Family of Simon Codd and Deborah Gurnell

  • Husband:

  • Simon Codd (1710?-1780)

  • Wife:

  • Deborah Gurnell (1710?-1787)

  • Children:

  • George Codd (1740?-1812)

  • Marriage:

  • 13 Nov 1733

  • St. Andrew's Church, Church Road, Cotton, Suffolk, England1 2 3 4

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  • Simon as Simon Cod, Deborah of Mendlesham

Husband: Simon Codd

  • Name:

  • Simon Codd1

  • Sex:

  • Male

  • Father:

  • -

  • Mother:

  • -

  • Note:

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  • no ancestors found at Cotton searched film J426/24

  • Birth:

  • 1710 (est)

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  • Death:

  • Dec 1780 (age 69-70)5 6

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  • Burial:

  • 23 Dec 1780

  • St. Mary's Church, Church Road, Mendlesham, Suffolk, England5 6

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  • Simon Cod of Haughley

Wife: Deborah Gurnell

  • Name:

  • Deborah Gurnell1 3 4

  • Sex:

  • Female

  • Father:

  • -

  • Mother:

  • -

  • Note:

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  • baptism not found at Mendlesham fiche 4 & 5

  • Birth:

  • 1710 (est)

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  • Death:

  • Feb 1787 (age 76-77)5 6

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  • Burial:

  • 26 Feb 1787

  • St. Mary's Church, Duke Street, Haughley, Suffolk, England5 6

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  • a widow

Child 1: George Codd

  • Name:

  • George Codd7

  • Sex:

  • Male

  • Spouse (1):

  • Anna Maria Bacon (1745?-1777)

  • Spouse (2):

  • Mary Harvey (1744?-1800)

  • Occupation:

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  • mercer (textile merchant), draper and grocer then a yeoman (small scale farmer)8 9

  • Birth:

  • 1740 (app)5 6

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  • Baptism:

  • 7 May 1740 (age 0)

  • St. Mary's Church, Church Road, Mendlesham, Suffolk, England1

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  • son of Simon Codd and Deborah

  • Miscellaneous:

  • 16 Apr 1788

  • Stowmarket, Suffolk, England10

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  • grocery and drapery business were advertised

  • Miscellaneous:

  • 18 Aug 1791

  • White Hart Inn, Stowmarket, Suffolk, England11

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  • creditors had a meeing, seemingly he was bankrupt and having assigned his property to his son Simon Codd and a Charles Turner

  • Miscellaneous:

  • 3 Sep 1791

  • Stowmarket, Suffolk, England8

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  • shop business was put up for sale with his son Simon as the contact

  • Miscellaneous:

  • 1 May 1805

  • The King's Arms, Stowmarket, Suffolk, England12 13

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  • house was put up for auction

  • Death:

  • 19 Feb 1812 (age 71-72)

  • Haughley, Suffolk, England5 6 14 15

  • Burial:

  • 25 Feb 1812

  • St. Mary's Church, Duke Street, Haughley, Suffolk, England5 6

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  • widower aged 72

  • Will Proved:

  • 20 Mar 18129

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  • with his son Stockdale as executor and leaving his estate to be divided equally between Stockdale, Harriott and Deborah

Sources

1.

Suffolk Records Office (Ipswich) - Parish Records. Mendlesham St. Mary fiche:6. Suffolk Record Office (Ipswich), Suffolk Record Office, Gateacre Lane, Ipswich, Suffolk, England.

2.

Church of the Latter Day Saints, FamilySearch, (www.familysearch.org). batch:M02028-4 sys:England-EASy film:989983 ref:Roll 79 P.455.

3.

FindMyPast Parish Records Collection - Marriages, (on-line at www.findmypast.co.uk). England, Boyd's marriage indexes, 1538-1850.

4.

Suffolk Records Office (Ipswich) - Parish Records. Cotton St. Andrew fiche:4 of 10. Suffolk Record Office (Ipswich), Suffolk Record Office, Gateacre Lane, Ipswich, Suffolk, England.

5.

Suffolk Family History Society - Suffolk Burial Index, (2020 SFK-BUI/03-1 own copy).

6.

The Federation of Family History Societies, National Burial Index for England & Wales v.3, (2010 own copy).

7.

Suffolk Family History Society - Stow and Thedwastre Baptisms 1754-1812, (2011 SFK-BPI-05/P2 own copy).

8.

FindMyPast Newspaper article, (on-line at www.findmypast.co.uk). The Ipswich Journal Saturday 3rd September 1791 page:3.

9.

Will. National Archive ref PROB 11/1531/307 (own copy).

10.

FindMyPast Newspaper article, (on-line at www.findmypast.co.uk). The Bury and Norwich Post Wednesday 16th April 1788 page:2.

11.

Ibid. The Ipswich Journal Saturday 27th August 1791 page:1.

12.

Ibid. The Ipswich Journal Saturday 27th April 1805 page:1.

13.

Ibid. The Ipswich Journal Saturday 20th April 1805 page:3.

14.

Ibid. The Bury and Norwich Post Wednesday 26th February 1812 page:2.

15.

Ibid. The Ipswich Journal Saturday 22nd February 1812 page:2.