{"id":5328,"date":"2020-08-22T18:48:10","date_gmt":"2020-08-22T08:48:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.michelledennis.com.au\/?page_id=5328"},"modified":"2020-08-25T15:57:31","modified_gmt":"2020-08-25T05:57:31","slug":"samuel-jackson-and-hannah-geldard","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.michelledennis.com.au\/?page_id=5328","title":{"rendered":"Samuel Jackson and Hannah Geldard"},"content":{"rendered":"

Samuel Jackson<\/strong> (junior<\/strong>) was born in 1748 at Knotts in the Gisburn Forest, Yorkshire,<\/p>\n

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Knotts Farm near Sawley Yorkshire<\/p><\/div>\n

England to parents Samuel Jackson (1716-1774) and Margaret Wolfenden (1715-1776).<\/a><\/p>\n

He was baptised at St Mary the Virgin, Gisburn on 26 February 1748.<\/p>\n

He was one of eight children born to his parents Samuel (senior) and Margaret.<\/p>\n

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St Mary the Virgin Gisburn Yorkshire<\/p><\/div>\n

. Samuel, like his parents was a small tenant farmer (husbandman)at Knotts in the Gisburn Forest area.<\/p>\n

At the age of 19, Samuel married Miss Hannah Geldard<\/strong> at St Marys, Gisburn on 3 November 1774.<\/p>\n

Hannah was born in 1748 in Gisburn Forest to parents Nicholas Geldard (1715-1793) and Margaret Holgate (1715-1751).<\/p>\n

Her father Nicholas had married twice, firstly to Margaret Holgate in 1738 in Long Preston, and had five children, and then after Margaret died in 1751 he secondly married\u00a0 Ann Hargraves in 1754 in Gisburn, and had a further eight children.<\/p>\n

Nicholas Geldard<\/strong> was the son of Thomas Geldard (1665-1761) and Anne Ellis (1692-1764).<\/p>\n

Before Samuel and Hannah could be married, the banns were read out on the preceding three Sundays. Samuel’s oldest brother Richard, and James Woffenden, the witnesses.<\/p>\n

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St Mary the Virgin, Gisburn, Yorkshire banns register<\/p><\/div>\n

I haven’t been able to find a baptism for Hannah, but there are lots of Geldards being baptised at Gisburn in this period.<\/p>\n

Samuel was a farmer at Low Gill, near Gisburn according to his children’s baptism registers. Low Gill, sometimes called Lower Gill was just 3 miles from his birth place in the Forest.<\/p>\n

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Low(er) Gill and surrounding areas<\/p><\/div>\n

Samuel and Hannah had eight children and lived at Lower Gill. The first four children were all baptised at nearby Bolton by Bowland, and then Thomas, Robert, Anna and Richard who was baptised at St Bartholomew with St James at Tosside.<\/p>\n

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St Bartholomew with James Tosside Yorkshire<\/p><\/div>\n

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  1. Ann b 1776 Low Gill, d 1851 Burnley. Marr James Lowcock 1799 Gisburn. 5 children.<\/li>\n
  2. Samuel b 1778 Low Gill, d 1821 Long Preston. Marr Margaret Wolfenden. 5 children.
    \nSamuel and Margaret are second cousins (Sam’s grandmother is Margaret Wolfenden 1715-1776, whose brother James Wolfenden 1713-1764 is the grandfather of Margaret his wife)<\/em><\/li>\n
  3. Nicholas b 1780 Gisburn Forest, d 1780 Low Gill.<\/li>\n
  4. Mary b 1782 Low Gill. Marr Thomas Walker in 1807 at Bolton by Bowland<\/li>\n
  5. Thomas b 1784 Sawley, d 1801 Newby Hall.<\/li>\n
  6. Robert b 1789 Sawley, d 1827 Shepton Moor. Marr Ellen Shaw.<\/li>\n
  7. Anna b 1793 Low Gill, d 1873 Accrington . Marr Christopher Holgate. 3 children.<\/li>\n
  8. Richard<\/strong><\/a> b 1797 Low Gill, d 1830 Slaidburn. Marr Grace Dewhurst. 8 children.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
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    Sawley Abbey Yorkshire<\/p><\/div>\n

    Samuel and Hannah lived at Lower Gill and Sawley in the Gisburn Forest area of Yorkshire for many years farming the land and Samuel can be found paying land tax there –<\/p>\n