Category: Unproven Lineages: London
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London’s Lady Day Hearth Tax of 1666
Lady Day, also known as the Feast of the Annunciation, is celebrated on March 25th. It commemorates the announcement by the archangel Gabriel to the Virgin Mary that she would conceive and bear Jesus Christ1. This event is significant in Christianity and is observed in various denominations, including Orthodoxy, Anglicanism, Catholicism, and Lutheranism1. In England,…
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Thomas Babb & the Archbishop of Canterbury
This article popped up on Christmas Day in the New York Times. It is ostensibly about the Archbishop of Canterbury. In the photo he stands in his private chapel at Lambeth Cathedral in London. Here is a link to the original article:For Archbishop of Canterbury, Heading Anglican Church Is ‘High-Wire Act’ – The New York…
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John Staines & Charlotte Elizabeth Babb – Southwark Heritage Art Collection (1891 & 1896)
John Staines Babb and his sister, Charlotte Elizabeth, worked as china decorators at the famous potteries of Doulton’s, Lambeth. Basing Yard no longer exists but was on the south side of Peckham High Street, between what is now Clayton and Consort roads. Basing Yard takes its name from Basing Manor, which stood near the junction…
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A “New” oldest record in London (1593)
While checking the burial registers of London I came across some records that pre-date the earliest record of a Babb we had previously by 27 years. A Joanne Babb was buried at St. Botolph Aldgate in 1593. Only a scant few facts appear in this record of her existence. She was working as a Servant…
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Meet Phillip’s (1) Great-Grandfather John Babbe (bef 1467-aft 1548): Founder of Newton Abbot & Bovey Tracey
It’s time to meet the new progenitor of the Lions of the Sea, John Babbe. Let’s talk more about him. History does not appear to have recorded the name of the mother of John’s children, which was common in that timeframe. Let me start by saying that the documentary evidence is scant this far back.…
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Meet Phillip’s (1) Father: Thomas Babb, Mariner
Thomas Babb, Mariner (1675) is a man of few documents. His life in the Limehouse/Stepney area is virtually unknown to us. Yet, his will survives and provides some great information for us. The lack of documents could in part be a result of the Great London fire. The Great Fire of London in 1666 destroyed…
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Breakthrough: Phillip Babb (1) of the Isles of Shoals, London Family Revealed
In case you missed it in my last post, we have finally resolved the mystery of Phillip Babb’s ancestry. He is the son of Thomas Babb, Mariner (1575) and brother of Thomas Babb of the Hopewell. I’ve completely updated the notes associated with Phillip and his children to reflect our current understanding of this family…
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The Babb-Plumbley Connection in London: A Tipping Point
Getting back to Elizabeth A.S. Babb’s work titled Babb Families Come to America this entry for Phillip Babb turned my head. Elizabeth would have had no way of knowing how important this testimony of Mary Babbe would prove to be. That is because the record of our Phillip who married Marie Plumlie wasn’t discovered for…
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A Different Joane?
While researching the Joana of Luton mentioned in my recent post Matterwell or Bust, I came across another Joane Babb who married a man by the surname Wichalse. I mentioned in that post that her name would come up again. Joane was left an inheritance from her mother Nichoal who outlived Joane’s father. It turned…
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A Gift Born out of Frustration
Being frustrated with my lack of progress on the lineage of Thomas Babb of the Hopewell in London, I turned to something else in a recent post about a family unit in Sussex County, to the Southwest of London. The first family was in a tiny (and I do mean tiny) enclave of South Harting,…
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A Watershed Moment!
I’ve been reviewing a self-published work by an Elizabeth A. S. Babb. She was in contact with Ian Henry Babb, my predecessor in the UK. He had several drafts of her work in his collected papers, culminating in a 63-page document that outlines the findings and records she reviewed in her journey. It was self-published…
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Thomas Babb of the Hopewell (1620) in 1635
This collection captures a number of the travels of Captain Thomas Babb, Master of the Hopewell of London, England. While the book covers a 100-year period, the mentions of him all occur in 1635. Cover Photo: St. Anne Church, Limehouse I should acknowledge that the title of the book references slavery, which was still in…
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Thomas Babb & The beheaded Archbishop of Canterbury
While researching Thomas Babb of Limehouse, on the East side of London, I came across a record for a Thomas Babb, Painter, who conducted work in the Lambeth neighborhood of London. The two locations are about 10 km (6 miles) apart, and with the name of Thomas I first thought this was part of the…
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3 New Pedigrees: London-Essex 01A, 01B & 01C
I was contacted by a a new member about adding his information to the Master Tree. His Surname is Babbs, the plural variation of our name. We have no idea why some families adopted the trailing “s” but they are definitely part of our extended family. His family traces back 9 Generations to Henry Babbs…
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The Babbs of London, England
London is an ancient city, founded almost 2,000 years ago by the Romans. It is the Capital and most populous city in England. It has grown continually over the years and now encompasses an enormous urban area, known as Greater London containing 8.6 Million people. Place names have changed greatly as time has proceeded, so…
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The Document Dump
I’ve been busily at work since my return from England and am nearing the home stretch on the digitization of the collected papers of Ian Babb (pictured). There is a technique used by corporations and politicians alike to dump a large number of documents about an unsavory situation, just before the weekend in hopes that…