INGHAM OF LEDSHAM

 

Two baptisms which could be that of Christopher Ingham of Ledsham (ca 1704-1753) are in 1704 at Hunsingore (son of Peter Ingham of the Park) and in 1705 at Allerton Mauleverer (son of Thomas Ingham of Hopperton).

 

Peter Ingham of the Park would appear to be the Peter Ingham of Ribston who married Elizabeth Haist at Holy Trinity Goodramgate, York, on 12 Sep 1698. Elizabeth was a daughter of George Haist of Barwick in Elmet and is mentioned in his will of 1709.

 

Christopher Ingham of the parish of Allerton married Mary Sunderland at Spofforth on 10 Sep 1728 and several children of Christopher Ingham of Hopperton were baptised at Allerton Mauleverer in the period 1729-47. This must have been a different Christopher Ingham from the one who lived at Ledsham. However, it is not certain that he was the son (baptised in 1705) of Thomas Ingham as there was also a Christopher, son of John Ingham of Hopperton, baptised in 1694. The IGI also shows a Christopher Ingham married on 24 Nov 1721 at Knaresborough to Mary Watson.

 

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INGHAM

 

CHRISTOPHER INGHAM of Shepcote, Ledsham, Yorkshire, farmer, was born ca 1704,[1] and was buried at Ledsham on 5 Sep 1753.[2] He married at Campsall, Yorkshire, on 8 Jul 1729, DOROTHY HAGUE,[3] who was born ca 1699,[4] and who was buried at Ledsham on 7 Jun 1753.[5]

 

      Children of Christopher and Dorothy (Hague) Ingham:[6]

             i     MARY INGHAM, bap 24 May 1730, Wragby, Yorkshire,[7] bur 30 Jun 1791, Aberford, Yorkshire;[8] m 12 Feb 1753, Ledsham, GEORGE GIBSON[9] of Aberford, butcher.

     ii    CHRISTOPHER INGHAM of Ledsham, bap 20 Nov 1732, Badsworth, Yorkshire;[10] m(1) 24 Apr 1755, Methley, Yorkshire, SARAH LEAKE;[11] m(2) 23 Aug 1770, Methley, ELIZABETH (LEAKE) CROSFIELD.[12]

     iii   DOROTHY INGHAM, bap 30 Aug 1736, Badsworth,[13] bur 5 Nov 1770, Aberford;[14] m 5 Sep 1757, Sherburn in Elmet, Yorkshire, JOHN STANDBANK[15] of Sherburn in Elmet, butcher.

     iv   ELIZABETH INGHAM, bap 18 Jun 1739, Badsworth,[16] bur 4 Oct 1753, Ledsham.[17]



[1] Christopher's age was given as 25 in May 1729: P.W.G. Chilman, ed., An Index to the Archbishop of York's Marriage Bonds & Allegations 1715-1734, 1, Borthwick Lists and Indexes, 23(1999):197 (hereafter cited as Chilman).

[2] J.W. Clay, ed., The Parish Registers of Ledsham, Yorkshire Parish Register Society, 26(1906):164 (hereafter cited as Clay).

[3] IGI, citing Campsall BTs. Chilman, 197, gives the residences of both Christopher and Dorothy as Wragby and states that the marriage was to take place at Cantley, Campsall or Adwick le Street.

[4] Chilman, 197. A Richard Hague and a Mary Hepworth were married at Wragby in 1696.

[5] Clay, 164: "Mrs Ingham wife of Mr. Ingham of Sheep Coat Buried".

[6] The administration documents for Christopher Ingham (Dec 1753, Exchequer Court of York) name "Christopher Ingham his only Son and Mary his Daughter now the Wife of George Gibson of Abberforth in the County aforesaid Butcher and Dorothy Ingham Spinster his Daughter".

[7] John Charlesworth, ed., The Parish Register of Wragby, 2, Yorkshire Parish Register Society, 107(1939):192.

[8] George Denison Lumb, ed., The Parish Register of Aberford, Thoresby Society, 36(1935):175 (hereafter cited as Lumb, Aberford PRs).

[9] Clay, 163. The bride's name is given as "Eliz. Ingham", but her father's administration records show that the wife of George Gibson was Mary Ingham.

[10] Badsworth PRs.

[11] George Denison Lumb, ed., The Registers of the Parish Church of Methley, Thoresby Society, 12(1902):195 (hereafter cited as Lumb, Methley PRs).

[12] Lumb, Methley PRs, 172, 198, 250. David Crosfield married Elizabeth Leak on 13 Jan 1753/54 and David Crosfield was buried on 1 Sep 1767 aged 46.

[13] Badsworth PRs.

[14] Lumb, Aberford PRs, 144.

[15] Sherburn in Elmet PRs. One of the witnesses to the marriage was George Gibson.

[16] Badsworth PRs.

[17] Clay, 164: "Eliz: Ingham of Sheep Coat Bur:".