Edmund Clegg

1800 – 1841

✓ Validated against records · 2026-07-07

Edmund Clegg was baptised on 4 May 1800 at the parish church of Rochdale — St Chad's — the son of James and Sarah Clegg, of Yorkshire Street. He was a weaver, in a family of weavers; they belonged to the handloom-weaving Rochdale that the coming of the power-loom would break within his own lifetime.

In October 1823, at St Chad's, he married Jane Schofield, and over the next eighteen years they had eight children — Robert, their eldest son, born in 1825, and Ellen, Mary, James, John, Margaret, Sarah and Jenny. The family lived in Rochdale through all of it, their children baptised at St Chad's and the chapel at Wardleworth.

Edmund did not live to see them grown. He was buried at St Chad's on 10 January 1841, only about forty years old, three months before his youngest child, Jenny, was born. His death is the hinge of the whole story that follows: it left Jane a widow with a house full of children, and her remarriage a few years later carried the family out of Lancashire and east to Hull. Edmund himself, so far as the record shows, never left Rochdale — but through his son Robert, the packer who made that journey, his line runs down into the Cleggs and Brocks of Hull.

Composed from validated records · 2026-07-07

Baptism: May 4th 1800 St. Chads, Rochdale
Marriage: October 1823, St. Chad's, Rochdale to Jane Schofield
Burial: January 10th 1841 St. Chads, Rochdale
Parents: James Clegg and Sarah Butterworth
Siblings: Isaac Clegg baptised February 1 e 1798 St Chad, Rochdale Edmund Clegg baptised May 4th 1800 St Chad, Rochdale Mary Clegg baptised September 1801 St Chad, Rochdale Sally Clegg baptised August 15th 1802 St Chad, Rochdale Hannah Clegg baptised August 1804 St Chad, Rochdale
Children: Robert Clegg born 1825, Rochdale Ellen Clegg born about 1827, Rochdale Mary Clegg born baptised June 1828, St. Chad's, Rochdale James Clegg born 1831, Rochdale John Clegg born 1835, Rochdale Margaret Clegg born 1836, Rochdale Sarah Clegg baptised October 1839,St. Chad's, Rochdale Jenny Clegg baptised April 1841,St. Chad's, Rochdale
Residence: Toad Lane, Rochdale (Submission)
Occupation: Weaver (Marriage record)

In your grandmother’s words · from her notebook

Family

Parents

JCFatherJames Cleggb. 1774

The children of James & Sarah Butterworth

· Edmund Clegg b. 1800this page · · ·

Marriage

Children

RCChild · the line continuesRobert Cleggmain line1825–1919

Life

Confirmed — anchored to a recordEstimated — inferred

1800

Baptised — St Chad's, Rochdale

4 May 1800 at Rochdale

Edmund, son of James & Sarah Clegg, of Yorkshire St[reet] — [baptised, May 4, 1800, Rochdale].— Baptism — St Chad's, Rochdale, 1800

Read at the image record Evidence

Confirmed against the original record, read at the image:

Baptism — St Chad's, Rochdale, 1800 — Rochdale parish (St Chad's) Bishop's Transcript, Christenings, May 1800; Lancashire Archives, via Ancestry (Lancashire, England, Church of England Baptisms, Marriages and Burials, 1538–1812). Read from the transcript image, 7 July 2026. Names his father, James Clegg — the record that carries the line back to the 1770s. A different Edmund Clegg was baptised at Rochdale three weeks earlier, on 14 April 1800, to Edmund and Betty — not this one. read at the image

1823

Married Jane Schofield

18 October 1823

October 1823, St. Chad's, Rochdale to Jane Schofield— From Janet Brock’s research

Mum’s record Evidence

From Janet Brock’s research notebook.

1841

Buried — St Chad's, Rochdale

10 January 1841 at Rochdale

Edmund Clegg — buried 10 January 1841 — St Chad's, Rochdale — aged about 40.— Burial — St Chad's, Rochdale, 1841

Mum’s record Evidence

From Janet Brock’s research, cited — not yet re-verified at the image:

Burial — St Chad's, Rochdale, 1841 — Burial 10 January 1841, St Chad's, Rochdale. From Janet Brock's research; the register image is a round-two read. Edmund died some three months before the baptism of his youngest child, Jenny (April 1841). from Mum’s research

Residence

Toad Lane, Rochdale (Submission)— From Janet Brock’s research

Mum’s record Evidence

From Janet Brock’s research notebook.

Occupation

Weaver (Marriage record)— From Janet Brock’s research

Mum’s record Evidence

From Janet Brock’s research notebook.

Our research

Edmund Clegg — the weaver, and what is left to read

Research · Rochdale

His 1800 baptism is read at the Bishop's Transcript, and it is the record that names his father James — carrying the line into the 18th century. His occupation, weaver, is on his son Robert's 1853 marriage as well as his own; his marriage and burial rest on Mum's research and wait for the register images.

His 1823 marriage to Jane Schofield — St Chad's, Rochdale, October 1823 — read at the register image, to confirm Jane's maiden name (Schofield) and both fathers. Round two.
His 1841 burial — St Chad's — read at the image, and the cause if a certificate survives (he died young, at about 40). Round two.
His abode — the 1800 baptism records the family of Yorkshire Street; an earlier note had them at Toad Lane, which came from a tree submission, not a record. The censuses of his own married life (from 1841 back) would settle where the family actually lived.