English Ancestry of Nicholas Walm and Ane (Waln) Dilworth Sibthorp

THE ENGLISH ANCESTRY OF 1 NICHOLAS WALN AND ANNE1 (WALN) DILWORTH SIBTHORP by Stewart Baldwin, PHD, FASG * N icholas1 Waln and his sister Anne1 (Waln) Dillworth Sibthorp were early Quaker immigrants from Lancashire and Yorkshire to Pennsylvania, both of whom have many descendants living in America today. They sailed on the Lamb out of Liverpool, which probably arrived in America on 22 October 1682.1 Published accounts have often included a number of errors on this family, including most notably an alleged third immigrant sibling named Richard Waln, who can in fact be identified with the completely unrelated immigrant Richard Wall, who came from Gloucestershire and was a member of the Abington Monthly Meeting in Pennsylvania until his death in 1698.2 Accounts of this family have usually missed two well-documented earlier generations, probably because alternate spellings like Wawne, Wawen, and Woane were overlooked.3 * Stewart Baldwin is a Professor of Mathematics at Auburn University, whose genealogical interests include the English origin of Early Quaker immigrants, and medieval genealogy. He is a descendant of Alice Simcock, wife of Reuben Paxson, and daughter 2 of John and Mary (Waln) Simcock. This article is based in part on his earlier work, The English Ancestry of Nicholas Waln, Early Quaker Immigrant to Pennsylvania, with an Account of the Rudd and Turner Families (manuscript, 1993), available on FHL #1,750,738. It used primary sources for the English ancestry, but was based on secondary sources (mainly McCracken) for the American data. 1 Marion Balderston, “William Penn’s Twenty Three Ships with Notes on Some of Their Passengers,” Publications of the Genealogical Society of Pennsylvania [called Pennsylvania Genealogical Magazine after 1947, both hereafter cited as PGM] 23(1963): 27—67 (at 52—53). 2 For Richard Wall, see “Catalogue of Eighty-Seven Public Friends yt Have Died in Pennsylvania Since ye First Settlement of Friends There Read at ye Yearly Meeting, 1709,” PGM 31(1979—80): 114—21 (at 118); the will of this Richard Wall, Philadelphia County Wills B:174, FHL #21,721; and the will of another Richard Wall, Philadelphia County Wills A:306, FHL #21,721. This error may trace back to a combination of guesswork and carelessly copied records of the Abington Monthly Meeting in which Richard Wall is sometimes erroneously called Richard Wal[l]n; Minutes of the Abington Monthly Meeting, abstracted by Joseph E. Gillingham (manuscript, 1892), FHL #383,428 [hereafter cited as Abington Monthly Meeting minutes]. The Friends’ records in Gloucestershire have a number of records involving this Wall family (see, for example, Gilbert Cope’s abstracts of the Gloucestershire records, FHL #441,397), but I have not attempted to research this family’s English ancestry. 3 See, for example, the account appearing in the manuscript collection of Alfred R. Justice (typescript, 7 pages), FHL #517,231. George E. McCracken, The Welcome Claimants, Proved, Disproved and Doubtful, with a Account of Some of Their Descen- Pennsylvania Genealogical Magazine Vol. 43 (2003) Final copy 31 January, 2010 7 8 Pennsylvania Genealogical Magazine [Vol. 43 This article documents the English ancestors of the immigrant siblings back to their great-grandfather. The family appears to have been in the parish of Slaidburn in Yorkshire as early as 26 Henry VIII [1535—36], when a Nicholas Walne is found in the court rolls of Slaidburn.4 In the adjacent parish of Chipping in Lancashire, a Walne or Wawen family, of Thornley, had long been established in that area from at least the fourteenth century.5 It is possible that the Waln family covered here was a cadet branch, but the well-documented line of descent begins with RichardC Wawen in the early 1600s.6 GENEALOGICAL SUMMARY 1. RICHARDC WAWEN, of Staindrop, in the township of Newton in Bolland, parish of Slaidburn, Yorkshire, husbandman, is known only from his will, dated 5 July 1605 and proved 12 September 1610.7 His parentage is unknown.8 He stated that his body should be buried at Slaidburne and dants, Publications of the Welcome Society of Pennsylvania, No. 2 (Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Company, 1970), 517—24 [hereafter cited as McCracken, Welcome Claimants], followed earlier accounts to some extent, starting with Richard Waln, father of the immigrants, but added a notice of doubt with regard to the false sibling Richard Wall and correctly conjectured the identity of Richard Waln’s father in a footnote. However, this work also offered an unwise “correction,” which in fact introduced a serious error by making the Jane Waln who married William Birket a sister of the immigrant siblings rather than their mother (as she is correctly given in the Justice account, for example). 