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Eng records

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Surame Forename Recorded Standardised Grantee & Date Folio

               		Residence       Residence       Relationship to Deceased

SIBLEY William Ewerne Minster Iwerne Minster Christiana SIBLEY, relict 08 Nov 1669 146
SIDLEN Elizabeth Eberton Ibberton John GALPIN, grandson 22 Dec 1651 200
SILLYE/ SILLIA Jeratte Poole Poole John WALLIS, Jane PAYNE & 31 Jul 1594 106
Ellen SPENCER, children

Parish of Tarrant Rushton
MARRIAGES 1732 - 1841
These records have been transcribed from Bishop's Transcripts by Christine Crawford

1732 Thomas DUNGEY Joan SIBLY were married Dec-21
1733 Thomas SIBLY of Rushton Mary FRY of Rushton were married Oct-13
1772 Thomas Sibley Jane LAWRENCE were married Jan-30
1774 John BARTLETT Mary Sibley were married Oct-16
1776 Thomas HOLLOWAY Eleanor Sibley were married Jan-11
1803 Robert MOORE of Darweston Mary Ann Sibley were married Feb-17 Licence

1819 Jun-09 John SIBLY (X) Gussage, St.Michael Sarah VINCENT Licence Richard Lawrence ROGERS Mary VINCENT
1819 Jul-19 Samuel GOMER (X) Ann WATERMAN Banns Thomas WHITE Willm. MITCHEL
1826 Mar-28 William GIBBS Blandford Forum Maria WHITE Banns Samuel STICKLAND Edward WHITE
1829 Jun-15 Edward WHITE Tarrant Keynston Louisa KIDDELL (X) Banns William KIDDELL Elizabeth KIDDELL
1832 May-09 James WHITE (X) Jane KERLY Banns Lydia BAVERSTOCK James BAVERSTOCK

http://www.opcdorset.org/CorfeMullenFiles/CorfeMullenBurs.htm
Corfe Mullen
Burials 1813 - 1880
from CLDS film numbers 1279493 & 1279494
Transcribed by Karen Munro

missing from BT's
1856; 418; Charles John Sibley; Corfe Mullen; 3rd Jun; 12
1865; 517; Susan Sibley; Corfe Mullen; 23rd Feb; 15
1875; 633; Isaac Sibley; Corfe Mullen; 23 Sep; 67
1880; 681; Harriet Louisa Sibley; Corfe Mullen; 29 Aug; 4 months

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1828; 116; Thomas WHITE; Corfe Mullen; 10th Feb; 61
1828; 122; George WHITE; Corfe Mullen; 9th Jun; 23
1828; 123; Christopher WHITE; Corfe Mullen; 15th Jun; 17
1830; 146; Robert WHITE; Corfe Mullen; 18th Sep; 10
1832; 161; Catherine WHITE; Corfe Mullen; 4th Jul; 61
1933; ; William Paul WHITE; Corfe Mullen; 10 Nov; 1 Mo
1933; ; Thomas WHITE; Corfe Mullen; 17 Nov; 1 yr
1846; 305; Susannah WHITE; Corfe Mullen; 23rd Jan; 77
1856; 416; Sarah WHITE; Union House; 23rd Apr; 54
1858; 439; Barbara WHITE; Corfe Mullen; 1st Feb; 61 Years
1860; 460; Jane WHITE; Corfe Mullen; 13th Sep; 21
1867; 538; Sarah Ann WHITE; Corfe Mullen; 29 Jan; 2 Months
1868; 554; Frederick James WHITE; Corfe Mullen; 3 Aug; 10 Months
1876; 638; John WHITE; Corfe Mullen; 4 Feb; 76
1876; 641; James WHITE; Corfe Mullen; 1st Jul; 30
1828; 116; Thomas WHITE; Corfe Mullen; 10th Feb; 61
1828; 122; George WHITE; Corfe Mullen; 9th Jun; 23
1828; 123; Christopher WHITE; Corfe Mullen; 15th Jun; 17
1830; 146; Robert WHITE; Corfe Mullen; 18th Sep; 10

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South Perrot

Weddings 1539 – 1812

This transcription by Kim Parker has been taken from "Dorset Parish Registers - Marriages" Volume 4, edited by W. P. W. Phillimore & Edmund Nevill, published in 1908. These entries were copied by the Rev. A. A. Lennard, R.D., Vicar of Beaminster, with the permission of the Rev. H. W. Allen, Rector of South Perrott and Mosterton.

