Hi,
I’m looking for the parents/baptism of Phoebe Gleave, who was born c.1620-1640, probably around Lymm/Rostherne - though she later lived in Warrington and Great Budworth parishes. I know that this far back even surviving records can be almost illegible, but I’d like to fit her into the well-recorded Gleave clan of High Legh, so I’m still hopeful... (I’m just about to send off for the book about the family sold by the Cheshire FHS, but it would be great to hear from anyone else on here with possible connections.)
Phoebe’s first marriage was to Gilbert Dumvill/Domville (1623-1661), a draper/mercer of Warrington, on 15 Nov 1656 at St Elphin’s, Warrington. They had two children who died in infancy. After Gilbert’s death, Phoebe remarried on 18 Oct 1663 in Warrington to Richard Sandilands (c.1635-1712), a yeoman living in Crowley, 4 miles SW of High Legh and in Great Budworth parish. They had one surviving daughter – my ancestor, also called Phoebe – before Phoebe died shortly after giving birth to their second, short-lived child in July 1667.
It turns out that Gilbert Domville’s sister Mary (b.1621) also married a John Gleave, on 17 Jan 1649 in Lymm, and I’m hoping that this John was Phoebe’s brother. I’ve found a transcription of Gilbert Domville’s will, and in it he leaves money to Gilbert and Phoebe Gleave, children of his brother-in-law John Gleave of High Legh... It seems too much of a coincidence to have the name Phoebe Gleave appear twice in the Domvilles’ in-laws without them being related. I’ve found the young Gilbert Gleave’s baptism at Lymm in 1654 (there’s a possible match with a Gilbert who died in 1723 at High Legh), but nothing for the younger Phoebe either...
Sorry for the long message! If anyone stumbles across this with relevant info, I’d be very grateful for the help...
Thanks.
Ronan
