William Maw was a blacksmith, at least in his later years.
Events
Date of Baptism: 11 October 1696.
Place of Baptism: Pickering, Yorkshire.
See the Commentary section.
Date of Burial: 1766.
Place of Burial: Thornton Dale, Yorkshire.
The date and place are given in the bishop’s transcripts and by Jeffery (p. 118). It is not in the parish register.
Relationships
Father: John Maw.
See the Commentary section.
Mother: unknown.
Spouse: Ann Clarke. Married 15 April 1729 in Wilton, Yorkshire.
The marriage is given in the Ellerburn parish register.
Children:
Ann Maw (born 9 August 1732, baptized September 1732 in Ellerburn, Yorkshire - buried 7 March 1735/6 in Ellerburn)
William Maw (born 25 December 1734, baptized 23 January 1734/5 in Ellerburn - buried 18 January 1811) married Ann Maw 5 February 1765 in Thornton Dale, Yorkshire.
John Maw (baptized 2 February 1736/37 in Lockton, Yorkshire - buried 13 May 1822 in Ellerburn)
(His burial is given in the bishop's transcripts, age at death 86.)
Hannah Maw (baptized 14 February 1738 in Lockton)
Alice Maw (baptized 17 December 1740 in Lockton)
Jacob Maw (baptized 21 December 1744 in Lockton)
Robert Maw (baptized 14 December 1746 in Lockton - 10 May 1758 in Lockton)
Evidence
from the parish register of Pickering, Yorkshire
[1696]
Gulielmus Fil Johannes Mawe de Midleton 8ber 11
from the Ellerburn parish register:
[1729] William Maw and Anne Clark Mar at Wilton April 15.
[1735] Anne Daughter William Maw bur March 7
from the bishop's transcripts:
Ellerburn:
Anne Dr of Wm Maw born Augst 9(?) bapt Sep(?) [1732]
William Son of William Maw of Wilton born Decr 25 & bapt Jany 23 [1734/35]
Lockton (in Middleton):
John son of Wm Maw Bap.t Feb. the 2d [1736/37]
Hannah daughter of Wm Maw Baptized Feb: the 14th [1738/39]
Alice the Daughter of Wm Maw baptized Decb. the 17.th [1740]
from the Lockton (in Middleton) parish register:
Hannah the Daughter William Maw February [1738]
Jacob the Son of William Maw of Lockton December the 21st [1744]
Robert Son of William Maw baptized Decemb.r 14 [1746]
Robert Son of William Maw May 10.th [Burials, 1758]
Commentary
William’s parentage
I give this baptism and father for William based on these considerations:
(1) I have ruled out all the other William Maws baptized in the period in the area (See some of these below) except for a William Maw baptized 12 June 1687 in Pickering, father William Maw. A later baptism seems more likely for someone whose wife was born in 1705.
(2) The father in the 1696 baptism, John Maw, appears to have had land in Lockton. The 1746 (proved 1749) will of John Maw of Spaunton leaves land in Lockton to three of his children. This John Maw married Grace Milner in Middleton in Pickering in 1701 and had a son, Christopher, baptized and buried there in 1707 and another son, John, baptized there in 1709. This John was one of the children left land in Lockton. Another of the children was a daughter, Mary, baptized in Pickering in 1705 (Her father was of Newton, which is near Lockton.) The third child left land was a daughter, Elizabeth, whose baptism has not turned up, but who married in 1726. My current assumption is that John Maw had at least three other children before marrying Grace: John, baptized in Pickering in 1694 (father of Middleton), William baptized in Pickering in 1696 (father of Middleton), and Alice baptized in Middleton in 1700 and buried in Pickering in 1701. My assumption is that William was not mentioned in the will as he already had received land in Lockton. (Lockton was in the parish of Middleton.)
Clearly this is not an airtight case, but it makes more sense than anything else I can come up with.
Mistaken parentages
William was not the son of Robert Maw and Mary Smith baptized in Thornton Dale in 1696. That William was a Quaker innkeeper who left a 1753 will. He was the uncle “our” William’s daughter-in-law Ann Maw.
William was not the son of James Maw and Magdalen Hassell baptized in Ellerburn in 1700. That William moved to Sutton upon Derwent. (He is mentioned in his uncle’s will.)
William was not the son of Roger Maw and Eleanor Hart baptized in Middleton in 1708. That William was buried in Middleton in 1712.
References
Lockton chapelry (in the parish of Middleton), registers. Yorkshire parish registers. Digital images on Findmypast.co.uk accessed 24 February 2018.
Thornton Dale, Yorkshire (Bishop’s Transcripts); FHL microfilm 990864, item 2 (Family History Library, Salt Lake City, Utah).
Thornton Dale, Yorkshire, parish registers. Digital images on Findmypast.co.uk accessed 24 February 2018.
Yorkshire bishop's transcripts, [digital images available for a fee on Findmypast.co.uk].
Jeffery, Reginald W. Thornton-le-Dale: Being the History of the People of Thornton, Ellerburn-cum-Farmanby, Roxby, Dalby, and Thornton Marishes from the earliest times to the present day. (Wakefield:The West Yorkshire Printing Co. Limited, 1931)