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Eleventh Generation

 

11.Children of William 1808 and Mary Thompson (1340)

 

1540. (William        c. 1831 Kendal)

1550. Sarah             c. 1831 Kendal

1560. Elizabeth       c. 1833 Staveley

1570. William T.     c. 1835 Staveley

1580. Robert           b. 1838 Littledale nr. Tatham, Lancs.

1590. Mary Ann      c. 1840 Kendal?

1600. Thomas         c. 1842 Kendal town

1610. Margaret        c. 1844 Tatham

1620. Richard         c. 1845 Tatham 

 

Following their marriage, William and Mary and their growing family lived in various parts of Northern England, e.g. Kendal in Westmoreland, Bradford in Yorkshire, later at Caton, Lancashire but by 1871 at 12 Hudson St. Wigan (by this date Mary had died and William had remarried).

                                                         

William, it is thought was an illegitimate son of Mary 1804 (1330), (public record shows his mother as a spinster) but christened here and he appears in the 1841 Kendal census as resident at the Workhouse there. 
 

William is shown as an 11 year old boy in the Kendal Workhouse in 1841. There is no record of another Haresnape listed there at that date, so perhaps he was an orphan at that date.

There were over fifty babies and children under the age of ten in the workhouse. There were a number of family units present but also a large number of widows/unmarried mothers with their children. Including the children, there was a high proportion of females (110) present of the total population of 210. Approximately forty of the men were aged between 11 and 70 (working age?), the others of greater age.  
There is a very good description of the Kendal Workhouse in those years at  click

He may have been at Preston in 1851 as a shoemaker. He was not living with the others at Wigan in 1871.

                                                              

Sarah was baptised at Kendal Holy Trinity, parents of Strickland Roger. It is believed that she was married (aged 31) in 1864 to Randall Goeritt, at the parish church of St.Stephen(?), Salford, near Manchester. Sarah`s sister Mary Ann seems to have been a witness. Randall was a widower, possibly employed as a butcher. His surname suggests a European ancestry. 

                        

Elizabeth died Kendal area 1837 (presumably Staveley)

                                        

William Thompson died aged two, in 1837 in Staveley, and was buried in Kendal Holy Trinity.

 

Robert, a bobbin turner, was at Caton in 1861 with his father and stepmother.  He was married at the Sion Chapel, Bridge Street, Bradford, in 1867 to Fanny Bracewell Langdon, 1 child (2115). Robert was still living in Caton at the date of his wedding, but Fanny lived at Brunswick Place, Dudley Hill, Tong. Tong is situated between Bradford and Leeds, so quite a distance from Caton. Fanny was the daughter of James Brown Langdon, deceased, a drysalter. Fanny died at Bradford in 1869-75? aged 39, and following his parents to Wigan, Robert died there in 1911 (aged 73).                                                      

                                                             

Mary Ann possibly married in 1869 at Manchester to Alfred Clayton.

nb. The 1881 census suggests that she may have given her wrong age at Marriage, as she was older than Alfred in the census.

 

Thomas 1842 was baptised in Kendal Holy Trinity in 1842. In 1861 he was living with his father and stepmother Jane Nickel and the various children at Rumbell Row cottage in Caton, Lancs. A bobbin turner like many of his relatives, he married in 1866 (Christmas Eve) at Lancaster Wesleyan Chapel (at Caton?) to Ellen Littlewood, one child (2120). Ellen was born in Caton, and before her marriage she was a domestic servant, living with her parents at "Rockmajock" in Caton. Her father was Thomas Littlewood, born in Liverpool and a letter carrier and local Wesleyan preacher. His wife was a cotton winder from Bentham in Yorkshire. Ellen died aged 28 in childbirth at Newton le Willows, nr. Leyburn in Yorkshire in June 1870. Thomas was present at her death. Ellen was buried at St.Patrick`s Parish Church at nearby Patrick Brompton. It is believed that Thomas and Ellen had lived at Newton for a short period as the census for Newton in 1871 (after Thomas left the area) reveals the presence of several bobbin-makers, although a business as such has not been found. The bobbin-mill at this time would have been coal/steam driven (a railway runs through the village). Thomas left Newton with his young son William and settled in Derby, marrying a Catherine Beeton in 1873, 3 children (2130). Catherine was born in 1849 and was probably a widow. Thomas set up a woodturning business in Derby (Park St.) in 1883. In 1901 the family were still in Park St., the two unmarried sons working as woodturners. Thus eldest son William probably worked with him in this business before he emigrated to South Africa in 1903. There is the possibility that the son William also had his own sawmill business in Derby. Thomas died in 1913 and his business continued on with son John Richard. Catherine died 1920 (registered in Etwall in Derbyshire).

                                                      

Margaret married in 1868 at Preston to John Holden. They had four children. By 1881 the family had moved to 121 Wigan Rd., Hindley, Lancs. They were still in Hindley, at 28 Lord Street  in 1901 when John was decribed as a commission agent aged 56. Margaret`s widowed mother Jane aged 81 was recorded as living with the family. Two unmarried sons were also in the home, Robert H., a grocer`s assistant and John E. a driver in a coal mine.                                                               

Richard 1845 a bobbin turner, was still living at his parents` home in Wigan in 1871. He married in 1872 at Wigan to Jane Someone. He died in Wigan in the same year 1872 (aged 27). As his stepbrother John also died in Wigan in the last quarter of the year of smallpox, we may assume that the disease also took Richard's life. Despite a vaccine being discovered approx. 80 years earlier this disease was obviously still a problem in Britain.

