Powys-Lybbe Forbears - Person Sheet
Powys-Lybbe Forbears - Person Sheet
NameSarah Holbech 
[23, Holbech art, Vol I, p.660&661], [56, Warks of 1682-3, pub Harleian 1911, Holbech, p. 78]
[23, Holbech art, Vol I, p.660&661], [56, Warks of 1682-3, pub Harleian 1911, Holbech, p. 78]BirthApr 1666, Mollington, Oxon / Warks
Baptism11 Apr 1666, Mollington, Oxon / Warks
Deathbef 1698
BurialMollington, Warks - EJC
General1st dau.
FatherAmbrose Holbech (ca1632-1701)
MotherSarah Harvey (ca1645-1682)
Spouses
1Sir Thomas Powys [53], [54, His own article], [55, p. 49], [17, 1500-1714, col 3, p. 1197], [56, Staffs peds of >1680, pub Harleian 1912, Rudge, p. 194]
[53], [54, His own article], [55, p. 49], [17, 1500-1714, col 3, p. 1197], [56, Staffs peds of >1680, pub Harleian 1912, Rudge, p. 194]FatherThomas Powys (of Henley) (1617-1671)
MotherAnne Littleton (<1619-1655)
Marriage11 Jun 1685, Mollington, Oxon / Warks [26, “1685: Powis Tho and Holbeach Sar, Vicar general”], [48, Achbp Cantuar Marr Licences, vol 3, p. 203]
Notes for Sarah Holbech
For her birth, both Ancestry and FindMyPast have a transcript of a baptism:
Name: Sarah Holbech
Gender: Female
Christening Date: 11 Apr 1666
Christening Place: Mollington, Oxfordshire, England
Father: Ambrose Holbech
Mother: Sarah Holbech
But no image of the register.
Phillimore’s Index says that the parish registers are held by Oxford Record Office, so I’ll try to get a copy of the image.
All that said, I have found the image of the register on Ancestry’s site, done by stepping through the pages from the marriage at Mollington of Sarah and Thomas Powys in 1685.
Sarah’s baptism entry is on an unnumbered pair of pages of baptisms that start with September 1663 and end with August 1666. Ancestry’s computer numbers the image of the two pages as 24 of 60 in the whole register, so in therms of the records, it is probably around page 42. Hers is fifth from the top of the right hand page and is:
“Sarah the daughter of Ambrose Holbech gent
and Sarah his wife was baptized the
eleventh day of Aprill 1666.” [ sic ]
I think the practice in those times was for fairly speedy baptisms after the birth so we can put her down as born in April 1666.
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At her marriage she was living at Mollington, Warks and was about 19 years old.
I have seen one speculation by Ditch Boultbee on Webtrees that Sarah was buried in St Alban, Wood Street, London in 1894 but I can find no lead to the burial register, save that the original is in the London Metropolitan Archive.
Later: I have downloaded images of all the burial pages from September 3rd 1692, which was five months before her daughter Jane was born, to October 4th 1700, which was two years after Sir Thomas married his second wife. Nowhere can I see any mention of Sarah’s burial.
So I do not accept this speculation about her burial in St Alban’s Wood Street, London.
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Her last known child, Jane, was born on 11 May 1693. We know this from her baptism record which says: “14 Jane of Sr Thomas Powys Knt & Sarah his wife. Born ye 11 Inst.” on the page for May 1693. This was in the register of St Giles in the Fields, High Street, Holborn, London.
So Sarah was alive on 11 June 1693.
The first we know of Sir Thomas’ second wife is from the marriage licence issued on 1st October 1698, see the Notes for that marriage. I am sure it would have taken some time for that marriage to have been arranged. I could well believe that the proposals would have started before the end of 1697. So Sarah could not have died after the end of 1697.
So Sarah died sometime between 11 June 1693 to 1697, say: 1695±2 years.
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The next thing to consider is any memorial to her. I would have expected one to have been made and erected somewhere. But no such records can be found.
Later: I have found a CD of Monumental Inscriptions of most of the parishes in Oxfords, including Mollington, so have ordered it.
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I have managed to step through the parish register images from her marriage in 1685 to the end of the register around 1695. The births, marriages and deaths did not all end at the same time. I could not find her burial in this register which is labelled at “1561-1696” but it might be in the following register and might even be before 1696.
I will try to find the following register by looking for the death of Sarah’s father Ambrose who is reported to have died in 1701 so would definitely be in the next register, if he died in Mollington of course. And the good news is that his burial is in the succeeding Mollington Register. The register pages are not numbered but Ancestry numbers the double-page as 43 of 112.
Remarkably this register is labelled with “1678-1728, so there is enormous overlap between the previous register and this one.
But I have found no burial record for this Sarah. Perhaps Emily J Climenson was wrong and perhaps Sarah was buried somewhere different?
In case anyone wonders, she could not have been buried at Lilford as her husband did not buy the place until 1711.
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Name: Sarah Holbech
Gender: Female
Christening Date: 11 Apr 1666
Christening Place: Mollington, Oxfordshire, England
Father: Ambrose Holbech
Mother: Sarah Holbech
But no image of the register.
