Harriet BAILIFF (BAILEY)

Born:   7th April 1838, Tickhill, Yorkshire
 
Father: John BAILIFF (BAILEY)
Mother: Amy (Emma) SPENCER
 
Christened:   20th May 1838, Tickhill, Yorkshire
 
Married: Isaac Robert WHITE, 28th September 1868, Leeds, Yorkshire
 
Children: Emily WHITE, born 1870
Eleanor WHITE, born 1872
Frances Clara WHITE, born c. 1880
 
Died: 1926, Hemsworth registration district, Yorkshire
 

Harriet Bailiff, who married Isaac Robert White in Leeds in 1868, was almost certainly the sister of Isaac's first wife Elizabeth. Harriet gave her father's name as Robert on their marriage certificate, while Elizabeth's father was John Bailiff. However both Harriet and Elizabeth are known from census returns to have been born in Tickhill, Yorkshire. In the 1841 census there is a Harriet of the right age living in Tickhill with father John, and the same family appears in Wroot in the 1851 census. It is likely that Harriet gave false information at the time of her marriage because between 1835 and 1907 it was illegal to marry one's deceased wife's sister. (Isaac's age is also given as 33 rather than 43 on the certificate.) This may also be the reason that Isaac and Harriet were married in Leeds rather than Wroot, and why they subsequently moved to the Wath-upon-Dearne area.

Sources:

  1. Birth certificate for Harriet Bailiff.
  2. Marriage certificate for Isaac Robert White and Harriet Bailiff.
  3. 1841 census for Tickhill.
  4. 1851 census for Wroot.
  5. 1861 census for Doncaster.
  6. 1871 census for Stanley, Wakefield.
  7. 1881 census for Brampton Bierlow.
  8. 1891 census for Brampton Bierlow.
  9. 1901 census for Barnsley.
  10. 1911 census for Hemsworth.
  11. FreeBMD.