                                          

 

11.Children of William 1808 and Jane Nickal (1340)

 

1630. John             b. 1852 Bradford, Yorks.

1640. William N.    b. 1854 Bradford

 

John, a Stonemason died in Wigan in 1872 aged 20, from smallpox. The certificate shows this was at 12 Hudson Street, and his father was in attendance. His father at that date lived in Hardybulls (Street) Wigan. (this may be a transcription error, it is probably Hardybutts Street)

William Nickal Haresnape was born in the district of Horton, Bradford. He was listed as a bobbin turner in 1871, and living with his parents and older siblings at 12 Hudson St. In later years he became a joiner, and moved to Liverpool as a woodworker sometime between 1870 and 1879. He was one of the first Haresnapes to enter into the building industry trades. He lived in lodgings at first, then married in 1879 at Walton on the Hill Parish Church, Everton, Liverpool to Janet Chalmers Browne (b. in 1857 at Chirk, Oswestry, Shropshire). At this date William lived at 19 Anglesea Road (as a lodger with the Palmer family) and Janet at 43 Shaw Street, her father being a gardener. William Nickal and his wife therefore started one of the Liverpool branches of the family, 11 children (2160). (see photo) . In 1891 the family`s home was at 51 Arthur Street, Toxteth Park in Liverpool. In 1901 the family lived at 65 Fairview Place, Toxteth, Liverpool. William died of peritonitis aged 44 in June at Toxteth Park in Liverpool. It has been said that the peritonitis was the result of an injury caused when a bung he was removing from a barrel of beer came out under pressure and hit him in the stomach. The certificate shows his residence was 65 Fair View Place, Toxteth Park. When William died his wife Janet would have been aged 42 and the children's ages ranged from 22 years down to 3. The family moved from Toxteth Park to Dingle (Cope St.) The street directory for 1911 shows Janet residing at 2 Cope St, Park Hill Rd. (reference Veronica Oldham). Janet died in 1938 in Birkenhead (aged 80).

 

                      

11.Children of Richard 1812 and Agnes Pickthall (1350)

 

1650. Jane             b. 1846 Kendal town

1660. George        b. 1851 Catterall, Lancs.

1670. Martha        b. 1853 Catterall

1680. Eliza           b. 1856 Catterall

 

In 1861 the children were living with their parents in 8 Mintcake Row, Catterall, Jane at 14 being employed as a cotton weaver at the local factory probably working a 12-hour day. George and the others were listed as scholars. It appears that the whole family moved to Preston sometime after the 1861 census.

                                   

Jane (as Pickthall) was registered as born at Kendal about 4 years before her mother Agnes married.

                              

George was christened in 1852 at Preston St.John Church. His father was referred to as a being a mechanic at this time. In 1881 he was living with his widowed mother Alice and sister Martha. Both were single and George was described as a wood turner. This was at 22 Thornton Street in Preston. He then seems to have left the area and married Catherine J. Noad in 1884 at the parish church of St.John the Baptist, Little Holbeck near Leeds. However, in 1901 his wife aged 44 was shown as Mary J. (born in Birkenhead). They were then living with four children (2262), residing at 6 Spink Street, Bradford. George was shown as a bobbin turner fitter aged 49. George died in Bradford in 1905 aged 53.

 

 

Martha was recorded in 1871 as a cotton weaver aged 17, and boarding with the Hindle family at 24 Caton St., Preston. In  1881, she was again listed as a cotton weaver living with her widowed mother and her brother George, a wood turner at 22 Thornton St., Preston. Martha was married to James Narcross in 1887 in Preston. She was present at the death of her mother in Preston in 1890.                

       

Eliza died in Preston in 1862.

nb. A William Haresnape, infant, died in a Workhouse at Preston St.John in Jan 1864. Parents not identified as yet.

 

                   

11.Children of Robert 1814 and Agnes Taylor (1360)

 

1690. William       b. 1846 Halton, Lancs.  

1700. Sarah A.      b. 1848 Halton

1710. Elizabeth    b. 1851 Garstang, Lancs.

1715. John           b. 1853 Claughton

1720. Mary          b. 1855 Claughton

1730. Agnes        b. 1856 Claughton

1740. Robert       b. 1858 Claughton

 

As explained previously the children moved with their parents to Preston in about 1862, and Robert continued in his bobbin-making trade until at least 1871.

 

William was baptised at Halton St. Wilfred in Lonsdale. In 1861, aged 14 he was employed as a bobbin turner at Catterall presumably in his father's business. The other three children were scholars. They were all at 1 Bobbin Cottage. He was a bobbin turner, then later a wood sawyer. He married at Preston St.John to Margaret Levett (b.1841), a weaver of Fletcher Rd., Preston. Margaret did not sign but made her mark on her wedding certificate suggesting that she was illiterate. There were at least 6 children (2270). The family at first lived in Preston perhaps near to William's father, but in about 1874 settled in Blackburn where many of their children were later employed in the cotton mills. William died in 1892.

 

Sarah Anne, was also baptised at St. Wilfrid. She was a cotton weaver, and was married in 1875 at Preston to Robert Aspden, one child (2300). He died in 1890 and she in 1926.

  

Elizabeth lived only for a few weeks and died in 1851 at Catterall.

                                          

Mary was married in 1874 at Preston to James Preston. The ceremony was in Moor Park Wesleyan Chapel. He was aged 22 and she just 20, and both of them were residents of Preston at that date. Mary`s sister Sarah Ann was one of the witnesses. James was described as a Spinner, his father being a Spinning Master. Mary was a Power Loom Cotton Weaver.

 

Agnes was baptised at St. Helens Church, Garstang. (her future husband James Taylor was born in the same single story thatched cottage and was baptised in 1859 at the same church). She moved with the family to Preston and as a weaver represented her mill operating a handloom in the Preston Guild procession of 1882. She was so small in height that in the mill she had to stand on a special platform (stillage) to reach her work. She married in 1884 at Withington Wesleyan Chapel, Manchester to James Taylor, b. 1859 at Claughton, Lancs., 9 children (2310).

 

James in 1861 lived a few doors away at Catterall from his future wife. He would then have been aged 2, she 5. On marrying, by a twist of relationships, James now found that his great aunt had become his mother in law! 

