William North (MMFFF)
 

Name - "official" name and what they were known as
William North

Date and place of birth
Born Rothley, Leicestershire, c. 1780

Names of parents
William North and Mary Wood

Date and place of baptism - if applicable
6th February 1780 at Rothley, Leicestershire

Details of each of his or her marriages - if any
Possible first marriages:
- William North of Rothley and Ann Pollard of Rothley married in Rothley, Leicestershire, by banns, on 18th September 1797
- William North of Rothley & Elizabeth Haywood of Thurcaston married in Thurcaston-cum-Cropston (near Rothley), Leicestershire, by banns, on 3rd December 1798
- William North of Rothley and Ann Muston of Barkby married in Barkby, Leicestershire, by banns, on 26th December 1804


Probable second marriage:
18th February 1829, by banns, at Rothley Parish Church, Leicestershire.
William North, widower OTP
Elizabeth Biddle, spinster of South Mountsorrel in this parish.

Occupation(s) - if any
1841: carrier
1845: carrier (father William's will)
1851: farmer of 20 acres
1856: carrier and coal higgler.
Shown as a carrier on his son William's marriage cert (1858) and wife's death cert (1867).

Addresses where they lived (including county if in UK) - and please list which censuses you have or haven't found him/her on (if s/he lived in census times!).
1841: Church Gate, Rothley, Leicestershire
1851: Cross Green, Rothley, Leicestershire
1856: Rothley, Leicestershire

Date, place and cause of death
Died in Rothley on 15th October 1856, aged 76. Cause of death: asthma and ascites. The informant was a neighbour.

Date and place of burial
No burial found in PRs; possibly a Baptist burial.

Details of will / administration of their estate - if applicable
None found

Memorial inscription - if any
None found

Notes (partly copied from thread about Elizabeth Biddle)

Unfortunately, North is a common name in the Rothley/Mountsorrel area.

There is a possible baptism for my great-grandfather William North in Rothley in 1780, parents William and Mary (IGI, extracted). There's also an IGI submitted entry for the same date and place, giving the parents' names as William John North and Mary Haywood.

William appears in the 1841 and 1851 censuses with a wife Elizabeth, whose birth is given as Mountsorrel South in 1851, so I assume this is Elizabeth Biddle in view of the abode given in the 1829 marriage entry.

Just to complicate things, there was another couple called William (1801) and Elizabeth (1806) North living in Rothley in 1841 who, like my William and Elizabeth, had their children's births registered at the Rothley baptist church.