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I am researching my Fathers side of the family.
Le Resche.

The family came to Birmingham at the end of the 1700's and we are almost certain of the tree after that.

Before that they were in Halifax Yorkshire.
For how long we do not know.

They are possibly Hugeunot in origin.
But I have had no luck in searching Suffolk records or London records where most entered England.

We have Charles Le Resche, born perhaps around 1740. a schoolmaster, he taught French amongst other subjects, the name or details of his wife are unknown and he had 2 sons that we know of.
We have the christening details of the 2 sons from the Weslyian chapel they attended but it only gives the fathers name.

Henry the older son born 1772, returned to Halifax and worked as a bookkeeper, and married a Sarah Simpson of Halifax, they had 5 or possibly 6 children, 2 sons and 3 or 4 daughters.
Her father was William Simpson, and at one time was a tenant of Willow Hall in Halifax.

They were Wesleyan and attended the South Parade chapel.
As did the Simpson's.
Henry and Sarah though to satisfy English law married in a C of E church by license and bond costing £200 in 1795.
They did later move back to Leeds and this is where the youngest child was married in a C of E church.
We presume Henry died there and Elizabeth who had 1 son, died in 1837 and her mother Sarah returned to Halifax and died at Willow Hall in 1849.
Sarah ran a Ladies academey in Leeds in King Street, presumably started after her husbands death, we do not know when he died, but he is listed as a Merchant in a Leeds Trade Directory in the 1830's.
She is on the 1841 census at the academy address but now aged 60 so presumably had retired with her daugher aged 35, and grandson aged 5, and several servants living there too.

The other son was Samuel (or possibly John Samuel) remained in Birmigham. Born in Halifax iun 1775.
His marriage licence and bond have Samuel on them, the bond cost £500 in Birmingham in 1796 to marry in St. Martins church in Birmigham. (Wife Susannah Hidson, they do not appear to have any children.)
The older son Henry back in Halifax, had a son Henry, his second son, the oldest one was named Samuel, the second son Henry came back to Birmingham and worked with his grandfather Charles and Uncle Samuel as a schoolmaster.
Both are listed in Birmingham Trade Directores as Schoolmasters with French and other subjects.
We believe he may have been raised by his Uncle Samuel and Aunt Susannah, who were childless, and christened as an older child at St. Martins as he later married twice by banns.
(His Aunt Susannah was a witness at his first marriage.)

Any help at the top of the tree would be excellent.
I have looked at the IGI baptisms for the Wesleyian chapel in Halifax, (South Parade) and found 4 of Henry's children, (one was christened in Leeds she is in the 4th child of the family and they returned to Halifax for the last but one? girls christening.
But we cannot find the 6th a girl called Elizabeth, born 1806. The youngest.

Or anymore about Charles.

Any help would be gratefully appreciated.

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