George Beecroft
Sex: M
Individual Information
Birth: 1739 - England
Christening:
Death: 8 Feb 1820 - England
Burial: in All Saints Churchyard, Otley, Yorkshire, England
Cause of Death:
AFN :
Events
• Religion, Methodist
• Residence, 1778 in Kirkstall Forge, Yorkshire, England
• Residence, Abbey House, 1779 in Kirkstall Forge, Yorkshire, England
Parents
Father:
Mother: unknown
Spouses and Children
1. *Elizabeth Skirrow
Marriage: 28 Mar 1775 - Saint Peter, Leeds, Yorkshire, England 1
Status:
Children:
1. Anne Beecroft
2. George Beecroft
Notes
General:
Owner of the Beecroft coat of arms.Marriage Notes (Elizabeth Skirrow)
Beecroft & Butler families Abbey House was leased to the Butler family of Kirkstall Forge in 1779 and members of the Beecroft and Butler families occupied Abbey House on and off until 1883, and then again between 1912 and 1925.
George Beecroft and John Butler were partners at Kirkstall Forge from 1779 and obtained the lease for Abbey House at the same time.
Ambrose Edmund Butler married Isabella Holgate of Liverpool in 1841. The courtship letters written between them from 1837 to 1841 were published in 1939 by their son Hugh Myddleton Butler under the title "A Kirkstall Forge Romance".
Beecroft, George 1775 March 28 of Leeds, (on 1778 of Kirkstall Forge nr Leeds) m. (on above first date) Elizabeth Skirrow native of Otley. 2
Sources
1. Rochester Wills - Reg III (Located in London at the Society of Genealogists Library
fo:158d (Som:Horesc)). .... LDS - IGI Index (familysearch.org).
2. Rochester Wills - Reg III (Located in London at the Society of Genealogists Library
fo:158d (Som:Horesc)).