Early Life
William Wadsworth was probably born in 1610ish, given son born 1648; Joshua Kirby, the father of William's daughter-in-law, was born in 1617. His parents are not currently known.
About Horbury
Horbury is a town west of Wakesfield in West Yorkshire.
FMG1 indicates that William was
of the Wadsworths or Wordsworths of Falthwaite, nr Stainborough
Falthwaite was
a farm house in the township of Stainborough 3 1/2 miles east of Penistone. Several localities with the name 'Falthwaite' lie west of Stainborough Castle and can be seen
in this map from 1955. A comment on
this blogspot site says:
I believe it was Lower Falthwaite, formally known as Fawfitt Hall, where the Wordsworth family lived as my Great Great Granddad, Thomas Ownsworth bought it from the Wordworths
Lower Falthwaite is visible on the 1955 map and even more clearly on a
map from 1855 (about 1° 32' 21", just up from the bottom of the map). The modern-day equivalent appears to be
this building. Falthwaite is about 10 miles south of Horbury where William eventually moved.
That same blogspot site tells us:
The Wordsworths moved into [Falthwaite] when the Cutlers left - in the 1600's. The Cutlers who were a very important family in the area at that time moved from Falthwaite to Stainborough where they took over from the Everinghams, another vary important family, and built the house that forms the core of Wentworth Castle to this day, the 'Cutler House'. The Everinghams went towards Sheffield. The Wentworths took possession of the Cutler House in the early 1700's.
The
Wordsworths of Falthwaite are the ancestors of the poet William Wordsworth; the line is also given in
Familiae2. So far, I've not found evidence that the two families converge, partly because the Peniston area was absolutely full of Wordsworth/Wadsworth families.
https://archive.org/details/genealogicalmem00bedfgoog/page/n6/mode/2up?q=falthwaite may have some clues.
Also
https://archive.org/stream/registersofchape00horb/registersofchape00horb_djvu.txt
Family Life
William married an
Elizabeth ___ (she died in 1693) and they had:
- Samuel, who married Welcome Kirby
- John, b.1648, who married Phoebe Kirby
- Joseph, who married Jane Mauleverer but died without issue
- Elizabeth, who married Joseph Conder of Leeds
- Hannah
Death
William Wadsworth died early November 1691 and was buried on the 3
rd of that month.
Footnotes
[1]
Familiae Minorum Gentium, Joseph Hunter, Volume 1, London (1894); page 8
[2]
Familiae Minorum Gentium, Joseph Hunter, Volume 2, London (1895); pages 757-758
1620 - 1691 (~ 81 years)