George SELBY, name from Rosemary RODLIFFE. (7.7.98) George SELBY was born on the 18th September 1848 at Blyton, Lincolnshire and died on the 10th December 1922. (Rosemary RODLIFFE 17.7.98)

George SELBY was born in 1848 in Blyton, a village north of Gainsborough, where his father Joseph was a joiner and wheelwright. George was variously a joiner, carpenter and wheelwright. In 1911, aged 62, he was a joiner working for Marshall Son & Co general engineers. Phoebe always described her father as lame but walking several miles to and from work in Gainsborough each day.

One drizzly day we searched Blyton churchyard and found where four of George's brothers and sisters are buried: Phoebe died June 1875 aged 9; Ann died February 1876 aged 19; Rebecca died October 1880 aged 10; and James who died April 1889 aged 36. George's brother Joseph married Phoebe's sister Sarah Jane. James left a widow, Sarah, who in the 1891 Census is shown as living alone at 2 Spring Gardens Gainsborough, aged 41, lodge keeper of apartments. In 1881 she and James had lived in Etherington Street Gainsborough but neither 1881 nor 1891 Census mentions children. Brothers William and Joseph both married and had children. The 1891 census for Blyton shows William SELBY, aged 43, a joiner and wheelwright, married to Emma with two sons, Benjamin and James, who were cousins for Phoebe Annie.

'Mary Frances is remembered as a very hard worker and at one time took in lodgers, one of whom, Harry Brodley, became her son-in-law. He was a Policeman and had to share his bed with another Policeman on different shifts.'

1872 Marriage solemnized at the parish church in the parish of Blyton in the county of Lincoln. no. 165 Nov’br 6th 1872, George Selby, full age, bachelor, Wheelwright, residing Blyton, father Joseph Selby, Wheelwright. Mary Frances Duckering, full age, spinster, residing Blyton, father William Duckering, labourer.