Rev. 24 July 2007, Gen. 886
DESCENDANTS OF THOMAS
GREAVES OF KIRKBY OVERBLOW OR SPOFFORTH, NORTH YORKSHIRE, ENGLAND
GENERATION 1
Thomas Greaves (1) was born about
1590. He lived in either Kirky Overblow
or Spofforth, both close together, near Harrogate, North Yorkshire. (R‑1)
Children - Greaves
2. John Greaves
3. Thomas Greaves
4. Isabel Greaves
+5. William Greaves, m. Elicia Sumpster, 8 Nov. 1640, d. June 1686.
GENERATION 2
CHILDREN OF THOMAS GREAVES (1)
William Greaves (5) was born in
Spofforth, Yorkshire, England, died in June 1686 in Ash Hagg, Spofforth,
Yorkshire, and was buried 23 June 1686.
He left a will. He owned at least
90 acres of land which he divided up between his 4 sons. He married Elicia (or Allice) Sumpster on 8
Nov. 1640 in Spofforth All Saints, Yorkshire.
She was baptized 24 Sept. 1615 in Spofforth, North Yorkshire, and was
buried 17 Sept. 1686 in Spofforth Haggs, a widow. (R‑1, R‑2)
Children - Greaves
+6. Thomas Greaves, bapt.c. 1645 (?), m(1) Ann Ellison, 26 Nov. 1668,
m(2) Mary Saxton, 20 Nov. 1684, d. May 1693.
7. At least 3 other sons.
GENERATION 3
CHILDREN OF WILLIAM GREAVES (5)
AND ELICIA SUMPSTER
Thomas Greaves (6) was baptized about
1645 (?), died in May 1693, and was buried 5 May 1693 in Spofforth, North
Yorkshire. He first married Ann (or
Anne) Ellison of Kirkby Overblow on 26 Nov. 1668 in Spofforth All Saints,
Yorkshire. She was born about
1645. He married second Mary Saxton of
Kirkby Overblow on 20 Nov. 1684. She
was buried 3 March 1727. (R‑1, R‑2)
Children - Greaves, by Ann
Ellison
8. Mary Greaves, b. 3 Sept. 1670, bapt. 8 Sept.
1670, m. William Slater (of Washforth).
9. William Greaves, b. 29 Aug. 1672.
+10. Richard Greaves, b. 1 July 1674, m. Mary Dawson, 15 Nov. 1691.
+11. Thomas Greaves, b. 22 June 1675, m. Eleanor Greaves, d. July 1729.
12. Ellin Greaves, b. 12 Feb. 1685.
Children - Greaves, by Mary
Saxton
13. John Greaves (?)
GENERATION 4
CHILDREN OF THOMAS GREAVES (6)
Richard Greaves (10) was born 1
July 1674. He married Mary Dawson on 15
Nov. 1691. (R‑1)
Children - Greaves
14. John Greaves (mentioned in will?)
Thomas Greaves (11) was born 22
June 1675 in Spofforth Moorside, Yorkshire, died in July 1729 in Spofforth
Haggside, Yorkshire, and was buried 25 July 1729. He left a will. He
married Eleanor Greaves, possibly a daughter of his cousin Richard Greaves, on
7 Jan. 1693/1694 in Spofforth All Saints, Yorkshire. She was born in 1675 in Spofforth, Yorkshire. (R‑1, R‑2)
Children - Greaves
15. Elizabeth Greaves, b. 2 Jan. 1696.
16. Ann Greaves, b. 2 April 1696.
17. Thomas Greaves, b. 16 Oct. 1697.
18. Richard Greaves, b. 7 Jan. 1700.
+19. William Greaves, b. 16 Jan. 1702, m. Rebecca Oats, 30 June 1720.
20. Ellen Greaves, b. 15 June 1705.
21. Ann Greaves, b. 31 Aug. 1705, m. Robert
Wrighton, 16 July 1729.
22. Abraham Greaves, b. 16 June 1710.
23. Sarah Greaves, b. 11 April 1712.
+24. Abraham Greaves, b. 22 April 1715, m. Hannah Steel, 25 March 1744,
d. 21 May 1789.
