1939
Register for Mary Street
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1 Mary St
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Leslie
Rodgers *
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Big Piecer
cotton
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M
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b 7/11/1909
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B
Bedlington, Northumberland married Lilian Kershaw Jul 1939 d.1991 AUL (1 Mary St in 1915-father’s army
attestation) Brother of Norman living at 7 Mary St.
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Lilian
Rodgers nee Kershaw
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Domestic
duties
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M
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b
23/7/1916
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Nee Kershaw
daughter of George and Ellen Kershaw (nee Lowe)
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Mary
Rodgers
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ring
spinner
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S
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b 7/9/1919
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Married
name Cooper b AUL, sister of Leslie Rodgers m Benjamin James Cooper 1940 AUL d 1992 AUL
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Alice
Rodgers
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cotton
weaver
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S
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b 31/8/
1921
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Married
name PRATT b AUL sister of Leslie Rodgers m. James K. Pratt 1941 AUL d 1986
AUL
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3 Mary
St
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(Edward) Arthur
Arda
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Boiler
fireman(retired)
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M
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b
25/9/1871
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B Ancoats,
Manchester m Martha Alice Moseley 1895 Manchester
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Martha
(Alice) Arda
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Domestic
duties
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M
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5/10/1872
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Nee Moseley
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Eleanor
Arda
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daily domestic
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S
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27 Nov
1914
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Married
name PILBEAM
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Freda
Hardy (no relation)
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Shorthand
typist
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S
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b
28/5/1915
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Married
name CARTER
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Edward
Arda (deceased)
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Son Killed
WW1
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1898-1916
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Son of
Edward Arthur Arda and Martha Alice Moseley
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5 Mary
St
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John W(illiam)
Hawke
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Creeler
cotton mill
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b 3 Jul 1872
d 1958
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Living with
Ellen in 1911 but did not marry until 20 Feb 1927 St Peter’s. By then they
had 4 children.
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Ellen
Hawke nee Purselowe
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B 2 Oct
1862
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Ellen
Cornwall nee Purselowe Widow of 5 Mary St when she married John Hawke in 1927.
He gave his address as 100 Hertford St (marriage cert)
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7 Mary
St
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Norman
Rodgers *
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Big Piecer
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M
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b 2 Jan 1912
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Norman was
living with his parents at 1 Mary St in 1915. Source: his father’s
attestation certificate. Brother of Leslie, Mary & Alice at 1 Mary St
Married
Jessie Curran 1932AUL + two redacted names. Likely to be children. Died 1972
AuL
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Jessie A Rodgers
nee Curran
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M
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b 6 Jan 1914
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Married
Norman Rodgers 1932 died 1992 AuL
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Two names
redacted
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9 Mary
St
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Harry
Howard
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Iron and
steel driller
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M
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b 18 Aug 1883
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Died 1941
Ashton U Lyne
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Rose
Howard
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M
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b 19 Oct 1888
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Nee Hartley
Died 1972 Ashton U Lyne
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George
Howard
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wages
clerk
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S
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b 15 Dec 1915
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Died 1997
Stockport
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Redacted
record
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Elizabeth
Hartley
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S
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8 Nov 1881
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11 &
13 Mary St
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Percy
Hilton
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Canadian
Army (retired),
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M
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b 25 Nov
1874
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Percy
Hilton born in AUL, emigrated to USA 1895. Married a widow Annie Aspinall,
nee Mellor 1923 Ashton.
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Annie
Hilton nee Mellor
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confectioner
(retired)
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M
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1 Oct 1874
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Annie
Walton Mellor married Henry Aspinall 1908 Ashton. Married Percy Hilton 1923.
