1700 - John

CHILDHOOD

I suspect our ancestor John Bannar descends from the family that arrived in Bicknor sometime prior to 1690. I suspect

MARRIAGE

John Bannar married Rebekah Tilden in Stockbury on October 22, 1723.

She was one of the four children that Richard and Mary Tilden christened four of their children in Stockbury between 1698 and 1724.

LANDS

They lived in house #10 in the lands beyond the church, or South Green, in the Overseers accounts (which date from 1731). John Banner's assessment was 13 shillings, 6 pence. While many of the surrounding farms are more valuable, John was both owner and occupant. He was the parish Overseer in 1737, 1742 and 1763 (and presumably many other years).

John Banner was also farming in the adjoining parish of Bredgar by 1731 and had three parcels there in 1741.

The Seven Years War brought prosperity to farmers and John was renting an additional three properties in Stockbury by 1764. The accounts mention him paying labourers wages of between £2 and £6. He also distributed a pair of gloves, a coat and waste coat, allotments of wood and gave a shift to Elizabeth Knight.

TOMBSTONE

John and Rebekkah Banner were buried in Stockbury's graveyard, and their tombstone says:

Here leith the body of

Rebecca

Wife of John Bannar

Who departed this life on March 31st 1763

Aged 62 years

Left 3 sons and 2 daughters

Eliza

Thomas

John

Bennet and Rebecca

Seven of their sons buried here ye place

Also leith the body of John Bannar

of this Parish

Yeoman

Died March the 4th 1768

Aged ....

CHILDREN

1. Elizabeth Bannar (c Sept 28 1724) married William Young on Oct 22, 1744
2. John Bannar (c Mar 20 1725/26)
3. Thomas Bannar (c Mar 5 1727 - June 8 1780) married Elizabeth Goodhew (d/o James & Elizabeth) in Stockbury April 12 1766
4. William Bannar (Aug 10-18, 1731)
5. John Bannar (c 21 June 1732) served as witness for his father's will and at his brother Benjamin's wedding.
6. William Bannar (c 21 June 1732-Sept 24 1735)
7. Mary Bannar (c Sept 28 1735)
8. Robert Bannar (c Sept 12-26 1737)
9. William Bannar (c Apr 9 - May 11 1738)
10. Benjamin Bannar Our Ancestor (1738-Dec 8, 1808)
11. Tilden Bannar (c Sept 16 1739 - Jan 6 1740)
12. David Bannar (c Dec 7 1740)
13. Rebekkah Bannar (c Oct 9 1743 - Mar 1 1773) married John Featherstone in 1770 (story described in Benjamin's section)

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