Birth: 19 December 1795 Wortley, Yorkshire, UK
Father: James Fawcett 1754-1824
Mother: Mary Smith 1752-1819
Marriage: 28 May 1812 St Peter, Leeds, Yorkshire, UK
Wife: Mary Wilkinson 1792-1860
Death: June-July 1841 Wortley, Yorkshire, UK
Danniel Fawcett 1813
Sarah Fawcett 1814
Abraham Fawcett 1817
Mary Fawcett 1819-1852
Jabez Fawcett 1820-a1812
Danial Fawcett 1822
Elizabeth Fawcett 1824-a1851
William Fawcett 1828-a1851
Birth of John Fawcett in the IGI on 19 December 1795, parents Jas Fawcett and Mary, and his christening on 14 January at Old Chapel, Saint Peters Street Wesleyan Methodist, Leeds, Yorkshire. The same information is in Ancestry England, Select Births and Christenings, 1538-1975.
Entry in Ancestry England & Wales, Non-Conformist and Non-Parochial Registers, 1567-1970 for John Fawcett born 19 December 1795 and baptised on 14 January 1796 at Wesleyan, Leeds, Yorkshire. "1796 [...] John the son of Jas. & Mary Fawcett of Wortley in the Parish of Leeds was born Novr 22. 1795 & baptized Jan 10th 1796".
Entry in Ancestry West Yorkshire, Non-Conformist Records, 1646-1985 for John Fawcett baptised 14 January 1796 in the East Circuit, Leeds, parents James and Mary Fawcett. "A Copy of the Register of Baptisms in the Leeds East Circuit in the County of York. [...] 1796 [...] Jany 11 No. 159 John Son of James and Mary Fawcett of Wortley".
Marriage of John Fawcett and Mary Wilkinson in a submitted entry in the IGI on 28 May 1812 in Leeds, Yorkshire.
Entry in Ancestry West Yorkshire, England, Church of England Baptisms, Marriages and Burials, 1512-1812 for John Fawcett and Mary Wilkinson on 28 May 1812 at Leeds, St Peter. "No. 233 John Fawcett of this Parish Clothier and Mary Wilkinson of this Parish Spinster were Married in this Church by Banns this twenty eighth Day of May in the Year One Thousand Eight Hundred and twelve [he signed, she made her mark] in the Presence of John Naylor".
All the children were registered at Lane Particular Baptist, Bramley By Leeds.
He was not living with his wife in the 1841 census when she was living at Moor End, Wortley, Tankersley, Yorkshire and she was a widow in the 1851 census.
Death of John Fawcett in FreeBMD in July-September 1841 in Wortley (22 406).
There are seven entries in Ancestry Public Member Trees but the is some confusion between the three John Fosters born in 1795 or 1796 in the Leeds area, one of which was a farmer who died in 1876.
John Fawcett was Felicity's third great grandfather.
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