DAVID STANCLIFFE OF LAKE COUNTY, IL FAMILY

STANCLIFF FAMILY GENEALOGY

From book "Descendants of James Stanclift of Middletown, Connecticut and Allied Families", By Robert C. and Sherry [Smith] Stancliff

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                                    DESCENDANTS OF DAVID STANCLIFFE OF LAKE COUNTY, ILLINOIS

GENERATION ONE

(LK11) DAVID STANCLIFFE

Son of John and Margaret [Pickering] Stancliffe born Silsden Moor, West Yorkshire, England 1782, died Burley, West Yorkshire, England May 24, 1854 of "Continued Fever"(1), married Linton Parish, Craven Deanery (Linton-in-Craven), Diocese of Ripon, West Yorkshire, England January 6, 1806 FRANCES BLAKEY born Linton-in-Craven 1786. Witnesses to the ceremony were Joseph Lee, Richard Wadilove and Jonathan Lee. David Stancliff's occupation was "cotton spinner".(2)

Linton-in-Craven is about 25 miles north of the Stancliff ancestral home of Scout in the Shibden Valley, near Halifax, West Yorkshire, England and about 10 miles north west of Addingham Parish. David was listed as being "of Grassington" when his eldest daughter was baptized in 1806(3). Grassington is also in Linton Parish.

CHILDREN: David and Frances [Blakey] Stancliffe(4).

LK12- 1. MARGARET STANCLIFFE baptized Linton Parish, Craven Deanery (Linton-in-Craven), Diocese of Ripon, West Yorkshire, England, November 30, 1806.

LK13- 2. ELLEN STANCLIFFE baptized Addingham Parish, West Yorkshire, England Oct. 16, 1808, married at Addingham Parish Dec. 25, 1839 GEORGE HOLMES.

LK14- 3. ANN STANCLIFFE baptized at Addingham Parish, West Yorkshire, England Feb. 3, 1811 married at Addingham Parish July 4, 1830 JOHN READ.

LK15- 4. JAMES STANCLIFFE baptized at Addingham Parish, West Yorkshire, England Dec. 11, 1814 married at Addingham Parish Dec. 28, 1836 HANNAH JACKSON died West Yorkshire, England before 1851. They had children: WALTER STANCLIFFE born Addingham, West Yorkshire, England October 1840, died Addingham 28 October 1840(5) and FANNY STANCLIFFE born Bradford, West Yorkshire, England 1848(6)

LK16- 5. JOHN STANCLIFFE baptized at Addingham Parish, West Yorkshire, England June 30, 1816, died Addingham, March 30, 1817.

LK17- 6. JOHN STANCLIFFE baptized at Addingham Parish, West Yorkshire, England Mar. 22, 1818.

LK18- 7. MARY ANN STANCLIFFE baptized at Addingham Parish, West Yorkshire, England July 2, 1820.

LK19- 8. ELIZABETH STANCLIFFE baptized at Addingham Parish, West Yorkshire, England May 10, 1822.

LK20- 9. MARTHA STANCLIFFE baptized at Addingham Parish, West Yorkshire, England Feb. 13, 1825.

+ LK21-10. FRANCIS STANCLIFFE born Addingham, West Yorkshire, England August 6, 1827(7), baptized at Addingham, West Yorkshire, England Sept. 16, 1827, died Half Day, Lake County, IL October 6, 1888, married Parish Church, Bradford, West Yorkshire, England, May 19, 1854, EMMA HUGGINS.

LK22-11. WILLIAM STANCLIFFE baptized at Addingham Parish, West Yorkshire, England Nov. 7, 1829.

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Footnotes:

1. 1.Death Registration dated May 27, 1853, Otley, West Yorkshire, England in possession of Ms Carol Knigge.

2. 2.YORKSHIRE PARISH REGISTERS Volume 18, Linton in Craven, Yorkshire, England Volume II, marriages p.455. Also listed in Boyd's Marriage Index Volume 522. David was aged 24 and Frances was aged 20 at time of marriage.

3. 3.ibid, page 421

4. 4.The Church of the Latter Day Saints International Genealogical Index

5. 5.Parish Records of Addingham, West Yorkshire, England.

6. 6.YK 1851 CENSUS, Burley TWP, Otley Parish, West Yorkshire, England.

7. 7.Birth date of Francis and immigration dates of Francis and Emma from Ada Edries [Moline] Long letter of August 1975 to Dorothy L. [Stancliff] Schar.

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