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NAME |
BIRTH |
LOCATION |
DEATH |
LOCATION |
MARRIAGE |
LOCATION |
SPOUSE |
Ellen Dewhurst [1] |
(1) Daniel Eastwood (2) Thomas Haigh |
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Richard Dewhirst | Chr 27 May 1733 |
Heptonstall, Yorkshire, England |
Heptonstall, Yorkshire, England |
22 September 1757 |
Heptonstall, Yorkshire, England |
Peggy Crossley |
[1] Information for this family is based on a best fit of IGI records and needs to be confirmed. Ellen is from Wadsworth (W of Halifax).
Family of Richard and Peggy Crossley
NAME |
BIRTH |
LOCATION |
DEATH |
LOCATION |
MARRIAGE |
LOCATION |
SPOUSE |
Richard Dewhirst [1] | Chr 27 May 1733 |
Heptonstall, Yorkshire, England |
Heptonstall, Yorkshire, England |
22 September 1757 |
Heptonstall, Yorkshire, England |
Peggy Crossley |
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Robert Dewhirst (Dewerst) | 25 Aug 1759 | Heptonstall, Yorkshire, England | 13 July 1817 ? | Leeds, Yorkshire, England ? | 04 Sep 1783 | Saint Peter, Leeds, Yorkshire, England | Theodocia Webster |
James Dewhirst |
21 Jul 1761 | Heptonstall, Yorkshire, England |
[1] Information for this family is based on a best fit of IGI records and needs to be confirmed. Richard’s occupation is given as webster (weaver) and he is from Stansfield (marriage) and Langfield (Robert’s chr) (both W of Halifax).
Family of Robert Dewhirst and Theodocia Webster
NAME |
BIRTH |
LOCATION |
DEATH |
LOCATION |
MARRIAGE |
LOCATION |
SPOUSE |
Robert Dewhirst (Dewerst) [1] | 25 Aug 1759 | Heptonstall, Yorkshire, England | 13 July 1817 ? | Leeds, Yorkshire, England ? | 04 Sep 1783 | Saint Peter, Leeds, Yorkshire, England | Theodocia Webster |
10 April 1784 |
Leeds, Yorkshire, England |
Bur 12 January� 1832 |
Huddersfield,
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06 April 1815 |
Huddersfield,
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Sarah Hunt |
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John Dewhirst | 20 April 1786 | registered at South Pde Baptist, Leeds | |||||
Mary Dewhirst [3] |
11 Nov 1790 Chr 12 December 1790 |
Saint Peter, Leeds, Yorkshire, England | Bef June 1867? | Halifax, Yorkshire, England? | 09 Mar 1812 | Huddersfield, Yorkshire, England | John Winterburn |
Sarah Dewhirst | 01 Dec 1792 Chr 30 December 1792 |
Saint Peter, Leeds, Yorkshire, England | |||||
Joseph Dewhirst | 12 November 1794 Chr 07 December 1794 |
Saint Peter, Leeds, Yorkshire, England | bet 1851 - 1868, possibly bef September 1853 Bradford, Yorkshire, England |
Bradford, Yorkshire, England |
1) 07 May 1825 ? 2) 25 June 1841 |
1) Leeds, Yorkshire, England? 2) Leeds, Yorkshire, England |
1) Sarah Mabon ? 2) Sarah Rigby |
Thomas Dewhirst [4] | 27 Nov 1797 Chr 24 December 1797 |
Saint Peter, Leeds, Yorkshire, England | bef 1851, possibly a) bur 2 Jun 1831 or b) d. bef Mar 1843 |
a) Woodhouse, Leeds age 36 b) Leeds, Yorkshire |
30 Oct 1827 |
Leeds, Yorkshire, England |
Mary Kitchingman |
Robert Dewhirst [5] | 19 May 1805 | registered at South Pde Baptist, Leeds | Ann ? [3] |
[1] Robert’s occupations were weaver and woolsorter. His wife Theodocia Webster Dewhirst was born 17 November 1763 and chr 14 December 1763 in Saint Peter’s, Leeds, Yorkshire, England, daughter of John Webster. No Will for Robert was found in Borthwick index 1805-19 although the Old Wesleyan Chapel Leeds burial register has a Robert Dewhirst aged 57, buried 13 July 1817 in Leeds, Yorkshire, England.
[2] Although Benjamin’s burial entry gives his age as 46 in January 1832 (implying he was born 1785-6), his parents are identified as Robert and Theodocia Dewhirst through the Queen St Wesleyan Chapel baptismal records of his sister Mary’s children, where Mary’s parents’ names are given. Click on Benjamin's name in the charts to see his descendants.