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15 Mary
Street
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John J
Whitehead
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Property
repairer (retired)
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M
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?
illegible
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Eliza
Whitehead
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Domestic
duties
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M
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17 Mary St
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Lewis
Kershaw
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Shaping
machinist (engineers)
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M
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25 Jan
1884
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Rachel
Kershaw
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Domestic
duties
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M
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15 Dec
1881
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nee Lester
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Edwin
Kershaw
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General
labourer
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S
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8 Nov 1913
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Lewis
Kershaw
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General
Labourer
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S
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18 Dec 1914
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Mary
Kershaw
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Card room
(cotton)
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S
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22 Jul
1917
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Married
name Kennedy
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19 Mary St
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Edith
Whittaker
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Cotton
operative (sick)
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M
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18 Aug
1883
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Shirley
Whittaker
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Slubber-
frame tenter
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S
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5 Nov 1915
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Married
name Smith
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21 Mary St
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Charles
Palmer
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Butcher
(retired)
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M
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16 Oct
1857
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Elizabeth
Palmer
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Domestic
duties
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M
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11 Sept
1858
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Redacted
record
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23 Mary St
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Elizabeth
Loughlin
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Domestic
duties
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M
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15 Feb
1876
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Harry
Loughlin
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Cotton
operative
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M
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28 Sept
1872
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William
Loughlin
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Cotton
operative
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S
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10 April
1908
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25 Mary St
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William J
Holden
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Cotton
spinner
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M
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22 Oct
1903
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d 1979
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Sarah J
Holden
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M
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4 Jan 1904
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Occupations of the inhabitants of Mary Street in 1939
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Iron
workers
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Iron and
steel driller
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1
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Cotton
industry
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total
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5
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Big Piecer
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2
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Ring
Spinner
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1
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Cotton
weaver
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1
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Creeler
(cotton mill)
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1
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Other
occupations
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Boiler
fireman
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1
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Daily
domestic
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1
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Wages
clerk
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1
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Shorthand
typist
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1
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Army
(retired)
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1
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Confectioner
(retired)
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1
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Comparison between 1891-1939
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Type of
work
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1891
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1901
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1911
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1939
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Iron
workers
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12
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9
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7
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1
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Coal
workers
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2
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1
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2
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0
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Cotton
mill workers
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13
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7
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9
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5
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Other
occupations
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12
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15
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9
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6
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Unsurprisingly the
majority of Mary Street workers worked in either in the cotton mills or at
other occupations. There were two large cotton mills nearby in Waterloo- the
Rock Mill on Wilshaw Lane and the Atlas Mill on Atlas Street. There were also
cotton mills in Droylsden and Audenshaw where people from Mary Street may have
worked. The nearest ironworks was Hannah Lees and sons of Park Bridge, some
miles away from Mary Street and not easy to get to.
FAMILY
CONNECTIONS Waterloo and Taunton was a
tight-knit community in the latter part of the 19th century and the
early 20th centuries. Many of the names can trace their roots for a
hundred years or more.
LEECH
/HOWARD/KERSHAW
At No. 4 Mary Street in 1891 census: Samuel Leech aged 70, a retired blacksmith
and his wife Sarah (nee Howard) + three children, Selina aged 26, Arthur 24 and
Sarah Hannah aged 23.
Samuel Leech was born about 1821 in Ashton under Lyne. Samuel
married Sarah Howard, daughter of Thomas and Hannah Howard in 1852 at Stockport
St Mary.
They had at least seven children.
i)
John Thomas Leech was born 26 May 1854 but died
1857 aged 2
ii)
Mary Leech born 2 Mar 1856 married Edwin Kershaw
iii)
Jane Leech born 1859 died 1860
iv)
Martha Ann Leech born 1863 died 1865
v)
Selina Leech born 1863 married William Adams 1892
vi)
Arthur Leech born 1866 married Elizabeth Hannah
Howard 1894. Arthur Leech died 1947
vii)
Sarah Hannah Leech born 1868 unmarried died 1934.
In 1861 Samuel and Sarah Leech were living on Newmarket Rd
with their 5 year old daughter Mary.
