Person:Robert Phippen (4)

Robert George Phippen was born in 1859 at Pilton in Somerset, son of a farmer named Thomas Phippen and his wife Mary Ann. The 1861 census finds the family living at Beard Hill in Pilton. By 1871 the family had moved into the nearby town of Shepton Mallet, where Robert's father became a coal merchant.

Robert had left home by 1881 and was working as a groom at Moulsecombe Lodge in Patcham, Sussex. The following year he was married in Sussex to Clara Edith Holland. They then moved to Edenbridge in Kent, where they had a daughter, Edith Somers Phippen, in 1883. By 1888 the family was living in the Croydon area, when Robert's wife Clara died, aged just 28.

The following year Robert remarried. His second wife was Mary Rice. The 1891 census finds Robert and Mary, Robert's daughter Edith and a newborn daughter who had yet to be named living at North Frith in Hadlow, Kent. They named the baby Marguerite Jeanne, but sadly she died later that year.

Robert died the following year, aged only 33, on 19th July 1892 back in Shepton Mallet. He was buried in his native parish of Pilton. Mary survived him by 34 years but never remarried. Robert's daughter Edith died as a young woman of 21 in 1905.

1. ↑ Births index, in General Register Office. England and Wales Civil Registration. (London: General Register Office).

   b. Robert George PHIPPEN, March Quarter 1859, Shepton Mallet Registration District, Volume 5c, page 639, mother's maiden name Teazley

2. ↑ England. 1861 Census Schedules for England and Wales, Isle of Man and the Channel Islands. (
   Kew, Richmond, Greater London TW9 4DU, United Kingdom:
   The National Archives (abbreviated TNA), formerly the UK General Register Office.)
   Class RG9; Piece 1661; Folio 12; Page 1, 7 Apr 1861.

   Address: Beard Hill, Pateswell House, Pilton, Somerset
   Thomas Phippen, head, married, male, 39 [1821/2], Farmer 15 Acres, b. Pilton, Somerset
   Mary Ann Phippen, wife, married, female, 43 [1817/8], b. Shepton Mallett, Somerset
   Ruth Upton Phippen, daughter, female, 12 [1848/9], Scholar, b. Pilton
   Hannah Phippen, daughter, female, 9 [1851/2], Scholar, b. Pilton
   Sarah Jane Phippen, daughter, female, 6 [1854/5], Scholar, b. Pilton
   Robert George Phippen, son, male, 2 [1858/9], Scholar, b. Pilton
   [second household at same address]
   Elizabeth Phippen, head, widow, female, 61 [1799/1800], Landed Proprietor, b. Pilton
   William Phippen, son, unmarried, male, 32 [1828/9], Schoolmaster disengaged, b. Pilton

3. ↑ England. England and Wales. 1871 Census Schedules. (
   Kew, Richmond, Greater London TW9 4DU, United Kingdom:
   The National Archives (abbreviated TNA), formerly the UK General Register Office.)
   Class RG10; Piece 2443; Folio 7; Page 6, 2 Apr 1871.

   Address: High Street, Shepton Mallet, Somerset
   Thomas Phippen, head, married, male, 49 [1821/2], Coal merchant Clerk, b. Pilton, Somerset
   Mary A. Phippen, wife, married, female, 51 [1819/20], Dressmaker, b. Shepton Mallet, Somerset
   Sarah Phippen, daughter, unmarried, female, 16 [1854/5], Dressmaker, b. Pilton, Somerset
   Robert Phippen, son, male, 12 [1858/9], Scholar, b. Pilton, Somerset

4. ↑ England. 1881 Census Schedules for England and Wales, Isle of Man and the Channel Islands: . (
   Kew, Richmond, Greater London TW9 4DU, United Kingdom:
   The National Archives (abbreviated TNA), formerly the UK General Register Office.)
   Class RG11; Piece 1100; Folio 118; Page 35, 3 Apr 1881.

   Address: Moulsecombe Lodge, Patcham, Sussex
   Mary Ann Fry, wife, married, female, 30 [1850/1], b. Frant, Sussex
   William George Fry, married, male, 30 [1850/1], Gardener, b. Yapton, Sussex
   Cecilia Fanny Fry, daughter, female, 6 [1874/5], Scholar, b. Essex
   Barnard Wm Fry, son, male, 5 [1875/6], Scholar, b. Brighton, Sussex
   Thirza May Fry, daughter, female, 1 [1879/80], b. Yapton, Sussex
   Robert George Phippen, lodger, unmarried, male, 22 [1858/9], Groom, b. Shepton Mallet, Somerset

5. ↑ England. 1891 Census Schedules for England and Wales, Isle of Man and the Channel Islands. (
   Kew, Richmond, Greater London TW9 4DU, United Kingdom:
   The National Archives (abbreviated TNA), formerly the UK General Register Office.)
   Class RG12; Piece 682; Folio 106; Page 23, 5 Apr 1891.

   Address: North Frith, Hadlow, Kent
   5 or more rooms occupied
   Robert G. Phippin, head, married, male, 32 [1858/9], Coachman (Domestic Serv), employed, b. Shepton Mallet, Somerset
   Mary Phippin, wife, married, female, 30 [1860/1], b. Whithorn, Wigtownshire, Scotland
   Edith S. Phippin, daughter, female, 7 [1883/4], b. Edenbridge, Kent
   New Born Child Phippin, daughter, female, 5 days [1891], b. Hadlow, Kent
   Eliza Caddel, visitor, married, female, 46 [1854/5], Midwife, b. Elstead, Sussex

6. ↑ Deaths index, in General Register Office. England and Wales Civil Registration. (London: General Register Office).

   d. Robert George PHIPPEN, September Quarter 1892, Shepton Mallet Registration District, Volume 5c, page 277, aged 33 [1858/9]

7. ↑ Shepton Mallet Journal
   p.4, 22 Jul 1892.

   DEATHS.
   July 19, at 12, Commercial Road, Shepton Mallet, Robert George Phippen, aged 33.

8. ↑ Burials register, in Church of England. Parish Church of Pilton (Somerset). Pilton Parish registers, 1558-1910. (Taunton: Somerset Record Office).

   BURIALS in the Parish of Pilton in the County of Somerset in the Year 1892
   No.	Name	Abode	When buried	Age	By whom the Ceremony was performed
   1377	Robert George Phippen	Shepton Mallet	July 23	33	James Miller