COCKCROFT, Charles - Extra Data
(member of WAINWRIGHT's Party)
Death Notice (Cape Archives) says he was born in Leeds, the son of Mark and Mary COCKCROFT. See Gravestone.
West Yorkshire Archives:
Mark COCKCROFT, weaver, married Mary BROADLEY, both of Northowram on 26 April 1772 in St.John the Baptist, Halifax
Mark COCKCROFT (signed)
Mary BROADLEY (X)
Witnesses: Marmaduke MURGATROYD and Samuel GILSON
Charles COCKCROFT, cloth dresser, married Harriet BAILEY, on 11 February 1805 in St.Peter's, Leeds
Both made their mark
Witnesses: Thos. ?GRAWTHORPE? and John LINSLEY
Baptisms in St.Peter's Leeds
Thomas COCKCROFT, son of George [sic*], Camp Row, baptised 7 September 1806 (born 24 July 1806) *see Bishop's Transcript below
William, son of Charles CAWCROFT [sic], Little Woodhouse, baptised 19 March 1809 (born 27 January 1809
Mark, son of Charles COCKCROFT, Little Woodhouse, baptised 19 January 1812 (born 7 December 1811)
University of York, Borthwick Institute for Archives
Bishop's Transcriptslists the baptism of Thomas as above but gives the father as Charles, Camp Row.
[No other possible baptism for Thomas has been found, but his gravestone says he was 74 when he died on 17 December 1881, which would put his year of birth as 1807]
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