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]
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QUARMBY
1 HUGH QUARMBY of Linthwaite and
Warley, Yorkshire, was born about 1748 and was buried on 7 September 1828 at
Sowerby Bridge.[3]
He married on 26 December 1782 at Almondbury, ANN BEAUMONT.[4]
Ann was born about 1763 and was buried on 19 May 1833 at Sowerby Bridge.[5]
Children
of Hugh and Ann (Beaumont) Quarmby:[6]
2 i WILLIAM
QUARMBY (1788-1838); m MARY BERRY.
ii HANNAH QUARMBY, bap 14 Apr 1793, Slaithwaite,
bur 25 May 1797, Slaithwaite.[7]
2 WILLIAM QUARMBY of Warley,
engine tenter, was baptised on 22 November 1788 at Slaithwaite[8]
and died on 30 May 1838 at Sowerby Bridge.[9] He married on 1
January 1809 at Halifax, MARY BERRY.[10]
Mary was born ca 1789[11] and died on 9 May
1877 at Warley.[12]
Children
of William and Mary (Berry) Quarmby:
i
MARY ANN QUARMBY, b 22 May 1809, bap 13
Aug 1809, Sowerby Bridge,[13]
d 18 Apr 1847, Wortley;[14] m 17 Feb 1828,
Halifax, GEORGE GREENWOOD[15] (see here).
ii
JOSEPH QUARMBY, b 18 Nov 1811, bap 16
Feb 1812, Sowerby Bridge,[16]
d 7 Dec 1830, bur 12 Dec 1830, Sowerby Bridge.[17]
iii
HARRIET QUARMBY of Sowerby Bridge,
worsted drawer, b 9 May 1814, Warley,[18]
d 25 Oct 1901, Sowerby Bridge.[19]
iv FRANCES QUARMBY, b 14 Jan 1816, Sowerby
Bridge,[20]
d 30 May 1872;[21]
m 21 Jun 1846, Halifax, GEORGE GREENWOOD.[22]
v SARAH QUARMBY, b 19 Oct 1818, Warley,[23] d 15 Aug 1897, Scarborough;[24] m 7 Mar 1848, Rochdale, JOHN ECCLES.[25]
[1] Warley poor rate assessment, 1815 (online at www.ancestry.com).
[3] Bolton Brow Wesleyan registers (National Archives, RG 4/3224).
[4] Almondbury parish registers (online at www.ancestry.com).
[5] Bolton Brow Wesleyan registers (National Archives, RG 4/3224).
[6] 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.
[7] Slaithwaite parish registers (online at www.ancestry.com).
[8] Slaithwaite parish registers (online at www.ancestry.com).
[9] 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.
[10] Halifax parish registers (West Yorkshire Archive
Service, WDP53/1/44). Mary’s surname is spelt “Berrey” in the marriage entry.
[11] Mary’s place of birth is variously given as
Deanhead (1851 census returns, Warley, National Archives, HO 107/2300, fol.
343), Sla[i]thwaite (1861 census returns, Warley, National Archives, RG
9/3291, fol. 5) and Halifax (1871 census returns, Warley, National Archives, RG
10/4410, fol. 14). One of the witnesses at the marriage of Mary to William
Quarmby was a John Berrey. The baptism on 26 Feb 1792 of a Mally, daughter of
Joseph Berry of Scammonden, clothier, is recorded in the parish registers of
West Scammonden (Deanhead) (West Yorkshire Archive Service, WDP107/1).
[12] Death certificate.
[13] Sowerby Bridge parish registers (West Yorkshire Archive Service, WDP93/1/3).
[14] Death certificate.
[15] Halifax parish registers (West Yorkshire Archive
Service, WDP53/1/55).
[16] Sowerby Bridge parish registers (West Yorkshire Archive Service, WDP93/1/3).
[17] Sowerby Bridge parish registers (West Yorkshire
Archive Service, WDP93/1/24); monumental
inscription at Sowerby Bridge.
[18] Sowerby Bridge parish registers (West
Yorkshire Archive Service, WDP93/1/4); 1861 census returns, Warley (National
Archives, RG 9/3291, fol. 5).
[19] Death certificate.
[20] Sowerby Bridge parish registers (West Yorkshire Archive Service, WDP93/1/4); National Archives, 1851 census returns, Warley (National Archives, HO 107/2300, fol. 343).
[21] Monumental inscription at Sowerby Bridge.
[22] Marriage certificate.
[23] Sowerby Bridge parish registers (online at www.ancestry.com); 1851 census returns, Warley (National Archives, HO 107/2300, fol. 376).
[24] Monumental inscription at Scarborough; grant of administration, 24 Sep 1897, to her sister Harriet Quarmby of Sowerby Bridge.
[25] Rochdale parish registers (online at www.ancestry.com).
