Birth: 1765 Sandal Magna, Yorkshire, UK
Father: John Matthewman 1747-a1780
Mother: Unknown
Christening: 10 February 1765 Sandal Magna, Yorkshire, UK
Marriage: 15 October 1792 Healaugh By Tadcaster, Yorkshire, UK
Wife: Mary Knowles (Knowls) 1769-1808/41
Death: January 1848 Willow Grove, Woodhouse, Leeds, Yorkshire, UK
Buried: 22 January 1848 St Mark, Woodhouse, Leeds, Yorkshire, UK
Mary Matthewman [Foster] 1792-1857
Hannah Matthewman 1793
John Knowles Matthewman 1795-1796
Charles Matthewman 1797
Esther Matthewman 1802
George Matthewman 1805
Jane Matthewman 1808
Christening of George Matthewman in the IGI on 10 February 1765 in Sandal Magna, Yorkshire, father John Matthewman. There are two entries in Ancestry England, Select Births and Christenings, 1538-1975 with the same information.
Marriage of George Matthewman and Mary Knowles in the IGI on 15 October 1792 in Healaugh By Tadcaster, Yorkshire. Threre are three two entries in Ancestry England, Select Marriages, 1538–1973 for George Matthewman and Mary Knowles on 8 October 1792 in Hunslet, Parish of Leeds, York and add his age as 27 (these may have been the calling of banns) and 15 October 1792 in Hunslet, Parish of Leeds, York.
All the children were christened in Leeds when he was living in Hunslet Lane, but only the father's name is given.
There are four entries in Ancestry All UK, Land Tax Redemption, 1798 for Geo Matthewman occupying a property owned by Rob Rockliffe in Tadcaster 6/11. in 1798.
There are four entries in Ancestry All UK, City and County Directories, 1766 - 1946 for George Matthewman, a merchant address Carlton Lodge, Woodhouse Lane in 1822, a foreign woolmerchant and agent with his son at 19 Trinity Street in 1826 and 1830, and at 3 Albion Street in 1834.
There are four entries in AncestryAncestry UK, Poll Books and Electoral Registers, 1538-1893 for George Matthewman address Little Woodhouse in 1832, and entries for George Matthewman addresses Little Woodhouse (house and garden) and Albion Street (warehouse), plus George and Charles Matthewman in Albion Street, all woolstaplers from 1834 to 1837.
In the 1841 census as George Matthewman aged 75 (rounded down to a multiple of 5), a wool merchant, and living with George Matthewman (son?) in Little Woodhouse, Willow Grove, Leeds, York.
There are two entries in Ancestry All UK, City and County Directories, 1766 - 1946 for George Matthewman, a foreign woolmerchant and agent with his son 3 Albion Street, home in Willow Grove from 1841 to 1847.
There are two entries in Ancestry UK, Poll Books and Electoral Registers, 1538-1893 for George Matthewman senior address Little Woodhouse and Albion Street in 1841 and 1847, plus George Matthewman Junior in Albion Street, and in 1841 Charles Matthewman is stated to be dead.
Death of George Matthewman in FreeBMD in January-March 1848 in Leeds (23 361).
Entry in Ancestry West Yorkshire, England, Church of England Deaths and Burials, 1813-1985 for George Matthewman buried 22 January 1848 aged 83 at Woodhouse, St Mark. "Page 89 Burials in the District of St Mark Woodhouse in the County of York in the Year 1848 [...] George Woodhouse No. 712 [of] Willow Grove [on] Jany 22 [aged] yr 83".
There are two entries in Ancestry Public Member Trees for George Matthewman.
Sandal Magna is about 3 miles south of Wakefield on A61. Healaugh is 18 miles NE of Leeds. St Marks, Woodhouse, Leeds is now the Gateway Church.
George Matthewman was Felicity's fourth great grandfather.
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