Yorkshire Almanac 2026

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These two days viz. Monday and Thursday June 22 and 23, 1674 I have been at two as solemn funerals as ever I was in all my life, the former day, Mr. Bayly’s wife, at Morley, who had been down in a consumption 10 weeks, the latter Joshua Stansfield’s wife [Martha Sharp, daughter of John, sister of Abraham] who died in childbirth June 21 and the child with her, whom I saw laid in one coffin, the child in her arms, as though it were asleep, an affecting sight, sad for relations, Lord sanctify it to all.

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• 📌Bradford (73) W/G ·
• Childbirth (5) W/G ·
• Heywood, Oliver (1630-1702) (34), Bolton-born nonconformist minister and diarist, active in the West Riding, resident at Northowram, ejected for his beliefs W/G ·
• 📌Little Horton (9) W/G ·
• Maternal death (1) W/G ·
• 📌Morley, West Yorkshire (5), market town and civil parish 5 miles south-west of Leeds, built on seven hills W/G ·
• Nonconformism (47) W/G ·
• Perinatal mortality (2) W/G ·
• Sharp, Abraham (1653-1742) (6), mathematician and astronomer, assistant of John Flamsteed W/G ·
• Sharp, John (1604-72) (2), Bradford clothier and merchant, financial secretary to Fairfax, father of Abraham Sharp W/G ·
• Tuberculosis (5) W/G ·

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