I'm trying to determine who the parents of Joseph BENTLEY (1814-1874) are. He was buried at Morley Wesleyan 13 Mar 1874.
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He married Ann ELLIS 1 Feb 1835 in Batley and had two children. She died in 1841. He married Mary WESTERMAN (1820-1851) in 1843, had two children and Esther BROWN (1825-1905) in 1853 and had six more children. In the 1851 census he is married to Mary with their daughter and son and his two children from his marriage with Ann. Lidian (Lydia Ann BENTLEY) is my ancestor.
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I've always thought that Joseph's parents were Jonathan BENTLEY (1787-1859) who married Mary RHODES 14 Feb 1806 in Batley. Certainly his marriages to both Mary WESTERMAN and Esther BROWN indicate Jonathan being his father.?
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What makes me wonder if this is wrong is not having dna matches with others further back when there should be a match. I must have made an error somewhere.
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There are many other families with parents Joseph BENTLEY and Martha FIELD but I'm the only one with Jonathan and Mary. I would appreciate some other eyes looking at this and telling me what they think.
