Beckwith family.
Surname Beckwith.
This is an ancient Yorkshire locational surname, which derives from the village of Beckwith, in the Nidd Valley, near Harrogate. There is a house in Sussex called Beckworth Hall, but here again the original owners were of Yorkshire origin. Beckwith village is one of the earliest on record, appearing in the Anglo Saxon Chronicles as early as 972 a.d. in its correct spelling of ‘Bec wudu’ translating as the beech wood. In the Domesday Book the recording is as Beckvi.
The first recorded spelling of the family name is shown to be that of Willelmus de Bekwyth, which was dated 1379.
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Details of Beckwith family from the Grewelthorpe, Kirkby Malzeard area. Taken from census returns and Parish Registers.
Updated March 2010.
ANN BECKWITH. Born C. 1814. Lived Kirkby Malzeard. Buried 2.1.1821. Ref. Kirkby Malzeard Par. Reg.
ANN BECKWITH. Born C. 1826. Kirkby Malzeard. Dau of Christopher. Married Thomas Jackson.*of Grewelthorpe. Marriage on 12.10.1850 at Kirkby Malzead church. Witnesses at wedding *William Beckwith and Jonah Jackson. Had 5 children in 1861. Wm. Betsy. Charles. John. & Fred B. [See Jackson page].
CHARLES BECKWITH. Born C.1786 Masham. Road Labourer in 1851 living Galphay. Married to Margaret of Paeley Bridge. [b.C1799].
CHARLES BECKWITH. Born C.1837 Kirkby Malzeard. Son of Charles & Margaret.
CHRISTOPHER BECKWITH. Born C.1789 Grewelthorpe.
In 1871 he was a widower living in an Alms House in Kirkby Malzeard. He had a daughter Ann [b.1826]. Died 1874.
EDWARD BECKWITH. A Linenweaver. Married on 18.4.1796 at Kirkby Malzeard to Elizabeth Hudson.
ELIZABETH BECKWITH. Bap.1790 Masham. Dau of William & Elizabeth of Masham.
HESTER BECKWITH. Buried 27.11.1718 Kirkby Malzeard. Dau of William of Grewelthorpe.
ISABEL BECKWITH. Bap. 24.1.1864 Kirkby Malzeard. Dau of Richard [Blacksmith] & Sarah of Galphay.
JANE BECKWITH. Buried 28.4.1728 Kirkby Malzeard. Lived Grewelthorpe.
JOHN BECKWITH. Lived Masham. Cohabited with *Elizabeth Gumdill.[nee Coldbeck]. [b.1769] See Coldbeck page.
MARGARET BECKWITH [Nee ?]. Born C. 1799 Pateley Bridge. Widow of Charles [1786] living in 1881 in Azerley with son Charles & Grand-dau Mary.
MARGARET BECKWITH. Born C. 1840 Kirkby Malzeard. Dau of Charles & Margaret.
MARGARET BECKWITH. Bap. 4.5.1862 Kirkby Malzeard. Dau of Thomas & Hannah of The Chequers, Mickley.
MARY BECKWITH. Born C.1860 Galphay. Dau of Thomas & Hannah of Masham. Possibly the grand-dau of Charles & Margaret. Living in Azerley 1881 with Margaret.
ROBERT BECKWITH. Bap. 1797 Masham. Son of William & Elizabeth of Masham.
SARAH ANN BECKWITH. Bap. 20.6.1864 Kirkby Malzeard dau of Thomas & Hannah of Chequers, Mickley.
THOMAS BECKWITH. Born C.1835 Kirkby Malzeard. Son of Charles & Margaret. Married Hannah of Masham. [b.C1834]
WILLIAM BECKWITH. Bap. 1792 Masham. Son of William & Elizabeth of Masham.
WILLIAM BECKWITH. Born C.1816. Buried Kirkby Malzeard 17.12.1817.