Lobley Link 2015
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 Vincent Lobley
 Citizen’s Arrest?
Julia and I wish you all another very
Happy Christmas and a peaceful New
Year.
Julia and I maintain our busy schedule, especially as
she has now given up her work. We have spent a lot
of time this year on the Isle of Wight, walking,
kayaking and stargazing and have again visited
Portugal to catch up with our friends over there.
 Michael Lobley: printer and stationer
 Genealogy software
His family roots are family are from the
Gainsborough and Corringham area of Lincolnshire
in the late 18th century.
We have just returned with friends from a short break
to Lincoln (home of many old Lobley families) where
we sampled the delights of their huge Christmas
Market, held over 4 days. We were able to purchase
nearly all of our presents, listen to part of a carol
service in the Cathedral and enjoy the good food and
company.
I’m still volunteering at the Society of Genealogists.
Over the past year we have completed indexes to 19th
century Customs Officers (my former profession), Irish
lawyers, Irish 1st World War dead and Irish wills.
A Merry Christmas to everyone.
Citizen’s Arrest?
This year’s snippet comes from the ‘York Herald
and General Advertiser’ of the 18 October 1845.
Phil and Julia
Vincent Lobley honoured
Earlier this year, I noticed an online link to a news
story from Scunthorpe, in North Lincolnshire. 80
year old Vincent Lobley, with whom I have
corresponded for a few years, had been honoured
for his services, to the community of North
Lincolnshire, as a volunteer with Humberside
Police.
In January 2015, Vincent was presented with the
British Empire Medal in front of colleagues, friends
and family.
He volunteered in 2007 and has staffed the front
office of satellite police stations for more than 4,000
hours. Proud to receive the award, Vincent has
stressed that it was important for people to get
involved in their community.
Married with two children, Vincent comes from a
long line of Lincolnshire Lobleys. Many of his
ancestors were employed on the railways as they
expanded in the 19th century.
Thomas Lobley was born in 1802, the son of Arthur
and Hannah Lobley of Morley, near Leeds. He
married twice, having 10 children by his first wife
Ann Armitage. She died in 1849 and he married
Eliza Thompson, another widow in 1850. Thomas
died in 1874
Phil Lobley, 25 Langthorne Crescent, GRAYS, Essex, England, RM17 5XA
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LOBLEY LINK 2015
Michael Lobley: printer
and stationer
Michael Lobley was one of the original members of
the Stationers’ Company in London, founded in
1558.
A Printer, Stationer, Bookseller and
Bookbinder, he lived in and traded from St Paul’s
Church Yard, a noted centre of the printing and
bookselling trade in the mid 16th Century following
the dissolution of the monasteries under Henry VIII.
In 1531, he was questioned for speaking against
Popery and for buying prohibited books at Antwerp.
These were dangerous times. The printed bible in
English was still prohibited and people risked their
lives
in
the
importation of that
and other books.
Michael survived the
questioning.
Perhaps the fact that
his wife Margery was
acquainted
with
someone
in
the
household
of
Thomas
Cromwell
was a factor.
The bookplate on the
left is taken from a
book
printed for
Michael Lobley at his
premises in St Paul’s
Churchyard ‘at the
corner shop on the right hand side as ye come out
of Chepe’. Other surviving books show that his
shop bore the sign of St Michael.
St Paul’s Cathedral at that time looked very different
to the Wren built structure we see today. It was a
huge medieval building with an enormous spire that
collapsed in 1561 (probably witnessed by Michael).
The cathedral never fully recovered and was
completely destroyed in the Great Fire of 1666.
Michael’s house, on the corner of Cheapside, would
have been fairly close to the church of St Michael le
Querne (also destroyed in 1666).
The image below is from a 1559 copperplate
engraving of the area surrounding the cathedral. I
have coloured the probable location of Michael
Lobley’s house and shop in red – just on the right
as you enter the churchyard from Cheapside.
Both Michael Lobley and his wife left wills, proved in
the London Commissary Court in 1567. The wills
should both appear on Ancestry, but only that of his
wife is available. I will visit the London Metropolitan
Archives to see if his will still exists.
Margerie states that she should be buried in St
Paul’s churchyard and also mentions a Thomas
Lobley of Canterbury. I will investigate further.
Genealogy software
It was announced yesterday (10th December) that
Ancestry are scheduled to discontinue support of
their popular Family Tree Maker software in 2017,
although their online content and trees will continue.
This may be a sign of the times, with more content
kept ‘in the Cloud’. I, for one will continue to use my
trusty ‘Peditree’ package to store my 8000 Lobleys.
I am, coincidentally, taking a course tomorrow on
Family Historian, a UK based software package that
might prove to complement the Peditree package
and easily maintain a lot of the source information
images that I have kept, up to now, on Family Tree
Maker.
What packages do you use, if any? Please let me
know.
Until next Year...
Phil Lobley