Hannah was Isaac TURNER's second wife. She was called Hannah PROCTOR at the time of her marriage in December 1818 and was a widow.

Possible first marriages (1810-1817, i.e. Hannah aged 18 years to year before marriage to Isaac TURNER) include:

a) 29 Jun 1812 John PROCTOR & Hannah GLOVER - Calverley - Can rule out as they were christening children in Calverley between 1816 and 1821.

b) 14 Aug 1814 Joseph PROCTOR, farmer, and Hannah GROUNDWELL - Calverley - Calverley is 2 miles north of Bramley where Isaac was living. No burial for this Joseph can be found 1814-1818, and a Joseph PROCTOR, farmer, aged 50-54, is living in Fulneck, Pudsey in 1841. A Hannah PROCTOR 65-69 is living nearby with James and William PROCTOR (both 30-34). They baptized a girl in 1819. Can rule out.

c) 3 Feb 1815 Thomas PROCKTER innkeeper and widower of Soyland, Halifax and Hannah FAIRBAND of Littleborough, Rochdale, Lancs, widow. They has a son Bartholomew in Oct 1816, then Thomas died aged 38 in Soyland on 27 Apr 1817 leaving £200. In 1841, Bartholomew is in Rochdale, a farmer with wife Mary. His neighbour is Abraham TURNER, 35-39, a woollen weaver. In 1861 Bartholomew he is a spinner living with his family in Halifax including sons Thomas and Isaac. In 1871 they're in Oldham with daughters Ellen and Elizabeth, and he's a master cotton spinner employing 250 hands. He appears to have been taken back to Rochdale, where his mother was from and maybe lived on a farm. But would Hannah move to Leeds and marry Isaac TURNER the following year? Possibly, if the child would make finding a third husband harder. While her husband died at the right time, there is nothing to link this Hannah to Isaac in Bramley. One additional coincidence is that Isaac's grandfather was called Abraham TURNER bap. 1740. An Abraham TURNER, pauper farm labourer, aged 83, is living in Castleton, Rochdale as uncle of Edmund and William COOPER, 27.

d) 13 Oct 1816 James PROCTOR and Hannah GREAVES, both of Rothwell, in Rothwell - Right place as Isaac and Hannah moved to Rothwell in 1828, but no burial for James in 1816-1818. No baptisms of any children have been found. No baptism for a Hannah GREAVES in Rothwell in 1792/3 has been found, although there are others nearby, including two in Leeds by: Samuel GREAVES of Armley on 1 Jul 1792 and Elisabeth GREAVES at Armley Chapel on 10 May 1795. If correct that she would have married, been widowed and then re-married within 2 years. A burial for James GREAVES would increase confidence. Overall this is a compelling possibility with available dates and locations fitting the known facts particularly as it links Rothwell and Armley:

• Hannah GREAVES c.1792-95 in Armley?
• Isaac TURNER c. Bramley 1794
• James PROCTOR c. 1795 in Rothwell
• James PROCTOR m. 1816 Hannah GREAVES in Rothwell
• Isaac TURNER m. 1818 Hannah PROCTOR in Leeds
• Hannah d. 1834 in Rothwell

e) the late Joseph PROCKTOR, a cooper from Kirkgate (central Leeds) and Ann PROCKTOR baptized Sarah on 8 Mar 1813. Joseph had died aged 46 and was buried at the same day and place that Sarah was baptized. Note that Hannah/Ann would have been ~20 years old in 1813, so if correct then Joseph and Hannah/Ann would have only been married 1810-1812. No such marriages have been found. A Joseph PROCKTER of Kirkgate buried a daughter Hannah in 1805, which would imply that Hannah/Ann was his second wife.

f) A soldier who fought in the Napoleonic wars. For instance it might have been Joseph PROCTOR of "Putsy" Leeds who in 1816 left the army, aged 23, after 8 years service, having contracted a pulmonary disease while serving in the Peninsula, or William PROCTOR of Leeds, who also left the army in 1815, aged 34, due to a bullet wound in his sternum received during the Walcheren campaign of 1809. This might explain why a suitable marriage was not found if the marriage had been conducted near the regimental depot.

g) The parents of one of the following children who were baptized by a Hannah/Ann PROCTOR - 1813-1817. All are possible as none continued to have children after 1818, but no burials have been found for any of the fathers.

• Esther - John, a clothier & Hannah - Pudsey - 18 Sep 1813
• Mary - John, a clothier & Hannah - Pudsey - 24 Aug 1817
• Maria-Frances - William, a carrier & Hannah - Pudsey - 9 Apr 1815
• Hannah - Joseph, a carrier & Hannah - 23 Apr 1815
• Agnes Anne - Joseph, a carrier & Hannah - Fartown, Pudsey - 23 Apr 1815

Isaac and Hannah had six children before she died aged 41, probably as a complication of childbirth. She was buried in Rothwell on 10 Jan 1834 and her son Thomas was baptised two days later.