Johnson / Bryans Families

Tracing the ancestry of Pamela Murdoch Bryans and Maurice Alan Johnson

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Jonathan Wadsworth, of Horbury[1]

Merchant & Trader
Male 1648 - 1708  (60 years)

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  • Name Jonathan Wadsworth 
    Relationshipwith Marion Murdoch Johnson
    Gender Male 
    Birth 1648  [1] 
    Occupation Merchant & Trader 
    • FMG (Vol 1, page 8) has him as "trading to Dantsick, where a Samuel Wadsworth resided, who calls him cousin". Dantsick may be Gdansk in Poland.
    Death 14 Aug 1708  [1] 
    • FMG, page 8, says he was 65 when he died, but also gives dob as 1748.
    Burial 15 Aug 1708  Horbury, Yorkshire West Riding, England, Kingdom of Great Britain Find all individuals with events at this location  [1] 
    Last Modified 5 Sep 2021 

    Father William Wadsworth, of Horbury
              b. Between 1610 and 1620  
              d. 1691 (Age ~ 81 years) 

    Wife Phoebe Kirby
              b. Between 1648 and 1668, London Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Children 
     1. Rachael Wadsworth
              b. [J] 11 Mar 1689, Horbury, Yorkshire West Riding, England Find all individuals with events at this location
              d. 4 Oct 1766 (Age ~ 77 years)
    Last Modified 9 Dec 2019 

  • Notes 
    • Early Life
      Jonathan Wadsworth was born in 1648, the son of William Wadsworth of Horbury in Yorkshire, and Elizabeth ___.

      Career
      From FMG1
      a Dantsick merchant

      "he was a merchant, trading to Dantsick, where a Samuel Wadsworth resided, who calls him cousin. Jonas Wadsworth, a merchant in London, acknowledges the same affinity." (FMG Vol 1 - Wadsworth, Priestley, Halstead, Busk)

      Family Life
      Jonathan married Phoebe Kirby, daughter of Joshua Kirby of Wakefield, presumably around 1672 (though no marriage record has been found); they had:

      1. Mary b. 1673 who married Thomas Webster of Dewsbury
      2. Phoebe, b. 1678, married Joseph Sutton of Leeds
      3. Hanna, b. 1684, married Joseph Conder of Leeds
      4. Elizabeth, b. 1686, married Rev. Richard Halstead of Hooton-Paynell
      5. Rachael, b. 1689, married Jacob Hansson Busk a naturalised wool merchant from Sweden


      It seems that Jonathan had a brother, Samuel Wadsworth (of Flanshawe and Horbury), who married Welcome Kirby, the sister of Phoebe. A third Kirby sister, Cambdena, married a John Wordsworth of Wakefield and Horbury. This latter John was son of Isaac Wordsworth of Brookhouse in Langside. It is unclear whether these Wordsworths are related to the Wadsworths of this page; a note in FMG1 suggests that John Wordsworth of Wakefield and Horbury was "not related to the Horbury family [i.e. the Wadsworths of Horbury]".

      Death
      Will: https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/d47e6299-553c-4d1f-ae79-0f697c37c076

      Footnotes
      [1] Familaie Minorum Gentium, Vol 1 - Kirby-Wilson)

  • Sources 
    1. [S0331] Joseph Hunter, Familiae Minorum Gentium, (London, 1895), Wadsworth - Preistley, Halstead, Busk; Volume 1, pages 8-11.