The D'Arcy Archive
1748–1835

Mary Blackbourne

Of Staffordshire, England.

DocumentedProved by 1 record. 1 record that names them has been read, set out on this page. How this archive grades a claim →

Mary Blackbourne1748–1835direct line · generation 9
marriedWilliam Sneydb. 1746marriage, Madeley, 27 Mar 1769 · direct line
written in a record this archive has read from the family tree, untested

1 of the 10 relationships shown here is written in a record this archive has read; the other 9 come from the family tree and have not been tested. How claims are labelled →

More than one child here carries the same name — William Sneyd. A child who died was very often replaced by a later child given the same name, so this is usually not an error. It is also exactly how a records-matcher invents one person out of two, which is why they are kept apart here and you are told.

The record

Born18 SEP 1748Staffordshire, England
Died1835Madeley, Staffordshire, England, United Kingdom

direct line · generation 9 counting back from the present day

Family

Parents

Samuel Blackbourne

Married

William Sneyd

Children

Samuel Sneyd (1769–1856) · Dinah Sneyd (b. 1772) · Theodosia Sneyd (b. 1773) · Sarah Sneyd (b. 1776) · James Sneyd (b. 1779) · William Sneyd (b. 1780) · Mary Sneyd (b. 1788) · William Sneyd (b. 1769)

Where this comes from

1 of the relationships drawn above is written in a record this archive has read. marriage, Madeley, 27 Mar 1769.

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What the records say

Every record this archive has read that names Mary Blackbourne. The name is unique in this tree, so these are his or hers. The whole register →

married William Sneyd, weaver · Madeley All Saints, 27 March 1769

recordFreeREG, Madeley All Saints parish register · the source ↗

Everywhere Mary appears in this archive

Every page of this site that writes aboutMary Blackbourne in prose, gathered automatically — 7 in total. This counts pages, not records: the lists and registers are skipped on purpose, so a person can be well documented and appear here once or not at all. How claims are labelled →

What changed

…rriage and it appears there until the tree catches up. Among the 34 are William Sneyd and Mary Blackbourne at Madeley in 1769, Robert West D'Arcy at Bombay in 1846, Frank Hyde D'Arcy at Lymington in 1863, and the 1852 Bristol marriage o…

How Far Back

…neyd the elder, of Madeley in the 1720s–40s; his son William, baptised 1742 , who married Mary Blackbourne at Madeley on 27 March 1769 and was buried there in 1827; their son Samuel, baptised 4 June 1781 , the grocer of Hanley; and his…

What Has Been Read

…embled rather than searched THE CHAIN CLOSES. William Sneyd, WEAVER — the man who married Mary Blackbourne at Madeley on 27 March 1769 — baptises thirteen children there between July 1769 and December 1794, and the 1779 entry names the…

The Sneyds

…ily actually lived in. What the tree claims What the registers hold William Sneyd married Mary Blackbourne the parents of Samuel, born 1769 Found. Madeley All Saints, 27 March 1769 , entry 68. William Sneyd, weaver , and Mary BLACKBOURN…

The Sneyds of the Potteries

…Sneyd, weaver, and his thirteen children On 27 March 1769 William Sneyd, weaver , married Mary Blackbourne at Madeley, witnessed by Robert Sneyd. That record → Here is what follows it in the same register: Baptised Child Mother Note 9 J…

What This Archive Got Wrong

…s 1769. now The Samuel is there, baptised 4 June 1781 — son of William Sneyd, weaver, and Mary Blackbourne, whose thirteen children fill the register between 1769 and 1794. The year 1769 belongs to his eldest brother William, christened…

The work list

…pose. Four men of the name, and the records contradict each other: the weaver who married Mary Blackbourne in 1769 has a baptism of 1742 in the record and a birth of 1746 in the tree, and two burials give births of about 1731 and about…

Sources attached in the tree

  • Sneyd Web Site — Mary Sneyd (born Blackbourne)
  • Evans Web Site — Mary Sneyd (born Blackbourne)
  • FamilySearch Family Tree — https://www.myheritage.com/research/record-40001-1017283180/mary-sneyd-born-blackbourne-in-familysearch-family-tree

These are the citations the family tree carries. Where this archive has checked one against the original, it says so on the relevant page. Method →

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