Guest 979- Registered: 30 Jun 2013
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I am doing genealogical research on my ancestor, Matilda Steber, baptized at Dover St Mary the Virgin on April 28 1816. I understand that Matilda's father, John Steber, was a clock-maker in Dover and that he died in 1819. I also understand that the Steber family was the topic of a talk given by a Martyn Webster several years ago at the Dover Society, but I know little else about the family before Matilda's emigration to New York in 1834. I would appreciate any information and/or leads to help in my search.
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Ignorance is bliss, bliss is happiness, I am happy...to draw your attention to the possible connectivity in the foregoing.
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Any reader with an interest in all things 'horology' need only to pop off to Belmont House near Faversham to see the 'best' private collection of clocks & watches, albeit more quirky that Kentish...
http://www.belmont-house.org/visiting-us/Ignorance is bliss, bliss is happiness, I am happy...to draw your attention to the possible connectivity in the foregoing.
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Ignorance is bliss, bliss is happiness, I am happy...to draw your attention to the possible connectivity in the foregoing.
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Thank you, Tom. Interesting ideas.
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I have sent your enquiry to Martyn Webster and hope he will be able to reply.
He did a lot of research into the Steber family, as I believe at one time he owned a Steber watch, and he followed up some enquiries when he went to USA some years ago.
I think there is a watch also in Dover Museum.
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info from my indexes:
David STEBER, watchmaker, Dover - bankrupt (Dover Telegraph 5.4.1834 p.7 col.3)
David STEBER, watchmaker, dealer and chapman, Cannon Street, Dover - notice of auction re bankruptcy
(Dover Telegraph 3.5.1834 p.1 col.2)
David STEBER, Bankrupt - re properties -(Dover Telegraph 21.6.1834 p.1 col.2)
David Norton STEBER aged 2 years interred in vault No.1 (General Receiving Vault) 27 Dec 1831
(Dover Baptist - now Unitarian Church - burials records)
Mary STEBER of Snargate Street, Dover aged 16 buried 6.7.1833 (Dover St Mary Regr)
Mr STEBER - paid for a child in Vault 1 £1. 10s. Jan 1832 (Dover Baptist Church records, as above)
STEBER, watch-clocks of 11 Cannon Street, Dover 1806-1833
(Kent Family History Society Journal Vol.V No.3 June 1987 page 113)
(STEBER?) Widow "SLEBER (sic) jeweller, goods stolen (Kentish Gazette 28/9/1830 back page col. 4)
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Thank you so much Kath.