By 1871 Samuel was aged 49 and employed as a blacksmith. He
and Sarah were living on Newmarket Road with four children: Mary aged 15,
cotton power loom weaver, Selina (7), 4 year old Arthur and 3 year old Hannah
(Sarah Hannah)
In 1881 Samuel gives his age as 60, married to Sarah and
working as a blacksmith at a colliery. There were three children living at
home: Selina (16) a weaver in cotton mill, Arthur (14) Iron Roller Turner and
(Sarah) Hannah (13) a scholar. The family were living at Howards Buildings
which were in the Newmarket Road area.
By 1891 the family were at number 4 Mary Street. Samuel Leech
died in 1895.
Mary Leech,
daughter of Samuel and Sarah and their second child, had married by the time of
the 1881 census to Edwin Kershaw. They had two children: Harry Kershaw born
1878 and Lena Kershaw born 1880. In the census of 1881 the family were living
next door to Mary’s parents at Newton’s Buildings. By 1891 Edwin and Mary
Kershaw were living at 53 Newmarket Road (which was the home of my paternal
aunt, May Marsland nee Copeland in the 1950s).
In 1911 Sarah Hannah Leech aged 43, single, calico weaver was
living at 48 Newmarket Rd in the household of Harry Kershaw and his wife Martha
Ann nee Street who married in 1903 in Ashton. She is described as a boarder but
she was actually the aunt of Harry as she was his mother’s younger sister.
Edwin and Mary Kershaw had four more children: Ada, Lewis,
Ethel and Maurice. (This is where I find a connection to my family history
through Edwin Kershaw. Edwin was son
of Joshua Kershaw. His grandfather James Kershaw was the son of my 3 x great
grandfather, William Kershaw of Waterhouses.)
The extended Leech/Kershaw
family do not move very far from their beginnings. Lewis Kershaw, son of Edwin
and Mary (nee Leech) was living at 17 Mary Street in the 1939 Register and he
died there in 1941. Lena Kershaw, sister of Lewis did not marry and in 1939 she
was living alone at 54 Newmarket Rd. Harry Kershaw was living at 48 Newmarket
Road with his wife Martha Ann nee Street in 1911.
In the 1911 census Edwin Kershaw states he has had 10
children, five of whom have died.
Living next door in 1891 at 6 Mary Street was Alice Kershaw, a
widow aged 51. She was born Alice Knight and married David Kershaw on 21 May
1860 in Ashton. David died at the age of 30 in 1865, just five years after they
were married. Alice must have just given birth to their son William when her
husband died. In 1861 David and Alice Kershaw were living in Newmarket,
Taunton. William Kershaw, their son born 1864 in Ashton and his wife Emma (nee
Greenwood) were living with Alice in 1891 along with their 3 year old daughter
Annis. There is another connection with my Kershaw family tree. David Kershaw’s
father was James Kershaw 1808-1885 and his wife Betty (Taylor) 1817-1847 and
his grandfather was my 3 x great grandfather William Kershaw 1776-1854. David
Kershaw was the uncle of Edwin Kershaw 1856-1931 (see above). Alice Kershaw was
living with her married son, William and his wife Emma (nee Greenwood) at 45
Taunton Rd in 1901. Alice Kershaw nee Knight died in 1907.
At number 17 in 1891 was John Leech and his wife Margaret. John was a tool fitter aged 32. They
had two children living with them: Bertha (4) and George (1). John Leech had
married Margaret Greenwood in 1883 at Christ Church, Ashton. Bertha was born
1885 and George in 1889. Their mother’s maiden name was Greenwood. We have come
across a Greenwood before. William Kershaw at number 6 was married to Emma
Greenwood. Margaret was the older sister of Emma, both were daughters of Ashton
Greenwood, a worsted weaver and his wife Elizabeth. The Leech family had moved
away from Mary Street by the time of the 1901 census. They were living on
Blandford Street, Ashton and by 1911 they had been married for 27 Years and had
9 children, two of whom had died before 1911. They were living at 3 Pelham
Street Ashton. Before his marriage John Leech had lived in the vicinity of Mary
Street. As the two-year-old son of George Leech and his wife Elizabeth, the
family lived at Hope Fold, Crowhill in 1861, in Newmarket 1871 and Pleasant View
next to Mary St by 1881.
