Edward HOLDSWORTH, 18201864 (aged 44 years)

Birth 1820 29 31
Baptism December 28, 1820 30 32 (aged 0)
Birth of a brotherJoseph Armitage HOLDSWORTH
May 1823 (aged 3 years)
Baptism of a brotherJoseph Armitage HOLDSWORTH
June 9, 1823 (aged 3 years)
Burial of a brotherJoseph Armitage HOLDSWORTH
July 10, 1823 (aged 3 years)
Note: Parish register noted he was 2 months old.
Death of a brotherJoseph Armitage HOLDSWORTH
July 1823 (aged 3 years) Age: 2 months
Birth of a brotherJohn HOLDSWORTH
August 12, 1826 (aged 6 years)
Baptism of a brotherJohn HOLDSWORTH
September 17, 1826 (aged 6 years)
12 Century Baptismal Font 2015
12 Century Baptismal Font 2015

Note: Joseph and Mary Holdsworth's 2 youngest children were baptised in the church.
Birth of a sisterMary HOLDSWORTH
January 22, 1829 (aged 9 years)
Baptism of a sisterMary HOLDSWORTH
April 17, 1829 (aged 9 years)
12 Century Baptismal Font 2015
12 Century Baptismal Font 2015

Note: Joseph and Mary Holdsworth's 2 youngest children were baptised in the church.
Death of a maternal grandfatherFrancis BRIGGS
August 5, 1834 (aged 14 years)
Burial of a maternal grandfatherFrancis BRIGGS
August 19, 1834 (aged 14 years)
Note: Recorded as being 81 years of age.
Census June 6, 1841 (aged 21 years) Age: 20
Address: Portland St
Note: Listed as an unmarried clerk. Other inhabitants were a 35 year old woman of independent means as hea…

Listed as an unmarried clerk. Other inhabitants were a 35 year old woman of independent means as head and another male clerk aged 25.

Death of a fatherJoseph HOLDSWORTH
January 26, 1846 (aged 26 years) Age: 62
Cause: Asthma
Note: Wife Mary was present at the death and reported it to the registry.
Burial of a fatherJoseph HOLDSWORTH
January 30, 1846 (aged 26 years)
Address: St Andrew's Church Cemetry, Newton Kyme Yorkshire England
Note: Joseph Holdsworth is buried in a cul de sac in the Newton Kyme churchyard. The question I've had is…

Joseph Holdsworth is buried in a cul de sac in the Newton Kyme churchyard. The question I've had is whether it was like that at time of burial and if there was a reason for the placement and if so whether choice existed. The answer is inconclusive due to proximity of critical events and lack of documentation about the date of the wall constructed between Fairfax property and churchyard from the church. Finalization of the 1846 tithe maps and Joseph's burial occurred within a few weeks of each other. The map showed that what had originally been a straight line boundary dipped down in the 1846 map so that the boundary between church land and Fairfax land followed the line of church wall whereas it had previously been quite a few meters out providing greater churchyard land. A document written by a church rector claimed the change occurred during the term of one of his predecessors.

Death of a brotherHenry Davies Briggs HOLDSWORTH
April 1849 (aged 29 years)
Burial of a brotherHenry Davies Briggs HOLDSWORTH
April 9, 1849 (aged 29 years)
Census March 30, 1851 (aged 31 years) Age: 30
Address: 33 Portland Cres Leeds Yorkshire England
Note: Living with his 63 year old widowed mother. He was an unmarried woollen merchants clerk.
MarriageJessie WOODView this family
before 1858 (aged 38 years)
Note: Marriage record not found.
Birth of a daughterJessie Wood HOLDSWORTH
August 26, 1858 (aged 38 years)
Address: Albert Cottage St Michael Bristol
Immigration August 10, 1860 (aged 40 years)
Note: I cannot be positive that this record is definitely that of Edward Holdsworth due to lack of informa…

I cannot be positive that this record is definitely that of Edward Holdsworth due to lack of information. However, a single adult male Holdsworth did arrive in Melbourne on the "Great Tasmania" on 10 August 1860 and no other possibilities have been found. The timing equates with him not being found in the UK 1861 census and the 4 years in the colony recorded on his death certificate.

Death of a motherMary BRIGGS
December 4, 1862 (aged 42 years) Age: 74
Address: 3 Sunny Bank, Leeds
Cause: Typhoid fever
Note: Esther WILKINS (daughter) of Darrington, near Pontefract, was present at the death and registered it…

Esther WILKINS (daughter) of Darrington, near Pontefract, was present at the death and registered it.

At that time typhoid was a nasty prolonged illness which is no doubt why Esther was summoned to nurse her mother. It is caused by the ingestion of food or fluid infected by a specific bacterium which entered the food chain due to poor hygiene or poor sanitation. Leeds was growing rapidly during Mary's life there resulting in reduced open land and gardens and increasing numbers of small sized housing and commercial developments most of which had limited washing and sanitation in close association with wells providing water for all purposes.

Burial of a motherMary BRIGGS
December 6, 1862 (aged 42 years)
Address: Burial register records Mary's abode as "Woodhouse Leeds".
Note: Buried with spouse.
MarriageMarjory McPHERSONView this family
before 1863 (aged 43 years)
Note: Date unknown as record not found.
Birth of a sonEdward Robert HOLDSWORTH
1863 (aged 43 years)
Note: Birth reported in family trees to have been 22 September 1863 in Fitzroy.
Death December 4, 1864 (aged 44 years) Age: 42
Cause of death: Chronic hepatitis of 2 months duration.
Note: Edward was identified as single and having no children. His brother John Holdsworth signed the death…

Edward was identified as single and having no children. His brother John Holdsworth signed the death certificate as informant. Actually, Edward had 2 children, a 7 year old daughter living with John's sister in England and a son born the previous year who also was to work as a druggist in Bendigo during John's lifetime.

