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William Hepworth was allegedly born in 1773 in West Riding,
Yorkshire, England WI1, but his burial record indicated that he was
sixty-eight at the time of his death, and so he may have been born about 1771 PA10. William, who was a maltster in Cowick,
West Riding WI1, was the father of Samuel Hepworth, who
was baptized in June 1809 in Snaith, Yorkshire, England EN4. The town of Snaith is less than one mile
from the villages of East and West Cowick, and is about seven miles west of
Goole.
There
were eleven known infant boys named William Hepworth who were born in Yorkshire
between 1768 and 1777 EN4. Because William was known to have lived in
Snaith, Yorkshire, his birth may have occurred near this town. William’s
parents are still unidentified, but perhaps he was one of the eleven
individuals described below for whom baptismal records were found. William, son
of William Hepworth, was christened on July 3, 1768 in West Clayton, Yorkshire EN4, which is
thirty-five miles west of Snaith. William, born to Luke and Elizabeth Hepworth,
was christened on September 11, 1768 in Todwick, Yorkshire EN4, which is thirty-two
miles south of Snaith. William, son of Thomas, was christened on April 9, 1769
in Woodkirk, West Ardley, Yorkshire EN4, twenty-six miles
west of Snaith. William, son of Matthew Hepworth, was baptized on August 28,
1770 in Ovenden, Yorkshire, forty miles west of Snaith. William, born to
William and Ann Hepworth on April 13, 1771, was christened on May 21, 1771 in
Ackworth, Yorkshire EN4. Ackworth is about seventeen miles southwest
of Snaith. William, son of John Hepworth, was christened at St. Peter’s
Cathedral in Sheffield, Yorkshire on February 24, 1773 EN4. Sheffield lies
about thirty-eight miles southwest of Snaith. William, born to Richard Hepworth
in Womersley, Yorkshire, was christened on March 14, 1773 EN4. Womersley is a very
small village which lies ten miles southwest of Snaith. Two boys named William
were born in Birstall, Yorkshire, and they were the sons of Jehu Hepworth and
Benjamin Hepworth, baptized on September 1, 1774 and December 3, 1775,
respectively EN4. Birstall is thirty miles west of Snaith. William, the
son of William Hepworth, was christened sometime in 1775 in Kirkburton,
Yorkshire EN4, which is forty miles southwest of Snaith. Lastly,
William, son of Joseph Hepworth was christened in Emley, Yorkshire on May 20, 1777
EN4, which is about thirty-five miles southwest of Snaith.
Two
of these eleven records stand out with respect to their proximation to Snaith
or to his estimated birth year. Of the records which were found, the baptism of
William, who was christened in Womersley as the son of Richard Hepworth on
March 14, 1773 EN4, occurred nearest to Snaith, which is just ten miles
distant. The second baptismal record was closest in time to the estimated birth
year of the subject, as he was christened the very same year that William
Hepworth, the father of Samuel Clayton Hepworth, was probably born: William,
the son of William and Ann Hepworth, was the only boy whose birth occurred in
1771; he was born April 13, 1771 and was christened on May 21, 1771 in
Ackworth, Yorkshire EN4.
William
married Margaret Clayton on September 13, 1795 at St. Lawrence Church in
Snaith, Yorkshire EN6. William
Hepworth of Snaith married Margaret Clayton of Cowick in the Parish Church of
Snaith on September 13, 1795 in a ceremony officiated by Vicar Edwd Bracken LLD and in the presence of
Richard Hankes and another person whose name is illegible CH23. William Hepworth of Cowick, in the Parish of Snaith, was described
as a maltster in a “Bargain and Sale by Lease and Release” on April 19 and 20,
1824 YA1. He and Richard Denby, a grocer and
draper of Snaith, were appointed by Robert Todd of Snaith, in his will, as
trustees to sell Robert Todd’s property YA1.
Others mentioned in the transaction were Robert Todd’s widow, Elizabeth, John
Rickard of Carlton, and Henry Mitton of Snaith YA1. John Rickard paid 590 pounds to Richard
Denby and William Hepworth to release the property in Snaith, which included a
messuage, tenement, warehouse, garden, garth (courtyard), two stables attached
to the warehouse, and an outbuilding adjacent to the garden, and another five
shillings apiece to Elizabeth Todd, Richard Denby, and William Hepworth YA1.
