane Sims family. I know that the Rippington family were wealthy landowners and Richard and Mary left everything to all their other children .I think the illigitimate Richard was brought up by another family and completely disowned by his true parents. I am sure this is the family grumble that has passed down several generations!"
    The strange thing is that Richard seems to have lived and worked in Marston for his whole life, cheek by jowl with the Rippington family.
  • England & Wales, FreeBMD Death Index: 1837-1915
    Name: Richard Sims
    Estimated Birth Year: abt 1799
    Date of registration: Oct-Nov-Dec 1881
    Age at Death: 82
    Registration district: Headington
    Inferred County: Oxfordshire
    Volume: 3a
    Page: 399

Sources

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