The entries for people & families with the surname Asquith are gathered together in this SideTrack.
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On 29th May 1819, he was thrown over the battlements of Halifax Bridge
He fell 46 feet and was found dead the next morning.
Afterwards the bridge was surmounted with iron palisades, in the hope
to prevent any similar occurrence
Born in Ovenden.
He was a bell hanger.
In 1868, he (possibly) married
either Sarah Ann Gomersall
or Elizabeth Nicholl
in Halifax.
He committed suicide in 1871.
The Bradford Observer [Thursday June 8th 1871] reported
During the night he stopped at the house of Mr William Holt,
Talbot Inn Yard, to whom he expressed a wish to drown himself.
The Police found Holt's door open, when Asquith was
missed and afterwards found dead in the canal
He was buried at Lister Lane Cemetery [Plot Number 3199]
Born in Sowerby Bridge.
He was
a warehouse man in dye works [1881] /
a dry goods warehouseman [1891] /
a worsted stuff warehouseman [1901] /
assisting in his wife's millinery business [1911].
In 1879, he married Hannah Maria Briggs [1853-1???] at Halifax
Parish Church.
Children:
Hannah Maria died in 1882 (aged 30).
In 1886, he married Sarah Hannah Crowther [1859-1???] in
Halifax.
In 1911, she was a dealer (millinery). Employer
Children:
The family lived at
In 1905, an advertisement was published in the Sowerby Bridge Chronicle for
Born in Halifax.
Baptised in Halifax [16th November 1817].
He was
a wire drawer [1841] /
landlord of the Royal Hotel & Oddfellows' Hall, Halifax [1846] /
(possibly) landlord of the Golden Plough, Halifax [from 1846] /
landlord of the Broad Tree, Lee Mount [1851] /
assistant bailiff [1861].
In November 1856, he was declared bankrupt.
On 25th April 1839, he married (1) Maria Rushworth [1821-1858] at Halifax Parish Church.
Children:
Maria died a fortnight after giving birth to her youngest
daughter.
In 1859, he married (2) Mary Ann Clegg [1833-1893] in Dewsbury.
Children:
The family lived at
Dan died 5th July 1870 (aged 57).
He was buried at Dewsbury Cemetery.
Members of the family were buried at Lister Lane Cemetery [Plot Number 3199]
Son of Emily Willans and Joseph Dixon Asquith of Morley.
He attended Making Place Academy
He was educated at Holy Trinity School.
During World War I,
he served as a Rifleman
with the 2nd/3rd Battalion
New Zealand Rifle Brigade.
He was killed by a shell whilst in his way to the ambulance quarters [18th June 1917] (aged 21).
He was buried at the Pont D'Achelles Military Cemetery, Nieppe [I D 13].
He is remembered on the Memorial at Halifax Town Hall Books of Remembrance
Son of Timothy Askew.
He married Betty Whiteley.
Children:
He lived at Moorlands, Savile Park, Halifax.
He died [28th April 1933] from complications following an
appendicitis operation at the Royal Halifax Infirmary, only a month
after the death of his father.
At the time of his death, he was preparing to marry Angela Watkinson.
Probate records show that he left effects valued at £7,858 4/8d.
Administration was granted to his sister Alice
Born in Halifax.
He was a machine tool maker [1901].
He and his cousin, J. W. S. Asquith, succeeded William Asquith at
Asquith's, the family machine tool manufacturing business.
In 1892, he married Annie Chapman [1869-1932] in Rochdale.
Children:
The family lived at 318 Gibbet Street, Halifax [1901].
He died at Great Yarmouth [10th August 1927].
Probate records show that he left effects valued at £73,821 6/11d.
Probate was granted to
Arthur Stocks (chartered accountant)
and
James Frederick Sykes (surveyor)
He was a machine tool manufacturer [1901].
He and his cousin, John Henry Asquith, succeeded William Asquith
at Asquith's, the family machine tool manufacturing business.
He was a director of the firm.
On 6th October 1909, he married Alice Mann Wills [1880-1972]
at All Saints, Wakefield.
Children:
The family lived at Moorlands, Savile Park, Halifax [1933].
John William died 29th March 1933.
Probate records show that he left effects valued at £64,624 6/6d.
Probate was granted to
his widowed daughter Alice
and
Arthur Stocks (chartered accountant).
He and his son, John, died a month apart
He was a linen draper with a ladies' outfitters and draper's business
in Halifax.
He was in Old Market, Halifax [before 1890].
He had his Mourning Warehouse at Alexandra House, Halifax [1903].
In 1876, he married Annie Elizabeth Moorhouse from Whitby, in
Stourbridge.
Children:
The family lived at
On Easter Monday, 4th April 1904, she murdered her 2-year-old
son, Raymond, cutting his throat, and then tried to cut her
own throat.
When this failed, she tried to strangle herself with a skipping rope.
The bodies were found by her husband.
She had been distressed after the death of another son earlier, and
had said to a neighbour
At the inquest, the Jury found that the baby was wilfully murdered
by the mother and that the mother died from injuries inflicted
on herself whilst of unsound mind.
Mother and child were buried at King Cross Wesleyan Church
Son of John William Stancliffe Asquith.
