THE SANKEY FAMILY OF CHURCH GRESLEY FROM 1837 VERSION 1.04 TIM SANKEY 2016 THE SANKEY FAMILY OF CHURCH GRESLEY FROM 1837 TABLE OF CONTENTS 1 THE SANKEY FAMILY OF CHURCH GRESLEY FROM 1837 ______________________________ 3 1.1 INTRODUCTION ______________________________________________________________________ 3 1.2 CHANGE CONTROL ____________________________________________________________________ 4 1.3 THE NUMBERING SYSTEM _____________________________________________________________ 5 1.4 HOW TO USE THIS DOCUMENT _________________________________________________________ 5 1.5 GENERAL RECORD OFFICE ____________________________________________________________ 6 1.6 DESCENDANT CHART _________________________________________________________________ 7 1.7 ALPHABETICAL INDEX OF SANKEYS __________________________________________________ 12 1.8 ALPHABETICAL INDEX OF SPOUSES __________________________________________________ 18 1.9 THE CHURCH GRESLEY MAILSHOT ____________________________________________________ 22 1.10 PROBATES IN DERBYSHIRE AND NEIGHBOURING COUNTIES ____________________________ 23 1.11 MAP OF THE CHURCH GRESLEY AREA _______________________________________________ 26 2 THE CHURCH GRESLEY GENERATIONS ______________________________________________ 27 2.1 FIRST GENERATION (1) ____________________________________________________________ 27 2.2 SECOND GENERATION (1.n) _________________________________________________________ 29 2.3 THIRD GENERATION (1.n.n) _______________________________________________________ 47 2.4 FOURTH GENERATION (1.n.n.n) ____________________________________________________ 70 2.5 FIFTH GENERATION (1.n.n.n.n) __________________________________________________ 102 2.6 SIXTH GENERATION (1.n.n.n.n.n) ________________________________________________ 115 2.7 SEVENTH GENERATION (1.n.n.n.n.n.n.n) __________________________________________ 118 Version 1.04 Page 2 THE SANKEY FAMILY OF CHURCH GRESLEY FROM 1837 1 THE SANKEY FAMILY OF CHURCH GRESLEY FROM 1837 1.1 INTRODUCTION My first investigations into genealogy were in 1984 when I attempted to start tracing my paternal line. As a side interest to this I also noted down any printed references to the name Sankey, in the hope that they might one day come in useful. After a few years I had completed my family tree back four generations, and reached the 1837 boundary in the St. Catherine’s House index registers. At this point I had to branch out into other sources such as parish registers, and also had to switch areas, as my 3x great grandfather Matthew Sankey, appeared to be the first Sankey in the South Derbyshire area, his birth having taken place in Cradeley, Staffordshire. It soon became obvious that finding Matthew’s baptism was not going to be easy, and also that I was accumulating a lot of references to Sankeys that had no immediate connection to my paternal line. At this point it seemed logical to switch the momentum of the research towards a One Name Study, in the hope that eventually I would unearth enough clues to piece my own line together. In 1990 a mail shot to the Sankeys of South Derbyshire resulted in a wealth of information, and a large number of trees were able to be constructed, all of which led back to Matthew Sankey. In order to maintain contact with the many respondents to the initial letter, I started an annual newsletter, which was published for several years. After about twenty years my interest waned, and other things took on more importance. Recently, however, my interest has been re-awakened, and the discovery of the Ancestry web site with its wealth of online information has allowed me to fill in many gaps in my Church Gresley trees. Several of my Church Gresley correspondents insisted that there were several different Sankey families in Church Gresley, and that they were not all descended from Matthew Sankey who married there in 1837. I strongly disagree, and hopefully the descendant charts in this book will show where all the Sankeys ‘fit’ in the six or seven generations which now go back to Matthew. I have endeavoured to verify the facts presented here, and given references where possible. The stories of these people over nearly two hundred years is fascinating, and I have tried to flesh out the bare bones of people’s lives where possible, due to information passed to me, or gleaned from the various census and other records available. Please get in touch if you have any questions, or can provide further information to enhance this document. Feel free to pass it on to anyone with the Sankey name, or Sankey ancestors so that the valuable information here does not get lost. Timothy Sankey 1.4.5.1.1.1 France June 2013 Version 1.04 Page 3 THE SANKEY FAMILY OF CHURCH GRESLEY FROM 1837 1.2 