James, a mechanic was recruited to the army in 1877 and served with the 12th Brigade in England, Ireland and India. He was discharged with a very good character in 1889 (aged 30). He became a dairyman in Manchester with his shop at Chorlton on Medlock. James died in 1930 aged 70 and Agnes in 1938 aged 82, both at Withington in Manchester.

                       

Robert died in infancy 1858.

 

   

11.Children of Thomas 1820 and Christina Murray (1390)

 

1750. Sarah E.         b. 1850 Hamilton, Scotland

1760. Robert S.       b. 1851 Catterall, Lancs.

1770. Mary              b. 1853 Catterall

1780. John Murray  b. 1856 Catterall

1790 William           b. 1859 Clitheroe, Lancs.

1800. Joan Agnes    b. 1861 Catterall

1810. Isobella          b. 1863 Edinburgh, Scotland

1820. Christina        b. 1869 Lochee, Dundee, Scotland

1830. Thomas         b. 1866 Dundee, Scotland

                

In 1851 the first children lived at 1 Calder Place, but as some of the children were born at Moor End this being a small group of five cottages at Catterall, some local movement took place. In 1861 they were at 2 Bobbin Cottage, 1862 in Edinburgh and later at Lochee, Dundee, Scotland. Finally the family emigrated to America.

In the years following their immigration, some members of the family travelled from Kansas to re-settle in the neighbouring states of Colorado and Nebraska. Eventually, some journeyed across to California.

 

Sarah Elizabeth (Lizzie) married a Mr. Hamilton. She died from tuberculosis in 1876 aged 26, and was buried in Mount Hope Cemetery.

 

Robert S. emigrated (age 16) with his father to America in 1868 and worked as carpenter in Chicago for the first few years. These were the first Haresnapes in the USA, the other family members following in 1872.

 

Robert seemingly did not stay for any time in Kansas. In 1871 he went to Nebraska (Wahoo) and married Della Gibbs there in 1879. Della was born in 1860 in Detroit, Michigan.  (-see cemetery records below),  2 children (2400). They seem to have moved to Colorado by 1880.  The Boulder Geneological Society has a website listing the burials at the Columbia Cemetry in Boulder, Colorado, the list compiled by Mary McRoberts. These show that Robert (here as Robert E.Haresnape) died in June 1924, aged 74 and Della Gibbs Haresnape died in May 1935, aged 75.   The children were born in Boulder. Robert worked as a house carpenter (building contractor) and Della as a dressmaker at home. The couple had poor health in later life, Robert registered for blind aid in 1920, also suffering from a paralysing illness, and died in a local institution. 

An unidentified Edith A. Haresnape, born about 1860 is registered in 1920 as living in Boulder.

                                                   

Mary (Minnie) was baptised in 1853 at St.Helen Church, Garstang Lancashire (close to Catterall). She was married in 1876 in Kansas? to Samuel Castell, 2 children (2420). Samuel died in 1943 aged 91 his wife in 1944 in Smith County Kansas at a similar age. Both are buried at Mount Hope cemetery, Smith County, Kansas.

nb. Samuel Castell was also from England. he was born in 1848 to John Castell and Jane Ward. The home seems to have been in the farming area (villages Noke and Islip) north of the university city of Oxford .

                                                     

John Murray (Jack) was also baptised at Garstang. In his new life in Lebanon Kansas, he worked as a farmer. He joined the United Brethren Church at Highland and served as class leader and Sunday School Superintendent for many years. He was a farmer and married in 1885 in Kansas to Eugenia Josephine Carper. He was 29, she 27. Josephine was b. in 1858 in Craig County, West Virginia and was the youngest of 8 children. They had 4 children all sons (2440). John died in 1930 aged 73 and is buried at Mount Hope cemetery in Lebanon, Kansas. His obituary described him as "a man of noble character and amiable disposition, always standing for the right". His wife Josephine (Josie) predeceased him in 1928 aged 70 after a long period of "frail health".  Both are buried at Mount Hope cemetery, Smith County, Kansas.

 

William (Will) was born in Clitheroe Lancashire, married in Kansas to Alice, but she and her baby died in childbirth. William married Sadie Picket in 1889, Sadie being born in 1869 in Frankfort, Kansas. They had 3 children (2480). William may have been a pastor at a congregational church in Kansas in 1899. The couple presumably travelled west to California sometime after 1900, via Nebraska, where their daughter Eloise was born. William died in 1927 aged 68 in Los Angeles California, his wife in 1947 in Los Angeles aged 78.

 

Joan Agnes (Joannah at baptism) was also baptised at Garstang. She was married twice, first husband Ed Guello in 1876,  3 children, (2505) but secondly in 1890 in Kansas? to Henry Charles Weber, 3 children (2510). Following the birth of the children the family emigrated to Alberta in Canada in April 1902. Joan's husband died there in 1921, and Joan herself in 1924 aged 63 while visiting in Kansas.

 

Isobella was born in Sept. 1863 at 15 Abbey Strand, Edinburgh. She died aged two from chronic dysentery (4 weeks).

 

Christina (Tina) was born in 1869 at 3 Seaman`s Alley, Lochee, Scotland, but after her father had emigrated. (Lochee is a district of the town of Dundee.) She was a good-sized girl of 3-4 before he first saw her. She married in 1900 in Kansas? to George Ring, no children. George died in 1932, Christina in 1934 aged 66. They are both buried in Mount Hope cemetery, Smith County Kansas.

 

Thomas Haresnape junior, like his sister Christina was born in the city of Dundee in Scotland. He is listed in the 1880 USA census aged 14 and at school. He left his home in Kansas to find work. He took a job in Wyoming, herding sheep, and it was there that he lost his life in a blizzard. He was not found until the following spring by a man looking for stray stock. Thomas was identified by a ring he was wearing.

 

 

11.Children of Thomas 1819 and Anne Lee (1450)

 

1840. Thomas        b. 1841 Kendal, Westmoreland

1850. Elizabeth      b. 1843 Kendal

1860. William         b. 1845 Kirkland, Kendal.Westmoreland

1870. John              b. 1847 Kirkland. 

1880. Sarah Agnes  b. 1851 Catterall, Lancs.

1890. Robert H.      b. 1852 Catterall

 

Kirkland is a street in Kendal town.

