Now! Then! 2024! - Yorkshire On This Day

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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, 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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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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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 (72) ·
• Childbirth (5) ·
• Heywood, Oliver (1630-1702) (34), Bolton-born nonconformist minister and diarist, active in the West Riding, resident at Northowram, ejected for his beliefs ·
• 📌Little Horton (9) ·
• Maternal death (1) ·
• 📌Morley, West Yorkshire (5), market town and civil parish 5 miles south-west of Leeds, built on seven hills ·
• Nonconformism (47) ·
• Perinatal mortality (2) ·
• Sharp, Abraham (1653-1742) (6), mathematician and astronomer, assistant of John Flamsteed ·
• Sharp, John (1604-72) (2), Bradford clothier and merchant, financial secretary to Fairfax, father of Abraham Sharp ·
• Tuberculosis (4) ·

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