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England & Wales, Society Of Friends (Quaker) Births 1578-1841
John Ecroyd
Birth date 03 Dec 1679 (3rd day of 10th month 1679)
Birth place as transcibed Marsden Lancashire
Father John Ecroyd of Briercliff
Mother Alice
Meeting place Lancashire
Archive reference RG6/1616A
Description LANCASHIRE: Quarterly Meeting of Lancashire
Record set England & Wales, Society Of Friends (Quaker) Births 1578-1841
Category Birth, Marriage, Death & Parish RecordsEngland & Wales, Society Of Friends (Quaker) Marriages 1578-1841
Martha Smith of Harrfield, Yorkshire
Marriage date 30 May 1714 (30th day of 3rd month 1714)
Marriage place as transcibed Harrfield Knaresbrough York
Father Stephen Smith
Spouse John Akeroyd junior of Briercliff, Burnley, Lancashire
Meeting place Knaresborough
Archive reference RG6/1091
Description YORKSHIRE: Monthly Meeting of Knaresborough: Knaresborough Monthly Meeting
Record set England & Wales, Society Of Friends (Quaker) Marriages 1578-1841England & Wales, Society Of Friends (Quaker) Burials 1578-1841
John Ecroyd
Death date 17 Feb 1755
Burial date 21 Feb 1755
Burial place as transcibed Marsden Lancashire
Meeting place Lancashire
Archive reference RG6/1616A
Description LANCASHIRE: Quarterly Meeting of Lancashire
Record set England & Wales, Society Of Friends (Quaker) Burials 1578-1841Dr John Ecroyd was son of a John Ecroyd, the first of his family to join the Society of Friends, otherwise known as the Quakers. The other son, Richard, who lived at Lane House, Briercliffe, for a time, was responsible for running the family woollen business at Edge End in what was then Little Marsden (now Brierfield). Some of the cottages associated with this business have survived, as has, from a later period, the great mill at Lomeshaye in what was then Great Marsden (now Nelson).
The Ecroyds had come to Briercliffe in the 16th Century from the Hebden Bridge area when they bought the small Foulds Estate. As with many small farmers, they became involved in the woollen industry which they ran, initially, from Foulds House. The present property, replacing an ancient timber dwelling, was built by the family on a substantial scale, at the end of the 16th Century, so they must have become successful in their commercial activities fairly quickly.
As the elder son, Dr John Ecroyd inherited Foulds House, and the land attached to it, but neither he nor his children could be described as farmers. John, his eldest son, became an apothecary in Kendal; Richard, the second son, was trained as a doctor and emigrated to the West Indies, and Stephen, the youngest, inherited Foulds House and could be described as a “gentleman farmer”. The portraitist Sir Godfrey Kneller (1643-1723) painted a likeness of Dr John.
England & Wales, Society Of Friends (Quaker) Marriages 1578-1841
Martha Smith of Harrfield
Marriage date 30 May 1714 (30th day of 3rd month 1714)
Marriage place as transcibed Harrfield Knaresbrough York
Father Stephen Smith
Spouse John Akeroyd junior of Briercliff, Burnley, Lancashire
Meeting place Knaresborough
Archive reference RG6/1091
Description YORKSHIRE: Monthly Meeting of Knaresborough: Knaresborough Monthly Meeting
Record set England & Wales, Society Of Friends (Quaker) Marriages 1578-1841Many trees have her death as 15 Nov 1751 but this is for a Martha the daughter of Richard and Susanna Ecroyd. Clearly not correct.
England & Wales, Society Of Friends (Quaker) Births 1578-1841
Elizabeth Ecroyd
Birth date 29 Oct 1716 (29th day of 8th month 1716)
Birth place as transcibed Swarthmoor
Father Jon Ecroyd of Briercliff
Meeting place Lancashire
Archive reference RG6/1616
Description LANCASHIRE: Quarterly Meeting of Lancashire
Record set England & Wales, Society Of Friends (Quaker) Births 1578-1841
Category Birth, Marriage, Death & Parish RecordsEngland & Wales, Society Of Friends (Quaker) Burials 1578-1841
Elizabeth Ecroyd
Age 0
Death date 10 Jan 1717 (10th day of 11th month 1717)
Burial date 12 Jan 1717
Burial place as transcibed Marsden
Burial county as transcribed Lancashire
Meeting place Lancashire
Archive reference RG6/1616A
Description LANCASHIRE: Quarterly Meeting of Lancashire
Record set England & Wales, Society Of Friends (Quaker) Burials 1578-1841
Category Birth, Marriage, Death & Parish Records
Subcategory Parish Burials
Mary born 23rd Nov 1718 died 28th July 1802. Mary married John Tipping 24th Mar 1740/1. John was born 22th Apr 1713 died 3rd April 1768. As a rule of thumb Ecroyd were all Quakers but Tipping were not all Quakers.
