Birth: Before 1692
Father: Unknown
Mother: Unknown
Christening: Unknown
Marriage: Unknown
Wife: Jane ? b1693-1728
Marriage: 6 May 1733 Holy Trinity, Rothwell, Yorkshire, UK
Wife: Martha [Cave]
Death: 1749 Rothwell, Yorkshire, UK
Burial: 19 June 1749 Holy Trinity, Rothwell, Yorkshire, UK
William Shyers 1707/8
John Shires 1709
William Shiers 1710/1
James Shiers 1711/2
Jane Shiers (Shires) 1713/4-1715
Mary Shires [Whitham (Witham, Whitom, Wittom)] 1715/6-a1759
Joseph Shires 1717-1717/20
Sarah Shires 1720-1732
There are four submitted entries in the IGI for William Shires born about 1682 in Oulton, Yorkshire, and his death/burial on 6 October 1749 in Oulton, one adding his wife Jane and 8 children all christened in Oulton. The 8 children are very similar to extracted entries from the IGI for christenings in Rothwell (Oulton cum Woodlesford was a chapelry in the parish of Rothwell, but its records only go back to 1830).
His son was baptised on 25 January 1707/8 at Holy Trinity, Rothwell, father William Shyers of Oulton.
His son was baptised on 25 May 1709 at Holy Trinity, Rothwell, father William Shires of Oulton.
His son was baptised on 27 January 1710/1 at Holy Trinity, Rothwell, father William Shiers of Oltan (sic).
His son was baptised on 16 March 1711/2 at Holy Trinity, Rothwell, father William Shiers of Oultan.
His daughter was baptised on 1 January 1715/6 at Holy Trinity, Rothwell, father William Shires of Oulton.
His daughter was baptised on 31 January 1713/4 at Holy Trinity, Rothwell, father William Shires dancing master of Oulton, and buried on 18 June 1715 at Holy Trinity, Rothwell, father William Shires, a dancing master of Oulton.
His son was baptised on 12 December 1717 at Holy Trinity, Rothwell, father William Shires of Oultom (sic), and buried on 16 January 1719/20.
His daughter was baptised on 5 June 1720 at Holy Trinity, Rothwell, father William Shires of Oulton.
Entry in FreeReg for the burial of Jane wife of William Shires of Oulton on 18 August 1728 at Holy Trinity, Rothwell.
The burial entries in Ancestry West Yorkshire, England, Church of England Baptisms, Marriages and Burials, 1512-1812 for the second part of August 1728 at Holy Trinity, Rothwell are illigible.
Entry in FreeReg for the marriage of William Shiers, a widower and Martha Cave a Widow on 6 May 1733 at Holy Trinity, Rothwell.
Entry in Ancestry West Yorkshire, England, Church of England Baptisms, Marriages and Burials, 1512-1812 for the marriage of William Shiers and Martha Caves on 6 May 1733 at Rithwell, Holy Trinity. "Marriages 1733 [...] May This 6th Day William Shiers Wid and Martha Cave [her name is very faint and followed by an illegible word] Married by Mr Shaw both of this parifh Bamms thrice published".
Entry in FreeReg for the burial of William Shiers of Oulton on 19 June 1749 at Holy Trinity, Rothwell, Yorkshire West Riding.
Entry in Ancestry West Yorkshire, England, Church of England Baptisms, Marriages and Burials, 1512-1812 for the burial of William Shiers on 19 June 1749 at Rothwell, Holy Trinity. "Marriages Baptisms Burials [...] 1749 [...] June William Shiers Buried the 19th June".
There are also some five hundred confusing entries in Ancestry Family Trees for William Shires.
There are also two entries in RootsWeb WorldConnect for William Shires born in 1689 in Swillington, Yorkshire, parents Johannis Shires and Anna Reader and four for William Shires born in 1685 in Rothwell, Yorkshire, married to Ann Hicks and a son William born in 1711.
Rothwell is 8 miles SE of Leeds and Oulton 1 mile further SE on A642/A639.
William Shires was Felicity's sixth great grandfather.
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