Eleventh Generation (Continued)
Sybil M COMPTON (Arthur Charles10, John9, John8, Edmund7, James6, Thomas5, John4, Tristram3, John “the Elder”2, Edward1).
Born in Q2 1925 in Ticehurst Reg Dist, Sussex, England. Christened in Burwash Church, Burwash, East Sussex, England.
- Births Jun 1925
Compton Sybil M Wrenn Ticehurst 2b 158
- When I was 11 & [sister] Joan was 9 we went to stay with Auntie Nell Eleanor Mary at Grovely Farm Barford St Martons, with her brothers Uncle Walter & Uncle Bert, neither of them got married.
- In 1940 I went on a farm at Ripley near Guildford in Surrey where a mother & 4 sons were. I helped with the poultry & in the house. Mrs Humphrey died in 1946. I sort run the house, & I married the eldest son in 1953.
- Marriages Sep 1953
COMPTON Sybil M HUMPHREY Surrey S.W. 5g 2155
HUMPHREY Frederick G COMPTON Surrey S.W. 5g 2155 [includes parishes of Guildford, Ripley and more]
- Then I came to Skipton in 1966, joined the Womans Institute, then married again in 1972. Met up with a lot of people & still meet some of them now. My husbands mother bought this house in 1927, & I am in it. My husband died in 1991. I have never had any children. I have had both my hips done, & cataracts in the last 5 years. I still drive some drivers drive so fast now, my liscence runs out next year so I may give it up.
- It was my ambition to go to see where [my mother’s brother] went, now Thunder Bay [Ontario Canada]. My late husband said "You do not get on with the job of organising it'. Anyway I had a friend in East Aurora, near Buffalo so I went to see her then went to Toronto, flew to Thunder Bay after my husband died [1961]. I wrote to the Association County[?] Women of the World & they sent me an address of a contact so I wrote to her. I had booked into a hotel, so I went there, & she came to see me. Took me out on the Saturday & Sunday, then her friend took me out on the Monday, & we found my Uncles tomb stone. She also tried to find the street he lived at, but that was built on. The Parson where my Uncle went to his Church in 1908 I had writen to the Parson & told him I was coming. He was in the Church & he photo copied the death of my UNcle in his register. Flew back to Toronto & visited a friend in Coburg. They have been over this year.
RESEARCH NOTES
- “Sybil was married to a second cousin of my mother - the middle one of three brothers called Humphrey who shared a farm at Ripley in Surrey and farmed with their widowed mother in charge - eventually becoming Sybil Humphrey. When her husband died - in 1960, if I remember correctly - she moved to Yorkshire and eventually married a coal merchant called Pye who has also since died. As a child, after my parents divorced, I spent many school holidays at the farm in Ripley and Sybil was incredibly positive towards me - something I've never forgotten and the reason for still being in touch with her after all these years! After 1961 I no longer went to stay at the farm and rather lost touch for a while with that side of my family.
She is very active in lots of local organisations in and around Skipton, despite her age, and is very much liked by virtually everyone who comes into contact with her and still maintains connections with family and friends world-wide - and has travelled extensively.
She can remember being taken to visit her grandparents [when] aged eleven and again at thirteen. She remembers her Uncle Bert, who was slightly deformed with a lump at the front and back of his head, ploughing with three horses (not an easy task as I've done it myself with two as a young lad). Sybil arrived at Ripley [Surrey] as a fourteen-year-old girl and virtually ran the entire household from the moment she arrived there...and was somewhat put upon by old Mrs Humphrey I suspect - though Sybil is far too generous by nature to say so herself...it was some time later that Sybil was married - after WW2 and Mrs Humphrey's death.
Her grandfather was a miller before turning to farming and the 140 acre farm was rented by him.
Arthur, her father, was a blacksmith during the first World War (I think in Italy?) and worked as a shepherd in Sussex. Her mother trained as a milliner - I remember her well, visiting Sybil and staying at Ripley, a very neat small lady!”
