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1. STEAD On September 10 1998 Shelagh Mason of the Stead/Steed One-Name Study (Worldwide) made contact with an offer to search her indices for Ruth Stead's ancestry. Shelagh placed her as the daughter of Nicholas STEAD and Ruth MIDGLEY, who married at St. Peter's Church, Leeds on February 2nd 1785. Ruth was baptised there on February 12th 1787.
The rest of the family follows:- Nicholas STEAD m. (1) 2.10.1775 (St. Peter's Church) Christiana DEWES - issue: Mercy STEAD bap. (Bradford) 1.4.1777 and Sarah STEAD bap. (Bradford) 2.4.1780 and a possible illegitimate son (un-named) baptised in 1774.
Nicholas STEAD m. (2) 2.2.1785 (St. Peter's Church) Ruth MIDGLEY - issue: Christiana bap. (St Peter's) 11.1.1786, Ruth STEAD (as above), Alice STEAD bap. (St Peter's) 5.10.1788 and Alice STEAD II bap. (St Peter's) 11.4.1790 .
2. BOOTH After a couple of days in Huddersfield in September, I can add this entry from the 1851 Census of the town. Living at Low Fold, Kirkburton - John BOOTH (aged 32) a Fancy Designer, Ann (35) his wife, with three children Caroline (8), Emma (5) and Joseph (2). This is the family of Alfred Hanson Scholefield's wife.
On September 24 1998 Caroline Booth's birth certificate arrived. She was b. 4.9.1843 at Dean in Kirkburton. Parents: John BOOTH (manufacturer) and Ann HARDY.
From the Huddersfield and District FHS Kirkburton Baptism Indices. Matthew BOOTH of Kirkburton (a shopkeeper and tailor) and his wife Mary had five children baptised there, the eldest, John Booth ,was born on 4.3.1814 and baptised on 30.5.1814.
The rest of the family follows:- Mark b. 9.3.1816 & bap. (Kirkburton) 7.4.1816; Achsah b. 6.12.1819 & bap. (Kirkburton) 9.1.1820; Martha and Mary (twins) b. 9.6.1822 & bap. (Kirkburton) 28.5.1823.
Booths in Kirkburton from Baines Directory 1823 (courtesy of Marion Hall): Richard Booth, Victualer of The George; James Booth, a Yeoman of Lanehead and Matthew Booth, a Grocer, address not given.
3. JOLIFFE This is the e-mail number of Peter Jolliffe of Warrington in Cheshire - who is considering forming a One Name Group. At present I only have Mary Joliffe in my family tree - bap. 2.8.1761 Lightcliffe (near Halifax W.Y.) - daughter of William Joliffe of Hipperholme - I know no more about her at present. Let one of us know if you are interested.
Unresearched allied lines: MIDGLEY of Leeds & HARDY of Huddersfield.
The Glendinning Family | Steve Whitwam helped with the research and is also responsible for The Hanson Family of Longwood (the ancestors of Martha Hanson, wife of George Stead Scholefield) - go to his Family Trees page.
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May 9 1998: I am trying to trace my family history. My Grandfather, Herbert Scholefield married Mary Elizabeth Hoyle. The children from this marriage were George (my father, born in 1879 in Sowerby Bridge), John, Arthur and Mary. I believe my grandfather was a lay preacher in the Methodist or Wesleyan church. Family roots would seem to be in the Halifax area. Bob Scholefield
Other ScholefieldsHere is one from Jersey! MATTHEW SCHOLEFIELD M.D. (1799-1865) Consultant Physician to the States Of Jersey. Qualified Edinburgh 1822; M.B. Cantab. 1833. Home and Surgery at 2 Clarence Terrace, St Helier. The 1851 census shows he was born in Huddersfield, and married to Sarah from Lincoln, who was twenty years older than him. There were two servants, but no children, in his household. If he had descendants, they did not accompany him to Jersey, or had already left by the census. The same year, he sat for a calotype photograph at the studio of William Collie in Belmont Road, St Helier (see right).
Giffard's Guide to the Island of Jersey of 1838 provides the earliest description of him - as a Consultant Physician, Fellow Commoner and late President of the Royal Medical Society - he was already practicing at 2 Clarence Terrace.
His published works include "On Health and Disease in Jersey in Relation to the Influence of Climate" (1850), which was updated in the second edition of "The Gossiping Guide to Jersey" by J.B. Payne in 1862. His Lecture "On Modern Science" was delivered before an audience at the Mechanics' Institute in 1860 and subsequently printed.
Under Construction:Issue of George Booth Scholefield and Sarah Ann Saxon (to the present day). Research continues - updates will be recorded at New at My English Ancestry Sites