RUSHWORTH and WEBSTER - what's the connection?

'Curious' is this week's theme for '52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks'. I'm curious to know more about the connection between my WEBSTERs and the RUSHWORTH family.

1. In 1793, Joseph RUSHWORTH was a witness at the marriage of William WEBSTER and Elizabeth Harley PORTER in Middlesex, England. [Source: Parish register of marriages, St.James, Clerkenwell, Middlesex. London Metropolitan Archives ref. p76/js1/034.]


2. In 1813, Thomas RUSHWORTH was chosen as the guardian of Thomas WEBSTER aged 19, 'child of William WEBSTER late of the Borough in Southwark London deceased and the nephew sole executor and residuary legatee named in the will of Henry WEBSTER' of Leeds, Yorkshire. [Source: Curation, Henry WEBSTER, 20 Oct 1813. Borthwick Institute for Archives, Yorkshire, England. Copy ordered via Prerogative and Exchequer Courts of York Probate Index.]


3. In 1841, Cecelia RUSHWORTH, 99 Waterloo Bridge Road, Lambeth, Surrey, was present at the death of Elizabeth Harley WEBSTER. [Source: General Register Office (England/Wales); death certificate of Elizabeth Harley WEBSTER. Cecelia was the informant.]

RUSHWORTH is not a very common name, and at the time of the 1841 census, most of them were in Yorkshire.

So the burning question is... when did the connection between the RUSHWORTH and WEBSTER families start? Are they related somehow (see Webster Family Origins: Yorkshire or Scotland?) or were they just friends, associates or neighbours? If you have any information, please leave a comment here, or email me at the address shown in the sidebar.

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This is my Week 4 post for 52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks (Amy Johnson Crow has challenged us to do something with the family history information that we've gathered).

(This post first appeared on https://judy-webster.blogspot.com/2022/01/rushworth-and-webster-whats-connection.html)

Webster Family Origins: Yorkshire and Scotland?

Pedigree chart showing our earliest known Websters
(ignore the numbers generated by my genealogy software)

My WEBSTER family allegedly left Aberdeen (Scotland) in 1745 ('because of the political troubles of the time') and settled in Yorkshire (England).

My 4xgreat-grandfather William WEBSTER (who married Elizabeth Harley PORTER) died in 1810 aged 44. He was in Southwark, Surrey, but as yet I don't know where he was born. William was a dyer.

His brother Henry WEBSTER, a drysalter, died in Leeds, Yorkshire, in or before 1813. One of the wills that I bought *proves* that William and Henry were brothers. It also proves that umpteen trees on Ancestry have the wrong birth/death years for William!

If you'd like to exchange information about this family, please email me at the address shown in the sidebar.

Sources include... (contact me for more detailed citations)

* Exchequer Court of York probate records.
* Freedom of the City admission papers, London, England.
* Non-conformist parish records, Leeds, Yorkshire (two versions of a burial register, plus a third volume that appears to be a register of graves).
* Newspaper death notices, Leeds, Yorkshire, England, 1823 and 1826.
* Birth, death and marriage certificates.
* Parish registers of baptism, marriage and burial.
* Private family papers, including letters written by a relative in England before 1903.

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This is my Week 1 post for 52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks. Amy Johnson Crow has challenged us to do something with the family history information that we've gathered. Even if I don't always stick to the suggested themes, I'll try to post something here each week. It may just be an 'On This Day' biographical snippet, or an extract from an interesting document, but anything is better than nothing!

(This post first appeared on https://judy-webster.blogspot.com/2022/01/webster-family-origins-yorkshire-and.html)