Can anyone help crack my Broadbents from Halifax?

[avm228]

Sarah Broadbent b c1803-4 Halifax is my 4x great-grandmother, but I haven’t been able to trace her with any confidence before her marriage to Judah Chappell.

Here’s what I know of her:

1827 (16 Oct): Sarah Broadbent, spinster, of Halifax marries Judah Chappell of Ovenden, at Halifax parish church. Witnesses: George Pearson, Thos Beaver (both untraced).

1841 census (in Leeds): Sarah Chappell 35, born in county, with Judah and 4 children.
1851 census (in Leeds): Sarah Chappell 47, born Halifax, with Judah and 2 sons George & John.
1861 census (in Leeds): Sarah Chappell 58, born Halifax, with Judah and a boarder Henry Broadbent, 58 b Halifax, a widowed tailor.
1871 census (in Leeds): Sarah Chappell 68, born Halifax, with Judah and a 5yo grandson George Chappell.

Judah Chappell died in Leeds in July 1871 and Sarah may have returned to Halifax, dying there in 1879 aged 74, but this is not confirmed.

Known children: George 1829 Ovenden (my direct line), John 1832 Ovenden, Ellen 1834 Halifax. There is also a Henry Chappell c1840 on the 1841 census with the Chappells, but his birth has not been found.

Any help with finding Sarah’s birth family would be much appreciated. I hoped the boarder Henry Broadbent in 1861 would easily lead me to Sarah’s background, but he hasn’t done so far!

[iluleah]

Maybe!

County    Yorkshire, West Riding
Place    Halifax
Church name    St John the Baptist
Register type    Parish Register
Baptism date    21 Aug 1803
Person forename    Sarah
Father forename    John
Mother forename    Betty
Father surname    BROADBENT
Person abode    Skircoat
Father occupation    Labourer
Notes    Baptised at Sowerby Bridge

[ThrelfallYorky]

Sarah's parents seem to be that John Broadbent, and a Betty Clegg. Sarah seems to have predated their marriage a little, if I'm on the right one: John Broadbent and Betty Clegg married in 1804, at St Thomas' Heptonstall, a really good church to search records in, and Sarah seems to have had at least a couple of younger sisters, Mary and Lydia. Any help?

[BumbleB]

Just to add to the 1803 baptism - parish register image shows that Sarah was born 17 May 1803.

[ThrelfallYorky]

Or there's also a Sarah a little younger, ( Jan 1805?) who ( these may be the same people) married a John Judah Chappell, on 16th October 1827, as you said. She seems to be the daughter of a Rufus Broadbent and Judith? In at least one family tree she's down with the children you give.

[BumbleB]

Perhaps an alternative marriage for John and Sarah -

St John the Baptist, Halifax, by Banns - 16 January 1785

John Broadbent of the parish of Sowerby, Labourer (x) and Betty Tattersall of the same place, spinster (x).

[BumbleB]

Oops!

Burial at South Parade Wesleyan Chapel - 13 December 1818

Sarah, daughter of John Broadbent, aged 14

[avm228]

Or there's also a Sarah a little younger, ( Jan 1805?) who ( these may be the same people) married a John Judah Chappell, on 16th October 1827, as you said. She seems to be the daughter of a Rufus Broadbent and Judith? In at least one family tree she's down with the children you give.

Thanks. She has been attributed to Rufus and Judith in other people’s family trees, but I don’t know how the connection has been made.  Some of the trees seem unreliable in other ways - Judah is listed as “John Judah” despite his being just Judah all his life, young Henry Chappell is matched with a Leeds birth reg which is too late and has a different mother’s maiden name, etc.

I wonder whether Rufus and Judith Broadbent had a son Henry - will have a look.

[avm228]

Oops!

Burial at South Parade Wesleyan Chapel - 13 December 1818

Sarah, daughter of John Broadbent, aged 14

Ah. I had not seen that. Very useful for elimination purposes - thank you.