In 1911 another Leech
family was living at Number 4: George Leech aged 42 a machine worker- tool
worker with his wife Sarah and two young children, Agnes (5) and Nellie (3).
George states he has been married for seven years and has had two children. George
had lived in or around Mary Street all his life. He first appears aged one,
living with his parents and six older siblings on ‘Newmarket’ in the vicinity
of Taunton Sunday School. His father, George Leech was a labourer on the roads
and his mother, Elizabeth was a silk weaver by hand. George was born 30 Jul
1869 and was baptised on 2 Jan 1870, son of George and Elizabeth Leech. He was
the younger brother of John Leech (see above)
By 1881 family were living on Mary Street. George was aged 11
with five older siblings still living at home. His father George was described
as a general labourer. By 1891 George’s father had died and his widowed mother,
Elizabeth (61) was living at 62 Newmarket Road with four grown-up children,
including George aged 21. By the time of the next census in 1901, Elizabeth
Leech (71) widow was still at 62 Newmarket Rd with two grown-up children: Sarah
(47) and George (31)
George
Leech married Sarah Buckley
in 1904 at Christ Church, Ashton U Lyne. Their daughters, Agnes and Nellie
were born 1905 and 1907 respectively. Sarah was born 11 Dec 1874 to Joseph
Buckley and his wife Martha Ann Booth. She was baptised at the Methodist New
Connexion chapel.
George and Sarah Leech were still living at 4 Mary Street by the
time of the 1939 Register. Agnes Leech, their daughter was still living at
home. George gives his date of birth as 30/7/1869, Sarah nee Buckley’s date of
birth was 11 /12/1874 and Agnes’ date of birth was 11/7/1905. George’s
occupation was ‘lamp-lighter, retired’. Agnes was employed as a shop assistant.
In 1911 another Leech family were living at 1, Mary Street. Joshua Leech aged 43, was a mechanic,
iron roller turner. He was born in 1868 in Ashton, son of James Leech and his
wife Rachel Ann Cooper. In 1871 Joshua aged 3 was living with his parents and
younger brother, Walter on Newmarket. By 1881 the family were living on Mary
Street. James and Rachel Ann Leech had five children living with them: Joshua
(13), Walter (11), Handel (6), Martha Ellen (3) and Beatrice (11 months). In
the 1891 census the family had moved into Ashton to 12 Shaw Street which was
not far from St Michael’s Parish Church. Joshua Leech married Jane Dundavan the
same year. They were married at St John’s Chapel in Dukinfield. By 1901, Joshua
aged 33, working as a builder’s labourer, was living with his parents in
Blackpool. He had his 4 year old daughter, Maud, with him. Meanwhile Rachel
Ann, his wife of 10 years, was on her own in Ashton, living on Montague Street
with daughter Beatrice (7) and a baby, James aged 9 months. Joshua and Jane
Leech had six children all together but three died in infancy: Anna b 1892died
1892, Elsie b 1895 died 1895 and Nellie born 1898 died 1899.
In 1911 Lewis Kershaw,
son of Edwin Kershaw and Mary Leech was living at 17 Mary Street with his wife
Rachel and three young daughters. Lewis was aged 27 and employed as an iron
planer-gas engine maker. He married Rachel Lester at Christ Church, Ashton in
1906. Their daughter Ethel Kershaw was born later that year and in 1909 they
had twin daughters, Eva and Marion. By 1939 the family were still living at 17
Mary Street. The three older children had left home and there were still three
children at the same address: Edwin born 8 Nov 1913, Lewis born 18 Dec 1914 and
Mary born 22 Jul 1917.
The Sandiford
family were living at Number 11 Mary Street in both 1891 and 1901 census. In
1891 Edward Sandiford was still alive. He had married Mary Ann Bowden in New
Mills, Derbyshire in 1869. Edward died
in 1898 aged 50 and in 1901 Mary Sandiford nee Bowden was a widow aged 51,
living on her own means with three grown up children: Joseph aged 25, Eda (23)
and Henry (21). Eda Sandiford married David Kershaw in 1901. The name of
Kershaw crops up again. David Kershaw was the great grandson of William
Kershaw (1776-1854) who was my 3 x great grandfather. David Kershaw died 1924.
Eda was living at 29 Oldham Rd in 1939 with two grown up daughters, Elsie and
Mary. Mary Ann Sandiford, widow of Edward was still living on Mary Street in
1911. She was at number 19 with sons Joseph (35) and Henry (31)
ROBINSON/ANDREW
At number 5 in 1891 was John Robinson, a 41 year old
stonemason and his wife Martha also aged 41. Martha was the daughter of Samuel
Andrew and his wife Betty. They were one of the many families called Andrew
living in Higher Alt Hill near Park Bridge. Samuel Andrew was an iron forger
probably at the ironworks belonging to the Lees family. I have some family
connection to the Andrew families of Alt Hill but it would require someone with
more advanced research skills to sort them all out!
In 1881 census John and Martha Robinson were living in
Littlemoss with six children: Mary J (12), Samuel (10), Mark (9) born 1872,
John (7) born 1874, Jeffrey (5) born 1875, Andrew (3) born 1877. At the same
address is Martha’s widowed mother, Betty Andrew (58). John Robinson married
Martha Andrew in 1869 at Leesfield St Thomas.
HARDING
In 1901 my maternal great grandfather, Samson Harding (1868-1923)
was living at 17 Mary Street. Samson was born in Broxton, Cheshire, son of
Samson Harding, a tailor. Samson Harding, senior had moved, with his sons, to
Dukinfield from Broxton after the death of his wife, Elizabeth nee Hampson. In
1881 the family were living at 38 Jeffreys Street Dukinfield and Samson, aged
13 was an errand boy. By 1891 Samson was a butcher’s assistant and was living
with his married sister Mary Ann Clegg nee Harding at 48 Newmarket Road. The
following year October 1892, Samson married Charlotte Belfield at Christ
Church. Charlotte died of puerperal septicaemia after giving birth to a
daughter in 1894.
Samson was remarried to Mary Ann Edwards on 30 September 1894,
only six months after his first wife had died. In 1901 they were living at 17
Mary Street with Charlotte Bertha b 1894, (mother Charlotte Belfield) and two
further children by his second wife, Mary Ann: Sarah Elizabeth born 1896 and
Arthur born 1898. Samson was now a Butcher. By the time of the next census
Samson Harding was the publican at The Old Ball Inn in Smallshaw. Another
daughter had come along; Gladys born in 1901 but Samson and Mary Ann had two
other children who had died in infancy: Iva 1895-1896 and Reginald born 1900
who died the same year.
BUCKLEY
The family name Buckley
was a very familiar one in the Waterhouses and Taunton area of Ashton under
Lyne. Joseph Buckley 1837-1903 or ‘Owd Ab’ had a very successful photographic business in
Daisy Nook Joseph saw the commercial
possibilities of the area and he set about converting three cottages in Daisy
Nook into refreshment rooms and a photography
business. According to his son Walter
Buckley, writing some years later in
the Ashton Reporter, Joseph rented the cottages at 5s 6d a week converting them
into one, naming them “Owd Abs Cottage” after Brierley's pen name “Abo'th'Yate”. The row of houses became known locally as Ben
Brierley Terrace and such was the success of the
business that Joseph became known as “Owd Ab”.
In 1901 James Millin and his wife Alice Eliza nee Buckley were
living at 25 Mary Street. James was a railway carter born in Ashton on 22 April
1864. He married Alice Eliza Buckley in 1892. Alice Eliza was the daughter of
John Buckley and his wife Mary nee Hibbert. She was living at the Woodcock Inn
further up Newmarket Rd in 1881 and 1891. James Millin married Alice Eliza
Buckley in 1892. In 1901 & 1911 they were living at 25 Mary Street. In the
1939 Register James and Alice were living at 13 Mary Street.
James died in 1948 and Alice Eliza died 21 April 1951. Her
home at the time of her death was at 8 Mary Street although her place of death
was 46 Oldham Rd. James and Alice Eliza Millin had five children: Harry Millin
born 1893 died 1970, Leonard born 1896 died 1980 (had a painters and decorators
business on Oldham Rd near Atlas Street. Leonard was President of the National
Federation of Master Painters and Decorators), Lewis born 1897 died 1987
(farmer in Lower Alt Hill and Gorsey Lane. Lewis Millin married Edith Spear who
was the step-daughter of my great aunt Mary Ann Spear nee Goodwin), James
Millin was born 1900 and had a twin sister Sarah Alice. Sarah Alice died the
following year in 1901. James was killed in action in 1918 in World War 1. His
name is on the Waterloo and Taunton War Memorial.
By 1911 there was another Buckley living in Mary Street. John
Buckley aged 34, a brush-maker was living at number 2 with his wife Edith and
two children: Edith aged 12 and Norman aged 5.
The 1911 census was the first to be taken where the householder had to
fill in the form him/herself. This gives us an insight into their handwriting,
and their literacy. If married, the person completing the form had to state how
many years married and how many children, those living and those who had died.
John Buckley states he has been married for 13 years and has had three
children, one of whom has died.
EDWARD ARDA
1898-1916 killed at Battle of Jutland
Royal Navy HMS Malaya 3/6/1916
aged 18 Address 3 Mary Street Taunton. Commemorated on
the Waterloo and Taunton War Memorial
John
Beaumont, son of Samuel Beaumont and Elizabeth Wharmby, was born on 26
February 1882. He was baptised on 9 April 1882 at St Peter’s Church, Ashton
under Lyne. In 1891 John (9) was living with his parents and younger siblings,
Samuel aged 7 and Alice 10 months at 33 Brook Street, Ashton under Lyne. His parents
worked in a cotton mill, Samuel as a twiner and Elizabeth Ann as a weaver.
Samuel and Elizabeth had five children but only John and his brother Samuel
born 1886 survived past infancy. John cannot be traced in 1901 census although
his parents and brother, Samuel, aged 17 were living at 13 Hodgson Street in
the West End of Ashton.
By 1911 John Beaumont was already a widower living with his
one-year-old son, John Albert with his parents at 8 Mary Street. John Beaumont had
married Flora Virginia Fox on 4 Jan 1908 at St Michael’s, Ashton but Flora died
in 1909 probably giving birth to their son, John Albert Beaumont born 1909 Ashton under Lyne.
John Beaumont was killed in World War 1 and he is commemorated on the Waterloo
and Taunton War Memorial
In 1911 a couple called Byrne were living at 3 Mary Street.
John (Vincent) Byrne was born in 1888 in Ashton, son of Francis Byrne and his
wife Mary Ann Marland. John Byrne
married Hannah Walton in 1908 at St Paul’s Stalybridge. On the census form John
Byrne states he had been married for three years and has two children, still
living. However, there appear to be three children born between 1908 and 1911,
with the surname Byrne and mother’s maiden name, Walton. These were Stanley
Byrne born 1908 Stalybridge who died the same year, John Byrne born 1909
Stalybridge and Francis Hubert Byrne born 1910 (Knott Lanes) which was the
registration district for parts of Waterloo and Taunton. Neither of these
children are living with their parents in 1911. I have traced Francis Hubert
Byrne, aged 5 months living at 14 Haughton Street, Hyde and named as ‘nephew’
of Thomas Ridgeway aged 35 and his wife Isabella (nee Braddock). I can find no
relationship between the Byrne family and the Ridgeway or Braddock families.
