# Tabitha Metcalf

Tabitha Metcalf (ABT 1742 – APR 1813); child of John Metcalf and Dorothy Benson; born in Knaresborough, West Riding of Yorkshire, England; died in Hyde, Cheshire, England.

**Lifespan:** ABT 1742 – APR 1813

## Also known as
- Tabitha Jackson

## Parents
- [John Metcalf](/p/john-metcalf-70734.md) (father)
- [Dorothy Benson](/p/dorothy-benson-70735.md) (mother)

## Partners
- _unknown partner_ — 7 DEC 1767

## Timeline
- ABT 1742 — **Born** at Knaresborough, West Riding of Yorkshire, England
- 23 APR 1742 — **Baptized** at 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."
- APR 1813 — **Died** at Hyde, Cheshire, England
- 8 APR 1813 — **Buried** at 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).

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