IGI: JOSEPH BATESON Spouse: GRACE WALKER Marriage: 26 JUN 1799 Saint Peter, Leeds
St. Peter's Leeds C1838. This watercolour sketch by John N. Rhodes (1809 - 1842) shows the Nave of Leeds Parish Church with the Altar in the distance. In the foreground the font can be seen standing on a raised dias. It is octagonal in shape and a padlock is carved on each face symbolising baptism as being the key to Christianity. This view of the Church shows the haphazard way the galleries had been erected, almost cutting through the fourteenth century clustered columns. There were far too many pews and pens of varying shapes and sizes. The galleries were accessed by dark stairways and the Chancel arch against which the organ of 1714 was positioned, was almost walled up. The watercolour records the old Church before the re-building which commenced in 1838. The artist was a patron at this time. (more small images & descriptions)
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- Joseph Bateson Spouse: Isabella Bateson Marriage: 15 DEC 1802 Leeds Saint Peter
Death: 27 MAY 1851 Beeston, Leeds, Burial: 30 MAY 1851 Wortley, Leeds, - Samuel BATESON Birth: 1804 Christening: 23 May 1804 Armley, Leeds
- Mary Ann BATESON Birth: 1807 Christening: 9 Jul 1807 Armley, Leeds
- Isabella BATESON Birth: 1807 Christening: 9 Jul 1807 Armley, Leeds
- Joseph BATESON Birth: 1810 Christening: 1 Feb 1810 Armley, Leeds
- Eliza BATESON Birth: 1812 Christening: 2 Jul 1812 Armley, Leeds
- Sarah BATESON Birth: 1813 Christening: 30 Sep 1813 Wortley By Leeds
- Matthew BATESON; Birth: 1815 Christening: 12 Oct 1815 ; Wortley By Leeds
- Spouse: Ann KIRLEW Marriage: 11 Apr 1844 Parish Church, Leeds - CHARLOTTE AUGUSTA BATESON Christening: 01 FEB 1818 Wortley By Leeds
- Robert BATESON Birth: 1829 Christening: 22 Jan 1829 Wortley By Leeds,
Leeds
parents of above: Father: Joseph BATESON Mother: Isabella
1841 Census
Joseph Bateson abt 1781 Yorkshire, England Leeds Town Yorkshire
Isabella Bateson abt 1786 Yorkshire, England Leeds
Town Yorkshire
Eliza Bateson abt 1816 Yorkshire, England Leeds Town Yorkshire
Matthew Bateson abt 1821 Yorkshire, England Leeds Town Yorkshire
Sarah Bateson abt 1821 Yorkshire, England Leeds Town Yorkshire
John Bateson abt 1771 Yorkshire, England Leeds Town Yorkshire
1845
Death Isabella Bateson June 1845 Leeds 23 347
Death certificate (right)
1845 Death in the sub-district of West Leeds in the County of York
Twenty fourth of May 1845, 4 Marbro Street
Isabella Bateson, female, 65 years, wife of Joseph Bateson gentelman
Cause of death --
Eliza Bateson, present at the death, 4 Marbro Street, Twenty eighth of
May 1845. Edward Sutey? registrar
1851 Census
Civil parish: Beeston ; County/Island: Yorkshire
Address: Town Hill
Joseph Bateson abt 1811 Wortley, Yorkshire, England Head Beeston Yorkshire
Butcher
Joseph Bateson abt 1778 Wortley, Yorkshire, England Father Beeston Yorkshire
retired cloth manufacturer
1851
death Joseph Bateson June 1851 Hunslet 23 223
Death certificate (right)
1851 death in the sub-district of Holbeck in the County of York
Twenty seventh May 1851, Beeston
Joseph Bateson, male, 73 years, Cloth manufacturer
Bronchitis Certified
W. Richardson present at the death, Beeston, twenty eighth May 1851 J.R.
Maep? registrar.
notes from James:
I have been looking at the newspapers and in particular the Leeds Mercury.
As a result I am now fairly sure that the Joseph Bateson, cloth
manufacturer, father of my great great great grandmother Charlotte Augusta
Bateson and husband of Isabella Bateson is not the son of Joseph Bateson but
of John B and Hannah Upton - as igi manages to discover from his death/
burial record -- although there seems to be no christening record... See
Mike's notes to http://www.oswild.org/hobnob/family/john/john-bateson2.html
Basically it seems clear that Joseph went into partnership with his elder
brother John - they appear together in 1841 census with John as
'Cloth-Manufacturer' and Joseph as 'Book Keeper'.
And John's obituary describes his death [28/3/1850] as: 'at Leeds, aged 84,
Mr JB, late of the firm of J and J Bateson, of Wortley'.
From the trial it seems there were four Bateson brothers in the cloth
business in Wortley in the early 19th cent. Charlotte Augusta's father
Joseph was in business with his elder brother John, and the other two
brothers James and Matthew were also in business together. James was the
only one who emerged from the stock market crash of 1825 resonably
successfully. He lived at Highfield House with his first wife Ann/ Nancy
Lupton and then with his second wife Hannah Walker. Hannah was living at
one of the houses on the property -- Nan Tan - in 1861 with a single domestic
servant.
From the 1827 court-case it seems John and Joseph had business interests as
far afield as South america - typical of the [Stockmarket] Panic of 1825 -
which led to them being made bankrupt in 1827. In 1815 all four brothers
Matthew, James and Messrs John and Joseph (the latter collectively), gave
money for the relief of soldiers wounded at Waterloo, about £5 each.
Matthew died in 1822 leaving £50 - for the Leeds General Infirmary.
Joseph advertized to rent out his house:
Leeds Mercury 15/2/1823
Lot 8. 'Also part of the House lately occupied by Mr Matthew Bateson of
Wortley deceased, consisting of Four rooms on the Ground floor, a spacious
garden in front, with or without a Warehouse, Stable, and Land near the
Premises, which renders it a desirable Situation for a Country Residence,
being within Two Miles of Leeds.'
According to the long account of the trial reported in The Leeds Mercury
Saturday, August 18, 1827: 'Down to the year 1825, the Batesons were men of
substance and of high character for stability and integrity'
But then Joseph got into business with an allegedly dodgy character, George Wilkinson
'a smart London tradesman, who came down to Leeds, got introduced to Joseph
Bateson, a simple, rustic, honest Yorkshire manufacturer, and persuaded him
that he would make the fortune of his son Samuel. He pretended to be worth£7000, though, according to his own statement this day, he was only worth
£2000, and, acccording to every probability, he was not worth 2,000 pence.
Poor Joseph was taken in...' It all went horribly wrong after the Panic of
1825 and Joseph and John who seems to have been quite oblivious to what was
going on -- were made bankrupt. The question at issue in the trial was
whether, knowing they were going bankrupt, they cheated their creditors by
removing property and making sure their relatives were paid first,
principally James B [of Highfield House alias Belle Vue and Upper Mill, later 'Batesons
Mill'] to whom they owed a lot of money and the sisters of James Lister,
Joseph's nephew. Anyway the newspaper report of the trial is very vivid -
it includes references to Joseph being arrested several times presumably by
creditors. From his cross-examination: 'Had never been arrested before last
June or July. Can't swear how often he was arrested. Can't swear he was
not arrested ten or seventeen times. Thinks not seventeen times.'
He must have got back on his feet. As I mentioned Joseph was living with John as his
bookkeeper in 1841 and on the death certificate of his wife Isabella in 1845
at 65 years, he is described as a 'gentleman'. In the announcement of the
marriage of his daughter Eliza to Samuel Green Beverley he is Esq. On his own death certificate he is described as 'cloth manufacturer'.