A deed with a date
of September 7, 1831 recorded that William Hepworth, a maltster of Cowick in
the parish of Snaith, leased three parcels of land in Hatfield from William
Hatfield Gossip of Stamford, Lincolnshire GO7.
These were at “The New Close”, a parcel of five acres, two rods, and twenty-seven
paces near the mansion house in Hatfield, the “West Field Intack”, which was a
lot of three acres, and the “New Mill Field”, which was a close of a bit over
one acre GO7. A close was an enclosed area.
William Hepworth of
Cowick in the
parish of Snaith died at the age of sixty-eight CH23, PA10 on March 7, 1839 in
Yorkshire WI1 and was buried on March 10, 1839 in Snaith, Yorkshire CH23, EN5, PA10.
Justin
E. Wilder believed that William may have been the son of William Hepworth, a
soldier who married a woman with the surname “Mitten”, who was the daughter of
a maltster WI1. If Mr.
Wilder was correct, then William Hepworth’s mother was the daughter of William
Mitton. William Mitton of Snaith was called a maltster in a document which was dated
May 11, 1767, regarding property in Snaith, including a house, barns, stable,
maltkins, and a close which was adjacent to Dove Coat Yard CL2. William Mitton was the father of five
known children who were baptized in Snaith: Henry was christened on January 2,
1746, Ann was christened on April 21, 1752, John on December 26, 1753, Margaret
on March 11, 1755, and Betty was christened on January 30, 1758 EN4. Of these children, Margaret, John, and
Thomas died in the years 1764, 1771, and 1773 EN5, respectively, which left just Ann and
Betty as the only remaining daughters of William Mitton who were of
marriageable age. If William Hepworth’s mother was a daughter of William
Mitton, then she was perhaps Ann Mitton, because Betty probably would have been
too young to have given birth to William Hepworth. William Mitton died sometime
before October 2, 1784, when on that date, Henry Mitton was called his son and
heir CL3; he died at the age of sixty-seven and
was interred in the south aisle of the Priory of Snaith in 1784, and his wife,
Mary Mitton, died at the age of seventy-eight in 1796 RO7. On November 4 or 5 in 1793, William
Hepworth was one of three witnesses to a lease of a messuage in Snaith, in
which Henry Mitton, a maltster of Snaith, was named as a member of the second
party to the lease CL4. This
particular William Hepworth may have been the subject of this biographical
sketch, or perhaps his father.
Margaret Clayton was born in 1778
in Yorkshire CE5, WI1. She was probably the “Peggy Clayton” who was
christened on April 20, 1778 in Snaith, Yorkshire, whose father was Samuel
Clayton EN4. Samuel Clayton and his antecedents have been discussed below
because their relationship is uncertain. Margaret was the mother of Mary WI1, EN4, William
WI1, HU1, EN4, John
WI1, EN4,
Elizabeth WI1, EN4,
Samuel WI1, HU1, EN4, two
daughters named Margaret who each died as infants WI1, EN4, Anne WI1, HU1, EN4, Joseph WI1, HU1, EN4, Jane WI1, EN4, Margaret WI1, HU1, EN4, Thomas WI1, EN4, and Henry C. WI1, EN4.
Mary
Hepworth,
the daughter of William, was christened on May 28, 1798 in Snaith EN4. She was
probably the Mary Hepworth who married John Dobson in Snaith, Yorkshire on May 23,
1825; (another record dated May 1, 1825 was probably the date of the
marriage bond) EN6. Mary
Hepworth married John Dobson in Snaith, Yorkshire on May 23, “in the Year One
thouſand eight hundred and twenty four” (wherein the words “twenty four”
were handwritten and the previous words were typed in a form) in a ceremony
officiated by William Gibson and in the presence of John Scorah and Ann Messam CH23. This was likely a recording error,
because all of the other marriage records on that page occurred in 1825 CH23. A
letter dated on May 31, 1845 from Anne Hepworth to her brothers, Samuel
and Joseph, referred to “Sister Dobson” HU1. A
nurse named Mary Dobson who was fifty-two and married resided with Margaret
Hepworth in Snaith at the time of the 1851 UK census.
