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Samuel DAY and Susanna TRIPP are my 5 x great grandparents and I have a possible link between Susanna and Charles TRIPP.  I have her father as Jacob TRIPP but there are two of them baptised around the same time in Shipham.  One in 1738 is the son of William TRIPP and Betty/Elizabeth, the other in 1736 the son of Henry and Lydia TRIPP.  William and Betty appear to have also had a daughter Elizabeth TRIPP baptised in 1740 as has already been mentioned as the likely Betty TRIPP mother of Charles.  

I am currently thinking that William and Betty are more likely to be my direct line because there are Williams further down but no Henrys, I realise that this isn't exactly proof though so will look further into them now as I had got side tracked by something else.

I took a look at the records of other parishes that I know that Day's were baptised and discovered that there was a Mary Day baptised at St Mary's Wedmore to a single mother Mary Day, Wedmore is just south of Shipham and Banwell and I know that they would be related to the Day's in Shipham and Banwell. I have discovered a lot of single mothers within the Day part of my family and it is shown the family were very much accepting of this, this would fit in with the age given at the date of death in 1826 for Mary Tripp I hope this might the one you could be looking for? If you need further help you contact me via my email address gordon241975@googlemail.com.

I too have a maternal great grandfather from Germany (Christoph Wagner) also a musician. He died in Weston in 1893. I cannot trace his birthplace as all documents just state "born Germany".

You might like to contact Peter Towey of the German Anglo FHS (he lives in Weston) for advice....  peter@towey.me.uk