England & Wales, Society Of Friends (Quaker) Births 1578-1841
Mary Ecroyd
Birth date 23 Nov 1718 (23rd of 9th month 1718)
Birth place as transcibed Swarthmoor
Father John Ecroyd junior of Briercliff
Meeting place Lancashire
Archive reference RG6/1616
Description LANCASHIRE: Quarterly Meeting of Lancashire
Record set England & Wales, Society Of Friends (Quaker) Births 1578-1841
Category Birth, Marriage, Death & Parish RecordsLiverpool, England, Quaker Registers, 1635-1958 (Also see image of Quaker Marriages 1738-1740)
Name: John Tipping of Dochber in the Monastery of Sawley, Yorkshire
Event Type: Marriage
Marriage Date: 24 Mar 1740/1 (24th day of 1st month 1740)
Marriage Location: Marsden Height, Lancashire
Spouse: Mary Ecroyd
Spouse Father: John Ecroyd of BriercliffEngland, Select Marriages, 1538-1973
John Tipping
Gender Male
Marriage Date 24 Mar 1740/1
Marriage Place Society of Friends. Marsden, Lancashire, England
Spouse Mary Ecroyd
FHL Film Number 817371 Reference ID it 3 p 23England, Select Marriages, 1538-1973
John Tipping
Gender Male
Marriage Date 24 Mar 1740/1 (24th day of 1st month 1740)
Marriage Place Marsden Height, Lancaster, England
Spouse Mary Ecroyd
Spouse father John Ecroyd
FHL Film Number 584012 Reference ID rg 970 p 43 y 1740What links Tipping and Ecroyd is the fact they are Quakers, they live not too far apart from each other and they seem to keep inter marrying.
The pattern seems to be that the Quaker families intermarried to keep whatever they had in the family. When you look at the marriages of Ecroyd there are marriages not only between Tipping but between Ecroyd cousins and the same surnames seem to crop up. It was not the accepted thing to marry out to a non Quaker as Quaker the society would not accept it and often cast out those who did.England Deaths and Burials, 1538-1991
Mary Tipping
Residence Place: Dockber, York, England
Gender: Female
Burial Date: 31 Jul 1802
Burial Place: Sawley, England
Death Date: 28 Jul 1802
Death Place: Dockber, York, England
Age: 83 and 7 months
Birth Date: 1719
Marital Status: Widowed
Spouse's Name: John Tipping, deceased
Reference ID p75
Indexing Project (Batch) Number B01725-0
System Origin England-EASy
GS Film number 583999
Archive reference RG6/1008
Description LANCASHIRE: Quarterly Meeting of Lancashire: Burials
Record set England & Wales, Society Of Friends (Quaker) Burials 1578-1841
England & Wales, Society Of Friends (Quaker) Births 1578-1841
Hannah Ecroyd
Birth date 08 Mar 1724 (8th day of 1st month 1724/5)
Birth place as transcibed Marsden
Birth county as transcribed Lancashire
Father John Ecroyd of Briercliff
Mother Martha
Meeting place Lancashire
Archive reference RG6/1616A
Description LANCASHIRE: Quarterly Meeting of Lancashire
Record set England & Wales, Society Of Friends (Quaker) Births 1578-1841
Category Birth, Marriage, Death & Parish RecordsEngland Marriages 1538-1973
Hannah Ecroyd
Marriage date 21 Nov 1751 (21st day of 9th month 1751) at Marsden Heights
Father John Ecroyd of Briercliff
Mother Martha
Spouse Joseph Shipley of Uttoxeter, Staffordshire
Residence Lancashire, England
Record set England Marriages 1538-1973
Category Birth, Marriage, Death & Parish Records
Subcategory Parish MarriagesHannah born 8th March 1724 at Folds House possibly died 1793, married Joseph Shipley son of John Shipley he being disowned by the Quakers for cursing swearing and being drunk. Married 21st Nov 1751 Marsden meeting house. Joseph was born 1721 died 1778 in Uttoxeter Staffordshire. There were children of the marriage said to be John, Alice, Mary, and Ann and these lines of descendents are huge! Hannah seems to have died in America arrived New York July 1795 on a certificate from Hardshaw Liverpool died new York 6th April 1796 recorded as 3rd daughter of John Ecroyd of Folds House who she went to live with is unknown. Shipley and Summerland are connected and had a family dispute when Rebecca Shipley married twice and some thought they were being done out of an inheritance by a second marriage and this went on apparently for years.
