Spence Family

SPENCE. Family request.
Peter Cockerill would like information about Thomas Spence, Shoemaker of Grewelthorpe from 1841 to 1881.
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The following information is taken from census records.
Last updated July 2008.


AMELIA SPENCE. Born C 1871 Sowerby. Dau of William & Sarah.
ANNIE SPENCE. Born C.1873 Ripon. Dau of Thomas & Harriett. Teacher in Ripon 1891.
BESSY [ELIZABETH] SPENCE. Born C. 1816 Grewelthorpe. Widow & laundress in 1891 living in Kirkby Malzeard.
CHRISTOPHER SPENCE. Born 1817 Grewelthorpe. Husband of Mary Ann of Hull. Servant to General Cecil Wray Dalton. of The Hutts, Grewelthorpe. in 1871.
CHRISTOPHER SPENCE. Born C 1860 Notts. Son of Christopher & Mary Ann. Living Grewelthorpe 1871.
CLAUD O. SPENCE. Born C.1869 Ripon. Dau of John & Sarah.
CYRIL C. SPENCE. Born C. 1875 Ripon. Son of John & Sarah.
DAVID RALPH SPENCE. Born C 1865 Sowerby. Son of William & Sarah of Sowerby.
EDMUND SPENCE. Born C. 1872 Ripon. Son of John & Sarah.
ELIZA SPENCE. Born C. 1859 Ripon. Dau of James & Mary Dorothy. Living in Ripon 1871.
ELIZA SPENCE. Born C. 1862 Bilton Harrogate. Wife of John the plumber.
ELIZABETH SPENCE. Born 1816. see Bessy.
GEORGE SPENCE. Born C. 1854 Grewelthorpe. servant at Shaw’s Farm Masham in 1891.
HANNAH SPENCE. Born C1834. Dishforth. Wife of John. Schoolmistress at Marton le Moor in 1881.
HAROLD SPENCE. Born C 1898 Bilton Harrogate. Son of John & Eliza.
HARRIETT SPENCE. Born C. 1841 Ripon. Wife of Thomas the joiner.
HARRIETT SPENCE. Born C.1877 Ripon. Dau of Thomas & Harriett.
JAMES SPENCE. Born C1813 Grewelthorpe. Husband of Mary Dorothy of Darlington. A cooper. Living Ripon 1871.
JANE SPENCE. Born 1810 Kirkby Malzeard. Died 1850 Dallowgill.
JENNY MAUD SPENCE. Born C1876 Dallowgill. Dau of Matson & Jan Elizabeth.
JOHN SPENCE. Born C. 1835 Grewelthorpe. Farm Lab. Husband of Hannah of Dishforth. Living Marton le Moor 1881.
JOHN SPENCE. Born C.1839 Grewelthorpe. Timber Merchant. Husband of Sarah of Ripon. Living Ripon 1881.
JOHN SPENCE. Born C. 1859 Grewelthorpe. Husband of Eliza of Bilton. Plumber & Painter in New Park, Bilton, Harrogate in 1891/1901
JOSEPH SPENCE. Born C 1804 Grewelthorpe. Husband of Elizabeth [Bessy] of Sutton. Living Kirkby Malzeard 1871
LUCY SPENCE. Born C 1857 Notts. Dau of Christopher & Mary Ann. Living Grewelthorpe 1871.
MARGRET SPENCE. Born C.1880 Bilton, Harrogate. Niece of John the plumber.
MARK SPENCE. Born C 1856 Ripon. Son of James & Mary Dorothy. A cooper like his Father.
MARY DOROTHY SPENCE. Born C 1820 Darlington. Wife of James the cooper. Living Ripon 1871.
MARY ANN SPENCE. Born C1823 Hull. Wife of Christopher servant at The HUtts, Grewelthorpe.
MARY SPENCE. Born 1859 Pateley Bridge.
MARY SPENCE. Born C 1867 Sowerby. Dau of William & Sarah.
MARY SPENCE. Born 1875 Ripon. Dau of Thomas & Harriett. Drapers apprentice in Ripon in 1891.
MATSON SPENCE. Born C1851 Studley. Husband of Jan Elizabeth of Dallowgill. Cattle dealer. Living Grewelthorpe 1881.
RICHARD SPENCE. Born C1852 Kirkby Malzeard. Son of Bessy.
Living K.Malzeard, unmarried. Classed as an imbicile in 1871 and a labourer in 1891.
SARAH SPENCE. Born C. 1835 Ripon. Wife of John the timber merchant.
SARAH E. SPENCE. Born C. 1865 Ripon. Dau of John & Sarah.
SARAH ELLEN SPENCE. Born C.1877 Dallowgill. Dau of Matson & Jan Elizabeth.
STEPHEN HAROLD SPENCE. Born C. 1880 Grewelthorpe. Son of Matson & Jan Elizabeth.
THOMAS SPENCE. Born C.1843 Grewelthorpe. Husband of Harriett. Joiner & Cabinet maker in Ripon 1891.
THOMAS SPENCE. Born C 1855 Notts. Son of Christopher & Mary Ann. Living Grewelthorpe 1871.
THOMAS H.SPENCE. Born C. 1871. Ripon. Son of Thomas & Harriett. A cooper living Ripon 1891.
WILLIAM SPENCE. Born C. 1808 Grewelthorpe. Widower living Pickhill in 1891.
WILLIAM SPENCE. Born C 1841 Grewelthorpe. Husband of Sarah of Sowerby. A grocer’s porter in Sowerby in 1871.
WILLIAM SPENCE. Born C. 1869 Thirsk. Son of William & Sarah of Sowerby.