The Somerset Connection

Members of the family listed in Bishops' Transcripts, parish records and land surveys for the hamlet of Pendomer
YEAR	DAY/MONTH	PARTICULARS RECORDED
1548	.....	Arrival of Thomas & Edith, possibly followed by Richard.
1549	.....	Edith, d. of Thomas/Edith born.
1552	.....	Elizabeth d. of Thomas/Edith born.
1561	6th Sept	William baptised.
1565	3rd March	Dorothy baptised
1568	12th Sept	John baptised.
1575	6th May	Alice d. of Elizabeth baptised.
1578	.....	Dorothy marries John Rendall
1580	11th April	Edith marries Symon Holmes
1583	26th Jan.	Elizabeth marries Wllliam Derdagh
1593	27th Feb.	Agnes d. of John baptised.
1595	13th March	William born
"	16th Oct.	Katerina, d. of John baptised.
1596	l9th Jan.	Katerina " " buried.
1597	11th Feb.	Agnes, widow, buried.
1598	26th March	William s. of John baptised.
1607	23rd June	Margaret d. of William baptised.
1622	5th Sept	John marries Joan Mudford.
1630	4th June	William s. of William/Sara baptised
"	"	" " " " died.
1634	3rd Dec	John buried.
1636	20th Feb.	Rose d. of Thomas buried.
"	30th April	John s. of Robert/Edith baptised.
1637	30th Jan.	Ann d. of Thomas/Margaret baptised.
"	Jan.	Thomas s. of " " buried.
"	15th May	Jane d. of " " buried.
1639	9th June	Roger s. of Robert/Elizabeth baptised.
1649	.....	William base s. of Elizabeth baptised.
1659	.....	Edith born. (m) Richard Genge, Pendomer 1667
1662	30th Sept.	Roger s. of Roger baptised.
1666	18th ?	Samuel s. of Roger/Jane baptised...d.20.l1.1762
1686	.....	Joseph born. d. 21.4.1746.
1731	.....	Samuel s. of Joseph born.
"	25th Jan.	Joseph marries Joan Mullins.
"	29th May	Thomas s. of Thomas/Mary baptised.
1732	17th May	James marries May Chaffy
"	19th Nov	Michael s. of Samuel baptised
1735	28th Sept.	Mary (widow) buried.
1737	29th June	Francis s. of Samuel/Christian baptised.d.l8.3.1760
1738	18th Feb.	Elizabeth d.of " " baptised.
1740	11th May	Elizabeth d. of Robert/Dorcas baptised.
1742	10th Nov.	Joseph s. of Samuel/Christian baptised.
"	25th Dec.	Mary d. of Robert/Dorcas baptised.
1743	18th Feb.	Edith (wife of Richard Genge), buried.
"	20th March	Joseph s. of Samuel & Xer buried.
1744	21st April	Joseph (aged 80) buried.
1748	23rd Aug.	Jane (widow of Joseph) buried, aged 72.
1750	5th Feb.	Joan marries John Genge.
1755	8th Dec.	William marries Mary Rowsel of N. Perrot.
1757	19th Dec.	Lewis dies of smallpox
1758	22nd Aug.	Joan marries Joseph Ham.
1759	29th Nov.	William marries Sarah Cox (both of Pendomer)
1760	22nd Jan.	Samuel marries Mary Bartlett of Barwick.
"	18th March	Francis buried.
"	7th May	Samuel Bartlett marries Mary Bartlett.
1762	.....	"Old" Samuel dies.
"	17th Nov.	William s. of William/Sarah baptised.
1764	15th Oct.	Elizabeth marries Richard Eastment
1767	25th Jan.	Johannah d. of William/Sarah baptised.
"	16th June	Robert s. of William/Mary baptised.
1769	7th May	Robert s. of William baptised.
1771	7th July	John s. of William/Sarah baptised.
1778	20th Dec.	William s. of William/Anne baptised.
1792	1st Jan.	William buried.
"	6th Nov.	Joan marries William Tuck.
1795	5th May	Roase marries John Taylor.
1812	29th March	Ann d. of Rohert/Sarah baptised.
1815	12th March	William s. of Robert/Sarah baptised.
1818	27th Dec.	Mary d. of Richard & Sarah bapt. (H.M.)
1860	6th Nov.	Harriet marries Charles Hall (both of Pendomer)

