Birth: 1686/7 Kirkby Overblow, Yorkshire, UK
Father: Edward Stead b1652-a1689
Mother: Sarah Elsworth 1655-a1689
Christening: 16 January 1687 All Saints, Kirkby Overblow, Yorkshire, UK
Marriage: Unknown
Wife: Mary ? b1698-a1726
Death: 1738 Kirkby Overblow or Sicklinghall, Yorkshire, UK
Mary Stead 1714
Elisabeth Stead 1715
Edward (Edwd) Stead 1717-a1764
Sarah Stead 1724
Elisabeth Stead 1726
Christening of Edward Stead in the IGI on 16 January 1687 in Kirkby Overblow, parents Edward and Sarah Stead. The same information is in Ancestry England, Select Births and Christenings, 1538-1975.
I cannot locate an entry for his marriage but all the children were christened at All Saints, Kirby Overblow, parents Edward (Edwd) and Mary Stead.
His son was baptised on 29 April 1717 at All Saints, Kirkby Overblow.
Entry in Ancestry West Yorkshire, Roman Catholic Oath Records, 1714-1787, 1829 for Edward Stead in 1717 in Kirkby Overblow. This collection contains lists and certificates of Roman Catholics failing to take the oaths of abjuration, allegiance and supremacy which were a part of an act passed by parliament in 1715.
Christopher A O'Connell has an entry in Descendants of Matthew Stead for Edward Stead, son of Edward Stead and Sarah Elsworth, born in 1685/86, his marriage to Mary, five children, and his death in 1738/39.
There are fifty four entries in Ancestry Family Trees for Edward Stead, many adding his death in Sicklinghall which is three miles east of Kirkby Overblow which is 6 miles west of Wetherby.
Edward Stead was Felicity's sixth great grandfather.
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