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John ABBOTT
1715 - 1778 (~ 63 years)
Has 2 ancestors and 7 descendants in this family tree.
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Name John ABBOTT Relationship 
with Teresa Ann GOATHAM Baptised 8 Oct 1715 St. Andrew’s Church, Buckland Monachorum, Devon, England 
[1] Gender Male Buried 18 Dec 1778 St. Andrew’s Church, Buckland Monachorum, Devon, England [2] Siblings2 brothers and 1 sister Half-siblings2 half brothers and 2 half sisters (family of Stephen JUTSHAM and Elizabeth COLLINS) Half-siblings1 half brother (family of Bernard JUSTHAM and Elizabeth COLLINS) Patriarch & Matriarch 
Nicholas ABBOTT, bur. 11 Dec 1753, St. Andrew’s Church, Buckland Monachorum, Devon, England (Father) 
Elizabeth COLLINS, b. Est 1675, (probably), Devon, England, d. Abt Jan 1755, Buckland Monachorum, Devon, England (Age ~ 80 years) (Mother) Person ID I15353 All Last Modified 10 Apr 2014
Father Nicholas ABBOTT, bur. 11 Dec 1753, St. Andrew’s Church, Buckland Monachorum, Devon, England Mother Elizabeth COLLINS, b. Est 1675, (probably), Devon, England , d. Abt Jan 1755, Buckland Monachorum, Devon, England (Age ~ 80 years)
Other Partners: Bernard JUSTHAM m. 19 Sep 1698; Stephen JUTSHAM m. 3 Feb 1702/03Married 20 Apr 1713 St. Peter’s Church, Meavy, Devon, England - From PR entry (image on FMP):
"Nickolas Abot was maried to Elizabeth Jutsham April the 20 1713"
** Please note, I am not certain that it was this Elizabeth who married Nicholas Abbott **
I had no evidence that it was this Elizabeth Jutsham; another was married to Lewis Justham who probably died in 1710, so she too could have been marrying in 1713. Strangely, she too was an Elizabeth Collins, at least at the time of her marriage to Lewis.
I do now think that I have some other circumstantial evidence. Stephen, son of Stephen Juthsam and Elizabeth, moved from Buckland Monachorum to Stoke Dameral c. 1740, with his young family. Stephen and Thomasina had 2 more children before both died in 1747, leaving (so far as I know, I could be missing burials) 6 children aged just 1 to 15. So far I know nothing of what happened to the 3 older children, aged 12-15, but do know something of what happened to 3 younger. John, aged about 10 at the time of his parents death married some 14 years later in Falmouth, so it seems reasonable to suppose he became a mariner. What happened in those intervening years, whether he found employment on the sea at age 10, or whether he returned to Buckland Monachorum, I know not.
His 2 surviving younger sisters did both return to Buckland Monachorum. This may have been because this was where they had a right of settlement and it would have fallen to the Overseers of the Poor of Buckland Monachorum to take care of them, 8 year old Elizabeth and 1 year old Grace, or it may have been because there were relations there who could provide for them. On their maternal side their grandmother had died some years earlier and their grandfather died a month after their mother. However, on their paternal side while their grandfather had died young a couple I believe were probably their grandmother and step-grandfather were living in Buckland Monachorum. If I am right about this couple, then they also had a half aunt and uncle living there, John and Prudence Abbott. I did wonder if Elizabeth had been removed to Buckland Monachorum on becoming pregnant, since an illegitimate child had as the place it was entitled to settle the place where it was born, but as Elizabeth and her sister Grace were young enough to have needed the support of overseers or family when their parents died I suspect they moved to Buckland at an earlier date.
Not perhaps in the order one might expect, Elizabeth's son Richard Pike JUSTHAM does seem to have named his daughters after people important in his life. The first appears to have been named after someone in his step-father's family, the 2nd, Grace, may well have been after his mother's sister, the one who also returned to Buckland with her. Before he gave the name of the first, who had died, to the fourth and then gave the name of his mother and mother-in-law, Elizabeth, to his fifth daughter he named one Prudence. Does this indicate that his half great-aunt (by marriage) Prudence ABBOTT was important in his life? I suspect it does, and was the reason he used this name. Of his other three daughters he eventually named one after his wife, and gave another the name Elizabeth, the first with the name having died. That only leaves Nann with no clear reason for the use of the name, but being a variant of Ann he may have used it for the same reason, both Anns having died. This use of names of people who must have been important to him means that I think we should expect to see a Prudence in his life, and so his great aunt makes sense as this person.
With his own mother aged only about 17 when he was born Prudence, probably in her 30s, may have been a more stable motherly figure. She lived until Richard was 30, so there was plenty of time for her to be influential in his life - in fact, she was still alive when he named a daughter Prudence, so she may have been one of his daughter'sa godmothers.
Family ID F4999 Family Group Page | Family Chart
Family Prudence PAUL, bur. 25 Apr 1787, St. Andrew’s Church, Buckland Monachorum, Devon, England Married 5 Jul 1742 St. Andrew’s Church, Buckland Monachorum, Devon, England [3] - So far I haven't looked at the full PR entries for Buckland Monachorum for this family, just those transcribed by Mike Brown. Since this only has 'misc' baptisms it is probable the children of John and Prudence for whom I show no baptism were baptised in Buckland Monachorum. There may have been others who did not die in infancy, besides the two shown.
In particular, there was a James who married in 1767 who could have been their son.
Children7 children Last Modified 10 Apr 2014 Family ID F6400 Family Group Page | Family Chart
- From PR entry (image on FMP):
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Baptised - 8 Oct 1715 - St. Andrew’s Church, Buckland Monachorum, Devon, England 
Married - 5 Jul 1742 - St. Andrew’s Church, Buckland Monachorum, Devon, England Child - John ABBOTT - 23 Jan 1742/43 - St. Andrew’s Church, Buckland Monachorum, Devon, England Child - Bettey ABBOTT - 15 Dec 1744 - St. Andrew’s Church, Buckland Monachorum, Devon, England Buried - 18 Dec 1778 - St. Andrew’s Church, Buckland Monachorum, Devon, England = Link to Google Earth (if installed; see link below to install) Pin Legend 
Sources - [S273] Buckland Monachorum (Dartmoor Press), Mike Brown, (Plymouth: Dartmoor Press, n.d.), Baptism of John ABBETT (Reliability: 3), 10 Apr 2014.
- [S273] Buckland Monachorum (Dartmoor Press), Mike Brown, (Plymouth: Dartmoor Press, n.d.), Burial of John ABBOT (Reliability: 3), 10 Apr 2014.
I think the burial was probably this John, although he had a son and nephew of the same name. He seems to have been a permanent resident and a Prudence I believe to have been his wife died here after him; the younger Johns may well have moved away. - [S273] Buckland Monachorum (Dartmoor Press), Mike Brown, (Plymouth: Dartmoor Press, n.d.), Marriage of John ABBOTT to Prudence PAUL (Reliability: 3), 10 Apr 2014.