CRAVEN OF SHIPLEY AND NORTHOWRAM

Matthew Craven is stated to have been aged eighty when he was buried in 1680/81 but he may have been the “Mathaw Craven” baptised at Guiseley on 22 February 1606/07.[1] No parents are named in the baptism entry but another Matthew Craven of Horsforth in the parish of Guiseley made his will in 1631. The testator mentions “all my children” but only names a son John Craven and daughter Martha Cloudley.[2]

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CRAVEN

MATTHEW CRAVEN of Shipley and Northowram, Yorkshire, fellmonger, was born ca 1600[3] and buried on 2 March 1680/81 at Halifax.[4] He married first, on 30 June 1629 at Guiseley, JANE BLAND.[5] She was buried on 27 May 1639 at Bradford.[6] Matthew married second, on 7 February 1641/42 at Bradford, ANN SMITH.[7] She was buried on 13 December 1661 at Bradford.[8] Matthew married third, on 5 February 1661/62 at Halifax, SARAH NAYLER.[9]

Children of Matthew and Jane (Bland) Craven:

i ELIZABETH CRAVEN, bap 12 Dec 1630, Bingley,[10] bur 10 May 1685, Bradford;[11] m ROBERT CRAVEN.[12]

ii ANN CRAVEN, bap 29 Apr 1632, Bingley;[13] m THOMAS MOSS[14] (see here).

iii FRANCES CRAVEN, bap 6 Jul 1634, Bradford;[15] m BROOKE.[16]

iv CRAVEN, bur 22 Jul 1636, Bradford.[17]

v MARY CRAVEN, bap 20 Aug 1637, Bradford;[18] m 29 May 1662, Calverley, WILLIAM FOWLER.[19]

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

[2] Will dated 2 Apr 1631, proved 27 Apr 1631 (Borthwick Institute).

[3] J. Horsfall Turner, ed., The Rev. Oliver Heywood, 4 vols (Brighouse and Bingley, 1881-85), 2:143.

[4] Halifax parish registers (online at www.ancestry.com); J. Horsfall Turner, ed., The Rev. Oliver Heywood, 4 vols (Brighouse and Bingley, 1881-85), 2:143; will dated 11 Dec 1680, proved 3 May 1681 (Borthwick Institute).

[5] Guiseley parish registers (online at www.ancestry.com); J.W. Clay, “Paver’s Marriage Licenses”, The Yorkshire Archæological Journal, 20(1909):73-97, at 79.

[6] Bradford parish registers (online at www.ancestry.com).

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

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

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

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

[11] Bradford parish registers (online at www.ancestry.com).

[12] Will of Matthew Craven, dated 11 Dec 1680, proved 3 May 1681 (Borthwick Institute).

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

[14] Will of Matthew Craven, dated 11 Dec 1680, proved 3 May 1681 (Borthwick Institute). A “Widdow Moss of Heaton” was buried at Bradford on 4 Mar 1682/83: Bradford parish registers (online at www.ancestry.com).

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

[16] Will of Matthew Craven, dated 11 Dec 1680, proved 3 May 1681 (Borthwick Institute).

[17] Bradford parish registers (online at www.ancestry.com): “A childe of Mathew Craven of Shipley unbaptized”.

[18] Bradford parish registers (online at www.ancestry.com).

[19] Calverley parish registers (online at www.ancestry.com).