Dilley family
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Re: Dilley family
 david11000
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Posted: 18 Jun 2009 5:24AM GMT |
Classification: Query
I think that answers are likely to come from the baptisms in St Neots parish register. I’d been thinking of the Dilleys in St Neots during the night, as one does, and had worked out a couple of angles to pursue.
I’ve just been looking at burials in St Neots and for some reason that escapes me I seem to have overlooked two possible burials there.
21 Feb 1809 William aged 70 (this was the first Dilley burial in St Neots)
21 Nov 1820 Ann aged 56 (the second Dilley burial)
This looks like the original William who married in Yelden, and his second wife Ann Harley. William’s age would fit with the William baptised on 20 Apr 1740 at Wilstead.
William and his first wife may be the source of the Dilleys of St Neots – the first Dilley marriage in St Neots wasn’t until 1821, although there were Dilley marriages in adjoining Eynesbury before this.
Interesting that William married at Eltisley, which is only six miles east of St Neots. Perhaps he did move to St Neots when his parents were removed there in 1806. Why he would have moved back to Wilstead after 1816 is a mystery though.
I’d seen the 1787 burial of Hannah at Wilstead but had thought she was from an earlier William and Hannah in Wilstead who baptised Mary in 1762. I hadn’t thought that they might be connected to the Yelden marriage in 1768. Particularly as I can't see another marriage pre 1762 of a William and Hannah. Normally though, any children born before marriage would have been baptised with the mother’s maiden name (this also concerns me with the 1797 William, as I don’t think you can necessarily explain away the age discrepancy by putting it down to birth 4 years before his parents married).
You keep coming up with snippets from research done for you at Bedford. Did they also check for Ann Harley? I can’t find her in Beds and wonder if she was from St Neots too.
I’m going to England in a couple of weeks time and will be going to Bedford to visit my aged mother. If I can make time I’ll call into the Archives and see what I can find, and tidy up some of the ends at the same time.
David
I’ve just been looking at burials in St Neots and for some reason that escapes me I seem to have overlooked two possible burials there.
21 Feb 1809 William aged 70 (this was the first Dilley burial in St Neots)
21 Nov 1820 Ann aged 56 (the second Dilley burial)
This looks like the original William who married in Yelden, and his second wife Ann Harley. William’s age would fit with the William baptised on 20 Apr 1740 at Wilstead.
William and his first wife may be the source of the Dilleys of St Neots – the first Dilley marriage in St Neots wasn’t until 1821, although there were Dilley marriages in adjoining Eynesbury before this.
Interesting that William married at Eltisley, which is only six miles east of St Neots. Perhaps he did move to St Neots when his parents were removed there in 1806. Why he would have moved back to Wilstead after 1816 is a mystery though.
I’d seen the 1787 burial of Hannah at Wilstead but had thought she was from an earlier William and Hannah in Wilstead who baptised Mary in 1762. I hadn’t thought that they might be connected to the Yelden marriage in 1768. Particularly as I can't see another marriage pre 1762 of a William and Hannah. Normally though, any children born before marriage would have been baptised with the mother’s maiden name (this also concerns me with the 1797 William, as I don’t think you can necessarily explain away the age discrepancy by putting it down to birth 4 years before his parents married).
You keep coming up with snippets from research done for you at Bedford. Did they also check for Ann Harley? I can’t find her in Beds and wonder if she was from St Neots too.
I’m going to England in a couple of weeks time and will be going to Bedford to visit my aged mother. If I can make time I’ll call into the Archives and see what I can find, and tidy up some of the ends at the same time.
David