Hi I am descended from the Quakers John Binns and Abigail King who married in 1703. He was not born a Quaker and joined the Religious Society of Friends in 1683.
It is known that John Binns (also Bins and Bynns) was born on 29th September 1663 and was from Clough Heigh, so his baptism in the Keighley register is assumed to be the John son of John Bynns 'of Hey' that took place at Keighley on 4th October 1663.
There is however another Keighley baptism for John son of John Bynns baptised on 20th December 1663 'of Okeworth' and so it can be seen there two adult John Binnses who were both married and having children at the same time.
There are however no marriages for any John Binns in Keighley at this time. There is a marriage for a John Bynns and Sarah Firth at St Thomas's, Heptonstall, on 19 May 1662, but if this is one of their marriages, we cannot know which one it might be. John Bynns of Hey or John Bynns of Oakworth?
I am looking again at the registers of Keighley and these Binns family branches and would appreciate any input on all this from the information in this post. New eyes are often of great benefit!
So as I have said, we clearly have two clear sets of children for John Bynns of Hey and John Bynns of Oakworth, written as Okeworth. Oakworth is a small village near Keighley, but within the Keighley parish. The earlier baptisms have a residence so we can easily split them.
Children of John Bynns of Hey [Clougheigh]:
04 Oct 1663 John son of John Bynns of Hey baptised
19 May 1666 a child of John Bynns of Hey buried
Children of John Bynns of Okeworth [Oakworth]:
20 Dec 1663 John son of John Bynns of Okeworth baptised
17 Sep 1665 Ann daughter of John Bynes of Okeworth baptised
However the later baptisms do not state a residence, so which John was their father is not known:
05 Jul 1674 Three abortive children of John Bynns buried
20 Nov 1678 James son of John Binns baptised
10 Aug 1684 Sarah daughter of John Binns baptised
The three abortive children have long been assigned to the John Bynns of Hey as his burial has been assumed by researchers to be the John Bynns buried at Keighley on 21 July 1678. However, this burial could just as easily be John Bynns of Oakworth. It feels that the later baptisms of 1678 and 1684 have been overlooked.
In the registers there is also a Jonas Bynns, who despite a marriage not being found, was married to a Jane. They had the following children:
18 Mar 1678/9 stillborn daughter of Jona Bynns buried
03 Sep 1680 Jonas son of Johae [sic] Bynns baptised
On the same day Jonas was baptised, Jane the wife of Jonae [sic] Binns was buried, so she must have died as a result of child birth.
Then we also have the children of Abraham Binns of Okeworth. There are two marriages of an Abraham Bynns in Keighley registers, one in December 1656 to Elizabeth Wright and another in September 1661 to a Grace Hanson. Elizabeth wife of Abraham Binns was buried on 24 Nov 1679, so these two Abrahams must be two different men.
The children baptised to Abraham Bynns in the Keighley register are:
16 March 1661/2 Susan daughter of Abraham Bynnes baptised
10 May 1662 Susan daughter of Abraham Bynns buried
26 Oct 1663 Agnes daughter of Abraham Bynns baptised
19 Jun 1664 John son of Abraham Byns of Okeworth baptised
07 Feb 1665 Abraham son of Abraham Bynns baptised
02 Jun 1667 Grace daughter of Abraham Bynns of Okeworth baptised
07 Oct 1668 John son of Abraham Bynns baptised
26 Mar 1670/1 Mary daughter of Abraham Bynns baptised
20 Aug 1671 infant child of Abraham Bynns buried
19 Jan 1672/3 infant child of Abraham Bynns buried
14 Nov 1679 Mary daughter of Abraham baptised
I said at the start of my post that John Binns born in 1663 became a Quaker in 1683. However in the Quaker registers for Knaresborough Meeting, we have the burial of Elizabeth Binns daughter of Abraham Binns of Oakworth who died on 09 March 1662/3 and was buried in the recorded in the Friends Burying Ground near Keighley:
https://www.ancestry.co.uk/discoveryui-content/view/158427:7097?_phsrc=YXq1269&_phstart=successSource&gsln=binns&ml_rpos=11&queryId=ffcb083e208dff3eaa06c823199596e9Which Abraham Bynns is this? Husband of Elizabeth or Grace? Was he briefly a Quaker? Is this possibly even a different third Abraham? Was he involved in John Binns becoming a Quaker in 1683? It is all quite confusing!
The Keighley registers do have earlier mentions of Oakworth, with John Binns of Okeworth having a child buried in 1617 and a son Thomas baptised in 1619. Even earlier than this is the will of a William Binnes of Okeworth with a date of 17 Dec 1587 and proved on 30 Jan 1587/8. As well as John and Abraham both being recorded as being of Okeworth in the 1660s, so was a Richard Binns whose daughter Martha was buried in 1668. There was evidently a long lasting Binns connection to Oakworth village.
If anyone has got any thoughts on these various Binns families, I would really like to hear from you.
Thank you,
Jon
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