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Thank you Pat

This is most helpful. They were tried at Wells but as yet I don't know which parish they were from. I'll look up those accounts for Westonzoyland and work out from there.

Regards

Heather

You may already have seen this but one of the librarians at Weston Library recommended this site for a background to the Battle of Sedgemoor. He also recommended this List of Rebels but as far as I can see there are no FIELDs mentioned on this list.  I did come across the Zoyland Heritage site which lists the names you have found but do check before visiting to see if the Visitors' Centre has been re-opened.

For more details about individuals you might try the Church Wardens' Accounts, the Overseers' Accounts or the Vestry Minutes for their parishes because depending on their fate their families may have sought aid from the parish. 

Some families have included information about the Battle of Sedgemoor in their family trees online.  The parish of Merriott has a web page devoted to families from that parish and that does list some of their inhabitants who were rebels.  

Does anyone know anything about the Star family that lived at Draycott on the farm "Elmhay"?  They were also connected to the "Bull" family by marriage.  As far as I know the Star family lived in Draycott for at least 200 years till the 1960s.

Thank you so much for the marriage details of Mary Star and Thomas Bull.  I think Mary Star would have been  the daughter of William, my great-great grandfather's, George, brother. 

As far as I know the Star family lived in Draycott or the district for 200 years or more till some time in the 1960s. 

Julie:

I'm happy for you to contact me via Ancestry but there is rather too much information on the tree for me to share. I think you need to look at the tree yourself. It's called the O'Rourke-Ludlow Family Tree. If you have difficulty in finding it, let me know.

By the way, George H. BRYANT married Gladys M. HOOPER at Long Ashton in 1928 (Q3 Vol5c p1365). If you obtain the marriage certificate it should contain more useful information including (with luck) the name of George's father.

Dave Erasmus