Lobley Link 2003
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 More Essex Lobleys
 John Hodgson Lobley
Julia and I wish you all a very Happy
Christmas and a peaceful New Year.
 Census News
 ‘Pedigree’ update
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My family history research has picked up this year and
has ended on a positive note. The One-Name Study
website http://www.phil.lobley.ukgateway.net/ that I set
up in late 2002 has proven very successful and I have
had many enquiries from around the world for
information – not too many that I can’t handle them,
but enough to make life interesting.
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If you have any suggestions for improving the site,
please let me know.
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Merry Christmas
Phil and Julia
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became a gardener in Lincolnshire, and was
recalled to the Navy at the start of the 1st World
War. He died in Warwickshire in 1916;
Arthur, (b.1863) is my direct male ancestor. He
married in East London, then moved to
Thurrock where he and his wife raised their
family;
Sarah Ann (b.1866) last heard of in a bakers
shop in Chigwell, Essex in 1881;
George Walter – (known as Walter) (born
c.1868) became a labourer in a chemical works
and brought up his family in West Ham, now in
the east of London;
Of Charles (born c.1869) and William (born
c.1869), I know nothing, apart from their
respective entries in the baptismal register of
Epping. Perhaps they died young;
Ellen Mary (b.1870) was a housemaid to a
Westminster doctor in 1901;
Grace (b.1872) was a parlour maid in rural
Surrey in 1901.
More Essex Lobleys
Into the 20th Century
At the turn of the Twentieth Century, the picture of
Lobleys in Essex was clear. There was a clear
geographical divide between those living in the
more urban areas of metropolitan Essex and East
London, those in the industrial corridor along the
Thames in and around Thurrock and those who still
remained in the rural part of the county.
The story of the 13 children of my g.g.grandfather
Jacob continues as follows:
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I lose track of their eldest, Eliza (born c.1853)
in 1871 when she was still at home in Epping
Upland;
Their eldest son Henry, (b.1853), a general
labourer, moved to Thurrock, married twice and
brought up his family there;
Hannah (b.1855) and Alice (b.1856) are last
traced to Islington in 1881 as domestic
servants;
Thomas (b.1857), a dock labourer, married in
Mile End, but moved to Thurrock to bring up his
family.
David (b.1859) was the odd boy out. He joined
the Royal Navy, then served as a coastguard,
John Hodgson Lobley – a reprise
In my 1998 Newsletter, I gave some background on
the artist John Hodgson Lobley (1879-1948). Son
of a woollen merchant from Huddersfield,
Yorkshire, he became an art student in London
where he subsequently married. He was an official
war artist to the Royal Army Medical Corps during
the First World War.
The scale of the human tragedy of the First World
War was unprecedented. Over 2 million British
servicemen were wounded. Their suffering is
captured in his paintings of soldiers with severe
facial wounds recovering at Sidcup Hospital.
I have discovered some of those wartime paintings
on the Internet and reproduce one of them below.
For more information go to the Imperial War
Museum’s ‘War & Peace’ website at
http://www.iwmcollections.org.uk/peace/essay.asp
Phil Lobley, 25 Langthorne Crescent, GRAYS, Essex, England, RM17 5XA
Tel/Fax: 01375 381474 email: phil.lobley@ ukgateway.net website:phil.lobley.ukgateway.net
LOBLEY LINK 2003
easy process (where have I heard that before?) for
me to reconstruct all Lobley households over a 30
year period.
If anyone would like any information on where their
ancestors were living in England and Wales over
those census years, please let me know.
The Queen's Hospital for Facial Injuries, Frognal, Sidcup: The toy-makers'
shop
The second painting I found on the website of the
Wellcome Library for the History and
Understanding of Medicine at
http://library.wellcome.ac.uk
In last year’s Newsletter, I mentioned a very
valuable tool that I used to extract data hidden in
the 1901 online index. Converted, the data shows
the Piece and Folio number of each record to assist
the reconstruction of families before you pay for the
individual images. Sadly, that was soon made
unavailable. However, I am informed that another
site: http://uk.geocities.com/kgnsheffield/ performs
the same function. I haven’t tried it. Perhaps
someone could give it a trial and report back to me.
‘Peditree’ update and status of database
I’m still using ‘Peditree’ sold by Pedigree Software,
to record all the Lobleys, even though there are a
multitude of family history software products now on
the market.
The product is fully Windows
compatible, although it still lacks one or features of
the more family friendly software.
It is quite
adequate for me.
Anatomy lessons at St Dunstan's. Oil painting by J.H. Lobley, 1919.
I unclear of the connection to J.H. Lobley. Perhaps
he received a commission.
Footnote: I eventually found John Hodgson Lobley
indexed in the 1901 Census as ‘Loheey’. Never
trust indexes!
Census News
More Census data available online
After the (ultimately) successful launch of the 1901
UK
Census
index
by
the
PRO
http://www.census.pro.gov.uk/, much more Census
material has been made available to the public both
online and on CD Rom.
Ancestry.co.uk, the UK offshoot of the US site has
been busy indexing the 1891 Census and that
information is now available online to its subscribers
– me included - at http://www.ancestry.co.uk/
I have not been a subscriber that long, so cannot
judge yet just how accurate the indexing has been,
but the images are clear and I have already been
able to start work at filling in a few gaps in my
knowledge. Together with the information from the
1881 and 1901 Census, it should be a relatively
My database now comprises some 6618 individuals,
of which 4650 are Lobleys. The remainder are their
spouses or other, non-Lobley family members.
The vast majority of individuals are, of course are
recorded within the UK. However, to date I have 84
births recorded in the USA, 224 in Australia and 11
in Canada.
I have recorded Lobleys at over 600 addresses on
the various Census nights from 1841-1891 and I
have yet to input details of all the addresses (some
300) where Lobleys were living at the time of the
1901 Census. As more and more Census records
are made available electronically, it will be a long
process indeed to track all of them!
Christmas presents?
The S&N Genealogy Supplies website has a
multitude of affordable items for that stocking filler!
Find them at www.GenealogySupplies.com
Once again, best wishes to one and all,
Phil Lobley