Descendants of James Howorth

Introduction

Ebenezer Particular Baptist 1812

Due to problems in tracing the Hartley ancestors, I am adding other lines. Ann Emmet was from Bacup and her mother was a Howorth. Although the area is Bacup today, Bacup was not formally a Town until after the Hartleys moved out of the area. The Howorths were agricultural workers before the cotton mills were built. Before Bacup was a cotton mill center, it was a small village.

Bacup had a Baptist meeting house since the late 1600's and the Howorths from what I can tell were Baptists. They attended the Ebenezer Particular Baptist Church. The "particular" meant that the theology favored some of the teachings of John Calvin. The religious ancestry of the Hartleys in England were Church of England, Baptist and Wesleyan. This can be seen in the Churches attended by the Pillings, Wilkinsons and Hartleys in New Bedford.

Generation One

Modern Map of Trough and Hogshead

•       i.   BETTY² was born on 31 Jan 1789 at Trough Parish of Rochdale. She was baptized on 3 Feb 1789 at Ebenezer Particular Baptist, Bacup.


•       ii.   JOHN was born on 12 Jun 1793 at Hogshead parish of Rochdale. He was baptized on 6 Aug 1793 at Ebenezer Particular Baptist, Bacup.


•       iii.   SALLY was born on 26 Nov 1795 at Trough Parish of Rochdale. She was baptized on 9 Jan 1796 at Ebenezer Particular Baptist, Bacup.


•       iv.   ABRAM was born on 28 May 1798 at Hogshead Parish of Rochdale. He was baptized on 15 Jun 1798 at Ebenezer Particular Baptist, Bacup.


•     2.  v.   ESTHER was born on 22 Oct 1800 at Nothill, Bacup, Lancashire, England. She married Isaac Emmet, son of Edmund Emmet and Sarah (--?--), on 1 Mar 1821 at St. Chad, Rochdale, Lancashire, England.


•       vi.   JAMES was born on 28 Oct 1803 at Hogshead Parish of Rochdale. He was baptized on 8 Nov 1803 at Ebenezer Particular Baptist, Bacup.


•       vii.   ANN was born on 24 May 1806 at Hey head parish of Rossendale. She was baptized on 19 Jun 1806 at Ebenezer Particular Baptist, Bacup.


•       viii.   HANNAH was born on 20 Aug 1809 at Heyhead parish of Rochdale. She was baptized on 20 Sep 1809 at Ebenezer Particular Baptist, Bacup.


•       ix.   ABRAM was born on 22 Jan 1814 at Tong parish of Rochdale.


•       x.   BETTY? was born on 21 Dec 1815 at Higher Tong parish of Rossendale.

There is a Trough Gate that is in Britannia which is to the Southeast of Bacup. Higher Hogshead is up the Hill from the Trough. Tong is roughly about Rockliffe. A note on the birth record for Esther identifies her birthplace as Nun Hills. This area and Hey Head near New Church are shown on the wider map. Underbank is where the Hartleys and Wilkinson were listed as living on the 1851 Census.

Hey Head and Nun Hill West of Bacup

I assumed that there was only one James and Mary Howorth family at the time the above children were born. I would seem that if that was the case, then this family moved around a bit. Actually there was an earlier short lived Pastor buried at the Ebenezer Particular Baptist Church that shared the same name as this couple. He died in 1786 at age 28.

Thanks to the work of CEMSEARCH-uk, I have found the likely parents of James. It appears on the transcriptions from Ebenezer Baptist Chapel, Lanehead, Bacup:

Generation Two

•       i.   JAMES³ was born in 1822.


•       ii.   MARY was born on 4 Apr 1825 at Rochdale, Lancashire, England.
  She was a Cotton weaver in 1841.


•       iii.   SARAH was born on 8 May 1826 at Rossendale, Lancashire, England.
  She was a cotton weaver in 1841.


•     3.  iv.   ANN was born on 10 Jun 1829 at Bacup, Lancashire, England. She married Greenwood Hartley, son of Robert Hartley and Mary Pilling, on 18 Dec 1851 at Bacup Chapelry, Bacup, Lancashire, England. She died on 5 Sep 1906 at Rochester, MA, at age 77. She was buried at Sherman Cemetery, Rochester.


•       v.   ESTHER was born on 28 Jun 1834 at Spotland, Lancashire, England. She was christened on 28 Aug 1834 at Ebenezer Chapel, Bacup, Lancashire, England.


•       vi.   ELIZABETH was born on 30 Aug 1837 at Bacup, Lancashire, England.


•       vii.   ISAAC was born on 31 Jan 1842 at Bacup, Lancashire, England.


•       viii.   GEORGE was born on 21 Dec 1844 at Bacup, Lancashire, England.

Generation Three

•       i.   MARY ANN⁴ was born on 30 Apr 1855 at Bacup, Lancashire, England. She married Abel Burrows, son of Samuel Burrows and Nancy (--?--), on 10 Feb 1874 at New Bedford. She died on 24 May 1924 at Union Hospital, Fall River, at age 69. She was buried on 27 May 1924 at Oak Grove, Fall River.
  She lived in 1880 at 118 Pleasant Street, Fall River, Massachusetts. As of between 1920 and 1921, Mary Ann Hartley lived at 57 Oak St., Fall River, MA. She was a Nurse between 1920 and 1924. As of 1924, Mary Ann Hartley lived at 15 North Eighth Street, Fall River, MA.


•       ii.   ESTHER was born on 21 Mar 1858 at Higher Broadclough, Bacup, Lancashire, England. She died on 30 Oct 1870 at Rear of 200 Ray St., New Bedford, MA, at age 12. She was buried at Oak Grove Cemetery, New Bedford. She was buried at Lot 32, Section GG, Oak Grove Cemetery, New Bedford, MA.
  She Died of Typhoid Fever Name also listed on monument at Sherman Cemetery, Rochester, MA. She immigrated with Greenwood Hartley and Ann Emmet on 24 Oct 1869 at Boston, MA.


•       iii.   JAMES was born on 21 Jan 1862 at Higher Broadclough, Bacup, Lancashire, England. He married Annie Louisa Snell, daughter of Isaiah Hatch Snell and Hannah Thomas Bradford, on 30 Apr 1885 at Long Plain Baptist Church, Acushnet, MA. He died on 30 Jun 1918 at Rochester, MA, at age 56. He was buried at Sherman Cemetery, Rochester, MA.
  He was a Farmer. He immigrated with Greenwood Hartley and Ann Emmet on 24 Oct 1869 at Boston, MA.