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Thomas Leaver who married Sarah Sutcliffe was the son of Abraham Leaver and Grace Barker

1851 Census - HO107; Piece: 2251; Folio: 110; Page: 27
Hill End, Briercliffe
Abraham Leaver, Head, Mar, 27 years, Ware House Man Cotton, b. Briercliffe
Grace Leaver, Wife, Mar, 26 year, b. Briercliffe
Betty Leaver, Daughter, 5 years, b. Briercliffe
Thomas Leaver, Son, 1 year, b. Briercliffe

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Lancashire Marriage indexes for the years: 1904
LEAVER Fielden Parker HARGREAVES Mary Jane Briercliffe, St James Preston CE114/1/427

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Births Q2 1880 LEVER William Burnley 8e 295
Deaths Q1 1906 LEVER William 25 Burnley 8e 137

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Wow Mel, you have been busy! Thanks.

This was all in my file Kris, I did tell you about these Leavers a few months back.

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Section L 33
Small headstone
In Affectionate Remembrance of
Sarah LEAVER
Who died August 18th 1932
Aged 83 years
http://www.briercliffesociety.co.uk/Gra ... eaver1.htm

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I know, you updated my tree back in November There are just a few new dates to work with.

Mel, Peter and Ruth Taylor sent this information to me a while back. Speaking of the update back in November, do you have any information on this?

22 JAMES LEAVER (1808-1865)
No additional information.
How do you know that James Leaver was the father of John Sutcliffe? Seems unlikely.


LEAVER FAMILY

1 JOHN LEAVER (1746-1817)
Additional children: Ann (1765- ), John (1772-1788), Nancy (1775- ), William (1783-1836), Betty (1786-1808), Jane (1792- )
Places of Residence: 1765 Briercliffe, 1768 Worsthorne, 1772 Extwistle,
1775 Catlow, 1777 Briercliffe, 1792 Extwistle, 1808 Extwistle,
1817 Leegreen, Extwistle

2 JAMES LEAVER (1768-1828)
Buried at Haggate Chapel on 11th January 1828
Places of Residence: 1793 New Laith, Briercliffe, 1798 Batty Hole, Briercliffe
1800-1803 Monk Hall, Extwistle, 1806-1809 Finsley, Little Marsden,
1827 Extwistle Hall
Employment: 1827 Farmer

3 THOMAS LEAVER (1777-1845)
Baptised at St Bartholomew’s Colne on 21st September 1777
Married (1) Nancy Thornton at St Peter’s Burnley on 29th October 1797
Additional children: Hannah (1800- ), Hannah (1803- ), Sally (1807- ),
John (1809- )
Married (2) Sally Whitaker at St Peter’s Burnley on 7th March 1815
Places of Residence: 1815-1817 Blackhouse Lane, Briercliffe,
1841-1845 Banks, Briercliffe
Employment: 1815 Weaver, 1841 Weaver, 1845 Weaver
Visited by Marsden Friends Relief Committee in 1843. Thomas Leaver worked as a weaver for T Smith. Seven in the household at Hill End.

4 BANNISTER LEAVER (1780-1839)
Baptised at St Peter’s Burnley on 3rd September 1780
Additional child: Jane (1830- )
Places of Residence: 1801-1824 Batty Hole, Briercliffe,
1827-1830 Blackhouse Lane, Briercliffe, 1839 Blackhouse Lane, Briercliffe
Employment: 1828 Farmer
Religion: 1809 Admitted to Baptist Faith Deacon of Baptist Church

