Birth: 10 June 1828 Wortley, Leeds, Yorkshire, UK
Father: John Fawcett 1795-1841
Mother: Mary Wilkinson 1792-1860
Registered: Lane Particular Baptist, Bramley By Leeds, Yorkshire, UK
Marriage: Unknown
Wife: Unknown
Death: After 1851
Unknown
Entry in Ancestry England, Select Births and Christenings, 1538-1975 for William Fawcett born 10 June 1828 at Lane Particular Baptist, Bramley By Leeds, York, parents John and Mary Fawcett.
Entry in Ancestry England & Wales, Non-Conformist and Non-Parochial Registers, 1567-1936 for William Fawcett born 10 June in Leeds, Yorkshire, parents John and Mary Fawcett. "William Fawcett Son of John and Mary Fawcett Born June 10th 1828 in the Township of Wortley Parish of Leeds & County of York & Registered November 10th 1828".
His father died in Wortley just prior to the 1841 census.
In the 1841 census as William Fawcett aged 12, born in Yorkshire, employed as a woolen burler, and living with his mother (Mary), Jabez (brother?), and Elizabeth and Mary (sisters?), and Susannah Wilkinson (aged 20 - a lodger?) at Moor End, Wortley, Tankersley, Yorkshire.
In the 1851 census as William Fawcett aged 22, born in Wortley, York, single, a cloth ?, and living with his widowed, mother (Mary) and sister (Elizh) in Lower Wortley, Leeds, Yorkshire (two doors from his brother Abraham and his family).
I cannot find any later information - another William Fawcett was born in Wortley in 1829, parents John and Mary, but they were still alive in the 1861 census.
There are forty three entries in Ancestry Public Member Trees for William Fawcett.
Bramley is west of Leeds and Wortley a mile SE opf Bramley, both just inside the Ring Road A6110/A6120.
William Fawcett was Felicity's third great granduncle.
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