James Berry

[Janet]

Name - James Berry

Date and place of birth - *1784(?) Colne, Lancashire

Names of parents - *

Date and place of baptism - *

Details of each of his or her marriages - 18 April 1814, Kildwick, Yorkshire, to Anne Barrett

Occupation(s) - Warp Sizer (Cotton) Master

Addresses where they lived (including county if in UK) -

1841 census, age 50, sizer, living at Bent, Sutton with wife Ann age 50 and children Martha 25, Ellen 25, Thomas 20 a sizer, Hanah 15, John 13 ag lab, James 5

1851 census, age 64, living at 89, Croft Head, Sutton with wife Ann, daughter Hannah and son James. Retired cotton warp sizer.

1861 census, age 76, widower, living at 82, Ellers, Sutton with a servant Margaret Dixon. Described as a gentleman.

Date, place and cause of death - 18 November 1861, Sutton-in-Craven near Keighley, Yorkshire, obstruction of bowels (have cert.)

Date and place of burial - 22 November 1861, Sutton Baptist Chapel (Craven Indexes by Josie Walsh)

Details of will / administration of their estate -

There exists an Indenture of 1855 in which James Berry effectively handed over his land and properties to his sons Thomas and James the younger and his daughter, Hannah. Family members have said that James Berry bought up bits of land and property on a rather broad scale at Steeton, Eastburn and Sutton from people who were in financial difficulty. He also had the sizing house in Sutton, divided into 2 cottages after the business ceased, and the house he built on the same plot of land.

I have this information from one of my mother's second cousins, who spent hours at Leeds researching Berry wills and probates many years ago. This same cousin concludes that the rest of his children must either have already died or been provided for when they married.


Memorial inscription - ?

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*There is a possible baptism on Lancs-OPC:

Baptism: 23 May 1784 St Bartholomew, Colne, Lancashire, England
James Berry - son of John Berry & Betty
Abode: Higher Law
Register: Baptisms 1774 - 1789, Page 82, Entry 14
Source: LDS Film 1471023

And another, less likely, I believe, but still in the running:

Baptism: 2 Jun 1782 St Bartholomew, Colne, Lancashire, England
James Berry - son of Richard Berry & Mary
Abode: L: Marsden
Register: Baptisms 1774 - 1789, Page 66, Entry 14
Source: LDS Film 1471023

The handwriting on the photograph is my mother's.

James Berry's sizing house on the Sutton-in-Craven village website:
http://www.sutton-in-craven.org.uk/h...izinghouse.asp