25. Esther Greaves, b. 13 May 1718.
GENERATION 5
CHILDREN OF THOMAS GREAVES (11)
AND ELEANOR GREAVES
William Greaves (19) was born 16
Jan. 1702. He married Rebecca Oats on
30 June 1720. (R‑1)
Children - Greaves
26. William Greaves, b. 16 June 1721.
27. Margaret Greaves, b. 13 Dec. 1723.
28. Rebecca Greaves, b. 17 Dec. 1724.
29. Iabel (?) Greaves, b. 30 July 1731.
+30. John Greaves, b. 8 Feb. 1733, m. Mary Hearfield, 5 April 1768.
31. Hellen Greaves, b. 21 Sept. 1735.
32. Ann Greaves, b. 8 Dec. 1738, m. William
Richardson, 22 Feb. 1762. He was a
husbandman.
Abraham Greaves (24) was born 22
April 1715 in Spofforth Haggside, Yorkshire, and died 21 May 1789 in Kirkby
Overblow, Yorkshire. He was a
farmer. He married Hannah Steel on 25
March 1744 (or 1743) in All Saints Church, Kirkby Overblow, Yorkshire. She was born in 1722 and died 5 June 1809,
both in Kirkby Overblow, Yorkshire. (R‑1,
R‑2)
Children - Greaves
33. Richard Greaves, b. 18 Oct. 1744, bur. 29 Oct.
1744.
+34. John Greaves, b. 10 Sept. 1745, m. Rachel Chew, 24 Feb. 1772.
35. Abraham Greaves, b. 28 July 1746, bur. 3 Dec.
1763.
36. Ann Greaves, b. 19 April 1748, m. Sam Allison
(of Spofforth), 5 Aug. 1773 (Kirkby Overblow).
37. Mary Greaves, b. 13 Aug. 1749, m. Thomas
Reynolds, 22 June 1761. He was a
husbandman.
38. Robert Greaves, b. 2 Nov. 1751, d. 1760.
+39. Richard Greaves, b. 9 Sept. 1753, m. Mary ‑‑‑‑‑‑.
+40. Emmanuel Greaves, b. 27 June 1760, m. Tabitha Chambers, 3 July
1787, d. 19 Dec. 1844.
41. Robert Greaves, b. 18 Dec. 1764, d. 1884.
42. Benjamin Greaves, b. 17 Feb. 1767, m. Rebecca
Powell, 1794.
GENERATION 6
CHILDREN OF WILLIAM GREAVES (19)
AND REBECCA OATS
John Greaves (30) was born 8 Feb.
1733. He was a farmer. He married Mary Hearfield, daughter of Sam
Hearfield, on 5 April 1768. She was of
Spofforth, North Yorkshire. They both
left wills. (R‑1)
Children - Greaves
43. Sarah Greaves, b. May 1769, m. ‑‑‑‑‑‑
Parkin, 7 June 1800,
44. William Greaves, b. 30 Oct. 1772, m. Elizabeth
West, 7 June 1795 (Kirkby Overblow). It
appears from evidence in a will that this William Greaves is more likely a son
of John Greaves (#34) and Rachel Chew, as shown below.
45. Ann Greaves, b. 29 May 1774.
46. John Greaves, b. 30 May 1776.
+47. Samuel Greaves, b. 8 Aug. 1779, m. Margaret ‑‑‑‑‑‑,
d. March 1848.
48. Arthur Greaves, b. 21 Sept. 1781.
49. Mary Greaves, b. 5 March 1784.
CHILDREN OF ABRAHAM GREAVES (24)
AND HANNAH STEEL
John Greaves (34) was born 10 Sept.
1745. He was a husbandman. He married Rachel Chew on 24 Feb. 1772. (R‑1)
Children - Greaves
+50. William Greaves, b. 30 Oct. 1772, m. Elizabeth West, 7 June 1795.
Richard Greaves (39) was born 9
Sept. 1753. He married Mary ‑‑‑‑‑‑. (R‑1)
Children - Greaves
51. Sarah Greaves, b. 25 March 1790.
Emmanuel (or Immanuel) Greaves (40)
was born 27 June 1760 and died 19 Dec. 1844, both in Kirkby Overblow,
Yorkshire. He married Tabitha Chambers,
daughter of John Chambers and Tabitha Hattersley, on 3 July 1787 in Harewood,
Yorkshire. She was baptized 25 Sept.