4 M. Greenwood and C. Bolton, Bolland Forest and the Hodder Valley (Rawtenstall, Lancs.: J. Smart, 1955), 123 [hereafter cited as Greenwood and Bolton, Bolland Forest]. 5 Thomas Charles Smith, History of the Parish of Chipping in the County of Lancaster, with Some Account of the Forests of Bleasdale and Bowland (Preston: C. W. Whitehead, 1894), 236—37 [hereafter cited as Smith, History of Chipping]; also William Farrer and J. Brownbill, The Victoria History of the County of Lancaster, 8 volumes (London: A. Constable, 1906—14), 7:29—30, 212. 6 The burial of an Elizabeth Wawen of Slaidburn on 15 December 1600 (the only year surviving prior to 1631), presumably a member of an earlier generation, is shown in the Bishop’s Transcripts [BTs] of Slaidburn, FHL #919,158. The only other early (preCommonwealth) entries for the family in the Slaidburn BTs are the baptism of Isabella daughter of Nicholas Wonne of Slainmerow on 23 November 1634, the burial of Tho: Wawne of Slainmorow on 30 May 1635, and the appearance of Nicholas Woane as a churchwarden in 1636. 7 Registered will of Richard Wawen, Prerogative and Exchequer Court of the Archbishop of York [hereafter PCY] 31:418, FHL #99,497. 8 Without giving documentation, Eugene Glenn Stackhouse, Stackhouse, An Original Pennsylvania Family (Baltimore: Gateway Press, 1988), 55, includes the generations given here plus three alleged earlier generations: 1. Nicholas Waln (died 1545) of Normanby, East Riding; 2. Richard Waln (died 1570); and 3. Nicholas Waln (died 1591) of Thornley, followed by this Richard. However, the will (now evidently lost, but abstracted in Smith, History of Chipping, 236—37) of the Nicholas Walne who died in 1591 (and son of William Walne of Thornley, not of a Richard Waln) shows no son named Richard, and the 1545 will of Nicholas Wawne of Normanby shows no son named Richard; PCY 13:108, FHL #99,465. Thus, it would appear that the first four generations of this account are all falsely connected with one another. In the absence of supporting evidence, there is also no good reason to believe that there was any Final copy 31 January, 2010 2003] Ancestry of Nicholas Waln and Anne (Waln) Dilworth Sibthorp 9 that his estate should be divided into three parts, one part for his (unnamed) wife, one part for his (unnamed) children, and the third part to be divided between his base-begotten sons Nicholas Wawen alias Procter and Thomas Wawen alias Procter. Also mentioned were his landlord John Swinlehirst and executors John Stackhouse and Nicholas Frankland. He stipulated that if his children challenged the will, then the expenses of any such challenge should come out of their share. The name of Richard Wawen’s wife, who evidently survived him, is not known. Children of RichardC Wawen, by his unnamed wife:9 i. RICHARD WAWEN, married JENNETT –?–. ii. daughter, married WILLIAM SHARPLES. iii. KATHERINE WAWEN, married at Bolton by Bowland, Yorkshire, on 17 September 1598 RICHARD SWINLEHURST.10 Illegitimate children of Richard Wawen, presumably by a Miss Procter:11 2 iv. NICHOLASB WAWEN (alias Procter), died 1648; married JANE –?–. v. THOMAS WAWEN/WAWNE (alias PROCTER), of Slainmorrow, was buried at Slaidburn, Yorkshire, on 30 May 1635.12 The will of Thomas Wawne of Slainmayraw in Bolland, bachelor, dated 3 December 1634 and proved 1 October 1635, states that his body was to be buried at Slaidburn and names his brother Nicholas Wawne (executor), the children of his halfbrother Richard Wawne (Jane and Elizabeth Wawne plus others unnamed), the children that William Sharples had by his half-sister (Richard plus others unnamed), the children that Richard Swinlehurst had by another half-sister (all unnamed), Jennett and Issabell Wawne daughters of brother Nicholas Wawne, Richard son of brother Nicholas, Jennett wife of Richard Wawne, Jane wife of Nicholas Wawne, and two unnamed goddaughters (daughters of Edward Slater and Richard Clough).13 2. NICHOLASB WAWEN/WOANE/WALLNE (RichardC), of Slainmorrow or of Hey Heade14 in the forest of Bolland, parish of Slaidburn, Yorkshire, died connection between the Wawne family of Normanby in eastern Yorkshire and the Walns of Slaidburn or Chipping. Several Wawne wills from Normanby are known, some with tempting first names like Nicholas and Richard, but these wills do not indicate any connection with the Walns of either Slaidburn or Chipping (both located some distance from Normanby). 