LOBBs, 1790 and before

[donne]

I'm looking for help on the LOBB family line before 1790. My interest originates with the marriage of Mary LOBB to James DUNN, Crowan 5 Nov 1790, and I have Mary as the dau. of John LOBB and Mary TREVARTHEN m. Crowan 6 Jan 1748/49. with Mary LOBB being bap. 25 Feb 1753 (although this means both Mary and James would have married quite late in life, in their late 30s)

I have Mary's father, John LOBB as being bap. Germoe 28 May 1727, the son of Henry LOBB and a Jane, but that's where I run out of steam. I'm tempted to associate this family with the marriage of Henry LOB and Guynever KNIGHT, 4 Jun 1723 at Germoe, but I'm stuck with the record of Jane as the mother's first name, not Guynever.

Any further insight or comments would be appreciated.

[londoner]

Just a thought - if Jane was used as a diminutive and Guynever is an altenative spelling of Jenifer, that might explain why so often we find Jane and Jenifer interchangeable in other families.
What do you think?

[donne]

I'm pretty sure that Guynever is another spelling for Jenifer, but I've never come across the use of Jane as a diminutive. However, I would be very happy to go along with that interpretation since it fits my theory. It would explain why Guynever/Jane's eldest grandaughter was called Jenifer. By the way, in the baptism record, Guynever seems to be written Jenifere, dau. of Thomas KNIGHT and Tamson, bap Germoe 17 Jul 1698

[Cornish Terrier]

Jane and Jen(n)ifer are often interchanged throughout the various records.

I have many instances were a girl is married as (e.g.) Jenifer and is referred to as 'Jane' at the baptism of many of her children.

Sometimes a list of baptisms to the one mother will record her name as Jane for some and Jenifer for others.

[Cornish Terrier]

I can find only two children, at Crowan at least, for James and Mary DUNN - Richard in 1791 and James in 1795.

If these were the only children then you may well have identified the right Mary LOBB.

As a guide I use 48 as a maximum age for a woman to have a child which, in this case, would put Mary's birth no earlier than 1747.

In this case, with a baptism early 1753, Mary would be about 41 or 42 when James was baptised.

A QUERY

marriage of Mary LOBB to James DUNN, Crowan 5 Nov 1790

Where did you find this marriage?

It does not appear in Phillimore Marriages for Crowan and I cannot find it in IGI.

[donne]

You're right, CT, the marriage doesn't appear in the IGI and I don't have Phillimore to hand.

In the first instance. I found the marriage in the Bawden PR transcripts for Crowan (in the CRO) and confirmed this with the parish registers on fiche. I have also found the marriage on www.familyhistoryonline.net/ which is a pay-per-view site of the Federation of Family History Societies here in the UK (Cornish entries contributed by Cornwall Family History Society).

I paid particular attention to the marriage since it's in my direct line. I have a copy of the register entry, which is witnessed by Henry Lobb (bride's father or brother) and Henry Odger, who often turns up as a witness to Crowan marriages about this time.

As you say, the marriage produced only two surviving children, to the best of my knowledge. The younger, James Dunn, my great-great-grandfather, left Crowan for St Blazey, whereas the elder, Richard, died unmarried (and childless, as far as I know!) in Crowan in 1871.

(By the way, how do you do that 'quote' thing?)

[Cornish Terrier]

Thanks for that info Roger - I have not yet started adding this line to my database but will come back to this thread at a later date to do so.

And we now have evidence of another missing or incorrect entry from Phillimore!

The Quote Thing. - It's actually quite simple.

First - place the cursor on the line where you would like to enter the quote.

Second - there are two rows of buttons at the top with a title at the left entitled 'Add Tags:'
The second last button on the second line is the one you want.
Place the mouse pointer over it and you will see that it says 'Insert Quote'.
lick on this button and you will have (quote)(/quote) inserted in your test. (it will actually be in the square brackets [ and ]).

Third - highlight the text you wish to insert, place the mouse pointer over the selection and right-click then copy.

Fourth - place the mouse pointer between the two sections of the 'quote' ensuring it is between the two brackets - ][.
Then right-click and paste and the text will be placed between the quotes.

Then just ensure you place your cursor somewhere outside the quotes before continuing.

CT

[donne]

It's actually quite simple

Thanks. Got it now. I've been using 'Quick Reply' where the tags toolbar doesn't appear.

[gandolf]

Nov 3, 2008 19:16:40 GMT -5 donne said:

Thanks. Got it now. I've been using 'Quick Reply' where the tags toolbar doesn't appear.

The other way that you can quote is by clicking on the "Quote" link in the upper righthand corner of a posting.

This will open up the edit window and pre-fill it with the quote tags, and with the contents of the message that you clicked on the "quote" link for inside the quote tag. Then just remove any part of the original message you don't want.

This is particularly useful if quoting an older message or one that is not on the same page of the thread, because (as you can see above) it includes the details of who wrote the message and when) and provides links back to the original message,

[Cornish Terrier]

Good thinking! - I have not used that one before although I have noticed the function was there.

Learn something new every day! ;D