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Benjamin Sills
1779
Male
Person 00000428
Born around 1779 at Cholesbury, Bucks (CB)
Father: John Sills (1746)
Mother: Mary Cheshire (1750)
Christened 20/04/1783 at Cholesbury, Bucks (HI)
around 1800 at Chesham, Bucks (F)
farmer at Chesham or nearby - Baptist family
Married 21/12/1809 at Chesham, Bucks (MI)
to Elizabeth Payne (1785)
witnesses Wm Darvell and Mary Ann Payne (nee Meacher, wife of Charles Payne)
Married 12/04/1814 at Chesham, Bucks (MI)
to Mary Catling (1789)
Benjamin, a widower, and Mary, married by licence (Benj. Sills, w., & Mary Catling, lic.)
Licence of 30 March 1814 says: Benjamin a labourer; both of Chesham.
24/07/1831 at Chesham, Bucks (S)
R. v James Poulton (former conviction for felony at Hertford), Chesham, Stealing silk handkerchief, value 4/-, property of Benjamin
Sills, on 24 July. Ann Short, Receiving stolen property. Witnesses: Ann Sills, of Chesham, father [Benjamin] a carrier keeps a
grocers shop. James Rance, labourer, of Chesham. Mary Sills, wife of Benjamin. James Poole, constable of Chesham. John Smith
Hewitt, of Chesham. James Collins, of Hemel Hempsted. James Brandon, of Tring. Guilty - 14 years and 1 month hard labour
respectively.
1841 at Chesham, Bucks (C)
Carrier, 55, at Red Lion St., Chesham, with wife and 4 kids
1846 at Chesham, Bucks ()
wife died
November 1846 at Chesham, Bucks (R)
carrier at time of Sarah's wedding
1851 at Chesham, Bucks (C)
74, widower, "late carrier", lodger, with grandson William, in daughter Sarah's home.
1861 at Chesham, Bucks (C)
widower, 80, with daughter
Died June 1867 at Windsor, Berks (R)
age 90 - 2c/245 (born 1777)
presumbly with daughter Sarah
Children
William Sills Payne (1806)
?Elizabeth Sills (1812)
John Sills (1814)
Ann Sills (1815)
Joseph Sills (1818)
?Mary Sills (1818)
?Eliza Sills (1820)
Charles Samuel Sills (1822)
Sarah Sills (1823)
Jane Sills (1824)
Benjamin Sills (1826)
?Matilda Sills (1832)
Last updated 07/11/2023
Source Key: A=Baptist records B=Burial register C=Census F=Family H=Christening register I=IGI L=Letter M=Marriage register P=Personally known R=Registry office (certificate or index) S=Website T=Tombstone W=Will Y=Boyds marriage index
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