1766 in Dunkes, or was born 1 Oct. 1766 in Dunkeswick, Yorkshire[1],
and died after 1841. They were in the
1841 census for Chapel Hill, Kearby. (R‑1,
R‑2)
Children - Greaves
+52. William Greaves, b. 11 Nov. 1787, m. Sarah Briggs, 12 (or 22) Oct.
1810, d. 23 March 1834.
53. Hannah Greaves, b. 18 Oct. 1789.
54. Robert Greaves, b. 26 Dec. 1791.
55. Rebecca Greaves, b. 16 March 1794.
56. Ann Greaves, b. 16 Nov. 1796.
57. Dinah Greaves, b. 24 March 1799.
58. Faith Greaves, b. 16 Aug. 1801.
59. Frances Greaves, b. 25 March 1804.
60. Rebecca Greaves, b. 23 April 1809.
61. Benjamin Greaves, b. 23 April 1809.
62. Abraham Greaves, b. 14 Jan. 1811, m. Hannah ‑‑‑‑‑‑.
GENERATION 7
CHILDREN OF JOHN GREAVES (30)
AND MARY HEARFIELD
Samuel Greaves (47) was born 8 Aug.
1779, died in March 1848, and was buried 28 March 1848. He married Margaret ‑‑‑‑‑‑. She was born in 1784 and died in 1848. (R‑1)
Children - Greaves
63. William Greaves, b. 11 May 1813, d. 1822.
CHILDREN OF JOHN GREAVES (34)
AND RACHEL CHEW
William Greaves (50) was born 30
Oct. 1772. He married Elizabeth West on
7 June 1795 in Kirkby Overblow, North Yorkshire. (R‑1)
Children - Greaves
64. William Greaves, b. 24 April 1796.
65. John Greaves, b. 11 Feb. 1798.
66. Christopher Greaves, b. 16 Sept. 1798.
+67. George Greaves, b. 18 Dec. 1799, m. Hannah Ellsworth, 29 or 30 Aug.
1829.
68. Elizabeth Greaves, b. 10 Jan. 1802.
69. Hannah Greaves, b. 20 May 1804.
70. Robert Greaves, b. 25 May 1806.
71. Charles Greaves, b. 19 Aug. 1810.
CHILDREN OF EMMANUEL GREAVES
(40) AND TABITHA CHAMBERS
William Greaves (52) was born 11
Nov. 1787 in Dunkeswick, Yorkshire, England, was baptized 23 Dec. 1787 at
Harewood, and died 23 March 1834 in Wike, Yorkshire. He married Sarah Briggs on 22 (or 12) Oct. 1810 in Kirkby
Overblow, Yorkshire. She was born in
1790, and died 30 March 1843 in Wike, Yorkshire. They were both buried in Harewood churchyard. They were in the 1841 census for Wike,
Yorkshire. (R‑2)
Children - Greaves
+72. William Greaves, bapt. 15 Oct. 1823, m(1) ‑‑‑‑‑‑,
m(2) Sarah Pickard, 14 Feb. 1857, d. 8 Jan. 1885.
GENERATION 8
CHILDREN OF WILLIAM GREAVES (50)
AND ELIZABETH WEST
George Greaves (67) was born 18
Dec. 1799, and died in Kirkby Overblow, North Yorkshire. He married Hannah Ellsworth on 29 Or 30 Aug.
1829 at St. Peters, Leeds. She was born
22 Sept. 1803, daughter of William Ellsworth (or Elsworth?) and his first wife
Ann ‑‑‑‑‑‑. (R‑1)
Children - Greaves
73. Jane Greaves, b. 10 July 1831.
74. Samuel Greaves, b. 17 July 1832.
75. Joseph Edward Elsworth (or Ellsworth?)
Greaves, b. 1 Aug. 1834.
76. William Henry Greaves, b. 10 May 1836.
77. Jane Ann Greaves, b. 14 Feb. 1838.
78. Eliza Greaves, died in infancy.
+79. James Elsworth Greaves, b. 4 Feb. 1843, m. Eliza A. ‑‑‑‑‑‑.