Quaker records
Burial: Uttoxeter
Joseph Shipley, butcher of Uttoxeter
Aged 57
Died: 4th April 1778
Buried: 7 April 1778
England & Wales, Society Of Friends (Quaker) Births 1578-1841
Alice Ecroyd
Birth date 15 Dec 1728 (15th day of 10th month 1728)
Birth place as transcibed Foulds House in Briercliff
Father John Ecroyd of Briercliff
Mother Martha
Meeting place Lancashire
Archive reference RG6/1616
Description LANCASHIRE: Quarterly Meeting of Lancashire
Record set England & Wales, Society Of Friends (Quaker) Births 1578-1841
Category Birth, Marriage, Death & Parish RecordsEngland, Select Marriages, 1538–1973
Alice Ecroyd
Gender Female
Marriage Date 13 Oct 1751 (13th day of 8th month 1751)
Marriage Place Marsden Heights, Lancashire, England
Father John Ecroyd
Mother Martha
Spouse Isaac Rigg
FHL Film Number 817371 Reference ID it 4 p 5Alice born 15th Dec 1728 married Isaac Rigge a matter of Kendal in Cumbria in 1751 had 6 children. Alice died 1809.
England & Wales, Quaker Birth, Marriage, and Death Registers, 1578-1837
Alice Rigge
Event Type: Burial
Birth Date: abt 1728
Gender: Female
Spouse: Isaac Rigge
Death Date: 11 Dec 1809
Death Age: 81
Burial Date: 15 Dec 1809
Burial Place: Stramongate in Kendal, Westmorland, England
Meeting: Quarterly Meeting of Westmorland
Burial Age: 81
Piece Description: Piece 1104: Quarterly Meeting of Westmorland: Burials (1804-1817)
England & Wales, Quaker Birth, Marriage, and Death Registers, 1578-1837
Isaac Rigge
Event Type: Birth
Birth Date: 9 Dec 1713 (9th day of 10th Month 1713)
Birth Place: Langdale, Westmorland, England
Gender: Male
Father: Edward Rigge
Mother: Agnes Rigge
Meeting: Quarterly Meeting of Westmorland
Piece Description: Piece 1246: Quarterly Meeting of Westmorland (1649-1778)England & Wales, Quaker Birth, Marriage, and Death Registers, 1578-1837
Isaac Rigge
Event Type: Burial
Birth Date: abt 1714
Death Date: 23 Jan 1777
Death Age: 63
Burial Date: 26 Jan 1777
Burial Place: Stramongate in Kendal, Westmorland, England
Meeting: Quarterly Meeting of Westmorland
Burial Age: 63
Piece Description: Piece 1075: Quarterly Meeting of Westmorland: Burials (1771-1790)
England & Wales, Society Of Friends (Quaker) Births 1578-1841
Richard Ecroyd
Birth date 17 Dec 1730 (17th day of 10th month 1730)
Birth place as transcibed Marsden
Birth county as transcribed Lancashire
Father John Ecroyd of Briercliff
Mother Martha
Meeting place Lancashire
Archive reference RG6/1616A
Description LANCASHIRE: Quarterly Meeting of Lancashire
Record set England & Wales, Society Of Friends (Quaker) Births 1578-1841
Category Birth, Marriage, Death & Parish Records
Subcategory Parish BaptismsRichard was born in 1730 and died on or about 12th Aug 1765 in Calcutta India with a will in the National Archives. It is possible that something went wrong with this man and the family. He was also a medical man and receives little attention in the family pedigree apart from being born and said to have gone to West Indies. He looks like he is in the employ of the East India Company as a Surgeon and lived in Calcutta India at least at his death. He had two illegitimate children with what may well be both native women. They appear to be two illegitimate children one of each sex. Maria named her child Richard after the father and his surname was Ecroyd. His father made provision for him in his will though he seemed to be rather unsure if Maria was having a baby or not. He left Pounds 1000 for the expected child and appointed as Guardian one Richard Bradwell one of the richest men in Calcutta and well known for his sexual exploits! Richard Ecroyd's son was born posthumously in 1766 an illegitimate, was educated in England but returned to Calcutta. He had a desire to contact his English relatives but didn't do it whilst receiving his English education. He did it after a chance meeting in Bengal. It seems evident that his family was not to keen on encouraging his contact and it is unknown why. He started writing to his Aunt Deborah wife of Stephen Ecroyd stating that he wanted a wife from Cumbria putting forward his best attributes and stating that he couldn't visit at the moment as he had invested in an indigo manufactuary. He says his mother was French descended and from the Conte de Flandres. Richard left an estate of Pounds 57 died May 1797.
Elizabeth, born 9th June 1684 married William Whalley in Marsden Heights on 27th Dec 1705. He was described as Quaker minister in some sources. William died 2nd Jul 1708 hence they just had the one child Ann Whalley born 30th March 1707 died 26th Jan 1755. Elizabeth Ecroyd Whalley died 10th April 1707. William it is said was born 1680 his father may well also have been William, a faithfull Quaker who travelled all over to spread the word - died 1682 buried Hey head and who is remembered in Quaker literature.
