John Batte

The Parish Register of Halifax, County York, depicts two marriages for John Batte. He married 1st 14 Oct. 1549 Katherine Kirkehed and 2nd, 14 Sept. 1550, Margaret Wood. We know their son Edward called his mother Margaret and we presume she was the Wood.

John Batte and Margaret Wood had 9 children, the baptisms of many of whom appear in the parish register of Birstall, Yorkshire. Wills of two brothers identify others.

The parish register of Birstall includes the following entry for deaths 23 July 1607. “Mr. John Batte of Okewell Hall, son of Henry Batte who bought Oakwell Hall in 1564 from Thomas Hussey, the father of Edward Batte, B.D., who was buried at Birstall, 7 Mar. 1597/8.”