In 1949, he was a Director of the family business – William Asquith Limited – and of Modern Foundries Limited.
In September 1939, he married Joan Roscoe at Halifax Parish Church.
They lived at Warley Cott, Warley.
Richard Warren died 30th August 1988.
Probate records show that he left effects valued at £376,184.
He was
He married Elizabeth [1846-1???].
Children:
The family lived at Albion Terrace, Luddendenfoot [1881]
Son of John William Stancliffe Asquith.
He was Managing Director of the family business – William Asquith Limited [1949].
He married Deirdre Newton.
They lived at
Robert died at the Hotel Principe Savoia, Milan, Italy [8th October 1963].
Probate records show that he left effects valued at £393,906.
Probate was granted to
James Dudley Halliwell Horobin
and
Hugh Wilfrid Walter Finn
Born in Northowram.
He became a tailor.
On 24th June 1798, he married Mary Green, at Halifax Parish
Church.
Children:
Around 1841, he went to live with his daughter Harriet and her family
at Liverpool.
He died in Liverpool
Baptised at St John the Baptist, Coley [22nd December 1804]
Born in Halifax.
He became a cabinetmaker.
(Possibly) an apprentice to James Mellor.
On 16th October 1833, Samuel Askwith and John Mellor
appeared at the Leeds Sessions and were found guilty of highway
robbery and stealing money from Benjamin Pinder in Halifax on 21st
September and were sentenced to be transported for 7 years.
On 9th April 1834, he was one of 260 convicts on board
the Surrey which sailed for Maitland, New South Wales,
Australia.
On 17th August 1844, he married Margaret Butler Whalan
[1820-1896] from Tipperary, Ireland.
Children:
An advertisement in the West Maitland (NSW) newspaper announced
SAMUEL ASQUITH.
Vicar at St James's Church, Halifax.
He left to serve at New Houghton, Mansfield.
In [Q2] 1887, he married Ann Louisa Gillibrand
in Guisborough.
Children:
He died in Southampton
He was a compositor.
In 1863, he emigrated to Canterbury, New Zealand.
On 25th October 1867, he married Hannah Ellis [1843-1929]
in Christchurch.
Children:
Born in Halifax [16th March 1840].
Machine maker who went to work in the Canadian gold fields of British
Columbia, and spent 2 years working at a mining company in San
Francisco.
In 1865, after the American Civil War, he returned to Halifax to
establish Asquith's at Raglan Street, the family machine tool
manufacturing company.
He was succeeded in the business by his son John Henry Asquith and
his nephew John William Stancliffe Asquith.
On 30th September 1865, he married Ann Bower [1843-1917] at Halifax Parish Church.
In 1861, Ann was staying with John Stancliffe & family
Children:
The family lived at
William died at Birks Hall [18th March 1901].
Probate records show that he left effects valued at £26,855 19/1d.
Probate was granted to
son John Henry Stancliffe
and
nephew John William Stancliffe Asquith.
Daughter Caroline died 9th January 1915.
Ann died at Weston-super-Mare [16th December 1917].
Probate records show that she left effects valued at £2,562 3/11d
[Resworn £2,859 13/5d].
Probate was granted to daughters
Hannah Maria
and
Mary Emma.
Daughter Hannah Maria died 4th January 1939 (aged 68).
They were buried at Warley Town Cemetery
He was director of William Asquith Limited [1935].
On 24th May 1928, he married Nellie Eastwood [1905-1984] at Christ Church, Sowerby Bridge.
Children:
The family lived at Oak Royde, Bright Street, Sowerby Bridge.
Probate records show that he left an estate valued at £115,921
by some unknown assassin
About half past five yesterday morning, the body of a man
names Alex Asquith, bellhanger who was without fixed
residence, was found drowned in the canal near Caddyfields bridge.
Hannah Maria, of Skircoat, was the daughter of Jarrerd
Briggs, a carter
Sarah Hannah was a milliner [1891, 1901].
Mrs Asquith's, New Spring and Summer Millinery at 30 Town Hall
Street, Sowerby Bridge
Maria was the
daughter of Jane (née Stancliffe) [1794-1868] & William Rushworth [1791-1871]
Mary Ann came from Earlsheaton
Annie was born in Ovenden
I don't know how it is I cannot rear children; other people have such
strong ones
Joan was the daughter of George Thomas Roscoe
Elizabeth was born in Masham
Mary was the daughter of James Green
LOST, about a month ago, at Seven-mile Station, Liverpool Plains,
A PATENT LEVER SILVER WATCH, maker's name, M. J. Tobias, Liverpool,
No. 7837.
Whoever will bring the said Watch to Mr W. Drew's, "Lamb Inn," West
Maitland, shall receive the above reward.
West Maitland, March 1, 1853
Hannah Ellis came from Wakefield, Yorkshire, and arrived at
Lyttleton, New Zealand, on the Chrysolite [24th November 1862]
Ann was born in Bradford [19th August 1843].
The name originated in the village of Askwith, near Harrogate,
North Yorkshire
There are over 20 entries on
the Calderdale Companion
for people with the surname Asquith,
as discussed in this SideTrack.
This count does not include other forms of the surname.
Unattached BMDs for Asquith:
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