Transcriber’s Note: Remember that until 1752, when the Gregorian calendar was introduced, the year ran from 25 MAR to 24 MAR (known as the Julian calendar), with 1751 being the transition year, running from 25 MAR to 31 DEC. Thus, an entry dated 05 FEB 1560 would be considered to have occurred on 05 FEB 1561 according to our current way of dating.

Volume I, covering the period from 1539 to 1678, was common to both

South Perrott and its chapelry at Mosterton,
although it is only in the very later years that the clerk started to distinguish between the two in the register. \
There are several gaps in the register, notably from 1678 until 1713 for South Perrott.

In the book, the dates appear on the right hand side and all surnames are in lowercase. I have sorted the entries into chronological order, whereas Phillimore respected the sometime random order of the entries (especially during the 17th century, when parchment was expensive and entries were inserted in any available space). KP

VOL. I. – Common to both parishes, 1539-1678. In a fairly good state of preservation; 14 in. by 4½ in. Marriages headed, “Nuptice Perrotales et Mosternales justo ordine hic sequimtur, incipientes ab Anno Domini, 1539 – R.H., viii.31.” First 58 years copied, each page being attested by Ralph Barge, clericus, and Edward Lane & Rich. Justie, churchwardens.
[Among the Marriages appear a birth in 1632, a baptism in 1625, and two baptisms after 1666.]

South Perrot

Weddings 1539 – 1812

VOLUME I.

21-Mar-1797; John Sibley of Mosterton & Elizabeth CURTIS
11-Dec-1806; Samuel Sibley of Mosterton & Joan FRAMPTON
22-Feb-1731; John FUNS alias SIBLY & Joan SPURLE
18-Aug-1734; Robert GUPPY & Elizabeth SIBLY of Mosterton

Mosterton

RECORDS OF THE OVERSEERS OF THE POOR

NOTE ON THE POOR LAWS

The Government attempted to tackle the problem of relieving the poor through a series of laws enacted from 1536 onwards, known collectively as the Poor Laws. Through various modifications and later supplementary social insurance programmes, the Poor Laws continued to provide the main framework for relief of the poor until the enactment of the Welfare State in 1948. Unfortunately, these laws came to be applied in such a way that they were often a punishment rather than a relief for poverty, with nineteenth-century workhouses becoming the emblem of their worst aspects.

The parish had been the basic unit of administration since the fourteenth century and through the enactment of the series of Poor Laws it’s responsibilities and concomitant powers were enhanced. A person’s parish of settlement – normally determined by place of birth, apprenticeship or, in the case of a woman, through marriage - would be responsible for paying them poor relief should the need ever arise. Parishes therefore had to manage the calls upon their funds very carefully and this resulted in the emergence of severe restrictions on granting settlement, while for the individual the right of settlement in a parish different to that in which they were legally settled became extremely difficult to obtain.

To quote from Norma Landau’s fascinating article, “Who was subjected to the Laws of Settlement? Procedure under the Settlement Laws in Eighteenth-Century England”:

“According to the settlement act of 1662, the act which provided the framework for the laws of settlement, parish officers could remove from their parish to his [or her] parish of settlement any person who rented for under £10 a year and who was ‘likely to be chargeable to the parish’ he [or she] ‘had come to inhabit’… [According to England’s judges] a person ‘likely to be chargeable’ was a person who rented for less than £10 a year. As Mr Justice Powis stated in 1714, in a case that elaborated upon earlier precedent: ‘The words likely to become chargeable, imply that a person is not in a tenement above ten pounds per annum; for if he be in such a tenement, no one can aver that he is likely to become chargeable’. Three years later, Mr Justice Eyre summarized previous opinion in what became the definitive statement of the law: ‘living on a tenement under £10 a year, and likely to become chargeable, are convertible terms’. As most [people] rented for much less than £10 a year, the 1662 act allowed parish officers to prevent interparochial migration by [the vast majority of people].”

