Ann Woodall

1786 – ?

✓ Validated against records · 2026-07-04

Ann Woodall was baptised at Selby on the 22nd of October 1786, a daughter of Matthew Woodall and Mary Elfold — Mum's page holds that much of her beginnings, and little else needed adding until now. By 1806 she was living in Howden parish, and on the 20th of July that year, at Howden Minster, she married Robert Harrison of Bubwith parish, by banns; a Woodall stood witness, and both bride and groom made their marks.

Her married life was the labourer's road across the levels — New Village, North Cave and its hamlet of Bedlam, Blacktoft parish, the Eight and Forty on Wallingfen, Gilberdyke — set down abode by abode in the registers as her twelve children were baptised. Five of the twelve she buried small, four of them at North Cave within a dozen years. Her tenth child she named for her own family: Woodall Harrison, her maiden surname made a christian name, which his sons and grandsons carried in their turn.

She died on the 13th of August 1849, aged sixty-two, at the Eight and Forty — and was carried the miles back to North Cave to be buried, where her children lay.

Composed from validated records · 2026-07-04

Baptism: October 22nd 1786 Selby
Parents: Matthew Woodall and Mary Elfold

In your grandmother’s words · from her notebook

Family

Marriage

RHSpouseRobert Harrison1785–1861

Children

WHChild · the line continuesWoodall Harrisonmain line1830–1914

Life

Confirmed — anchored to a recordEstimated — inferred

1786

Baptised

22 October 1786

Mum's record: "Baptism — October 22nd 1786, Selby. Parents: Matthew Woodall and Mary Elfold."— Baptism — Selby (1786), from Mum's page

Mum’s record Evidence

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

Baptism — Selby (1786), from Mum's page — Mum's record: baptised 22 October 1786 at Selby, daughter of Matthew Woodall and Mary Elfold. Her page names the parents without citing the register set; the Selby registers would confirm — one for the Woodall pass. from Mum’s research

1806

Married Robert Harrison

20 July 1806

July 20 — Robert Harrison and Ann Woodall — Banns. [1806]— Marriage — Howden Minster (Bishop's Transcript, 1806)

Read at the image record Evidence

Confirmed against the original record, read at the image:

Marriage — Howden Minster (Bishop's Transcript, 1806) — Howden Bishop's Transcript year-list (Borthwick Institute; findmypast image GBPRS/YORKSHIRE/007588007/00170), read 4 July 2026. The fuller parish-register entry is Mum's transcription: "Robert Harrison of the parish of Bubwith and Ann Woodall of this parish… in the presence of R. Woodall and Thomas Harrison", both making their marks. read at the image
Marriage — Howden Minster (Bishop's Transcript, 1806) — Howden Bishop's Transcript year-list (Borthwick Institute; findmypast image GBPRS/YORKSHIRE/007588007/00170), read 4 July 2026. The fuller parish-register entry is Mum's transcription: witnesses R. Woodall — the bride's kin — and Thomas Harrison; both bride and groom made their marks. read at the image

Our research

The Woodalls of Selby and Howden

Open research · Selby, Howden & North Cave

Her parents' line. Matthew Woodall and Mary Elfold — Mum opened a whole Woodall section in her notebook (thirteen pages); their story is a pass of its own, waiting.
Her burial. August 1849, North Cave, "though she was living in Eight and Forty" — Mum's register reading; the original is on the Treasure House list with the rest of the North Cave run. The civil index for 1849 holds two Ann Harrisons in Howden district, so the register, not the index, is the anchor.
The witness of 1806. "R. Woodall" at her wedding — a father, brother or uncle; the Woodall pass will say which.