Thomas Stanton, his wife Eda and their one year old daughter
Eda were at 5 Mary Street in 1911. Thomas, son of Edward and Ada Stanton
married Eda Carter on 8 December 1906 at St Peter’s Ashton. They were both 23
years old. Thomas was employed as a rivet maker and Eda was a Tenter in a
cotton mill. She lived at 133 Cotton Street Ashton. Thomas was living at 259
Katherine Street, Ashton (marriage certificate). By the time of the 1939
register, Thomas born 30 March 1883 and Eda born 9 Jan 1883 were living at 92
Blandford Street Ashton.
At number 7 were Thomas Birchall and his wife Maria Bertha
plus four children, none of whom were born in Ashton. Thomas was aged 28 and
was employed as a fireman in a coal mine. Thomas Frederick Birchall was born 26
Nov 1882 in Talke, Audley, Staffordshire, son of Edward and Ada Stanton. He
married Maria Bertha Price in 1903 at St. Thomas, Kidsgrove. By the time of the
1911 census they had four children: Thomas Frederick, Winifred, Frances and
Joseph Edmund. Another son, Samuel was born 4 May 1917. He was living with his
parents at 78 Newmarket Road in 1939.
Numbers 9 & 11 were occupied by John Alfred Lawson, a 38
year old cashier for a building contractor. He had married Elizabeth Ann Higson
in Skipton in 1900. Their two daughters, Audrey (1902) and Winifred (1903) were
born in Sculcoates. John was the son of
John and Charlotte Lawson. In 1891 John was a pupil teacher in a school and
living with his parents in Great Driffield, Yorkshire.
Alfred Travis and his wife Philadelphia (nee Winterbottom) were
living at No 13 in 1911. Ten years before they had been living at 6 Mary Street
with four children. Now their family had expanded and they had a further two
sons. Alfred stated he had been married for 25 years and had 7 children, one of
whom had died. Alfred Travis married Philadelphia Winterbottom in 1887. Their
children were: Emily born 1888, Olive born 1890, Elizabeth born 1891, Benjamin
born 1895, Arthur Moores born 1901 and Samuel born 1904. A daughter, Annie born
in 1893 died in 1895.
Philadelphia Travis, nee Winterbottom was born in 1862,
daughter of Samuel Winterbottom of Waterhouses.
At number 21 Mary Street in 1911
were James Wright and his wife
Margaret nee Leech. James was aged 24 and was a coal miner (hewer). Margaret
aged 23 was frame tenter in a cotton mill. James Edward Wright was born in 1887
in Hurst, son of Alfred and Nancy Wright. His parents, Alfred Wright and Nancy
Bennett were married at St Marks in Bredbury on 6 October 1872.
He married Margaret Leech in 1909
at Holy Trinity in Ashton. In the census of 1911 James states they have been
married for two years and had a child who had died. Their son William was born
in 1909 and died as a baby in the same year. The couple went on to have three
more children: Elizabeth born 21 July 1911 & James Edward born 9 Sept 1914.
Elizabeth married David Prior in 1932 and they were living at 24A Lumb Lane.
Littlemoss in 1939. James Edward Wright junior was living with Robert Leech and
his wife Dorothy (his uncle and aunt) at 244 Newmarket Road in 1939.
Margaret Leech was born 10 Sept
1887, baptised at Christ Church on 21 Oct 1887, daughter of Robert Leech and
Mary Ellen Walker. In 1891 the family were living at 22 Newmarket Rd,
Margaret’s father, Robert Leech was a bricklayer. Margaret had two sisters:
Nellie b 1885 and Elizabeth b 1889. By 1901 the family had moved next door to
20 Newmarket Road. Robert was a builder and contractor and the family had grown
with three younger siblings: Marian, Martha Ann and James.