[3] Mary’s husband John Winterburn was christened 3 September 1792 in Leeds, Yorkshire and was buried 11 March 1848 aged 55 at Queen St Wesleyan Chapel Huddersfield, Yorkshire, England in the same crypt as her brother Benjamin and other members of his family. John's occupations were book keeper, wool sorter, and clerk. The marriage of Mary and John was witnessed by Joseph Bowers who was also named on Benjamin Dewhirst’s 1815 wedding banns document and his 1831 will. John was an executor of Benjamin’s will.
Children of Mary and John were:
[4] Thomas’ occupation is (possibly) a dyer. Mary was b abt 1798 in Leeds, Yorkshire, England and died aft 1861. Child of Thomas and Mary is: Ann
Dewhirst, b abt 1831 in Leeds, Yorkshire, England, christened 11 Oct 1835 in Leeds, Yorkshire, England, died aft 1851, occupation milliner.
NOTE: there is room for some children to have died between John and Mary and also between Thomas and Robert.
[5] Child of Robert and Ann is: Theodocia Dewhirst, chr. at St Peter, Leeds, Yorkshire, England, 6 June 1830.
Family of Joseph Dewhirst and his two wives, Sarah Mabon? and Sarah Rigby
NAME |
BIRTH |
LOCATION |
DEATH |
LOCATION |
MARRIAGE |
LOCATION |
SPOUSE |
Joseph Dewhirst [1] | 12 November 1794 Chr 7 December 1794 |
Saint Peter, Leeds, Yorkshire, England | bet 1851 - 1868 possibly bef September 1853 Bradford, Yorkshire, England |
Bradford, Yorkshire, England |
1) 07 May 1825 ? 2) 25 June 1841 |
1) Leedsd, Yorkshire, England 2) Leeds, Yorkshire, England |
1) Sarah Mabon ? 2) Sarah Rigby [2] |
Sarah Ann Dewhirst [3] |
10 May 1843 |
Hunslet, Leeds, Yorkshire, England |
17 October 1917 |
Bradford, Yorkshire, England |
24 October 1865 |
Bradford, Yorkshire, England |
John Bottomley [3] |
Martha Dewhurst/Dewhirst [4] | 16 Jan 1847 | Wortley, Yorkshire | 30 Nov 1932 | Devonport, Tasmania | 31 Oct 1868 | Bradford, Yorkshire, England | Benjamin Jones [5] |
[1] Joseph's occupation was listed as wool stapler/wool sorter. Wife #1 (likely) Sarah Mabon was buried 24 April 1827 in Leeds Wesley Methodist Old Chapel where Joseph’s father Robert is also buried. There are no known issue from this marriage. Joseph and wife #2 Sarah Rigby married 4 days after the 1841 census was enumerated so both are found living separately. Joseph lives next door to his (probably widowed) sister-in-law Mary (Kitchingman) in Skinner St Leeds and Sarah lives with her widowed father at Woodhouse in Leeds, where he is enumerated as a Dissenting Minister (Baptist).
[2] Sarah Rigby was b. abt. 1813 in Huddersfield, Yorkshire, England, the daughter of Reverend John Rigby and Mary Wright (b. abt 1768, d. 4 Jun 1823) who married 30 May 1799 at Adel, Leeds. Rev John Rigby died 11 Oct 1846 at Blackley, Yorkshire. Six children were born to this marriage:
[3] Before her marriage Sarah Ann’s occupation was worsted weaver. John Bottomley was b 27 June 1844 in Bradford, Yorkshire, England and died 17 July 1905. His occupations were warehouseman, yarn agent, wool merchant and wool & waste merchant (employer). In 1881, Sarah Ann’s neice Florence Rigby (daugher of Manasseh) is living with them as a servant.
Children of Sarah Ann Dewhirst and John Bottomley are (information from censuses, IGI and www.janets-families.org.uk/Bottomley.pdf):
[4] Before her marriage Martha’s occupation was worsted weaver. Martha's father is listed as being Joseph Dewhirst on her
marriage certificate. At the time of their marriage Martha and Benjamin lived
in Horton. On Martha's birth certificate her parents are listed as Joseph Dewhirst
and Sarah Rigby. Martha was born at home where they lived at Castleton Terrace,
Wortley, Leeds, W. Yorkshire, England. Martha d. 30 November 1932, in Devonport,
Tasmania; aged 85 years (headstone).
[5] Benjamin was b. 28 Nov 1847 in Lower Gornal, Sedgley, Dudley, Stafford,
UK and d. About 1902-1910. Benjamin was the son of Richard Jones and Martha
Dewhirst. Richard was a nail maker. m: 31 Oct 1868 in Bradford, Yorkshire, England.
Children of Martha Dewhust and Benjamin Jones are: