Descendants of Thomas Dewhirst and Elizabeth Mychell

submitted by Pat Holland email her for further information ~ additional data from David Freeman

NOTE: This line originated in Hebden Bridge near Halifax, West Yorkshire, England and moved on to live in Saltaire (Titus Salt's village) around 1855

CHECK OUT Yorkshire: Heptonstall - Parish Registers (Christenings, Marriages & Burials), 1593-1660
Baptisms.
20 May 1660 Mary Isaack Dewhirst Greave
22 Dec 1644 Ja... Johis Dewhirst de Wad.
23 May 1647 Maria fil. Joh'is Dewhirst de Wadisworth
27 Feb 1652 Thomas s. of Isaacke Dewhirst of Wad.
03 Jul 1659 Mary Jo: Dewhirst Wad.
10 Oct 1619 Tho: fil. Thomas Dewhirst Wad.

Family of Thomas Dewhirst and Elizabeth Mychell

[1] new info from H R Dewhirst, Sowerby Bridge: Child od John and Elizabeth is: John Dewhirst who m Sara Ackroyd 4 Apr 1659. Son of John and Sara is John Dewhirst who m Hester Cockcroft 26
Sept. 1696. Son of John and Hester is John who m. Mary Ingham 16 January 1729, all of Wadsworth - more info to come.

Family of Isaac Dewhirst and Grace Sutcliffe

Family of Thomas Dewhirst and Susan Moser

Family of William Dewhirst and Elizabeth Whitwam

[1] Click on Jacob's name to see his line.

[2] Children of John and Sally Jackson Dewhirst are: Isaac b 1766, Tommy b1769, John b 1770

Family of William Dewhirst and Susan Townsend

NOTE: We have not proved this connection however, an article written by Michael Baumber for St. Andrew's Church in Kildwick in 2005 included the following reference to a Thomas Dewhurst in the above time frame and the local Sutton Baptist Church:

"Sutton Baptist Church being included as a centre for legal marriages under the 1837 act setting up the present system of registration for Births, Deaths, and Marriages, contains records going back to 1711. This fits very nicely with evidence from an old book of 1780 which gives the name of the first minister as Thomas Dewhirst and has an entry showing that members began assembling for worship in a barn which was converted into a meeting house in that year.

There may well have been Baptists in Sutton prior to 1711 because the congregation there appears to have been one of a string of Baptist communities founded by William Mitchell a handloom weaver of Heptonstall and his cousin, David Crossley, an itinerant stone mason. Their first foundation was at Cloughfold in Rossendale probably shortly after the Glorious Revolution of 1688 and by 1692 there seem to have been a string of preaching places in Airedale which may well have included Sutton. The most influential of the local Baptist communities was the one at Barnoldswick where the pastor
was Alvery Jackson. In 1719 Jackson was responsible for the setting up of the Lancashire and Yorkshire Baptist Association. Sutton was one of the original seven members and the articles were signed by its pastor at the time, Henry Wilkinson. In 1723 the annual meeting of the Association took place at Sutton. Archbishop Herring's Visitation of 1742 shows that out of 600 families in the parish 100 were nonconformists, almost certainly Baptist. By 1756 there is record of another Baptist church at Cowlinghead."

Family of William Dewhirst and Betty Walton

Family of William Dewhirst and Sally Greenwood

[1] Occupation: Weaver.

[2] Sally Greenwood b c.1788 at Heptonstall, Lancashire, England

[3] Children of John and Susannah Sutcliffe Dewhirst are: James Dewhurst b: 1830; William Dewhurst b: 1832, Sarah Dewhurst b: 1835 and Ann Dewhurst b: 1838 - all children were born in Hebden Bridge, Halifax

[4] NOTE from Pat Holland: There is a doubt about James Dewhirst1810 (who I am descended from). William was said to have died in 1808 and a James Greenwood was reputed to have been James' father. Sally Greenwood went on to marry a Thomas Greenwood in 1811. The Greenwoods were prolific in Heptonstall. James was always known as Dewhirst never as Greenwood.

[5] Rhoda Rushworth b 1810, d. 1879

Family of James Dewhirst and Rhoda Rushworth

NOTE: click on the names of Eccles, James and William to go to new sets of charts for their lines.

[1] Occupation: Tin Plate worker at Salts Mill. The family was living in Saltaire, West Yorkshire, England from 1854-1923
[2] Sarah Brown was from Celbridge. Ireland (b 1856, d 1883)

Family of Leonard Dewhirst and 2) Louisa ?

[1] This family lived in Saltaire, West Yorkshire, England in 1881. Children of Sarah Dewhirst and Daniel O'Leary are: John Jas.O'Leary b 1867; Mark R O'Leary b 1869.

[2] Sarah ?? was b: 1856 in Cambridge, UK and d: 1883.

Family of James Dewhirst and Edith Goldsbrough