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Klysiak changed his name to Kleshock
Richard is mentioned in the Helston Overseers Accounts.
* 1754 - "To Richard Ripper's family very poor and sick, two shillings". This payment was around the time of the burial of the two youngest children, Frances and Elizabeth.
Frances' burial is recorded as the daughter of Richard & Jane Repper.
Elizabeth's burial is recorded as the daughter of Richard & Jane Repper.
Pascaw was a resident of Ruthdower Mill. Until 1586 this was in the role of the tenant but under the terms of a new lease created at that time he relinquished his tenancy. No record of a new lease in his name has been traced.
William and Joan and their family lived at Crawle. Following their deaths the tenancy of Crawle passed to William's younger brother John, whose family who remained there for a further 100 years.
The Court Rolls of 24th October 1586 record the following:
* William and Pascasius, sons of William Repper deceased, and John son of John Ripper surrendered their title to the grain mill called Ruthdower.
* The new lease was taken up by William Ripper, Pascasia his wife and Andrew their son. With the mill went the obligation to grind there by the tenants of the manor of Pengwedna and Prospidneck.
* On the same date John and William Ripper surrendered the tenement in Cariohall which had been leased to them on 16th January 1577.
* The new lease on Cariohall was in the names of John Ripper, John Ripper his son and Constance Squire the daughter of Richard Squire.
The above details have been supplied by Mr H Douch, previous curator of the Royal Institution in Truro, Cornwall, having extracted this lease from the Arundell Papers.
In the Arundell Papers at the County Record Office in Cornwall, the tenants of the manor of Pengwedna are listed as at 28 March 1657. At that time Francis Sparnon was required to pay for a water course which "goeth unto his stamping mill, the cost one shilling". Also at that time the tenants of Ruthdower Mill were John Pascow (39) and his wife Grace (41), the third life being their son John (4). This indicates a birthdate for Grace of about 1616.
William Ripper (b abt 1528) had a son Harry (Henry) who was born around 1550. Harry in turn had a son Benedict around 1580 who had a daughter Grace in 1605.
The dates are a little misaligned but this Grace could be the same Grace as married John Pascow. The parish registers for the time of the Commonwealth are incomplete and have no evidence to support this, but it is an interesting theory which could be investigated, if any other source material could be located.
William wrote a will which was proved after his death but this has since been lost. The loss has been confirmed by the County Record Office in Cornwall.
Penny Demetriou-Miners who has been researching the Ripper family as progenitors of her Strike family ancestors has recorded this person as Elizabeth. I have not been able to establish her source.
My source for this is largely from wills and transcribed IGI entries and original research in parish registers, but she may have something better to make this deduction.
In his father's will, dated 1616, there is a field known as 'parke Andrean'.
Andrew is recorded as being from 'Ruisse'. This may be or near to the family home of Ruthdower.
At his baptism the register records his father as Andrea at "Ruisse".
Given that his father had two further children called William, the second of which died in infancy, it is unlikely that this William survived beyond infancy.
Stephen is mentioned in the will of his grandfather - William Ripper.
He is mentioned in will of his grandfather - William Ripper.
The baptism entry does not give a christian name, but the burial records that a Maria was buried, the daughter of Andrea Ripper; there is no other record of a child called Maria. It seems reasonable to assume that the burial and the baptism are both Maria.
Martin Ripper's notes suggest that the date could be the 10th of November 1621 and that the father's name could be something like "Codoir".
William had been a joint tenant of Ruthdower Mill with his brother Pascasius and his cousin John before 1586. At that time the living arrangements at Crawle were reorganised and William and his family took on the tenancy. The three lives on the lease were William, his wife Pascasia and their son Andrew. There are no records to relate what happened to his brother Pascasius and it is possible that he remained living with William even though his name was not on the lease.
A dower house is a smaller house near a larger one which forms part of the estate in which a widow would live in her lifetime, following the demise of her husband. The Ruth part of the name would appear, therefore, to be the name of a woman, but who she is has not been established.
The little more we know of William's life is largely gleaned from his will and the attached inventory of his estate. The will is transcribed herebelow. It is written in the third person as the will was nuncupative, i.e. dictated to another for transcription probably because William was too ill to sign it or make a mark. He drew up the will on the 10th March 1616 and was buried a week later on the 17th March 1616.
