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Arthur Scholefield [1870-1936]
C. Scholefield [18??-18??]
Caleb Scholefield [16??-1717]
Frederic Jowett Scholefield [1848-1919]
George Scholefield [1867-1943]
Dr George Edward Scholefield [1856-1933]
Herbert Scholefield [1893-1918]
Isaiah Scholefield [17??-17??]
J. Scholefield [18??-19??]
Rev J. Scholefield [19??-19??]
James Scholefield [1838-1896]
John Scholefield [1747-1829]
John Scholefield [1784-1828]
Michael Scholefield [1829-1913]
Rev Nathaniel Scholefield [1752-1820]
Rev Professor James Scholefield [178?-18??]
Richard Scholefield [1???-1???]
Ruth Scholefield [1894-1927]
Sarah Jane Scholefield [1865-1929]
Walter Arthur Scholefield [1869-19??]
William Scholefield [17??-1838] 


Scholefield, Arthur
[1870-1936] Son of James Scholefield.

He was a cabinet maker [1891] / last landlord of the Wharf Inn, Sowerby Bridge [1897] / first landlord of the Wharf Hotel, Sowerby Bridge [1898-1904] / a dealer [1929].

In [Q1] 1897, he married Emma Rushworth [1870-1962] in Scarborough.


Emma was from Northowram
 

Living with them at the Wharf Hotel in 1901 were Arthur's mother Ann, sister Sarah Jane and brother George

Arthur died at 13 Castle Crescent, Scarborough [30th June 1936].

Probate records show that he left effects valued at £2,103 16/7d to his widow Emma.

Emma died in Scarborough

Scholefield, C.
[18??-18??] Woollen manufacturer at Greenup's Mill, Warley [1867]

Scholefield, Caleb
[16??-1717] Of Staups House, Shibden

Scholefield, Frederic Jowett
[1848-1919] JP.

Son of William Scholfield.

Born in Warley.

He was a clerk at oil cloth factory [1871], a tarpauling manufacturer [1875, 1891], an oil cloth manufacturer [1881, 1891, 1901, 1911], Chairman of the Sowerby Bridge Local Board [1887-1888], a County Councillor in the West Riding [1896], a member of Sowerby Bridge Urban District Council [1896, 1897, 1898, 1899, 1900, 1901], a member of Sowerby Bridge Public Library Committee [1897, 1898, 1899, 1900], president of the Sowerby Division Liberal Association [1896, 1906], a member of the executive council of the Sowerby Division Liberal Association [1903], vice-president of the Sowerby Division Liberal Association [1901], vice-president of the Bolton Brow Wesleyan Cricket Club [1896, 1897], and steward of the Sowerby Bridge Wesleyan Circuit [1899]

On 27th March 1896, as Chairman of the Sewage Committee, he cut the first sod at the ceremony to start the Sowerby Bridge Sewage Works.

In [Q1] 1873, he married Susannah Clay [1848-1899] in Halifax.


Susannah was born in Warley
 

Children:

  1. James William [1878] who died aged 2 months
  2. Edith Mary H [b 1881]
  3. Florence Elsie [b 1883] who married Ernest Benjamin Clay

The family lived at

  • Woodland Villa, Industrial Road, Warley, Sowerby Bridge [1881]
  • Rock Side, Matlock, Bakewell, Derbyshire (hydropathic spa?) [1891]
  • Ashleigh, Sowerby Bridge [1901, 1906, 1911]

He died 9th April 1919.

Members of the family were buried at Sowerby Bridge Cemetery

Probate records show that he left an estate valued at £23,873. Probate was granted to Ernest Benjamin Clay and John Herbert Scholefield (retired tarpaulin manufacturer) 

Scholefield, George
[1867-1943] Son of James Scholefield.

He was a telegraphist [1891] / a telegraphic clerk (railway) [1901] / landlord of the Clarence Hotel, Halifax [1907, 1911, 1917] / a gentleman [1929].

In 1901, he was living with his brother Arthur in Sowerby Bridge.

On 30th November 1910, he married Annie Roberts at St Paul's Church, King Cross.

George died at 19 Richmond Road, Birkdale, Southport [29th December 1943].

Probate records show that he left effects valued at £7,487 16/8d to the Yorkshire Penny Bank

Scholefield, Dr George Edward
[1856-1933] MBCM.

Son of William Scholfield

Born in Sowerby Bridge.

He was educated at Edinburgh university / a surgeon [1881, 1891].

In 1881, he married Sarah Roseline Dyer in Halifax.


Sarah Roseline was the daughter of William Dyer
 

They lived at

  • Wharf Street, Sowerby Bridge [1881]
  • Lancashire
  • The Braemar, West Southbourne, Bournemouth [1933]

Living with him [in 1881] were his widowed sister Eliza Jane Grubb [b 1846], niece Kathleen Grubb [b 1876] and Robert Simpson [b 1860] (surgeon's assistant) 

George Edward died in West Southbourne [29th June 1933].

Probate records show that he left effects valued at £3,702 0/7d.

Probate was granted to his widow Sarah Roseline.

Sarah Roseline died in Southport [19th September 1944].

Probate records show that she left effects valued at £22,703 7/6d.

Probate was granted to the Midland Bank

Scholefield, Herbert
[1893-1918] Son of Walter Arthur Scholefield.

Born in Halifax.

He was educated at Halifax Secondary School [until 1906] / a commercial clerk [1911] / employed at Shibden Head Brewery.

He sailed from Liverpool [24th November 1911] aboard the Victorian bound for St John, New Brunswick.

During World War I, he enlisted in Vancouver, Canada [August 1914], and served as a Corporal with the 3rd Field Ambulance Canadian Army Medical Corps.

