John Aldred (1778)

Born 14 May 1778 in Wakefield, Yorkshire, England

Ancestors

Died [date unknown] in Rotherham, Yorkshire, England

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Biography

John was baptised on 26 May 1778 at Westgate Chapel, Wakefield, the son of Ebenezer Aldred. "John, son of Mr Ebenezer Aldred of Wakefield, aged twelve days".^[1]

He was married to Elizabeth Foster on 14 May 1814 at Tinwell, Rutland.^[2]

At the 1841 census the family was living in Rotherham.^[3]

Letters from Family members

By Mrs Mary Elizabeth Aldred wife of the Rev. John Thomas Foster Aldred when writing from Dore Vicarage near Sheffield on 21 October 1885 says

My husband’s grandfather was Ebenezer Aldred his father was John Aldred; the grandfather married Miss Moult, a Wickersley family near Rotherham, Yorkshire; the father Miss Foster, a clergyman’s daughter Rutlandshire

By Sarah Elizabeth Aldrett writing from Deaconess Home (where she is the head of the establishment) Salisbury, on 5th Nov 1885 says

My brother the Rev. John Thomas Foster Aldred, has sent your letter to me…My grandfather Ebenezer Aldred, was living at Wakefield when my father John Aldred was born, but failed in the cloth weaving business, in fact he was before the times for through he succeeded in making excellent steam wove cloths he could not induce the dealers to buy them. My father, his brother Thomas and two sisters were brought up by their maternal batchelor uncle, at whose house their mother had died. My father became his heir. Thomas went abroad as a ship surgeon, married and died childless in the West Indies ^[4]

Sources

1. ↑ "England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:J38Y-RDQ : 11 February 2018, John Aldred, 26 May 1778); citing , index based upon data collected by the Genealogical Society of Utah, Salt Lake City; FHL microfilm 0828167 (RG4 3704).
2. ↑ "England Marriages, 1538–1973 ," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:NNP8-SYV : 9 March 2018), John Aldred and Elizabeth Foster, 14 May 1814; citing Tinwell, Rutland, England, reference p 2 n 5, index based upon data collected by the Genealogical Society of Utah, Salt Lake City; FHL microfilm 1,999,595.
3. ↑ "England and Wales Census, 1841," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MQP1-8HD : 13 December 2017), John Aldred, Rotherham, Yorkshire,Yorkshire West Riding, England; from "1841 England, Scotland and Wales census," database and images, findmypast (http://www.findmypast.com : n.d.); citing PRO HO 107, The National Archives, Kew, Surrey.
4. ↑ Old Yorkshire. (1891). United Kingdom: Longmans, Green. Page 192 Accessed from Google Books https://www.google.co.uk/books/edition/Old_Yorkshire/n-eMp_LaewsC?hl=en&gbpv=0 Accessed by Trevor Pickup on 1st May 2022