Hi again Michael
Got your Greenhows on a very old file card but didn't have Abraham & Esther. Also knew Richard married a Mary but not that she was Jacques.
We have that their daughter Elizabeth bpt 3/7/1820 had an illegitimate son Joseph bapt 7/11/1835, Souterfell, Mungrisdale. The father was Joseph Jackson of Penrith.
Also their son John bpt 9/3/1842 at Fieldhead, we have as marrying Mary Hodgson. John
was a stonemason, she a dressmaker. see below:-
More interesting is that in 1861, John & Mary were living at High Folly, Thackthwaite, Watermillock with 2 children, Mary Ann age 11yrs & Abram J (sic). The "J" is Jacques! & he was bapt 29/5/1853 & Mary Ann 6/11/1849 both Watermillock.
BUT next door at Low Folly is
our Joseph, a widower, with some of his children. Mary Ann (nee Taylor who I am trying to trace) was dead by this time.
On the same census is William Hodgson age 52 (a Stonemason) & his wife Ann age 44 living at Green Bank, Watermillock.....& guess what? her maiden name is Greenhow! So could William Hodgson be a brother to Mary Greenhow nee Hodgson?
Coincidence or what?! Confused....so are we.
There were other stonemason Greenhows in Watermillock too. We have not so far found a link to the other Greenhows or with your John next door to our Joseph. Surely though somewhere they all connect.
Even more.......William Hodgson & Ann had a son William Greenhow Hodgson & he died in 1922 & is buried in Watermillock. He married a Dorothy Ellen & they had a daughter Annie Alice (Wells) who died in 1969, still in Watermillock.
Hope you find the above useful & anymore info greatly appreciated especially on your Richard.
Margaret