Guild of One-Name Studies
One-name studies, Genealogy
Study: Pepperdine
Variants: Pedwardine, Petwardine
Category: 3 - A study where research using core genealogical datasets and transcriptions is well under way on a global basis.
Contact: Mr John Pepperdine
To find an individual in the data uploaded to FamilySearch In Familysearch.org/search/collection/igi Open the Search Menu Select Genealogies Scroll down one page to "Oral Genealogies" Scroll right to "Guild of One-name Studies" Select "Search for a person" Enter information about a person In the list of results only those identified in the extreme left column as coming from Guild of One-Name Studies have been submitted by me. Individuals named Richard seem to cause confusion and I have created a database lower down on this page.
The name pronounced 'dyne' in Lincolnshire is pronounced 'dean' further south. Three brothers in London decided to spell their name Pepperdene towards the end of the nineteenth century.
Pepperdine itself is a variant, see later.
The following possibilities have been examined and rejected but further facts may still reveal a connection. An occupational name or nickname seems unlikely as the name comes into existence no earlier than 1562. The places Pepperdale in Lincolnshire, Pipton (formerly Pipperton) in the Brecon Beacons or Piperden/Pepperden in Northumberland and the surname Pepperday/Peberdy have been considered.
As Sherlock Holmes would have it 'when you have excluded the impossible, whatever remains, however mprobable, must be the truth'. It appears that Pepperdine was formerly Pedwardine although proof is still lacking. In the parish of Howden, Yorkshire the surname Petwardine can be seen to change via Pepwardine, Pepwerdine to Pepperdine or Peppertine on three occasions, although these are not the ancestors of any Pepperdine alive today.
In 1287 Edward I's forces laid siege to Rhys Ap Maredudd at Drysylwn castle near Carmarthen. Walter de Pedwardine was responsible with 7 others for keeping accounts and paying the troops. This Walter could be the father of Roger de Pedwardine who acquired Burton Pedwardine in Lincolnshire by marriage.
George Pepperdine (1886-1962) founded the University in Los Angeles which later hosted the swimming events at the Los Angeles Olympics and now has branches in Europe.
Frank Simpson Pepperdene the X ray martyr was born Simpson Thomas Pepperdine in Camberwell, London 1862 died Quebec, Canada 1933. He was a self styled Dr but no evidence that he was so qualified has ever been found. Nevertheless he founded an X-Ray department in an a Canadian hospital. He was the accountant in partnership with a wholesale leather goods merchant in South London but on his children's birth certificates gave various incorrect occupations.
It is something of a challenge to identify the ancestor who is responsible for the use of Pepperdine as a first or middle name in a subsequent relative.
Roger the last Pedwardine to hold the manor of Burton Pedwardine died 1468, and had six sons born 1433 to 1443. Christopher returned to the ancestral home in Shropshire, John may be the ancestor of the Petwardines in Howden, Yorkshire. The appearance of Pepperdines early in parish registers in Lincolnshire, and north Northamptonshire where the Pedwardines held lands, suggests that the name may have evolved from Pedwardine on more than one occasion.
All present day Pepperdines whose ancestry has been established, can be traced to one of five mid 18th century marriages in Lincolnshire. Initially migration out of the county was to Sheffield, Manchester and London. The Scopwick family now exist only in USA. Fiskerton, Boston and Lincoln families have branches in Canada. The Boston family is well represented in USA. The name has moved three times to Australia but only the Pepperdene variant has taken root. The Street name 'Pepperdene Way' in Geelong, Victoria is due to its being lined with Pepper trees (Schinus Molle) imported from S America.
Births in England and Wales since 1837 average about four per year, but whilst there is a tendency for this figure to fall in recent years, there is healthy growth in N America. We acquire our surname by birth, marriage or adoption. The total past and present population worldwide amounts to some 1,700.
I have nothing to record about DNA and will use this space to clarify. Richard Pepperdines appear to be confused by many members of Ancestry Here is a summary.
Richard PEPPERDINES
born
died
married
when
where
children
1594
1660
Sarah GREENLEAF
1629
Billinghay
6 1632 - 1642
1642
1675
1663
Timberland
3 1666 - 1672
why is wife's name thought to be KLYN?
1666
1720
Mary KYME
1693
Tattershall
51694 - 1710
wife Ann
6 1723 - 1735
Cannot be Richard's 2nd wife
1697
son of Richard 1666
inf
Blankney
1743
Mary BRIERS
1767
Chipping Barnet
3 1771 - 1773
1771
son of Richard 1743
Westminster
1773
wife Sarah
mentioned when Richard discharged from Orestes 1795
1779
1854
Jane HOLLEDGE
1823
Wellingore
2 1828 - 1834
1821
1853
Elizabeth FIELDS
1848
Ruskington
3 1849 - 1852
son of Thos and Grace RIDGE
1774
son of Thos and Ann OLSON
1781
unable to identify
1726
1814
Mary YATES
1742
Bourne
8 1742 - 1761
1757
1763
son of Richard 1726
child
Moulton
Ann COULSON
Nov 1766
Fiskerton
4 1767 - 1776
Ann's parents Thomas and Sara nee WELDELL?
