Person Sheet


Name White BETT
Birth 1665, Irthlingborough, Northants
Death Feb 1710/1711, Ringstead, Northants Age: 45
Burial 25 Feb 1710/1711, Ringstead, Northants
Occupation Yeoman Farmer1
Father William BETTE (1628-)
Mother Elizabeth (BETTE)
Spouses
1 Elizabeth PEACOCK
Birth 24 Feb 1678, Ringstead, Northants
Death 1732, Ringstead, Northants Age: 53
Father Philip PEACOCK (1630-1716)
Mother Mary (PEACOCK)
Marriage 24 Nov 1695, Ringstead, Northants
Children Phillip (1696-1768)
White (~1698-<1772)
John (1700-)
Sarah (1701-)
Samuel (1703-1766)
Elizabeth (1708-)
James (1710-1749)
2 Mary PEACOCK
Birth 1676, Ringstead, Northants
Father Philip PEACOCK (1630-1716)
Mother Mary (PEACOCK)
Unmarried
Children Lydia (Illegitimate) (1700-)
Notes for White BETT
NCRO Ref LA1/box 95/3
Licenses
1693 White Bett, Little Addington, Jobber, 4th Quarter Vol 1
1696 White Bett, Ringstead, Drover, 4th Quarter Vol 1.
1698 White Bett, Ringstead, Drover, 4th Quarter Vol 1.

These refer to the licenses certain occupations required such as jobbers, drovers, chapman, higgler, etc.
White Bett was a Jobber before his marriage to Elizabeth Peacock. (He married in 1695).
There are various definitions for a jobber incuding someone who buys in bulk and then sells on, to one who lets out carriages and horses.
Upon marriage he was obviously working his father-in-law's farm and he needed a licence as a drover.
A Drover is a buyer and seller of all manner of cattle.

Will
Last Modified 22 Apr 2001 Created 18 Nov 2001 by Reunion for Macintosh
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