ECCLES, William (1793-1853), of Spring Mount, Blackburn, Lancs. and 8 Salisbury Street, London, Mdx.

b. 2 Dec. 1793, 2nd s. of William Eccles (d. 20 May 1831), of Nova Scotia, Blackburn, Lancs., and w. Betty. m. 24 July 1823, Jennet, 2nd da. of ThomasA later local history gives the name of Eccles’s father-in-law as Robert rather than Thomas Copeland, but Thomas appears in the marriage announcement in the press: W. A. Abram, A history of Blackburn (1877), 394; Liverpool Mercury, 8 Aug. 1823. Copeland, of Woodplumpton, Lancs., 5s. 2da. (1 d.v.p.); d. 17 June 1853.