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Joshua Woodhead & Mary Raynor

Joshua and Mary were married in a religious ceremony on June 14th, 1829 in Almondbury.¹

Marriage/Union Notes
- Joshua Woodhead of Meltham and Mary Raynor of Hanley

They had a daughter named Ellen. There are no more children.

Personal Details
- Joshua Woodhead
  Joshua was born about 1807 in Meltham. He died in May 1833 in Netherthong. His burial was on May 10th, 1833 in Netherthong.²
  - Death Notes
    - Name:    Joshna Woodhead
      Gender:    Male
      Burial Date:    10 May 1833
      Burial Place:    Netherthong, York, England
      FHL Film Number:    1542086
      Reference ID:    item 2-6 p 2
  Mary Raynor
  Mary was born in 1807 in Marsden.³
  - Birth Notes
    - Aged 44, Marsden in 1851 - Mary
      Aged 54, Almondbury in 1861 - Mary
      Aged 64, Almondbury in 1871 - Mary
      Aged 74, Marsden in 1881 - Mary
  She died at the age of 79 in March 1886 in Huddersfield. Her burial was on March 15th, 1886 in Meltham.²⁴
  - Death Notes
    - Mary died in 1884 or 1886 (as two matching records). More likely 1886 as there is also a matching Meltham burial.
      
      Deaths Dec 1884   (>99%)
      DYSON     Mary     77     Huddersfield     9a, 218
      
      Deaths Mar 1886   (>99%)
      Dyson     Mary     79     Huddersfield     9a, 258
      
      Name:    Mary Dyson
      Gender:    Female
      Burial Date:    15 Mar 1886
      Burial Place:    Meltham, York, England
      FHL Film Number:    1542279

Children
- Ellen Woodhead
  Ellen was born in 1830 in Meltham.⁵
  - Birth Notes
    
    Born Meltham (1851 census), Aged 21
    Abode Park Gate in 1841
    
    Its strange that all the other Children are born at Almondbury and only Ellen at Meltham. However, Ellen is the only one not to be baptised there.
    
    Name:    Ellen Woodhead
    Baptism Date:    18 Apr 1830
    Baptism Place:    Meltham, St Bartholomew, Yorkshire, England
    Father:    Joshua Woodhead
    Mother:    Mary Woodhead
  She died after 1901 in Almondbury.
  - Death Notes
    
    If Ellen is the Ellen Woodhead, the only Ellen of Melthan born near 1830, then she married Joseph Rawlinson and lived past 1900.
    
    This Ellen is another, from Huddersfield not from Meltham:
    Name    Ellen Dyson
    Estimated Birth Year    abt 1830
    Registration Year    1871
    Registration Quarter    Jul-Aug-Sep
    Age at Death    41
    Registration district    Huddersfield
    Volume    9a
    Page    196

¹ West Yorkshire Marriages & Banns (1813-1935)
² England Select Deaths & Burials (1538-1991)
³ 1861 UK Census
⁴ FreeBMD.org.uk
⁵ 1841 UK Census