It is not certain that James was the first husband of Hannah wife of Isaac TURNER. If he was then she would have been Hannah GREAVES. See Hannah GREAVES' record for more information on Hannah's other potential first husbands.

A James PROCTOR was baptized in Rothwell in Jul 1795, who is the prime candidate for marrying Hannah GREAVES in 1816, being the right age and in the right place. If James was a coal miner and had died in a mine collapse then there may not have been a burial, and no official record of his death. There are no known newspaper reports of such an accident however.

A much less likely possibility is that the James PROCTOR who married Hannah was the James PROCTOR, a draper from Blackburn, who died in late 1816 aged '50' in Yarm, a major wool trade centre, ostensibly on a materials puchasing visit. The date of death fits nicely with Hannah PROCTOR remarrying in 1818, and the profession of draper fits with Leeds being a woollens manufacturing centre. If this unlikely match occurred then Hannah would likely have married in her village.