9 They are unnamed in the will of Richard Wawen, but the will of Thomas Wawne gives some additional information about his half-siblings. 10 W. J. Stavert, editor, The Parish Register of Bolton by Bowland in the County of York 1558—1724, Yorkshire Parish Register Society 19(1904): 37. 11 The use of an alias by illegitimate children usually indicates the maiden name of the mother. By the time these two sons made their own wills, they had dropped the alias (which is not known from any record other than Richard Wawen’s will) and were using spelling variants of their father’s surname. 12 Slaidburn BTs, FHL #919,158. 13 PCY 42:663, FHL #99,518. 14 Residence given in the marriage record of his daughter Issabell Wallne, Settle Monthly Meeting Records, PRO RG6/1116, folio 45 verso, FHL #588,425 [hereafter cited as Settle Monthly Meeting records]. Of the several foliations in the records, the stamped one is used here, with recto (front of folio) and verso (back). Final copy 31 January, 2010 10 Pennsylvania Genealogical Magazine [Vol. 43 between 29 July (will) and 26 October 1648 (probate). He married JANE –?–, who died 6 8th month [October] 1669,15 and whose maiden name is unknown. The Bishop’s Transcripts of Slaidburn mention him as a churchwarden in the year 1636. The will of Nicholas Woane, dated 29 July 1648 and proved 26 October 1648, states that his body was to be buried at Slaidburn and mentions his wife Jane (executrix), daughter Issabell, son Richard Woane, daughter Jenet, and son-in-law William Torner. The will also mentions the money left to his daughters Jenet and Issabell by the last will and testament of their uncle Thomas Woane, deceased, thus clearly identifying the Nicholas Woane of this will as the brother of Thomas Wawne, the 1634 testator mentioned above.16 Children of NicholasB Wallne, presumably by his wife Jane: 3 i. RICHARDA WALLNE, died 7 2nd month [April] 1659; married JANE RUDD. ii. JENNETT WALLNE (possibly the daughter who married WILLIAM TORNER). iii. ISABELL WALLNE, baptized at Slaidburn 23 November 1634;17 married at the house of Jane Walne of Hey Heade or Slainemerow on 6 1st month [March] 1666 or 1667 (probably 1666/7) JONATHAN SCOTT.18 iv. daughter (possibly the same as Jennett), married WILLIAM TORNER (probably Turner, a common name in the area). 3. RICHARDA WALLNE/WALN (NicholasB, RichardC), of Burholme in Bolland, Yorkshire, died on 7 2nd month [April] 1659,19 married JANE RUDD, who was born probably in the middle or late 1620s, daughter of Edward Rudd of Knowlemere, Yorkshire.20 It was probably in the early 1650s (certainly by 1654) that the Walns became converts to the Quaker faith. After the death of Richard Waln, Jane (Rudd) Waln married second, at the house of Robert Walbancke of Newton (husband of her sister Ellen), 15 Settle Monthly Meeting records, folio 86 recto, FHL #588,425. 16 Original will of Nicholas Woane, PCY, FHL #1,999,959. 17 Slaidburn BTs, FHL #919,158. 18 Settle Monthly Meeting records, folio 45 verso (giving the place as Hey Head and the date as 1666) and folio 48 recto (at Slainemerow in 1667), FHL #588,425. 19 Settle Monthly Meeting records, folio 86 recto, FHL #588,425. 20 Jane (Rudd) Waln’s parentage is proved by the record of her second marriage (see next note). Edward Rude of Knowmeare was buried at Slaidburn on 3 September 1667. The will of Edward Rudd of Knowlhouse in the County of York, husbandman, dated 16 December 1664 (date of probate unknown, probably 1667), mentions daughters Ellen, Jane, Dorothy, and Mary (no surnames given) and other persons with no stated relationship; PCY 48:525, FHL #99,575. The daughter Ellen was the Ellen Rudd who married Robert Wallbancke at Slaidburn on 25 November 1640, at whose house Jane’s second marriage took place and whose son John Walbancke was mentioned in Jane’s will. The daughters Dorothy (baptized at Slaidburn on 20 April 1633) and Mary (baptized at Slaidburn on 14 May 1637) were both married in 1666 to the immigrant brothers William Hairst (Hayhurst) and Cuthbert Hairst (Hayhurst), respectively; Settle Monthly Meeting records, folio 45 verso, FHL #588,425. Edward Rudd was a son of John Rud[d] of Knowlmere (buried at Slaidburn on 14 January 1637[/8]), whose will, dated 8 January 1637[/8] and proved in November 1638, named his sons Edward Rud and Thomas Rud and his daughter Elizabeth Rud; original will of Edward Rud, PCY, FHL #99,522. Baptisms and burials from the Slaidburn BTs, FHL #919,158. Final copy 31 January, 2010 2003] Ancestry of Nicholas Waln and Anne (Waln) Dilworth Sibthorp 11 on 31 8th month [October] 1667, William Birket of Newton.21 They had one child, Ellen Birket, born 5 12th month [February] 1670[/1], died 23 3rd month [May] 1678.22 The will of William