Mark Whitaker

Notes:

He is known from Deed in Vol A page 596 at Wakefield Registry of Deeds
The date is 9 Nov in 8th year of Queen Anne's reign

People involved
Mark Whitaker the elder of Streetside, Ossett
Samuel Williams of the City of York Doctor of Physick
Theodore Williams
John Whittaker, fellow of Emmanuel College, Cambridge (Mark the elder's brother)

In the second part are
Mark Whitaker the younger, Grocer and Anne Gleadhill of Mirfield, Spinster

Concerning 3 houses in Kirkgate in the hands of
John Fox
John Fowler
Joseph Holbrook

The witnesses were William Oates and William Heron

His marriage is also recorded in the Northowram Register - Mr Mark Whitaker, shopkeeper in Wakefield married Dec 9 1709

In the rent rolls of the Earl of Cardigan for 1724 (Brudenell papers ARS/2 at Northampton RO there is a record of a Mark Whiteaker paying rent of £73/10/0 as a tenant in New Park, Dewsbury. In 1709 (ARS1) he he is listed as Mark Whittakers owing £3/11/3 out of a total rent of £36/15/-

Also in the will of William Ingham of Ossett (d 1723) there is: "I give to my four daughters Susannah, Elizabeth, Rachel, and Hannah, all the housing, malt killn, gardens, backside croft in a street called Westgate in Wakefield, now in the possession of Mark Whiteaker, (and others)..."

Christened:
Source: Dewsbury Parish Registers
West Yorkshire Archive Service, Wakefield
Whitaker (& variant entries) Transcribed by Jennifer Pinner
Page: August 1685
Text: Marcus filius Marci Whiteakers baptizat 6th

Mark married Ann Gledhill 07 Dec 1709, Mirfield, Yorkshire, England. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

From Christopher Richards: It is likely but not certain that person is a child of Mark Whitaker, the grocer of Wakefield, on the basis that he was the only Mark Whitaker have children baptised in Wakefield at the time.

Notes:

Notes from Christopher Richards: It is likely but not certain that person is a child of Mark Whitaker, the grocer of Wakefield, on the basis that he was the only Mark Whitaker have children baptised in Wakefield at the time.

Notes:

Note from Christopher Richards: It is likely but not certain that person is a child of Mark Whitaker, the grocer of Wakefield, on the basis that he was the only Mark Whitaker have children baptised in Wakefield at the time.

Notes:

Note from Christopher Richards:
It is likely but not certain that person is a child of Mark Whitaker, the grocer of Wakefield, on the basis that he was the only Mark Whitaker have children baptised in Wakefield at the time.

Name:
Whitacre

Notes:

Note from Christopher Richards: It is likely but not certain that person is a child of Mark Whitaker, the grocer of Wakefield, on the basis that he was the only Mark Whitaker have children baptised in Wakefield at the time.

Name:
Whitacare

Notes:

Note from Christopher Richards: It is likely but not certain that person is a child of Mark Whitaker, the grocer of Wakefield, on the basis that he was the only Mark Whitaker have children baptised in Wakefield at the time.

Name:
Whitacre

Notes:

Note from Christopher Richards: It is likely but not certain that person is a child of Mark Whitaker, the grocer of Wakefield, on the basis that he was the only Mark Whitaker have children baptised in Wakefield at the time.

Name:
Whitacre

Notes:

Notes from Christopher Richards: It is likely but not certain that person is a child of Mark Whitaker, the grocer of Wakefield, on the basis that he was the only Mark Whitaker have children baptised in Wakefield at the time.

Name:
Whitacre

Notes:

Note from Christopher Richards: It is likely but not certain that person is a child of Mark Whitaker, the grocer of Wakefield, on the basis that he was the only Mark Whitaker have children baptised in Wakefield at the time.

Name:
Whittaker

Notes:

Note from Christopher Richards: It is likely but not certain that person is a child of Mark Whitaker, the grocer of Wakefield, on the basis that he was the only Mark Whitaker have children baptised in Wakefield at the time.

The name may be a mistranscription for Theophilus.

Name:
Note from Christopher Richards: It is likely but not certain that person is a child of Mark Whitaker, the grocer of Wakefield, on the basis that he was the only Mark Whitaker have children baptised in Wakefield at the time.

The name may be a mistranscription for Theophilus.

Notes:

Note from Christopher Richards: It is likely but not certain that person is a child of Mark Whitaker, the grocer of Wakefield, on the basis that he was the only Mark Whitaker have children baptised in Wakefield at the time.

Name:
Whitacre

Notes:

Note from Christopher Richard: It is likely but not certain that person is a child of Mark Whitaker, the grocer of Wakefield, on the basis that he was the only Mark Whitaker have children baptised in Wakefield at the time.

Name:
Whitacre