Abraham Laflin 1750-1795.
Abraham was the third son of Jonathan Laflin and his wife Elizabeth Hix. When he married Dinah Harvey at Creeting St Mary in 1782, he was described as "yeoman", which may imply that he was one of the more successful members of the family. So far as I can determine, a yeoman would have either owned or rented a farm and probably employed farm-labourers to work on it.
|-Abraham Laflin 1783-1835
| mar 1824 Mary Simmonds --------- 2 children
|-Jonathan Laflin 1784-1878
Abraham Laflin 1750-1795 | mar c1810 Sarah ---------------- 9 children
mar 1782 ------------------|-John Laflin 1786-1795.
Dinah Harvey 1759-1837 |-Elisabeth Laflin 1787-? |-Mary Ann Southgate 1826-?
mar 1797 | mar 1810 -----------|-William Southgate 1828-?
John Ramsey | William Southgate
in Great Bricett. |-Diana Laflin 1794 -? |-William Grimwood 1826-?
| mar 1822 -----------|-Robert Grimwood 1831-?
| John Grimwood 1791-? |-Mary Grimwood 1832-?
|-Sarah Grimwood 1835-?
|-Susan Grimwood 1838-?
|-Walter Grimwood 1841-?
The most likely for Dinah's baptism in the Creeting St Mary registers was
that relating to Dinah Hawes or Harves in 1759, the daughter of Isaac and Sarah. Other entries
around that date refer to the children of Isaac and Sarah Harvey, suggesting that this is
indeed the correct entry.
After the marriage, the family seems to have returned to Ringshall and records of five of
their children are found there. On 17th November 1786, as part of another case, it was noted
that "The farm situated in Ringshall and Bricett is rented to Abraham Laflin for £26-16-0
per annum".
Abraham was buried in Ringshall in April 1795, when he was only 45 years old. This left
his widow Dinah with four young children (Abraham aged 12, Jonathan aged 11, Elisabeth
aged 8 and Dinah aged 1). Two years later, in February 1797 Dinah Laflin, widow, married
John Ramsey in Great Bricett. No more details of this couple have been found in Great
Bricett, but “Dinah Ramsey of Bricett” was buried in Ringshall in January 1837.
THEIR CHILDREN.
1. ABRAHAM LAFLIN married Mary Simonds and
they had two children.
2. JONATHAN LAFLIN married Sarah and they had 9 children.
3. JOHN LAFLIN was baptised on 14th April 1786 and born 2 weeks earlier. John Laflin
was buried on 30th March 1795, at the age of 8.
4. ELISABETH LAFLIN was born and baptised in July 1787 and was only 8 years old
when her father died and 10 when her mother remarried. She married Will Southgate in
Battisford in June 1810, when she was 23. In the 1841 census William and Elizabeth Southgate
were living in Dattons Cottage, Stowupland with their two children (William Southgate aged 13
and Mary Ann Southgate aged 15) and William was working as an agricultural labourer. Also
with them were Sarah Green (aged 40) and Elizabeth Southgate (aged 45).
5. DINAH/DIANA LAFLIN was baptised in December 1794 and presumably born a few weeks
earlier. She was only one year old when her father died and three when her mother remarried,
so she probably though of John Ramsey as her father. She married John Grimwood in Ringshall
in May 1822, when she was 28.
In the 1841 census, Jonan and Dinah Grimwood were living at Combs with eight
children and Jonathan was working as an agricultural labourer. John (born 1816) and Hannah
(born 1821) were probably not Dinah's children, but the other six were born after the wedding
and so were probably the children of John and Dinah. They were William (age 15), Robert (age 10),
Mary (age 9), Sarah (age 6), Susan (age 3) and Walter (age 4 months).
Relevant Records.
Parish registers for Creeting All Saints, Ringshall, Great Bricett and Battisford -
available in Ipswich Record Office.
Suffolk Record Office, Ipswich Branch FB4/N1/53 17th Nov. 1786. Attested copy of a
Chancery report of the auction of two lots of land belonging to Rev. Stephen White,
rector of Holton.
Census Data available online from Findmypast.
Page maintained by Susan Laflin. Last updated in December 2007.