Birket of Slainmorow within Newton in Bolland, Yorkshire, yeoman, dated 21 October 1691 and proved 9 August 1692, mentions John Birket son of his brother John Birket; wife Jane; niece Jennet Stackhouse; sister Agnes Stackhouse; his five “cozens” John Stackhouse, Thomas Stackhouse, Henry Stackhouse, Isabell Walmsley, and Elizabeth Stackhouse, sons and daughters of his brother-in-law John Stackhouse; brother John Birket; and brother-in-law John Stackhouse with John Walbancke of Newton and John Battersbie of Croasdellhouse as executors.23 The will of Jane Birkett of Longhamroe within the manor of Sawley, Yorkshire, widow, dated 7 December 1696 and proved 17 September 1697, names her son Nicholas Walne and his daughter Jane Wa[lne], daughter Anne Dillworth and her daughter Jane Dillworth; John Wallbancke, Edward Walbancke, and Robert Walbancke, sons of John Walbancke of Newton, deceased; Elizabeth Walbancke widow of the said John; Agnes Stackhouse wife of John Stackhouse; John Stackhouse son of the said John Stackhouse; Henry Stackhouse his brother; Elizabeth Prockter daughter of the above John Stackhouse; Jennet Scott wife of Richard Scott and daughter of the above John Stackhouse; John Birkett the elder; John Birkett the younger; William Birkett son of John Birkett the elder; and Ellin and Jennet Birkett daughters of the said John Birket; with friends Nicholas Franckland of Overskelshay and John Battersbie of Woodyeate as executors.24 Jane Birket 21 Settle Monthly Meeting records, folios 45 verso, 48 recto, FHL #588,425, the former of which clearly states that Jane was a widow and the daughter of Edward Rudd. McCracken, Welcome Claimants, 519, erroneously believing that the burial of the widow Jane Waln in 1669 was Richard’s widow (in fact his mother), introduced a false “correction” by stating this to be an error and identifying the bride of this marriage as an otherwise unknown daughter of Richard and Jane (Rudd) Waln, and this error has been followed by others, for example, Craig R. Horle et al., “Nicholas Waln,” Lawmaking and Legislators in Pennsylvania: A Biographical Dictionary, 2 vols. to date (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1991, 1997), 1:731 [hereafter cited as Horle, Lawmaking and Legislators]. In fact, there was never any good reason to make this change, which directly contradicts the marriage record of William Birket and Jane Waln. The will of Jane Birket cited below (evidently unknown to McCracken and those following him) clearly shows that Jane Birket was Nicholas Waln’s mother and that the marriage record is correct as it stands. 22 Settle Monthly Meeting records, folios 15 verso, 87 recto, FHL #588,425. 23 Original will of William Birket, PCY, FHL #99,610. 24 Original will of Jane Birkett, PCY, FHL #2,104,842. Since the marriage (at the house of Jane Birket) of Richard Scott and Jennet Stackhouse on 18 8th month [October] 1693 appears in the Settle Monthly Meeting records, folio 51 verso, FHL #588,425, and the chronology seems to fit, it would be tempting to try to identify the siblings Thomas and John Stackhouse mentioned in these wills with the siblings of those names who were immigrants to Pennsylvania along with their uncle, another Thomas Stackhouse (see, for example, McCracken, Welcome Claimants, 488—91, 519). However, the will of Thomas Stackhouse of Meanley in the parish of Slaidburne, Yorkshire, dated 16 April 1720, clearly rules out this possibility, as his siblings named in Final copy 31 January, 2010 12 Pennsylvania Genealogical Magazine [Vol. 43 died on 12 12th month [February] 1696/7 and was buried on 16 12th month [February] at Newton in Bolland.25 Children of RichardA and Jane (Rudd) Waln:26 4 i. NICHOLAS1 WALN, buried 4 12th month [February] 1721/2; married 1 8th month [October] 1673 JANE TURNER. 5 ii. ANNE1 WALN, born 15 6th month [August] 1654; died after 27 6th month [August] 1710; married first 9 5th month [July] 1680 JAMES DILWORTH; married second after 29 7th month [September] 1701 CHRISTOPHER SIBTHORP. iii. EDWARD WALN, born 22 7th month [September] 1657,27 not named in his mother’s will.28 4. NICHOLAS1 WALN (RichardA, NicholasB, RichardC), of Chapelcroft in the parish of Slaidburn, Yorkshire, the immigrant to America, first of Neshaminy, Bucks County, later of Northern Liberties in Philadelphia, was buried 4 12th month [February] 1721/2.29 He married at the house of his stepfather William Birket of Chapelcroft or Slainmorrow on 1 8th month [October] 1673 JANE TURNER, daughter of William Turner of Windyates, Yorkshire.30 In 1672 he received a holding at Youlstonwood, in the Forest of Bolland, which had belonged to his father, and in 1676, he received lands in Slainmorrow from Robert Walbancke. In 1682, that will (Jennet Scott, Elizabeth Prockter, and Henry Stackhouse) clearly show him to be the same man as the Thomas Stackhouse named in William Birkit’s will; PCY 75:20, FHL #99,692. 