Other London Kiplings

The Kiplings of 16th, 17th and 18th century London
The earliest mention of the Kipling name in London is of Robert Kiplyn, who married
Marye Medcalffe in 1577
30 JUN 1577 St Botolph, Aldgate
In 1578, another(?) Robert Kyplin, feltmaker, makes his will:
SW/16_377
Robert Kyplin (X) of Bermondsey, feltmaker, sick 9 Sep 1578
all to my wife Mabel Kyplin, exec. paying John Pery 3s I owe him; to my wife
the money my brother Anthony Kyplin owes me (four marks); to (goodman)
Benet the 3s 4d he owes me
Witnesses: John Baron, clerk; Thomas Glove; Joan Browne
Proved: 17 Sep 1578 to exec. [DW/PA/5/1578/79]
Stephen Slany, Lord Mayor of London, to Sir Robert Cecil.
1596,
May
17.
Upon receipt of your letters touching a matter betwixt Nicholas Kippling,
hosier, and one Adam Mytton, a bankrupt, I have examined the matter and
done therein for the poor man what I could. I find the state of the cause to be
this : [enters into the details.]—17 of May, 1596.
Signed. Seal. ½ p. (40. 99.)
'Cecil Papers: May 1596, 16-31', Calendar of the Cecil Papers in Hatfield House, Volume 6: 1596 (1895), pp. 183-208. URL:
http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=109967&strquery=kippling Date accessed: 10 July 2013.
Next we read of William, son of William Kiplyn, cutler, who died on 25 Feb 1598/9
St Helens, Bishopsgate
Boyd tells of a George Kipling, tallow chandler:
George is mentioned in the Lay Subsidies of 1598, 1599 and 1600 in All Hallows
parish. His assets have a value of £3.
He was a witness in a London Consistory Court case in 1609:
DL/C/219/29v-31v Interrogatory 31v-32r 22-12-1609
Peter Johnson and Grace, His Wife c William Hunter and Judith Hunter
Cause :Def
Witness ; George Kipling; Allhallows the Great Tallowchandler
From: 'Depositions: 1609', London Consistory Court Depositions, 1586-1611: list and indexes (1995),
pp. 196-232. URL: http://www.britishhistory.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=117347&strquery=Kipling Date accessed: 20 May 2012.
George died in 1610, when of Thames Street, A.H. Gt, with administration of his
estate being granted to Anne as his relict. [PCC Wills Vol V 1609-1619. Pg196]
An Anne Kiplinge married in 1610 (was this George’s widow?):
St Mary Magdalen, Bermondsey 4 Sep 1610
In 1623, Juditha Kiplyn (daughter of George above?) married Samuel Savedg at St
Peter, Paul’s Wharf .
St Peter, Paul’s Wharf 23 Dec 1623
Meanwhile, in 1615, Anthony Kiplinge, son of Michael of ‘Barncastle’, Yorks
(presumably Barnard Castle, Durham) shoemaker was apprenticed to John Baylie of
the Wax Chandlers’ Company..
St George and Boyd both record Cecily Kipling, daughter of Michael, as also being in
London:
The visitation of London, anno Domini 1633, 1634, and 1635.
The visitation of London, anno Domini 1633, 1634, and 1635
In 1642, Leonard Kiplinge, another son of Michael, ‘cordwainer of Barnard Castle’,
was apprenticed to Clothworker Hen Holmes. He could possibly be the Leonard
Kipling who signed the Barnard Castle Protestation returns in 1641.
Probate was granted on the will of a Michael Kipling at Durham in1618.
Jone Kipling married Joh Cuthberd at in 1621/2 at Saint Martin-Vintry (transcript):
and Ann Kiplinge married Thomas Hinson at Saint Bride, Fleet St in 1623.
St Bride´s, Fleet Street 10 Feb 1623
Kirkby Stephen to London
In 1692, Thomas Kiplin, the son of John Kiplin, shoemaker, of Kirkby Stephen was
apprenticed to William Covey, joiner
Could these records below be him?
In 1701 Thomas Kiplin married Judith Oxenbridge:
All Hallows, London Wall 21 Aug 1701
A daughter, Elizabeth, was born in 1702:
26 Jul 1702
St Benet Paul´s Wharf
Another, Sarah, in 1704:
St Benet Paul´s Wharf 2 Jul 1704
Was it she who died in 1747?
