DRABLES OF
DRONFIELD
Barnaby
Bagley and Elizabeth Drable were married on 1 February
1629/30 at Dronfield. The will of Barnaby, written on 7 March 1632/33 and
proved on 24 September 1634, mentions his wife Elizabeth and “Georg Drables my Father in lawe”.[1]
Elizabeth,
wife of George Drables, was buried at Dronfield in 1631/32. No marriage for
George and Elizabeth has been found in the Dronfield area and no baptism for
George’s daughter Elizabeth has been found nearby, although some other daughters
were baptised at Dronfield in the period from 1609 to 1615.
One
possibility is that George and Elizabeth were the “Gorge Drable
& Elzabeth Adams” who were married on
8 November 1602 at Hamsey in Sussex. This is very far
(around 175 miles) from Dronfield. However, the lack of other Drable records at Hamsey suggest
that the family moved away from the area. The only other apparently relevant
entry in the Hamsey registers is the baptism of
“Elzabeth Dravill” on 4 September 1603. Parents are not named in the baptisms
listed at this point but the entry would fit with the marriage of Elizabeth,
daughter of George Drable, to Barnaby Bagley in 1629/30. Whilst the identity is
possible, there is no obvious reason why George would have been married at Hamsey, so further evidence would be desirable.[2]
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DRABLES
1 EDWARD DRABLES of Dronfield, Derbyshire,
yeoman,[3] married
on 16 June 1566 at Dronfield, DOROTHY CALTON.[4]
Children of Edward and Dorothy (Calton) Drables:
i ROBERT DRABLES, bap 18 May 1567,
Dronfield,[5]
bur 23 Jul 1567, Dronfield.[6]
ii EDWARD DRABLES, bap 10 Oct 1568,
Dronfield.[7]
iii WILLIAM DRABLES, bap 1 May 1571,
Dronfield.[8]
iv ANTHONY DRABLES, bur 7 Jan 1574/75,
Dronfield.[9]
2 v GEORGE DRABLES (bap 1574/75); m
ELIZABETH.
vi HELEN DRABLES, bap 6 Jan 1578/79,
Dronfield,[10]
bur 27 Feb 1645/46, Dronfield;[11] m
23 Jan 1602/03, Dronfield, JOHN MORLEY.[12]
vii JOHN DRABLES, bap 11 May 1582,
Dronfield,[13]
bur 21 May 1593, Dronfield.[14]
viii FRANCIS DRABLES, bp 16 Sep 1585,
Dronfield.[15]
2 GEORGE DRABLES of Dronfield,
husbandman,[16]
was baptised on 18 March 1574/75 at Dronfield.[17] He
married ELIZABETH who was buried on 8 March 1631/32 at Dronfield.[18]
Children of George and Elizabeth Drables:
i ELIZABETH DRABLES, bur 28 Sep
1671, Dronfield;[19]
m(1) 1 Feb 1629/30, Dronfield, BARNABY BAGLEY;[20]
m(2) 20 Jan 1633/34, Dronfield, WILLIAM GILL[21]
(see here).
ii JOAN DRABLES, bap 12 Nov 1609,
Dronfield,[22]
bur 25 Sep 1610, Dronfield.[23]
iii MARY DRABLES, bap 27 Dec 1611,
Dronfield.[24]
iv ANN DRABLES, bap 10 Mar 1614/15,
Dronfield.[25]
[1] Dioceses of Lichfield and Coventry Wills and Probate 1521-1860 (online at www.findmypast.co.uk).
[2] A George Drable of Wymington, Bedfordshire, made his will in 1620 naming his wife Elizabeth (National Archives, PROB 11/137/115). The testator’s children named in the will were Agnes, Mary and Elizabeth, and the Wymington parish registers include the baptisms of Mary and Elizabeth in 1617 and 1620 respectively (Bedfordshire Baptisms, online at www.findmypast.co.uk), so it seems likely that the testator’s marriage was later than the one in 1602 at Hamsey.
[3] National Archives, CP 40/1252. One Edward Drables was buried on 17 Feb 1627/28 at Dronfield but that may be his son of the same name.
[4] Dronfield parish registers. Edward may have been married previously as Agnes, wife of Edward Drables, was buried at Dronfield on 30 Sep 1561. An Edward Calton and Elizabeth Drables were married at Dronfield in 1570. Dorothy (Calton) Drables may be the Dorothy Drables who married Edward Moore at Dronfield on 19 Nov 1595 but it is unclear when Edward Drables died.
[5] Dronfield parish registers.
[6] Dronfield parish registers.
[7] Dronfield parish registers. He may be the Edward Drables who married Helen Parker on 22 Oct 1592 at Dronfield although it is possible that was a remarriage of his father. Edward Drable the elder and Edward Drable the younger are both mentioned in a legal case of 1585-86 (National Archives, catalogue entries for STAC 5/G1/22 and STAC 5/G28/16).
[8] Dronfield parish registers.
[9] Dronfield parish registers.
[10] Dronfield parish registers.
[11] Dronfield parish registers.
[12] Dronfield parish registers.
[13] Dronfield parish registers.
[14] Dronfield parish registers.
[15] Dronfield parish registers.
[16] Derbyshire Record Office, catalogue entry for D7676/BagC/2756.
[17] Dronfield parish registers. A George Drable was buried at Dronfield on 26 Mar 1657. However, the 1626/27 will of Rosamund Janson of Dronfield mentions “George Drables [the] younger” so there was more than one person of that name in the area at that time (Dioceses of Lichfield and Coventry Wills and Probate 1521-1860, online at www.findmypast.co.uk).
[18] Dronfield parish registers.
[19] Dronfield parish registers.
[20] Dronfield parish registers. Barnaby was buried on 17 Mar 1632/33 at Dronfield.
[21] Dronfield parish registers.
[22] Dronfield parish registers.
[23] Dronfield parish registers.
[24] Dronfield parish registers. A John Littlewood and Mary Drable were married on 23 Apr 1635 at Dronfield. Another Mary Drable married George Adams at Chesterfield on 27 Oct 1633 (Chesterfield parish registers, online at www.ancestry.com).
[25] Dronfield parish registers. She was probably the Ann Drable who married William Dawson on 13 Apr 1640 at Dronfield.