A history of the Dorchester Pope family, 1634-1888 : with sketches of other Popes in England and America, and notes upon several intermarrying families . itles, etc. If some members of the familyhad emigrated to America, they would have been likely to dropcorrespondence, or to have been forgotten, and counted as ifdeceased. At Corsecombe, Toller, and Kingcombe (Kentcomb), Dorset, afamily of Popes has had good standing for two centuries and athird. Alfred Pope, Esq., at present Mayor of Dorchester, is ofthis branch, as are Revs. William John Pitfield Pope and EdwardJ. Pope, of the neighborhood.
A history of the Dorchester Pope family, 1634-1888 : with sketches of other Popes in England and America, and notes upon several intermarrying families . itles, etc. If some members of the familyhad emigrated to America, they would have been likely to dropcorrespondence, or to have been forgotten, and counted as ifdeceased. At Corsecombe, Toller, and Kingcombe (Kentcomb), Dorset, afamily of Popes has had good standing for two centuries and athird. Alfred Pope, Esq., at present Mayor of Dorchester, is ofthis branch, as are Revs. William John Pitfield Pope and EdwardJ. Pope, of the neighborhood. The earliest parish registries of thefamily extant are the. marriage of William Pope, Jan. 15, 1654, atBristol, to Ann Phillips ; and baptisms of their children at Corse-combe, in i66$,etseq. William, John, and Thomas were favoritenames in the family. They may have descended from the wealthyproprietor at Dorchester, in 1544, or from some other progenitor. In the museum at Dorchester (Dorset) there is a manuscriptVisitation Book of Dorsetshire, completed in 1623. Here is a copy of page 215 (the shield being facsimile): 34 CONCERNING ENGLISH <5fl J^/ie <=/€Cat** c» 7o*t n c aa ft &j£ a4+at (eo--iri e —z/*nfi « 4&/ja *£;e c/e = -dftu/A t/uu, <d CONCERNING ENGLISH POPES. 3$ In Wiltshire there have been numerous Popes. At Salis-bury, in 1650, there was a William Pope living, as appearsfrom a deposition of William Palmer and others in Massachu-setts General Court, Oct. 16th of that year. SOMERSETSHIRE POPES. The Probate files of Taunton contain several wills of personsof this name, as the indexes show; but the documents are toopass/ to admit of examination. A recent article in the WesternAntiquary, of Plymouth, gives an account of an enterprisingman we may be glad to reckon a relative. James Hurley Pring,, quotes from Hakluyt, vol. iii, p. 7. A brief extract of a patent to M. Thomas Gregory, of Taunton, andothers for traffic between the rive
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