St Benet Paul´s Wharf 9 Jul 1747
St Benet Paul´s Wharf
St Benet Paul´s Wharf
St Benet Paul´s Wharf 1709/10
Another register from St Benets lists the same burials (although a slightly different date)
St Benet Paul´s Wharf 29 Oct 1710
St Benet Paul´s Wharf 13 July 1712
St Benet Paul´s Wharf
St Benet Paul´s Wharf
St Benet Paul´s Wharf
Thomas pays tax in Castle Baynard Ward between 1712 and 1727, residing in St
Benets Precincts:
1712 entry
Judith died in 1734:
Did he then remarry?
Thomas Kipling
England Marriages,
1538–1973
marriage:
30 Mar Westminster,
1740
Middlesex, England
spouse:
Mary
Young
….and whose sons were this?
Christ Church, Spitalfields 26 Dec 1731
Christ Church, Spitalfields, 1733
Christ Church, Spitalfields
Or was Thomas of Kirkby Stephen the Thomas Kipling who paid rates for a house in
King Street, St Anne, Soho 1708-10 (for which a William Kipling had paid rates
1707-8). But whose daughter this?
23 Oct 1715 St Mary Le Strand.
And who married Unity?
St Andrew, Holborn
Dec 20 1721, St Martin in the Fields
Children Anne and Rebekah Kipling died in “Mary bone” in 1745 and 1749. Who
were they?
St Anne, Soho 19 Mar 1745
St Anne, Soho 1749 4 September 1749
And which Thomas died on Xmas day 1756?
St Marylebone
Henry Kipling, plumber or mariner?
Henry, another son of John Kipling of Kirkby Stephen (this time “cordwainer”), was
apprenticed to John Heydon, plumber, on 29 September 1699. The record then states
“29 September 1703 now at sea”.
Could he be the Henry (“A sayler”) married in the Fleet in March 1703?
Could this also be the Henry Kipling, mariner, who married Jane Nation in 1720 and
had a number of children (but also see further below).
Collegiate Church of St Katherine by the Tower
John (burial) :
St Dunstan and All Saints, Stepney 14 Oct 1724
Benjamin:
St Dunstan and All Saints, Stepney 11 Apr 1729
And who was Henry the sawyer who lost a son Benjamin?
St Paul, Shadwell Feb 1729
(Dates could be OK as, from registers, birth looks like 1728/9 and death 1729/30)
Nation:
St George in the East 23 Apr 1732
Mary (burial)
St George in the East Feb 1734
Henry Peter:
St George in the East – Burial
And a later Henry?
St George in the East – Burial
Henry was taxed in 1730:
Land Tax: King Street, St Georges
And Jane was taxed at Martins Rents in the same parish between 1737 and 1749. In
1750, a James Kipling was taxed at that address. A James is also taxed in Cripplegate
Ward in 1763-5.
Then again, a Henry Kipling, plumber & widower, married a Martha Grant in 1725
(cannot be same as later children born to Henry and Jane).
Henry the plumber died in March 1737 and left all his estate to his wife Martha and
what appear to be his step-children, Samuel and Hannah Grant (odd that it is same
month as other Henry, unless a year later)
John Kipling. Coachmaker’s Apprentice
John Kipling, son of John Kipling, yeoman, of Romaldkirk, was apprenticed in 1720
to George Errington, Coachmaker. There is no record of John ever taking apprentices
of his own, so he may not have become a master. He was probably the John Kipling
born in Romaldkirk in 1703, a younger son of the Newhouses line. He may be one of
the two nephews mentioned in Charles Kipling, the gunmaker’s, will (the other being
his elder brother, William of Newhouses).
John Kipling, Joiner of Deptford.
John Kipling, joiner, had a daughter in 1704.
St Nicholas, Deptford 4 Mar 1704-1705
He took on an apprentice in 1724…
…and another in 1731.
Was he widowed in 1727?
St Nicholas, Deptford 1 Oct 1727
He was appointed master joiner at the Admiralty Dockyard, Woolwich in 1730.
