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William TAPNER
Est 1650 - 1712 (~ 62 years)
Has 3 ancestors and 291 descendants in this family tree.
Set As Default Person 
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Name William TAPNER Relationship 
with Teresa Ann GOATHAM Born Est 1650 - Guess based on likely age at marriage (and on guessed approximate marriage date)
I am also ** only guessing ** that William might have been a son of William and Elizabeth, brother of Anthony.
Guess is based not just on date but also on places - Anthony was baptised in Houghton, where William junior's son Henry married, and was buried in Aldingbourne, where William junior's sons William and Henry both lived.
Gender Male Occupation 1697 Merston, Sussex, England 
[1] Husbandman - William appears to have been farming 62 acres: 50 acres of land, 2 acres of meadow and 10 acres of pasture.
Merston is close to Aldingbourne and I am guessing it was this William who was farming here.
Died 1712 Merston, Sussex, England - (assumed from burial)
Buried 8 Mar 1711/12 St. Giles’ Church, Merston, Sussex, England [2] - Although his 3 sons were bapt Houghton there are no Tapner burials there (but 2 Tuppers - no Wm, but could be relatives)
I think it likely that the burial is this William, and that his son William may then have taken over the land he was farming, and hence his first child was baptised in Merston.
However, this Wm may have died in Aldingbourne in 1726 (the burial currently assigned to his son Wm)
Siblings1 brother Patriarch & Matriarch 
Notes - (Research):An Elizabeth TAPNER married in Merston in 1714. Probably a close relation of this William. Maybe a dau I haven't discovered, or the remarriage of a 2nd wife (again, who I haven't discovered)
Person ID I9473 All | Teresa's direct ancestors Last Modified 18 Sep 2023
Father William TAPNER, d. 1676 Mother Elizabeth, d. 1688, (possibly), Madehurst, Sussex, England Family ID F6023 Family Group Page | Family Chart
Family Mary HUNTER Married 29 Sep 1680 St. Michael’s Church, Amberley, Sussex, England [3] Children3 children Last Modified 29 Sep 2013 Family ID F1 Family Group Page | Family Chart
- Guess based on likely age at marriage (and on guessed approximate marriage date)
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Sources - [S187] Sussex - WSRO catalogue, West Sussex Record Office, ((http://www.westsussexpast.org.uk/)), accessed 30 Sep 2013), Assignment - catalogue no. SAS-K/198. (Reliability: 3).
includes "One messuage, 50 ac. of land, 2 ac. meadow and 10 ac. of pasture in occupation of William Tapner ...
All in Merston"
(link to cat entry) - [S104] Sussex Family History Group Data Archive, Sussex Family History Group, ((http://sfhg.frontis.co/bin/index.php )), accessed 30 Sep 2013), Burial of William TAPNER. (Reliability: 3).
(no age or other info. given) - [S186] Sussex Marriage Index (up to 1837), Sussex Family History Group, ((2008)), accessed 29 Sep 2013), Marriage of William TAPNER to Mary HUNTER. (Reliability: 3).
Data was transcribed from BTs
- [S187] Sussex - WSRO catalogue, West Sussex Record Office, ((http://www.westsussexpast.org.uk/)), accessed 30 Sep 2013), Assignment - catalogue no. SAS-K/198. (Reliability: 3).