QUARMBY OF WARLEY
William Quarmby’s death certificate gives his age in May 1838, with
unusual precision, as 49˝ years. If accurate, the only baptism found which
would be a plausible fit is that of William, son of Hugh Quarmby
of Binns in Linthwaite, who was baptised
at Slaithwaite on 22 November 1788. Linthwaite is a
few miles from Warley and Sowerby Bridge where William lived and died. The
identification is supported by the appearance of Hugh Quarmby
in a Warley poor rate assessment in 1815[1]
and by the burials of Hugh Quarmby and Ann, wife of
Hugh Quarmby, in the registers of Bolton Brow
Wesleyan chapel in Sowerby Bridge.
Another Quarmby record in the Bolton Brow
registers is the 1806 burial of Joseph, aged eight, son of Uriah Quarmby. The parentage of Uriah is not certain but Uriah
was a name used by the Quarmbys of Linthwaite as shown by the marriage in 1839 at Almondbury of Uriah Quarmby and
Sarah Pogson, both of Linthwaite.
There is mention of the Quarmbys of Binns in Linthwaite in Hulbert’s Annals of the Church in
Slaithwaite.[2]
Mary Berry, wife of William Quarmby, is stated
to have been of Warley at her marriage in 1809. Her place of birth is given in
1851 as Deanhead,[3]
in 1861 as Sla[i]thwaite,[4]
and in 1871 as Halifax.[5]
The baptism on 26 February 1792 of a Mally, daughter of Joseph Berry of Scammonden, clothier, is recorded in the parish registers
of West Scammonden (Deanhead).
However, Mary, daughter of Joseph Berry, was buried there on 7 October 1792.
Another Mary, daughter of Joseph Berry, was baptised
there on 28 April 1793, but that is a little late to be the wife of William Quarmby. It is more likely that Mary (Berry) Quarmby was a daughter of James Berry and Elizabeth
Gledhill who were married at Huddersfield in 1786, although I have not found a
baptism for her. One reasons for thinking that Mary was their daughter is that
James and Elizabeth lived at Deanhead in the 1780s
and 1790s and seem to have moved to Warley by 1802 when Solomon, son of James
Berry of Warley, was baptised at Sowerby Bridge, and
Elizabeth, wife of James Berry of Sowerby Bridge, was buried at West Scammonden. James and Elizabeth had a son called John baptised in 1787 and one of the witnesses at the marriage
of Mary to William Quarmby was a John Berrey. There
is also some support from DNA matches, with Derek Vincent Davies (a descendant
of William Quarmby and Mary Berry) having a 20 cM match with a descendant of Sarah (Berry) Bintcliffe,
daughter of James and Elizabeth, a match which is shared by another descendant
(through a different child) of George and Mary Ann (Quarmby)
Greenwood.
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QUARMBY
1 HUGH QUARMBY of Linthwaite
and Warley, Yorkshire, was born ca 1748 and was buried on 7 September 1828 at
Sowerby Bridge.[6]
He married on 26 December 1782 at Almondbury, ANN
BEAUMONT.[7]
Ann was born about 1763 and was buried on 19 May 1833 at Sowerby Bridge.[8]
Children of Hugh and Ann
(Beaumont) Quarmby:[9]
2 i WILLIAM QUARMBY (1788-1838); m MARY BERRY.
ii HANNAH QUARMBY, bap 14 Apr 1793,
Slaithwaite, bur 25 May 1797, Slaithwaite.[10]
2 WILLIAM QUARMBY of Warley, engine tenter, was baptised on 22
November 1788 at Slaithwaite[11]
and died on 30 May 1838 at Sowerby Bridge.[12]
He married on 1 January 1809 at Halifax, MARY BERRY.[13]
Mary was born ca 1789[14] and died on 9 May
1877 at Warley.[15]
Children of William and Mary
(Berry) Quarmby:
i MARY
ANN QUARMBY, b 22 May 1809, bap 13 Aug 1809, Sowerby Bridge,[16]
d 18 Apr 1847, Wortley;[17] m 17 Feb 1828,
Halifax, GEORGE GREENWOOD[18] (see here).
ii JOSEPH QUARMBY, b 18 Nov 1811, bap
16 Feb 1812, Sowerby Bridge,[19]
d 7 Dec 1830, bur 12 Dec 1830, Sowerby Bridge.[20]
iii HARRIET QUARMBY of Sowerby Bridge,
worsted drawer, b 9 May 1814, Warley,[21]
d 25 Oct 1901, Sowerby Bridge.[22]
iv FRANCES QUARMBY, b 14 Jan 1816,
Sowerby Bridge,[23]
d 30 May 1872;[24]
m 21 Jun 1846, Halifax, GEORGE GREENWOOD.[25]
v SARAH QUARMBY, b 19 Oct 1818, Warley,[26] d 15 Aug 1897, Scarborough;[27] m 7 Mar 1848, Rochdale, JOHN ECCLES.[28]
[1] Warley poor rate assessment, 1815 (online at www.ancestry.com).
[3] 1851 census returns, Warley (National Archives, HO 107/2300, fol. 343).
[4] 1861 census returns, Warley (National Archives, RG 9/3291, fol. 5).
[5] 1871 census returns, Warley (National Archives, RG 10/4410, fol. 14).
[6] Bolton Brow Wesleyan registers (National Archives, RG 4/3224).
[7] Almondbury parish registers (online at www.ancestry.com).
[8] Bolton Brow Wesleyan registers (National Archives, RG 4/3224).
[9] There was more than one Hugh Quarmby in the area at the time and the mothers’ names are not generally given in the relevant baptism entries. The residence of the father Hugh in Hannah’s burial entry is given as Binns in Linthwaite, so he appears to be the same Hugh who was the father of the William baptised in 1788.
[10] Slaithwaite parish registers (online at www.ancestry.com).
[11] Slaithwaite parish registers (online at www.ancestry.com).
[12] The entry for his burial on 3 Jun 1838 in the
Sowerby Bridge parish registers (West Yorkshire Archive Service, WDP93/1/25)
gives William’s date of death as 29 May. However, his death certificate gives
the date of death as 30 May 1838, as does his monumental
inscription.
[13] Halifax parish registers (West Yorkshire Archive
Service, WDP53/1/44). Mary’s surname is spelt “Berrey” in the marriage entry.
[15] Death certificate.
[16] Sowerby Bridge parish registers (West Yorkshire Archive Service, WDP93/1/3).
[17] Death certificate.
[18] Halifax parish registers (West Yorkshire Archive
Service, WDP53/1/55).
[19] Sowerby Bridge parish registers (West Yorkshire Archive Service, WDP93/1/3).
[20] Sowerby Bridge parish registers (West Yorkshire
Archive Service, WDP93/1/24); monumental
inscription at Sowerby Bridge.
[21] Sowerby Bridge parish registers (West
Yorkshire Archive Service, WDP93/1/4); 1861 census returns, Warley (National
Archives, RG 9/3291, fol. 5).
[22] Death certificate.
[23] Sowerby Bridge parish registers (West Yorkshire Archive Service, WDP93/1/4); 1851 census returns, Warley (National Archives, HO 107/2300, fol. 343).
[24] Monumental inscription at Sowerby Bridge.
[25] Marriage certificate.
[26] Sowerby Bridge parish registers (online at www.ancestry.com); 1851 census returns, Warley (National Archives, HO 107/2300, fol. 376).
[27] Monumental inscription at Scarborough; grant of administration, 24 Sep 1897, to her sister Harriet Quarmby of Sowerby Bridge.
[28] Rochdale parish registers (online at www.ancestry.com).