He married Hannah Browne in 1732:
St Mary, Whitechapel Feb 1732
Had a daughter Mary in 1733:
St Paul, Deptford 17 Feb 1733
Admiralty records note “John Kipling, Joiner, Deptford. Having worked in the mold
loft 32 years requests a replacement apprentice” April 1738.
He died in 1739: “Josiah Burchett. The Clerk of the Cheque at Woolwich informs
John Kipling, Master Joiner, died last night”. 9 Apr 1739.
St Nicholas, Deptford 12 Apr 1739
In his will, he leaves everything to widow Hannah, other than 1/- to daughter
Rebekkah Shepheard:
Admiralty records note “Hannah Kipling, widow of John Kipling late Master joiner at
Woolwich. Request for another servant to replace William Waters who is abusive and
neglects his duty”. May 1740.
Widow Hannah took on an apprentice in 1747:
Who were these Catherine Kiplings?
St Mary Magdalene, Woolwich 8 Jun 1810
St Nicholas, Deptford Dec 1749
Robert Kipling, Tea warehouseman
Robert Kipling & Co were taxed in Dolphin Precinct, Tower Ward in 1773-78 and
noted as “tea dealer food/drink(s)” of 22, Great Tower Street in The London
Directory for the Year 1774 and as “Robert Kipling & Co” (1775-8).
Gazetteer and New Daily Advertiser (London, England), Tuesday, August 4, 1778
The business appears to have ceased around about the time of the above case. Could
this have been when Robert went to Ferrybridge (assuming he was of Bowes)?
Gazetteer and New Daily Advertiser (London, England), Friday, July 31, 1778;
Morning Post and Daily Advertiser (London, England), Tuesday, August 4, 1778;
However “Kiplng & Tielhan” at the same address in various directories (1779).
A Robert married Ann BIRD in 1777:
Lambeth St Mary 22 Sep 1777
St Botolph, Bishopsgate 15 Jan 1779
St Botolph, Bishopsgate 23 Jan 1780
This is probably daughter Mary (who later married George Lambley:
St Leonard, Shoreditch 4 Aug 1782
St Leonard, Shoreditch 13 Mar 1785
St Leonard, Shoreditch 11 May 1788
Is this daughter Ann (aged 16? – note Bird witness)
24 Dec 1796 St Andrew, Holborn
After Robert’s death, did widow Ann marry a witness from daughter Anne’s
wedding?
Shoreditch St Leonard 16 Dec 1806
Son John went on to be chocolate maker (‘Ebenezer’ group)
St Andrew Holborn 9 Dec 1807
St Botolph, Aldersgate (?)22 Dec 1811
And sister Mary married, too.
But who was the Robert who married in 1717?
St Botolph, Bishopsgate
Was he the Robert who died in 1744? He was taxed in Brick lane in 1741,
Christ Church, Spitalfields Feb 1744
And who was:
Unique Project ID
51376
Register Date/ Company/ Reference 1779 SUN 1 279 27\06\79 BN
422463
Policy Number
Insured Value in £s
100
Forename
ROBERT
Surname
KIPLING
Occupation/Status
Address (i.e. Street Number)
HATPRESSER
48
Address Type
"street, road or alley"
Place Name 1
SKINNER STREET
And who was the Robert who married a Miss Barnard in August 1781?
The Town and Country Magazine, Or Universal Repository of ..., Volume 13
St. James's Chronicle or the British Evening Post (London, England), August 16, 1781 - August
18, 1781
Bryan the barber/mop-maker
Banns:
St Dunstan and All Saints, Stepney 24 Aug 1736
Was this his son from an earlier marriage? Born St Leonards, Shoreditch, May
1716….
….and buried there July 1716.
And in 1723, had and lost a son Thomas?
St Dunstan and All Saints, Stepney 1 Sep 1723
St Dunstan and All Saints, Stepney 11 Sep 1723
The Barnard Castle Kiplings
London Gazette 2 September 1788
QM John Kipling was killed in the Battle of Cateau.
