QUARMBY OF WARLEY

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QUARMBY

WILLIAM QUARMBY of Warley, Yorkshire, engine tenter, was born ca 1788[1] and died on 29/30 May 1838 at Sowerby Bridge, Yorkshire.[2] He married on 1 January 1809 at Halifax, MARY BERRY.[3] Mary was born ca 1789[4] and died on 9 May 1877 at Warley, Yorkshire.[5]

Children of William and Mary (Berry) Quarmby:

i MARY ANN QUARMBY, b 22 May 1809, bap 13 August 1809, Sowerby Bridge,[6] d 18 April 1847, Wortley, Yorkshire;[7] m 17 February 1828, Halifax, GEORGE GREENWOOD[8] (see here).

ii JOSEPH QUARMBY, b 18 November 1811, bap 16 February 1812, Sowerby Bridge,[9] bur there 12 December 1830.[10]

iii HARRIET QUARMBY, b 9 May 1814, Warley.[11]

iv FRANCES QUARMBY, b 14 January 1816, Sowerby Bridge;[12] m 21 June 1846, Halifax, GEORGE GREENWOOD.[13]

v SARAH QUARMBY, b 19 Oct 1818, bap 7 February 1819, Sowerby Bridge.[14]

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[1] His death certificate gives his age as 49½ years.

[2] William's death certificate gives the date as 30 May 1838, but the entry for his burial in the Sowerby Bridge parish registers gives the date of death as 29 May. He was buried on 3 June.

[3] Halifax parish registers (West Yorkshire Archive Service, WDP53/1/44). Mary’s surname is spelt “Berrey” in the marriage entry.

[4] Mary’s place of birth is variously given as Deanhead (National Archives, 1851 census returns, Warley, HO 107/2300, fol. 343), Sla[i]thwaite (National Archives, 1861 census returns, Warley, RG 9/3291, fol. 5) and Halifax (National Archives, 1871 census returns, Warley, RG 10/4410, fol. 14). One of the witnesses at the marriage of Mary to William Quarmby was a John Berrey. The baptism on 26 Feb 1792 of a Mally, daughter of Joseph Berry of Scammonden, clothier, is recorded in the parish registers of West Scammonden (Deanhead) (West Yorkshire Archive Service, WDP107/1).

[5] Death certificate.

[6] Sowerby Bridge parish registers (West Yorkshire Archive Service, WDP93/1/3).

[7] Death certificate.

[8] Halifax parish registers (West Yorkshire Archive Service, WDP53/1/55).

[9] Sowerby Bridge parish registers (West Yorkshire Archive Service, WDP93/1/3).

[10] Sowerby Bridge parish registers.

[11] Sowerby Bridge parish registers (West Yorkshire Archive Service, WDP93/1/4); National Archives, 1861 census returns, Warley, RG 9/3291, fol. 5. Harriet’s death appears to have been registered in 1901.

[12] Sowerby Bridge parish registers (West Yorkshire Archive Service, WDP93/1/4); National Archives, 1851 census returns, Warley, HO 107/2300, fol. 343.

[13] Marriage certificate.

[14] Sowerby Bridge parish registers (West Yorkshire Archive Service, WDP93/1/4).