Alice HOLDSWORTH

Abt 1712 - 1786  (~ 74 years)

• Histories

  Research on Richard Hardaker of Rawdon - A 30 Year Old Puzzle Solved This paper presents a new theory that we think finally Solves the long standing problem of the ancestry of Richard Hardaker who married Betty Overend in 1770.

  
  

• Name	Alice HOLDSWORTH
  Birth	Abt 1712	Northowram, Yorkshire, England
  Christening	19 Feb 1712	Northowram, Yorkshire, England   [1]
  	Father: Solomon Holdsworth
  Gender	Female
  Death	1786
  Burial	16 Jan 1786	Buckstone Baptist Chapel, Rawdon, Yorkshire, England   [2]
  	Ales Hardaker, buried Jan 16 (1786), aged 73 years.
  Person ID	I688	Hardaker One-name Study
  Last Modified	26 Apr 2019

  
  

  Father	Solomon HOLDSWORTH,   b. Yes, date unknown   d. Yes, date unknown
  Mother	Anne SHELTON,   b. Yes, date unknown   d. 10 Aug 1723, Saltinstall, Yorkshire, England
  Marriage	26 May 1708	Halifax St John, Yorkshire, England   [3]
  	Solmon Holdsworth, North[owram] @ Anne Shelton, Warley
  Notes	Also recorded in the Northowram Register [4] Other children to this couple: Samuel (1709), Nathanael (1714), Abram [Abraham] (1717) and Isaac (1721)
  Family ID	F890	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Richard HARDAKER,   b. 1704, Yeadon, Yorkshire, England d. Yes, date unknown
  Marriage	20 Dec 1733	Halifax St John, Yorkshire, England   [5, 6]
  	Halifax register: Richard Hardacre of Guiseley psh (parish) ?clothier?, Alice Holdsworth of North'm spr (spinster). Northowram Register: Richd. Hardacre of Crag and Alice dr. Solomon Holdsworth of Northourum mar. Dec 20.
  Notes	The marriage of Richard and Alice was recorded in Oliver Heywood's Nonconformist Register and also in the register of Halifax church, from this we can be confident that they were nonconformists. In those days, that almost certainly meant that they were Quakers, Presbyterian or Baptists. The Quakers married in the faith and good Quaker records were kept. Since Richard and Alice's marriage is not in the Quaker records of the time we have grounds to suppose that one or both of Richard and Alice were either Presbyterian or Baptist. Alice's family came from Northowram which was strongly Presbyterian due to the influence of Oliver Heywood who lived there for many years. We also know that Richard was "of Guiseley", and we have reason to believe that the couple returned to the Guiseley area following their marriage. We believe that Richard and Alice were part of the congregation at the Buckstone Baptist chapel between around 1735 and 1760, and quite possibly named their children there. With no known birth/death records for Buckstone chapel prior to about 1750, it is probable that Richard and Alice had a number of children for whom we have no record.
  Children	+ 1. Richard HARDAKER,   b. Abt 1742   d. Yes, date unknown + 2. Samuel HARDAKER,   b. 1747, Rawdon, Yorkshire, England d. 1811 (Age 64 years)
  Family ID	F177	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	26 Apr 2019

  
  

• Event Map		Birth - Abt 1712 - Northowram, Yorkshire, England Christening - 19 Feb 1712 - Northowram, Yorkshire, England Marriage - 20 Dec 1733 - Halifax St John, Yorkshire, England Burial - 16 Jan 1786 - Buckstone Baptist Chapel, Rawdon, Yorkshire, England  = Link to Google Earth
  Pin Legend	: Address       : Location       : City/Town       : County/Shire       : State/Province       : Country       : Not Set

  
  

• Sources

  [S274] England Select Births and Christenings 1538-1975 (Reliability: 1). FHL Film Number: 0496916 IT 2 [S312] England & Wales Non-Conformist & Non-Parochial Registers 1567-1970 (Reliability: 1). The National Archives of the UK; Kew, Surrey, England; General Register Office: Registers of Births, Marriages and Deaths surrendered to the Non-parochial Registers Commissions of 1837 and 1857; Class Number: RG 4; Piece Number: 2080 [S479] WYAS via Ancestry.com (Reliability: 2). West Yorkshire Archive Service; Wakefield, Yorkshire, England; Yorkshire Parish Records; Old Reference Number: D53/1/9; New Reference Number: WDP53/1/1/9 [S195] Revs Oliver Heywood & T. Dickenson; Edited by J. Horsfall Turner, Northowram Register, (Brighouse [Eng.] : J. S. Jowett, printer, 1881), Page 200 (Reliability: 2). Text: Solomon Holdsworth of Northourum and Anne Skilton of or near Mixenden Mar 26 May 1708 [S479] WYAS via Ancestry.com (Reliability: 2). West Yorkshire Archive Service; Wakefield, Yorkshire, England; Yorkshire Parish Records; Old Reference Number: D53/1/10; New Reference Number: WDP53/1/1/10 [S195] Revs Oliver Heywood & T. Dickenson; Edited by J. Horsfall Turner, Northowram Register, (Brighouse [Eng.] : J. S. Jowett, printer, 1881), Page 226 (Reliability: 2).