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Devon and Cornwall Notes and Queries. 217 181. Wives of the Revd. John Coleridge. — Marriage Licences, Exeter : — 1752, Oct. 10 — John Coleridge of South Molton, clerk, and Hannah Laskey of Barum, spinster, at South Molton. 1753, Dec. 18 — John Coleridge of South Molton, clerk, and Ann Bowden of the same, spinster. From these entries it would appear that the reverend gentleman was married three times, and that Ann Bowden was his third and not second wife. But the Vicar of South Molton (the *Rev. S. P. Scott) has kindly searched his Register and informs me that it does not contain any record of Coleridge's marriage to Hannah Lasksy, nor the burial of a Hannah Coleridge. Did this marriage take place elsewhere or did the parties alter their minds ? His first wife was Mary Lendon. A. J. P. S. 182. Notes on the Churches of the Deanery of Kenn (VHL, p. 222, par. 177). On page 231 your corres- pondent suggests that possibly William Copplestone, of Tedburn, was a son of Richard, of Woodland, and Gertrude Sherman, and mentions that neither of the rectors, the Rev. John Copleston and Rev. Edward Copleston, appear in the pedigrees. For some time I have been seeking information re the Rev. John Copleston, baptized at Bideford 18 Aug., 1683, son of Coriolanus and Mary Copleston, and elder brother of Christopher Copleston, of Bideford. The said Coriolanus Copleston was born at Alverdiscott on the 14th February, 1654, and was son of Lancelot Copleston of that place by his second wife. I should be grateful to any of your readers who could tell me whom this Rev. John Copleston married, where he lived, and when he died. He had a son Coriolanus, born 1 718, who was curate in charge at Luton, Beds, 1770-1790. In the course of my enquiries I have come across the name of another, Rev. John Copleston, the Rector of Tedburn, obit 1 73 1. In the registers of the parish church at Crediton are the following entries : — Under date 8 January, 1701. Marriages — " Lardar Copelstan and Mary Parker."