↑ West Yorkshire Archive Service; Leeds, Yorkshire, England; Yorkshire Parish Records, in West Yorkshire, England. West Yorkshire, England, Marriages and Banns, 1813-1935. (Ancestry.com, 2011) West Yorkshire Archive Service; Leeds, Yorkshire, England; Yorkshire Parish Records; Reference Number: WDP12 (Almondbury, All Hallows, page 59, #118).
24 May 1840. John Earnshaw, 42, widower, clothier, of Austonley, son of Joshua Earnshaw, clothier, married Lydia Thewlis, 43, widow, of Austonley, daughter of Joseph Bailey, shoemaker.