William Hepworth, the son of William Hepworth, was christened
on June 11, 1802 in Snaith EN4. He may have been the William Hepworth who
married Dorothy Jubb on October 1, 1826 in Snaith EN6. William Hepworth, an attorney’s clerk
who was born about 1803, lived in Snaith, Yorkshire with his wife, Dorothy, and
children, John, Margaret, Ann, and Dorothy, in 1841 EN19. He was a “solicitor’s managing
Cl[erk]” who was born in Snaith about 1803 when he, Dorothy, and their children
were enumerated in Snaith in 1851 EN20.
The 1851 England Census recorded that Dorothy was forty-six and was born in
South Kirby, Yorkshire, while three of their children were born in Thorne and
the youngest, Dorothy, was born in Snaith EN20. William was buried in Snaith on September 4, 1859 EN5. His will was proved
on February 28, 1680 at Wakefield, by the oath of his widow and sole execurix,
Dorothy Hepworth of Snaith SE13. The probate record stated that he had been an
attorney’s clerk who died on September 1, 1859 at Snaith SE13.
John
Hepworth,
the son of William, was christened on September 1, 1805 in Snaith EN4. He was likely the John Hepworth who
married Ann Messam on July 30, 1826 in Snaith, Yorkshire (another record dated
July 9, 1826 was probably the marriage bond date) EN6. In 1841, John (age thirty-five of
Yorkshire) and Ann Hepworth lived in District 3 of Sandal, Walton Township,
Yorkshire with their children, William, Pearson, and Sarah EN19. John Hepworth lived in Warmfield cum
Heath, Yorkshire, England in 1851 with his wife, Anne, and children, Pearson,
Sarah Anne, seven-year-old Margaret, five-year-old Eliza, and Elizabeth EN20. The 1851 England Census stated that
this John and Anne were born in Snaith, Yorkshire about 1806 and 1807,
respectively EN20. In
1861, John Hepworth, age fifty-five (born about 1806) of Snaith, Yorkshire, was
a widower whose occupation was “Clerk in Charge” EN21. He lived in District 7 of Radcliffe on
Trent in Nottinghamshire with his two daughters, Margaret and Eliza, who were
seventeen and fifteen EN21. In
1871, John Hepworth (born about 1806 in Snaith, Yorkshire) was a retired
railway clerk who lived in District 41 of Halifax, Yorkshire with his
twenty-seven-year old daughter, Margaret EN22.
John Hepworth of Aybrigg (Agbrigg), Sandal Magna, York died at age
seventy-three and was buried on June 9, 1878 WE28. The notations of the coroner for West
Yorkshire stated WE30:
At the house of William Scholefield,
the Graziers Inn, Sandal Magna,
on Thursday the 6th day of June
1878 on view of the body of
John Hepworth deced
Margaret Hepworth of Agbrig, Sandal
Magna Embroideress sw says, Deced was my father. He was 73 years old &
formerly a Clerk in Charge at a Railway Station. He has not worked at anything
during the last twelve months. He began to attend every Tuesday at Clayton’s
Hospital & Dispensary but on account of the heavy rain he did not go there
last Tuesday. Last Sunday he ate some Cucumber at his dinner & in the
evening he complained of pain in his left side… My mother died 17 or 18 years
ago & my only sister died 8 or 9 years ago. Deced & I have been living
at Agbrig for the last 3 years & have only had one room. There is no window
but there are 2 panes in the door… He was apparently the same as usual last
Tuesday night but when he was in bed he seemed to be restless. Yesterday
morning he appeared to be asleep but as he had been restless I set off for a
doctor. I got back about noon & then seeing he was in the same position I
felt at him and found he was dead. Mr. F.
Wood then saw him. Deced was naked. He suffered from Scabies… Verdict Found
dead from natural causes.
