13. PETTY of Kildwick

Riley Tree

WILLIAM PETTY and LUCIE (13)

 

WILLIAM PETTY. There are multiple instances of the Petty surname among Jack Priestley’s ancestors in the Skipton area. This is because there were three separate lines of this surname, one originating in Storiths, one in Embsay and a third in Kildwick.

Isabell Pettie married Thomas Catterson in Skipton in 1605. Both were then of that parish. She may have been born in Skipton before the start of the registers, but there is plausible baptism for her in Kildwick, four miles south.

Baptisms. Kildwick.
1586 Jul 25  Isabella Petty filia Willimi Petty et Lucia

There is no evidence of this Isabell dying young and the most convincing marriage for her is the one to Thomas Catterson.

 The Kildwick registers begin in 1572, too late to find the baptism of either William or Lucie, if they were born there.

 

LUCIE. No marriage has been found for William and Lucie. Isabell appears to be their eldest child, so if they married in Kildwick, it should appear in the registers shortly before 1586. The wedding probably took place in another parish whose early registers have not survived.

Since we do not have a record of their marriage, we do not know Lucie’s maiden name, or the parish she came from.

We have the Kildwick registers from 1572, and Isabella’s baptism is the first record of the Petty surname, so they may have been relative newcomers to the parish.

 

Kildwick is a village in the Craven district of North Yorkshire. It stands at the point where the Keighley-Skipton road crosses the River Aire.

Extensions to St Andrew’s in the 15^th and 16^th centuries resulted in a church so long that it was known as the “The Lang Church of Craven”.

 

Isabell’s baptism is followed by that of a brother:

1590 May 28  Franciscus Pettie filius Willimi et Lucia uxis.

 

Also in 1590 there was a baptism for a daughter of John Pettie and his wife Helen. John may be William’s  brother.

 

On 25 Apr 1615 we have the baptism of Jana Coate, daughter of Gulielmus Pettie and Alicia Coate. This looks as though William has fathered a child out of wedlock.

 

William and Lucie ended their lives in Kildwick.

Burials. St Andrew, Kildwick.
1621 Feb 25  Lucie Pettie  Brad
1635 Sep 24  Gulielmus Pettie Senex de Bradley

Bradley is a hamlet just outside Kildwick.