Author: Paddock, Robert
Biography:
PADDOCK, Robert (1761-1802: findmypast.com)
The son of Jane (Dobarty) and William Paddock, who had married at Charlton Abbot, Somerset, on 22 Jan. 1751, he was baptised at Somerton, Somerset, on 13 Feb. 1761. In 1777 he was apprenticed to a Bath printer, Samuel Hazard, and in due course entered on a career as a printer himself, first in Bath and then in Bristol, Gloucestershire. He was for a time the printer of the Bath Herald. In 1784 he married Sarah Porch (1761-1801) at St. Anne’s, Soho, London, and they went on to have eight children, whom they had baptised between 1787 and 1796 at three Somerset locations: Somerton, Bath, and Taunton, where Paddock became master of the White Hart Inn. For reasons unknown, Paddock left his family behind in Bristol to go to the West Indies, but his wife died while he was away and was buried on 6 Sept. 1801 at St. Michael the Archangel on the Mount Without, Bristol. Paddock himself died abroad in 1802, leaving, as the newspapers reported, “an orphan family of 8 children, 7 of which are wholly unprovided for.” (findmypast.com 6 Aug. 2023; ancestry.com 6 Aug. 2023; Gloucester Journal 30 Aug. 1802; Salisbury and Winchester Journal 30 Aug. 1802) HJ
Other Names:
- R. Paddock