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Category: What's New at Hibbitt.org.uk

Site Updates - Dando / Oliver / Sheriff / Smale / Wareham / Pitcher / Nolan

Category: What's New at Hibbitt.org.uk

Family Tree section

Updated William Elbert Dando's facts with 1881 census information:
http://www.hibbitt.org.uk/familytree/fam1756.html
Updated William Elbert Dando and Emma Sheriff's facts with residence information regarding their childrens' baptisms. Also included the baptism information on each of their children's profiles:
http://www.hibbitt.org.uk/familytree/fam1756.html
Updated Sarah Louisa Oliver's facts with 1901 census information:
http://www.hibbitt.org.uk/familytree/fam1760.html
Updated Charles Llewellyn Ernest Elbert Dando's facts with 1881 census information:
http://www.hibbitt.org.uk/familytree/fam1752.html
Added Mary Ann Smale's (b. abt. 1859) husband, William Frederick Wareham together with a few facts. Also William's parents, Francis Wareham and Sarah Kent:
http://www.hibbitt.org.uk/familytree/fam78946.html
Added a few more facts for James George Pitcher and wife, Annie (nee Nolan). Also added their children. Included photos of the family on the family page:
http://www.hibbitt.org.uk/familytree/fam43616.html

Relevant place names: London, Parkstone (Dorset), Poole (Dorset), Gisborne in New Zealand.

Resources > Biographies Section

Updated William Elbert Dando's biography with details from the 1881 census and residence information regarding his childrens' baptisms.
Updated Sarah Louisa Oliver's biography with details from the 1901 census.

Site Updates - Dando & Oliver

Category: What's New at Hibbitt.org.uk

Gallery > Places > Westminster, London - St James's Church, Piccadilly section

William Elbert Dando and Sarah Louisa Oliver married at St James's Church, Westminster. Photos of the church can be viewed in my web gallery.

Site Updates - Surnames: Horn, Burdon, Bowden, Larkworthy, Parsons

Category: What's New at Hibbitt.org.uk

Family Tree section

Added John Horn and his wife, Jane, nee Burdon (my 7 x great-grandparents). Also added their children:
http://www.hibbitt.org.uk/familytree/fam76992.html
Added Thomasin Horn's husband, James Parsons:
http://www.hibbitt.org.uk/familytree/fam77510.html
Added Humphrey Horn's (b.abt 1752) wife, Alice, nee Bowden. Also added their children:
http://www.hibbitt.org.uk/familytree/fam77553.html
Added Humphrey Burdon Horn's (b.abt 1786) wife, Grace, nee Larkworthy. Also added their children:
http://www.hibbitt.org.uk/familytree/fam77655.html
Added Jane Burdon's father, John Burdon of Gorford in Black Torrington (my 8 x great-grandfather):
http://www.hibbitt.org.uk/familytree/fam77420.html

Relevant place names: Black Torrington, Sheepwash and Shebbear in Devon.

Resources > Reports Section

All the family tree reports on this page have been updated:
http://www.hibbitt.org.uk/treereports.html

Site Updates - Surnames: Smale, Doidge, Powell, Fisher, Smith

Category: What's New at Hibbitt.org.uk

Added detailed facts for John Smale (1871-1942). Also added his wife Emma (Annie) Doidge, and children:
http://www.hibbitt.org.uk/familytree/fam75650.html
Added George Powell, the husband of Sarah Pitcher (b abt 1819), together with detailed facts. Also added his children:
http://www.hibbitt.org.uk/familytree/fam75923.html.
Added George Powell's parents, William & Elizabeth Powell, and his siblings:
http://www.hibbitt.org.uk/familytree/fam76500.html
Added detailed facts for Ann Powell, wife of James Rice Pitcher:
http://www.hibbitt.org.uk/familytree/fam1855.html
Added Ann Powell's parents, William Powell & Amelia Fisher with facts for Amelia:
http://www.hibbitt.org.uk/familytree/fam43501.html
Added the missing daughter, Amy Lilian Smith, to the family of Walter Thomas Smith and Amelia Ann Powell [not the Amelia Powell (nee Fisher) above, but her granddaughter]:
http://www.hibbitt.org.uk/familytree/fam43934.html

Site Updates - Surnames: Dando / Congdon

Category: What's New at Hibbitt.org.uk

Added more information to the section for Stephen Dando (abt. 1770-1851), hatter of New York, on his family sheet page and also to his biography page.
Discovered the maiden name of my 2 x great-grandmother, Mary Ann Congdon, the wife of John Hellyer/Hellier. Having not managed to find a marriage for this couple, I ordered the full birth certificate for their daughter, Sarah May Hellyer, which revealed her mother's maiden name.

Site updates - Surname: King

Category: What's New at Hibbitt.org.uk

Family Tree Section

Added facts and detailed footnotes for Rev Canon Robert Stuart King:
http://www.hibbitt.org.uk/familytree/fam1821.html
Also added basic information for his and his wife, Ruby's (nee Dando), children.

Site updates - the Weaver families of Curry Rivel, Somerset

Category: What's New at Hibbitt.org.uk

Family Tree Section

Added facts and detailed footnotes for my 2 x great-grandfather, William Henry Weaver (1848-1944), shoemaker of Curry Rivel in Somerset:
http://www.hibbitt.org.uk/familytree/fam1858.html
Added William's mother, Ann Weaver, my 3 x great-grandmother. It appears she had William out of wedlock:
http://www.hibbitt.org.uk/familytree/fam71181.html
Next, added my 4 x great-grandparents, Robert & Sarah Weaver, together with their children. Robert was also known to be a shoe maker:
http://www.hibbitt.org.uk/familytree/fam71185.html
Added the next generation of Weavers in Curry Rivel, Robert Weaver and Ann Twogood, my 5 x great-grandparents, and their children:
http://www.hibbitt.org.uk/familytree/fam71942.html
Added my 6 x great-parents, John Weaver and Mary Fidoe, who married in 1745, and also added their children:
http://www.hibbitt.org.uk/familytree/fam43902.html

Gallery Section

Added photograph of William Henry Weaver

Resources > Reports Section

I've updated the maternal family tree reports and the ancestors of Phyllis Grace Weaver report at:
http://www.hibbitt.org.uk/treereports.html

Site updates - Family tree reports

Category: What's New at Hibbitt.org.uk

Resources > Reports Section

I've updated all the family tree reports at:
http://www.hibbitt.org.uk/treereports.html

Site updates - Surnames: Horn / Bailey / Rigsby / Hellier

Category: What's New at Hibbitt.org.uk

Family Tree Section

Added facts and detailed footnotes for my 5 x great-grandfather, William Horn (abt. 1792-1870) of Black Torrington, Devon:
http://www.hibbitt.org.uk/familytree/fam61315.html
Also, added the children of William Horn and his wife, Ann (nee Bayley or Bailey) to the above page.
Added the names of William Horn's parents, Lewis Burdon Horn and Ann Rigsby, together with their children:
http://www.hibbitt.org.uk/familytree/fam70144.html
Added the names of Ann Bayley's parents, Joseph Bailey and Mary:
http://www.hibbitt.org.uk/familytree/fam70511.html
Added the following new fact for John Gale Hellier and also placed it into his biography - John won the Soudan Medal during the 1884 Sudan Campaign.