Birth: Circa 1749 Pudsey, Calverley, Yorkshire, UK
Father: Joseph Waterhouse (Watterhouse) 1719-1776
Mother: Susannah (Susanna, Hannah) Keighley (Kighley) 1724-a1759
Christening: Unknown
Marriage: 28 August 1769 St Wilfrid, Calverley, Yorkshire, UK
Wife: Sarah (Sally) Swithenbank (Swithinbank) 1752-a1791
Death: After 1791
Elizabeth Waterhouse 1770
Sarah Waterhouse [Farrar] 1772-a1793
Mary Waterhouse 1775-1775
Rebecca Waterhouse [Jones] 1776-a1796
Rachel Waterhouse [Harper] 1779-a1799
William Waterhouse 1782-1834
Judith Waterhouse 1784
Anne Waterhouse 1787
Nelly Waterhouse 1788-1788
Joseph Waterhouse 1790
Phoebe Waterhouse 1791-1792
There is a submitted entry in the IGI for the birth of William Waterhouse in about 1744 in Pudsey, parents Joseph Waterhouse and Susanna Keighley. Another submitted entry has the same information except the year is 1745. Another gives the year as 1749 and only gives his father's name.
There is also an entry in the Pedigree Resource File for William Waterhouse born in about 1749 in Pudsey, Yorkshire, parents Joseph Waterhouse and Susanna Keighley, and his marriage to Sarah Swithinbank of Yorkshire on 28 August 1769.
I cannot find an entry in the Calverley Parish Records (which has the statement "The original Baptism register for the period 1748 to 1755 is very confusing. Entries are very hard to interpret, some entries are duplicated in different years, the dating is unclear and the condition of the register also makes the period difficult to decipher. Other versions that appear on the IGI site and elsewhere, bear little resemblance to these records.") The christening would come under the Calverley Records as it is prior to 1755.
There is a submitted entry in the IGI for the marriage of William Waterhouse born about 1745 in Pudsey and Sarah Swithinbank on 28 August 1769. Another submitted entry gives the same information but adds the marriage is in Calverley. Another gives the marriage in about 1784.
Entry in Ancestry West Yorkshire, England, Church of England Baptisms, Marriages and Burials, 1512-1812 for the banns of William Waterhouse and Sarah Swithenbank on 30 July 1769 at Calverley, St Wilfrid. "The Year 1769 Page 72 No 354 Banns of Marriage between William Waterhouse and Sarah Swithenbank both of this parish were published the three Sundays underwritten That is to fay, On Sunday, the 16th of July [...] On Sunday, the 23rd of July [...] On Sunday, the 30th of July".
There is an entry in the Calverley Parish Records for William Waterhouse, a mason of Calverley and Sarah Swithenbank of Calverley on 28 August 1769 at St Wilfrid witnessed by John Ryley & George Gamble.
Entry in Ancestry West Yorkshire, England, Church of England Baptisms, Marriages and Burials, 1512-1812 for the banns (sic) of William Waterhouse and Sarah Swithenbank on 28 August 1769 at Calverley, St Wilfrid. "Page 78 The Year 1769 No 208 William Waterhouse of this Parifh Mason & and Sarah Swithenbank of this parishSpinster Married in this Church by Banns this twenty eighth Day of August in the Year One Thoufand seven Hundred and Sixty nine [he signed his name, she made her mark] in the prefence of John Ryley & George Gamble".
All the children were christened at All Saints Chapel, Pudsey. For those up to and including Rebecca only the fathers name, William, is given. For Rachel and William the records give not only the parents names William Waterhouse and Sarah alias Sally Swithenbank and his employment as mason, and the grandparents names as Joseph Waterhouse and Stephen Swithenbank. For Judith only her father's and grandfather's names are given (William and Joseph Waterhouse). The same is given for Anne plus William's employment as a mason and her mother's name as Sarah. For Joseph his parents names are given as William, a mason, and Sarah Waterhouse. but his grandfather is given as Joshua Waterhouse. There is no entry for the christening of Nelly or Phoebe, but there is for their burials as an infant daughters of William.
There are twenty six entries in Ancestry All West Yorkshire, England, Select Land Tax Records, 1704-1932 for William Waterhouse, an occupier in Pudsey from 1781 to 1811, but there are conflicting names for the proprietors and amounts implying there was more than one William Waterhouse.
Entry in Ancestry Web: UK, Death Duty Registers Index, 1796-1811 for William Waterhouse, a shopkeeper of Pudsey in the parish of Calverley, Yorkshire dated 14 November 1811.
There are 171 entries in Ancestry Public Member Trees for William Waterhouse, some including his burial on 25 August 1811 but I cannot locate an entry in the parish records.
Pudsey was part of the parish of Calverley with its own chapel of ease and is about 6 miles west of Leeds.
William Waterhouse was Felicity's fourth great grandfather.
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