Samuel Parish, of Ipswich
Linen draper
1677 - 1731 (53 years)-
Name Samuel Parish Relationship 
with Marion Murdoch Johnson Gender Male Birth 15 May 1677 Sudbury, Suffolk, England 
[1, 2] Baptism 15 May 1677 All Saints, Sudbury, Suffolk, England [1] Occupation Ipswich, Suffolk, England Linen draper Death 1731 Ipswich, Suffolk, England, Kingdom of Great Britain Burial 15 Jul 1731 St Lawrence, Ipswich, Suffolk, England, Kingdom of Great Britain [3] Siblings1 brother Last Modified 25 May 2021
Father John Parish, of Sudbury
b. Abt 1645
d. Sep 1694, Sudbury, Suffolk, England (Age ~ 49 years) Mother Sarah Gunton
b. Abt 1650
d. 1681, Sudbury, Suffolk, England (Age ~ 31 years) Marriage 1673 St Mary, Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, England [4]
Children 1. Edward Clarke Parish
b. Abt 1704, Ipswich, Suffolk, England
d. 3 Jan 1764, Walthamstow, Essex, England, Kingdom of Great Britain (Age ~ 60 years)Last Modified 23 May 2021
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Notes - Early Life
Samuel Parish was born in May 1677 inSudbury, Suffolk , the son ofJohn Parrish andSarah ___ . We infer these as the correct parents because they also had children called Isaac, Thomas and William who we know to be brothers of Samuel from his will (see below).
Career
Samuel was a linen draper - his sonEdward Clarke Parish took an apprenticeship as a linen draper, and there is an apprenticeship record for a Samuel Parish of Ipswich as a master linen draper in 1710 (his apprentice was John May). Samuel was made a freeman of Ipswich in 1729.
Family Life
Samuel had the following known children with an unknown wife (possibly of surname Clarke, given the middle name of their first son) who must have pre-deceased him:Edward Clarke b. 1704 who marriedElisabeth Paris
Samuel ,
Robert (who married Elizabeth ___)
Death
Samuel died in 1731 and buried 15 Jul 1731 atSt Lawrence in Ipswich (which is where his son Edward Clarke Parish was also buried).
His will, dated 20 December 1730, mentions:- His son Edward Clarke Parish (£2000)
- His son Samuel Parish (all his estates in Rattlesden)
- His younger son Robert Parish (his estates in Whatfield, East Bergholt)
- His brother Thomas Parish £20
- His brother Isaac Parish £10
- His brother-in-law James Lasel £20 and £50 to each of their children
- His brother William Parish
Footnotes
- Mention of a lease to him in 1718 https://books.google.ae/books?id=toyvOnh-u7UC&lpg=PA540&ots=6qXy3_dZUl&dq=%22samuel%20parish%22%20ipswich&pg=PA540#v=onepage&q=%22samuel%20parish%22%20ipswich&f=false
- This might be the will of his son Samuel: https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/D520211 (might be some mention of Edward Clarke or his children)
- This might be the will of his son Robert: https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/D457702
- A court case involving both Samuel junior and Robert: https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C10511999
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Event Map 
Birth - 15 May 1677 - Sudbury, Suffolk, England 
Baptism - 15 May 1677 - All Saints, Sudbury, Suffolk, England 
Occupation - Linen draper - - Ipswich, Suffolk, England 
Death - 1731 - Ipswich, Suffolk, England, Kingdom of Great Britain 
Burial - 15 Jul 1731 - St Lawrence, Ipswich, Suffolk, England, Kingdom of Great Britain = Link to Google Earth
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Sources - [S0307] FamilySearch, England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975, (familysearch.org), 15 May 1677, Samuel Parrish; (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:N5YG-CJF : 10 April 2021), Samuel Parrish, 1677.
- [S0121] Ancestry, England, Select Births & Christenings 1538-1975, (ancestry.com), 15 May 1677, Samuel Parrish; FHL Film Number 952200.
- [S0071] FindMyPast, National Burial Index for England & Wales, (findmypast.co.uk), 15 Jul 1731, Samuel Parish; St Lawrence Ipswich.
- [S0246] FindMyPast, England, Boyd's Marriage Indexes, 1538-1850, (findmypast.co.uk), 1673, Sara Gunton / John Parish.
- [S0307] FamilySearch, England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975, (familysearch.org), 15 May 1677, Samuel Parrish; (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:N5YG-CJF : 10 April 2021), Samuel Parrish, 1677.