Friday 09 May 1794, Chester Chronicle
London Gazette 10 June 1794
St Martin’s in the Field – Workhouse Admission and Discharge Registers
Ann Kiplin : Pauper. Aged 37. Admitted 3 Aug 1728. Discharged 3 Oct 1728
[b c1691]
Theodosia Kiplin: Pauper : Aged 25. Admitted 16 Aug 1739. “delivered of a dead
Child Sept 13th following”. Discharged 10 Oct 1739 (‘left the house”)
[b c1714]
Theodosia Kiplen aged 25 years lodging with one Mrs Grimes in Phenix Alley in
Long Acre in the Parish of St Martin in the Fields saith that she never was married nor
bound an apprentice, that she was a yearly hired servant to one Thomas Potter a
Taylor who kept a publick house in Little Catherine Street in the Parish of St Martin
in the Fields a year served eight years, had 3 pounds by the year wages diet and
lodging, that she quitted that service two years ago and never kept any house rented
10 pounds by the year or paid any parish taxes or was a yearly hired servant for the
space of a year in any service since. Sworn the [blank]. 08/08/1739
The Examination of Theodosia Kiplen singlewoman taken upon oath this 13th Day of
August in the year of our Lord 1739. Who upon her voluntary oath saith that she is 25
years old, that she now lodges at one Mrs Grimes's in Phenix Alley in Long Akcre
and that she never was married nor bound an apprentice, that she was a yearly hired
servant to one Thomas Potter a Taylor who kept a public house in Little Catherine
Street in the Parish St Martin in the Fields whom she served eight years, had 3 pounds
by the year wages diet and lodging, that she quitted that service two years ago and
never kept any house rented 10 pounds by the year paid any parish taxes or lived a
year in any service whatsoever since, and further that she is now Great with child
which when born is or are likely to be born a bastard or bastards and to become
chargeable to the said Parish of St Martin in the Fields, and that one John Watson a
Shoemaker living at the corner of New Street in St Martin's Lane had carnal
knowledge of her body in a room one pair of stairs backwards in a private house near
St Giles's Pound some time in or about Christmas last and several times since at the
same place at which or one which times he begot on her body the said child or
children she now goeth with and is pregnant of, and that he the said John Watson is
the true and only father thereof and no man else. Sworn the day and year above
written before me Val Hilder. 13/08/1739
Theodosia Kiplin/Keplin: Pauper : Aged 27. Admitted 4 Sept 1741. Discharged 1 Nov
1742 (“Dyed”)
St Martin in the Fields 4 Nov 1742
She is likely to be the grand-daughter (father Thomas) of Richard and Theodosia
Kipling of Nateby in Westmorland.
Thomas Kipling, Supernumary of the Office
Fleet : 30 March 1740
Almost certainly, Thomas and wife Mary were witnesses in an Old Bailey sodomy
trial in 1755. He (his first name is not mentioned in the trial report) was a pew-opener
at the “chapel in Chandler Street” as well as “belonging to the Penny-Post-Office”.
Chandler Street in the East End, not Westminster, however.
Who was this captain?
Morning Chronicle - Monday 28 September 1801
Which Ann died in Greenwich (possibly Kiflin, not Kiplin)?
St Alfege 4 Aug 1762
And which Mr Kipling is this?
More Paupers
John (10) and Mary (4) Keplin were admitted to St Botolph’s parish workhouse in
1743 (children of William K and Mary Bacon?)
St Botolph Aldgate Parish: Register of Paupers Admitted to the Workhouse 1736 – 1760
Middlesex Sessions: Sessions Papers - Justices' Working Documents September 1771
Middlesex Sessions: Sessions Papers - Justices' Working Documents October 1782
Two Ann Kiplin(g) jailbirds
Middlesex Sessions: Sessions Papers - Justices' Working Documents April 1732
Middlesex Sessions October 1778 Calendar of Recognizances (also April, July and September(2))
Middlesex Sessions: Sessions Papers - Justices' Working Documents July 1786
(Note : “Ass dd” probably means ‘Assizes – delivered’)
Middlesex September Session 1787 Calendar of Recognizances (Ann(?)Kiplin)
Some more marriage allegations
George Kipling (servum) and Mary Rangle (1711) => George b c1675
All Hallows London Wall
William Kipling, Tidesman
William Kiplin married Frances Rogerson in 1702 (Vicar-G) and had children
Christopher….