In 1851 the Catterall census shows the family at 1 Calder Place. Thomas aged 10 was given as working at the bobbin mill which perhaps shows the hardship of the times. Elizabeth and William were listed as scholars. After their parents died in 1853 and 1856, relations including the older Lee children perhaps looked after the children. However Thomas and John seemed to have lived in Blackburn  for a period before going to live in Preston. The family must have been there in 1887 for John gives his address as 69 Whittingham St. Preston.  

 

 

Thomas was married in 1862 at Preston Parish Church to Mary Houghton (born St Michaels on Wyre, Lancs) at least 5 children (2540). The marriage certificate shows Thomas aged 21 as a plumber, and Mary aged 20 as a weaver. Both lived in Fylde Road, Preston. Mary`s father was also a plumber.

By 1871 they and their young family had settled at 1 Ashton St. in Preston. Also in the family home was Mary`s brother John aged 19, a labourer.

In 1881 the family home was at 12 Whittingham Street in Preston. Thomas died in Preston in 1894 aged 53. The 1901 census for Preston shows Mary as a widow aged 69 living at 69 Whittingham St. with four of her children. Mary died in Preston in 1926 aged 83. Thomas and Mary were buried with seven of their children in the same family grave.

   

Elizabeth no further details but an Elizabeth died in Fylde, Lancs. (near Preston) in 1868 aged 24.

 

William is believed to have signed up for the Royal Marines at Portsmouth in 1864 (when aged 18). He was discharged at an unknown date, reason not given and transferred to the Royal marine Artillery (info. from the National Archives)

John was married in 1887 at Preston St. Mark to Ann Bleasdale (born at Goosnagh). John was a labourer living at 69 Whittingham St. Preston, (so he was probably living with his brother Thomas and wife) and Ann lived at Thornley, in Chipping parish. Neither John nor Ann, both aged 40 signed the registry. One of the witnesses was Ann Lee, probably John`s half-sister.

The 1891 census shows the couple at 6 Birks Brow in Thornley with Wheatley, with John working as a quarryman. 

In the 1901 census John is shown as a general labourer and lived with his wife at Birks Brow Top at Thornley with Wheatley, (Chipping) which is which is west of Clitheroe, Lancs. Also in the house was a James Bleasdale aged 11 from Blackburn. He was listed as a visitor, but with the same surname as Ann (maiden name) was probably a relative. John died in Preston in 1912 aged 65.

 

Sarah Agnes was baptised at St. Helens Church, Garstang (close to Catterall)

 

Robert  was also baptised at Garstang, In later years he moved north to Ulverston area in Lancashire. It now seems as though he lived in the village of Sawrey and there in the Parish Church of St.Peter married Agnes Atkinson in 1879. Robert could not sign the register but Agnes did.  Agnes was born in Sawrey which is in the rural district of Ulverston. Agnes`s father was a farmer.  It had once been assumed that Robert and his wife Agnes lived in Ulverston town proper, but both the 1881 and 1891 censa give their home at Claife, which is in the same area as Sawrey. It can thus be seen that Robert had returned to the general area of his ancestors, and in both 1891 and 1901 was living with his wife at "La Chalet" and employed as a domestic gamekeeper. Robert and Agnes had one child (2590). Claife and Sawrey are situated in the beautiful Cumbrian countryside between the Lakes Windermere and Coniston. In 1905 the authoress Beatrix Potter came to live close by at the village of Near Sawrey and the countryside was used as the background for a number of her children`s books. Her home is National Trust property, as is some of the local countryside and her former home at Hill Top Farm is something of a shrine for her avid readers. 

It is believed that Robert kept hounds on the island named Belle Isle, which at 1 mile long is the largest island in Lake Windermere. It is a wooded, landscaped island and in the years that Robert was living in the area was owned by the Corwen family.

Agnes died in 1907 and he then remarried. Robert died at Ulverston in 1933 (probably Hawkshead), and his second wife at Uxbridge, Middlesex in 1951.

 

(n.b. the comedian Stan Laurel was born in the small town of Ulverston in 1890, living there until aged 11).

 

 

11.Children of William 1815 and Jeanette M. Airey (1470)

 

1900. Anne            b. 1835 Staveley             

1910. William        b. 1839 Kendal, probably Ann St.

1920. Isobella        b. 1841 Kendal, probably Ann St.

1930. James           b. 1848 Kendal, probably Ann St.

 

In 1841 Anne and William were living with their parents in Ann St. Kendal (see photo) and close to their Uncle Richard. (photo from the Margaret Duff collection and reproduced with permission of P.S.Duff). By 1851 the family were in Staveley again near to Richard, and in 1861 the whole family (apart from Anne and Mary) were in the same house as Richard at Hebblethwaite Hall, Sedbergh, Yorkshire.

                                       

Anne was married in 1860 at Sedbergh Wesleyan Chapel to Thomas Coulton, five children (2612). In 1881 Thomas was a dresser in a foundry. Ann was aged 25 years and Thomas aged 26 years. Thomas lived at Kendal at that time. Witnesses at the marriage included Isobella, Anne`s sister.

 

William married in May 1863 in  Sedbergh Wesleyan Chapel to Ann Dinsdale (christened at St. Michael's Church in Appleby town, Westmoreland). Both signed the register.Her first cousin Hannah was one of the witnesses. Both William and Ann lived at Cautley in the Sedbergh parish at the date of the marriage.  As a newly married couple, William and Anne emigrated to New Zealand (aboard the Anne Wilson), and settled in Auckland. Although a bobbin maker in England, (he would have been working in his father`s business at Hebblethwite Hall), he became a roofing contractor in New Zealand. After the birth of 4 children (2620), Anne died in 1878 aged 30 and William remarried in 1880 to Elizabeth Watson, a widow, nee McDonald born in Scotland. The union produced a further 3 children (2660). William died in Auckland aged 80 in 1919. A William Haresnape of Eden Terrace was listed in a website in connection with a large fire in May 1886. Many other addresses are mentioned and this may refer to a large fire in the area which affected many properties and persons (perhaps a forest fire?).