25 Settle Monthly Meeting records, folio 88 recto, FHL #588,425. 26 The will of Jane Birket named her children Nicholas Walne and Anne Dillworth, and the births of Anne and Edward are given in the Settle Monthly Meeting records. As mentioned above, Jane Birkit and the immigrant Richard Wall (not Waln) should not be included here, as has often been done. 27 Settle Monthly Meeting records, folio 14 recto, FHL #588,425. 28 The badly damaged original records of the Middletown Monthly Meeting in Bucks County show the death of an Edward Wall__ on 14 2nd month [April] 1683?, but the fragments of the remaining two letters that are visible on the microfilm copy suggest a reading of Waller rather than Wallne; Middletown Monthly Meeting, FHL #20,707. 29 William Wade Hinshaw, “Philadelphia Monthly Meeting,” Encyclopedia of American Quaker Genealogy, 6 vols. (Ann Arbor, Mich.: Edwards Brothers, 1936—50) 2:431 [hereafter cited as Hinshaw, “Philadelphia Monthly Meeting”].This date is often given as his date of death (for example, McCracken, Welcome Claimants, 519), rather than date of burial. 30 Settle Monthly Meeting records, folios 46 recto, 48 verso, FHL #588,425. The will of William Turner of Windyates in Bolland, Yorkshire, yeoman, dated 29 March 1670 and proved 30 March 1671, mentions children Robert Turner, Issabel Turner, Jane Turner, Margaret Turner, Wm. Turner, and Alice Turner, and his wife Margret; PCY 52:431, FHL #99,580. The will of his mother Elizabeth Turner of Windyates, dated 12 February 1641[/2], and proved in February 1645/6, named (among others) a daughter Margret, deceased son Thomas, and son William; original will, PCY, FHL #99,542. The name of Elizabeth’s husband has not been found. There was a Robert Turner of Windyates whose 1620 will mentions a wife Elizabeth, but other data in this will (children John, James, Thomas, but no William or Margaret) does not fit well enough to regard him as a good candidate for William’s father; PCY 36:561, FHL #99,505. Final copy 31 January, 2010 2003] Ancestry of Nicholas Waln and Anne (Waln) Dilworth Sibthorp 13 presumably in preparation for his trip to the New World, he passed at least some of his lands to his stepfather William Birket.31 On 7 4th month [June] 1682, a certificate of removal commonly called the “Settle Certificate” was granted to several members of the Settle Monthly Meeting in Yorkshire, including Nicholas Waln and his uncles Cuthbert and William Hayhurst (husbands of his maternal aunts), for removal to America. It has often been incorrectly reported that they came with William Penn aboard the Welcome, but Nicholas Waln in fact came over on the Lamb, on which he loaded goods on 26 June 1682.32 He was elected to the provincial assembly from Bucks County on seven occasions from 1683 to 1695 and from Philadelphia County on nine occasions from 1696 to 1717.33 The will of Nicholas Waln of the Northern Liberties of the city of Philadelphia, dated 30 11th month (January) 1721/2 and proved 8 April 1721/2, mentions his wife Jane Waln; sons Nicholas Waln and William Waln; daughters Jane, Hannah, Mary, Sarah, and Elizabeth; and son Richard Waln.34 Children of Nicholas1 and Jane (Turner) Waln, first four born in England:35 i. JANE2 WALN, born 16 5th month [July] (or 6th month [August]) 1675;36 married 27 3rd month [May] 1691 SAMUEL ALLEN Jr.37 ii. MARGARET2 WALN, born possibly 3 8th month [October] 1676; died in England probably 28 1st month [March] 1677.38 31 According to Greenwood and Bolton, Bolland Forest, 123, these transactions appear in the Slaidburn court rolls. 32 McCracken, Welcome Claimants, 517—18. 33 Horle, “Nicholas Waln,” Lawmaking and Legislators, 1:728—31 gives many details of his political career. 34 Philadelphia County Wills D:304, FHL #21,722. 35 Although the list of children is clear enough, the birth dates present various minor problems. The births of the first four children are recorded in the Settle Monthly Meeting records, and the births of Jane, Richard, and the second Margaret are also given in a list of English births in the original Middletown Monthly Meeting records, FHL #20,707. The births of Hannah, Mary, Sarah and John appear in the very damaged original Middletown Monthly Meeting records on the same film (which are also missing most of the 1688—90 records, possibly because of a missing leaf). Births for these four plus Ellen are in an 1889 copy of a different set of Middletown Monthly Meeting records, FHL #20,711 [hereafter cited as Middletown Monthly Meeting records (1889)]. The births of the last three children are in Hinshaw, “Philadelphia Monthly Meeting,” 2:431. Any discrepancies in these dates are noted below. Some additional dates from McCracken, which may be ultimately based on the original Middletown records before they were seriously damaged, are also given here. 36 The contemporaneously recorded 5th month of the Settle Monthly Meeting records is to be preferred to the later-recorded 6th month of the Middletown Monthly Meeting records. 