Birth: 6 January 1786 Woodkirk, Yorkshire, UK
Father: Benjamin (Benj, Benjn) Verity 1761-a1795
Mother: Sarah Chappell 1761-a1795
Christening: 12 January 1786 St Mary, Woodkirk, Yorkshire, UK
Marriage: 13 May 1803 St Michael, East Ardsley, Yorkshire, UK
Husband: Edward Goldthorp 1781-1857
Death: March 1798 Wakefield, Yorkshire, UK
Burial: 17 March 1856 St John the Baptist, Wakefield, Yorkshire, UK
Sarah Goldthorp 1806
Joseph Goldthorp 1808
Benjamin Goldthorp 1810-1825
John Goldthorp (Goldthorpe) 1812-1844
Birth of Rhoda Verity in the IGI on 6 January 1786 and her christening on 12 January 1786 in Woodkirk, Yorkshire, parents Benj and Sarah Verity. The same information is in Ancestry England, Select Births and Christenings, 1538-1975 plus another on 12 January 1786 in Woodkirk's, West Ardsley, York, parents Benjamin and Sarah Verity.
Entry in Ancestry West Yorkshire, England, Church of England Baptisms, Marriages and Burials, 1512-1812 for Rhodes Verity born on 6 January 1785 and baptised on 12 January 1785 at Woodkirk, St Mary, Yorkshire, parents Benjn and Sarah Verity. "Baptisms continued for the Year 1785 [...] Rhoda Daugr of Benj & Sarah Verity of the ? ? ? was born the 6 Jan & was baptized the 12 January". This was using the Julian Calendar so it is 1786 in the Gregorian calendar.
Entry in Ancestry England, Select Marriages, 1538–1973 for Rhoda Vinty (sic) and Edward Goldthorp on 30 May 1803 in East Ardsley, York.
Entry in Ancestry West Yorkshire, England, Church of England Baptisms, Marriages and Burials, 1512-1812 for Rhoda Verily (sic) and Edward Goldthorp on 13 (sic) May 1803 in East Ardsley, St Michael, Yorkshire. "The Year 1 Page 133 [...] Edward Goldthorp of the Parish of Wakefield and Rhoda Verity of this Parish Spinster Married in this Church by Banns this thirtieth Day of May in the Year One Thoufand Eight Hundred and three [both made their marks]".
Her first daughter was christened in Woodkirk in 1806, and her three sons in Wakefield in 1808 to 1812.
In the 1841 census as Rhoda Goldthorp aged 55 (rounded down to a multiple of 5) born in Yorkshire and living with Edward (husband?), John (son?) and William (grandson?) in Providence Street, Wakefield, Yorkshire.
In the 1851 census as Rhoda Goldthorp aged 68, born in West Ardsley, Yorkshire, and living with her husband (Edward) and grandson (William) in Wilson's Yard, Providence Street, Wakefield, Yorkshire.
Death of Rhoda Goldthorp in FreeBMD in January-March 1856 in Wakefield (9c 21).
Entry in Ancestry England, Select Deaths and Burials, 1538-1991for Rhoda Goldthorpe buried on 17 March 1856 aged 72 in Wakefield, York.
Entry in Ancestry West Yorkshire, England, Church of England Deaths and Burials, 1813-1985 for Rhoda Goldthorpe buried on 17 March 1856 aged 72 in Wakefield, St John the Baptist, "Page 238 Burials in the Parish of Wakefield (at St John's Church in the County of York in the Year 1856 [...] Rhoda Goldthorpe No. 1899 of Provendence Street on March 17th aged yrs 72".
There is an entry in Ancestry Public Member Trees for Rhoda Verity born on 6 January 1786 and her christening on 12 January 1786 in Woodkirk, Yorkshire, parents Benjamin and Sarah Verity. Another entry gives her mother's maiden name and adds her marriage to Edward Goldthorp on 30 May 1803 in Ardsley, Brierley, Borough of Barnsley, and her death in Yorkshire in 1856.
Woodkirk is about 7 miles south of Leeds on A653, Ardsley (East and West) are some 6 miles south of Leeds and 2 miles north of Wakefield and east of Woodkirk.
Rhoda Verity was Felicity's second cousin five time removed.
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