finnisfinder:
Going back a bit, can you tell me which Samuel married Joan Borrow 13th Feb 1726 at St Cleer? Was he born 1705 s/o Thomas and Peternel. Also was he b/o Elizabeth who married Henry Borrow?Don's St Cleer transcriptions don't show a Sam Sib born 1705 -- Tho and Pet had children Elizabeth 1698 and Peternel 1700, per his site and the general OPC database.
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~cricket5/stc_baptisms_q-s.htmThere is a Samuel Sybly, son of Thomas and Jane, 1705. They also had Jane and Richard.
Oh no, ff! Your OP says your Rich Sib married Grace Keast in 1699. And Don had this to say about St Cleer records:
"The original parish records prior to 1677 appear to have been lost but the Bishops Transcripts (an annual return that the cleric was required to make) exist for 1597-1673. Hence if you are looking for anything prior to 1597 or
between 1673 & 1677 then you will not find the records here - or anywhere else!"
And isn't that just about exactly when your Richard and Grace might have been born??
Here is his chronological listing of St Cleer baptisms:
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~cricket5/downloads/STC_Baptisms.csvOn the
Keast side, we unfortunately have two possible famliies:
Robert 1663
Wiliam 1665
Peter 1668
Mary 1673
> gap in records
Samuell 1683
with father
Francis Keastand
James 1667
Elizabeth 1668
John 1673
> gap in records
Stephen 1678
Johanna 1681
with father
John Keast (1634, father John, married Joan Knight 1664?)
Could we theorize that Grace was born in the intervening years - between 1673 and 1677/78 ??
But to which family?
On the
Sibly side,
There are a Thomas 1665 and your? Richard 1668 and Samuell 1672, all father
Thomas Sibly.
And there is Elizabeth 1667 ("Libly") father Nicholas.
So I would guess that with Richard Sibly born in 1668, if that is him who married in 1699, his bride Grace Keast was quite likely born 1673-1677, and a daughter of John Keast or Francis Keast, and her baptism record is lost.
Now, if Francis and John Keast, the two fathers, were brothers, you could still make the assumption that Grace was born in the missing years and look back from there without it altering your Keast line, as the two fathers would have had the same parents -- although you would be forever stuck with an assumption. The mother's line would be undertermined, though.
I've just noticed as well that at Don's page with the chronological listing of St Cleer baptisms (link above), there is an enormous and total gap between 1635 and 1663, but I don't think he explained that. It could be why I can't find a record of a Francis Keast baptism, for instance. Or marriage. There's a death 1703 in St Cleer, though.
I see now the same gap exists for marriages and burials: 1635 to 1663.
Maybe fizzy can tell us more about that.