Phillimore’s Index says that the parish registers are held by Oxford Record Office, so I’ll try to get a copy of the image.
All that said, I have found the image of the register on Ancestry’s site, done by stepping through the pages from the marriage at Mollington of Sarah and Thomas Powys in 1685.
Sarah’s baptism entry is on an unnumbered pair of pages of baptisms that start with September 1663 and end with August 1666. Ancestry’s computer numbers the image of the two pages as 24 of 60 in the whole register, so in therms of the records, it is probably around page 42. Hers is fifth from the top of the right hand page and is:
“Sarah the daughter of Ambrose Holbech gent
and Sarah his wife was baptized the
eleventh day of Aprill 1666.” [ sic ]
I think the practice in those times was for fairly speedy baptisms after the birth so we can put her down as born in April 1666.
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At her marriage she was living at Mollington, Warks and was about 19 years old.
I have seen one speculation by Ditch Boultbee on Webtrees that Sarah was buried in St Alban, Wood Street, London in 1894 but I can find no lead to the burial register, save that the original is in the London Metropolitan Archive.
Later: I have downloaded images of all the burial pages from September 3rd 1692, which was five months before her daughter Jane was born, to October 4th 1700, which was two years after Sir Thomas married his second wife. Nowhere can I see any mention of Sarah’s burial.
So I do not accept this speculation about her burial in St Alban’s Wood Street, London.
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Her last known child, Jane, was born on 11 May 1693. We know this from her baptism record which says: “14 Jane of Sr Thomas Powys Knt & Sarah his wife. Born ye 11 Inst.” on the page for May 1693. This was in the register of St Giles in the Fields, High Street, Holborn, London.
So Sarah was alive on 11 June 1693.
The first we know of Sir Thomas’ second wife is from the marriage licence issued on 1st October 1698, see the Notes for that marriage. I am sure it would have taken some time for that marriage to have been arranged. I could well believe that the proposals would have started before the end of 1697. So Sarah could not have died after the end of 1697.
So Sarah died sometime between 11 June 1693 to 1697, say: 1695±2 years.
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The next thing to consider is any memorial to her. I would have expected one to have been made and erected somewhere. But no such records can be found.
Later: I have found a CD of Monumental Inscriptions of most of the parishes in Oxfords, including Mollington, so have ordered it.
_____________________
I have managed to step through the parish register images from her marriage in 1685 to the end of the register around 1695. The births, marriages and deaths did not all end at the same time. I could not find her burial in this register which is labelled at “1561-1696” but it might be in the following register and might even be before 1696.
I will try to find the following register by looking for the death of Sarah’s father Ambrose who is reported to have died in 1701 so would definitely be in the next register, if he died in Mollington of course. And the good news is that his burial is in the succeeding Mollington Register. The register pages are not numbered but Ancestry numbers the double-page as 43 of 112.
Remarkably this register is labelled with “1678-1728, so there is enormous overlap between the previous register and this one.
But I have found no burial record for this Sarah. Perhaps Emily J Climenson was wrong and perhaps Sarah was buried somewhere different?
In case anyone wonders, she could not have been buried at Lilford as her husband did not buy the place until 1711.
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Notes for Thomas & Sarah (Family)
The Abp of Canterbury may have issued a Licence for their marriage on 4th June 1685, for marriage at Mollington.
Boyd’s marriages has a record for an entry in the Vicar-gebneral’s marriage licences.
And indeed in “Allegations for Marriage Licences issued by the Vicar-general of the Archbishop of Canterbury”, ed by George J Armytage, F.S.A., pub in London in 1890 by The Harleian Society, Vol 3, p. 203 there is this transcript:
1685…
June 4 Thomas Powys, of Lincoln’s Inn, Esqr, Bachr, abt 30, & Mrs Sarah Holbech, of Mollington, co. Warw., Spr, abt 19, with consent of her father Ambrose Holbech, Gent.; at Mollington.
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In the Marriage Register for Mollington church, Oxon / Warks, the entry (transcript by me) was:
“ Marriages Ano 1685 [ page ] 61
“Thomas Powys esq and Sarah Holbech were married at Mollington ye 11th day of June 1685”
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Boyd’s marriages has a record for an entry in the Vicar-gebneral’s marriage licences.
And indeed in “Allegations for Marriage Licences issued by the Vicar-general of the Archbishop of Canterbury”, ed by George J Armytage, F.S.A., pub in London in 1890 by The Harleian Society, Vol 3, p. 203 there is this transcript:
1685…
June 4 Thomas Powys, of Lincoln’s Inn, Esqr, Bachr, abt 30, & Mrs Sarah Holbech, of Mollington, co. Warw., Spr, abt 19, with consent of her father Ambrose Holbech, Gent.; at Mollington.
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In the Marriage Register for Mollington church, Oxon / Warks, the entry (transcript by me) was:
“ Marriages Ano 1685 [ page ] 61
“Thomas Powys esq and Sarah Holbech were married at Mollington ye 11th day of June 1685”
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