Ann Whalley married a Thomas Tipping in June 1726. Thomas was of Sawley later linked to Sawley Grange. There was a child Frances born 15th May 1734 of Sawley who died 13th Aug 1784. Frances married her cousin Richard Ecroyd 22nd October 1757 at Crawshaw Booth in Rossendale.
England Births & Baptisms 1538-1975
Elizabeth Ecroyd
Gender Female
Birth date 09 Jun 1684 at Marsden (9th day of 4th month 1684)
Birth place Hardshaw Society of Friends M. M., Lancashire, England
Father Jon Ecroyd of Briercliff
Mother Alice Ecroyd
Record set England Births & Baptisms 1538-1975
Category Birth, Marriage, Death & Parish Records
Subcategory Parish BaptismsEngland Marriages 1538-1973
William Whalley of Marsden Lancashire
Marriage date 27 Dec 1705 (27th day of 10th month 1705)
Marriage place Marsden Height
Spouse Elizabeth Ecroyd of Briercliff
Residence Lancashire, England
Record set England Marriages 1538-1973
Category Birth, Marriage, Death & Parish Records
Subcategory Parish Marriages
Collections from England, Great Britain
In the prescence of John Ecroyd, Alice Ecroyd, John Ecroyd junior, Joseph Whalley, Mary Ecroyd, Martha ??,Mary Vespton, Richard ecroyd, and many othersEngland & Wales, Society Of Friends (Quaker) Burials 1578-1841
Elizabeth Whalley
Death date 10 Apr 1707 (10th day of 2nd month 1707)
Burial date 12 Apr 1707
Burial place as transcibed Marsden
Burial county as transcribed Lancashire
Meeting place Lancashire
Spouse Willm Whalley of Little Marsden
Archive reference RG6/1616A
Description LANCASHIRE: Quarterly Meeting of Lancashire
Record set England & Wales, Society Of Friends (Quaker) Burials 1578-1841
Category Birth, Marriage, Death & Parish Records
William was a minister.
Died 2nd day of 5th month 1708 at Mardsen
Buried 5th day.
England, Select Births and Baptisms, 1538-1975
Richard Ecroyd
Gender Male
Birth Date 15 Nov 1689 (15th day of 9th month 1689)
Birth Place Breercliff, Lancaster, England
Father John Ecroyd
Mother Alice
FHL Film Number 583995 Reference ID vol 4 6/1616A p 394England & Wales, Society Of Friends (Quaker) Marriages 1578-1841
Richard Ecroyd of Briercliff, Lancashire
Marriage date 01 Mar 1719 (1st day of 1st month 1719/20)
Marriage place as transcibed Longfield Swarthmoor
Spouse Susanna Kayley of Longfield, Yorkshire, spinster
Meeting place Lancashire
Archive reference RG6/1616
Description LANCASHIRE: Quarterly Meeting of Lancashire
Record set England & Wales, Society Of Friends (Quaker) Marriages 1578-1841
Category Birth, Marriage, Death & Parish Records
Subcategory Parish MarriagesEngland & Wales, Quaker Birth, Marriage, and Death Registers, 1578-1837
Richard Ecroyd
Event Type Burial
Birth Date abt 1689
Death Date 9 Nov 1787
Death Age 98
Burial Date 13 Nov 1787
Burial Place Marsden, Lancashire, England
Meeting Quarterly Meeting of Lancashire
Piece Description Piece 1168B: Quarterly Meeting of Lancashire: Burial notes (1776-1794)Richard, born 15th Nov 1689, at Folds House died Edge End in Little Marsden 9th Nov 1787. Richard a worsted weaver dyer and mill owner married Susannah Kayleigh on 1st March 1719/20 at Shewbroad a Quaker meeting house with cemetery. Susannah was born it is said Langfield 17th June 1686 and died Edge End 25th March 1763. Their son Richard, born 25th June 1731, was one of 11 children. He married Frances Tipping. Thomas Tipping her father did not believe in marriages between cousins although this was not an uncommon Quaker practice so he cut his daughter out of his will in disapproval leaving her only a shilling at his death.
England & Wales, Quaker Birth, Marriage, and Death Registers, 1578-1837
Susana Kaley
Event Type Birth
Birth Date 17 Jun 1696
Birth Place Todmerden, Yorkshire, England
Gender Female
Father Henry Kaley
Meeting Monthly Meeting of Brighouse
Piece Description Piece 1090:
Monthly Meeting of Brighouse (1641-1776)England, Select Deaths and Burials, 1538-1991
Susanna Ecroyd
Gender Female
Marital Status Married
Death Date 15 Mar 1763
Burial Date 28 Mar 1763
Burial Place Marsden Height, Lancaster, England
Spouse Richard Ecroyd
FHL Film Number 583995 Reference ID vol 4 6/1616A p 440