 

n.b. As for his parents, William sailed to New Zealand on an eventful passage. The Annie Wilson sailed from Gravesend on 31 May 1863 reaching Auckland on 19 September 1863 (about 16 weeks).

 

A description of the voyage was given in a book written by Sir Henry Brook and Henry Hook, published 1927.

To summarise, the vessel of 1118 tons sailed from Gravesend dock in London on 31st may 1863 with a full compliment of crew and 376 hopeful emigrants. There was a sick child on board who had been allowed to sail.

This seems to have led to the deaths of nine passengers including five children from scarlet fever.

In the Bay of Biscay there was a bad storm during which the sailors worked continuously for two days and nights without rest. The officers were supplied with grog (rum) but the ordinary seamen were denied this, but somehow they managed to obtain spirit from the stores. Many of the crew became intoxicated and pandemonium reigned. Some passengers were somehow involved. Fighting erupted amongst the seamen and a revolt seemed imminent. The captain was struck but managed to reach the Poop where it was possible to protect the passengers, and these were given firearms to help protect themselves. The safety of the Poop was made clear to the sailors by a declaration by the captain, and these measures proved effective.

Before the ship arrived at Auckland, the second mate who had been laid down with sickness during the mutiny and had slept with a loaded revolver by his side was able to settle the affair with a few well -aimed blows to the head of the ringleader. The captain asked some passengers to make notes for a possible subsequent investigation of the mutiny.

On arrival at Auckland, because of the danger of scarlet fever, the ship was detained outside Auckland North Head until the local Board of Health had met. Finally the ship berthed two days later but even then nobody was allowed to land until all the bedding and bedclothes of infected persons had been burned. On landing, the source of the seamen's drink was discovered to be fifteen missing cases of spirit!

 

Some of the passengers, although no doubt very relieved by their arrival at Auckland, may not have been too impressed by the immediate appearance of the town. A description of Auckland in 1862 by a G.H. Brooks referred to Queen St. having very few shops, the road being laid with very rough scoria (lava rock?), and the same material was generally used on the walkways. Verandas had no spouting and the water simply fell into a channel of clay and ran down the street. When Mr. Brooks arrived, he wanted to look his best, and like other passengers wore a top hat. The locals were amused at this as they wore simple cloth caps. William Haresnape who was a bobbin maker from the northern counties of England (rather than say a prosperous London merchant) was probably a little more prepared for the basic facilities that awaited them. This was pioneer country.

 

nb. A charity relief application was submitted by Henry Holmes in July 1918 when he was living at the home of William Haresnape in Greenwood Crescent, Epsom, Auckland, N.Z. Life would have been hard.

 

Isobella died in 1861 at Hebblethwaite Hall (aged 20) from scrofula, her father being present at her death.

   

James Haresnape emigrated with his parents in 1865 aged 17, and was known as a builder. Perhaps he worked with his brother William. He was married in 1876 (aged 28) in Auckland to Elizabeth Edwards (b. 1849 in Bradford, Yorkshire and the daughter of a schoolmaster.). James was recorded as a slater at his marriage, which was in the dwelling house of J.C.Edwards in Khyber Pass, Auckland. James and Elizabeth had four children (2690). At the marriage of his son Arthur in 1919 James (aged 71) was described as a gentleman of independent means. He died in Auckland in 1924 aged 78, and his wife Elizabeth in Auckland in 1937 aged 88.

 

11. Children of Isobella 1817 and Thomas Kennedy (1480)

 

1932. George (Kennedy)  b.1836

1933. John (Kennedy)       b.1841

1934. Jane (Kennedy)       b.1845

1935. Richard (Kennedy)  b.1851

1936.Margeret (Kennedy) b.1855

1937. Squire (Kennedy)     b.1857

1938. James (Kennedy)      b.1859

1939. Thomas (Kennedy)   b. 1862

 

George Kennedy married Emma Percival born 1836 Huddersfield. A great granddaughter of George and Emma was married in 1953 into the Van Bentum family, thus leading to descendents of Isobella Haresnape now living in the Netherlands.

John Kennedy was listed as a wood turner (also broach maker). He married Ellen Fleming.

Jane Kennedy was married to Alfred Eastwood.

Richard Kennedy died in infancy in 1852.

Squire Kennedy married to Ellen Scott. Squire was also a wood turner, and a broach maker.

James Kennedy listed as a general labourer.

Thomas Kennedy married with three children. Thomas was also listed as a broach turner and general labourer.

It is evident that a new profession of broach turning was arising in this family.

 

11.Children of Richard 1822 and Mary Eccles (1490)

 

1940. Edward Neale        b. 1840 Kendal

1950. Hannah                 b. 1842 Kendal

1960. Robert                   b. 1846 Crossthwaite, Westmoreland

1970. Mary Ann              b. 1848 Staveley

1980. Isobella                 b. 1851 Staveley

1990. Margaret Jane        b. 1854 Staveley

2000. John Richard         b. 1858 Sedbergh

2010. Margaret Jane        b. 1861 Sedbergh

                      

The first two were probably born in Back Lane. The fact that Robert was b. in Crossthwaite village suggests that Richard worked for a few years at the bobbin mill here. It is interesting that Richard's gt.gt.grandfather William 1738 died at Crossthwaite. All of the above children were baptised as Methodists.

                                        

Edward was baptised in Kendal Wesleyan. He moved with his parents to their various homes settled in Sedbergh, Yorks. He was married in 1860 at Sedbergh to Alice Metcalfe. There were three children (2730). Following the retirement of his father from the business in about 1877, Edward and his brother John Richard (2000) continued in the manufacturing of bobbins at Hebblethwaite Hall. Edward was the senior son by 17 years to John Richard (see below) so he should have been in charge of the business. Edward and Alice had the larger family including their own son John Richard (2730), who was also working as a (married) bobbin turner apprentice there in 1881. Edward died in Sedbergh in 1883 aged 42.