5 MARY LEAVER (1793-1793)
Buried at St Peter’s Burnley on 27th November 1793

6 JOHN LEAVER (1795-1871)
Born 1795 (but may just have been born 1794)
Baptised at St Peter’s Burnley on 18th January 1795
Married (1) Ann Catlow at St Peter’s Burnley 29th March 1812
Married (2) Alice Pollard (*I had Alice Robinson, but I don’t have a date)
Buried at Haggate Chapel on 23rd February 1871
Places of Residence: 1812 Little Marsden, 1815-1818 Finsley, Little Marsden
1841 Extwistle Hall, 1851 Roggerham, 1871 Burnley Lane
Employment: 1812 Weaver, 1841 Farmer, 1848 Gamekeeper,
1851 Innkeeper and Gamekeeper

7 NANNY LEAVER (1797- )
Baptised at St Peter’s Burnley 15th January 1797

8 SALLY LEAVER (1798-1871)
Birth recorded at Haggate Chapel September 1798

9 ABRAHAM LEAVER (1800-1863)
Birth recorded at Haggate Chapel December 1800
Baptised at Worsthorne Church on 8th October 1848 (adult baptism)
Buried at Haggate Chapel on 7th December 1863
Cause of death – chronic inflammation of the brain
Places of Residence: 1800-1803 Monk Hall, Extwistle,
1806-1809 Finsley, Little Marsden, 1828-1829 Extwistle,
1831-1835 Proctorcote, Extwistle, 1841 Extwistle Hall, 1851 Extwistle Hall,
1861 Extwistle Hall, 1863 Extwistle
Employment: 1828 Husbandman / Farmer, 1841 Weaver, 1848 Farmer,
1851-1855 Quarry labourer, 1862 Quarryman, 1863 Stone Quarrier
Visited by Marsden Friends Relief Committee in 1843. Abraham was on the Dole. Seven in the household at Extwistle Hall.

10 BETTY LEAVER (1803- )
No additional information

11 JAMES LEAVER (1806-1848)
Married Elizabeth Thompson at St Peter’s Burnley in 1825.
Additional children: Mary (1825- ), Nancy (1826- )
Places of Residence: 1836 Houghton House, Extwistle, 1841 Extwistle Hall
Employment: 1841 Gamekeeper

12 MARY LEAVER (1809-1839)
Died in 1839
Buried at Haggate Chapel on 10th January 1839
Place of Residence: 1839 Extwistle

13 WILLIAM LEAVER (1811-1884)
Married Betty Duerden at St Peter’s Burnley on 15th February 1830
Died April 1884
Buried at Haggate Chapel on 10th April 1884
Places of Residence: 1841 Hollingrove, Briercliffe, 1851 Hollingrove, Briercliffe,
1859 Hollingrove, Briercliffe, 1864 Hollingrove, Briercliffe, 1884 Catlow
Employment: 1841 Agricultural labourer, 1851 Stonecutter.

14 JOHN LEAVER (1815-1864)
Married (1) Sarah Nuttall ( -1839)
Married (2) Nancy Edmondson (1815-1889)
Daughter Mary A (1841- ) Mother?

15 THOMAS LEAVER (1817-1902)
Married (1) Ellen Whitaker (1814-1869)
Children: Thomas (1856- ), John (1859-1885)
Married (2) Ellen Hargreaves (nee Nutter) (1821-1893)

16 NANNY LEAVER (1820- )
Married Robert Barton

17 ABRAHAM LEAVER (1823-1857)
Died in 1857

18 JAMES LEAVER (1798-1864)
Died in 1864
Visited by Marsden Friends Relief Committee in 1843. James Leaver worked as a weaver for W Smith and T Blackburn. Eleven in the household at Holt Hill.

19 JOHN LEAVER (1801- )
Additional child: Thomas (1835- )

20 MARY LEAVER (1804-1839)
No additional information

21 ANN LEAVER (1806- )
No additional information

22 JAMES LEAVER (1808-1865)
No additional information.
How do you know that James Leaver was the father of John Sutcliffe? Seems unlikely.

