My grandfather, Bertie Stewart, had an older sister, Helen Louisa Stewart, who married John Thomas Sibbald in Dublin in 1925 - their children, my father's cousins, were Hazel and Les Sibbald. This post, therefore, is about the Sibbald family. I sourced all the info for this on Ancestry.com, the LDS site and free online records for Mount Jerome cemetery.
James and Hannah Sibbald:
James Sibbald was baptised at Fallhills, Carstairs, Lanarkshire on 24th March 1769. He married Hannah Gracie (1773 - 1855) who had been born at Crawfordjohn, and farmed at Knowes Farm, Houston, Lanarkshire, where he died in February 1853. Their children were as follows:
James, who died young, born 30th July 1798.
Janet
Mary 25th July 1800 - 1877.
James, born 14th January 1805.
Margaret 1802 - 1840.
Jean 1806 - 1846.
Thomas 1808 - 1846.
Isabel born 1810.
John 1812 - 1890. Moved to Dublin.
Agnes.
The Scottish census of 1851 shows James Sibbald at Knowes Farm, along with his wife, Hannah, and two of his adult children - Mary and Thomas, who would remain there all their lives. A niece, Hannah, born in nearby Paisley in 1841, was also there. Hannah was the niece of Mary and Thomas, and the grand-niece of James.
John Sibbald:
The son of James and Hannah Sibbald of Knowes Farm, John Sibbald, was born in Houston, Renfrewshire, on 21st July 1812.
His first wife was Janet Frame, born 4th May 1821 to John Frame and Isabel Lindsay at Braidwood, Carluke, Lanarkshire. They married in Paisley on 7th December 1838, and appeared on the 1851 census at 30 Scotland Street, Govan, Glasgow, where John was working as a carrier's porter. The couple had two daughters at this stage, Euphemia and Elizabeth.
At some stage in the next few years, possibly 1856, John and Janet Sibbald moved to Clondalkin, Co. Dublin, where John worked as a land steward at Baldonnell (possibly at the Grierson property, Baldonnell House) and where Janet died on 15th October 1857. They had had 6 children by this stage -
1) Euphemia 1839 - 1915. Euphemia Sibbald never married, and lived with her uncle Thomas Sibbald, and her unmarried aunt, Mary Sibbald, at, the family farm in Houston.
2) Hannah, born 13th June 1841 at Abbey, Paisley; died 1904. Moved home to the family farm with her sister, Euphemia, and younger brother, John, following her mother's death in 1857.
3) Elizabeth, born 1843. (This daughter must have died; she wasn't present in 1851.)
4) James 1854 - 1882. Was buried in Mount Jerome, Dublin.
5) Thomas 1856 - 1921. Had been born in Dublin and later worked as a land steward for the Talbot family of Malahide Castle. He lived at their property, Robbs Wall Castle, and married Matilda Shields of Derry.) Thomas died there on 30th January 1921.
6) John 1857 - 1918. The 1861 Scottish census shows his living, aged 3, with his uncle and aunt, Thomas and Mary Sibbald, at Knowes Farm, along with his older sisters, Euphemia and Hannah. He stayed in Scotland and farmed the family farm at Houston, Renfrewshire. He married Margaret and had Mary, Allan and John.
Following the premature death of his first wife in Dublin in 1857, John Sibbald of Clondalkin, married a second time, this time to Hannah Roberts. She had been born in Bangor, Wales in about 1835. The couple married in Bangor, Wales, on 23rd September 1859, but their children were born in Dublin:
1) Eleanor
2) Helen
3) Robert 1860 - 1883, was buried in Mount Jerome.
4) Mary, born 3th June 1864 at Clondalkin. A Mary Sibbald married Joseph Kyle of Tyrone in Rathdown (ie: South Dublin/North Wicklow) in 1893. He was a coachman.
5) Richard 1866, married Elizabeth Richardson. Land steward.
6) Samuel 1868 - 1941. Also a land steward. Married Annie Harrison of Armagh in Rathdown in 1906. He may have had an earlier marriage to Sarah Ann Rogers, since there was a marriage registered in 1902 in Rathdown for this couple. Samuel, and his wife, Annie, lived at Kilbogget near Killiney, Co. Dublin.
7) Janet, born 1870. She married, in North Dublin in 1894, a Kildare builder, John Eacret.
8) Margaret, born 1872. Margaret Sibbald married a Kilkenny RIC man, Samuel Treacy, in Rathdown in 1895.
Following the death of his brother, Thomas Sibbald, at Knowe Farm on 20th January 1871, John Sibbald settled his late father's estate by selling his entitlement to the family farm to his sister, Mary Sibbald, for £200.
'To Miss Mary Sibbald residing at Know in the United Parishes of Houston and Killillan,
I, John Sibbald, Land Steward of Baldonnel, Clondalking, County Dublin, Ireland, do hereby offer to accept of payment from you, of the sum of two hundred pounds sterling in full of all I can ask or claim out of the estates of my father the late James Sibbald and of my brother, the late Thomas Sibbald, farmers at Knows with both of which estates you have intromitted and the said sum being also in full satisfaction of me of all right title and claim, if any, which I have in and to the lease of the farm of Knows held by the said thomas Sibbald my brother at the time of his death on the 20th of January last, which in so far as i have right or claim thereto in any way, I give up to you in order that you may possess said farm to the end of said lease and upon your acceptance of this offer and payment to me of the foresaid sum, I will grant in your favour all requisite discharges of my shares in the foresaid estates if (sic) the said James Sibbald and Thomas Sibbald and will also execute any deeds or writings necessary to be granted by me in your favour, or otherwise for enabling you to possess said farm under the foresaid lease which was held by the said Thomas Sibbald. In witness whereof I subscribe this offer the seventh day of February eighteen hundred and seventy one before these witnesses, Andrew Fleming Farmer Fulwood, and John Young, Farmer at Ibester (?) Fulwood, both in the parish of Houston,
John Sibbald.'
John Sibbald, land steward, died in Dublin in 1890, and was buried in Mount Jerome cemetery; his wife, Hannah Roberts, had died earlier in 1887:
'In Loving Memory of John Sibbald, Kilbogget, Co. Dublin, died October 17th 1890 aged 78. And Hannah his wife died April 5th 1887 aged 52. James Sibbald died April 13th 1882 aged 28 years. Robert Sibbald died August 17th 1883 aged 23 years. Matilda Shields Sibbald died 13th June 1918 aged 58 years, dearly beloved wife of Thomas Sibbald. Also the above-named Thomas Sibbald who died 30th January 1921 aged 64.'
Richard Sibbald (1866 - 1910) and Elizabeth Richardson:
Richard had been born in Clondalkin, Dublin to John and Hannah Sibbald on 19th August 1866, and married Elizabeth Richardson in 1891 in North Dublin.
The family lived in St. Doolagh's, Coolock, North Dublin; Richard was a land steward, in common with the rest of his family. They had three children before Richard died young in 1910:
John Thomas Sibbald, who married Helen Louisa Stewart in 1925, born 1893.
Mary Sibbald born 1897.
Eveleen Sibbald born 1899.
Mount Jerome headstone: 'In Loving Memory of John Thomas Sibbald called to higher service 29th April 1948. Also his beloved wife Louisa Helen who fell asleep 8th March 1977...'