William Eccleston

Events

Date of Birth: unknown.

Place of Birth: unknown.

Date of Burial: 5 October 1699.

Place of Burial: Prescot, Lancashire.

The burial is recorded in the parish register. It is not certain that it is of the William of this page.

Relationships

Father: unknown.

Mother: unknown.

Spouse: Alice.

I am making this assumption based on the parish register entries below following William's death. The abodes are all Prescot after 1696 (Alice is living in Prescot, while the other Eccleston families in the Prescot registers are living in Parr, Sutton, or Eccleston.)

Children:

(Complete source citations for facts about the children on this page are currently outside of the scope of this project.)

Mary Eccleston

Ellen Eccleston (baptized 11 February 1695/9 in Prescot, Lancashire). Ellen possibly had a child, Easter, outside of marriage in 1719 in Prescot.

Thomas Eccleston (baptized 25 March 1698 in Prescot - buried 24 April 1708 in Prescot)

John Eccleston (baptized 11 April 1700 in Prescot) married (1) Joanah; married (2) Margaret 7 October 1730 in Warrington, Lancashire.

Evidence

from the Prescot (St Mary the Virgin) parish register (as abstracted by Lancashire Online Parish Clerks):

16 February 1695/6

Baptism: Ellen daughter of William Eccleston of Whiston

25 March 1698

Baptism: Thomas son of William Eccleston of Prescott

5 October 1699

Burial: William Eccleston of Prescott

11 April 1700

Baptism: John son of William Eccleston of Prescott.

23 December 1702

Baptism: Jane daughter of Alice Eccleston of Prescott

28 March 1703

Burial: Jane daughter of Alice Eccleston of Prescott

24 April 1708

Burial: Thomas son of Alice Eccleston of Prescott

16 August 1719

Baptism: Easter daughter of Ellin Eccleston of Prescot, spurious

from the Lancashire Quarter Session Records and Petitions (Wigan, Michaelmas 1708):

16. Prescot and Whiston -- settlement of Alice Eccleston, widow, and Mary, Ellen and John her children.

References

Lancashire Online Parish Clerks.