Dec1766
Barton
ditto
1770
Mary MARSDEN
1795
Bassingham
11 1796 - 1809
1797
1842
Ann CRAWFORD
1827
4 1831 - 1838
1831
son of Richard 1797
Family One – Founders of the Fiskerton family
Richard died in Fiskerton 1814 and was said then to have been born in 1726. His baptism cannot be found, where was he born and who were his parents?
Ann Coulson was born 1736 available records suggest born in Moulton, Lincolnshire or Scarborough, Yorkshire. She died in Fiskerton 1794.
They married 1766, a marriage recorded in Fiskerton in November and in Barton upon Humber in December.
year of birth as stated at death
possible parents Richard PEPPERDINE and ANN unknown
marriage bond with Mary YATES
son Richard Pepperdine born at Moulton
1762
On militia list for Eye, Northamptonshire
son Richard Pepperdine died at Moulton
1766
Mary YATES buried at Barton upon Humber
Married Ann Coulson at Fiskerton and Barton upon Humber
1767 - 1776
4 children born at Fiskerton
1777
a William Pepperdine on jury duty at Fiskerton. Not identified.
1794
wife Ann dies
1798
takes over 4 acres of land and a cottage from William TAYLOR at Fiskerton
1807
takes over 16 acres of land from William TAYLOR at Fiskerton
buried at Fiskerton age 88
Family Two The Grantham Pepperdines
So Richard was 40 when he married. The marriage record does not tell us whether he was single or a widower. It seems likely that this was not his first marriage. Family Two In 1742 a marriage bond suggests that a Richard Pepperdine was about to marry Mary Yates in Bourne. This couple settled in Moulton. Their children were Mary 1742 1747, John 1744 1744, John 1747 1747, Robert 1753 1755, Mary 1753 1754, John 1755 1811, Richard 1757 1763, Mary 1761 1765.
Only one child survived to adulthood. There is no record of their marriage Mary Yates is buried at Barton upon Humber early in 1766. As Ann Coulson was born in Moulton I assume this was Richard’s first family. Many trees on Ancestry show Mary Yates died in Kent 1788. Why this should be the case is not explained.
In 1762 we find Richard serving in the militia in Eye, Northamptonshire some 20 miles south of Moulton. The Dean and Chapter of Peterborough Cathedral held the manors of both Eye and Fiskerton. He is described as servant.
Family Three The descendants of Richard born 1743, This is nothing to do with Fiskerton.
Peter Pepperdine married Helen/Eleanor Waddingham in Blankney 1730 Peter born 1699 in Blankney was son of a Richard Pepperdine born 1666 and his wife Mary . Peter died 1749 Blankney and his widow married Eleazar Glenn (a brickmaker) in Blankney in 1754. (Eleazar is not a misspelt Elijah).
Ellen Waddingham was born 1714 in South Ferriby a parish adjacent to Barton upon Humber. Many trees show her born Blankney 1705 but there is no record of this. The Waddinghams are found around Barton, Helen would have moved to Blankney as a servant.
Peter and Helen had a son Richard born 1743 in Blankney, was apprenticed to a shoemaker in Blankney 1757, married Mary Bryars/Briers in Chipping Barnet, Herts 1767. Mary was born 1746 in Totteridge, Herts. The family must have moved to Westminster where a George Pepperdine died 1777, a Richard 1771 died 1771 and a Richard was born 1773. This Richard was discharged from the Ship Orestes as a marine private. His wife named Sarah, marriage not found. Richard was a bricklayer in Southwark when his daughter Mary Ann was born in 1797.
I do not have a death/burial for Richard1743 or his wife Mary, their son Richard1773 or his wife Sarah or their daughter Mary Ann.
Family Four Suggested parents of Richard born 1726
Peter Pepperdine’s father Richard (born 1666) I am now assuming must have married twice first to Mary Kyme and then to an Ann whose surname is unknown. Richard and Ann’s children are listed below. Sarah 1723 baptised in Boultham, (suggesting that is where Ann was living?), John 1725, Mary 1727, Thomas 1730 and Jane 1735 the last four baptised in Blankney. It seems likely that Richard was born to these parents in 1726. In all of these families no son was named Richard unless there was already a living son John.
I feel that at least 100 public member trees have incorrect assumptions or facts which are not supported by records. For example, if Richard1726 was son of Peter and Helen he would have to have been born 4 years before his parents married when his mother was 13. If Richard1726 and Richard1743 were the same person he would have been apprenticed at the age of 31and already have had several children.
CONCLUSION
A Richard Pepperdine is buried at Blankney 10 Nov 1720.
Richard born 1666 appears to be the only candidate so he cannot have taken a second wife Ann. We still do not know who is the father of Richard born 1726
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