William Laflin 1749-1826.

William was the son of Jonathan Laflin and his wife Elizabeth (Hix). He was buried in 1826, aged 78 which suggests that he was born in 1748. This agrees well with entry in the Bishop's Transcripts showing his baptism in March 1749. I have yet to find any record of his marriage, but in the 1770s in was the custom in Ringshall to record the mother's maiden name in the child's baptism record, and from this we know that she was Susan Crussel or Creswelle. When she was buried in 1801, her age was given as 46 suggesting she was born in 1755 and so was 21 when their first child was baptised in 1776. They were probably married shortly before this, in 1774 or 1775. 

                  |-Susan Laflin 1776-?     |-James Prentice 1804-?
                  |-William Laflin  1777-?  |-Robert Prentice 1805-?
                  |-John Laflin 1778-?      |-John Prentice 1807-?
                  |-Elizabeth Laflin 1780-? |-Henry Prentice 1809-?
                  |-Hannah Laflin 1781-?    |-Sarah Prentice c1812-?
                  |-Kezia Laflin 1783-1837  |-Jemima Prentice c1814-?
                  |   mar 1803 -------------|-Mary Ann Prentice c1816-?
                  | Robert Prentice         |-David Prentice c1819-?
William Laflin    |     in Great Bricett    |-Hannah Prentice c1821-?
1749-1826         |-John Laflin 1784-1784
 mar circa 1775 --|-William Laflin 1785-?  -------- 4 children   
Susan Creswelle   |    mar 1812 Ann Pittock
(or Crussel)      |-Elizabeth Laflin 1787-?  mar 1815 Robert Gilbert in Great Bricett.
1755-1801         |-Sarah Laflin  1788-1805
                  |-Jemima Laflin 1790 - 1816
                  |-Mary-Ann Laflin 1792-? 
                  |-John Laflin 1795-1841 ---------- 9 children  
                  |      mar 1819 Phoebe Barrel 1786-1887
                  |-Bathsheba Laflin 1797-?
                  |-Dinah Laflin 1800-1816

When William's wife Susan died in 1801, she left several small children, but the three eldest girls (Susan aged 25, Hannah aged 20 and Kezia aged 18) would have been capable of looking after the family. Kezia however had left home and moved to Great Bricett by 1803, when she married Robert Prentice there. In 1805, William’s daughter Sarah was buried in Ringshall. Elizabeth moved to Great Bricett and married Robert Gilbert there in 1815. Dinah and Jemima remained in Ringshall and were buried there in the summer of 1816, but William was described as “of Bricett” when he was buried in Ringshall in 1826. This suggests he moved to Bricett,probably to be near his married daughters Kezia and Elizabeth.

Their Children.

1. Susan baptised March 1776. No further information.
2. William baptised August 1777. May have died before 1785 when another William was baptised.
3. John baptised December 1778. May have died before 1784 when another John was baptised.
4. Elizabeth baptised February 1780. May have died before 1787 when another Elizabeth was bapt.
5. Hannah baptised March 1781. No further information.
6. Kezia baptised April 1783 married 1803 in Gt Bricett Robert Prentice and they had 9 children, many of whom were baptised in Great Bricett. Keziah Prentice died in the third quarter of 1837 and her death appeared in the civil registration index. In the 1841 census, Robert Prentice was living in a cottage in Great Bricett with five of his children.
7. John baptised April 1784, buried the same month aged 14 days.
8. William privately baptised September 1785 and publicly baptised April 1786, aged 33 weeks. He later moved to Manningtree and married Ann Pittock.
9. Elizabeth baptised October 1787 and married 1815 Robert Gilbert in Great Bricett. In the 1841 census they were living in a cottage in Great Bricett. No baptisms of children have been found in Great Bricett and there were no children with them in 1841.
10. Sarah baptised December 1788. Buried May 1805, aged 17.
11. Jemima born January 1790, baptised April 1792 and buried 1816, aged 26.
12. Mary-Ann born February 1792. No further information.
13. John born April 1795 and baptised 1798. He cannot be the “John Laflin, infant” buried in February 1797 because he was baptised in April 1798. This suggests he was the John Laflin who married Phoebe Barrel in Baylham in 1819 and settled there.
14. Bathsheba baptised April 1798, aged 1 year. No more information.
15. Dinah baptised April 1800 and buried August 1816, aged 16.

Sources for this section.

Parish Registers for Ringshall and Great Bricett - available in Ipswich Record Office.
Civil Registration Indexes available online from FreeBMD.
Civil Registration Indexes and 1841 Census available online from Findmypast.

Page maintained by Susan Laflin. Last updated in December 2007.