Deaths in White Chapel, Cleckheaton
1793 to 1804 |
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Deaths, White Chapel, Cleckheaton
1793 to 1800 Whenever possible I have indicated the age and sex, whether the adult females were married or not, the cause of death, residence, and the date of burial. The ages were not always given, so some entries will only list the sex. Children were usually listed as the son or daughter of a given father. However there age was not always included and some of the people who were listed as, "son of " or "daughter of", were actually unmarried adults, as indicated in a few of the records. Where I do not know the age I have for the sake of convenience "female child" or "male child". In a few instances where the ages are listed for this type of entry some of these "children" are surprisingly old. I have made some sort of notation in these cases. Women were frequently listed as the wife or widow of their husband, allowing me to indicated their married state. No such information is given for men. Therefore I have no way of knowing if they are bachelors, husbands or widowers. I have listed the place of death after the cause of death for all deaths by infectious diseases to see if there was some pattern to the outbreaks. I have also indicated where there was more than one death of infectious disease in the same family. Some entries were listed out of order by date. I have listed them in the order they appeared in the records. Before July 1793 there was little indication of the age at death and no indication of the cause of death in the chapel records. The first time the cause of death was added to the records was in the later part of 1793. There were 18 deaths reported from July 1793 to December 1793 of which fourteen reported either the age and/or cause of death.
1793
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Sex and Age | Cause of Death | Date |
Male child | None | July 9 |
1 yo male | None | July 31 |
Child, male | Scalded | July 31 |
18 yo male | None | August 29 |
60 yo male | Rheum | August 31 |
Married female | Old Age | September 2 |
Female | Old Age | October 3 |
27 yo unmarried female | Fever, Scholes | October 6 |
23 yo unmarried male | Consumption | October 19 |
Married female | Decline | November 5 |
Male child | None | November 5 |
Male 21 | Eruption, died in infirmary, Popplewell | November 6 |
Married female | None | November 15 |
Male | None | November 19 |
5 yo female | Scarlet fever, Snelson | November 29 |
1 ½ yo male | Scarlet fever, Snelson | November 29 |
28 yo male | Fever | December 24 |
No sex or age | Pox, can't read | December 27 |
1794 |
Male 25 | Fever, Scholes | January 5 |
Married female | Decline | January 10 |
37 yo married female | Decline | January 15 |
Male | Fell off a wall | January 21 |
88 male | Old Age | January 22 |
83 yo male | None | January 22 |
Adult male | Fever, High town | February 10 |
15 yo female | None | February 15 |
Male child | None | February 18 |
3 yo female | Small pox, Scholes | February 25 |
6 yo female | Small pox, Cleckheaton | March 4 |
56 yo male | None | March 5 |
3 yo female | Small pox, Scholes | March 11 |
45 yo male | Sudden death | March 16 |
3 yo female | Small pox, Lancashire | March 19 |
16 yo male | Decline | March 24 |
2 yo female | Small pox, Scholes | March 26 |
2 yo male | Small pox, Liversedge | March 26 |
Male | Old age | March 30 |
2 yo female | Small pox, Popplewell | March 30 |
8 yo male | Small pox, Scholes | April 1 |
1 yo female | Small pox, Hunsworth | April 5 |
1 yo male | Small pox, Chapel Lane | April 20 |
1 yo female | Small pox, Cleckheaton | April 20 |
2 yo male | None | April 20 |
79 yo female | Old age | April 25 |
5 yo male | Small pox, Cleckheaton | May 8 |
60 yo female | None | May 12 |
Male child | None | May 23 |
