Heptonstall Constables
This Foldout lists
some of the people who have served as Constable in Heptonstall
The 15th & 16th century
constables were elected in October at the Sherrif's Tourn at
Halifax in the given year for the next twelve months.
- [1434] Richard Widdop
- [1439] John Robertshaw
- [1455] John Mitchell
- [1460] Thomas Greenwood
- [1461] William Greenwood
- [1462] William Greenwood
- [1463] Thomas Greenwood
- [1464] Thomas Greenwood
- [1465] Lawrence Bentley
- [1466] William Sutcliffe
- [1467] Thomas Naylor
- [1468] Henry Cockcroft
- [1469] Richard Robertshaw
- [1470] John Robertshaw
- [1471] John Horsfall
- [1470s] No more recorded
- [1480s] None recorded
- [1491] Richard Robertshaw
- [1493] Peter Crabtree
- [1494] James Horsfall
- [1495] John Sutcliffe
of the Lee
- [1497] Richard Widdop
- [1498] John Eastwood
- [1501] John Crossley
- [1501] William Crossley
- [1502] John Bentley
- [1503] Richard Bentley
- [1504] John Crossley
- [1507] John Akroyd
- [1507] William Walker
- [1508] John Akroyd
- [1508] John Bryg
- [1509] Robert Crossley
- [1509] William Wodd
- [1510] John Walton
- [1511] John Greenwood
- [1511] Richard Bentley
- [1511] Richard Bentley
- [1514] Thomas Bentley
- [1514] William Bentley
- [1515] Robert Bentley
- [1515] William Bentley
- [1516] Richard Sutcliffe
- [1518] Christopher Sutcliffe
- [1519] John Draper?
- [1520] John Mitchell
- [1521] William Sutcliffe
- [1523] Richard Greenwood
- [1525] William Robertshaw
- [1526] William Hardy
- [1527] William Crabtree
- [1530] Thomas Greenhaugh
- [1532] Richard Mitchell
- [1533] William Mitchell
- [1535] Richard Crabtree
- [1537] William Thomas
- [1539] Thomas Mitchell
- [1541] James Greenwood
- [1542] Thomas Greenwood
- [1543] John Mitchell
- [1546] Thomas Greenwood
- [1547] John Mitchell
- [1549] Richard Bentley
- [1550] John Mitchell
- [1551] James Bentley
- [1552] Thomas Draper
- [1553] ? Bentley
- [1554] James Hargreaves
- [1555] Lawrence Bentley
- [1556] Robert Whitaker?
- [1560] Thomas Mitchell
- [1561] Edmund Fairbank
- [1562] Edward Mitchell
- [1563] John Heap
- [1564] John Nutter
- [1565] Richard Sutcliffe
- [1566] James Bentley
- [1568] Edmund Robertshaw
- [1569] Thomas Greenwood
- [1570] John Mitchell
- [1571] William Greenwood
of Learings
- [1572] Michael Bentley
- [1573] William Mitchell
- [1574] Thomas Greenwood
of Colden
- [1575] Lawrence Bentley
- [1576] Brian Bentley
- [1577] Robert Sutcliffe
- [1578] Thomas Shackleton
- [1578] Henry Fairbank
- [1579] John Hudson
- [1580] George Sutcliffe
- [1581] William Cockcroft
- [1582] Robert Mitchell
- [1583] Thomas Draper
of Stoneslacke
- [1584] Henry Sutcliffe
- [1585] William Mitchell
of Heverilshaw
- [1586] William Thomas
- [1587] William Greenwood
- [1587] Michael Mitchell
- [1588] Thomas Crabtree
- [1589] John Greenwood
of Learings
- [1590] Thomas Fairbank
- [1591] John Horsfall
- [1592] William Dilworth
- [1593] William Hoile
- [1594] William Clayton
- [1595] Richard Hoole
- [1596] Michael Sutcliffe
- [1597] John Midgley
- [1598] William Mitchell
- [1599] Thomas Greenwood
- [1600] Richard Smith
- [1601] William Greenwood
- [1602] William Mitchell
- [1603] Richard Heap
- [1609] Ambrose Robertshaw
- [1718] George Bannister
- [1719] Thomas Greenwood
- [1734] James Ogden
- [1735] Paul Greenwood
- [1736] Paul Greenwood
- [1737] John Hargreaves
- [1738] John Eastwood
- [1739] John Townend
- [1740] Jonas Turner
- [1741] Henry Greenwood
- [1742] Henry Greenwood
- [1743] Thomas Greenwood
- [1744] Thomas Eastwood
- [1745] John Thomas
- [1746] John Horsfall
- [1749] John Greenwood
- [1750] Joseph Smith
- [1752] Richard Harrison
- [1754] Joseph Sutcliffe
- [1755] John Murgatroyd
- [1756] Thomas Greenwood
of Goose Hey
- [1757] John Thomas
- [1758] John Thomas
- [1759] John Thomas
- [1760] James Rigg
- [1761] Joseph Sutcliffe
- [1762] James Gibson
- [1763] James Gibson
- [1764] Anthony Naylor
- [1765] Joseph Sutcliffe
- [1766] John Greenwood
- [1767] Thomas Greenwood
- [1768] John Walton
- [1769] John Walton
- [1770] William Shackleton
- [1771] Thomas Sunderland
- [1772] Richard Sutcliffe
- [1773] Richard Sutcliffe
- [1774] Richard Sutcliffe
- [1775] Thomas Sunderland
- [1776] Thomas Sunderland
- [1777] Henry Patchett
- [1778] Richard Thomas
- [1779] Henry Patchett
- [1780] George Patchett
- [1781] George Patchett
- [1782] William Greenwood
- [1783] John Sutcliffe
- [1784] William Mitchell
- [1785] William Foster
- [1786] William Greenwood
- [1787] John Greenwood
- [1790] John Walton
- [1791] Daniel Eastwood
- [1791] John Greenwood
- [1792] James Jagger
- [1793] Richard Sutcliffe
- [1794] William Uttley
- [1795] William Uttley
- [1796] James Crabtree
- [1797] John Stansfield
- [1798] Robert Stansfield
This & associated entries use material contributed by Ollie Robertshaw
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Malcolm Bull
2024
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