An unusual name: Ouple Dicke? Coupledicke?

Question

I am baffled! Transcriptions of two different documents for the same marriage record give Ouple Dicke and Coupledicke as the wife of Nicholas Lewin, and the handwriting is VERY clear. Date: 20 October 1629. (NO profiles yet)

Bishop's transcript:  https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:S3HT-D47W-1ZK?i=33

Parish register:  https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:S3HY-6PCZ-M1L?i=18

I need someone with a sharper mind (not that such a person would be hard to find!) to look at these and let me know what you think. THANKS!

Comments

I've seen that name before as Cobbledicke. I thought it was the funniest name I'd ever seen until I discovered Fanny Rabbetts

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Rob, you so funny! This was the first time I’d come across this one. Cupledicke, cuppledicke, Coupledicke. And now cobbledicke. I wonder what the name means!

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Rob, I wonder if your Rabbetts are related to my Rabbitt (Rabbit) family somewhere back a way.

Answer 1

FMP 

Role Groom

Record set Kent Marriages And Banns

First name(s) Nicholas

Last name Lewin

Marriage year 1629

Spouse's first name(s) May

Spouse's last name Coupledick

County Kent

Country England

Place Frant, St Alban

Marriage date 20 Oct 1629

Notes Similar entry Speldhurst 28 Sep 1629

Supplier Kent Family History Society

Record source West Kent Marriage Index, Frant marriages 1544-1812

Category Life Events (BDMs)

Subcategory Parish Marriages

Collections from England, Great Britain

Kent Family History Society

© Kent Family History Society

Comments

Looking at the image of the Speldhurst register on Findmypast, the entry reads:

Nicholas Lewen & Mercie Cuppledike mar. Sept 28 [1629]

I suspect this record actually refers to the reading of the banns, since there is the other record at Frant less than a month later.

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And here is her baptism (image at Findmypast), also at Speldhurst, Kent:

Mercye filia Henry Coppledicke Chr. Maye 3 [1607] 

Edit: Added "e" to end of Coppledicke (hard to read in image, but I'm pretty sure it's there)

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If the same man he didn’t live much longer

First name(s) Nicholas

Last name Lewin

Age -

Birth year -

Death year 1639

Burial year 1639

Burial date 28 Jul 1639

Dedication St.Bartholomew

Place Maresfield

County Sussex

Country England

Record set Sussex Burials

Category Life Events (BDMs)

Subcategory Parish Burials

Collections from England, Great Britain

Sussex Family History Group

Transcriptions © Sussex Family History Group

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Brilliant, Marion. Just brilliant! Thank you SO MUCH! 

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Spouse's first name(s) May

Spouse's last name Coupledick

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It looks to me as though this transcriber saw the "May" from the next page and took it to be her forename, whereas there is actually a gap in that one register where the forename should be.

 I think Nic Donnelly's find of "Mercye" ("Mercie) is more likely the actual name.

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Thanks, Melanie! Much appreciated.

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Excellent, Nic! Looks like I'm getting ready to fall into a rabbit hole with this family, but it ought to be some fun.

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Mercye filia Henry Coppledicke Chr. Maye 3 [1607] 

Nic, do you have the citation for this for me to include on the profile?

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Certainly, here it is:

Speldhurst Parish (Kent, England), Register of Baptisms (1538-1700) Marriages (1538-1701) and Burials (1538-1680), p. 21, Mercye Coppledicke baptised 3 May 1607; "Kent Baptisms," database with images, ''Findmypast'' (https://www.findmypast.co.uk : accessed 28 September 2019), [https://https://search.findmypast.co.uk/record/browse?id=gbprs%2fkent%2fp344_1_a_1%2f13&parentid=gbprs%2fkent%2fp344_1_a_1%2f13 image] 13 of 59 (subscription required); citing P344/1/A/1, Kent History and Library Centre, Maidstone.

It certainly is an interesting name, not one I'd come across, so I ended up spending a bit of time yesterday reading up on Copperdick/Coppledick and the numerous variants!

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Thanks! There’s a bunch in Lincolnshire. Don’t know how one family got down to Sussex. Now to see if I can connect them. Henricus in Lincolnshire might be the key.

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Nic, I was showing my wife some of her ancestry on WikiTree, randomly picking a tree further back. Lo and behold, those Copledikes in Lincolnshire are in her lines. Source: Visitations of Lincolnshire.

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How cool! I wonder how that branch came to be in Speldhurst? They seem to be the only Coupledicke family in Kent/Sussex, so may have been fairly recent migrants to the area (presumably having come from Lincolnshire).

Let me know if you want to dive further into that rabbit hole and I can extract the relevant records from the Speldhurst parish register via Findmypast. I did notice there are Coupledicke entries going back to 1580, when George, son of George, was baptised. Possibly a brother of Henry, the father of Mercy.

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Rabbit hole. Just what I need, but my curiosity is getting the best of me. Since this is the SAT weekend, I won’t be able to get to this until next week, and even though this family is not directly related to me, I do want to explore it.

I agree that this family must be recent immigrants to Sussex, and I can’t help but to think they’re connected to the Lincolnshire group. Let’s do this!

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Sounds like a plan!