80. Benjamin Greaves, b. 19 April 1849.
CHILDREN OF WILLIAM GREAVES (52)
AND SARAH BRIGGS
William Greaves (72) was baptized
15 Oct. 1823 and died 8 Jan. 1885, both in Wike, Yorkshire. He first married ‑‑‑‑‑‑. He married second Sarah Pickard, daughter of
William Pickard and Mary Wiggins, on 14 Feb. 1857 in the parish church,
Harewood, Yorkshire. She was born 30
Sept. 1833 in Dunkeswick, Yorkshire, and died 3 April 1893 in Wike, Yorkshire. William was a butter factor in 1851
according to the census. He was a
farmer in Wike in 1857, and was described as a farm labourer at his death. He was in the 1841 and 1871 censuses. (R‑2)
Children - Graves, by Sarah
Pickard
+81. Emma Greaves, b. 11 June 1860, m. George Bailes, 12 Sept. 1888, d.
9 Nov. 1907.
GENERATION 9
CHILDREN OF GEORGE GREAVES (67)
AND HANNAH ELLSWORTH
James Elsworth Greaves (79) was
born 4 Feb. 1843. He married Eliza A. ‑‑‑‑‑‑. In the 1881 census they lived in Wesley
Place, Bramley, Yorkshire. (R‑1)
Children - Greaves
82. Louis Greaves, m. ‑‑‑‑‑‑. Two children, Bessie and a son who died in
Iceland in WW II.
83. Ernest Greaves, no children.
84. William Greaves, no children.
85. Percy Greaves, 2 girls.
86. Kate Greaves, 2 girls.
87. Nora Greaves, 1 son Ernest.
+88. James R. Herbert Greaves, m. May Briggs.
89. Roseline Greaves, m. Fred Rush. Lived in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, and
Victoria, BC.
90. Estella Greaves, m. ‑‑‑‑‑‑
Redshaw. Lived in Rochester, NY. 1 daughter Yvonne.
91. daughter, died in infancy.
92. daughter, died in infancy.
CHILDREN OF WILLIAM GREAVES (72)
AND SARAH PICKARD
Emma Greaves (81) was born 11 June
1860 and died 9 Nov. 1907 on pneumonia, both in Wike, Yorkshire. She married George Bailes on 12 Sept. 1888
in the parish church, Harewood, Yorkshire.
He was born 2 April 1863 in Roundhay Park, Leeds, Yorkshire, and died 1
Feb. 1932 in Garforth, Yorkshire. (R‑2)
Children - Bailes
+93. Annie Bailes, b. 28 Dec. 1891, m. Harry Greaves, 1910, d. 24 March
1992.
GENERATION 10
CHILDREN OF JAMES E. GREAVES
(79) AND ELIZA A. ------
James R. Herbert Greaves (88),
called Herbert, was buried in Zion Baptist Church Cem. (?). He married May Briggs. She had 2 sisters and 1 brother. Her family was in the victualling trade, her
father being a licensee of The Grapes public house. (R‑1)
Children - Greaves
+94. Clifford Reginald Greaves, b. 26 March 1910, m. Doris Mary Jackson,
26 July 1935, d. 4 July 1980.
95. Ivor Greaves, b. 15 April 1919, m. Peggy ‑‑‑‑‑‑. Peggy had a daughter, Susan Greaves, adopted
by Ivor.
CHILDREN OF EMMA GREAVES (81)
AND GEORGE BAILES
Annie Bailes (93) was born 28 Dec.
1891 in Wike, Yorkshire, and died 24 March 1992 in Leeds, Yorkshire. She married Harry Greaves, son of John
Holland (possibly changed to Greaves) and Violet Parrott, in 1910 in Wike,
Yorkshire. He was born 24 Aug. 1891 in
Spofforth, Yorkshire, and died in 1965 in Jacob’s Well, Sandon, Essex, England.
The mother of John Holland, Mary
Ann Holland, was an unmarried mother who registed her son John’s birth in her
own name. The child was adopted by a
Greaves family and later given their name.
Based on DNA testing, it appears that the father of John Holland may
have been a Greaves, and perhaps that is one reason for his adoption by the
Greaves family. (R‑2)
Children - Greaves
96. George Greaves
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