Family talk:John Howard and Mary Lockwood (1)

I have this couple in my family tree. I have two additional children baptised in Kirkburton parish: i. Howard, Hannah. Bapt 1785-07-03, born at Brownhill, Cartworth. ii. Howard, Joshua. Bapt 1786-12-25, born at Brownhill, Cartworth.

These fit nicely between the date of marriage and the children born at Woodhey Laithe.

Note that the marriage entry gives both parents as being of Kirkburton parish. This has lead me to wonder about the parentage. There is an alternative John, son of Joshua Heywood (batchelor of Scholes, m Hannah Hollins, spinster of Upperthong, at A'bury on 30 Apr 1761). This John was baptised on 11 Jul 1761, born at Lee, Scholes. There were three other children born at Scholes (two of them bapt. James) and then seem to have moved to Ramsden, Cartworth where a further child, Thomas, was born, bapt. 28 Feb 1768. There's then a gap during which Hannah Heywood was buried at Kirkburton on 19 Nov 1769 and Joshua Heward of K'burton married Hannah Kennion of Almondbury at Almondbury on 23 Apr 1771. There were four further children bapt between 1772 & 1777, all from Ramsden. This means that John would have grown up at Ramsden, not far from Mary Lockwood at Moss Edge in Kirkburton and hence, to my mind, a closer fit than John of Home Wood.

[13 July 2010]

Mny thanks for your detailed theory. I will try to isolate the likely match. On a quick look I have at least 3 John howards with similar birth date.

Can I also refer you to my project homepage, www.werelate.org/wiki HolmwVillageHome. John was also a direct ancestor of mine - many of the people in my werelate tree arent.

Can I ask how the line to you from John runs--Dsrodgers34 06:26, 12 July 2010 (EDT)

Through John's son Caleb whose daughter Mary married Joseph Dearnley. Their daughter Grace married Newton Bottomley (whose sister Sophie was June Whitfield's ggmother). Newton & Grace's daughter was my grandmother.

Incidentally I remember Arthur Howard who you feature on your site. As a schoolboy I had a holiday job in the pattern room at Holmbridge Mill & he was in charge of it.