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THE ANCESTRY OF JAMES HAROLD WILSON
1 James Harold Wilson, Baron Wilson of Rievaulx
b 11 Mar 1916, Linthwaite,
Yorkshire
d 23/24 May 1995, Lambeth, London
2 James Herbert Wilson of Openshaw, Lancashire, chemist
b 12 Dec 1882, Chorlton-upon-Medlock,
Lancashire
d 1971
m 14 Mar 1906, Congregational Church, Openshaw
3 Ethel Seddon,
school teacher
b 10 Apr 1882, Openshaw
d 1957
4 James Wilson of Sale, draper
b 18 Nov 1843, Rievaulx,
Yorkshire
d
m 6 Apr 1872, Oakes Baptist Chapel, Lindley, Yorkshire
5 Eliza Jane Thewlis
b 7 Apr 1847, Huddersfield
d
6 William Seddon
of Wigan, Lancashire, railway clerk
b 4 Feb 1855, Wigan
d
m 28 Apr 1880, Independent Chapel, Chorlton-upon-Medlock
7 Elizabeth Ann Davy
b 9 Jan 1856, Doncaster, Yorkshire
d
8 John Wilson, shoe maker and farmer,
Master of Workhouse at York
bap 7 Nov 1817, Helmsley
d 28 Oct 1882
m 7 Aug 1841
9 Esther Cole
bap 8 Feb 1818, Old Byland,
Yorkshire
d 30 Apr 1895
10 Titus
Thewlis of St. Peters Street, Huddersfield, cotton-warp manufacturer
b ca 1813, Huddersfield
d 13 Jun 1866, Huddersfield
m 21 Jul 1838, Collegiate Church, Manchester
11 Mary
Ann Eastwood
b 12 Feb 1815, Almondbury,
Yorkshire
d
12 Thomas
Seddon of
Wigan, railway coalman
b ca 1832, Little Hulton,
Lancashire
d
m 1854
13 Sarah
Brown
b ca 1829, Standish
d
14 David
Davy of Openshaw, mechanic on railways
b ca 1830, Bradford, Yorkshire
d
m 3 Apr 1853, Bradford
15 Jane
Whitfield
bap 20 Sep 1829, Wetherby,
Yorkshire
d
16 James
Wilson of Helmsley, Yorkshire, cordwainer and farmer
bap 2 May 1790, Edston
bur 2 Sep 1825, Helmsley
m 16 Nov 1816, Helmsley
17 Elizabeth
Hawkins
b ca 1782, Rievaulx
d aft 1851
18 Thomas
Cole of Helmsley, farmer
b
d
m 9 Jan 1817, Hawnby, Yorkshire
19 Sarah
Bentley
b
d
20 Thomas
Thewlis of Huddersfield, weaver
b
d
m 27 Apr 1807, St. Peter, Huddersfield
21 Phoebe
Wood
b
d
22 James
Eastwood, spinner
b
d
m
23 Betty
b
d
24 Thomas
Seddon, collier
b
d
m
25
b
d
26 Thomas
Brown, labourer
b
d
m
27
b
d
28 David
Davy, farmer
b
d
m
29
b
d
30 James
Whitfield of Wetherby, ostler
b
d
m 18 Jul 1821, Spofforth, Yorkshire
31 Susannah
Hall
b
d
C.R.
Humphery-Smith and M.G. Heenan,
“The Ancestry of Mr Harold Wilson”, Family History, vol. 3 no. 17/18
(Nov 1965), vol. 4 no. 19 (Jan 1966)
“The
Pedigree of a Prime Minister” and “Narrative Pedigree of Harold Wilson”, Blackmansbury, vol. 2 no. 3 (Aug 1965), 71-82
Oxford
Dictionary of National Biography
Old
Byland parish register abstract
Lockwood
Baptist registers (National Archives, RG 4/2744)
St.
Peter, Huddersfield, parish registers
Wetherby parish registers
Spofforth parish registers
Bradford
parish registers (available online at http://www.ancestry.com)
1841
census returns, Huddersfield (National Archives, HO 107/1275/5, fol. 35)
1851
census returns, Huddersfield (National Archives, HO 107/2295, fol. 243)
1861
census returns, Wigan (National Archives, RG 9/2777, fol. 20)
1881
census returns, Openshaw (National Archives, RG 11/3909,
fol. 50)
National
probate calendars