Note, it is assumed that sometime between 1881 and 1891, the bobbin making business at Hebblethwaite Hall came to an end. Reasons are that Edward Neale died in 1883, and his sons were shown being employed in other ways in the 1891 census. However, his brothers Robert and John Richard are shown elsewhere as bobbin turners in Sedbergh in the 1891 census (see below). Thus, the manufacturing of bobbins at Hebblethwaite kept this branch of the Haresnape family in income for at least 20 years.

                                                                    

Hannah married in 1865 in Newcastle upon Tyne to Thomas William Wilson. They had 6 children, all girls (2732). Thomas was at various times a milk dealer, a policeman and a postmaster. They lived in Leeds, later in Bishop Auckland, and in the Swaledale area of North Yorkshire (Skeeby, Gunnerside and finally Downholme). Thomas died at Downholme in 1904 aged 60. Hannah died at Downholm in 1927 aged 85.

 

Mary Ann Possibly married in 1869.

                             

Robert, in 1861 a bobbin turner working for his father married in 1879 at Sedbergh to Agnes Clark (b.1853). He would have been 33 she 26 years of age. There were 3 children (2760). Robert and his brother Edward (1940) possibly continued running their father's business after he retired to Kendal in 1877. The 1881 census for England and Wales, nor that of Scotland does not list either Robert nor his wife. Presumably they were out of the country. However, they are back in Sedbergh by 1883 where their children were born. He also appears in the 1891 census as a bobbin maker at 69 Mortarpit Cottages, Soolbank, Sedbergh. His brother John Richard was living nearby and likely to have been working for him. Robert is shown in the 1901 census as employed as a Relieving Officer in Assurance Company, and his family were living at Garden House, Sedbergh. He had clearly left the manual work of bobbin making behind and opted for more of an office-based environment. His children were to continue in that new trend of employment. Robert was also a Wesleyan Local Preacher for 58 years of his life. Robert died in 1923 aged 77, but Agnes lived on until she died in 1940 in Sedbergh (Garden House) aged 87.

                            

Isabella died in 1861 at Sedbergh aged 10.

                     

Margaret Jane 1854 died in 1859 at Sedbergh.

                    

John Richard married in 1878 at Sedbergh to Elizabeth Someone (b. Firbank 1857). They had five children (2790). Elizabeth died in 1886 and he remarried to Alice/Agnes Someone (b. Mallerday 1853), and there were two more children (2840). In 1881 he was an apprentice in his father`s business at Hebblethwaite Hall. By 1991 he was living with his family at 72 Mortarpit Cottages, Soolbank, Sedbergh (a hamlet of Sedbergh) a few doors away from his elder brother Robert. He was a bobbin turner, probably in the employ of Robert.  Like his brother Edward, John Richard died quite young at the age of 35 at Sedbergh in 1893. His widow Alice/ Agnes remarried in 1900 to James Scarr (a labourer) and the 1901 census shows them living with four of J.R.`s children in Bainbridge Terrace, Sedbergh.

                              

Margaret Jane 1861 moved with her parents to Kendal town and was married in 1886 at Kendal Holy Trinity to John Brooks, a stoker of Castle St. Kendal.

The 1891 census shows Margaret Jane and her husband (a railway stoker) living with her father Richard, now a widower, at 2 Castle Park in Kendal. Also in the house was an 18 year old lodger Sarah Brooks, perhaps a relative of John?

Margaret later inherited her father's home in Castle Park Terrace.

 

              

11.Children of Robert 1826 and Hannah Rodgers (1510)

2019  Annie          b.  about 1857   Brampton, Derbyshire

2020. Arthur         b. 1853 Walton, Chesterfield, Derbyshire

2030. Charles H.   b. 1859 Fritchley, Derbyshire

2040. Frank          b. 1861 Derby, Derbyshire

2050. John A.       b. 1864 Middleton, Derbyshire

2060. Robert        b. 1867 Middleton by Youlgrave, Derbyshire

 

Annie was recorded as a dressmaker in 1881 census for Brampton, aged 24.

She was married in 1885 to Edward Tomlinson, also of Brampton, at the Independent Chapel in nearby Walton, Derbyshire. Edward, an overlooker at a cotton factory, was  a son of William Tomlinson, a wood bobbin turner and farmer of 5 acres. Annie`s father was also a bobbin turner and farmer of 5 acres, and at least one of his sons worked at a cotton factory. Hence there were strong occupational links between the two families and they very probably knew and worked together. 

At the marriage. Edward would have been aged about 25 and Annie perhaps 28 . Edward and Annie had four children ( 2855A ). 

The family were living in Brampton at the 1901 census. Edward may have died in 1927, and Annie in 1948 aged 91.

 

Arthur died in Walton 24 Nov. 1854 aged one, and was buried at Brampton St.John Church.

 

In 1901, it appears that the three brothers Charles, Frank and John were all married and lived fairly near each other in the hamlet of Holymoorside.

Charles Herbert was listed as a wood turner in the 1881 census for Brampton. He worked at a mill at Manlover but turned to navvying when laid off. He was married in 1884 at Chesterfield to Hannah (Anne?) (Dorothy) Wright (b.1860), 2 children (2860). In the 1901 census, the family were living in 80 Gallery Lane in Holymoorside, Derbyshire. Charles was shown as a bobbin turner in a cotton mill. (His son Arthur was a dyer in a cotton mill.) Charles died in 1933, aged 74.

 

Frank was listed as employed at a cotton factory in 1881 census for Brampton. He was married in 1885 at Derby to Emma Someone who died in Jan. 1891 at Holymoorside aged 29. She was buried at Brampton St.John. He remarried in 1892 at Wingerworth to Evelyn Minnie Butler, 1 child (2880). Evelyn`s parents were William (a cashier) and Jane Butler. The 1901 census shows Frank, Evelyn and son Claude living at the Post Office, Holymoorside where his wife was a post office assistant. Frank was a foreman in a cotton mill.

