See also

Family of Thomas WHITAKER and Elizabeth THOMAS

Husband: Thomas WHITAKER

Wife: Elizabeth THOMAS

  • Name:

  • Elizabeth THOMAS

  • Sex:

  • Female

  • Father:

  • -

  • Mother:

  • -

  • Birth:

  • c. 1632

  • Yorkshire, England

  • Birth:

  • c. 1632

  •  

  • Death:

  • 1678 (age 45-46)

  • Thornhill, Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom

  • Death:

  • 1678 (age 45-46)

  •  

  • Burial:

  • 23 May 1678

  • Thornhill, Yorkshire2

Child 1: Thomas WHITAKER

  • Name:

  • Thomas WHITAKER3,4

  • Sex:

  • Male

  • Spouse:

  • Elizabeth UNKNOWN (1660-1682)

  • Birth:

  • c. 1655

  • Thornhill by Dewsbury, West Yorkshire, England

  • Death:

  • 19 Mar 1684 (age 28-29)

  • Thornhill, West Yorkshire, England3,4

  • Burial:

  • "19 Mar 1684 20 Mar 1684"

  • Thornhill, Yorkshire3,4,5

Child 2: John WHITAKER

  • Name:

  • John WHITAKER6

  • Sex:

  • Male

  • Birth:

  • 1669

  •  

  • Baptism:

  • 1 Dec 1669 (age 0)7

  •  

  • Death:

  • 1681 (age 11-12)6

  •  

  • Burial:

  • 29 May 1681

  • Thornhill, York, England6

Note on Husband: Thomas WHITAKER - shared note

His son Thomas Whiteaker is described as "junior" in the baptism entry for his first two children. He and his son are the only Thomas Whiteakers in the Thornhill registers. I think it likely that the Elizabeth, wife of Thomas Whiteakers who died in 1678 is his wife rather than his son's wife. The sequence of his son's children doesn't really leave room for a death and remarriage. Mr Thos Whitacres is listed in the 1672 Hearth Tax list for Thornhill as paying for 9 hearths. Again it is not certain if this refers to the father or the son. IN the Thornhill Parish Registers for 1653 there is a note that Thomas Webster of Dewsbury, George Allan of Chickerley and Thomas Whiteakers of Dewsbury agreed to pay for any bastard children of Mary Brooke of Thornhillees. I take this to be him. And in the Thornhill burial registers for 25 November 1663 there is a record of the burial of Peter Alcock, Mr Whitteakers' man in Thornhill. I deduce from this entries that Thomas Whiteaker was from Dewsbury. His marriage was in Thornhill but there are no baptism entries in the Thornhill registers for his children. So it is likely that his wife came from Thornhill and he took on her Thornhill property while continuing to live in Dewsbury. I think it is also likely that his son Thomas took on the Thornhill house when he got married. This leaves the problem of which Thomas Whiteaker of Dewsbury he was. It is not certain that this Thomas is the brother of Mark. I'm basing it partly on the 2 year interval and partly that only one Thomas Whitakers is having children bapt at Dewsbury at this time. I take it that he is the Thomas Whiteakers who was married at Thornhill on 26 July 1654 and therefore the grandfather of the Mark who was baptised in 1677 who is probably the same as Mark of Baltimore. Naming patterns support this indentification. This Thomas comes after an Elizabeth and a Mark. His presumed son Thomas of Thornhill had a daughter called Elizabeth followed by a son called Mark. Mark of Baltimore had children Elizabeth, followed by Thomas, followed by Mark. There are several records submitted by members of the LDS church giving his date of birth as 10 February 1634. I remain unclear about his marriage. There are lots of Thomas Whittaker and variants marriages. I suspect that Elizabeth Thomas died before 1666 and that the Elizabeth Whiteaker in the Thornhill registers is the wife of Thomas the younger of Thornhill..

Sources

1.

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, International Genealogical Index (R), (Name: Name: Name: Copyright (c) 1980, 2002, data as of January 5, 2003;;;). Batch P009051 Printout of Dewsbury, Yorks. NAME NAME Family History Library ADDR 35 N West Temple Street CONTSalt La CONC ke City, Utah 84150 USA ADDR EMAIL PHON.

2.

Edited by John Charlesworth, Thornhill Registers, (Name: Name: Name: Yorkshire Parish registers society, 1907;;;). Vol 1 Page 250. NAME Society of Genealogists, London ADDR EMAIL PHON.

3.

Ancestry.com, UK and Ireland, Find A Grave Index, 1300s-Current, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2012;). Ancestry.com, http://www.Ancestry.com.

4.

Ancestry.com, Yorkshire, England, Extracted Church of England Parish Records, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations Inc; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2001;). Ancestry.com.

5.

Edited by John Charlesworth, Thornhill Registers, (Name: Name: Name: Yorkshire Parish registers society, 1907;;;). Vol 2 Page 311. NAME Society of Genealogists, London ADDR EMAIL PHON.

6.

Ancestry.com, England, Select Deaths and Burials, 1538-1991, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2014;). Ancestry.com, http://www.Ancestry.com.

7.

Dewsbury Parish Register Transcripts, (Name: Name: Name: Transcripts of Parish Register 1653-1699;;;). December 1669. NAME Microfilm of manuscript in Yorkshire Records Office ADDR EMAIL PHON. Call Number: 0561426.