Emmanuel Kisby, Eastrea/Coates b. c1797, Baptism/Birth

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I had almost forgotten this request! Thanks for coming back to me. I haven't studied your information in depth yet but I will do so (I seem to have quite a lot of time on my hands at the moment! )

If I've done my research properly I am the 3x great grandson of Emmanuel Kisby. I believe you may be right in your hunch about his parent being John Kisby but I hadn't made the connection with Levi, his brother.

It would be great to find the marriage record for John and Ann so I could put a birth surname to Ann. Now you've aroused my interest I go back and do a bit more work.

Thanks for your interest. I'll report back in due course.

Spencer

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Possible Marriage?

Anne TYARS
John KISBY
29 Sep 1795, St Mary, Wisbech
Bachelor/Spinster
Witnesses, Cleer LEVERINGTON/Sarah BEDMER
Note All parties made mark
(Source FreeREG)

Trish

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Hi Trish

Now that is far more likely than the suggestions in Ancestry. Someone has put in their tree a marriage of John Kisby in Clerkenwell of all places! On top of that he was only 9 years old when he married Ann Miller! And to cap it all he moved to Whittlesey where Emmanuel was born!

Whittlesey is in the back of beyond even now and before the advent of the railways I doubt very much that an Ag Lab could afford a coach.

I will follow your suggestion faithfully along with that of Seank. I think I am now a whole lot closer to identifying the correct family. I'll come back when I've added all the names into my tree.

Thanks for your help.

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Your welcome, good luck

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Hi Seank

Could you please give me a bit more detail about the burial records of John and Ann in 1802 and 1804. I've tried all the links I have (Ancestry, FreeReg, CFHS and FamilySearch) but can't find John or Ann.

Thanks

Spencer

[seank]

Not much more information than that really. In the burial registers of St Mary's church on 17th July 1802 is listed "John Kisby" and on 8th Feb 1804 is listed "Ann KISBY - w". The other burials in that period relate to the children of John and Mary Kisby of Whittlesey (I think you mentioned them above) - their son John was still alive in the 1850s, as far as I know their only child that survived to adulthood - so the burial of John Kisby doesn't refer to him.

Certainly Wisbech is within easier travelling distance to Whittlesey than London. It will be interesting to know if John and Anne (Tyars) Kisby christened children in Wisbech. From memory, the Wisbech church registers were not available on line, I think they were accessible at the local history centre in Wisbech. Though I've managed to visit Whittlesey, Coates, March and Spalding in the past, I haven't got as far as Wisbech yet (I live in Cardiff, which is a long trek).

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Thanks for that. I am a member of the Cambridgeshire FHS and I was hoping they had got the info on line but according to this website https://bit.ly/2LdnHmF they haven't got round to Wisbech St Mary yet.

I'm a little bit closer than you to Wisbech (Colchester) but I guess the boys in blue wouldn't consider my trip to look at the parish records as being absolutely necessary

Until I can get there myself I'll use your information in my tree.

Incidentally, I've just realised that I've met you on line many years ago via http://kisby.one-name.net/  I seem to recall asking you for some information a long while ago.