Tag: CLOTHIER
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Died, very rich?
The Non-Conformist or Northowram Register, as it has become known, does not merely preserve the bare bones of baptisms, marriages and burials between 1644 and 1743. 1 The Presbyterian minister Oliver Heywood and his successor Thomas Dickenson occasionally added pithy comments that help illuminate the lives of their congregation in Halifax (and some further afield).…
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Frequenter of Conventicles
Six months before the affray outside Kitchingman the merchant taylor’s house in York, yet another William Kitchingman was born in Kilburn in the North Riding. 1 William was the first child of Valentine K. He was not yet two when his mother Anne was buried in May 1643. Shortly afterwards, Valentine re-married. The family had…
Early Modern Kinship 