Put simply, the acid test as to whether a person could be subjected to the Poor Laws or not was wealth. The wealthy could come and go as they pleased. Not until 1697 did freeholders and copyholders whose tenement yielded less than £10 per annum obtain protection from the 1662 Act of Settlement when Lord Chief Justice Holt declared that it had never been intended to ‘banish men from the enjoyment of their own lands’. Thus freehold and copyhold became a way to obtain legal settlement in a parish. The only other ways to acquire the right of settlement in a parish were to become an indentured apprentice, obtain a work contract of a duration greater than a year and a day, serve as a parish officer or pay taxes levied in the parish of residence, although the latter route to re-settlement was eventually closed off.

The place of legal settlement of widows was a grey area. Some parishes held that upon marriage a woman’s place of legal settlement became and remained that of her husband, while others maintained that upon the death of her husband a woman’s place of legal settlement reverted to what it had been before she married. It is therefore not unusual to see a widow being subjected to a settlement examination the day after her husband was buried!

Justices of the Peace and parish officers, known as Overseers of the Poor from 1579, applied the Poor Laws in order to regulate and monitor immigration to their parish, with the unemployed, those requiring poor relief and economically undesirable migrants such as single women (especially if pregnant), older workers, and men with large families being treated particularly harshly. As well as issues relating to settlement, the Overseers of the Poor also became involved in the apprenticeship of poor children, particularly orphans, children of poor widows and illegitimate children, and in brokering agreements for men (or their representatives) to contribute to the maintenance of their bastard children.

Overseers of the Poor therefore generated a wealth of documents of interest to local, social and family historians. Following is a list of documents from the records of the Overseers of the Poor of the Parish of Mosterton that have survived and that are available for consultation at the Dorset History Centre in Dorchester on microfilm.

SETTLEMENT & REMOVAL PAPERS

(DHC microfilm ref: MIC/R/1634)

Settlement Certificates

These provided the parish receiving an ‘immigrant’ with a safeguard against any claim upon its funds by the subject of the certificate or their family, and allowed the recipient parish to tax ‘immigrants’ without bestowing a settlement on them, while identifying the parish that would be responsible for relieving these ‘immigrants’ should they ever fall upon hard times.

29 Nov 1723

John Sibley, son of Richard Sibley, bound apprentice to John HICKS, carpenter in Haselbury Plucknett, Somerset.

Mosterton, Dorset

BASTARDY PAPERS
Bastary Bonds

(DHC microfilm ref: MIC/R/ 1635)

Note: It was not always the child’s reputed father who entered into a bastardy bond; churchwardens, overseers, friends or other benefactors might have undertaken the responsibility.

07 Jan 1741/2

Samuel Sibley, butcher

Elizabeth SPURLE, singlewoman

Maintenance Orders

(DHC microfilm ref: MIC/R/1661)
Date Person against whom the order for maintenance was made Mother of the base born child
15 Apr 1771

Silvester MURLEY of South Perrott, butcher (father of child)

Thomazin Sibley, singlewoman

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Seaborough
Baptisms 1562 - 1841
Transcribed from the original parish registers held at the Dorset History Centre in Dorchester and donated to the Dorset OPC Project by Kim Parker
Arranged according to the Gregorian Calendar, with the Julian year indicated to the left of the forward slash (/) in those years when the Julian Calendar, which ran from March 25th to March 24th, was in use (i.e. prior to 1752, 1751 being the transition year).

07-Dec-1729; John FUNS alias Sibley son of John & Phillis FUNS alias Sibley
21-Mar-1731; Mary FUNS alias Sibley daughter of John & Phillis FUNS alias Sibley
03-Dec-1732; James FUNS alias Sibley son of John & Phillis FUNS alias Sibley
1-Jun-1735; Samuel FUNS alias Sibley son of John & Phillis FUNS alias Sibley

28-Aug-1726; Edward MELISCENT base born son of Mellison MELISCENT by William Sibley

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10-Mar-1825; Susan Sibley daughter of Robert & Hannah Sibley Poor People

