Leeds, St.Peter's Church (1896)

The 1820 Settler Correspondence
as preserved in the National Archives, Kew
and edited by Sue Mackay

1820 Settler Places in Britain and Éire

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Yorkshire

4th January 2020

Sue Mackay

Leeds, St.Peter's Church. This 1896 drawing shows the original St.Peter's Parish Church, which was pulled down in 1838. Its replacement, consecrated in 1841, is now Leeds Minster. William BEALE and Mary POE were married in St.Peter's, as were Charles COCKCROFT and Harriet BAILEY, Thomas ROBERTS and Bathsheba RAYNER (parents of the settler Edward ROBERTS), and Thomas SIMPSON and Ann SHEPHERD. William, son of Francis Parratt BENTLEY, was baptised in St.Peter's, as were three children of Charles Collins CAMPBELL, three children of Charles COCKCROFT and four children of Jonathan WAINWRIGHT.

Drawing by Percy Robinson from "Robinson's Relics of Old Leeds" (1896

Published courtesy of the Internet Archive and the University of California.

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