Person:Joseph Binns (13)

RELIGION: Christian - Religious Society of Friends. Ministry: "Joseph and Isabel Binns of Cononley Woodside, travelling together ('double horse' no doubt, i.e. she was on a pillion behind him) or travelling separately, between 1757 and 1770 visited Westmorland, Lancashire, several parts of Yorkshire and also Ireland." [see Living Stones] He was always religiously inclined, although his life was attended by many trials and temptations. He received a gift in the ministry in about the year 1760 and visited Scotland and several counties in England. He was a very plain man, who had much sympathy with the afflicted and was notable for his charity to the poor.3

BIRTH: 1396.155 1397.208 Joseph Binns, son of John and Abigail, Farnhill near Kildwick, born 19 iii 1711.

MARRIAGE: 1216.220123.77 1236.43 1396.18 1397.110 Joseph Binns of Coninley Woodside, Kildwick, slater, married Isabel Burton daughter of John and Ann Burton of Warescale in Dent, 1 i 1737 [1737/8], atLeeyeat [Lee Yeat].

DEATH: 1396.282 1397.404 Joseph Binns, of Conondley Woodside, Kildwick, farmer, died 27 viii 1776, 65years.

BURIAL: 30 viii 1776 at Skipton.

OCCUPATION: Slater, farmer, minister.

RESIDENCES: 1711 - At birth - Crag Top, YKS. Carleton Biggin, Yorkshire, England. 1 Jan 1737/1738 - Before marriage - Cononley Woodside, Kildwick, Yorkshire, England. 1776 - Conondley Woodside, Kildwick, Yorkshire, England.

OBITUARY: His death was very sudden, he fell down in the shearing field when making a band and died in a few minutes. Was a man religiously exercised, his life was attended with many deep trials and temptations. He bore a Public Testimony 16 years, visited Scotland and several Counties in this Nation. Was a very plain man, sympathised with the afflicted and was charitable to the poor.

CONFLICT: Sunderland notes "fell dead in harvest field."

INITIAL_SOURCE: Leicester.

1. ↑ ? Arthur Chamney Leicester. An Account of the Family of the Binns from 1663 (Leicester Document). (Unpublished Family Tree).
2. ↑ Society of Friends, Register of Deaths and Burials in the Craven Area 1757 to 1837. (Keighley Family History Publishing 1997)
   Page 14.
3. ↑ ^3.0 3.1 Joseph John Binns (1839-1922). An Account of the Family of the Binns from 1663 (Sunderland document). (Largely collected materials from Friends' Registers).
4. ↑ Nancy Barnard. Gunder Family Tree. (Ahnentafel Chart from her family records (dated 1 January 1980)).
5. ↑ Irene Stafford Ferguson in 1911; revised by Virginia Stafford Ferguson in 1984. An Account of the Family of the Binns from 1663 (Ferguson document). (Unpublished. An American version of the Binns family history.)
   p. 4.
6. ↑ 1881 Census (Greater London). (LDS Transcript).
7. ↑ Irene Stafford Ferguson in 1911; revised by Virginia Stafford Ferguson in 1984. An Account of the Family of the Binns from 1663 (Ferguson document). (Unpublished. An American version of the Binns family history.)
   p. 17.
8.   James Howard Binns (1894-1987). Descendants of David Binns and Ann Wilson. (unpublished work).
9.   Kenneth Wilson. Lothersdale Chart. (unpublished chart of Binns families derived from Lothersdale records).