NEWSOME OF
GILDERSOME
One
of the witnesses at the marriage of James and Susanna (Newsome) Benn was John Thackrah,
and the Batley parish registers record the marriage of John Thackrah and Mary
Benn in 1766, when one of the witnesses was a James Benn. The detailed baptism
records of John and Mary’s children show that Mary was a daughter of William
Benn. The Batley parish registers also show the baptisms of James Benn in 1745
and Mary Benn in 1747/48, children of William Benn, clothier, of Gildersome.
William Benn and Sarah Walsh had been married at Batley in 1745. These records
suggest the possibility that Susanna (Benn) Newsome was a daughter of William
and Sarah (Walsh) Benn. However, no baptism has been located for Susanna.
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NEWSOME
JAMES
NEWSOME of Gildersome, Yorkshire, clothier, married on 16 May 1770 at Batley,
SUSANNA BENN.[1]
Children
of James and Susanna (Benn) Newsome:
i SARAH NEWSOME, b 12 Sep 1770, Gildersome,[2]
d 9 Dec 1864, Gildersome;[3]
m 18 Aug 1791, Batley, MATTHEW STEPHENSON[4]
(see here).
ii JOHN NEWSOME[5]
of Gildersome, clothier, b ca 1781, Gildersome;[6]
m 28 Sep 1801, Birstall, HANNAH DODGSON.[7]
[1] Batley parish registers (online at www.ancestry.com).
[2] Batley parish registers (online at www.ancestry.com); 1861 census returns, Gildersome (National Archives, RG 9/3352, fol. 94).
[3] Death certificate.
[4] Batley parish registers (online at www.ancestry.com).
[5] The baptism entries of John and Hannah’s children in the Batley parish registers confirm that John’s father was named James Newsome. One of John and Hannah’s children was called George Benn Newsome, offering some onomastic support to John’s mother being Susanna Benn.
[6] 1851 census returns, Gildersome (National Archives, HO 107/2314, fol. 69).
[7] Birstall parish registers (online at www.ancestry.com).