Elizabeth Hepworth,
the daughter of William, was christened on August 9, 1807 in Snaith EN4. She resided with her mother, Margaret,
in 1841 and 1851 EN19, EN20;
the 1841 UK census stated that she was thirty years old and a teacher EN19, but she seems to have lost the ability
to speak by the time of the 1851 UK census, which indicated that she was
forty-three and dumb EN20.
A death record for Elizabeth Hepworth stated that she died on August 7, 1860 in
Snaith, Yorkshire EN5.
Samuel Clayton Hepworth, the son of
William, was born on May 16 HU1
and was christened on June 11, 1809 in Snaith EN4.
Margaret,
the daughter of William Hepworth, was christened on March 4, 1812 in Snaith EN4, and less than five months later, Margaret, the daughter of William Hepworth, was buried
in Snaith on July 26, 1812 EN5. Another child named Margaret who was called the daughter of William Hepworth and
Margaret Clayton was christened on May 23, 1813 in Snaith EN4, but was buried in Snaith on January
14, 1814 EN5.
Ann Hepworth, the daughter of
William Hepworth and Margaret Clayton, was christened on July 6, 1814 in Snaith
EN4.
She lived with her mother in 1841 and 1851; her occupation in those census
years was a teacher and a school mistress EN19,
EN20. Anne Hepworth was the head of the
household in District 1, Snaith, Yorkshire in 1861; she was born about 1815 in
Cowick, Yorkshire and was a teacher EN21.
She was buried on July 11, 1863 in Snaith EN5.
Joseph
Hepworth,
the son of William Hepworth and Margaret Clayton, was christened on June 29,
1815 in Snaith EN4. Joseph
Hepworth, a cabinet maker who was born about 1816, lived in Snaith, Yorkshire in
1841 with his wife, Mary, age thirty, one-year-old daughter, Margret, and a
thirteen-year-old “Shop Boy” named Thomas Hepworth EN19. A manifest for the ship Montezuma from Liverpool to the Port of
New York which was dated September 25, 1844, recorded that Joseph Hepworth, a
cabinet maker who was twenty-three, his wife, Mary, and daughters, Margaret and
Mary, were passengers on that voyage NE17. In
1855, Joseph was called a joiner who was born about 1815 when he was enumerated
in Buffalo, Erie County, New York with his wife, Mary Ann (born about 1810),
and daughters Margarett (born about 1840) and Mary Ann (born about 1842) NE29. He and his wife, Mary, resided in
Buffalo, Erie County, New York according to the 1860 US Census; he was a
cabinet maker who was born in England about 1815 UN11. Joseph and Mary Hepworth of England
continued to live in Buffalo, Erie County in 1865 NE30 and 1870, when J. Hepworth was called a
clerk in a store UN12.
His gravestone at Forest Lawn Cemetery in Buffalo, Erie County is challenging
to read, but states that he was born in June and died in February 1873 (a photo
of his gravestone can be located on the Find
a Grave website).
Jane
“Epworth”,
the daughter of William “Epworth” and Margaret Clayton, was christened on
November 3, 1816 in Snaith EN4 and
was buried in the same town on August 4, 1819 EN5. Margaret “Epworth”, the daughter of
William “Epworth” and Margaret Clayton, was christened on January 23, 1818 in
Snaith EN4.
Her age was twenty in 1841 EN19 but
thirty-three in 1851, when she was a teacher EN20; in both of those census years, she
lived with her mother and unmarried sisters. She was listed as a teacher who
was the unmarried sister of Anne Hepworth (who was the head of the household)
in District 1, Snaith, Yorkshire in 1861; she stated that she was born in
Cowick, York, and at age forty-three EN21, her birth occurred about 1818. The
1871 England Census reported that she was an unmarried fifty-three-year-old
retired teacher who was born in Cowick who lived alone in District 1, Snaith,
Yorkshire EN22.
She was probably the Margaret Hepworth who died at age sixty in early 1878
whose death was registered in April, May, or June 1878 in Goole, Yorkshire EN13.