CHANGE CONTROL Version 1.00 June 2013 Base Version Version 1.01 July 2013 Insert footer with version and page number Insert Table of Contents Add birth, marriage and death certificates owned Add newspaper cuttings owned Increase the font size to aid legibility Add details of Church Gresley Burial Board receipts Add census details for generation 1, 2 & 3 Add children of 1.1.6 one of whom (G.V. Sankey) was wrongly assigned to 1.4.1 Add new children and renumber descendants of 1.4.1 Find missing children of 1.4.6 in 1911 census so have to renumber all 1.4.6 descendants Discover more children for 1.6.2 so renumber them Add issue of 1.1.1 Thomas Sankey Add an alphabetical index to Sankeys and Spouses Add details of the Church Gresley Mail shot Add MS information from Journals Add in a table of Probates in Derbyshire and neighbouring counties Add detailed probate information for individuals listed within the generations Version 1.02 August 2013 Add birth and death years to Ascendant Chart and Index Add birth, marriage and death years to Spouse Index Add map of Church Gresley area Version 1.03 December 2015 Add Charlotte, Sinead & Michelle Sankey Version 1.04 January 2016 Updates on Arthur Edward Sankey from Catherine Harkness, my conflation of McCoy and Mackie/Mackle is incorrect, and Mackle is obviously a transcription error for Mackie. Renumber 1.4.6.12.1 to 1.1.10.1.2.1 Renumber 1.4.6.12.2 to 1.4.6.12.1 Renumber 1.4.6.12.3 to 1.1.10.1.2.2 Renumber 1.4.6.12.1.1 to 1.1.10.1.2.1.1 Renumber 1.4.6.12.1.2 to 1.1.10.1.2.1.2 Version 1.04 Page 4 THE SANKEY FAMILY OF CHURCH GRESLEY FROM 1837 1.3 THE NUMBERING SYSTEM The d'Aboville Numbering System used in this document is a descending numbering method developed by Jacques d'Aboville in 1940 that is very similar to the Henry System, widely used in France. It differs from the Henry System in that periods are used to separate the generations and no changes in numbering are needed for families with more than nine children. In this document Matthew Sankey is number 1, and you can identify which generation you are from him by the number of nodes in your unique ID. The number also indicates which sequence of child each generation is, and identifies the paternal line. So for example, my unique ID is 1.4.5.1.1.1 which means I am in the sixth generation to descend from Matthew. I can also identify my paternal line by removing a node at a time, for example: Timothy Sankey 1.4.5.1.1.1 is the first child of John Douglas Sankey 1.4.5.1.1 who is the first child of George William Willoughby Sankey 1.4.5.1 who was the first child of Percy Sankey 1.4.5 who was the fifth child of Willoughby Sankey 1.4 who was the fourth child of Matthew Sankey 1 1.4 HOW TO USE THIS DOCUMENT The arrangement of names in this document may appear confusing, but they are ordered to show the generation and the paternal line of an individual, as described above. It can also be used to identify the relationship between two individuals, and identify a common ancestor in the paternal line. For example I am number 1.4.5.1.1.1 and in the sixth generation from Matthew Sankey in the first generation. If I want to know my relationship to Audrey Lea nee Sankey 1.4.5.3.1 I can see that she is in the fifth generation, and that we have a common ancestor in 1.4.5 who is Percy Sankey. I am descended through Percy's first child, George William Willoughby Sankey 1.4.5.1 whereas she is descended through Percy's third child Percy Alfred Sankey 1.4.5.3 and she is my first cousin once removed, although to be honest I only know that because Ancestry.com tells me our relationship! In another example, if I wanted to know my relationship to George Vaughan Sankey the photographer who is number 1.3 then our only common ancestor is number 1 - Matthew Sankey himself. I am descended through 1.4 Willoughby Sankey - his brother. Thanks to Ancestry.com he appears to be my second great grand uncle! I will be adding an index to make it easier to identify individuals and their number, but for know they will have to be sought out in the Descendant Chart. Version 1.04 Page 5 THE SANKEY FAMILY OF CHURCH GRESLEY FROM 1837 1.5 GENERAL RECORD OFFICE Since 1837 all births, marriages and deaths have had to be registered with a local registrar, and all records are then centralized. Indices exist to the national registers for all BMD entries, and these are divided into four quarters for each year. All Sankey BMD entries between 1837 and 1980 were transcribed by hand from the physical registers in St. Catherine's House, London in the days before the internet made everything so easy! Where possible I have shown the BMD entries for the people listed in this document, so that copies of registration certificates can be ordered if needed.