I wonder if anyone can help me with some information please? I am trying to trace my Holdsworth family back further than 1801. In more recent times this family line lived in Bradford, but originally came there from Calverley.
I know and am in touch with many of my living relatives from this family line and we have been researching the Holdsworths for about 10 years now and we really haven't got very much further in all that time.
My Gt Gt Gt Gt Grandfather was Charles Holdsworth, a farmer in Idle/Calverley (substantiated by his son's marriage certificate) and was not listed as deceased in 1842 when his son William Holdsworth married.
Charles married Mary Hornby (listed on calverley.info website) and when one of the youngest children Susannah was born on 11 Oct 1837 he is listed as a farmer in Simpson Green Idle Yorkshire. Mary died in 1838 (I have her death cert). Charles appears on the 1841 census as a farmer in Simpson Green and year of birth is listed as 1801 and with him are several children, including William and a Jonas Holdsworth who on the original census document shows up living in a second dwelling on the property. Maybe a Brother? I can't find a likely death certificate. My cousin has spent a kings randsom on most Charles Holdsworth's certs from the death listings, but none of these turned out to be even possibilities of being ours.
My Gt Gt Gt Grandfather was Charles son, William Holdsworth b.1819, who married Mary Gill in Otley Yorkshire on 25 Sep 1842. In 1841 there is a listing for a William Holdsworth and a Jonas Holdsworth in the criminal registers. Both were found guilty of housebreaking and sentenced to 9 months in jail. The date of their trial was 20 Oct 1841.
This is the only information that I can find. Does anyone know if full court transcripts are available anywhere or if there should be at least an address, next of kin, which might give me further information leading to clues about the rest of the family or at least allow me to know for sure that this is my relative, as the name Holdsworth was somewhat common in Yorkshire at that time?
Holdsworth is my maiden name and this family are the one's I know the least about - very frustrating!
Any help will be very gratefully received
Kind regards,
Jill