St Botolph, Aldgate
….and Mary Ann
St Botolph, Aldgate 14 Feb 1716
He was a tidesman:
In 1711, a William Kipling was mentioned in Treasury papers:
“Treasury warrant to the Customs Commissioners to employ William Kiplin as a
tidesman in the inferior list, London port, loco Samuell Sacheverell, who hath quitted
that employment. Out Letters (Customs) XV, p. 336”
and again in 1712
“William Kiplin (a tidesman in the inferior list, London port) as a tidesman in the
superior list, Ibid., loco Thomas Lines, deceased”.
and finally in 1736
”William Williams, a tidesman, superior list, London port, loco William Kiplin,
deceased”
From: 'Warrants for Minor Appointments: 1736', Calendar of Treasury Books and Papers, Volume 3: 1735-1738 (1900), pp. 282291. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=91845&strquery=kiplin Date accessed: 16 July 2013.
William was taxed at Magnus Court, St Katherines 1732-35
and died in 1736:
Collegiate Church of St Katherine by the Tower 20 May 1736
and Frances (“widow”) was taxed there in 1736 and died in 1741:
Collegiate Church of St Katherine by the Tower 18 Sep 1741
William Kipling, upholsterer
Who was the William apprenticed to Ben Richardson the joiner in 1725 for £40?
Was it he who married Mary Baron in1732?
St Ann & St Agnes 9 Nov 1732
St Ann Blackfriars 9 Nov 1732 (actually probably draft of the above)
They had two Elizabeths….
St Botolph, Aldgate 23 Dec 1736 (burial)
St Botolph, Aldersgate 30 Oct 1737 (baptism)
Was this her death?
Christ Church, Spitalfields 8 Aug 1766
and John (per D&VK b 1733)?
But who was?
Collegiate Church of St Katherine by the Tower 12 Jan 1767
William was taxed 1749-1759 at Dorset Street, Christ Church, Spitalfields,
Robert Kipling, felon
In 1773, Robert Kipling was accused of stealing 14 guineas and some books. He was
acquitted of stealing the money but convicted of stealing four books. He claimed they
were given to him by his master in Yorkshire but, unfortunately for him, one was
inscribed with the name of the London gentleman at whose house he had been a
porter!
Oxford Journal - Saturday 01 May 1773
Reported to have been sent to Maryland [2000(2) 1229.1 (243)]. But did he ever go?
City of London Sessions: Sessions Papers - Justices' Working Documents 24th May 1773
ODD RECORDS
Fleet Street
Fleet Notebooks 14 September 1717
Fleet Registers June 1716
Fleet Registers
Fleet registers
Mary Kipling wedding
Bloomsbury St George 4 Apr 1758
John Kipling marries Mary Fairbrother 1788
Whitechapel St Mary 29 Jan 1788
James Kipling
St Bride´s, Fleet Street 23 Mar 1760
St James, Clerkenwell 19 Apr 1776
Sarah, D of William, mariner
St Paul, Shadwell 24 Apr 1722
A William Kipling paid Land Tax at Magnus Court, St Katherines 1732-35 and his
widow in 1736.
Will of [William, or possibly John] Kipling, mariner, late of HMS Colchester, written
1749, proven 1760. Executor, Elizabeth Miller, wife of Robert Miller (catalogued
under ‘Valentine Kipling’!).
Royal Office Holders
Office-Holders in Modern Britain: Volume 11 (revised) - Court Officers, 1660-1837 2006 R.O. Bucholz
Similar warrant to pay to Thomas Fowcke, groom of the buckhounds, in place of
James Kiplin, an allowance of 20l. per annum during his life. [Docquet.]
The like to Francis Dodsworth, one of the yeoman prickers of the buckhounds, in
place of Anthony Holland, 2s per diem during his life, and 20s. per annum for his
winter livery. [Docquet.]
The like to James Kiplin, another of the yeoman prickers in place of the abovementioned Francis Dodsworth, 22d. per diem during life. [Docquet.]
From: 'Charles I - volume 283: February 1635', Calendar of State Papers Domestic: Charles I, 1634-5 (1864), pp. 497-531. URL:
http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=52308&strquery=kiplin Date accessed: 10 July 2013.
Warrant to pay to John Kiplin, yeoman of the privy buckhounds in place of Jas.
