'Holdsworth1'
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Families covered: Holdsworth of Astey (Astay or Ashday), Holdsowrth of Halifax, Holdsworth (Haldeworth) of Hipperholme, Holdsworth of Southowram
| Walker suggests that the family name came from Halda's Worth i.e. the worth (homestead) of Halda (a Saxon personal name). | |||||||||||||||
| John de Haldeworthe of Haldeworth in Hipperholme & Wakefield, Yorkshire (a 1275, 1296) | |||||||||||||||
| m. Olive | |||||||||||||||
| 1. | John de Haldeworth of Hipperholm (d c02.01.1351-2, bailiff of Hipperholme) | ||||||||||||||
| m. Alice (a 1362) | |||||||||||||||
| A. | Richard de Haldeworth of Northouram in Hipperholm (d by 19.11.1364) | ||||||||||||||
| m. Juliana (a 1364) | |||||||||||||||
| i. | John de Haldeworth of Ashday or Astey in Southowram (b after 1343, d by 16.10.1392) | ||||||||||||||
| m. Sibilla (d by 1399) | |||||||||||||||
| a. | John de Haldeworth of Astay (d by 29.10.1423) | ||||||||||||||
| (1) | Richard Haldeworth of Ashday (d by 19.04.1463) | ||||||||||||||
| m. Alice | |||||||||||||||
| (A) | John Haldeworth of Halifax, Ashday, Alverthorpe, etc. (d before 13.06.1497) | ||||||||||||||
| m. Cicely | |||||||||||||||
| (i) | John Haldesworth or Holdsworth of Ashday or Astey (d before 09.07.1535) | ||||||||||||||
| m. Alice (bur 04.04.1563) | |||||||||||||||
| (a) | Richard Holdsworth of Ashday or Astey (bur 01.06.1543) | ||||||||||||||
| m. Margaret Waterhouse (a 1545, dau of John Waterhouse of Skircoat) | |||||||||||||||
| ((1)) | John Holdsworth of Ashday or Astey (b 1523, bur 10.04.1570) - continued below | ||||||||||||||
| m. (30.01.1542) Alice Lacy (bur 29.02.1600, dau of Hugh Lacy of Brearley) | |||||||||||||||
| ((2))+ | other issue - Robert (d 1599, Constable of Hipperholme), William of Halifax (bur 21.09.1569), Christopher (bur 10.06.1580), Margaret (d unm bur 12.09.1570), Anne (d unm bur 12.08.1571) | ||||||||||||||
| (b) | William Holdsworth of Northowram (bur 29.07.1545, 3rd son?) | ||||||||||||||
| m. Margaret | |||||||||||||||
| (c) | Gilbert Holdsworth of Bradford (a 10.1560, 5th son?) | ||||||||||||||
| m. Joan (d 13.04.1577) | |||||||||||||||
| (d) | Agnes Holdsworth | ||||||||||||||
| m. William Brooke of Dalton Hall (bur 30.06.1540) | |||||||||||||||
| (e) | Margaret Holdsworth | ||||||||||||||
| m. (07.09.1539) John Brooke of Huddersfield | |||||||||||||||
| (f)+ | other issue - John of Halifax (d before 03.10.1518), Christopher (bur 13.12.1556, priest) | ||||||||||||||
| (ii) | Elizabeth Haldesworth or Holdsworth | ||||||||||||||
| m. Robert Hargrave of Warley (bur 26.05.1579) | |||||||||||||||
| (iii)+ | other issue - Robert (d 10.05.1550, vicar of Halifax), Isabel | ||||||||||||||
| (B) | William Haldeworth of Halifax (d before 28.05.1464) | ||||||||||||||
| m. Johanna Waterhouse (dau of Richard Waterhouse of Halifax) | |||||||||||||||
| (i) | Richard Haldeworth (d 16.09.1513) | ||||||||||||||