05-Feb-1837; John Sibley son of Thomas & Jane Sibley Labourer

10-Apr-1699; James SIBBLY son of William & Susannah SIBBLY
01-Nov-1700; Susannah SIBBLY daughter of William & Susannah SIBBLY
01-Jan-1701/2; Edith SIBBLY daughter of William & Susannah SIBBLY
18-May-1703; John SIBLY son of William & Susannah SIBLY
14-May-1704; Edith SIBLY daughter of William & Susannah SIBLY
30-Dec-1705; Samuel SIBLY son of William & Susannah SIBLY
28-Mar-1708; Elizabeth SIBLY daughter of William & Susannah SIBLY
11-Apr-1710; Francis SIBLY son of William & Susannah SIBLY
21-Nov-1714; Mary FANCE alias SIBLY daughter of William & Susannah FANCE alias SIBLY

20-Feb-1780; Mary Sibley daughter of Thomas & Sarah (Russell) Sibley
10-Feb-1782; Sarah Sibley daughter of Thomas & Sarah (Russell) Sibley
5-Apr-1784; Phillis Sibley daughter of Thomas & Sarah (Russell) Sibley
25-Nov-1788; John Sibley son of Thomas & Sarah Sibley
10-Jul-1791; Robert Sibley son of Thomas & Sarah Sibley

25-Dec-1803; Ann Sibley daughter of Jonathon & Betty Sibley
10-Apr-1808; John Sibley son of Jonathon & Elizabeth Sibley
08-Feb-1818; Charlotte Sibley daughter of Jonathon & Elizabeth Sibley Poor People

25-Dec-1779; Jonathon Sibley son of James & Grace (Sprigg) Sibley
22-Apr-1781; George Sibley son of James & Grace (Sprigg) Sibley
25-Dec-1784; Elizabeth Sibley daughter of James & Grace Sibley
05-Apr-1789; William Sibley son of James & Grace Sibley
10-Jun-1792; Ann Sibley daughter of James & Grace Sibley

24-Apr-1814; Charles Sibley son of William & Ann Sibley Labourer
06-Jul-1817; Jane Sibley daughter of William & Ann Sibley Poor People
06-Jul-1817; James Sibley son of William & Ann Sibley Poor People
13-Aug-1819; Jane Sibley daughter of William & Ann Sibley Poor People
12-May-1822; George Sibley son of William & Ann Sibley Poor People
09-Jan-1825; Emma Sibley daughter of William & Ann Sibley Poor People
25-Jul-1830; John Sibley son of William & Ann Sibley Labourer
12-Mar-1833; Sarah Elizabeth Sibley daughter of William & Ann Sibley Labourer
22-May-1836; William Sibley son of William & Ann Sibley Labourer

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Wyke Regis

Baptisms 1676 - 1701

Transcribed by Barbara: DRO Reference PE/WYK:RE1/1
Many thanks to Caryl Parsons

Permission to transcribe the Baptisms for All Saints Church, Wyke Regis, was kindly given by Canon Keith Hugo,
Rector, All Saints Parish Church, Wyke Regis.

DATE CHILD'S NAME; GENDER; PARENTS; SURNAME
1678 ,torn torn; daughter of William & Rebecca Sibley
1684 Dec-18 William; son of William & Rebecka Sibley

1678 torn; ? of John & Elizabeth WHITE
1683 Mar-30 Richard; son of Henry & Elizabeth WHITE
1691 Jul-29 Elizabeth daughter of Henry & Elizabeth WHITE
1692 Oct-27 Wall son of Henry & Elizabeth WHITE

Somerset

I am trying to confirm the parents/ancestors of John Sibley ,born c 1810-1812 in Crewkerne, Somerset, England.
He married Elizabeth Mills in 1834 and emigrated to Canada c1856.
The closest John I can find is a son of William and Ann.
An Eli Sibley, son of William and Diana, also married Sarah Mills, Elizabeth's sister in 1832.
Eli and John witnessed each other's marriages so are likely closely related, possibly brothers.
Are Ann and Diana the same wife, a second wife.
Is this the right family line.
An 1851 census of Crekerne may give clues to Sibleys in Crewkerne at that time.
Any help would be appreciated. Thanks.

