Richard Platts

  Noted events in his life were:

• Background Information. ¹³¹⁰
Accord to John G. Hunt, author of "Notes on Families of the Parish of Halifax, Yorkshire Farrer, Deane, Platts, Fairbank, Prescott," American Geneologist, Vol. 40, p. 28:

"Genet Fairbank married James (generation 5) son of Richard (geneartion 4), son of John (3), son of Richard (2) son of John Platts alias Gawkroger of Sowerby. Genet and James had, with others, Abraham Platts alias Gawkroger and James. This Abraham Platts was father of Mary who married in 1629 John Prescott of Sowerby with whom she shortly removed to New England..."

• Background Information. ¹³¹⁷
Taken from Genealogy of the Gordon-Macy, Hiddleston-Curtis and Allied Families, p. 218:

"John Gawkroger b. Sowerby, Yorkshire, England, d. 1505 Sowerby, Halifax Parish. He gave land called 'Platts' to his grandson John in 1487 and then the family was called Gawkroger of Platts; this eventually came to be called just Platts."

"Richard Gawkroger b. and d. Halifax Parish, Sowerby, Yorks, England."

"John Gawkroger of Platts, an adult in 1487, Halifax Parish, Sowerby, Yorks, England."

"An unknown generation but with the same land in the family inherited from father to son."

• Background Information. ¹³¹⁹
Richard Gawkroger's of Sowerby name occurs there from 1452 50 1487. He was Constable on 16 Oct 1452 and called Richard Gawkroger Senior on 1 Aug 1487. He married a woman named Margaret, whose name occurs from 1481 to 1509. He died before 11 May 1509.

~Ancestry of John Barber White and His Descendants, p. 129