So your William had a different mother than Charles, Harriet and Susannah.
Is Maria perhaps the daughter of Jonas
bap 27 July 1831 of Jonas and Hannah at Bradford
Hi again,
We are pretty sure that William 1801 had a different Mother. The youngest sibling Maria was born in 1831 and many years ago my cousin found a death listing in the Calverley.info website for a Mary Holdsworth who died in 1832. I haven’t been able to find that listing again since the website was updated quite a few years ago now. The fact that Charles remarried in 1833 possible supports that being his first wife.
Eldest sister Mary 1822 married John Ibbotson and Jonas Holdsworth age 66 is living with them on the
1861 census and is listed as ‘Uncle”.
On the 1851 census Mary and John Ibbotson are listed with Harriet and Susannah, they have the surname Ibbotson, but I think they are probably the Harriet and Susannah listed in the 1841 census with the Holdsworth surname. Interestingly Harriet is listed as a 16 year old son whose occupation is a Delver 🤷♀️. Charles their brother born 1835 is visiting a friend in Scarborough on the 1851 census. So I think that it’s fair to say that Charles 1801 had died before then, but my cousin bought every death certificate over the year between 1841-1851 and we got nothing close at all. It makes me wonder whether he had changed his name at some point.
To answer your question I have wondered if Jonas may have been a father to one or more of the children, but he consistently lists himself as unmarried on the census records and when we try to build a tree for him we don’t get any traction.
Another odd thing is that Charles 1801 married Mary Hornby in Otley and William 1819 married Mary Gill in Otley. Given they consistently say they are from Idle (including Mary Gill) I’m not sure why. Unless they were a nonconformist religion. I have noticed that many of our mystery DNA matches are connected to the Latter Day Saints. I have nothing tangible as evidence though.