He was invalided to the UK with heart trouble [July 1916], and served at the Canadian Convalescent Camp, Woodcote Park, Epsom.

He died of a heart attack in Manor War hospital [11th April 1918] (aged 25).

He was buried [15th April 1918] in Cardiff, where his parents lived.

He is remembered on the Memorial at Halifax Town Hall Books of Remembrance, on the Memorial at Christ Church, Pellon, and on the Memorial at Halifax Secondary School

Scholefield, Isaiah
[17??-17??] He was Constable of Northowram [1733]

Scholefield, J.
[18??-19??] Fish, game, fruit, poultry and oyster merchant at Broad Street, Halifax, and later at King Cross Street, Halifax [1900]

Scholefield, Rev J.
[19??-19??] He was Assistant Curate at St Matthew's, Northowram [1948]. He moved to Arthington in the Ripon Diocese.

He (possibly) returned to the district to become Curate at Hebden Bridge [1957] and Vicar of St George's Church, Sowerby [1958]

Scholefield, James
[1838-1896] He was a French polisher [1891].

On 22nd October 1864, he married Ann Wadsworth [1842-1907] at Halifax Parish Church.

Children:

  1. Sarah Jane
  2. George
  3. Arthur

The family lived at Hainsworth's Court, Halifax.

James died in Scarborough [1896].

Ann died at 51 Eastborough, Scarborough [12th May 1907].

Probate records show that she left effects valued at £338 11/10d to George;

Members of the family were buried at All Saints' Church, Dudwell

Scholefield, John
[1747-1829] He was Master of Heywood's School. He joined the Havercake Lads

Scholefield, John
[1784-1828] Or Schofield.

He was innkeeper at the Old Bridge Inn, Ripponden [1817, 1819, 1822].

On 10th December 1815, he married Hannah Platt [1777-1867] at Halifax Parish Church.


Hannah was born in Soyland
 

Children:

  1. Ruth
  2. John Hirstwood [1819-1856] who was a millwright [1841]

John died in 1828.

After his death, Hannah took over at the Old Bridge [1829, 1851].

Hannah died in Ripponden [19th March 1867] (aged 89).

Probate records show that she left effects valued at under £50. to daughter Ruth.

After her death, daughter Ruth took over at the Old Bridge [1867, 1874]

Members of the family were buried at St Bartholomew's Church, Ripponden

Scholefield, Michael
[1829-1913] Born in Halifax.

He was a woollen manufacturer (employer) [1871].

In 1856, he married Susan Crabtree [1832-1904] in Halifax.

Children:

  1. Arthur [b 1858]
  2. Henry [b 1861]
  3. Frances [b 1862]
  4. Walter [b 1864]
  5. Charles [b 1865]
  6. James E [b 1867]
  7. Mary L [b 1869]

The family lived at 2 Wharf House, Sowerby Bridge [1871].

In the 1870S, they moved to Lancashire. Michael and Susan died in Chorlton

Scholefield, Rev Nathaniel
[1752-1820] He was a student at Scott's Academy at Heckmondwike. He was the first Minister of Bridge End Congregational Church [1779]. He moved to Henley-on-Thames, where he was ordained [August 1786], and then to Cheshire.

He married Unknown.

Children:

  1. Sarah [1798-1862]
  2. Hannah, who was blind [d 1874]
  3. a daughter
  4. James

Scholefield, Rev Professor James
[178?-18??] Son of Rev Nathaniel Scholefield. He was born in Henley-on-Thames.

He was canon of Ely

Scholefield, Richard
[1???-1???] He lived at Giles House, Hove Edge

Scholefield, Ruth
[1894-1927] Halifax woman whose body was found in the boiler house of the Stafford Bowling Club alongside that of Clement Taylor

Scholefield, Sarah Jane
[1865-1929] Daughter of James Scholefield.

She never married.

She died at 19 Richmond Road, Birkdale, Southport [2nd October 1929].

Probate records show that she left effects valued at £2,263 18/2d.

Probate was granted to her brothers George and Arthur

Scholefield, Walter Arthur
[1869-19??] Born in Halifax.

He was a mercantile clerk (ironmongery) [1901] / a chartered accountant's clerk [1911].

In [Q1] 1892, he married Mabel Beatrice Marsden [1869-19??] in Halifax.


Mabel was born in Derbyshire
 

Children:

  1. Herbert Scholefield
  2. Winifred M. [b 1896]
  3. Arthur E. [b 1899]
  4. Phyllis M. [b 1901]

The family lived at

  • 27 Newstead Place, Halifax [1901]
  • 6 Plane Trees, Pellon [1911]
  • (possibly) Gibraltar Road, Halifax
  • Mona, Sully, Glamorgan, Wales [1918]

Scholefield, William
[17??-1838] He married Elizabeth [1798-1866].

Children:

  1. Anne [?] Bingley [b 1826] who married Joseph Spawforth [1819-1898]
  2. Helen [1831-1917] who married Ernest Hamerton
  3. Mary Elizabeth [b 1836] who married Joseph Hamerton
  4. James [b 1837]
The sisters Helen and Mary Elizabeth married 2 Hamerton brothers.

The family lived at Bull Cliffe [1859].

He was dead by 1841 when the Census showed Elizabeth living in Sandal Magna and of independent means

 

Scholefield surname
A variant of the surname Schofield

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There are over 20 entries on the Calderdale Companion for people with the surname Scholefield, as discussed in this SideTrack. This count does not include other forms of the surname.

Unattached BMDs for Scholefield:


Marriage 1900; Deaths 1811, 1899
 




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