MOSS OF HORSFORTH

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MOSS

MATTHEW MOSS of Horsforth, Yorkshire, skinner, was buried on 30 June 1704 at Guiseley.[1] He married first, on 12 February 1682/83 at Adel, ROSAMUND HARRISON.[2] She was buried on 18 July 1692 at Guiseley.[3] Matthew married second, on 24 October 1692 at Otley, ELIZABETH RHODES.[4]

Children of Matthew and Rosamund (Harrison) Moss:

i ELIZABETH MOSS, bap 21 Jan 1683/84, Otley,[5] d 14 Feb 1769,[6] bur 17 Feb 1769, Adel;[7] m 27 May 1703, Guiseley, THOMAS KITCHIN[8] (see here).

ii MATTHEW MOSS, bap 10 Mar 1685/86, Guiseley,[9] bur 17 Jul 1687, Guiseley.[10]

iii THOMAS MOSS, bap 16 Apr 1688, Guiseley.[11]

iv ANN MOSS, bap 29 Dec 1690, Guiseley;[12] m 26 Aug 1711, Guiseley, JOHN KITCHIN.[13]

v MATTHEW MOSS, bur 22 Nov 1691, Guiseley.[14]

Children of Matthew and Elizabeth (Rhodes) Moss:

vi MARY MOSS, bap 1 Nov 1693, Guiseley;[15] m 9 May 1722, Guiseley, JOSEPH HOLMES.[16]

vii MATTHEW MOSS of Horsforth, yeoman, bap 10 Nov 1695, Guiseley;[17] m 29 Oct 1723, St Peter, Leeds, ELIZABETH WALKER.[18]

viii THOMAS MOSS of Thorner, bap 5 Dec 1698, Guiseley.[19]

ix ROSE MOSS, bap 14 Oct 1700, Guiseley.[20]

x ROSE MOSS, bap 11 Oct 1701, Guiseley,[21] bur 7 Feb 1771, Otley;[22] m(1) 12 Jun 1727, Guiseley, WILLIAM HODGSON;[23] m(2) 31 Oct 1754, Guiseley, RICHARD HARDAKER.[24]

xi WILLIAM MOSS, bap 18 Mar 1703/04, Guiseley.[25]

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[1] Guiseley parish registers (online at www.ancestry.com).

[2] Adel parish registers (online at www.ancestry.com). The Adel bishop’s transcripts (online at www.findmypast.co.uk) give her name as “Elizabeth Harrison” and the date as 7 Feb 1682/83.

[3] Guiseley parish registers (online at www.ancestry.com).

[4] William Brigg, ed., The Parish Registers of Otley, part 2 (Leeds, 1912), 149.

[5] William Brigg, ed., The Parish Registers of Otley, part 2 (Leeds, 1912), 19.

[6] George Denison Lumb, ed., The Registers of the Parish Church of Adel (Leeds, 1895), 210.

[7] Adel parish registers (online at www.ancestry.com).

[8] Guiseley parish registers (online at www.ancestry.com).

[9] Guiseley parish registers (online at www.ancestry.com).

[10] Guiseley parish registers (online at www.ancestry.com).

[11] Guiseley bishop’s transcripts (online at www.findmypast.co.uk).

[12] Guiseley parish registers (online at www.ancestry.com); William Easterbrook Preston and Joseph Hambley Rowe, eds, A Transcript of the Early Registers of the Parish of Guiseley (Bradford, 1913), 222.

[13] Guiseley parish registers (online at www.ancestry.com).

[14] Guiseley bishop’s transcripts (online at www.findmypast.co.uk).

[15] Guiseley parish registers (online at www.ancestry.com).

[16] Guiseley parish registers (online at www.ancestry.com).

[17] Guiseley parish registers (online at www.ancestry.com).

[18] St Peter, Leeds, parish registers (online at www.ancestry.com).

[19] Guiseley parish registers (online at www.ancestry.com). The will of Rose (Moss) (Hodgson) Hardaker mentions “the six Children of my brother Thomas Moss of Thorner”. He may be the Thomas Moss, fellmonger, buried at Thorner on 20 Apr 1774. His wife may be the Jane Moss, widow, aged 76, buried at Thorner on 12 Dec 1780.

[20] Guiseley parish registers (online at www.ancestry.com).

[21] Guiseley parish registers (online at www.ancestry.com).

[22] Otley bishop’s transcripts (online at www.findmypast.co.uk). Will dated 23 May 1769, proved 17 Jun 1771 (Borthwick Institute).

[23] Guiseley parish registers (online at www.ancestry.com).

[24] Guiseley parish registers (online at www.ancestry.com); Archbishop of York Marriage Licences Index, 1613-1839 (online at www.findmypast.co.uk).

[25] Guiseley parish registers (online at www.ancestry.com).