11 March 1730: News that John Barber, heir to Gawbert Hall (Lightcliffe), has married a servant
John Hobson. 1877. The Journal of Mr. John Hobson, Late of Dodworth Green. Yorkshire Diaries and Autobiographies in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries. Ed. Charles Jackson. Durham: Surtees Society. A (morbid) compendium of everyday England. It is sometimes unclear whether the date given is that of an occurrence or that on which news reached his capacious ears. Get it:
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11th. – At Barnsley… Mr John Barber, heir to Gaubert Hall, has married a maid-servant in Rotherham; her name is Bailey, and was born at Ecclesfield.
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Abbreviations:
- ER: East Riding
- GM: Greater Manchester
- NR: North Riding
- NY: North Yorkshire
- SY: South Yorkshire
- WR: West Riding
- WY: West Yorkshire
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John Barber seems to have died soon afterwards, because Hobson tells us that John Law of Penistone, married John Barber’s widow. Law died in September 1731, at which point Barber’s son inherited Gaubert Hall. Was John Barber young (an unplanned pregnancy…) or old (the carer got him…)?
Hobson tells further than one of the daughters of Barber, presumably John Barber’s father, married Nicholas Burley, who died in 1727.
Malcolm Bull says that John Newsom lived at Gaubert/Gawbert/Gawbutt Hall around 1721.
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11th. – At Barnsley… Mr John Barber, heir to Gaubert Hall, has married a maid-servant in Rotherham; her name is Bailey, and was born at Ecclesfield.
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- Ecclesfield (5)
· - Hobson, John (32), enthusiastically morbid diarist of Dodworth Green (Barnsley), the date of whose own death is unknown ·
- 📌Lightcliffe (2), village in Calderdale district in West Yorkshire/West Riding, three miles east of Halifax and two miles north west of Brighouse ·
- Marriage (13) ·
- Rotherham (21) ·
- Social class (7) ·
- West Riding of Yorkshire (147) ·
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