1760
Born
1760
Mum’s record Evidence
From Janet Brock’s research notebook.
William Verity
1760 – 1825
✓ Validated against records · 2026-07-09
William Verity is the oldest of this line the records reach — a cartwright and carpenter of Kettlewell, high in Upper Wharfedale. There, on the first of December 1790, he married Jane Calvert, a daughter of the same parish; both signed the register, with a John Calvert among the witnesses.
They raised their family in the dale — six children, five baptised at Kettlewell and the last a few miles off at Kirkby Malham, between 1791 and 1810: the sons John, William, Jacob and David, a daughter Mary, and Abraham, the shoemaker through whom this line runs on. William's own trade, the cartwright's, is the one Abraham would name for him forty years later, on the 1850 marriage — the surest proof of the link, read by Mum on the certificate and confirmed by us at the register.
He was buried at Baildon, down in Airedale, at the close of 1825, and Jane followed him two years later — “the wife of the late William Verity, Abode Idle,” the dale behind her now for the edge of Bradford. Above him the record does not yet certainly reach. He was born about 1760, and no baptism for him is indexed at Kettlewell on any service; the likeliest is a William Verity christened down the dale at Skipton in March 1759, a son of Jonathan and Mary Verity — but nothing yet ties that child to the Kettlewell cartwright, and the page claims no more than probable.
Composed from validated records · 2026-07-09
- Birth
- 1760
- Marriage
- December 1st 1790, Kettlewell to Jane Calvert
- Burial
- December 27th 1825 , Baildon aged 65 years
- Children
- John Verity baptised October 16th 1791, Kettlewell Mary Verity baptised March 2nd 1794, Kettlewell William Verity baptised November 27th 1796, Kettlewell Abraham Verity baptised November 18th 1798, Kettlewell Jacob Verity baptised March 13th 1802, Kettlewell David Verity baptised November 18th 1810, Kirkby Malham
- Occupation
- Cartwright / Carpenter
- 1790
- Marries Jane Calvert in Kettlewell William Verity of this parish, Carpenter and Jane Calvert of this parish, spinster, were married in this church by banns this first day of December1790, in the presence of Leonard Coates and John x Calvert Both William and Jane signed their names Jane was the daughter of Abraham Calvert
- 1825
- Death if William Verity aged 65 years
- 1827
- Burial "Jane the wife of the late William Verity, Abode Idle, November 16th 1827 in St. John the Evangelist, Baildon, aged 65 years" (Parish Record)
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Family
Marriage
Children
Life
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1790
Married Jane Calvert
1 December 1790
Jane Calvert of this parish, spinster, married William Verity, Carpenter, by banns, 1 December 1790, Kettlewell — witnesses Leonard Coates and John ✕ Calvert. Jane signed her name.— Marriage — William Verity, Kettlewell (1 December 1790)
William Verity of this parish, Carpenter, and Jane Calvert of this parish, spinster, were married in this church by banns this first day of December 1790, in the presence of Leonard Coates and John ✕ Calvert. — Both William and Jane signed their names. Jane was the daughter of Abraham Calvert.— Marriage — Jane Calvert, Kettlewell (1 December 1790)
William Verity, marriage 1 December 1790, Kettlewell — spouse Jane Calvert.— Marriage confirmed — FamilySearch (Kettlewell, 1790)
Confirmed in index record Evidence
Found in an index or transcript — the original page not yet read:
- Marriage — William Verity, Kettlewell (1 December 1790) — Kettlewell marriage register — Mum's reading (NYCRO image not re-read this pass); confirmed in the FamilySearch index (read 9 July 2026). Mum's wider research records Jane as a daughter of Abraham Calvert — not from the 1790 register (a pre-1837 marriage names only the witnesses), so a separate finding to re-confirm. from Mum’s research
- Marriage — Jane Calvert, Kettlewell (1 December 1790) — Kettlewell marriage register — Mum's reading (the register image, NYCRO, not re-read by us this pass; her transcript is the fuller record — the signatures, the witnesses, Jane's father). from Mum’s research
- Marriage confirmed — FamilySearch (Kettlewell, 1790) — England, Yorkshire, Parish Registers 1538–2016 and England Marriages 1538–1973 (FamilySearch), read 9 July 2026 — the marriage indexed at Kettlewell, 1 December 1790, and the family record links William Verity & Jane Calvert to their children John, Mary, William, Abraham, Jacob and David. Our index confirmation of the marriage Mum read. index entry — original not yet seen
1825
In 1825
1825
Death if William Verity aged 65 years— From Janet Brock’s research
Mum’s record Evidence
From Janet Brock’s research notebook.
1825
Buried at Baildon — a cartwright of the Dales
27 December 1825
William Verity — buried 27 December 1825, at Otley [Baildon chapelry] — born about 1760. (Mum's reading of the Baildon register gives his age as 65.)— Burial — Baildon, in the parish of Otley (27 December 1825)
Confirmed in index record Evidence
Found in an index or transcript — the original page not yet read:
- Burial — Baildon, in the parish of Otley (27 December 1825) — England, Yorkshire, Bishop's Transcripts 1547–1957 (Borthwick Institute), read 9 July 2026 — William Verity, burial 27 December 1825, Otley, born 1760. Baildon St John was a chapelry in the ancient parish of Otley, so the transcript files the burial under the mother parish; Mum read the register at Baildon itself, giving his age as 65. index entry — original not yet seen
1827
In 1827
1827
Burial "Jane the wife of the late William Verity, Abode Idle, November 16th 1827 in St. John the Evangelist, Baildon, aged 65 years" (Parish Record)— From Janet Brock’s research
Mum’s record Evidence
From Janet Brock’s research notebook.
Occupation
Cartwright / Carpenter— From Janet Brock’s research
Mum’s record Evidence
From Janet Brock’s research notebook.
Our research
The wall — William's own people
Research · Upper Wharfedale
William is the top of the Verity line: a cartwright of Kettlewell, married there in 1790, buried at Baildon in 1825 “aged 65.” His parents are not yet proven. The likeliest origin is a William Verity christened at Skipton on 18 March 1759, son of Jonathan and Mary Verity (the Borthwick Bishop's Transcript) — the nearest Verity baptism of the right date, in the Craven market town down the dale, and there is no Kettlewell baptism for a William of these years on any service. But nothing yet ties that Skipton child to the Kettlewell cartwright, so it stands as probable, not proven. To do: prove or break the Skipton link — a settlement, apprenticeship or will joining William the cartwright to Jonathan Verity of Skipton; read the Kettlewell parish-register images (NYCRO, offline — an archive visit) for the 1790 marriage leaf and the 1791–1802 baptisms; and take up Jane Calvert's own line, a daughter of Abraham Calvert of Kettlewell.