Mary Firth 1796
Mary Firth married George Patterson at High Hoyland 14 Feb 1814 (Mormon Records). In 1841 they were living at Townend, Clayton, he as a linen weaver in West Yorkshire. In the High Hoyland christenings of children George and Sarah Ann(e) (Mormon Records) Patterson is spelled with one t. The choice of High Hoyland for the marriage and christenings suggests that this was where Mary's parents lived.
Firth surname around High Hoyland: see this site. This site. This site. This site.
Possible parents of Mary are Benjamin Firth and Elizabeth ?, who married about 1785 (info from former website "Firths and Friths of Northern England") and who lived in High Hoyland.
Little is known of Mary Firth. The surname Firth is localised in W Yorkshire, centering on Barnsley.
She was recorded In the 1841 census as living at Townend, Clayton, West Yorkshire, in the following household -
George Patterson 50 Linen Weaver
Mary Patterson 45
William Patterson 25 Woolcomber
John Patterson 20 Woolcomber
Martha Patterson 20, Fancy Weaver
George Patterson 15 Fancy Weaver
Sarah Ann Patterson 12 Worsted Spinner - note, this census (the first to document the extent of child labour) was important in reducing the use of children, at least ones as young as Sarah and her 10-year-old brother Isaac in the textile factories.
Isaac Patterson 10 Worsted spinner
George and Mary had seven recorded children:
William 1815, the great-grandfather of George Ernest Patterson 1901-1966.
John 1821
Martha 1821
George 1825
Sarah Ann(e) 1829
Isaac 1831
Harriet 1835
The Yorkshire BMD index records two deaths of persons named Mary Patterson between 1841 and 1881, one for Leeds West in 1854 and one for Leeds SE in 1863.