49 yo female | Consumption | May 31 |
Male infant | Small pox, Cleckheaton | June 1 |
61 yo male | Can't read | June 13 |
Male infant | None | June 14 |
Female child, can't read age | Small pox, Wike | June 22 |
Female child, can't read age | Small pox, Heaton Lane | June 24 |
3 yo female | Small pox, Wike | July 22 |
15 yo female | Consumption | July 30 |
Male | Killed in a quarry | August 10 |
1 yo male | None | August 25 |
Infant male | August 30 | |
Married female | Decline | September 6 |
_______ | None | No date |
Female | None | September 24 |
Male | None | Sept 29 |
85 yo. male | None | October 6 |
15 yo. male | Consumption | November 2 |
58 yo. married female | Consumption | November 5 |
14 yo. male | None | November 6 |
Married female | Apo. fit | November 13 |
Married female | Decline | December 5 |
65 yo male | Old age and decline | December 9 |
1795 |
8 yo male | Consumption | January 6 |
8 yo male | Can't read | January 18 |
Male child | Dry cough, Liveredge | January 22 |
Male child | None | January 31 |
43 yo female | Pneumonia | February 10 |
Male, 48 | Fever and Convulsions, Scholes | February 10 |
Male, 15 | Consumption, Popplewell | February 18 |
26 yo unmarried female | Inflammation | March 4 |
20 yo male | None | April 6 |
70 yo married female | None | April 7 |
1 yo female | None | April 8 |
72 yo male | Consumption | April 13 |
71 yo male | Decline | April 17 |
Male | Decline | May 10 |
4 yo male | None | May 19 |
45 yo married female & infant son | Childbirth | May 20 |
Male | Consumption | June 9 |
Male | Fever, Cleckheaton | June 20 |
24 yo unmarried female | Consumption | July 28 |
54 yo male | 6 year decline | August 14 |
28 yo married female | None | August 25 |
17 yo female | Decline | August 28 |
Female child | Anemia | September 16 |
22 yo male | Yellow fever, High Town | September 22 |
3 yo male | None | September 23 |
1 day old male | None | October 11 |
Male child | Can't read | October 18 |
Female child | Decline | November 1 |
Married female | None | December 11 |
Female infant | None | December 12 |
* From December 1795 to June 1797 an additional notation was made
on some deaths regarding the religious affilations of the deceased. Non Church of England members such as
Methodists and other nonconformists were buried for a long time in the Church of England Cemetary.
Other notations indicate the person mental state, there are notations such as "pious", "unprepared", "prepared" I have added this notation after the cause of death. | ||
Male | Decline, *prepared | December 20 |
1796 | ||
Male | None. *Excellent | January 4 |
Male infant | None. Infant | January 10 |
Male | Decline. *Unprepared | January 11 |
62 yo male | Fits. *Doubtful | February 10 |
6 month old female | None. Infant | February 10 |
21 yo married female | Decline. *Unknown | February 12 |
76 yo male | Testical decay | March 9 |
3 mo. Old female | Whopping cough, Wike | March 9 |
Female child | Apo fits | March 28 |
Married female | Fits. *Pious | June 26 |
Female child | None | June 30 |
2 yo male child | Scarlet fever, Oakenshaw | July 2 |
52 yo male | Decline. *Unsettled | July 27 |
52 yo female | None. *Unknown | July 27 |
79 yo female | Decline | July 31 |
1 yo female | Scarlet Fever, Oakenshaw | August 3 |
49 yo married female | Can't read. *Hopeful | August 10 |
Male child | None | September 2 |
Male child | None | September 2 |
15 yo male | None | September 7 |
Married female | Decline | September 11 |
3 yo female | Scarlet Fever, Heaton | September 27 |
Male child | None | October 23 |
Male | Dropsy | October 24 |
Married female | Old age. *Unknown | November 5 |
Male | Old age. *Hopeful | November 7 |
49 yo female | Decline | November 9 |
Married female | Decline, *Methodist | November 20 |
67 yo male | Suddenly. *Non com | December 2 |
57 yo male | Fits. *Can't read | December 17 |
