Robert Whitehead (1752 - 1841)

Born 1752 in Bolton, Lancashire, England

Husband of Alice (Lever) Whitehead — married 15 Dec 1785 in Bolton, Lancashire, England

Descendants

Died 3 Feb 1841 at about age 89 in Ringley, Lancashire, England

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Biography

This profile is part of the Whitehead Name Study.

Robert Whitehead, the only son of the Rev. Thomas Whitehead and his wife Rachel, was born in Bolton, Lancashire, England in 1752. He moved to Bury before 1771 and opened at Elton what was reputed to be the first bleach works in England. He married Alice, daughter of Alexander Lever, owner of the Cock Inn, Bolton on 15 December 1785. They had two sons, James, born in 1788, and John, born in 1790. In 1794 he bought a plot of land in Bury Street, Little Bolton, erected a three-storey warehouse for calendering (the process of finishing cloth) and built an adjacent house where his son James lived and worked. He died in Ringley, Lancashire on 3 February 1841.

Sources

• "England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:J7Q6-B5J : 19 September 2020), Robt. Whitehead, 1752.
• Ancestry.com. Manchester, England, Church of England Marriages and Banns, 1754-1930 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2013.[1]
• Based on the Memoir of John Kay of Bury, by John Lord, limited edition of 300 copies, 1903; some material from The Kays of Cobhouse Bury, by Peter Cameron, as quoted in http://worldconnect.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=sjpainter&id=I0203
• Malcolm Howe, "From Torpedoes to the Sound of Music", online (https://www.boltonschool.org/flipbooks/Sound%20Of%20Music/files/assets/basic-html/page-2-3.html : accessed 15 Dec 2020)

See also:

• "England, Manchester, Parish Registers, 1603-1910," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FMBM-RZ3 : 23 July 2019), Robert Whitehead, 7 Feb 1841, Burial; citing St Savior, Ringley, Lancashire, England, Manchester Central Library, England; FHL microfilm 2,356,548.