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Descendants of Richard Leir


Generation No. 3


5. ANNE3 LEIR (THOMAS I2, RICHARD1) was born April 26, 1670. She married THOMAS GAPPER.
     
Child of ANNE LEIR and THOMAS GAPPER is:
  i.   THOMAS4 GAPPER, b. 1686.


6. THOMAS II3 LEIR (THOMAS I2, RICHARD1) was born September 3, 1672, and died October 16, 1730. He married MARY FREKE 1700 in Hinton St. Mary, daughter of THOMAS (RALPH?) FREKE. She was born 1670, and died Bet. 1731 - 1737.

Notes for MARY FREKE:
Mary Freke, a rich young heiress of Hinton St. Mary in Whiltshire, married firstly Dr. Christopher Coward, doctor of divinity, the younger son of a rich family, who became Rector of Ditcheat in 1667. In the same year he carried out extensive alterations to Ditcheat Priory. He died in 1699 and is buried in the Ditcheat churchyard.

His position as Rector was taken over by Thomas Leir, elder son of the Rector of Charlton Musgrove. At 27 he was at Oxford where he was a fellow of his college and its chaplain.

Within the same year of 1699 Mary Coward married Thomas Leir at her home in Hinton St. Mary, and they returned to live in the Priory now known as Abbey House.

Their daughter- in-law Elizabeth Methuen was the daughter of a wealthy clothier of Bradford-on-Avon.
     
Children of THOMAS LEIR and MARY FREKE are:
  i.   MARY4 LEIR, b. 1701; d. 1736; m. WILLIAM NORMAN; d. 1778, osp.
8. ii.   THOMAS III LEIR, b. September 28, 1702; d. August 23, 1781.
  iii.   ANNE LEIR, b. 1703; d. Bet. April 9 1736 - 1776; m. JAMES CHAFFEY COOPER; d. 1738, osp.
  iv.   JANE LEIR, b. 1707; d. 1782; m. JOHN BYTHESEA; d. 1747.
  v.   ELIZABETH LEIR, b. 1711; m. STEPHEN PHELPS; d. osp.


7. ANNE3 LEIR (WILLIAM2, RICHARD1) She married REV. C. PLUCKNETT.
     
Children of ANNE LEIR and C. PLUCKNETT are:
  i.   CHILDA4 PLUCKNETT.
  ii.   CHILDB PLUCKNETT.
  iii.   CHILDC PLUCKNETT.

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