Posted by: Andrew Sibley Date: August 27, 2000 at 14:28:49

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From initial source - Whitings - Quakers 'Suffering of the Quakers'.
Full title 'Persecution exposed in some Memoirs of the Quakers in the West of England'.
Published London 1791.

'Thomas Sibley, Anne King, Joan Coggan and Hannah Seawood of Crewkerne were committed to prison at Ilchester,
for meeting by William Hellier of Coker Justice on the 14th of the 5th 1684 and discharged at Taunton by judge Montague'

There must be quite a few relations out there.
Andrew.

My father, Grandfather and Great grandfather Sibley came from Morecombelake in West Dorset.
(Lived in Sibley's cottage, but name now changed).

Relatives now live in East Devon, Thornecombe and Beaminster W.Dorset.
My grandfathers brother emigrated to Brockville in N. Augusta in Canada in the early 20th century, and
my family keep in touch.

Do you have any knowledge of how, or if my family link to the Sibley's of Crewkerne?
I know that the Sibley's of Crewcerne go back along way.
I found a Thomas Sibley who was arrested for being a Quaker Preacher in the 17th century,
and there are Sibley's recorded in the cemetary. (FRom the Book of the Axe c.19th Century).
Would be interested to hear from you.
regards
Andrew Sibley

Eli Sibley married Sarah Mills in Crewkerne in 1832.
Her sister Elizabeth married John Sibley, our ancestor in 1834, in Crewkerne.
Some contact with Eli's descendants may clear up some mystery for John's ancestry.

dbuchner@uoguelph.ca

Posted by: Linda(Sibley)Buchner Date: September 08, 2000 at 12:28:47

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Looking for info on William and Anne Sibley of Misterton. Birth records of their son John in Crewkerne, 1810 indicates they were of Misterton. No other children in this parish.
The closest William and Ann I can find is a William from Seaborough who married Anne Gooding in 1812. He was a bachelor from Seaborough, she was of the parish of Crewkerne. Can anyone help with the identity of this other Anne? Need for her last name.
Thanks.
Linda

I realize that This is not the info you are looking for but some of the names seem to be ????, it might just be usefull.

RUHAMAH W. Goodhue7 (17000), b. in Swanzey, N. H., in 1811; m. Jan. 27, 1834, Aquila Ramsdell, son of James Sibley and Judith (Ramsdell) Taft, b. in Swanzey, Dec. 3, 1809. She d. Aug. 30, 1853. He m. (2) Martha, dau. of Abijah Wilder of Keene. Child:

17056. Wallace W. Taft,8 b. May 31, 1836.

Posted by: Linda(Sibley)Buchner Date: September 12, 2000 at 16:52:30
In Reply to: William and Anne, Misterton by Linda(Sibley)Buchner of 234

We have ruled out William married to Ann Gooding in 1812. Looking for a William born around 1770-190, married prior to 1810.
Any suggestions?
Thanks.
Linda dbuchner@uoguelph.ca

Posted by: Eileen Regan Date: September 02, 2000 at 10:10:24
In Reply to: Re: Sibley family roots information required by LOUISE SIBLEY of 234

Louise would you have any information on Henry Sibley who arrived in Halifax in 1749 with wife Cornelia and two sons? Am trying to trace his parents. Apparently they were soap merchants in London. I realize it is not much to go on but any help is appreciated. Thanks

Posted by: E. Gleason Date: August 07, 2000 at 07:27:55

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I am descended from Sibleys in Central Mass and trying to search earlier connections back from Benoni Sibley who was from Greenwich Mass, flooded under the Quabbin reservoir in the 30's. He and other family are buried in the Quabbin Park Cemetery where they were moved prior to the "flood".

He died in 1829 at age 47 [b.ca 1782] and was father to my gg-grandfather Beeman B. Sibley. We know they lived in the Greenwich/ Enfield area but we don't know for how long or from where or who their ancestors were. I don't even know his wife's name and haven't had a chance to get to either the cemetery or the historical records of Enfield and Greenwich.

p.s. I would also love any info on the name "Benoni" does it show up in other families of the period?

Posted by: Dianne Date: August 12, 2000 at 15:24:33

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I am looking for a marriage record for relative Joseph Sibley, baptized 1796 in Kingston, Frontenac County, Ontario, son of Gilbert and spouse.