Their son, James Edward Wright joined the Manchester Regiment sometime after
1915 as he was not awarded the 1914-1915 Star. He enlisted in Ashton. He later
transferred to 1/5th Battalion and had the service number 351599.
James Edward Wright’s pension record incorrectly names his wife as Margaret
Belfield but her maiden name was actually Leech, daughter of Robert Leech of
Newmarket Road, Waterloo. The pension record also notes two children: Elizabeth
born 21 Jul 1911 and James Edward born 9 Sept 1914. James died of his wounds in
Lincoln Hospital on 2 Nov 1918, just a few days before the war ended. His death
was registered in Blackpool. He was 31 years old and left a widow and two
children. James is buried in a family grave at Hurst Cemetery grave M.778. His head stone reads 'Rest in the Lord'
Harry
Loughlin and his wife Elizabeth Ann (nee Green) were living at 23 Mary
Street in 1911. They had four sons with them: Thomas Harry born 1896, John born
1901, Leonard born 1906 and William born 1908. Elizabeth’s brother, Edward
Green aged 30 was at the same address.
Harry Loughlin was born in
Illinois, U.S.A. on 28 Sept 1872. He married Elizabeth Ann Green in 1895 in
Ashton. In 1901 they were living at 41 Hill Street, Waterloo (now Vale Street).
Harry was employed as a cotton spinner-minder. In the same household were
Elizabeth’s widowed mother, Alice nee Clayton and three of her siblings: Isaac
(27), Sarah (22) and Edward (20).Elizabeth’s father, William Green had died in
1886.
In the 1939 register Harry (b 28
Sept 1872) and Elizabeth Loughlin (born 15 Feb 1876) and their son, William
(born 10 April 1908) were living at 23 Mary Street. Harry and William were
employed as cotton spinners.
Harry Loughlin died in 1943 and
his wife Elizabeth died in 1948. They were both still living at 23 Mary Street.
In 1939 Harry Howard and his wife Rose were living at 9 Mary
Street. Harry born 18 Aug 1883 married Rose Hartley (born 19 Oct 1888). Their
son, George born 15 Dec 1915 was at the same address. (George Hartley Howard’s
birth was recorded in Jan Q 1916 in West Derby near Liverpool). Elizabeth
Hartley, sister of Rose born 8 Nov 1881 was also at No.9. One record is
redacted. This was probably another child.
At Number 25 William J
Holden born 22 Oct 1903 and Sarah J Holden born 4 Jan 1904. John William Holden married Sarah Jane Brooks in 1929 at Christ
Church. John Willie Holden was the son of Henry Holden and his wife Bridget
Mulcahy. Henry was born in 1873 in Reddish Cheshire and married Bridget in
Limerick, Ireland in 1894. In the 1911 census the family were living at 385
Higher King Street, Hurst, Ashton under Lyne. Henry states he was employed as a
machine fitter and had 9 children, four of whom had died before 1911. Five
children are still in the family home: Esther b 1898, Alice born 1900, Annie
born 1902 and John Willie born 1903, all born in Ashton. A younger son, Harry
(actually Joseph Henry) was born 1905 in Alderney in the Channel Islands.
Sarah Jane was the daughter of Thomas Edward Brooks, a carter
and his wife Elizabeth nee Cocks. In the 1911 census Sarah Jane was aged 6,
living with her widowed father and siblings at 66 Minto Street. Her mother
Elizabeth Brooks had died in 1909. Thomas Brooks states he was married for 26
Years and had 14 children, seven of whom had died before 1911. John William Holden
born 22 Oct 1903 died in 1979 (death registered in Tameside) aged 75. Sarah
Jane Holden nee Brooks died
