Dispute about the bells
(or the clock)
at Halifax Parish Church
The following people testified in a protracted dispute regarding the
church bells – or possibly the church clock – at Halifax Parish
Church, which took place between 1748 and 1752.
The is based on information taken from documents held in
the Borthwick Institute, University of York
- John Baldwin
gentleman [b c1708]
- John Senior
of Halifax, woolcomber [b c1694]
- John Hargreaves
of Halifax, cordwainer [b c1714]
- Joseph Knight
of Halifax [b c1709]
- Titus Knight
of Halifax, coal miner [b c1720]
- Thomas Whittaker
of Halifax, whitesmith [b c1713]
- Henry Bates
of Halifax, parish clerk [b c1705]
- James Denton
of Halifax, clothdresser [b c1686]
- Samuel Sugden
of Halifax, innkeeper [b c1703]
- Benjamin Norminton
of Northowram, weaver [b c1704]
- Thomas Little
of Halifax, whitesmith [b c1696]
- Caleb Crowther
of Halifax, joiner [b c1680]
- Joseph Cordingley
of Hartshead [b c1712]
- Ebenezer Hanson
of Holmfirth, cloth maker [b c1682]
- Joseph Bates
of Barkisland, yeoman [b c1711]
- Isaac Smith
of Wibsey (but who lived in Halifax till 1751), clothier [b c1670]
- Robinson Lund
of Birstall, schoolmaster (who served an apprenticeship to a clothier
in Rishworth and afterwards worked on a farm in Sowerby Bridge in
Warley) [b c1702]
- John Worrell
of Halifax, sadler, and who was a churchwarden of Halifax in 1707, [b
c1681]
- John Crowther
of Norland, milner, and who was chapelwarden in Warley in 1736 [b
c1681]
- Samuel Wood
of Halifax, weaver [b c1680]
- Joshua Holroyd
of Quarmby (but who had lived previously at Southowram and
Skircoat), clothier [b c1689]
- William Thomas
of Wadsworth, shalloon maker, and who was chapelwarden in Warley in
1734 [b c1710]
- Jonathan Benn
of Northowram, shalloon maker [b c1693]
- Samuel Taylor
of Halifax, card maker [b c1700]
- James Longbottom
of Savile Green, carpenter [b c1717]
- William Sutcliffe
of Skircoat, shalloon painter [b c1711]
- Samuel Crowther
of Northowram, maltster, chapelwarden of Coley in 1719 and 1720 [b
c1696]
- Edmund Tattersall
died 1725
- John Riley
of Skircoat, farmer, and who was chapelwarden in Skircoat in 1749, [b
c1722]
- William Parkinson
of Wheatley, gentleman, and who was chapelwarden at Illingworth in
1748 [b c1724]
- John Eagle
of Bradford, gentleman [b c1724]
- Samuel Ogden
of Skircoat [b c1716]
- John Senior
of Halifax, yeoman [born c1694] (This may be the John
Senior mentioned above, as their ages are the same)
This & associated entries use material contributed by Lesley Abernethy
This & associated entries use material contributed by Lesley Abernethy
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Malcolm Bull
2024
Revised 18:23 / 4th October 2024 / 4998
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