Thomas
Hepworth,
the son of William Hepworth and Margaret Clayton, was christened on October 27,
1819 in Snaith EN4. He
may have been the “Thos
Hepworth” who was born about 1821 and resided with the family of Charles
Lister, as stone mason, in District 4 of Whitley, Womersley, Yorkshire in 1841 EN19. Thomas Hepworth may have married Sarah
Lister in October, November, or December 1843; their names were each recorded
in Volume 22, page 379 of the Sub-Registrar’s District of Pontefract EN14. Thomas and Sarah Hepworth lived in
Womersley, Yorkshire in 1851 with their children, Jane, age seven, Elizabeth,
George, and Mary A. EN20. In
this census record, Thomas stated that he was a brick and tile maker who was
born in Balne, Yorkshire EN20.
Snaith is about five miles east of Balne, seven miles east of Whitley, nine
miles east of Womersley, and fourteen miles east of Pontefract. In 1861, Thomas
and Sarah lived on Fullum Lane (probably Fulham Lane) in Womersley, Yorkshire
with their five children; Thomas was born about 1819 in Balne, and Sarah was
born about 1822 EN21.
They lived in District 1 of Whitley, Yorkshire in 1871 and 1881; his age was
recorded as fifty-three in 1871 EN22 and
sixty in 1881 EN23. He
died at age sixty-five in Whitley and was buried on February 19, 1883 WE28.
Henry
Hepworth,
the son of William Hepworth and Margaret Clayton, was christened on September
17, 1823 in Snaith EN4. He
was not included in his mother’s household in 1841, but he was enumerated with
his mother, sisters, and wife in 1851 in Snaith, Yorkshire, England EN20. In 1841, Selina Boucher was enumerated
at age fifteen on Clarence Street in District 2, Staines, Middlesex EN19. Census records state that she was born
in London, Middlesex EN20 or
Islington, Middlesex EN21.
Henry Hepworth, the son of William Hepworth, was called a draper who resided in
Selby, Yorkshire when he married Selina Boucher, the daughter of Thomas Boucher,
a hosier, on October 19, 1847 in the Parish Church in Staines, Middlesex,
England LO9. Henry
Hepworth was enumerated as a visitor in the household of Anne Hepworth in 1861;
he was born about 1827 Cowick, Yorkshire and his profession was “out of
Business” EN21. Selina
Hepworth and her children, Adelade I. and Herbert H., were enumerated in District
6, Somers Town, St. Pancras, Middlesex, England in 1861 EN21. Henry C. and Selina B. Hepworth, along
with their children, Adeline I., age nineteen, and Herbert H., age fourteen,
lived in Ward 13, Chicago, Cook County, Illinois in 1870 UN12. This census record indicated that he
was born about 1828 in England UN12. By
1880, he suffered from a “spinal disease” when he and Selina were enumerated at
790 Congress Street in Chicago, Cook County, Illinois UN13. The 1880 US Census stated that Henry
C. Hepworth was fifty-four and Selina B. was forty-nine years old UN13. Henry C. Hepworth died at age sixty-four on
September 6, 1889 in Cook County, Illinois IL9.
Margaret
Hepworth of Snaith in Yorkshire was called a widow on June 4, 1839 in an
assignment of a mortgage for the three properties her deceased husband had
leased on September 7, 1831 GO8. The mortgagees in this case were Margaret,
William Hepworth of Snaith, who was an attorney’s clerk, and Jonathan Wright of
Snaith, who was a cooper, and the mortgagers were John Hatfield Gossip,
Esquire, of Hatfield, Yorkshire, William Wilmer, Esquire, of Old Palace Yard in
Westminster, and Edmund Thompson, a gentleman of Armin in Snaith GO8. The residue was a
term of 1000 years for the sum of £500 GO8.
The
1841 United Kingdom census recorded that Margaret Hepworth, who was born in Yorkshire, was sixty years old, which
indicated that she was born about 1781 EN19.
The census stated that she lived on Beast Fair Road with four Hepworth women:
Elizabeth, a teacher of the age of thirty, Ann, another teacher, aged
twenty-five, Margaret, aged twenty, and Eliza, aged six EN19. Beast Fair Road is a tight road, with
houses and structures built very near its edge, adjacent to wide sidewalks.
