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Woodhead family of Holmfirth
« on: Monday 18 March 19 06:31 GMT (UK) »
Wondering if anyone can assist in finding information on the Woodhead family from Holmfirth. John Woodhead was born 26 Feb 1808 and christened 8 March 1808, in the Lane Independent Chapel, Holmfirth. And that's about all I can find online from the other side of the world. He married an Elizabeth (surname unknown) and they later lived at Pendleton. His parents may have been a John Woodhead and a Sarah (unknown surname). Thanks.

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Re: Woodhead family of Holmfirth
« Reply #1 on: Monday 18 March 19 07:53 GMT (UK) »
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Possible marriage for John Woodhead and Sarah Sykes - Almondbury (Huddersfield) - 8 August 1796 - by Licence.
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Re: Woodhead family of Holmfirth
« Reply #2 on: Monday 18 March 19 08:18 GMT (UK) »
Welcome to rootschat

Are they the family that are living in PendleBURY in 1871 & 1881, his occupation was a Bootmaker
RG10/4012 f95 p10 - John age 64 bn Lancashire

RG11/3950 f118 p25 - John age 74 bn Yorkshire
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Re: Woodhead family of Holmfirth
« Reply #3 on: Monday 18 March 19 08:23 GMT (UK) »
Hi

Could be John Woodhead born Holmfirth and living at Pendlebury he was married to an Elizabeth ? (surname could be Hotchkiss) and found children; Richard 1831, Mary, 1834, Ellen 1841, Elizabeth 1847 & Martha 1853 all from Pendlebury.

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Re: Woodhead family of Holmfirth
« Reply #4 on: Monday 18 March 19 10:41 GMT (UK) »
Yes, that's the family....their daughter Ann Woodhead is my great grandmother ...

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Re: Woodhead family of Holmfirth
« Reply #5 on: Monday 18 March 19 10:48 GMT (UK) »
The records I have found on my great grandmother, Ann Woodhead (1837-1910) show her family to have moved to Pendlebury, and I have photos of her and her husband, Samuel Davis, taken by a studio in Pendlebury. The census records I have seen agree that her father, John Woodhead, was a bootmaker. But I can't find out anything about Elizabeth Woodhead or his parents, other than the possibility they were John and Sarah.

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Re: Woodhead family of Holmfirth
« Reply #6 on: Monday 18 March 19 10:48 GMT (UK) »
As J R Ellam has suggested Elizabeths maiden surname may be Hotchkiss.  Ellens possible birth registration on the index states this and in 1841  HO107/543 bk2 f32 p18 There are an Elizabeth and a William Hotchkiss living with them.

Marriage 30 Jan 1831 St Mary the Virgin, Prestwich, Lancashire
John Woodhead - abode Prestwich
Elizabeth Hotchkiss - abode Prestwich
Witnesses John Isherwood & Abrm. Kay
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Re: Woodhead family of Holmfirth
« Reply #7 on: Monday 18 March 19 10:53 GMT (UK) »
Elizabeth must have been pregnant when she married
Baptism 15 Mar 1831 St Saviour, Ringley, Lancashire
Richard Woodhead - Son of John Woodhead & Elizabeth
Abode Pendlebury
Occupation Shoe Maker

Ellens birth registration
WOODHEAD, ELLEN       mmn HOTCHKISS 
1840  June Quarter in THE SALFORD UNION  Volume 20  Page 779
 
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Re: Woodhead family of Holmfirth
« Reply #8 on: Monday 18 March 19 11:04 GMT (UK) »
Thank you! That sounds quite possible. Have just suggested my cousin a few times removed who lives in England to check this correspondence because it could explain the question we were asking ...why did John Woodhead leave Holmfirth?  I'll follow up in the morning (Sydney time).  John
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