Tabitha Metcalf

Tabitha Metcalf
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1742 – 1813 71 years

Born c. 1742 in Knaresborough, West Riding of YorkshireDied April 1813 in Hyde, Cheshire, aged 71

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? Unknown spouse 7 December 1767

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BirthMarriageDeath / burial

1740s
Born c. 1742

Knaresborough, West Riding of Yorkshire, England
Baptized 23 April 1742 infant

Knaresborough, West Riding of Yorkshire, England

Baptised at Knaresborough. Second child — the memoir: "On the birth of a daughter (the second child) Mrs. Benson herself was godmother, and presented Metcalf with fifty guineas."
1760s
Married spouse not recorded 7 December 1767 aged 25

Knaresborough, West Riding of Yorkshire, England

Tabitha Metcalf married David Jackson at Knaresborough; the couple settled in Cheshire (Mottram, then Spout House, Gee Cross, Hyde), where David was in the stocking/cotton trade and later took over Blind Jack's spinning-jennies.
1770s
Death of mother Dorothy Benson 1778 aged 36

Stockport, Cheshire, Englandaged 61
1810s
Death of father John Metcalf 26 April 1810 aged 68

Spofforth, West Riding of Yorkshire, Englandaged 92
Died April 1813 aged 71

Hyde, Cheshire, England
Buried 8 April 1813 aged 71

Gee Cross Unitarian Chapel, Hyde, Cheshire, England

Buried at Hyde Gee Cross Unitarian Chapel, where her younger children had been baptised. She was the daughter "married in Cheshire, to a person in the stocking business" (memoir p. 148).