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Samuel Stanfield (1739 - 1781)

Parents: Joseph Stanfield and Ann (Hague)

Born: baptised as son of Joseph Stanfield of Billingley 18 Dec 1739 All Saints, Darfield
Flourished: 1772-1780
Died: buried 12 Jan 1781 Darfield, "late of Billingley"

Siblings
Richard born and died 1743, buried with his mother Ann at Darfield
Mary bapt. 1740 (appears to have had a daughter Anne, buried 20 Dec 1768 at Darfield as daughter of Mary of Billingley)

Note: in Archbishop Drummond's Visitation Returns 1764 under Ackworth he writes "No publick penance has been performed except one, viz. Mary Stanfield for fornication."

Marriage to Hannah Beckwith 23 June 1772 at St Peter's Felkirk. Register records "Samuel Stanfield of Darfield Parish and Hannah Beckwith of this (Felkirk) Parish".

Evidence
Children
Ann baptised 1774
Charles baptised 1777
David baptised 1780

Unaccounted for in this period
- July 1709 Mercie Stanfield of Ackworth married Thos Moseley of Wragby at Ackworth
- 25 Feb 1744 John Stanfield married Eliz England at Bolton-on-Dearne

Sources
- Darfield Parish Registers online transcriptions
- West Yorkshire, England, Baptisms, Marriages and Burials, 1512-1812
- England, Select Marriages, 1538–1973
1841 England Census
- England, Select Births and Christenings, 1538-1975
- Yorkshire, England: Parish Records
- Yorkshire, Eng, Extracted Parish Records
- Archbishop Drummond's Visitation Returns 1764, Yorkshire A-G, Volume 1

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(Above) Samuel son of Joseph Stanfield of Billingley baptised 18 Dec 1739 
at All Saints, Darfield (Darfield BTs).

(Below) Samuel Stanfield and Hannah Beckwith married by Banns 23 June 1772 at Felkirk.

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(Above) Samuel Stanfield and Hannah Beckwith marriage 23 June 1772 at St Peter's, Felkirk (Felkirk Bishop's Transcripts)

(Below) Billingley is set amidst a strip field system, with Thurnscoe to the NE, Darfield to the SW, and both Little Houghton and Great Houghton to the NW.

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(Above) 24 Apr 1774 Ann daughter of Samuel Stanfield of Billingley baptised at Darfield.

(Below) 13 Feb 1780 David son of Samuel Stanfield of Billingley baptised at Darfield.

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My thanks to researcher Joanne Backhouse for her collaboration and guidance regarding the Stansfeld family and Calderdale.