Family:Joseph Haigh and Dinah Beardsell (1)

Problem

Originally, the list of children of Joseph Haigh and Dinah Beardsell numbered 17. Gradually it has been discovered that a number of these children had no association with this couple. The names and birthdates given for these children in the original list could not be found via the search engine in Ancestry and nor could respective burials before the first census in 1841 (where they did not appear).

As a result the following children have now been deleted from the list of offspring of Joseph and Dinah Haigh:

• Charles Haigh, born 1826
• Allen Haigh, born 1826
• Ann Haigh b 3 Oct 1828 bapt 4 Jun 1837
• Ruth Haigh b 15 ? 1830 bapt 4 Jun 1837
• Mary Haigh b 29 Mar 1833 bapt 4 Jun 1837
• William Haigh b 12 May 1835 bapt 4 Jun 1837
• Emma Haigh b 20 Apr 1837 bapt 4 Jun 1837

A later discovery

There is an 1861 census entry in Ancestry for the following family living in Almondbury, a village not far north of Holme:

• • Huddersfield, Almondbury, Enum Dist 7 (Class: Rg 9; Piece: 3256; Folio: 32; Page: 15; GSU roll: 543103)
  • Household Schedule 79: Up Comagen, Tayor Hill, Almondbury
  • Joseph Haigh, head, mar, 60, wool dyer, born Yorkshire, Honley
  • Sarah Haigh, wife, mar, 52, born Yorkshire, Almondbury
  • William Haigh, son, unm, 25, mechanic, born Yorkshire, Almondbury
  • Ellen Haigh, daur, unm, 22, woollen cloth burler, born Yorkshire, Almondbury
  • Amelia Haigh, daur, unm, 20, woollen cloth burler, born Yorkshire, Almondbury

This family does not apppear in any other census years.

Ellen Haigh and Amelia Haigh have now been deleted from the family of Joseph and Dinah Haigh.

1. ↑ West Yorkshire, England. West Yorkshire, England, Marriages and Banns, 1813-1935. (Ancestry.com, 2011)
   West Yorkshire Archive Service; Leeds, Yorkshire, England; Reference Number: WDP12 (Almondbury, All Hallows, page 301, #1).

   Marriages solemnized in the parish of Almondbury in the county of York in the year 1826.
   Joseph Haigh of Holm of this parish and Dina Beardsell of Holm of this parish were married in this church by banns with consent of parents this eighteenth day of September in the year one thousand eight hundred and twenty six [18 Sep 1826] by me [signed] Lewis Jones, vicar.
   Witnesses: Isaac Beardsell and Abraham Haigh