I now have a copy of the marriage certificate of James Bibbey and Sarah Knott. They were married on the 9 March. 1846, at St Mary Lambeth. He was a glassmaker, they were both of full age, and they were living at White Horse Street. James' father was William Bibbey, deceased, who was also a glassmaker, and Sarah's father Joseph was a labourer. James made his mark, Sarah's name is on the licence but she did not make a mark. The witnesses were John Prizeman and John Poett.
In the1851 census, James and his family are living at 27 White Horse Street, Lambeth. He is a glassmaker, born 1816, Sarah was born in 1824, both of them born in Southwark. James junior was born in 1847 in Lambeth, and is a scholar. and William is two months old.
Also in the 1851 census, Charles Bibbey, born in Dagenham in 1809, was living at 6 Faircloth Court, Lambeth with his wife Eliza, who was born in Southwark in 1809. They had a son, Charles Bibbey, baptised on the 17 Feb, 1850 at St Mary Lambeth, also of 6 Faircloth Court, and not mentioned in the census.
In 1850, William Bibbey was born in Lambeth (vol IV, page ,I think, 335), and on the 3 April, 1865, William Bibbey, a glassblower of High Street, was married in St Mary Lambeth, to Mary Elizabeth Earl, daughter of North Edmund Earl, a bookbinder from St Pancras. Mary was born in 1845 in Newington. Is this the brother of Charles Bibbey junior or the son of James? Looks like a birth cert is needed
In the 1871 census, William Bibbey, a glassblower, is living at 3 Lucas Crescent, Broadwall, Southwark, and in the 1881 census, lodging at 36 &38 Mint Street, St Saviour, Southwark.
He died in 1885, and is buried at St Olaves church, Southwark.