Occupation recorded as clerk.

John recorded their father's occupation as "agent".

Burial December 6, 1864 (2 days after death)
Address: MGC-COE-D-Public
Note: Buried with his sister-in-law, Keiza Holdsworth.
Family with parents
father
Joseph & Mary Holdsworth M I
17901846
Birth: September 15, 1790 33 30Yorkshire, England
Death: January 26, 1846Newton Kyme, Yorkshire, England
mother
Newton Kyme School House with Holdsworth House on Left - 2015
17881862
Birth: February 23, 1788 35 32Faweather, Bingley, Yorkshire, England
Death: December 4, 18623 Sunny Bank Terrace, Leeds, Yorkshire, England
Religious marriage Religious marriageMarch 30, 1815All Saints Church, Bingley, Yorkshire, England
14 months
elder sister
Wharfe River near Church - 2015
18161883
Birth: May 13, 1816 25 28Bingley, Yorkshire, England
Death: May 6, 1883Dunstall, Staffordshire, England
3 years
elder brother
St Mary's Church Tadcaster
18181849
Birth: 1818 27 29Hatherton
Death: April 1849Tadcaster, Yorkshire, England
3 years
himself
St Mary's Church Tadcaster
18201864
Birth: 1820 29 31Tadcaster, Yorkshire, England
Death: December 4, 1864Carlton St, Carlton, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
4 years
younger brother
St Mary's Church Tadcaster
18231823
Birth: May 1823 32 35Tadcaster, Yorkshire, England
Death: July 1823Tadcaster, Yorkshire, England
3 years
younger brother
St Andrew's Church Newton Kyme
18261887
Birth: August 12, 1826 35 38Newton Kyme, Yorkshire, England
Death: August 11, 1887Ascot, Bendigo, Victoria, Australia
3 years
younger sister
St Andrew's Church Newton Kyme
18291894
Birth: January 22, 1829 38 40Newton Kyme, Yorkshire, England
Death: October 17, 1894Ilkley, Yorkshire, UK
Family with Jessie WOOD
himself
St Mary's Church Tadcaster
18201864
Birth: 1820 29 31Tadcaster, Yorkshire, England
Death: December 4, 1864Carlton St, Carlton, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
wife
Marriage Marriagebefore 1858unknown
8 months
daughter
18581897
Birth: August 26, 1858 38Bristol, Gloucestershire, England
Death: April 1897Aston, Warwickshire, UK
Family with Marjory McPHERSON
himself
St Mary's Church Tadcaster
18201864
Birth: 1820 29 31Tadcaster, Yorkshire, England
Death: December 4, 1864Carlton St, Carlton, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
wife
18361884
Birth: about 1836 34 21Kingussie, Invernesshire, Scotland
Death: August 22, 1884Healesville, Victoria, Australia
Marriage Marriagebefore 1863unknown
1 year
son
The Great Britain Under Sail
18631934
Birth: 1863 43 27Melbourne Victoria, Australia
Death: September 23, 1934In the street-Williamson St, Bendigo, Victoria
John MORRISON + Marjory McPHERSON
partner’s partner
wife
18361884
Birth: about 1836 34 21Kingussie, Invernesshire, Scotland
Death: August 22, 1884Healesville, Victoria, Australia
Marriage MarriageAugust 22, 1871The Manse, Scots Church, Melbourne, Victoria
18 months
step-son
18731874
Birth: February 11, 1873 37Station St, Carlton, Melbourne, Victoria
Death: May 14, 1874Healesville, Victoria, Australia
22 months
step-daughter
18741962
Birth: December 2, 1874 38Healesville, Victoria, Australia
Death: March 22, 1962Camberwell, Victoria, Australia
23 months
step-son
18761888
Birth: October 30, 1876 40Royal Mail Hotel, Healesville, Victoria
Death: 1888Healesville, Victoria, Australia
3 years
step-daughter
18791910
Birth: 1879 43
Death: April 4, 191026 Lee St, Flemington, Melbourne, Victoria
Census

Listed as an unmarried clerk. Other inhabitants were a 35 year old woman of independent means as head and another male clerk aged 25.

Census

Living with his 63 year old widowed mother. He was an unmarried woollen merchants clerk.

Marriage

Marriage record not found.

Immigration

I cannot be positive that this record is definitely that of Edward Holdsworth due to lack of information. However, a single adult male Holdsworth did arrive in Melbourne on the "Great Tasmania" on 10 August 1860 and no other possibilities have been found. The timing equates with him not being found in the UK 1861 census and the 4 years in the colony recorded on his death certificate.

Marriage

Date unknown as record not found.

Death

Edward was identified as single and having no children. His brother John Holdsworth signed the death certificate as informant. Actually, Edward had 2 children, a 7 year old daughter living with John's sister in England and a son born the previous year who also was to work as a druggist in Bendigo during John's lifetime.

Occupation recorded as clerk.

John recorded their father's occupation as "agent".

Burial

Buried with his sister-in-law, Keiza Holdsworth.