In later years, Frank, Evelyn and son crossed the border into Scotland, settling at Neilston near Glasgow. Here Frank continued his work as a Foreman in the local cotton factory. Frank and his family lived at 5 Millview Terrace. Evelyn died at home in 1934 aged 64. It seems that married son Claude then went to live at this house with his father, where Frank died aged 83 in 1945.

 

John Albert, was recorded in 1881 for Brampton as employed at home as an agricultural labourer (at his father's farm). He became a horse dealer and later a publican and was married in 1896 at Chesterfield to Frances (Fanny) Hawkesworth, 2 children (2890). The family is shown in the 1901 census at Holymoorside, Brampton when John was working as a labourer in a local coal mine. In 1930 he was a licensed victualler at the Old Star Inn, Holymoorside, but became bankrupt. John died in 1939 at Chesterfield.

                                                          

Robert who was listed as a thirteen-year-old scholar at Brampton census for 1881, was married in 1898 at Ecclesall, Sheffield to Ellen Franks, 2 children (2910). In the 1901 census Robert was shown as a grocer in Hallam, Sheffield, and living at 24 Fir Street. They later moved to London where Robert died (Hendon). His wife died at Harrow in 1953 aged 81.

 

 

11. Children of John Hairsnape 1853 and Nancy Alice Howarth (1525)

2062. Elizabeth        c. 1880 Blackburn, Lancs.

2062a. Elizabeth      b. 1882 (Blackburn)

2063. Fred               b.1881 Blackburn

2065. Thomas          b.1883 Blackburn

2067. Jane               b.1885  Blackburn 

2068. Rebecca         b.1887  Blackburn

 

An Elizabeth Hairsnape died aged 1 in Blackburn in 1883. I have placed her conditionally above as 2062a.

Elizabeth (later child?) was recorded as a cotton weaver in 1901 census. She  was married in 1910 at Blackburn to James Parkington, one son (2921).

 

When Fred was at school, his teacher insisted that he spelt his name correctly (i.e. the Haresnape form!) which he did, but on leaving school he reverted back to the Hairsnape spelling.

Fred was recorded as a brewer`s clerk in the 1901 census. He was married in 1908 at St. Thomas Church, Blackburn to Elizabeth Hart, two children (2923). Elizabeth, born 1885 in Burnley was the daughter of William Ingram Hart and Ellen Layland.

Fred became a wine and spirit merchant in Buchanan St. in Blackpool.

He was a quiet gentle man, and when he became very ill with kidney failure never revealed how sick he was. He was declared bankrupt two weeks prior to his death at his workplace in 1926 aged 44. He was buried at Layton Cemetery, Blackpool.

Elizabeth`s close relations bought her a grocer shop in Accrington. They also bought back her furniture so she could make a living. Elizabeth died in 1969.

 

Thomas was recorded as a building contractor`s clerk in 1901 census. He was married in 1908 at St.Thomas Parish Church in Blackburn to Ada Prescott. Ada was not given a profession at her marriage. Her father James was described as a taper. One of the witness`s at the wedding was Fred, Thomas`s brother. Thomas and Ada had two children (2925).

 

Jane was recorded as a cotton weaver in 1901 census. She was married in 1915 at St.Thomas Church, Blackburn to Joseph William Atkinson.

 

Rebecca was born at 164 Audley Grange/ Range.  She may have been named in memory of her father`s sister who had died aged 24 a few months before. Young Rebecca died aged about 3 months?

 

 

11.Children of Robert Edward Hairsnape 1855 and Margaret Eddleston(1530)

 

2069. Mary Ann       b. 1883 Blackburn

2070. Edwin             b. 1885 Blackburn, 

2075. John               b. 1886 Blackburn                  

2080. Robert E.       b. 1889  Blackburn

2100. Alice               b. 1894  Blackburn

        

Also there is possibly a Maggie and a May born to this family in 1892 at Blackburn. The surname was recorded in the Haresnape form, but seems to have reverted back to the Hairsnape spelling (in some cases).

In 1901 census, the family  were living in Canal House, Eanam (lane?) in Blackburn, as Haresnapes.

 

Mary Ann was likely to have been given her Christian name after her grandmother Mary Ann Young. Mary was listed in 1901 as living at her parent`s home aged 17 as a cotton weaver. Mary married Peter Taylor in 1909 at the United Reformed Church in Westbury Gardens, Blackburn.  She died in 1962.

 

Edwin  was recorded in the 1901 census aged 16 as a cotton weaver. He was married in 1910 to Emma Sharples at the parish church of Holy Trinity, Blackburn, but like many of his age was killed in the First World War at the Second Battle of the Somme in April 1918. His name appears on the Pozieres Memorial, France. 

Emma may have remarried in 1922 to Richard Eastwood at the Congregational Church, Chapel Street in Blackburn.

 

John was recorded aged 14 as a cotton spinner. He probably married Elizabeth Dewhurst in 1916 at Holy Trinity Church, Blackburn.

 

Robert Edward married May Turner in 1919 at Old Fylde in Blackpool. And thus they moved away from Blackburn to settle in the Blackpool and Fylde region. There were two children (2930). Robert died in 1960 aged 70. 

 

Alice married Frederick Barlow in 1923 at the parish church of Holy Trinity in Blackburn. She died in 1993 aged 98.

            

 

11.Children of Captain John Raymond and Anne Nichol

 

There were a total of 9 children.

 

 Amy Raymond (Nichol) b. say 1860.

 Amy married a Mr. Tozer, one child (3755).