Aside from sharing
news regarding her brother, William, and her sisters, “Dobson” and Margaret,
Anne Hepworth (daughter of the subject) mentioned her mother, Margaret
(Clayton) Hepworth, in a letter which was written to her brothers, Samuel and
Joseph Hepworth, on May 31, 1845 HU1.
This letter revealed that Margaret (Clayton) Hepworth’s children, William,
Margaret, Anne, and “Sister Dobson”, remained in England, while her sons Samuel
and Joseph Hepworth were probably in Buffalo, New York, at that time, because
the letter and a parcel were to have been delivered to that city by a woman
named Miss Barker HU1.
Regarding her mother, Anne stated HU1:
My dear mother’s health has been very
fickle during the last nine months, she is seldom well, never, never more may
she have a child to go to America, or any other foreign clime, for I think it
might kill her outright… because her body is weaker, and she is less able to
bear up under such heavy trials.
Margaret
Hepworth was said to have been seventy-three years old at the time of the 1851 England
census; she was the head of the household, was born in Snaith, and her
occupation was “Fund Holder” EN20. In
this census, she lived with her daughters, Elizabeth, aged forty-three, Anne,
aged thirty-six and a school mistress, and Margaret, aged thirty-three and a
teacher EN20. The 1851 census also recorded that Margaret’s twenty-four-year-old
son, Henry, and his wife and infant daughter, who were both named Selina, lived
in the household, as did a nurse, Mary Dobson EN20. The death certificate of Margaret Hepworth indicated that she
was the widow of William Hepworth, a maltster, and that she died from heart
disease on April 19, 1857 in Snaith, Yorkshire, England, at the age of
seventy-nine CE5. A woman named Hannah
Holmes stated that she was present at the time of Margaret’s death CE5. Margaret Hepworth of Snaith, age seventy-nine, was buried on
April 22, 1857 CH23.
The probable parents of Margaret Clayton:
Samuel Clayton (Matthew, Grace), the probable father of Margaret Clayton,
was christened in Normanton, Yorkshire, England on
September 22, 1748 to parents Matthew and Grace Clayton EN4. He married Margaret Jaques; their banns were
published by John Holdsworth, the vicar of All Saints Church in Normanton, Yorkshire, on three consecutive Sundays in July
and August, 1772, and they were married on August 9, 1772 WE15. Both Samuel and Margaret were described
as “of this Parish”, so they were probably born in Normanton,
and the witnesses to their wedding were Benjamin Clayton and Benjamin Priestly WE15. Samuel Clayton was named as the father
of Matthew, Peggy, Grace, and Samuel, who were christened in Snaith on April
16, 1775, April 20, 1778, October 17, 1782, and October 12, 1786, respectively EN4. He was probably the same Samuel Clayton
who was named as the father of Ann Clayton, who died in Snaith on May 3, 1808,
and he may have been the same Samuel Clayton who was buried on October 14, 1833
in Snaith EN5.
The parents of
Samuel Clayton:
Matthew Clayton married Grace Priestley on October 1, 1747 in Normanton,
Yorkshire EN6, and they were the parents of five known
children whose were christened in Normanton: Samuel,
christened on September 22, 1748, Benjamin on October 18, 1750, Matthew on
March 11, 1753, Grace on May 8, 1755, and Sarah, who was christened on
September 18, 1758 EN4.
Grace Priestley (Benjamin, Elizabeth) was christened on April 29, 1724 in Normanton, Yorkshire England as the daughter of Benjamin
and Elizabeth Priestley EN4.
The parents of
Grace Priestley:
Benjamin Priestly probably married Elizabeth. All of
the children of Benjamin and Elizabeth were also christened in Normanton, Yorkshire: Mary on September 22, 1717, Benjamin
on December 5, 1719 (but he died on February 24, 1721), Elizabeth on March 7,
1722, Grace on April 29, 1724, Alice on July 13, 1726, Benjamin on May 15,
1729, William on May 31, 1731, Richard on June 2, 1733, who may have died at a
young age, Simon on November 22, 1735, and another son named Richard on March
30, 1738 EN4.
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1841
UK Census: lived in District 1a, Snaith, Yorkshire, England.
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1851
UK Census: lived in District 2c and 3c, Snaith, Yorkshire, England.