John Grimshaw

1805 John Grimshaw Burial

• Birth Notes

  Name:    John Grimshaw
  Event Type:    Birth
  Birth Date:    5 Feb 1723
  Birth Place:    Knaresborough, Yorkshire, England
  Gender:    Male
  Father:    Joshua Grimshaw
  Mother:    Jane Grimshaw
  Meeting:    Monthly Meeting of Knaresborough: Rawden
  Piece Description:    Piece 1502: Monthly Meeting of Knaresborough: Register Book for Rawden (1697-1752)
  
  Born: 5 Feb 1724 in Eccleshill, Yorkshire
  
  John Grimshaw son of Joshua & Jane Grimshaw of Greengates in the parish of Calverley Borh 5th of Ye 12 mon 1723

• Death Notes

  John Grimshaw died at Allerton, and was buried at a Friends Burial Ground serving the Bradford area (see grave record).
  
  In the margin of the burial records:
  "N/B his ??? was at Preston Partick, Westmorland
  ??? a member of the ??? ??? ???
  
  Make a grave on or before next fourth Day, in Friends Burying Ground, at or near Bradford and therein lay the body of Jn'o Grimshaw (i.e. John Grimshaw) late of Allerton in the parish of Bradford in the county of york Farmer aged about eighty five years who died the fifteenth day of the seventh month one thousand wight hundred and five.
  
  James Taylor, Grave maker interred the body, probably at the Quaker burial ground at Idle. 
  
  An indenture record for a grave plot dated 1788 bears the name (amongst several others) of John Grimshaw of Calverley, so unless there is another John Grimshaw, Quaker in Bradford, is appears John first came to Calverely before farming at Allerton.
  
  Name:    Jno. Grimshaw
  Gender:    Male
  Age:    85
  Birth Date:    1720
  Death Date:    15 Jul 1805
  Death Place:    Brighouse, York, England
  Burial Date:    17 Jul 1805
  Burial Place:    Bradford
  FHL Film Number:    588422
  Reference ID:    p224 cn813