- 2012 address: Mrs Sybil Pye,
131, Burnside Crescent,
Skipton-in-Craven,
North Yorkshire,
BD23 2BY Her telephone number in the UK is 01756-792959
- Skipton (also known as Skipton-in-Craven) is a market town and civil parish in the Craven district of North Yorkshire, England. It is located on the course of the River Aire and the Leeds and Liverpool Canal to the south of the Yorkshire Dales, 16 miles (26 km) northwest of Bradford and 38 miles (61 km) west of York. - wikipedia. It is in the south west corner of the county.
In 1953 when Sybil M was 27, she first married Frederick G HUMPHREY in Surrey, England. Born abt 1898. Frederick G died in Surrey SW Reg District, Surrey, England, in Q4 1961; he was 63.
- The middle of three brothers called Humphrey who shared a farm at Ripley in Surrey and farmed with their widowed mother in charge [Ripley is south-west of London and a short distance east of Woking]
- Mrs Humphrey [his mother] died in 1946. His brother died in 1959, & my husband in 1961.
- Deaths Dec 1961 (85%)
HUMPHREY Frederick G 63 Surrey S.W. 5g 952
[lots of other options but none match location and middle initial - don’t know his age from other sources]
RESEARCH NOTES
- if he was born about 1898 (death registration) there are still many possilbe birth registrations:
Births Mar 1897 (>99%)
Humphrey Frederick Rye 2b 5
Births Sep 1897 (>99%)
Humphrey Frederick George Bromley 2a 484
Births Mar 1898 (>99%)
HUMPHREY Frederick Islington 1b 211
Births Jun 1898 (>99%)
Humphrey Frederick George Kettering 3b 210
Births Sep 1898 (>99%)
Humphrey Frederick W. Bromwich 6b 864
Humphrey Frederick George Epsom 2a 27
Births Dec 1898 (>99%)
Humphrey Fred Farnham 2a 143
Births Mar 1899 (>99%)
HUMPHREY Fred Barnsley 9c 292
Births Jun 1899 (>99%)
Humphrey Frederick Poplar 1c 684
Births Sep 1899 (>99%)
Humphrey Frederick George Watford 3a 720
Births Dec 1899 (>99%)
Humphrey Frederick Gershom Royston 3a 609
In 1972 when Sybil M was 46, she second married PYE in Skipton, N Yorkshire, England. died in 1991 in Skipton, N Yorkshire, England. Occupation: Coal Merchant.
RESEARCH NOTES
- marriage registration not yet indexed past 1957
- Sybil says: My husband was very connected to a little village called Rylstone about 5 miles from Skipton so I met a lot of people & I go back to some events.
- Rylstone is a village and civil parish in the Craven district of North Yorkshire, England. It is situated very near to Cracoe and about 6 miles south west of Grassington. Rylstone railway station opened in 1902, closed to passengers in 1930, and closed completely in 1969. The members of Rylstone and District Women's Institute were the inspiration for the 2003 film Calendar Girls, although the film was shot based in nearby Kettlewell. - wikipedia
Joan B COMPTON (Arthur Charles10, John9, John8, Edmund7, James6, Thomas5, John4, Tristram3, John “the Elder”2, Edward1).
Born in Q3 1927 in Ticehurst Reg Dist, Sussex, England. Christened in Burwash Church, Burwash, East Sussex, England.
- Births Sep 1927
Compton Joan B Wrenn Ticehurst 2b 150
- Joan is a retired Hospital Matron and never married and lives in Polegate in Sussex
- My sister Joan took up nursing in 1946, did her training at Guildford, then worked in London, did a bit more in Guildford, she still has friends there, then Mum & Joan bought a bungalow in Polegate, they sold that & bought a flat in Polegate where she still is. Joan was in charge of 3 elderly peoples hospitals, then retired. She has been baking a lot of coffee mornings, & making preserves for them. She plays a lot of bridge. She comes to see me every year.