Dorothy Bennett and her Ancestors

Elizabeth Misselbrook née Ireland (1779 to 1853)

Elizabeth Misselbrook née Ireland was a grandmother of Frances Bennett who was a grandmother of Dorothy Bennett, the wife of Sidney Alfred Parsons.


Elizabeth was born in the village of North Stoneham in Hampshire but lived for much of her life in Chilworth, a neighbouring village. She was baptised in North Stoneham on the 5th of September, 1779.

Chilworth lies between Southampton and Romsey, and is marked with a red C on the map. North Stoneham is immediately to the east of Chilworth.

Elizabeth’s parents were Samuel and Mary Ireland. She had two brothers, Samuel and John, and a sister called Sarah.


On the 18th of March 1802 Elizabeth married Thomas Misselbrook in the parish church in Chilworth. Thomas came from Chilworth and worked as a gamekeeper. The family lived in North Stoneham during the early years of their marriage, but then moved to Chilworth.

Thomas and Elizabeth had nine children. Their eldest daughter, Elizabeth, was a great-grandmother of Dorothy Bennett.

During the latter part of her life Elizabeth lived with her husband, Thomas, in Chilworth. She died there in May 1853.

To read more about Elizabeth’s children click on the following link — The Children of Elizabeth Ireland and Thomas Misselbrook



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The information in these web pages comes from a number of sources including: Hampshire County Records Office, Somerset Heritage Centre; Dorset County Records Office; Southampton City Archives; the General Register Office; several on-line newspaper archives; several on-line transcriptions of Parish Register Entries; and several on-line indexes of births, marriages and deaths. The research has also been guided at times by the published work of others, both on-line and in the form of printed books, and by information from personal correspondence with other researchers, for all of which thanks are given. However, all of the information in these web pages has been independently verified by the author from original sources, facimile copies, or, in the case of a few parish register entries, transcriptions published by on-line genealogy sites. The author is aware that some other researchers have in some cases drawn different conclusions and have published information which is at variance from that shown in these web pages.