Oh dear. You are all as stumped as I am.
I wonder whether you could help with the same family, but further back?
Peter Linberry and Mary Carter (“both of this parish) married in St Nicholas Church, Bramber, on 1st December 1795. No Linberrys are mentioned in the Bramber parish records prior to this marriage (not that I have been able to find, anyway). Mary's birthplace is recorded as Bramber in the 1851 Census.
Peter and Mary had a son, Peter James Linberry, who was baptised in Bramber in 1799.
Thomas Limbery, son of Peter Limbery, was baptised at Holy Trinity, Hull on 22nd January 1802. According to a record submitted to the IGI by a member of the LDS church, Thomas Linberry was born in Hull on Christmas Eve, 1801.
John Linbury, son of Peter and Mary Linbury, was baptised at Holy Trinity, Hull on 29th September 1804.
Census details confirm the ages and places of birth.
In Bramber, on 8th November 1817, Mary Linberry (of this parish) married James Juden (widower of Upper Beeding). James signed and Mary made her mark. Witnesses were James Potter and Mary Winton.
The burial records for Holy Trinity Hull, between 1804 and 1817 (about 95% are legible) do not mention Peter Linberry (or alternative spellings). This appears to be the only burial ground for Hull at that time. There was a “Peter the Sweed”.
Now, I have found that linberry is an alternative word for lingonberry, which is the national fruit of Sweden (and the basis for a delicious jam available from a certain company well-known for its flat-pack furniture). Furthermore, most Linberrys in the 1880 US census were of Swedish origin. Could my Peter have been "Peter the Sweed"?
Bramber and Upper Beeding (they lie on opposite sides of a bridge) were navigable from the sea and, I understand, barges went to-and-fro between Littlehampton and Hull.
It is clear that Mary and her sons returned from Hull to Bramber at sometime between the birth of John in 1804 and Mary's marriage to Mr Juden in 1817. Peter (of Upper Beeding) married in Lancing in 1820 and Thomas (my gggg grandfather) married in West Tarring in 1826. They were both shepherds in Bramber. John didn't marry and he, and his again widowed mother, were tollgate keepers in Upper Beeding (check out the creepy man and old lady in the tollgate house at the Weald and Downland Open Air Museum).
I have all the Linberrys from Peter to the present. I would like to find out just who Peter Linberry was. Was he a Swedish mariner? My great grandmother told us that the Linberrys were originally Swiss-Italian (Limberi) which has proved, so far, to be unfounded. Could it have been a case of Chinese Whispers and the origins were Swedish. Or am I clutching at straws?
Any help with Peter or Albert would be great.
Deborah
