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, fellmonger, bap 5 Dec 1698, Guiseley,[19] bur 20 Apr 1774, Thorner;[20] m JANE.[21]

ix            ROSE MOSS, bap 14 Oct 1700, Guiseley.[22]

x              ROSE MOSS, bap 11 Oct 1701, Guiseley,[23] bur 7 Feb 1771, Otley;[24] m(1) 12 Jun 1727, Guiseley, WILLIAM HODGSON;[25] m(2) 31 Oct 1754, Guiseley, RICHARD HARDAKER.[26]

xi            WILLIAM MOSS, bap 18 Mar 1703/04, Guiseley.[27]



[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).

[20] Thorner 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”.

[21] Will of Thomas Moss, dated 14 Apr 1772, proved May 1774 (Borthwick Institute).

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

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

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

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

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

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