Benjamin Sparrow (1747 - 1833)

Born 1747 in Plympton Earl, Devon

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Died 24 Jun 1833 at about age 86 in Ivybridge in Devon

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Biography

Benjamin Sparrow was baptised at Plympton Erle on 5 October 1747. He married Elizabeth Stidston on 22 June 1771 at Ringmore. John Hatch was a witness at the wedding and Benjamin was a witness at John Hatch’s wedding. Benjamin and Elizabeth had seven children, all baptised at All Hallows Church, Ringmore by Kingsbridge, between 1772 and 1795. Benjamin was a churchwarden at Ringmore in 1771 to 73 with William Stidston. Elizabeth died on 13 November 1805 aged 54 and was buried at Ringmore. [gravestone] She was the daughter of a farmer of some note, William Stidston, and was baptised at Modbury on 27 February 1750. Benjamin Sparrow of Kinmare (Ringmore?) gent in 1800. Benjamin Sparrow of Rinmore yeoman a widower married Elizabeth Cole of Mary Tavy widow by lic on 31 March 1809. [m.lic] Benjamin was living at Ivybridge in 1833, and died on 24 June 1833 aged 85 at Ringmore [gravestone] and at the time had leasehold premises in Ringmore and a fishery at Chartaborough (Challaborough?) and boats. He left £1600 to son Benjamin, £20 each to his grandson Henry Shapter and his children as they turned 21. £100 to William Shapter, Edward Shapter, £308 to Marianne Hill and to Elizabeth Shapter. To William Cornish (Crimp), son-in-law and to Joanna Cornish (Crimp) £1300, £162 each to William, Garland, John and James Cornish and to Charlotte Blackler, Elizabeth Blackler, Benjamin C and Pruthesia Wyatt. Challaborough is a bay between Ringmore and Bigbury. Here Higher Fisherie and Lower Fisherie are shown on a map dated 1825. . The cellar or storage huts where pilchards were salted and cured were built, above high tide, of local materials. At its peak there were six seines belonging to different owners working here at Challaborough. [The History of Fishing at Challaborough, by the Ringmore Historical Society]

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• baptism in parish register of Plympton Erle 5 Oct 1747. His marriage and baptisms of his children in parish register of All Hallows Ringmore. Gravestone at Ringmore

(second) marriage license in 1809.