James Farrar married Elizabeth Hodgson in Huddersfield on the 17th April 1805. They had at least three sons who were all baptised at Square Chapel – Thomas, Abraham and John. They also had two daughters - Eliza and Rebecca. John Hodgson Farrar died in infancy, aged 22 weeks. Thomas, Abraham, Rebecca and Eliza all survived until adulthood. He died fairly young, aged 48 in 1830. His children were all young adults when he died.

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Their eldest son Thomas married twice, both times to women called Sarah. Thomas and his first wife Sarah had a child Cecelia Eliza, who was born at the beginning of 1838 in London. It is not clear why she was born in London or whether Thomas and Sarah were living there or visiting, but just a few months later they were back in Halifax and sadly Sarah had died aged 33 years.  Following Sarah’s death Thomas and Cecelia lived with his mother Elizabeth, along with his two sisters Eliza and Rebecca at Horton Street. 

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Elizabeth continued to live with her son Thomas, likely helping to care for her granddaughter until her death in 1844.

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Thomas re-married in 1847 to another Sarah. Sarah Ann Hartley/ Holroyd was a widow. Holroyd was her first husband’s name.  Thomas’s occupation was cashier. They had a child together named Mary. In 1851 Thomas and Sarah are living at St James’s Road with Mary who is aged 2 and Cecelia who is aged 13, and her occupation is recorded as a house servant. Thomas is a salesman in a stuff manufacturing warehouse. Just a couple of years later Cecelia died, aged 15. The family appear to have been highly numerate. In 1861 Thomas was lodging, along with his brother Abraham at Square. They are both book-keepers. Cecelia’s half sister Mary moved to Salford as a young woman and also became a book-keeper. Thomas is buried along with several of his siblings at Lister Lane Cemetery

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Researched by Marie Mitchell

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