Early Residents of Halifax

The following names are taken from H Ling Roth's book "The Yorkshire Coiners 1767-1783 & Notes on Old & Prehistoric Halifax". Some of the entries include occupations. The dates are not birth or baptism dates but refer to records of the time..

BAIRSTOW, John 1400
BARSTOWE, John - walker 1461
BARSTOWE, Robert - walker 1461
BATE-SON, John - lister 1337 [son of Bate the LISTER]
BATE-SON, Richard 1337 [son of Bate the LISTER]
BENNE, Thomas 1400
BENTLAY, Richard - 1452
BEVYRLEY, John snr - 1442
BOTHUM, Joan 1400
BRODLEY, William - tailor 1461
CHATTYRTON, Hawisia - 1442
CLERK, John 1400
CLOUGH, Robert - glover 1461
COCCROFT, Margaret 1400
COPLEY [of], John 1337
COPLEY [of], Robert 1337
CROSLEY, Geoffrey - walker 1461
CULPON, John 1400
DEYNE, Cecily de 1400
DRAKE, John - smith 1400
ELLISON, Richard 1400
FOURNES, James - weaver 1461
FOURNES, Ralph - draper 1461
FOURNESS, William - walker 1461
FOX, John - 1452
GIBSON, John 1379
GIBSON, Richard - mercer 1461
GIBSON, Thomas - 1406
GIBSON, William - walker 1461
GILLOTDOGHTER, Alice 1400
HALDWORTH, William - walker 1461
HANSON, William 1379
HIRD, Robert - walker 1461
JAKSON, John 1379
KENT, William 1450
KYNG, John - vicar 1402
LEPTON, Joan 1400
LISTER, Bate [the] - litster 1307
LISTER, Isabel - 1406
LISTER, Richard - draper 1439
LISTER, Robert - litster 1381
LISTER, William 1439
LYSTER, Robert 1400
MAKINDOGHTER, Isabel 1400
MEKYSBURGH, Richard 1400
MICHELL, William - tailor - 1461
MILIAS, Richard - chaplain 1452
MILNER, Christopher - tailor 1461
MILNER, John - glover 1461
MILNER, John 1379
MILNER, John snr. 1379
MILNER, Richard - constable 1442
NAILER, Elias 1400
NAYLOR, John 1400
NELL-SON, Robert - walker 1380 [son of Nell the WALKER]
NOWHODE, John - 1398
OTES, John - walker 1439
OTES, William 1400
PEKE, Richard - 1379
POTTER, John - 1442
ROBERT-SON Richard - 1379 [son of Robert NELL-SON]
ROBINSON, Richard 1379
ROYDE, Robert - 1442
SAYVALL, John 1439
SMYTHSON, John 1398
SWYFTE, John - carpenter 1307
TALBOT, John - squire 1423, 1467
TALBOT, Thomas - servant 1467
TONGE [of}, Robert 1337
WALKER, Nell [the] - walker 1307
WALKER, Richard - constable1400
WALKER, William 1400
WEST, Isabella 1400
WILKINSON, Thomas - clerk 1470