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Hi Les

I think you have nailed it.  It matches well with the reading of the original record as Sharget. Many thanks, I would not have got there without your help.

Helen

Many thanks Pat.  That is a great help.  SHARGET is definitely a possible interpretation of that writing.  And that works well with Les' later comments.

Hi Jenny

She was marrying into the Rogers family.  By 1755 one member of the family was a yeoman and another a husbandman and they are involved in leasing property, so they appear to be well established by that time.

Helen

...I think Les's idea could well be your answer, Helen...much more likely than my German...!!

Couldn't leave this alone so have checked a few things out and I now wonder if the name is SERGENT or a derivative as I saw it written in the burials as SHERGANT.  I then looked at the baptisms and found Hannah SERGANT baptised 28 Oct 1701 d/o John and Joyce.  Do you think this is more likely than SUGAR.  It is a surname that crops up many time in Cheddar.

I have come across the surname SUGAR many times in Somerset, so it could be a possibility.