Kilpin, the fee of 3s. 4d. daily, and 20s. yearly for a livery. [Docquet.]
rom: 'Charles II - volume 50: February 1-21, 1662', Calendar of State Papers Domestic: Charles II, 1661-2 (1861), pp. 262-281.
URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=54686&strquery=kiplin Date accessed: 10 July 2013.
Establishment List for the Households of King Charles II and Queen Catherine Date:1675
Francis Kiplin
St James Piccadilly, 23 Jul 1712
Who?
St James Piccadilly, 19 Jun 1715
St James Piccadilly, 17 Feb 1717
St James Piccadilly, 17 Aug 1718
Daughter Katherine died in infancy, Francis in June 1724 and his widow in Nov 1736
St James Piccadilly, 2 Jan 1717
Who is this?
St Botolph, Bishopsgate 24 May 1768
Eleanor Kipling from King Edward Stairs
Who was she?
St John of Wapping
George Kipling of Holborn
George Kipling was also a lawyer, latterly working at the Tenths Office, which had
responsibilities for church tithe matters. It is possible that he was the son, b 1718, of
Charles Kipling the gunmaker, although there is no direct evidence of this and the age
given at his death is seven year less than ought to be the case.
St Andrew Holborn
George married in 1763 and died in January 1794, aged 69, leaving all his estate to his
widow, Mary, apart from a legacy to his niece Mary Ann Pound. He was taxed at
Chapel Street, St Andrew & St George from 1780 to 1794.
Register of Burials at Maze Pond Baptist Chapel in Southwark
Accounts TF 251 1784-1793 Contents:
Accounts of George Kipling with Robert Chester, receiver of tenths, 1784-90, and
with Richard Richards, his successor, 1791-3, for tenths in England Wales. The
accounts refer to ledgers, and to the bankers, Messrs. Child and Co., and Messrs.
Hoare.
Formerly numbered among the Church Commissioners records, CC 316,057. 88
ff. (ff.80-8 blank).
If he was the son of Charles and Hester Kipling, it may not just be a coincidence that
he lived near to brother-in-law Henry Kipling, also a lawyer, and his son the Rev
Henry?
It also appears that Mary Kipling ran a school in Chapel Street:
Gazetteer and New Daily Advertiser (London, England), Wednesday, July 12, 1769
Also we note a George Kipling Pound, a dyer
Baptism Date:
Parish:
County:
Borough:
3 Apr 1797
St Alfege
Kent
Greenwich
Was Joseph (b1731) any connection? Brother?
24 August 1774
And who was….. ?
12 May 1788
Parish:
Horselydown St John
Borough:
Southwark
And was it Mary, George’s widow, (of Great Warren Street, St John, Clerkenwell)
who died in 1797, aunt of Charles Smith?
Title: The Queen's Maiesties gracious answer to the Lord Digbies letter,
[electronic resource] : and the Parliaments censure to the 18. rebels. With
the examination and confession of Captain Butler, before the committee.
Likewise the true relation of 36. other rebels, apprehended and taken in
Milford-Lane, by many constables, and a strong watch. who intended to
fire the City of London, had they not bin prevented The names of those 36
rebels.Captain Griffin, Captain Hornway, Captain Spencer, Lieuten.
Williams. G. Coppinger Mr. Ric. Crab, Master. Iohn Tompson, Henrie
Barton, Thomas Liedor, Adam Wheeler Wil. Hafferd; Garret Ryaut, I.
Duport, Dan. Thornlie, Morgan Meridith Rich. Boys, Patrick Tenam,
Thomas Lemon, Nich. Wright, Robert Delen, Darbie Kufoy David Speeloo,
Ioh. Greenoraugh, Wil. Barwicke. Iohnas Kipling, Peter Fogheogill, David
Bodurdo, Gefferie Roberts, Thomas Trig Adam Bedford, William Crineos,
Iohn Daveris Henrie Scarebie, Patricke Coots David Powell, Darbie
Cobois.
Author:Henrietta Maria, Queen, consort of Charles I, King of England,
1609-1669.
Publisher Details: Printed at London : for Tho. Powell and averred by I.
B. Cler.
Publication Date: [1642]
Bodleian Library