SPERRING

Published by Duncan Sperring on Fri, 27/01/2023 - 22:13


Surname:	SPERRING
Parish:	All
Place/Region:	SOM Somerset
Period	All years

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Submitted by Pat Hase on Sat, 28/01/2023 - 10:04

My G G Grandmother was a Lavinia SPERRIN/G born in West Harptree in about 1825. She married a Charles STOKES in Wraxall in 1846 and died there in 1900. I think I have traced her back to a Philip SPERRING who with his wife Ann was having children christened in Shepton Mallet from about 1678. I am not 100% sure about this but working on it! Where in Somerset were your family?

Submitted by Duncan Sperring on Mon, 20/02/2023 - 1:35

My family came from Lympsham and I have traced back to around about 1710 (6th ggf) but the links prior to that are rather tenuous and am currently struggling to proceed any further but it’s possible that further distant relatives could have come from Wedmore, Westbury or East or West HarptreeCurrently I’m preparing a spread sheet of all the Sperring’s in Somerset. So far I have found 23 different spellings which will make it even harder to trace. The broad Somerset accent has not helped over time as the vicar only wrote down what he heard or thought he heard and of course very few labours in those days could read or write. Still, it’s an interesting project.

Submitted by on Tue, 21/02/2023 - 17:38

Hello Duncan, I'm one of the Sperrin variation which I guess will be included in your spreadsheet. Good luck with that. Do you use Ancestry by any chance because our Tree is there?. My 2x GGF, John George SPERRIN(G) can be found tracing back to his birth, which is shown as Blagdon at the end of the 18th century. Unfortunately I have not yet found the record of his birth. The tree may however, make your task easier. Thanks to a DNA match though it's possible to go back, say 75% accurately, as far as Isaac SPIRRING in West Harptree (1743) and also less so to Joseph SPERRING born around 1700. This Sperring/Spirring tree is not yet on Ancestry; it's too suspect. As you say an interesting project. If I can help let me know. Regards, Alan Sperrin, b1937.

Submitted by Jenny Towey on Tue, 28/02/2023 - 9:42

There is a one-name study of Sperring and variants: contact Dr Maurice Gleeson at spearin@one-name.org

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