William Ripper, Breage, Died 1616
"In the name of God, Amen.
"The tenth day of March Anno Domini 1616.
"William Ripper of the parish of Breage did make and ordain this last will and testament nuncupative in manner and form following, viz; -
"Imprimis {especially} he did commend his soul to Almighty God his maker and redeemer, and his body to the earth,
"Item - he did give to the church of Breage xijd [one shilling],
"Item - he did give and bequeath to each of his godchildren xijd,
"Item - he did give and bequeath to Andrew Ripper his son all his wearing apparel save one pair of breeches, which he did give and bequeath to Bennett Trenwheal,
"Item - he did will that Pasca his wife and executrix should promise Andrew his son, to have and enjoy during the life of his said wife two closes [enclosures] of land in Ruisse called commonly by the names of parke Andrean and parke Menmoon with the moore under it [parke means field, moore meant open, unenclosed land]
"Item - he did give and bequeath to Stephen and William sons of the said Andrew one ewe lamb a piece.
"Item - all other his goods and chattels not before given or bequeathed the said William Ripper did give and bequeath to Pasca his wife whom he did ordain and make his whole executrix and whom the said William Ripper did entreate that she the said Pasca would at the time of her death make Richard Ripper son of Andrew Ripper either her whole or half executor.
"Witnesses to this will were Andrew Ripper & Thomas Trenwheal"
It is possible that Ruisse was in fact Ruthdower and the two fields mentioned called Andrea and Menmoone were nearby.
The Inventory of all the goods and chattels of William Ripper of the parish of Breage deceased was prepared by (...) Moore and Henry Thomas the sixth day of July Anno Domini 1616 and amounted to £19-17- 2. It comprised:
2 tableboards, a chair and a form - £ 0-10- 0
1 old cupboard - £ 0- 5- 0
pewter vessels - £ 1- 8- 0
3 candlesticks, a quart and a tin cup - £ 0- 3- 0
his wearing apparel and 1 piece of new cloth - £ 1- 6- 8
3 bedsteads with bedclothes - £ 1-13- 4
one other bed with the furniture - £ 1- 0- 0
3 sheets, 2 board cloths, three towels and two pillow ties - £ 0-13- 4
4 little chests - £ 0- 6- 8
4 pans and 2 crocks - £ 3- 0- 0
1 hogshead, 1barrel, 1 little sieve and 5 tubs - £ 0-10- 0
2 branding irons, 1 spit, one (...)axe and an old pan - £ 0- 2- 6
2 old tubs, two (...) and a (...) - £ 0- 3- 0
4 silver spoons - £ 0- 6- 0
a little barrel and a can - £ 0- 2- 0
1 fleece - £ 1- 0- 0
half a fleece - £ 0-10- 0
a calf - £ 1- 5- 4
(...) sheep - £ 1- 0- 0
geese - £ 0- 3- 0
3 pigs - £ 0- 4- 0
a cock and five hens - £ 0- 2- 0
3 bushels of barley - £ 0-15- 0
2 bushels of oats - £ 0- 4- 0
a bushel of wheat - £ 0- 8- 0
half bushel of rye - £ 0- 3- 4
corn in the ground - £ 2-13- 4
Pascase was one of at least three children.
Her sister Elizabeth married Andrew Gyon on 15th June 1560 at Breage.
Her brother Bennett Trenwheal was married to Tamsin Whylborne at Breage on 2nd February 1591. The children of Bennett and Tamsin were Edward (bap1592), Thomasine, Margaret, Ann (d1601), Tansine (bap1604), Jane, Robert (d1612). Bennett died in 1638 and was buried at Breage.
William is mentioned in will of his grandfather - William Ripper.
William was living in Breage in 1641 and is the constable recorded in the Protestation Rolls for that year. The 1641 Protestation Roll was the record of an act of allegiance at which all men were required to sign in that year to prove that they were not members of the King's party. To sign it he had to be at least 16 years old.
At the time of his marriage to Christian she is described as the widow of James Francis.