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When I was in Dublin I went to the Royal Irish Academy (RIA)to see what they had in their library on Edward Clibborn. The library was closed for cleaning but I was given an e-mail address and since then I have had a reply from them.
The RIA is involved with compiling a new Dictionary of Biographies of Irish Individuals. No Clibborn is being included in this dictionary. All they had on Edward Clibborn was:
He was assistant librarian and curator of antiquities at the RIA (1839-80). He published several works on archaeology and 'Pharaoh's daughter, a drama' (1874).
The Clibborn rootsweb family tree now has 373 Clibborns listed in a database of 999 names. I also have other family trees on rootsweb so the Booth and Booth-Clibborn lines are now added to in another database.
Celia
I am just back from my visit to Ireland and meeting the remaining Clibborns living there.
I saw Moate Castle which was built in about 1500 and owned by the Clibborns from 1656-1847. It does not look like a castle but is an imposing building. It is not open to the public but the back of the building can be viewed from the road. The original route went past the other side of the castle but there is no access to that side now.
I saw Moate View built by James Clibborn in 1762. Up until the 1980s it was still an active dairy farm. Nearby are two burial mounds and it seems that the word Moate refers to these burial grounds. In an earlier period in history the area around Moate was ruled by Queen Grenoge and early Clibborn archives sometime refer to Moatgrenoge (as in George Clibborn’s will of 1693).
I paid a visit to the Society of Friends Library in Dublin. A search on the word Clibborn on their computer shows 629 references but as there is a lot of cross references they do actually hold 629 items on this subject. I saw - James Clibborn’s (1818-1893) application to join the Society of Friends - his father, but not his mother, had forfeited his membership of the Quakers when he joined the Yeomanry; Edith Clibborns commonplace book, James Clibborns book of newspaper cuttings, a photograph album marked WC with a number of photographs of Anner Mills Clibborns - most pictures were unlabelled but some of the pictures of young women are likely to be James’ daughters - Adelaide, Anne, Margaret and Edith.
I have updated the Rootsweb Clibborn family tree which should be accessible in 24 hours. I still have to work through my notes and make further amendments
Celia