Marriage of Jeremiah Yewdale and Mary Adcock
4 May 1732


Whereas Jeremiah Yewdale of Thornton in the Pish [Parish] of Bradforth and County of York Broadclother and Mary Adcock of [Idle] In the Parish of Calverley and County Aforesd. Having [declared] their Intentions of Takeing [sic] Each other in Marriage at Several publick [meetings] of the people called Quakers unto which they do Respectively [belong] haveing [sic] Consent of Parents and Relations concernd and upon Enquiry Appear Clear from all others their proceedings therein After a deliberate consideration thereof was allowed of by the said Meeting.

Now these are to Certify all whome it many concern that for the [full] accomplishing their Said Intentions this fourth day of the Third Month conmmonly called May In the Year of Our Lord According to the English Account. one Thousand seven-hundred and Thirty Two. They the said Jeremiah Yewdale And Mary Adcock appeared in a Publick Meeting of the afore:sd. people and others Assembled together at their publick Meeting house In Rawden in the parish of Guiseley and County Aforesd. he the Said Jeremiah Yewdale According to the good and Aintient [sic] Example of the holy Men of God [Recorded] in the scriptures of Truth Taking the Said Mary Adcock by the hand declared openly as follows (viz) In the fear of the Lord and in the presence of this Assembly I Take this my Friend Mary Adcock to be my Wife Promising through the Lords Assistance to be Unto her A Loving and A faithfull Husband untill it Pleas [sic] the Lord to Separate us by Death or Words to this Effect

And then and there in the sd. Assembly the Said Mary Adcock having the Said Jeremiah Yewdale by the hand did in like manner declare as fol?? (viz) Friends In the fear of the Lord in the presence of This Assembly I Take this my Friend Jeremiah Yewdale to be my Husband promising Through the Lords Assistance to be to him A Loving and an Obedient Wife Untill it pleas [sic] the Lord to Separate us by death or Words to this Effect.

And the Said Jeremiah Yewdale and Mary Adcock (now According to the Custam??? [Ink Blot] Marriage Mary Yewdale) as a further Confirmation and for the Ratifying of the said Marriage have allso hereunto Subscribed their names the day and Year aforesaid

Jeremiah Yewdale
Mary Yewdale

And we whose names are here unto subscribed Being present among others at the Solemnizing of the sd Marriage and Subscription as aforesaid allso As Wittnesses here unto set our names The day and Year above Written

James Ashald?
John Blessard
John Grimshaw
Abr?. Grimshaw
Abra: Milner Junr.

Samuel Waille
John Cowgill
Martin Dawson
John Nowlle?
John Burnley?
Samuell Dawson
John Marshall
Jonathan Grimshaw
Jeremiah Walley senior?
John Whalley
Jeremiah Whalley

Mary Sandale
Mary Dewhurst
Elizabeth Grimshaw
Alice Croardil
Elen Sandall
Mary Cummin
Mary Cooper
Mary Loach?
Hannah Dawson
Susannah Blessard
Eliz? Butterfield
Sarah Marshall

Thos. Yewdale [Jeremiah's Father]
Grace Yewdale [Jeremiah's Mother]
John Adcock
Jonas Adcock
Thomas Yewdale Jnr. [Jeremiah's Brother]
Benj. Sandall
Thomas Dewhurst
Elinor? Yewdale [Jeremiah's Sister]


Marriage Place: Rawdon, Yorkshire, England
Meeting: Monthly Meeting of Knaresborough
Source: The National Archives; Class: RG 6; Piece: 1320
Source: Ancestry.com. England & Wales, Quaker Birth, Marriage, and Death Registers, 1578-1837

Also other shorter versions in piece numbers 1091, 1342 and 1502