1797 | ||
Young male | None | January 1 |
80 yo female | Old age. *Believer | January 3 |
17 yo female | Dropsy | February 17 |
55 yo married female | Decline. *Non com | March __ |
Male | Fits | April 3 |
Male | Decline. *Methodist | April 15 |
48 yo female | Decline. *Methodist | April 16 |
62 yo male | Decline | April 20 |
1 yo male | None | April 23 |
Female child | Small pox, Cleckheaton | April 25 |
Female child | Small pox, Cleckheaton | April 27 |
Male, 53 | Pleurisy, Scholes | May 3 |
2 yo female | Small pox, Scholes | May 5 |
28 yo married female | Decline | May 19 |
19 yo male | Dropsy | May 23 |
Male child | Small pox, Cleckheaton | May 24 |
2 yo male | Consumption | July 5 |
Female | Consumption | July 5 |
3 yo male | Small pox, Hurteshead | July 20 |
1 yo male | Small pox, Oakenshaw | July 30 |
61 yo male | Consumption | August 2 |
Female child | Small pox, Heaton Lane | August 20 |
22 yo male | Consumption | September 12 |
Married female | None | September 21 |
13 yo male | Dry grip | October 15 |
Male child | None | October 15 |
Female | None | October 21 |
3 mo. old female | Consumption | October 26 |
Married female | None | October 27 |
66 yo male | Dropsy | October 27 |
1 yo male | None | November 9 |
75 yo female | None | November 10 |
59 yo female | Decline | December 5 |
77 yo male | None | December 7 |
93 yo male | None | December 13 |
1798 | ||
Female child | Small pox, Lower Wike | January 17 |
Married female | Bowel com. | January 30 |
2 yo female | Fits | February 4 |
Female child | None | February 5 |
16 yo male | Consumption | February 10 |
23 yo male | Consumption | February 11 |
84 yo married female | After a fall | February 4 |
34 yo married female | Dry gripes | February 12 |
37 yo married female | Decline | February 16 |
2 yo female | Small pox, Lower Wike | February 28 |
1 yo male | None | March 13 |
1 yo female | None | March 15 |
65 yo married female | None | March 30 |
42 yo married female | Childbirth | March 31 |
6 yo male | Consumption | April 1 |
Female infant | None | April 6 |
Male | Consumption | April 8 |
77 yo male | Decline | April 9 |
86 yo male | Old Age | April 15 |
Male | None | April 15 |
Married female | None | April 26 |
Female | None | April 27 |
Male | None | May 1 |
Male infant | None | May 2 |
71 yo female | Dropsy | May 9 |
29 yo married female | Decline | May 20 |
Male infant | None | May 28 |
Male child | None | May 29 |
Female child | None | May 31 |
18 yo female | Decline | June 29 |
Male, blacksmith | Old age | July 7 |
40 yo married female | Decline | July 15 |
19 yo male | Consumption | July 15 |
Male child | Small pox, Birkenshaw | July 19 |
1 yo male | Dry gripes, Oakenshaw | August 11 |
56 yo married female | Inflammation | September 3 |
34 yo married female & infant daughter | Childbirth | September 3 |
Female infant | Small pox, Upper Wike | September 14 |
2 yo female | Small pox, Upper Wike | September 15 |
86 yo widowed female | Long affliction | September 19 |
80 yo widowed female | Long affliction | October 2 |
Female infant | Small pox, Upper Wike | October 6 |
21 yo female | Childbirth | October 10 |
1 yo female | Dry cough, Upper Wike | October 28 |
42 yo married female | Consumption | October 28 |
4 yo female | Small pox, Upper Wike | October 31 |
70 yo male | Dropsy | November 2 |
4 yo female | Dry cough, Oakenshaw | November 5 |
76 yo widowed female | Old age | November 8 |
68 yo male | Jaundice | November 20 |
Male child | Consumption | November 24 |
73 yo female "relic", widow | Paraletic Apoplexia | December 4 |
Female child | Dry cough, Oakenshaw | December 16 |
15 yo female | Decline | December 31 |
Relict is a word that was used to indicate a widow. My impression
is that it was a word used by the upper classes because I have only
seen it used with women of some standing.
