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Yorkshire (West Riding) / Re: Bleasby Marriage Hunslet Leeds
« on: Monday 04 August 14 06:14 BST (UK)  »
Hi Fiona - Thanks for this suggestion. I think you are my relative from up north….? I have done a lot of research into FAW (currently writing his biography) He was my gg grandfather and I looked into this matter many years ago when I first started searching. I doubt Elizabeth Gill was Martha's mum as William was only 15 in 1803 and while girls married early back then it would be unusual for a boy of 15 to do so. Instead as I put on my family tree some years ago (distributed as PDF files to everyone in the family - did you get this?) I believe Martha's mother was Mary Cudworth of Rothwell who married a Wm Bleasby in Sept. 1808 (Wm was 20 then). Martha was born the following Feb in Hunslet. Mary Bleasby, "wife of William Bleasby" died in Hunslet in July 1812 (Rothwell deaths) and William married Ann Wood in 1814. This all seems a much better fit don't you think?
Regards - Virginia

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Yorkshire (West Riding) Lookup Requests / Re: Hunslet Parish records
« on: Sunday 26 June 11 19:02 BST (UK)  »
The second marriage looks like the correct one from other information I have. For a start, whomever became Mrs Bleasby in 1803 or 1808 died because William remarried in 1814 and started a whole new family. I can find no death of an Eliz Bleasby (Gill) after 1808 but the other candidate (Mary Cudworth) died in Hunslet in 1812. This is why I think it's this marriage. Also Mary had a mother named Martha. However I am a bit mystified as to why William and Mary appear to have had just one child: Martha b 1808. I cannot find any births other than Martha Bleasby between 1803 and 1814. Is it possible they just haven't all been transcribed yet or are there some gaps? The family lived in Hunslet so they should appear under that Chapelry.

Thanks again.

Virginia

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Yorkshire (West Riding) Lookup Requests / Re: Hunslet Parish records
« on: Saturday 25 June 11 23:56 BST (UK)  »
Thank you so much for your help. I didn't know there was a second Wm Bleasby born in Leeds in the 1780s. I have just discovered the Hunslet and Leeds records online and they are solving a lot of riddles! So good to see them. I am now exploring further. The William I'm looking for was the son of James Bleasby not Joseph. Martha b 1808 was his daughter for sure but there is no mother listed on the record so I don't know who he married. There are two marriages of a Wm Bleasby - the one you found in 1803 and another in 1808 in Rothwell. I am leaning towards the second one (to a Mary Cudworth). THanks again for your kind help.

Regards - Virginia

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Yorkshire (West Riding) Lookup Requests / Hunslet Parish records
« on: Wednesday 22 June 11 20:21 BST (UK)  »
Does anyone have access to the Thoresby Society transcript of the Leeds Chapelries (Vol 4) for Hunslet 1764 to 1812 please? If so, I am looking for births and deaths of children registered to William and/or Elizabeth BLEASBY (married 1803) between 1803- 1813. I am also looking for a burial record for Elizabeth Bleasby (b 1786) after 1808.

Can anyone help please?

 

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Yorkshire (West Riding) / Re: Bleasby Marriage Hunslet Leeds
« on: Friday 17 June 11 01:23 BST (UK)  »
Thanks for this...  Mary Spurr stated in 1851 (when she was about 89) that she was from Leeds but this could have been wrong (maybe her relatives spoke for her!). Ann Spurr (if Spurr WAS her maiden name) said she was born in Hunslet.

What a shame there were two Mary Spurrs aged 80 living so close together in 1841!!! Go figure...

I take it you cannot find a record for the birth of Ann Spurr (abt 1790) or a marriage? 

Thanks for your help.

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Yorkshire (West Riding) / Re: Bleasby Marriage Hunslet Leeds
« on: Thursday 16 June 11 23:23 BST (UK)  »
No not sure they were sisters but they were all living under the same roof in 1841 with William and his wife Ann Bleasby. By 1851, Ann Snr was gone (it appears she died in 1847) but in her place was William's mother-in-law a very old woman named Mary Spurr. This is why I have concluded that Ann Snr's maiden name was Spurr. She was in her fifties in 1841 so it's likely she was born around 1790. Mary Spurr on the other hand was born in Leeds in the 1760s! Anyone got a record for her or Ann?

The Hunslet records appear to be very patchy. Martha's Bleasby's birth is listed in 1808 but there are no records of the other girls' births (Ann or Grace) and no record of William and Ann's marriage either as far as I can see. Until I get a date for it, I don't know if Ann was the mother of all of them or none. Are some of the Hunslet records missing?

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Yorkshire (West Riding) / Bleasby Marriage Hunslet Leeds
« on: Thursday 16 June 11 20:42 BST (UK)  »
Can anyone help me find a marriage for William Bleasby (born Whitkirk, 1785) in Hunslet or Whitkirk, some time around December 1808 when his daughter, Martha, was born in Hunslet, please? I have searched the microfiche at the West Yorks. Archive Office but couldn't find any sign of a marriage around this time. The family appears on the 1841 and '51 census living near Waterloo Road, Hunslet. There were at least three children: Martha b 1808, Ann b 1821 and Grace b 1826. In 1841 William had a wife named Ann (nee Spurr I think) but she died in the 1840s. I am not sure she was the mother of Martha, however. He might have married someone else first, given the gap between his children. Can anyone help me find a marriage for him, any time up to 1821 please? So far this search has been very frustrating! - Truia.

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