Nehemiah Champion (abt. 1649 - bef. 1722)

Born about 1649 in Stapleton, Bristol, England

Husband of Sarah (Attwood) Champion — married 22 Aug 1665 in Bristol, Gloucestershire

Descendants

Died before 1 May 1722 before about age 73 in Frenchay, Gloucestershire, England

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Biography

Nehemiah Champion was born about 1649 in Stapleton, Bristol. His father Nehemiah Champion was 35 and his mother Joane Allen was 34.

He married Sarah Attwood on 22 August 1665 In Bristol. They had 4 sons and 4 daughters.

He died in Gloucestershire in 1772 aged 73 and was buried in Frenchay Gloucestershire.

A metal manufacturer and merchant, becoming a Quaker around 1670^[1] This pedigree appears to be well sourced, see below.

Buried 01 May 1722 Frenchay, Gloucestershire ^[2]

Sources

1. ↑ Descendants of William Champion [1]
2. ↑ "England and Wales Non-Conformist Record Indexes (RG4-8), 1588-1977," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FWKD-N4C : 11 December 2014), Nehemiah Champion, 01 May 1722, Burial; citing p. 189, Frenchay, Gloucestershire, record group RG6, Public Record Office, London.

• Hugh Owen FSA, Two Centuries of Ceramic Art in Bristol (Covent Garden, London: Bell & Daldy, 1873).
• Dr. Arthur Raistrick, Quakers in Science and Industry , Re-print if 1950 original. (York: William Sessions, 1993).
• The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (ODNB) (Oxford, England: The Oxford University Press, 2016).
• Professor Patrick McGrath and Russell Mortimer, editor, Minute Book of the Men's Meeting of the Society of Friends in Bristol 1686-1704 , Volume XXX (N.p.: Bristol Record Society, 1977).
• Dr. G. Munro Smith MD. LRCP. MRCS., A History of the Bristol Royal Infirmary (Bristol & London: J. W. Arrowsmith Ltd., 1917).
• P. K. Stembridge, The Goldney Family. A Bristol Merchant Dynasty (University of Bristol: The Bristol Record Society, 1998). [2]