Reverend Joseph Charnock 1766 to 1847

[rachelagourakis]

I am trying to locate an image of my ancestor the Reverend Joseph Charnock who was vicar at Heptonstall Church (West Yorkshire) from 1803 to 1847 - I understand there is a portait of him hanging in the vestry? Is anyone able to help me?

Rachel

[Merry]

In Pigot's directory of 1834 he is named as the master of Heptonstall Grammar School (Genuki http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/YKS/WRY/Halifax/Halifax34.html) . This is now a museum so I wouldn't be surprised if they have access to a picture of him:

Grammar School Museum/ Heptonstall Museum
Church Yard Bottom
Heptonstall
HX7 7LY


01422 843738
[email protected]

[rachelagourakis]

Hi, we did actually visit the museum last year but they didn't have a picture displayed. I will actually contact them though, as they may have a picture not displayed!!

I have also tried contacting the current vicar - but no luck to date!!

Thanks for the idea

Rachel

[Merry]

Rachel, which church vestry is the picture in?

[rachelagourakis]

St Thomas Heptonstall - the one near the museum. There is the ruin of the old church next to the new one that was built around 1847. I visited the area last year, but it was before i managed to prove that I was related to Joseph Charnock. I obtained his will in the end, which mentions my great great grandfather Robert Bates Sugden as benefiting from his estate! Robert Bates was his grandson through his daughter Martha Charnock!

[rachelagourakis]

Attached is taken from a pamphlet that my aunt gave me, next to Joseph Charnock is written very faintly in pencil a tree showing how my grandmother believed we were related to him - it's clearer on the original!

My grandmother also believed that Charlotte Bronte based the character of the evil vicar in Jane Eyre on Joseph Charnock, although I understand scholars believe that to be someone else!!!!

[Merry]

lol Rachel!

Have you tried contacting the Hebden Bridge History Society? They might well be willing to check out the painting.

http://www.hebdenbridgehistory.org.uk/

[rachelagourakis]

I have emailed loads of people and lost track now!!

Thought someone might be interested in the publication I have from 1947 about the church and might be interested in an exchange of information!

I'll keep going and I will try your suggestion, although I suspect I may have already contacted them!

Thanks for your help!

[ElizabethHerts]

Rachel - look at this!

http://www.hebdenbridgehistory.org.uk/archive/downloads/deeds-wills-legal-documents.pdf

page 1
DD/13 Two letters from Joseph Charnock, Heptonstall, to J.E. Norris Halifax
re termination of a tenancy by a Mrs Turner.

[rachelagourakis]

I think they hold quite a few documents re Joseph Charnock at the West Yorkshire Archive library, that's where I got the copy of his will from!