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PLOWRIGHT, David
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Name PLOWRIGHT, David Birth 1774 Pinchbeck, Lincolnshire
Baptism 12 May 1774 Pinchbeck, Lincolnshire
Gender Male Death 1833 Pinchbeck, Lincolnshire
Burial 5 Dec 1833 Pinchbeck, Lincolnshire
Person ID I2180 Edgoose Last Modified 27 Jan 2026
Father PLOWRIGHT, Thomas (Plurritt), b. 1745, Pinchbeck, Lincolnshire
d. 1822, Pinchbeck, Lincolnshire
(Age 77 years) Relationship natural Mother YOUNG, Ann, b. 1745, Pinchbeck, Lincolnshire
d. 1826, Pinchbeck, Lincolnshire
(Age 81 years) Relationship natural Marriage 20 Mar 1769 Pinchbeck, Lincolnshire
Family ID F1136 Group Sheet | Family Chart
Family COOPER, Susanna, b. Abt 1768 d. 1834, Pinchbeck, Lincolnshire
(Age 66 years) Children 1. PLOWRIGHT, Susannah, b. 1805 d. 20 Feb 1877, Spalding, Lincolnshire
(Age 72 years) [Father: natural] [Mother: natural]2. COOPER, Alice, b. 1807, Spalding, Lincolnshire
d. 1807, Spalding, Lincolnshire
(Age 0 years)3. PLOWRIGHT, Jonathan, b. 31 May 1808 d. 8 Aug 1820, Spalding, Lincolnshire
(Age 12 years) [Father: natural] [Mother: natural]Family ID F2761 Group Sheet | Family Chart Last Modified 27 Jan 2026
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Event Map 
Birth - 1774 - Pinchbeck, Lincolnshire 

Baptism - 12 May 1774 - Pinchbeck, Lincolnshire 

Death - 1833 - Pinchbeck, Lincolnshire 

Burial - 5 Dec 1833 - Pinchbeck, Lincolnshire 
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Notes
DAVID PLOWRIGHT 1774-1833
David, son of Thomas and Ann PLOWRIGHT, was baptised at Pinchbeck, Lincolnshire, on 12 May 1774.
(PR)
The marriage, if any, between Susanna COOPER and David PLOWRIGHT has not been traced.
Susannah, daughter of David and Susannah PLOWRIGHT, was baptised at Stamford All Saints, Lincolnshire, on 23 January 1805.
(LFHS Baptisms & Burials 1754-1812 Aveland & Ness Deanery)
David PLOWRIGHT, Mary OLIVER, and Robt. COLLINS, witnessed the marriage of Robert COOK of Whaplode, bachelor, to Elizabeth PETIFER of Sutterton, spinster,
at Whaplode, Lincolnshire, on 4 February 1806.
(PR)
Alice, daughter of ('David and' crossed out) Susanna COOPER, illegitimate, baptised at Spalding, Lincolnshire, on 2 January 1807.
Alice Plowright COOPER, illegitimate, was buried at Spalding, Lincolnshire, on 13 October 1807 aged 1.
Jonathan Plowright, illegitimate son of Susanna COOPER, was born on 31 May 1808 and baptised at Spalding, Lincolnshire, on 2 June 1808.
(PR)
Note: On the facing page in the register the following baptism has been scratched out but is still decypherable:
Jonathan son of David and Susanna PLOWRIGHT born 31 May 1808.
Burton MANN of Pinchbeck, Lincolnshire, died on 23 July 1814. His will was dated 19 July 1814.
Executors:
William COLE of Pinchbeck, grazier.
David PLOWRIGHT of Pinchbeck, grazier.
Beneficiaries:
Thomas MANN, son.
Ann MANN, daughter.
(LFHS Death Duty Registers 1796-1821, IR26/262/751)
David PLOWRIGHT and Martha SHARP witnessed the marriage between Susanna PLOWRIGHT and Edward SHARP at Pinchbeck, Lincolnshire, on 2 May 1826.
(LFHS Marriage Index 1700-1837 Volume 1)
(FreeReg)
"On Sunday morning the 30th ult., as some boys were amusing themselves on the ice, they observed a dog eating some meat on the top of a pigsty adjoining a cottage called the White House, near Spalding toll-bar, on the Pinchbeck road, occupied by a woman named COLLY, together with her daughter and her son, a boy aged twelve years old, and a woman named LAMMAMAN. On examining the meat, there appeared to be two shoulders and a leg of mutton, recently slaughtered, which had been concealeled under some bay until discovered by the dog: the boys apprised the inmates of the house of what they had found, and the women took the meat in, but declared they did not know from whence it came. So extraordinary a case soon reaching the earrs of the constables, in the evening they secured the whole party, and a general search commenced, when one leg and a shoulder of mutton were found salted down; on proceeding farther, they discovered a large quantity of wood, of various sorts and sizes, not less than a cart-load, under the bed, and in different parts of the house. The party were detained in custody the whole of the night, and on the following morning it was ascertained that Mr. David PLOWRIGHT, farmer, of Pinchbeck, hahad had a sheep slaughtered the previous Saturday night, from a pasture within half a mile of the above cottage, and two shoulders and one leg were missing. After a long examination of the circumstances before the magistrates, which occupied all Monday, no evidence being adduced to show how the mutton came there, all the prisoners were liberated. The footsteps of two men were distinctly traced from the pigsty to the place where the sheep was slaughtered and back again; and there being no male inhabitant belonging to the party, except the boy, as stated above, no doubt could be entertained that more expert hands were connected with them: at present they have escaped detection."
(Stamford Mercury, Friday 11 February 1831)
(www.findmypast.co.uk: British Newspapers 1710-1965)
David PLOWRIGHT of Pinchbeck, Lincolnshire, was buried at Pinchbeck on 5 December 1833 aged 60.
(FreeReg)
© Michael James Edgoose
(revised 03.09.2013)