This particular relict was, Dorothy, the widow of Dr. Richardson.
This is the only entry that includes any comments outside the ordinary. Written in the space
after her death is the following: "The account of character of this excellent Lady copied from the Leeds Intelligence of the 3rd of December.Note: The _____ spaces indicate several words that are too faded to read. | ||
1799 | ||
64 yo widowed female | Discouraged | January 4 |
Female child | Very sudden | January 21 |
2 yo female | Dry cough, Scholes | January 24 |
75 yo widow | None | January 31 |
1 yo male | Worm fever, Scholes | February 5 |
74 yo widow | Palsy, fits | February 8 |
30 yo married female | Dry gripes, Wibsey | March 14 |
Male infant | None | March 19 |
65 yo male | None | April 5 |
83 yo male | Tedivus or Teclivus (?) decay | April 11 |
Orphaned female infant | Always badly | April 11 |
71 yo female | Gradual decline | April 13 |
8 yo female | Dropsy in head | May 15 |
81 yo widow | Gradual decay | May 17 |
1 yo female | Constant illness | May 30 |
11 yo male | Rheum and pleurisy | June 7 |
Male | Drowned on Sunday | June 18 |
22 yo unmarried female | None | June 20 |
53 yo married female | Decline | July 3 |
Male infant | Suddenly | August 11 |
1 yo male infant | Swelling | August 28 |
1 yo male | Scalded on Saturday | September 10 |
70 yo (can't read name) | Decline | September 18 |
78 yo female | Old age | October 11 |
46 yo male | Dropsical | October 22 |
Adult male | None | October 29 |
58 yo married female | Consumption | December 14 |
76 yo widow | Fits | December 31 |
1800 | ||
68 yo male | Weakened ____ and want | January 5 |
63 yo widow | __________ | January 5 |
82 yo widow | Old age | January 13 |
62 yo married female | Rheumatism | January 20 |
Male infant | Fits | January 26 |
Female child | Fits | January 26 |
20 yo unmarried female | None | February 28 |
26 yo male | Decline | March 5 |
56 yo male | _______ | March 5 |
68 yo married female | None | March 31 |
6 yo male | 3 year illness | April 1 |
50 yo female | None | April 22 |
22 yo female | Consumption | April 27 |
2 yo female | Consumption | May 4 |
68 yo married female | Palsy | May 18 |
51 yo ______ | Rheum. and decline | May 18 |
58 yo male | Decline | June 4 |
1 yo female | Scalding | June 7 |
5 yo male | Scarlet fever, Heaton Lane | June 8 |
_______ | Fits | June 15 |
Male infant | None | June 19 |
43 yo married female | Consumption | June 20 |
90 yo male | None | September 11 |
63 yo male | Consumption | September 14 |
Male infant | None | September 14 |
Male | None | October 3 |
83 yo female | None | October 19 |
Male | ______ | October 22 |
29 yo married female | Child bearing | October 27 |
12 yo female | Bloody flux | November 23 |
A man and his wife, 71 & 60 | Decline | December 1 |
2 yo female | Small pox, Leeds | December 14 |
56 yo male | Decline | December 18 |
Infant male | Fits | December 26 |
1801 | ||
64 yo widowed female | Asthma and dropsy | January 11 |
Married female | Fever after childbirth | January 13 |
31 yo female | Indisposed after childbirth | January 14 |
51 yo male | Jaundice | January16 |
10 yo female | Fever, Birkenshaw | January 25 |
78 yo male | Sudden death | January 24 |
25 yo married female | Fever, Scholes | January 30 |
67 yo _____ | Fever, Birkenshaw | February 6 |
Female infant | Small pox, Cleckheaton | February 10 |
57 yo male | Decay of liver, etc. | February 11 |
Female infant | Small pox, Cleckheaton | February 12 |
Infant | Small pox, Cleckheaton | February 13 |
Male infant | Small pox, Cleckheaton | February 15 |
