Elizabeth Skirrow

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      Sex: F

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Individual Information

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          Birth: 1748 - Otley, Yorkshire, England
    Christening: 4 Sep 1748 - Otley, Yorkshire, England
          Death: 25 Jun 1812 - Kirkstall Forge, Yorkshire, England 1
         Burial: in All Saints Churchyard, Otley, Yorkshire, England 2
 Cause of Death: 
           AFN : 
                 

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Events

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• Biography, Methodist Magazine 1813, pp.453-460

Eliza Beecroft (1748-1812) was born in Otley, Yorkshire, the daughter of a tanner, John Skirrow. She lost her father in early life and entered into business with one of her brothers. She came under Methodist influence at the age of nineteen and was formally admitted into the Society in November 1767. Skirrow was deeply affected by the preaching of Rowland Hill during his visit to Leeds in 1770 and dated her conversion to about that time. She also started attending band meetings for young women organised by Mary Bosanquet-Fletcher.

She married George Beecroft in 1775 and three years later moved to Kirkstall-Forge where her husband leased an iron works in partenorship with John Butler. Her husband was also a devout Methodist and served as a trustee for two local chapels.

Mrs Beecroft enjoyed a considerable reputation for holiness and corresponded with several other female Methodists of note - one of her letters to Mary Bosanquet-Fletcher survives in the Fletcher Collection in the Methodist Archives. Her funeral sermon in August 1812 was preached by the prominent Wesleyan minister Joseph Benson.

Source: Methodist Magazine 1813, pp.453-460

• Religion, Methodist

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Parents

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         Father: John Skirrow 2
         Mother: 

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Spouses and Children

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1. *George Beecroft
       Marriage: 28 Mar 1775 - Saint Peter, Leeds, Yorkshire, England 3
         Status: 
       Children:
                1. Anne Beecroft
                2. George Beecroft

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Notes

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Death Notes:

Funeral services were held Aug 1812

Marriage Notes (George Beecroft)

Beecroft, George 1775 March 28 of Leeds, (on 1778 of Kirkstall Forge nr Leeds) m. (on above first date) Elizabeth Skirrow native of Otley. ¹

Sources

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1. Rochester Wills - Reg III (Located in London at the Society of Genealogists Library
fo:158d (Som:Horesc)).

2. Findagrave.com.

3. Rochester Wills - Reg III (Located in London at the Society of Genealogists Library
fo:158d (Som:Horesc)). .... LDS - IGI Index (familysearch.org).

1 Rochester Wills - Reg III (Located in London at the Society of Genealogists Library
fo:158d (Som:Horesc)).

2 Findagrave.com.

3 Rochester Wills - Reg III (Located in London at the Society of Genealogists Library
fo:158d (Som:Horesc)). .... LDS - IGI Index (familysearch.org).