Figure 14

NOTE 1...	The 1664 Hearth Tax return includes Roger Bartlett who was liable for payment of 6/- at Pendomer.
NOTE 2...	The 1725 Land Survey of Pendomer shows that: .John, Robert and Robert (junior) possessed .1 tenement, 1 orchard, a garden and closes of land of 7 acres. .Phillip, Thomas & Edith possessed land known as "Backside". .Samuel Bartlett possessed 1 tenement and garden, 2 orchards, plus several closes of land totalling 54 acres.

Pendomer Bartletts married at other parish churches
DATE	NAMES OF COUPLE and PARISH
13.3.1593	Dorothy Bartlett/John Rendall - East Coker.
2.10.1647	Francis Bartlett/Amy Sloman - Tintinhull.
19. 5.1716	Robert Bartlett/Mary Hallett - Chard.
17.1.1737	William Bartlett/Frances Bartlett Dawe - East Chinnock.
24.10.1744	Robert Bartlett/Dorcas Rendall - Crewkerne.
5.12.1755	William Bartlett/Mary Rowsel - N.Perrot.
13.5.1763	Elizabeth Bartlett/John Dore - East Chinnock.
21.4.1774	Mary Bartlett/John Cox - Hardington Mandeville.
22.8.1799	Edith Bartlett/Thornas Leach - Hardington Mandeville.
13.11.1781	Mary Bartlett/James Wadman - East Chinnock.
6.10.1783	William Bartlett/Grace Cole - East Chinnock.
5. 5.l 800	Phillip Bartlett/Harriet Mudford - East Coker.
15.12.1801	Richard Bartlett/Sarah Cox - Hardington Mandeville.
1815	Elizabeth Bartlett/Richard Genge - East Coker.

Figure 15

Marriages between Bartletts and members of the Genge family
1561	Edith Bartlett/Lawrence Genge - Piddleton
1593	Jane Bartlett/Charles Genge - Piddleton
1667	Edith Bartlett/Richard Genge - Pendomer
1655	Mary Bartlett/Thomas Genge - Pendomer
1750	Joan Bartlett/John Genge - Pendomer
1765	Robert Bartlett/Elizabeth Genge - Hardington Manor
1815	Elizabeth Bartlett/Richard Genge - East Coker.
1822	Samuel Bartlett/Betsy Genge - East Chinnock
1825	George Genge/Joan Bartlett - Halstock
1855	Charles Bartlett/Sarah Genge East Chinnock.

Figure 16

.....	this Lawrence Genge was a son of the Rev. Thomas Genge, vicar at St.Mary's, Piddleton, and the composer of the epitaph to Alice, widow of Robert Bartlett alias Hancock; whilst Edith was a daughter of Thomas & Edith who left Piddleton to make their home at Pendomer.
.....	In 1551 Robert Genge of Piddleton, and unquestionably brother of Lawrence, married Eleanor Paulett, daughter of Thomas, Lord Paulett of Mosterton Manor, 5 miles distant from Pendomer. This is another link between both places and both families... and offers an interesting similarity between "Paulett" and "Paul" , the Pendomer family those ancestor Tremor Paul is buried at Piddleton and whose descendants married with Bartletts including that of Emily Dommett Paul to Robert Bartlett, the compiler's great grandfather!.

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this Lawrence Genge was a son of the Rev. Thomas Genge, vicar at St.Mary's, Piddleton, and the composer of the epitaph to Alice, widow of Robert Bartlett alias Hancock; whilst Edith was a daughter of Thomas & Edith who left Piddleton to make their home at Pendomer.

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In 1551 Robert Genge of Piddleton, and unquestionably brother of Lawrence, married Eleanor Paulett, daughter of Thomas, Lord Paulett of Mosterton Manor, 5 miles distant from Pendomer.

This is another link between both places and both families... and offers an interesting similarity between "Paulett" and "Paul" , the Pendomer family those ancestor Tremor Paul is buried at Piddleton and whose descendants married with Bartletts including that of Emily Dommett Paul to Robert Bartlett, the compiler's great grandfather!.

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