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| Many thanks to Stephen Wilson for his research on the descendants of Robert WILSON and Sarah MITCHELL. According to Stephen Wilson: Joseph Wilson ------------- Apart from young Robert and perhaps John, the only child of Robert and Sarah who has so far been positively traced as an adult is Joseph, the second son, who also grew up to be a clothier in Ossett. Joseph was born on the 16th December 1769 and was married in Dewsbury on 22 March 1790 to Alice Stringer. An Alice Stringer had been christened in Dewsbury on the 18th April 1767, the daughter of Richard Stringer. The couple had seven children baptised in Ossett in the following ten years. These were: Sarah Wilson, baptised 10-4-1791 Thomas Wilson, baptised 15-9-1792 Alice Wilson, baptised 16-6-1794 Susannah Wilson, baptised 13-9-1795 Elizabeth Wilson, baptised 26-12-1796 Lydia Wilson, baptised 9-4-1798 Hannah Wilson, baptised 16-9-1799 In the 1841 census for Ossett, there is a Joseph Wilson, aged around 70 years; a clothier, living at North Field with his son Joseph (20), daughters Martha (30), Eunice (20) and grandson John (2) who is the illegitimate son of Martha. This is almost certainly to be the same Joseph Wilson who had been born in 1769. Unfortunately, the 1841 census rounded ages off to within five years. The IGI index and 1841 census suggest that Joseph Wilson may have lost his first wife Alice Stringer and had married a second wife, Hannah Glover on the 17th October 1805 in Dewsbury. In the 1821 Ossett census, Hannah is aged 41 and living with Joseph Wilson aged 51 with one unmarried male child and six unmarried female children. It is not yet fully proven whether this is the same Joseph Wilson. Joseph Wilson had six children with Hannah as follows: Martha Wilson, christened 12-4-1807 Ruth Wilson, christened 16-7-1809 Mary Ann Wilson, christened 13-10-1811 Jane Wilson, christened 20-2-1814 Eunice Wilson, christened 6-7-1817 Joseph Benjamin Wilson, christened 6-6-1819 Some of these are the children listed in the 1841 census, by which time second wife Hannah had presumably died, since she is not at home with Joseph. In the 1851 census, Joseph's daughter Elizabeth Wilson, born in 1796, milliner is unmarried and living in The Green. Joseph Benjamin Wilson, 31, is now living at 4 Field Lane, Ossett and is a cloth manufacturer employing 6 men. His sister Eunice, 33, is at the same address and is employed as a house servant. | ||||||||||||||
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