william Hauxwell-Marg.Craggs christenings

[sunshine333]

Thanks for the info Pels, I appreciate your help....Louise, what do you have to prove your Marg.born 1823 belonged to Joe/Eliz.Bushy ? I have been on Family search, I am putting together all Hauxwell BDM that I can find....The earliest I can find are Richard, Rollunson & Marmaducs  Hawkswell, having kids from 1704. I have followed my gut feeling, and feel our family is William Hawkswell, born 10-8-1743 Crakehall, whose father was William, the brewer, who  married Ann Bland 18-12-1735 Bedale, kids are on family search org. also Ann Bland's parents, John & Ann,
Ann Bland was born 2-5-1716 Bedale... What do you think ?   Rob

[LouiseB12]

Hi Rob, Margaret gave her father's name in her three marriage certificates and her mother's name in her third marriage certificate.  The 1851 census shows her birthplace as 'Nitherdale' (Nidderdale - the right area).  She left for Australia (Ballarat) in around 1857 but her birthplace 'Bellerby, Yorkshire' appears in a daughter's birth certificate.  I've written a bio for her detailing where I found my sources, the Melbourne archives were very useful.  If you'd like me to email you a copy pls send a personal message with your email address.  I still haven't made my mind up about William Hauxwell's lineage.  I too have been trying to sort out the various Hauxwell families and as it's easier to work backwards, I've been looking at the 1841 census for Harmby, Spennithorne and Bellerby.  In Harmby there are three families of Christopher Hauxwells and a Joseph Hauxwell family but my Joseph is in the Bellerby census with 2nd wife Phoebe.  He seems to be the only Hauxwell in the village at that time.  I've been trying to work out who William's (Joseph's father) children were and where they went. He and Margaret Craggs had a son Christopher bap. 28 May 1777.   This has proved tricky as there are two Christophers of a similar age who crop up in censuses etc.  One married an Isabella Bulmer (19 Oct 1831) at Spennithorne and another married an Elizabeth Marsden (12 May 1834) in Leeds.  Both were born in Harmby!  I thought it might help to look at the names of their children to see if there are any clues but it doesn't.  As this is all so detailed perhaps it might be easier to communicate direct?  I'm determined to get to the truth of it all and it would be helpful to share the search.  Louise

[sunshine333]

Hi Louise, I can't work out how to send a personal message ? could you help...I would like your email address, as I have all Hauxwell from 1700 to 1837, from family search org.  on a usb stick and want to send it to you.... I then put them into families, and I agree there is alot of records missing...so it makes it hard.  maybe you could send me your email address..I am from Joe.Phoebe also, my guy is their son John born 1830 Bellerby. I am not on the internet, use a computer at the local library, that is why I am slow getting back to you...Rob

[LouiseB12]

Hi Rob, I've just sent you a pm.  To do so you click on the icon to the left of your message just below your name.  If you don't get my pm then let me know.  Louise

[LouiseB12]

Actually it's the green scroll icon next to the face icon on the left hand side of the message box.  Click on it and you can send a personal message.

[olivebranch]

Hi I am new to Rootschat but found your thread on google so joined. I am also related to William and Margaret they are my 6x greatgrand parents and my surname is Hauxwell.  Have done a lot of research on this branch although it has been some time since I have been on it (researching other lines at moment) but I do have my own transcriptions of the parish records for Well, Bedale and Spennithorne in which I have taken down every Hauxwell I have found, some of my records go back to 1600's. Although I won't promise they are complete I may have missed one or to, you never know and have transcribed them as faithfully as possible, I am willing to pass on any info I may have so if you give me a list of names etc you need looking at I will check my records to see if I have them. 

[LouiseB12]

Hi there.  William & Margaret are my 5th great grandparents through their son Joseph bap. 19 Oct 1783.  You'll see from the previous chatter that there is some debate about who is the 'right' William.  Was he William christened 13 Apr 1743 at Well, father Christopher?  Or was he William christened 10 Aug 1743 at Bedale, father William of Great Crakehall?  If you can throw any light on this it would be very helpful.  By the way, did your transcriptions come directly from parish records or via family search?  I only ask because if it's the latter then I'm trawling my way through these at the moment whereas I only have patchy transcripts from parish records I found at Northallerton RO.  Another question - do you think Margaret Craggs was she who was born 5 May 1745 at Appleton-le-Street?  This is some way from Spennithorne area where she married William but she is the only one I can seem to find of the right age.  Louise

[olivebranch]

Hi Louise my records come directly from the registers but this must be at least 10years ago its been a while since I did anything on the Hauxwells.  I must admit that I cannot find in my records the William of Crakehall bapt at Bedale  its possible that early on i my research I may have disregarded him but I can't remember. Anyhow I think that William is the one from Well it's a bit unscientific but his mother would have been Frances whom Christopher married 30 Apr 1729 and if you have the record William' s first child and daughter was named Frances his second Margaret both I think named after his mother then wife. His first son was Christopher named after his father. This is the only reason that I can think of right now as to why I went with him. This research was done when I was new to Family History so could be wrong but in my gut I don't think so unless you have other info which shoots this down. Unfortunately I never carried on the research on Margaret Craggs so cannot help there but when I eventually get back to it I will look into it. Hope this helps and hope you agree with my rather unscientific approach but they did tend to name the kids after their parents and themselves quite regularly. Melanie

[LouiseB12]

Hi Melanie, the only children I found in the Northallerton PRs born to a William Hauxwell & Margaret and christened at Spennithorne were

Christopher ch. 28 May 1777
Ann ch. 23 Feb 1780
Joseph ch. 19 Oct 1783
Fanny ch. 18 Nov 1787

I didn't go any further back because the records were so hard to read and I was short of time but if they married in 1770 it's likely that several other children were born before Christopher in 1777.  The only Frances I've come across was on family search ch. 30 Aug 1772 Spennithorne, father Wm Hawkswell, mother Mary.  Could you let me know the names and dates of the children you have born to them?