37 Middletown Monthly Meeting records, FHL #20,707. For an account of the Allen family, see Edwin S. Dunkerley, “Samuel Allen’s Family,” PGM 32(1981—82): 219—26. 38 Settle Monthly Meeting records, 15 verso, 87 recto, FHL #588,425, give dates of 3 8th month [October] 1677 and 28 1st month [March] 1676, respectively, but there is obviously an error here. The birth date, only eight months before the birth of the next child, cannot be correct; the emendation suggested here gives at least a plausible Final copy 31 January, 2010 14 Pennsylvania Genealogical Magazine [Vol. 43 iii. RICHARD2 WALN, born 6 4th month [June] 1678;39 died between 1 December 1753 (will) and 16 June 1756 (probate);40 married first probably soon after 31 7th month [September] 1706 ANN HEATH;41 married second 26 2nd month [April] 1739 at Springfield Meeting House (Goshen Monthly Meeting) MARY (HAYES/HEYES) LEWIS, widow of Evan Lewis. 42 iv. MARGARET2 WALN, born 12 11th month [January] 1679[/80] (or, less likely, 10 11th month [January] 1680[/1]);43 evidently deceased at the time of her father’s will. v. HANNAH2 WALN, born 21 7th month [September] 1684;44 married first soon after 25 12th month [February] 1703[/4] (second intention) THOMAS HODGES (widower of her cousin Jane Dilworth, see below);45 married second between 28 8th month [October] (second intention) and 24 9th month [November] 1712 (report of marriage) BENJAMIN SIMCOCK.46 interval between births. The death date, the last of ten entries for 1676 (the rest in order) is surely an error for 1677 (three days after the year switched). 39 McCracken, Welcome Claimants, 520, states that the “Settle record” dates the birth at 6 1st month [March] 1678/9, which is an error unless he was referring to records other than the Settle Monthly Meeting records cited here. 40 “Abstracts of Philadelphia County Wills,” 5(1893):1205, Collections of the Genealogical Society of Pennsylvania. 41 Abington Monthly Meeting minutes, FHL #383,428. The surviving pre-1718 minutes of the Abington Monthly Meeting are from an abstract made in 1718, in which many details were apparently left out. The typical procedure was for the couple to declare their intention to marry during two consecutive Monthly Meetings and then to be married sometime during the month thereafter. Therefore, Monthly Meeting minutes would often (but not always) contain notices, in three consecutive meetings, of the first intention, second intention, and report of the accomplishment of the marriage, thus “boxing in” the date of marriage in cases where the actual marriage record does not survive. In the Abington abstracts, the first and second declarations of intent and the report of the following marriage are generally combined into a single notice as if they had all happened on the same date. Comparisons with marriages whose dates are known suggest that this combined notice was generally entered in the abstracted minutes under the date of the second declaration of intent, hence the phrase “probably soon after” in Abington marriages in this article. 42 Lewis-Heyes marriage in Gilbert Cope, transcriber, Chester Monthly Meeting Marriages, FHL #432,024. Waln-Lewis marriage and Evan Lewis burial in Goshen Monthly Meeting, FHL #20,461. Wills of Evan Lewis and of Mary Waln wife of Richard of Norrington in Jacob Martin, “Abstracts of Wills and Administrations, Chester County,” Collections of the Genealogical Society of Pennsylvania, 1(1900): 140, 382. 43 Settle Monthly Meeting records, folio 16 verso, FHL #588,425. McCracken, Welcome Claimants, 521, erroneously reports the Settle record as giving 12 11th month [January] 1682/3, but the date given is clearly 1679, with the “7” having been written over an “8.” The original Middletown Monthly Meeting records, in a list of children born in England, report 10 11th month [January] 1680 as the date. 44 As given in the original Middletown Monthly Meeting records, FHL #20,707, but 23 1st month [March] 1684 in Middletown Monthly Meeting records (1889), FHL #20,711. 45 “Minutes of the Philadelphia Monthly Meeting,” PGM 6(1915): 95. 