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« on: Wednesday 09 September 09 06:57 BST (UK) »
My gg-grandmother Mary Riley's 1843 marriage cert shows that her father THOMAS RILEY was a tailor in Almondbury. (I think he may have died before that, though, because he doesn't appear on the 1841 census.)
I am trying to find Thomas's baptism - I believe he was born in the 1770's. As he and several of his sons were tailors, perhaps his father was, too.
The IGI shows the marriage of a Thomas Riley to a Mary Brook in Huddersfield on 7 Oct 1799. It also shows the baptism of 8 children of Thomas and Mary at High St Chapel Methodist New Connexion, Huddersfield, but they say they were born in Almondbury or Crosland Moor on the censuses. They were: Sarah (1803), Thomas (1805), Richard (1807), Rowland (1808), Samuel B (1810), Matilda (1813), MARY (1814) and Hannah (1817). However, the oldest child, Elizabeth, was baptised in 1800 "near Lockwood".
If anyone can find out anything about my Rileys I would be extremely grateful!
Arkay