{"id":3115,"date":"2023-08-26T16:07:50","date_gmt":"2023-08-26T15:07:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hibbittbarnes.uk\/blog\/?p=3115"},"modified":"2025-07-07T14:48:12","modified_gmt":"2025-07-07T13:48:12","slug":"hibbitt-family-tree-updates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hibbittbarnes.uk\/blog\/hibbitt-family-tree-updates","title":{"rendered":"Hibbitt Family Tree Updates"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve recently carried out another upload to my Hibbitt family tree<\/a><\/strong> and have added 52 more people in the process.<\/p>\n

WORGAN<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Amongst the new additions are my 7 x great-grandparents, John Worgan and Anne Worgan<\/a><\/strong> – Anne appears to have had the same maiden and married name. It seems as though they had five children in Woolaston, Gloucestershire, but it was quite difficult sorting out who was who as there were other Worgan families in the same area. To compound the problem, there was a couple called John and Margaret Morgan having children at the same time as my 6 x great-grandparents, John and Margaret Worgan, and the letters ‘M’ and ‘W’ are not easily deciphered in the parish registers. In the end, a process of elimination helped me to move back to the previous generation.<\/p>\n

BROAD<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

I managed to go back a further generation on my mother’s Broad line. Mary Broad was my 4 x great-grandmother and she married William Sillick in Tavistock, Devon, in 1792. There was no baptism for Mary in Tavistock and so I’d left it at that until I looked again more recently. At that point, I found a couple called John Broad and Thomasin, n\u00e9e May,<\/a><\/strong> about ten miles away in Bridestowe who’d had a daughter, Mary, baptised in the right time frame. They’d married in nearby Sourton and their first five children were baptised in Bridestowe. Nevertheless, I managed to follow the family to Tavistock for the baptisms of their sixth and seventh children and John and Thomasin also died in Tavistock, but not before Thomasin had been widowed and married again, to a man called William Waterfield.<\/p>\n

WEAVER<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

My 5 x great-grandfather on my mother’s side, Robert Weaver<\/a><\/strong>, lived in Curry Rivel in Somerset and was married to Anne Toogood, from whom I’m descended. Some time after Anne died, Robert married again, this time to Sarah Munkton. I knew this wasn’t her maiden name as she was a widow when she married Robert. After a little digging I made a surprising discovery. It turned out that Sarah was Anne’s first cousin. Sarah’s maiden name was Ostler<\/a><\/strong>. Her father was Samuel Ostler and his sister, Elizabeth, married Robert Toogood, who were Anne’s parents.<\/p>\n

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The 1787 marriage of Charles Munkton and Sarah Osler\/Ostler
as recorded in Pallot’s Marriage Index<\/p><\/div>\n

HALL<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

I have, at last, placed Sydney Herbert Hall<\/a><\/strong> on my tree as the son of my 2 x great-grandfather, William Elbert Dando. DNA evidence points to either William or possibly his father, Joseph Dando the Younger, being Sydney’s father. More on this here.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

MURCH<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Finally, I’ve extended my Murch branch. Ann Murch<\/a><\/strong> was my 4 x great-grandmother and she married Joseph Dando the Elder in Bristol in 1801. I’ve undertaken some detailed research on this family line and added three further generations of Murch ancestors. The web pages contain significant additional information together with footnotes. I’m in the process of writing a narrative on the Murch family in preparation for a forthcoming trip to Bristol where I’m going to be meeting a couple of others descended from Joseph and Ann.<\/p>\n

[UPDATE:<\/strong> Since my trip to Bristol I’ve produced a comprehensive document about four generations of the Murch family. The material is available in my E-shop.<\/a><\/strong>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’ve recently carried out another upload to my Hibbitt family tree and have added 52 more people in the process. WORGAN Amongst the new additions are my 7 x great-grandparents, John Worgan and Anne Worgan – Anne appears to have … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3118,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[161,20,162,62,87,18,15],"class_list":["post-3115","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ancestors-corner","tag-broad","tag-hall","tag-may","tag-murch","tag-ostler","tag-weaver","tag-worgan"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t