46 Chester Monthly Meeting minutes, FHL #432,021. Final copy 31 January, 2010 2003] Ancestry of Nicholas Waln and Anne (Waln) Dilworth Sibthorp 15 vi. MARY2 WALN, born 17(?) 2nd month [April] 1687;47 died 19 5th month [May] 1771;48 married soon after 26 2nd month [April] 1706 (second intention) JOHN SIMCOCK.49 They removed to Hunterdon County, New Jersey, where they were members of the Kingwood Monthly Meeting. vii. ELLEN2 WALN, born 27 1st month [March] 1690; died 14 11th month [January] 1707[/8].50 viii. SARAH2 WALN, born 9 4th month [June] 1692; married first soon after 27 5th month [July] 1711 (second intention) JACOB SIMCOCK,51 married second 27 12th month [February] 1721/2 JONATHAN PALMER.52 ix. JOHN2 WALN, born 10 6th month [August] 1694; married soon after 30 6th month [August] 1717 (second intention) JANE MIFFLIN and moved to Chester County.53 On 31 10th month [December] 1722 the Chester Monthly Meeting disowned him for drinking excessive liquor.54 x. ELIZABETH2 WALN, born 27 1st month [March] 1697; married soon after 24 2nd month [April] 1719 (second intention) JAMES DUBERY.55 xi. NICHOLAS2 WALN, born 24 1st month [March] 1698[/9]; buried 11 12th month [February] 1721/2,56 soon after the death of his father. His will, dated 6 12th month (February) 1721 and proved 19 March 1721[/2], mentions his brothers William Waln and Richard Waln and his unnamed mother (named as Jane Waln in the probate), brothers, and sisters.57 xii. WILLIAM2 WALN, born 15 1st month [March] 1700/1; married 18 11th month [January] 1721/2 at Springfield Meeting House (Chester Monthly Meeting) ANN HALL.58 5. ANNE1 WALN (RichardA, NicholasB, RichardC) was born in England on 15 6th month [August] 165459 and died after 27 6th month [August] 1710, the date that she wrote her will. She married first, in the house of her brother Nicholas at Chapelcroft, Yorkshire, on 9 5th month [July] 1680, AMES1 DILWORTH of Thornley, Lancashire.60 They came to Pennsyl47 The day of the month is torn in the original records. The day is variously given as 7 (McCracken, Welcome Claimants, 521) or 17 (Middletown Monthly Meeting records [1889], FHL #20,711). 48 Memorial of Mary Simcock, Records of Kingwood Monthly Meeting, Hunterdon County, New Jersey, FHL #20,429. 49 “Minutes of the Philadelphia Monthly Meeting,” PGM 6(1916): 209. 50 Hinshaw, “Philadelphia Monthly Meeting,” 2:431. 51 “Minutes of the Philadelphia Monthly Meeting,” PGM 6(1917): 308. 52 Chester Monthly Meeting marriages, FHL #432,024. 53 “Minutes of the Philadelphia Monthly Meeting,” PGM 6(1916): 185, 188. 54 Chester Monthly Meeting minutes, FHL #432,022. The source of the claim that he died in 1720 (see, for example, McCracken, Welcome Claimants, 521) is unclear. 55 “Minutes of the Philadelphia Monthly Meeting,” PGM 7(1918): 190. 56 Hinshaw, “Philadelphia Monthly Meeting,” 2:431, sometimes given as his death date. 57 Philadelphia County Wills D:305, FHL #21,722. 58 Chester Monthly Meeting marriages, FHL #432,024. 59 Settle Monthly Meeting records, folio 14 recto, FHL #588,425. 60 Lancaster Monthly Meeting records, PRO RG6/1004, folio 37 verso, FHL #817,361. The same records show the burial of an Elizabeth Dillworth of Thornley, wife of James, in 1675, perhaps an earlier wife of the same James Dilworth. Final copy 31 January, 2010 16 Pennsylvania Genealogical Magazine [Vol. 43 vania on the Lamb, arriving in October of 1682.61 They were members of the Middletown Monthly Meeting in Bucks County until the middle of the 1690s, when they started appearing regularly in the minutes of the Abington Monthly Meeting (then Philadelphia, now Montgomery County).62 On 26 7th month [September] 1698 Anne (Waln) Dilworth received a certificate from the Abington Monthly Meeting to visit Friends in Barbados.63 While she was gone, yellow fever broke out in Philadelphia, one of the victims being her husband James Dilworth, who was buried on 15 7th month [September] 1699.64 The will of James Dilworth of Bristol Township, Philadelphia County, was dated 8 7th month [September] 1699 and proved 10 December 1700, naming his wife Ann, children William, Richard, Jane, Hannah, Jennit, Rebeckah, and James, brother-in-law Nicholas Waln, and friend Edmund Orpwood.65 Anne (Waln) Dilworth married second, probably soon after 29 7th month [September] 1701, CHRISTOPHER SIBTHORP.66 The will of Christopher Sibthorp of the city of Philadelphia, dated 25 10th month [December] 1707 and proved 24 January 1707/8, mentions, among others for whom no relationship was given, his sister Elizabeth Whitworth and her daughter Mary, and his wife Ann Sibthorp and her (unnamed) children, with wife Ann as executrix.67 The will of Ann Sibthorp of Philadelphia County, dated 27 6th month [August] 1710, mentions sons James, Richard and William Delworth, daughter Rebecah Delworth, Joshua Fincher, and brother Nicholas Walln.68 Children of James and Anne1 (Waln) Dilworth:69 i. WILLIAM DILWORTH, born 15 4th month [June] or 24/25 5th month [July] 1681;70 living 1710 when his mother wrote her will; married SARAH WEBB.71 61 McCracken, Welcome Claimants, 522. 