NameJohn SHARPER, 5G Uncle
Birth16 Aug 1770, East Keswick, Yorkshire, England
Baptism28 Sep 1770, Harewood, Ripon, Yorkshire, England
Death15 Mar 1824
Burial18 Mar 1824, Harewood, Ripon, Yorkshire, England
Spouses
Birth24 Feb 1774, East Keswick, Yorkshire, England
Baptism5 Apr 1774, All Saints, Harewood, Yorkshire
Notes for John SHARPER
The IGI lists a John Sharper born August 16, 1770, christened September 28, 1770, Harewood, Yorkshire, father John Sharper, mother Elizabeth
Parish and Probate records, Harewood, Yorkshire baptism, John son of John and Elizth Sharper of East Keswick, September 28, 1770.
Parish Records St. Peter, Leeds
John Sharper of the Parish of Harewood Tailor and Mary Clough of this Parish Spinster were married in this Church by Licence Jos. Whiteley ??? this fifteenth Day of July in the Year One Thousand Eight Hundred by me Nussey? Holmes Clerk
In the Presence of Thomas Penney? and Hannah Easly
West Yorkshire Select Land Tax Records
East Keswick, Skyrack, Yorkshire, 1809
Proprietor, Occupiers, sums assessed and exonerated,summs assessed and not exonerated
The Right Honourable Lord Harewood, John Sharper, 4 pounds 13 shillings 4 pence,
John Sharper, himself, , 6 shillings 6 1/2 pence
John Sharper, himself, , 16 shillings 11 1/2 pence
A similar entry in 1821 and other years
Copied in Adel Churchyard Nr Leeds Tues Nov 7th, 1905 by Joseph Henry Lowe.
In memory of John Sharper of East Keswick who departed his life March 15th 1824. Aged 53yrs. also Elizabeth daughter of John and Mary Sharper who departed this life APRIL 22nd 1813 aged 10 yrs, upright stone.
Parish Records Harewood
Burial John Sharper, East Keswick, March 18, 1824, age 53, by R. E. Leach, Curate.
From East Keswick Millenium Book
In 1822, the Baines directory gives the population [of East Keswick] as 296 and lists the key inhabitants as John Clough [perhaps Mary’s father or brother], lime master, Thomas Dean wheelwright, Thomas Flint, innkeeper of the Old Star, George Lawrence, schoolmaster, James Midgley, boot and shoe maker, George Parker, butcher, Robert Scatchard, stonemason, John Scatchard, surgeon, John Sharper, malster, William Teale, lime master, and Abraham Wormald, victualler of the Duke of Wellington.
Notes for Mary (Spouse 1)
Parish Records All Saints, Harewood, West Yorkshire
Born February 24 1774, baptism April 5 1774, Mary Clough daughter of John and Ann Clough of East Keswick
In the 1841 census East Keswick, Bramham, Harewood, West Yorkshire
Mary Sharper, age 68, Independent ????, born in Yorkshire
In the 1851 census East Keswick, Harewood, West Yorkshire
Head Mary Sharper, widow, age 76, formerly farmer’s wife, born East Keswick, Yorkshire
Grand daughter Mary A. Sharper, unmarried, age 23, ???? Bonnet? Maker, born East Keswick
[It would seem, if this is the correct Mary Sharper, they had a son who I do not have recorded. Since there are no other Sharpers recorded in East Keswick, Mary A.’s parent either died or had moved.]