Married female | None | February 18 |
Female child | None | February 22 |
Female infant | Fits | March 3 |
______ | Fever, Lightcliff | March 6 |
Male child | None | March 12 |
3 yo male | Small pox, Cleckheaton | March 14 |
6 yo female | Small pox, Cleckheaton | March 17 |
36 yo married female | Consumption | March 20 |
30 year old married female and her newborn child | Childbirth | April 3 |
5 yo male | None | April 3 |
65 yo male | None | April 5 |
20 yo______ | Bloody flux | April 10 |
Female infant | None | April 10 |
23 yo female | ______ | April 12 |
5 mo. old ____ | Fits | April 22 |
48 yo married female | Fits | May 1 |
10 yo male | Decline | May 8 |
78 yo female | Fever, Cleckheaton | May 23 |
Female infant | Fits | June 14 |
Only last name entered | None | June 22 |
Male child | None | June 16 |
Female child | None | July 14 |
Female child | None | July 24 |
Male child | None | August 2 |
Married female | None August 19 | |
1 yo male | Small pox, Blacuh | August 19 |
Infant male | Small pos, High Town | August 31 |
2 yo female | Scarlet fever, Wike Lane | August 31 |
10 yo male | Small pox, Scholes | September 3 |
1 yo female | Scarlet fever, Wike | September 8 |
22 yo unmarried female | None | September 10 |
Male child | Decline | September 20 |
40 yo male | Fits | September 24 |
2 yo male | Fever and scalding | September 30 |
40 yo male Fits | September 30 | |
8 mo. old male | Small pox, Scholes | October 2 |
8 yo female | Wearing and _____ | October 4 |
43 yo married female | Childbirth | October 9 |
14 yo male | Consumption | October 17 |
26 yo male | Consumption | October 31 |
2 yr and 9 mo. female | Small pox, Scholes | November 2 |
3 yo female | Small pox, Scholes | November 5 |
4 yo female | Small pox, Scholes | November 5 |
6 yo female | Small pox, Scholes | November 7 |
3 yo male | Small pox, High Trouble | November 8 |
2 yo female | Small pox, Scholes | November 11 |
2 yo male | Inflamed lungs | November 14 |
27 yo male | Fever, Bierley | November 15 |
Married female | Protracted decline | November 17 |
1 yo female | None | November 22 |
2 yo male | Worm fever, Scholes | November 23 |
3 yo male | Worm fever & small pox, Scholes | November 30 |
88 yo male | Afflicted 10 years | December 2 |
65 yo male | Sudden _____ | December 2 |
76 yo widowed female | Consumption Asthma | December 6 |
1 yo female | Small pox, Wike | December 17 |
4 yo male | Chin fever, Hightown | December 17 |
1802 | ||
25 yo male | Consumption | January 7 |
30 week old (?) | Chin cough, Halifax | January 7 |
20 yo unmarried female | Decline | January 23 |
2 yo male | Worm fever, Hearth, Moor Side | January 24 |
59 yo female | Suddenly | February 10 |
1 yo female | None | March 10 |
Male infant | None | March 15 |
Male child | Chin cough, Huntshead | March 20 |
65 yo married female | ____ and Dropsy | March 21 |
Male infant | Decline | March 22 |
3 yo female | Scarlet fever, High Town | April 2 |
Male | Consumption | April 14 |
22 yo male | Fits | May 9 |
Female infant | Smothered in bed | May 12 |
3 yo female | Worm fever, Scholes | May 19 |
7 yo female | Decline | May 23 |
22 yo unmarried female | Fever and fits, Bierley | May 25 |
66 yo male | Hurt | June 9 |
82 yo male | Mortification | July 21 |
64 yo male | Hurt by the stroke of a Mu--,also stone and gravel | July 25 |
46 yo married female | Mortification | July 26 |
Female infant | None | August 13 |
Infant male | None | August 15 |
Infant male | Intestines | August 21 |
4 yo female | Worm fever, Cleckheaton | August 25 |