| m. Elizabeth | |||||||||||||||
| (2) | Robert de Haldeworth (a 1426) | ||||||||||||||
| (3) | John de Haldeworth in Northowram (d by 06.04.1456) | ||||||||||||||
| (A) | Richard Haldeworth (d by 26.04.1479) had issue | ||||||||||||||
| m. Margaret Hoile (sister/heir of John Hoile of Shepperdhouse in Soureby) | |||||||||||||||
| (B)+ | other issue - John (a 1425), Robert (a 1473, had issue) | ||||||||||||||
| b. | William de Haldeworth (d before 12.09.1399) | ||||||||||||||
| B. | John de Haldeworth (d before 19.10.1362) | ||||||||||||||
| m. Alice (a 1362) | |||||||||||||||
| i. | Richard de Haldeworth | ||||||||||||||
| 2.+ | other issue - Thomas (a 1361), William (d 1349) | ||||||||||||||
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| John Holdsworth of Ashday or Astey (b 1523, bur 10.04.1570) - continued above | |||||||||||||||
| m. (30.01.1542) Alice Lacy (bur 29.02.1600, dau of Hugh Lacy or Lacey of Brearley) | |||||||||||||||
| 1. | Robert Holdsworth of Hipperholme (bpt 28.10.1544, dsp 16.05.1570) | ||||||||||||||
| m. (29.05.1564) Elizabeth Hopkinson (bpt 15.01.1547, bur 31.08.1580, dau of John Hopkinson of Sowerby) | |||||||||||||||
| 2. | John Holdsworth of Astey or Ashday (bpt 25.03.1547, d before 15.03.1620-1) | ||||||||||||||
| m. (02.02.1572-3) Elizabeth Savile (d before 23.04.1629-30?, dau of Henry Savile of Bradley son of John of Newhall by Margery Gledhill) | |||||||||||||||
| A. | Thomas Holdsworth of Astey or Ashday (bpt 13.11.1596, d c11.1651) | ||||||||||||||
| m. (07.11.1636) Mary Northend (b c1620 (!), bur 22.08.1700, dau of Daniel Nothend of Crumbwell Bottome) | |||||||||||||||
| B. | Robert Holdsworth (bpt 12.05.1583, bur 08.12.1632, vicar of Modbury, Devon, 4th son) | ||||||||||||||
| m. Mary (bur 25.12.1665) | |||||||||||||||
| C. | Henry Holdsworth (bpt 06.04.1581, dsp bur 1620) | ||||||||||||||
| m. Mary | |||||||||||||||
| D. | Elizabeth Holdsworth (bpt 19.05.1585) | ||||||||||||||
| m. _ Hodgson | |||||||||||||||
| E. | Alice Holdsworth | ||||||||||||||
| m. John Seaton | |||||||||||||||
| F.+ | other issue - John (bpt 09.05.1574, dsp before 06.09.1658, constable of Hipperholme), Jane (bpt 06.07.1577, d before 27.09.1615), Dorothy | ||||||||||||||
| 3. | Richard Holdsworth (bpt 21.04.1545, bur 11.07.1590) | ||||||||||||||
| m. (08.05.1576) Margaret Mawde (bpt 03.02.1546, dau of John Mawde of Sowerby) | |||||||||||||||
| 4. | Agnes Holdsworth | ||||||||||||||
| m. (19.05.1561) John Gibson of Brookfoot (bpt 13.06.1544, son of Richard of Southowram) | |||||||||||||||
| 5.+ | other issue - Hugh of Ashday (bpt 09.07.1549, bur 15.12.1572), Jane (d before 02.204.1584), Margaret (bpt 05.02.1544, bur 12.09.1570) | ||||||||||||||
Main source(s): Walker's Yorkshire Pedigrees (1942, Holdsworth of Hipperholme, Astay, Ashday, Southowran, and Wakefield) with some support from BLG1952 (Holdsworth formerly of Widdicombe)
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