Melissa,
I have tried to do some work related to the John Cicill of Aughton Near Selby,
Yorkshire over the last two years of so. My main interest continues to be
finding the birthplace or parents of the John Cecil who came to St. Mary's
County, MD in 1658. Yorkshire would not have been an unusually place for
him to have come from given the bithplaces of the Shirtciffs and others. Still
no success yet though, but let me provide what information I have gathered
on this family grouping.
I spent 1 day in York and visited the Borthwick Institute of Historical Research
there. It rained a bit, but I can recommend the pub across the street and
down a bit! Parish records there, in Ref PR.AUG.1, covering dates from
1610 to 1653 provided the following information from the parish register for
Aughton:
1627 Elizabeth Cicell, wife of John Cicell of Eastcottinwth buried 2 July.
1631 John Cicill sonne of John Cicill of Eastcottinwth baptised 19th February.
1635 Francis Sissell dau: of John Sissell of Lanthom baptised 13th
September.
1635 Francis Sissell dau: of John Sissell of Lathom buried 28th September.
1636 John Cicill of Eastcottinwth buried 7th December.
1638 John Cicill sonne of John Cicill of Lathom baptised 28 October.
1640 Hugh Cicill sonne of John Cicill of Lathom baptised 8 November.
1644 Edward Sissill sonne of John Sissell buried 20 June.
It appears, then that there were two John Cicells born about this time. Did
either of them come to Maryland? Where were the families prior to 1627? [I
do not know.]
I spent a week last March at the Society of Genealogists (SOG) in London to
see if I could find any other information on these families. I checked Hearth
tax and other records, but found nothing I could attribute to these people.
This does not mean they don't exist somewhere, just that I could not find them!
I did attempt to extract as many references to Cissells as I could find at the
SOG. I could type these up someday, but I don't know if anyone else is really
working on things like this.
Dave Cissell
Annapolis, MD
Date sent: Thu, 28 Dec 2000 09:32:19 -0800
From: "Melissa Alexander" <ma.da(a)gte.net>
To: CECIL-L(a)rootsweb.com
Subject: new info available through LDS IGI brings doubt that Thomas Cecil father
of John Baptist Cissell
IGI now includes these records and more at the LDS site:
http://www.familysearch.com/Eng/Search/frameset_search.asp
1 John Cissell Sex: Male aka: John CICILL
.. +Unknown Sex: Female
......... 2 John Cissell 1638 - Sex: Male aka: John CICILL b: Abt. 28
October 1638 in Aughton Near Selby, Yorkshire, England src: IGI Record
Batch P010851
or
1 James Cissell 1580 - Sex: Male b: Bet. 1580 - 1620
.. +Ursula Unknown Sex: Female
......... 2 John Cissell 1638 - Sex: Male b: Abt. 24 June 1638 in
South
Reston, Lincoln, England src: IGI Record or
1 Richard Cecil Sex: Male
.. +Mary Unknown Sex: Female
......... 2 John Cecil 1638 - Sex: Male aka: John CECILL b: Abt. 01
April 1638 in Haltham, Upon Bain, Linconshire, England src: IGI Record
C02882
or
1 John Cecil 1640 - Sex: Male b: Abt. 1640 in of Latimers,
Buckingham,
England src: IGI Record film 2034739 or this:
1 Thomas Cecil Sex: Male aka: Thomas CICILL
.. +Alice Unknown Sex: Female
......... 2 John Cecil 1642 - Sex: Male aka: John CICILL b: Abt. 28
August 1642 src: IGI Record Batch C006292
Someone with more time and skill than I can certainly take the time to
check out even more of these then I.
MELISSA THOMPSON ALEXANDER
ma.da(a)gte.net
edmonds, washington, usa