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So I tell my tale to anyone for whom there is the slightest possibility that it might set off a bell.  Your father isn't my gr-grandfather of course -- unless you're very very old!  Is your Hill family of long standing in Jersey?  There might yet be a connection, if so.

I am enormously grateful for your offer to look through records for me!  A bottle of fine Canadian wine would be coming your way, whether the search was successful or not -- evidence of absence would be better than the present absence of evidence!  Of course, I guess it would still be absence of evidence, I'd just know for sure that the evidence was absent.

I just hope I haven't bored you to sleep, at this point ...

I'd love to hear more about your own Hill-Jersey connection of course, too, to see whether there might be anything that looks like a possible piece of my puzzle.

I'll look forward to hearing what you might find, and again, huge thanks.

Kathryn

Thanks!  I gather that the Moncks in question, of Charleville House, hail from County Wicklow, Ireland.

Thanks for the pointer!  And I'll just keep hoping that there is some record of Francis & Sarah Hill, and their daughter Emma, on Jersey somewhere that I find someday, and it tells me something ....

 

I'm a furriner (in Canada, all grandparents from England) and not familiar with the geography / place names.

I'm looking at the scan for <b>Charles Hulbert</b> (actually Hubert, I think, mistranscribed) and his wife Emma in Battersea, Surrey, in 1871.

The place of birth has been transcribed as "<b>Bypinton</b>", Devon.  As far as I can tell, no such place exists/existed, and my efforts at Google to find anything I can guess from the handwriting have failed.

The entry is on page 29 of
 1871 England Census > Surrey > Battersea > District 15

Can anyone tell me what it says, or know off hand what place in Devon it's likely referring to?

Thanks for any and all help!

In 1851 & 1861, my ancestors included Ernest and:
Mary Emma Hill, shown as born ~1843 in Jersey. 
I haven't been able to trace her after that -- the name Hill is in the common as dirt category, and identifying a marriage or death in the on-line databases is hopeless.

Given the parents' ages, their absence from the 1841 census and the date of Emma's birth (she is the eldest in the 1851 household in Linkinhorne), I would think they might have married on Jersey between about 1837 and 1842.

Emma would have been born between ~March 1842 and March 1843, to show as aged 8 in the 1852 census.

I know of no family connection with Jersey. The surname Monck is connected somehow, and there are a few Moncks in Jersey, but I see no connection with them.

So I'm looking for two things:

marriage of
Francis Hill,
Sarah Bond,
1837-1842, Jersey

birth/christening of
Mary Emma Hill
~Mar 1842 - ~Mar 1843, Jersey

Any assistance with finding records of those events will be most gratefully received!