Bennett ...



The entries for people & families with the surname Bennett are gathered together in this SideTrack.

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Bennett, Rev DavidRef 501-635
[19??-] Vicar of Cragg Vale [19??]

Bennett, Rev David EdwardRef 501-2341
[1935-19??]
He was Curate at
Lightcliffe [1960].

In 1962, he left to became Secretary of the Christian Education Movement [1962-1968] and Licensed Officiate in the Diocese of Southwell [from 1968]

This & associated entries use material contributed by Alan Longbottom

Bennett, EdwardRef 501-711
[1804-1846]
He was a saddler [1841].

He married Jane [1804-1882].

They lived at Waterhouse Street, Halifax [1841].

Edward died 4th July 1846 (aged 42).

Jane died 28th July 1882 (aged 78).

The couple were buried at Lister Lane Cemetery [Plot 4150]

Bennett, George MorrisRef 501-2793
[1805-1869]
Cheese & tea dealer at 1
Silver Street, Halifax [1837].

See Hugh Bennett & Son

Bennett, George William HowsonRef 501-1007
[1882-1940]
Born in Halifax.

He was a bank secretary [1918].

He lived at Fern Lee, Willow Drive, Halifax [1918].

He died in Halifax.

See James Henry Howarth

Bennett, Gerard Norman SingletonRef 501-1151
[1875-1918]
Known as Norman.

Born in Bradford.

He is recorded at the Westgate Hotel, Halifax. A Norman Bennett was landlord of the Westgate Hotel, Halifax [1911, 1917]


Question: Does anyone know the identity of the landlord? or his relationship to this man?

 

He was a draper's clerk [1911].

On 3rd August 1899, he married Lucy Ethel Styan [1876-1949] at Halifax Parish Church.

Children:

  1. Harold Styan [1901-1962]
  2. Edward Trevor [1906-1914]

They lived at Abbey Walk South, Halifax [1911].

During World War I, he served as a Clerk 3rd Class with the Royal Air Force Recruits Training Wing (Blandford).

He died at Burden Military Hospital, Weymouth [29th September 1918].

Probate records show that he left effects valued at £582.

Probate was granted to Lucy Ethel.

The couple were buried at All Saints' Church, Dudwell [3 139]: Norman [3rd October 1918]; Lucy Ethel [9th November 1949].

He is remembered in the Halifax Town Hall Books of Remembrance

This & associated entries use material contributed by Derrick Habergham

Bennett, Rev H.Ref 501-1242
[19??-19??]
Priest at
Our Lady of Lourdes & St Malachy, Ovenden [1966]

Bennett, HughRef 501-2795
[17??-1839]
Established tea dealers
Hugh Bennett & Son

Bennett, Hugh BakewellRef 501-2842
[1807-1865]
Halifax attorney.

He was at Cow Green, Halifax [1850].

On 15th September 1840, he married Eliza Briggs [1813-1881] at Halifax Parish Church.

They had no children.

They lived at 16 Rhodes Street, Halifax [1861].

Living with them [in 1861] was niece Elizabeth Wright [b 1834].

He died 3rd November 1865.

Probate records show that he left effects valued at under £20,000.

The will was proved by his nephew William Barstow of Halifax (gentleman), Joshua Furness Perkinton, and Josiah Aked

This & associated entries use material contributed by Derrick Habergham

Bennett, JamesRef 501-1777
[1853-19??]
Born in Pudsey.

He was a stone quarryman [1901].

He married Sarah [1854-19??].


Sarah was born in Pudsey
 

Children:

  1. Joseph [b 1877] who was a stone quarryman [1901]
  2. William
  3. James [b 1884] who was an apprentice mechanic fitter  [1901]
  4. Bertha [b 1886] who was a worsted spinner [1901]
  5. Edwin [b 1893]
  6. Herbert [b 1895]

They lived at 11 Holdsworth Road, Halifax [1901]

This & associated entries use material contributed by Roger Beasley

Bennett, John William GladstoneRef 501-2417
[1870-1926]
Born in Keighley.

Curate at Illingworth [1897-1900].

He went on to serve at St Aidan's Theological College, and became Vicar of Albury.

He died at St Martin, Westminster, London in 1926

This & associated entries use material contributed by Glynn Helliwell

Bennett, Rev JosephRef 501-2374
[18??-19??]
Free Methodist minister at Hanging Ditch, Todmorden [1861]

Bennett, JosephRef 501-302
[1820-1893]
Born in Cowick, Yorkshire.

He was a retired builder [1891].

He married Unknown.

Children:

  1. Matilda [b 1862] who was a machinist tailoress fustian  [1891]
  2. Priscilla [b 1861] who was a machinist tailoress fustian  [1891] & married David Arthur Blackburn
  3. Mabel [b 1864] who was a machinist tailoress fustian  [1891]
  4. Eleana [b 1872] who was a machinist tailoress fustian  [1891]

They lived at 18 Sackville Street, Hebden Bridge [1891].

Joseph was widowed by 1891.

He died in Todmorden in 1893 (aged 73) 

This & associated entries use material contributed by Roger Beasley

Bennett, S. L.Ref 501-957
[1???-19??]
He was educated at
Crossley & Porter School.

He served in World War I.

He died in the conflict.

He is remembered on the Memorial at Crossley & Porter School, Halifax


Question: A Samuel Lowe Bennett served as a Flight Sub-Lieutenant with 3 (Naval) Squadron Royal Naval Air Service, and is remembered on the Arras Flying Service Memorial.

Does anyone know whether this is the same man?

 

Bennett, Rev ThomasRef 501-469
[1???-18??]
Vicar of
Hebden Bridge [1835-1837]

Bennett, Rev ThomasRef 501-1228
[1803-1865]
Born in Lancashire.

Primitive Methodist Minister at Halifax [1828]

Bennett, Rev WilliamRef 501-1787
[18??-19??]
United Methodist Free Church minister at Elland.

He lived at Long Lea Terrace, Elland [1905]

Bennett, WilliamRef 501-1778
[1882-1917]
Son of
James Bennett.

Born in Pudsey.

He was an apprentice stone quarryman [1901] / a delver of Friendly Fold Road, Ovenden [1905] / a delver in stone quarry [1911].

In 1905, he married Amy Normington [1881-19??] at Halifax Parish Church.


Amy, of Collins Street, Halifax, was the daughter of William Normington, delver
 

Children:

  1. Phyllis [b 1907]
  2. Evelyn [b 1909]

They lived at 77 Shay Lane, Ovenden [1911].

Living with them [in 1911] was sister-in-law Annie Normington [b 1883] (drawer worsted mill).

During World War I, he enlisted [July 1916] and served as a Private with the 1st/4th Battalion Duke of Wellington's (West Riding Regiment).

He went to France in late 1916.

He was killed by a shell fragment whilst on duty in the trenches [12th April 1917] (aged 35).

The Halifax Courier [12th May 1917] reported his death with a photograph.

He was buried at Le Touret Military Cemetery, Richebourg-L'Avoue, France [Grave Ref IV C 29].

This & associated entries use material contributed by Roger Beasley

Surname

Bennett surnameRef 501-1
Entries for people with the surname Bennett are discussed in this SideTrack.


Unattached BMDs for Bennett

Marriage 1902

 



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