Author Topic: Trying to Find a Quaker King family from Salterforth before they became Quakers.  (Read 677 times)

Offline RowanR

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Is anybody able to help me find this family please. They are Quakers in Settle Monthly Meeting, specifically they belong to Salterforth preparative meeting but none of them appear to be born within the Quakers.

When John King dies in 1738 there is a note in the register to say that he was the last of 6 brothers and 4 sisters. When he married Agnes Rudd in 1697 he was described as being of Stainton Hall in Gargrave the son of Henry King of Myerhouse in Marton.

I have two of the brothers, Lawrence King who marries Grace Beanland(s) in 1706 described as being of Fenceend in the parish of Thornton and who dies in 1724 and Henry King who marries Margaret Overend in 1696 and dies in 1737 since they are both children of Henry King on their marriages.

I also have two possible brothers, Thomas King who is having children in Salterforth/Settle Meeting between 1694 and 1718 who dies in 1725 and William King who has children there between 1720 and 1723 and dies in 1723, I've not found the marriages for either of these yet. (Not sure on the William, the children seem rather late compared to the others but he does die before John and he isn't obviously John, Lawrence, Henry or Thomas' son)

Henry King of Myerhouse near Marton dies in 1680, there is also a burial of a Margaret King in 1700 (widow? One of the 4 daughters?)

I have no clues for the other children except that the other son may also have had a Henry because I have one that marries Lucide Smith in 1707 that I can't fit to any of the other five.

If anybody can provide any leads at all for this family I would be so grateful.


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Henry King of Mirehouse near Marton died 1680

Did he leave a will?

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The University of Leeds is the main repository for Quaker records in Yorkshire.

Contact them, they will know of wills etc..

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I can't find any entries on find my past that look like they could be a will for Henry King in 1680. The Thomas King who dies in 1735 leaves one which I've ordered but I doubt that he will be leaving things to his siblings.

I'm something of a regular visitor to special collections at the University of Leeds since I am fortunate enough to live quite close to Leeds. Their Quaker Collections, Clifford Street and Carlton Hill only contain a handful of Wills and there don't appear to be any for the King family. Mostly they are minute books, records of sufferings, petitions for prisoners, things like that. The most useful for working out families (at least at this date, more stuff becomes available later on) are the minute books which record requests to marry and confirmations that marriages have happened some of which don't appear to have made it into registers (for example the marriage of William Watson & Mary King in 1721 is in the minute books but not, as far as I can see, the registers). They also have removals in and out of the meeting area and disownments, which often give the name of a parent. These minute books are also mostly unindexed so have to be read through and I've not yet found anything to help work out the elder Henry's children.

It looks like for that I'm going to need baptisms and I'm not finding any, although you would think a Lawrence would stand out. Having seen from other threads that some people here have an almost magical ability to find people I felt it was worth asking.


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Hi

There is another post on this family that may help

https://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php?topic=798194.0

From G**gling Quaker King Family , there is a lengthy discussion about this family on YT,  given by the person who created the post in the link, maybe leave him a PM he seems to have researched this family thoroughly.

Claire
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Thank you, that does look useful.

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Re: Trying to Find a Quaker King family from Salterforth before they became Quakers.
« Reply #6 on: Saturday 14 June 25 12:41 BST (UK) »
Was John King a clockmaker?
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Re: Trying to Find a Quaker King family from Salterforth before they became Quakers.
« Reply #7 on: Saturday 14 June 25 14:02 BST (UK) »
I'm not sure he's ever given an occupation, his brother Lawrence is a Lining (Linen?) weaver and other members of the family farmers or husbandmen.

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Oh, just I thought there was a clockmaker called John King in the Salterforth area at about the right time.
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