Submitted by Robyn Lynn and
David Freeman
Family of William Dewhurst and Alice Smith nee ? (a widow)
NAME | BIRTH | LOCATION | DEATH | LOCATION | MARRIAGE | LOCATION | SPOUSE |
William Dewhurst [1] | 29 June 1747 | Skipton, England | bur 17 June 1809 | Gisburn, England | 27 Dec 1785 | Mary’s Church, Gisburn,
Yorkshire (now Lancashire), England |
Alice Smith nee ? (a widow) |
Susannah Dewhurst |
b. 3 December 1786 Chr 5 January 1787 |
b. Newsholme, Yorkshire, England Chr. Gisburn, Yorkshire (now Lancashire), England | 25 October 1810 | Gisburn, Yorkshire (now Lancashire), England | Anthony Hargreaves [2] | ||
Hannah Dewhurst | b. 22 July 1789 Chr 9 August 1789 | b. Newsholme, Yorkshire, England Chr. Gisburn, Yorkshire (now Lancashire), England | 21 March 1820 | Bur. St Andrews, Skipton, Yorkshire, England | Robert Johnston [3] | ||
Ann Dewhurst | b. 22 May 1791 Chr. 31 July 1791 |
b. Newsholme, Yorkshire, England Chr. Gisburn, Yorkshire (now Lancashire), England | 04 July 1881 | Blackpool, England | 11 April 1826 | Skipton in Craven,Yorkshire, England | John Bonney [4] |
[1] William farmed at Slack, Gisburn. Alice Smith was a widow from Barnoldswick, perhaps an Atkinson. Alice was b. abt ? 1759 - her age on the headstone is hard to read. She was buried 20 Jan 1815. She died at Newhouse, Barnoldswick but was buried at Gisburn with William.
[2] Anthony Hargreaves was Christened 16 January 1774 at Tosside, Yorkshire, England. The Hargreaves lived and farmed at Horton Pasture, Gultridge and then Grindleton adn were still alive in the 1851 census living in West Derby a district of Liverpool, England. They had eight children- all Christened at Gisburn: William Dewhurst Hargreaves Chr. 20 November 1814 and d. 22 April 1816 - b. at Gisburn; Ann Hargreaves Chr. 26 May 1816; Margaret Hargreaves Chr. 10 April 1818 - d. 16 August 1886 and m. John Bamber (9 Feb 1811 - 1 Jan 1896) on 10 February 1841 at Blackpool, Lancashire; William Dewhurst Hargreaves b: Gultridge and Chr. 15 October 1820, Gisburn, Yorkshire, England, d: 1907 Flintshire, Wales (William farmed at Mold, Flintshire, Wales and was m. twice 1) Mary Hughes - 6 children, 2) Eliza Ames - 5 childrenn; Hannah Hargreaves b: Grindleton, Chr. 19 January 1823, Gisburn; Ellen Hargreaves b: Grindleton and Chr. 1 May 1825, Gisburn; James b. abt April 1827 at Grindleton and Bur. as a babe 5 May 1827 and Susannah Hargreaves b. Grindleton and Chr. 03 August 1829, Gisburn, Yorkshire, England.
Descendents from this line have or had surnames including Bamber, Oakley, Emerson, Law, Baskerville, King, Dunstone, Crump, Roberts, Cole, Varley, Goodwin, and Fisher.
[3] Robert Johnson was a draper. Robert died 18 February 1851 aged 65yrs and is buried with Hannah. They had 2 children: Mary Ellen Johnston b abt 1820 died August 21st 1821 aged 1yr and 8 months and Alice Johnston b abt 1817 died September 20th 1861 in Annan, Dumfrieshire, Scotland. Both daughters are buried with their parents at St. Andrews.
[4] John Bonney was was b: 1796 and d: December 1864 in Prescot, Yorkshire, England. John Bonny was the brother of Alice Bonny who married John Dewhurst on Thomas's (son of Isaac Sr.) line.