23 HANNAH LEAVER (1810- )
No additional information

24 BETTY LEAVER (1813- )
Married James Halstead (1817- )
Children Elizabeth (1839- ), Margaret (1841- )

25 OLIVE LEAVER (1816- )
No additional information

26 BENJAMIN LEAVER (1819- )
Additional child: William (1839- )

27 SARAH LEAVER (1821- )
No additional information

28 THOMAS LEAVER (1827- )
No additional information

29 BANNISTER LEAVER (1824-1901)
Additional child: Elizabeth (1845- )

30 NANCY LEAVER (1815-1874)
Married Peter Whitehead (1815- )
Children: Hannah (1836-1862), John (1839- ), Sarah (1841-1864), Ann (1842-1858), Margaret (1845-1869), Elizabeth (1848- )
Died 1874

31 SALLY LEAVER (1816- )
No additional information

32 THOMAS LEAVER (1818- )
No additional information

33 SUSAN LEAVER (1820- )
No additional information

34 PEGGY LEAVER (1821- )
Is the child John Proctor aged 2 years in the 1851 census actually your “94” John Leaver (1848-1852)?

35 JAMES LEAVER (1824- )
Born 1824
Married Elizabeth Harrison
Child: John (1850- )

36 ELIZABETH LEAVER (1826- )
Born 1826

37 JOHN LEAVER (1829- )
No additional information

Oh my goodness. Here i am working away on what looks like a whole new seam of Phillips stuff and now there's all this! There went my housework time for tomorrow .
A lot of the names in Ruth's letter are already on the tree but the dates are a nice bonus.
I just finished entering up the stuff from her letter so now I better get started on the rest.

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Did that info come from me?

I don't think James Leaver was the father of John Sutcliffe but he was the stepfather certainly. I have him added in my file as son of James Leaver by mistake...he should be son of Martha only.

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Do you mean he was the son by mistake, or or that you said, by mistake, that he was?

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Maureen
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It was my mistake, when I added James Leaver to the file, I added him as father of John by accident and didn't undo it.
I was aware of it

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Section B 29
Kerb
James LEAVER died October 17th 1865 aged 57 yrs/Bannister LEAVER died February 10th 1912 aged 69 yrs/Elizabeth LEAVER died September 4th 1908 aged 60 yrs/Martha LEAVER died March 7th 1892 aged 85 yrs.

This is the James and Martha referred to as well as their children, with the exception of John Sutcliffe.

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John Sutcliffe, son of the above Martha.

Section B Grave 28
Kerb
John ??? SUTCLIFFE died February 10th 1902 aged 68yrs
Mary his wife died November 8th 1890 aged 52yrs
Emma died in infancy

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Census for John Sutcliffe, son of Martha

1841
HO107/506/15 folio 32 pg 18
Shorey Heys, Briercliffe

1851
HO107/2251/1 folio132 pg 18
Blackhouse Lane

1861 There is a John Leaver next door to John & Martha Leaver. Is this really John Sutcliffe
RG9/3073 folio100 pg 12
Blackhouse Lane

1871
RG10/4152 pg 25
Lane Bottom

1881
RG11 /4148 / 134 /1
51 Brennand St Burnley, Lancashire, England
John SUTCLIFFE Head M Male 47 Briercliffe, Lancashire, England Cotton Weaver
Mary SUTCLIFFE Wife M Female 42 Haggate, Lancashire, England Housewife
Elizabeth SUTCLIFFE Daur U Female 21 Burnley, Lancashire, England Cotton Weaver
Martha J. SUTCLIFFE Daur Female 19 Briercliffe, Lancashire, England Cotton Weaver
Sophia SUTCLIFFE Daur U Female 13 Briercliffe, Lancashire, England Cotton Weaver
Fanny SUTCLIFFE Daur Female 11 Briercliffe, Lancashire, England Cotton Weaver
Alice SUTCLIFFE Daur Female 4 Briercliffe, Lancashire, England

1891
RG12/3363 folio 49 pg 44
172 Grey St, Burnley

1901
RG13/3865 folio 41 pg 25
172 Grey St, Burnley

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