Tabitha Metcalf

Tabitha Metcalf
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1742–1813 · 71 years old

Born c. 1742 in Knaresborough, West Riding of Yorkshire, EnglandDied April 1813 in Hyde, Cheshire, England

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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
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Baptised 23 April 1742

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
21
Marriage of sister Ellen Metcalf 24 November 1763

Knaresborough, West Riding of Yorkshire, England
25
Married spouse not recorded 7 December 1767

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
30
Marriage of brother John Metcalf 8 October 1772

Prestbury, Cheshire, England
36
Death of mother Dorothy Benson 1778

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

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

Hyde, Cheshire, England
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Buried 8 April 1813

Gee Cross, Hyde, Cheshire, England

Gee Cross Unitarian Chapel — 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).