I have pieced together the following information from internet sources. Very little of it is verified by paper birth/marriage/death records. It may or may not be true !
George Selby was born in Cork, in Ireland. His son,born 16th July 1812, was also called George and worked as a paper cutter, presumably in the printing trade. George II married Mary Hannah Jones (1813-1895), a mangler and daughter of a Spitalfields weaver, on 17th July 1836 at St Mary's church in Whitechapel.
Mary and George had seven children, called George ? (1838) William (1838), John (1844), George (1845), Edward (or Edwin) (1846), Emma (1848), Mary Ann (1853) and Peter (1856). Peter was born on 26th April 1856 in Hackney in London, and worked in the printing trade all his life.
In June 1880, Peter married his first wife, Annie Louisa Hayter from Shirford in Hampshire at the church of St Mark in Dalston. Annie was 18 and Peter her new husband was 23. Their fathers Henry Hayter and George Selby are listed on the certificate. They moved into 8 Shakespeare Terrace in Stoke Newington, where Peter's occupation is listed as 'compositor' and had three children. However, tragedy struck when Annie died in 1886.
In 1891 they are living at 14 Sydney Road, Homerton, Hackney and his occupation is listed as 'printer compositor'. Annie stays at home with her step-children, Eleanor Kate (1882), Percival Frank (1883) and Frederick Charles (1884).
Peter continued to live in Hackney, and by1901 had moved to 11 Berger Road, Homerton, from where he ran his business. Percival and Frederick are shown as printer's assistants, and are joined in the family by Arthur Ernest (1892), Winifred Alice(1893) and Alfred Reginald (1897).I do not have their birth certificates, but I am assuming from the dates that the mother of the first three children is Annie Hayter, and that Annie Hull is the mother of the second three.
The shop is listed in the 1921 London Street Directory in Hackney (E9) next door to Mrs Alma Bear's haberdashery shop.
The family stayed in this house, and are still listed there in 1911. Eleanor, Percival and Frederick have left home, while Arthur (19), Winifred (18) and Alfred (14) still live with their parents.
Eleanor had been married in 1898.
Eleanor had been married in 1898.
Frederick had married Florence Hurst from Clerkenwell in 1907 and they were living at 134 Vartry Road, Stamford Hill, Tottenham with their two-year-old daughter Iris Eleanor.
Percival Selby had married Ethelind May Kellsey, daughter of Alfred and Mary Kellsey, in 1912 and they had eight children: Dennis, Gordon, May, Frank, Daisy, Ronald, Iris and Lily. These children gave them 18 grandchildren.
Percival Frank Selby
Percival had a full life, including several trips to New Zealand, and did his duty in World War I in the bicycle corps. He worked in the printing trade and had a shop in Wickford, Essex.
Percival went on to marry Doris Payne, with whom he had one son, Percival John, born on 24th March 1935, a half-brother for her first son Anthony Bashford Payne (13/11/29).
After Percival's death, Doris married John Twilley, who lived with her at 43 The Chase, Rayleigh until her death and nursed her through her last illness.
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Selby the Printer, Wickford, Essex
Percival went on to marry Doris Payne, with whom he had one son, Percival John, born on 24th March 1935, a half-brother for her first son Anthony Bashford Payne (13/11/29).
The beautiful Doris Payne
Four generations at Christmas 1961 or 1962. Doris Payne on the far right stands next to Percival Selby. He has his hand on the shoulder of his daughter-in-law Christine, who is holding her daughter Susan. The lady on the far left of the photograph is Ethel Raven.
After Percival's death, Doris married John Twilley, who lived with her at 43 The Chase, Rayleigh until her death and nursed her through her last illness.
Doris' second husband, John Twilley.
Anthony married and had two daughters, and Percival, by his mid-twenties going by his middle name John, married Christine Blower. Christine and John also had two daughters, Susan and Judith. Susan had one daughter, Claire, and Judith had four boys, Ben, Sam, Toby and Harry.
The marriage of Christine Blower and John Selby at Rayleigh Church, Essex in 1958.
George and Mary Hannah Selby's children were:
- William (1838) who married Fanny and lived in Ightham as a farmer. He had four children, William W., John W., Grace and Edith
- John (1844) who married Elizabeth (Gunter?) and had two sons, Sydney and Henry. He seems to have then married a second time, and fathered five more children: Jessie, John, Beatrice, Harold and George, whose mother was Mary Ann (Chilvers?)
- George (1845) who married Frances (Evans?) and worked as a builders plasterer. They had five children, Edwin, Frances, Eleanor, George and Elizabeth and lived at 5 Stillman Street.
- Edwin (1847)who married Susan P (or T) and worked as a printer/compositor. They lived at 41 Ufton Road and had two children, Albert E. and Beatrice M.
- Emma (1849) who died when she was five
- Mary Ann (1854)
- Peter (1857) - see above
Are you part of the Selby family? Do get in touch !
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