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![Richard CLEAVE, [Mother?]](img/male.jpg)
Richard CLEAVE, [Mother?]
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Name Richard CLEAVE Suffix [ONS gp] [Mother?] Relationship 
with Teresa Ann GOATHAM Born - Richard is on a few trees on Ancestry, shown as baptised in 1691, son of Andrew. However, images of the PRs clearly show that Andrew had a daughter Richord baptised that year!
Baptised 18 Feb 1699/00 St. Pancras’ Church, Widecombe in the Moor, Devon, England
- From PR entry (image on FMP, viewed 10 Jul 2021)
"20 Rich the sonne of Thomas Hamet was baptized the 18th day of February"
Gender Male Also known as Richard HAMMETT Residence 1725 Sherbourn, Widecombe in the Moor, Devon, England
- At the time his son Thomas was baptised
Residence 1730 Holne, Devon, England
- Holne parish obtained a settlement certificate for Richard Cleave, husbandman, Mary his wife and Richard, Thomas and Joseph, their children, from Widecombe in 1730.
Buried 21 Aug 1767 St. Pancras’ Church, Widecombe in the Moor, Devon, England
Half-siblings1 half brother and 2 half sisters (family of Thomas HAMMETT and Mary TOR) Patriarch & Matriarch
Andrew HAMETE, bur. 30 Apr 1618, St. Pancras’ Church, Widecombe in the Moor, Devon, England
(2 x Great Grandfather) 
Mary ELFORD, bur. 6 Jul 1727, St. Pancras’ Church, Widecombe in the Moor, Devon, England
(Mother) 
Notes - I am guessing that Richard was a brother of Joseph partly because he is recorded as Cleave alias Hammet but also (more significantly) because he named a son Jospeh.
Person ID I33089 All Last Modified 13 Jul 2021
Father Thomas HAMMETT, bap. 19 Dec 1650, St. Pancras’ Church, Widecombe in the Moor, Devon, England
, bur. 15 Feb 1722/23, St. Pancras’ Church, Widecombe in the Moor, Devon, England
(Age ~ 72 years)
Other Partners: Mary TOR m. 23 Jun 1677Mother Mary ELFORD, bur. 6 Jul 1727, St. Pancras’ Church, Widecombe in the Moor, Devon, England
Married 17 Sep 1694 St. Pancras’ Church, Widecombe in the Moor, Devon, England
- From PR entry (image on FMP, viewed 13 Jul 2021)
"6 Thomas Emet and Mary Elford ware married the 17th day of Septemb"
This couple seem likely to be the parents or Richard Cleave.
I have started, but not finished, looking at the Emmotts in Widecombe. The thought Hammett and Emmott (and variants beginnign H and E) might be all variants of the same name, but generally the names beginning E an those beginning H seem quite seperate, and no Emmot was ever described as alias Cleave.
However, I think Hammett and Emet may have been muddled on this occasion.
There is no sign of a marriage of a Thomas Hammett (or any variant sp beginning H) or of a Thomas Cleave (or variant sp), other than Thomas's first marriage and it seems unlikely that they would have had an eleven year gap between children.
There were several children of a Thomas Emmot baptised in Ashburton from 1695 on, but there was also a Thomas Emmet married in Buckfastleigh in 1694, with no children baptised there, so they were probably the parents of the Ashburton children.
There was, though, a Thoams Emott baptised in 1660, and the marriage could have been his.
Family ID F2198 Family Group Page | Family Chart
Family Mary TOLSHARD, d. Yes, date unknown Married 17 Dec 1722 St. Pancras’ Church, Widecombe in the Moor, Devon, England
- From PR entry (image on FMP, viewed 10 Jul 2021)
"Richard Cleve and Mary Tolshard married December the 17 th"
Children4 children Last Modified 13 Jul 2021 Family ID F2196 Family Group Page | Family Chart
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Baptised - 18 Feb 1699/00 - St. Pancras’ Church, Widecombe in the Moor, Devon, England 


Married - 17 Dec 1722 - St. Pancras’ Church, Widecombe in the Moor, Devon, England 


Child - Richard CLEAVE - 25 Dec 1723 - St. Pancras’ Church, Widecombe in the Moor, Devon, England 


Residence - 1725 - Sherbourn, Widecombe in the Moor, Devon, England 


Child - Thomas CLEAVE - 13 Mar 1725/26 - St. Pancras’ Church, Widecombe in the Moor, Devon, England 


Buried - 21 Aug 1767 - St. Pancras’ Church, Widecombe in the Moor, Devon, England 

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