3 yo female | None | September 3 |
64 yo widowed female | Decline | September 12 |
60 yo widowed female | Apoplectic fit | September 21 |
66 yo male | Suddenly | October 24 |
71 yo male | Decline | October 24 |
Female | Consumption | October 29 |
48 yo male | Consumption and Dropsy | November 15 |
69 yo male | Decay | December 23 |
1 yo male | Fits and hurt | December 31 |
26 yo unmarried female | Consumption | December 31 |
1803 | ||
23 yo married female | Consumption | January 9 |
2 yo female | Scalded | January 13 |
1 yo female | Fever, violent, Scholes | January 15 |
45 yo married female | Decline after childbirth | January 23 |
80 yo widowed female | Decline, old age | February 16 |
Female infant | None | February 18 |
24 yo male | Consumption | February 25 |
55 yo male | Consumption & "lumeness" | February 27 |
Female, wife | Consumption & fits | March 6 |
Male | Old age and decline | March 13 |
13 yo male | Fell into a coal pit | March 16 |
3 yo female | Worm fever, High Town | April 3 |
Male | Decline | April 19 |
Infant male | Croup, Scholes | April 23 |
Infant female | Decline | April 24 |
41 yo male | Consumption | May 8 |
14 yo female | Consumption | June 19 |
79 yo male | None | June 20 |
Female child | None | July2 |
77 year married female | Fits and consumption | July 17 |
71 yo male | Decline | August 11 |
Female child | Consumption | August 31 |
2 yo female | Fits | September 6 |
75 yo male | Suddenly | October 10 |
15 yo female | Fever, Wibsey | October 23 |
69 yo male | Asthma and consumption | December 18 |
31 yo married female | Decline after childbirth | December 18 |
43 yo male | Fever, Scholes | December 20 |
29 yo married female | Consumption | December 31 |
39 yo married female | Wen and cancer 14 years10 | December 31 |
1804 | ||
75 yo widow | None | January 4 |
13 yo female | Fever, Northowram | January 19 |
22 yo male | Fever, Lower Wike | January 25 |
68 yo male | Fits, found dead, gov. inquest | January 27 |
Infant male | None | January 27 |
31 yo male | Consumption | January 27 |
75 yo female | Decline | January 29 |
wife 46 | Mortification, Scholes | February 3 |
Infant male | Decline after 6 months | February 7 |
14 yo male | Wearing | February 12 |
30 yo male | Consumption | February 10 |
30 yo femaleand child of 1 ½ | Consumption | February 22 |
28 yo female | Childbirth | March 6 |
Male infant | None | March 11 |
13 yo male | Scarlet fever, Wilsey | March 15 |
Female infant | Fits | April 12 |
3 yo female | Small pox, Cleckheaton | April 12 |
39 yo male | Stone | April 21 |
69 yo male | Mortification | April 25 |
76 yo male | Decline | May 23 |
85 yo male | None | May 25 |
89 yo widow | None | May 31 |
2 yo male | Decline | June 5 |
Male infant | None | June 14 |
Male infant | None | June 17 |
32 yo married female | Decay | June 26 |
18 yo male | Consumption | July 11 |
Male infant | Fits | July 12 |
Male child | Small pox, Oakenshaw | July 14 |
Widow | Decline | July 15 |
Female infant | Small pox, Bowling | July 24 |
12 yo male | Asthma | August 9 |
18 yo female | Consumption | August 26 |
7 yo female | Worn fever, Scholes | August 28 |
37 yo married female | Rhematism | August 30 |
17 yo male | Consumption | September 10 |
Female infant | Small pox, Oakenshaw | September 27 |
5 yo male | Inflammation of the brain | October 20 |
41 yo married female | Childbirth | October 29 |
1 yo female | Chin cough and consumption, Wike | November 25 |
5 yo male | Worn fever, Heaton Lane | December 23 |
Infant | Fits | December 25 |
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