Seth Selby

Brief Life History of Seth

When Seth Selby was born on 24 March 1805, in Easton Maudit, Northamptonshire, England, United Kingdom, his father, Edward Silby, was 34 and his mother, Dorothy Fox, was 28. He married Eleanor Knipe on 23 October 1828, in Holborn Division, Middlesex, England, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 1 daughter. He lived in Clerkenwell St James, Middlesex, England, United Kingdom for about 20 years and St James, Middlesex, England, United Kingdom in 1871. He died on 16 April 1873, in Clerkenwell, Middlesex, England, United Kingdom, at the age of 68.

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Family Time Line

Seth Selby
1805–1873
Eleanor Knipe
1804–1869
Marriage: 23 October 1828
Emma Knipe Silby
1831–1849
Edward Silby
about 1834–1873

Sources (12)

  • Seth Sibley, "England and Wales Census, 1841"
  • Seth Silby, "England Marriages, 1538–1973 "
  • Seth Silby, "England and Wales Death Registration Index 1837-2007"

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1808 · The British West Africa Squadron

The British West Africa Squadron was formed in 1808 to suppress illegal slave trading on the African coastline. The British West Africa Squadron had freed approximately 150,000 people by 1865.

1815

The defeat of Napoleon Bonaparte at Waterloo marks the end of the Napoleonic Wars. Napoleon defeated and exiled to St. Helena.

1823

Rugby Football 'invented' at Rugby School.

Name Meaning

English (Nottinghamshire) and Scottish: habitational name from Selby (Yorkshire). The placename may derive from Old English sele ‘willow copse’, sometimes alternating with salh ‘willow’, + Old Norse ‘farmstead, village’.

Americanized form of some similar (like-sounding) Jewish surname.

Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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