Benjamin Illingworth

[Jacsel]

I am trying to find more details on Benjamin Illingworth who married Mary Unwin on 28th July 1825, Womersley, Yorkshire.

I am told that the Womersley records are held at WYAS, Wakefield and if anyone is able to do a look-up for me, I would appreciate it, I need to know Benjamins date and place of birth, and especially his parents names, etc.,

[Rowdy Jnr]

Have you looked on the IGI?

There at at least six births for Benjamin Illingworth in the Yorkshire area circa1804 approx

Mother and Fathers names are listed!

[PB_Bear]

The pre-1837 marriage records are unlikely to hold the information you seek. 

Nevertheless, Pontefract would be the local society for the area, and their information can be found here. http://www.parishchest.com/en-gb/dept_336.html

PB

[Erato]

Is Illingworth a common surname?  If not, you may find a connection to the Illingworth family here in Ecuador (where I live).  The family includes a "mathematician" who is a minor Guayaquil politician.  These Illingworths have been in Ecuador since at least the 1840s.  One of them (I don't recall his first name off hand) was mentioned in Richard Spruce's "Notes of a Botanist on the Amazon and Andes" (vol. 2) in connection with a financial fraud which cost Spruce most of the money he had invested to finance his work.  If you think there might be a connection, I'll look up the Spruce reference.

[PB_Bear]

Is Illingworth a common surname?

Yup, sure is.

PB

[oly]

Hello Jacsel

Where did you get your information about Benjamin and Mary?
More than one Womersley in Yorkshire, which is it?

If it is the one East of Pontefract, one Illingworth family resides there in1841,
unfortunately not Benjamin. Here they are -

1841 Census Womersley 1308/8 page 11
John Illingworth  40 Game Keeper
Elizabeth  "         36
Sarah      "         14
George     "         13
Richard     "         12
Mary        "         11
John         "          9
Emma       "          2
Robert      "          1
William      "          4 months

Page 10
Ester Illingworth 15 is a female servant along with 7 others
at Womersley Hall where Stanhope Hawke and his family resides. 

All Illingworths born in County 

Regards Oly

[Jacsel]

Hi Oly,

I have a Benjamin, one of six known sons born to John Illingworth, mothers name unknown, place of birth unknown, date circa 1790-1800.

I have a contact in Washington DC who also has a Benjamin, one of seven sons, mothers name Anne Wolstenholme, fathers first name unknown.  Her Benjamin was married in Womersley, I didn't know there was more than one Womersley and I don't think my contact did either.  Where is the other Womersley?

All my contact knows is that her Benjamin married Mary Unwin.  Naturally we are curious to find out if our Benjamin's are one and the same.  I have been up on the IGI and found lots of Benjamin's and even more Anne Wolstenholme's, but not one married to an Illingworth.  There was one entry of a Christening of a Benjamin, 13 April 1805, All Saints, Wakefield, father John Illingworth and mother Hannah ? but nothing conclusive.

[oly]

Hello Jacsel

Womersley Row was a district in Bradford on the 1841 census, it was placed  between Woodhall Hill and Bagley in the list. It came up first wnen I did the 1841 Yorkshire Master search for Womersley. Next came the one I posted from.

Try the Pontefract FHS, web address                      www.pontefractfhs.co.uk     If this does not work just put Pontefract FHS in your search engine.
They cover Womersley, for two or three £ you can have Marriage indexes that took place at St Martins Womersley 1754 to 1837.

Regards Oly
 

[Meerkat2]

I am also related to Benjamin and Mary...I can't find the Wolstenholme connection George Wolstenholme married an Ann Gilderdale but the most reasonable connection seems to be Kellington.  There was a family of gameskeepers and Ben was a gameskeeper...he died in 1841.  He had a brother John who also lived in Womersley.