62 Abington Monthly Meeting minutes, FHL #383,428. 63 Abington Monthly Meeting minutes, FHL #383,428. 64 Biographical sketch of James Dilworth in The Friend 27:398—99 (26 8th month [October] 1854). Even though it is a later source, the date of burial given there is to be preferred to the date of 8 7th month 1699 (the date he wrote his will) given in “Catalogue of Eighty-Seven Public Friends yt Have Died in Pennsylvania Since ye First Settlement of Friends There Read at ye Yearly Meeting, 1709,” PGM 31(1979—80): 114— 21 (at 118). 65 Philadelphia County Wills B:85, FHL #21,721. 66 Abington Monthly Meeting minutes, FHL #383,428. 67 Philadelphia County Wills C:67, FHL #21,722. 68 Philadelphia County Wills C:291, FHL #21,722. 69 William’s birth is given in the Quaker records of Lancashire and in the Middletown Monthly Meeting list of English births, FHL #20,707. The births of Richard, Jane, and Anne appear in the damaged original Middletown Monthly Meeting records, and the births of Jane, Hannah, Jennie (Jennet), and Ann are in Middletown Monthly Meeting records (1889), FHL #20,711. The birth of James is from Abington Monthly Meeting marriage, birth, and death records, abstracted by Joseph E. Gillingham (manuscript, 1894) [hereafter cited as Abington Monthly Meeting records]. Final copy 31 January, 2010 2003] Ancestry of Nicholas Waln and Anne (Waln) Dilworth Sibthorp 17 ii. RICHARD DILWORTH, born 8 5th month [July] 1683;72 buried 6 8th month [October] 1749;73 married first probably soon after 25 6th month [August] 1707 ELIZABETH WORRELL; married second between 26 4th month [June] (second intention) and 31 5th month [July] 1721 (report of marriage) ANNE MAULE.74 His will was dated 7 1st month (March) 1748/9 and proved 14 October 1749.75 iii. JANE DILWORTH, born 18 1st month [March] 1685[/6]; married 8 3rd month [May] 1701 at Dublin Meeting House (Abington Monthly Meeting) THOMAS HODGES, who married second her cousin Hannah Waln (see above).76 iv. HANNAH DILWORTH, born 25 2nd month [April] 1688; married 9 4th month [June] 1709 at Oxford Meeting House (Abington Monthly Meeting) JOHN WORRELL Jr.77 v. JENNET DILWORTH, born 20 1st month [March] 1690[/1]; married probably soon after 27 1st month [March] 1710 SAMUEL BOLTON.78 vi. ANNE DILWORTH, born 9 or 19 12th month [February] 1691[/2];79 died 24 12th month [February] 1691[/2].80 vii. REBECCA DILWORTH, born say 1693;81 married probably soon after 31 10th month [December] 1711 GEORGE SHOEMAKER.82 viii. JAMES DILWORTH, born 3 9th month [November] 1695; married first probably soon after 31 1st month [March] 1718 SARAH WORRELL; married second between 29 7th month [September] (second intention) and 27 8th month [October] 1729 (report of the marriage) SARAH POTTS.83 70 15 4th month [June] according to the Lancaster Quarterly Meeting Digest, PRO RG6/1616, FHL #1,937,041; 24 5th month [July] according to the Lancaster Monthly Meeting records, PRO RG6/1004, FHL #817,361; 25 5th month [July] in the Middletown Monthly Meeting records of English births, FHL #20,707. 71 Will of Richard Webb, dated 2 March 1719[/20] and proved 14 1st month [March] 1719/20, names, among others, his daughter “Sarah the wife of William Delwarth”; Chester County Wills A:82, FHL #20,844. 72 The month is torn in the original Middletown Monthly Meeting records, FHL #20,707; given here from McCracken, Welcome Claimants, 522. 73 Abington Monthly Meeting records, FHL #383,428. 74 Both marriages from Abington Monthly Meeting minutes, FHL #383,428. 75 Philadelphia County Wills I:180, FHL #21,724. 76 Abington Monthly Meeting records, FHL #383,428. 77 Abington Monthly Meeting records, FHL #383,428. 78 Abington Monthly Meeting minutes, FHL #383,428. 79 9 12th month [February] 1691 in the original Middletown Monthly Meeting records, FHL #20,707; 19 12th month [February] 1691 in Middletown Monthly Meeting records (1889), FHL #20,711. 80 McCracken, Welcome Claimants, 523, perhaps ultimately from a missing leaf in the original Middletown Monthly Meeting records. 81 James Dilworth in his will apparently named his children in order of birth. 82 Abington Monthly Meeting minutes, FHL #383,428. 83 Abington Monthly Meeting minutes, FHL #383,428. 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