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Sarah Flint[1]

Female 1685 - 1767  (81 years)


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  • Name Sarah Flint 
    Relationshipwith Marion Murdoch Johnson
    Gender Female 
    Born 4 Dec 1685  Ashford, Kent, England Find all individuals with events at this location  [1] 
    Baptism 8 Dec 1685  St Mary the Virgin, Ashford, Kent, England Find all individuals with events at this location  [2] 
    Died 26 Nov 1767  [1] 
    Buried 3 Dec 1767  St Leonard, Deal, Kent, England, Kingdom of Great Britain Find all individuals with events at this location  [3] 
    Last Modified 12 Sep 2021 

    Father Benjamin Flint
              b. 5 Aug 1649
              d. 15 Aug 1700  (Age 51 years) 
    Mother Anne Butcher
              b. Abt 1650
              d. 18 Dec 1695, Ashford, Kent, England Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 45 years) 
    Married 24 Aug 1673  Appledore, Ashford, Kent, England Find all individuals with events at this location  [4, 5] 

    Husband Henry Gipps, of Canterbury
              b. Abt 1681, Charing, Kent, England Find all individuals with events at this location
              d. 9 Feb 1755, Canterbury, Kent, England, Kingdom of Great Britain Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 74 years) 
    Married 29 Apr 1716  St Alphege, Canterbury, Kent, England, Kingdom of Great Britain Find all individuals with events at this location  [6] 
    Age at Marriage She was 30, he was 35  
    Children 
     1. Henry Gipps, of Saltwood
              b. Abt 1718
              d. Abt Jun 1769  (Age ~ 51 years)
    Last Modified 30 Mar 2021 

  • Notes 
    • Early Life
      Sarah Flint was born on the 4th of December 1685 at Ashford in Kent, the daughter of Benjamin Flint and Anne Butcher. She was baptised at St Mary the Virgin in Ashford on the 8th.

      From Brief Records1, which has a short section on Sarah:
      In her history the remarkable dispensations of Divine Providence are discernible. Her early life, and more especially her marriage, rendered it of all things least probable that she would be the parent of those who would attain to affluence and honour: yet one of her sons sat in Parliament; other descendants shared the like distinction— one tilling a still higher station, and several being found among the county magistracy and clergy.

      On April 29, 1716, she was married, at St. Alphage Church, Canterbury, to Mr. HENRY GIPPS, of Ashford, he being in his thirty-fourth, and she in her thirty-first year. Mr. Gipps is stated to have been son of the Rev. George Gipps, of Wye, but at that time a soldier—whether from attachment to military life, from misfortune, or early dissolute habits, is unknown. If from the latter, his character was reformed; still, our family were annoyed by the connexion, but, as love brooks no control, they purchased his discharge from the army, and placed himself and wife in business as corset-makers.

      He died February 9, 1755, aged seventy-three, and was interred in Ashford churchyard, his broken headstone now forming part of the pavement in one of the footways. Mrs. Gipps, who survived her husband twelve years, died November 26, 1707, aged eighty-two, and on December 3 was buried in the graveyard ("Church Fields") belonging to the Episcopal Chapel at Deal.


      Footnotes
      [1] Brief Records of the Flint Family, Benjamin Francis Flint, London (1856)

  • Event Map
    Link to Google MapsBorn - 4 Dec 1685 - Ashford, Kent, England Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsBaptism - 8 Dec 1685 - St Mary the Virgin, Ashford, Kent, England Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsMarried - 29 Apr 1716 - St Alphege, Canterbury, Kent, England, Kingdom of Great Britain Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsBuried - 3 Dec 1767 - St Leonard, Deal, Kent, England, Kingdom of Great Britain Link to Google Earth
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  • Sources 
    1. [S0503] Brief Records of the Flint Family, Benjamin Francis Flint, (London (1856)), Sarah Flint; pages 18-19.

    2. [S0504] Kent Baptisms, FindMyPast, (findmypast.co.uk), Sarah Flint; Ref. P10/1/A/2, 8 Dec 1685.

    3. [S0433] Kent Burials, FindMyPast, (findmypast.co.uk), Sarah Gipps nee Flint; Ref U3/95 page 116, 3 Dec 1767.

    4. [S0372] Britain, Marriage Licences, FindMyPast, (findmypast.co.uk), Flint / Butcher; Canterbury Marriage Licences Vol Iii 1661-1676; p159, 20 Aug 1673.

    5. [S0503] Brief Records of the Flint Family, Benjamin Francis Flint, (London (1856)), Benjamin Flint; pages 13-21.

    6. [S0309] England Marriages, 1538–1973, FamilySearch, (familysearch.org), Henry Gipps and Sarah Flint; (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:NKRL-559 : 13 March 2020), Sarah Flint in entry for Henry Gipps, 1716., 29 Apr 1716.