 

  

Twelfth Generation

 

12.Children of Robert 1838 and Fanny Bracewell Langdon (1580)

 

2115. Mary (Frances) b. 1869 Caton

 

Mary’s birth was registered at Lunedale. Mary's mother died in Bradford, (perhaps during childbirth?) and Mary as a young child followed her father Robert and grandparents to Caton before being recorded with them at 12 Hudson St., Wigan, at the time of the 1871 and 1881 census. Mary was married in 1897 at Wigan to William Henry Makinson (a Bricklayer). It is notable that William was in the building trade, which some of this particular Haresnape family section were now involved in. Mary was described as a Tailoress at that date. The marriage was at the New Jerusalem Church in Wigan, and one of the witnesses was William Haresnape, probably Mary`s cousin (2120), below. It would seem quite a number of the Haresnapes were in Wigan at this time.

     

12.Children Of Thomas 1842 and Ellen Littlewood (1600)

 

2120. William          b. 1867 Caton, Lancashire

 

Initially the family lived at 90 Park St. Derby, but as mentioned elsewhere, in 1901 the family had set up their wood turning business just down the road and  living at 33 Park St.

William moved with his father to Derby after the death of his mother in 1870. Here his father remarried and by 1881 William lived with his father and stepmother Catherine, and his younger brother and sister. William was known as a woodworking machinist and in 1883 as he was 16 years old, he would have helped his father in the newly set up business. He was married in 1903 in Derby area to Annie Elizabeth Pratt. Annie was also in business in Derby, she and her sister running a successful dressmaking concern and employing 20 assistants. The workroom was on the third floor of their home. At this time it is believed that William himself had a sawmill in Derby. In 1903/4 William, his wife and her family sold their businesses and emigrated to South Africa settling in Pietermaritzburg in Natal. Photo of William: images/William(2120).JPG

 His wife gave birth to two children (2950). After the Boer War (1899-1902) there was a depression and jobs were hard to find, so William took on any work available. In later years, in the 1930s he built up a fine  workshop, gradually adding the necessary woodworking machines but never quite setting up in business on  his own, and when his wife died of cancer in 1933 he sold his workshop to a local builder. After this time he  lived with his daughter, William dying in 1940 aged 73.

   

 

12.Children of Thomas 1842 and Catherine Beeton (1600)

 

2130. Emmeline M.  b. Derby 1874

2140. Albert James   b. Derby 1877

2150. John Richard   b. 1879

 

In the 1901 census, the family lived at 33 Park St., Derby.

Emmeline Mary married George Henry Barnsley at Derby in 1907, 1 child (2970). She is thought to have died in Harrogate, Yorkshire in 1952.

Albert James was born at 90 Park St. Derby. He died in infancy 1877.

 

John Richard lived in Derby with his parents and sister and stepbrother William. He would have been trained in the skills of woodworking by his father and continued to run the business after his father's death in 1913. The work involved the manufacture of various types of wooden bobbins for the art silk trade. The business continued in total for more than 60 years but was finally sold after the Second World War to an engineering company. This would have been the last time that Haresnapes were involved in bobbin making, a trade that had kept them employed for over 150 years. John Richard was married in 1906 at Derby to Bertha Mary White, two children (2980). They lived at Mickleover, Derbyshire. John Richard died in 1959 at Chapel en le Frith aged 80, his wife in 1951 at Shardlow.

                                                              

 

12.Children of William Nickal 1854 and Janet Chalmers Browne (1640)

 

2160. Herbert Nickal       b. 1880 Liverpool

2170. Arthur George        b. 1882 Chirk, nr. Oswestry

2180. William Ewart        b. 1884 Birkenhead

2190. Ernest Robert        b. 1886 Liverpool

2200. Agnes Nickal         b. 1888 Liverpool

2210. Robert Charles       b. 1890 Liverpool

2220. Jane Hume Nickal  b. 1893 Liverpool

2230. Archibald               b. 1895 Liverpool

2240. Emily Gertrude      b. 1895 ditto

2250. Albert V. Stanley    b. 1897 ditto

2260. Alfred Howard       b. 1899 ditto

 

In the 1901 census, the family were living at 65 Fairview Place, Toxteth Park in Liverpool.  

When their father died in 1902 aged 48, the children's ages ranged from 22 down to 3 and Herbert apparently assumed the role of male head of the family.

In later years the brothers who were all in the building trade built in their spare time a bungalow (mainly of wood) at Irby in the Wirral, and this still stands.

There is an interesting photo  taken on a day out which includes all  six surviving adult brothers. They are sitting in the right end of the front row of the photo with Bert at the extreme right and Arthur George next to him.   

 

Herbert (Bert) was in the building trade, as a joiner (carpenter) but was better known as a swimmer. In fact his name is part of the swimming history of England. His talent lay in the backstroke and he was the British Champion in 1908. He was selected for the 1908 Olympic Games held in London and won a bronze medal in the 100 metres. (see photo)   He also competed in the 1912 Olympic Games in Stockholm. As it was expected to be very cold he trained in the coldest waters that he could find - the Liverpool docks and also in the Lake District where the team had to break the ice before swimming. On arriving at Stockholm the team were greeted with steam rising from the surface of a heated pool! Needless to say he wasn't very successful. Bert's swimming career also involved lifesaving training and he was also a member of "the well nigh invincible Liverpool South Hill Swimming and Water Polo teams". His Olympic medal has been listed as unique for no other male British Backstroke swimmer has one a medal since (as at 2004). Bert's medals are on display in the A.S.A. headquarters in Loughborough. Bert was married in 1914 at All Saints Church Wigan to Martha Hudson, one child (3000). Bert lived for many years in Upton in the Wirral, Cheshire. Here his home was named "Acton" after the site of the London Olympics. Bert remained very fit in his later years, and he died in late 1962, aged 82.

n.b. It seems likely that Herbert swam and trained in the Baths at Garston, Liverpool. These baths were built in 1906, and they are represented in a BBC television drama series (Lilies). The series also gives an impression of life in that part of Liverpool in 1920.

Arthur George was probably born while his mother Janet was visiting her mother Agnes Browne at Chirk on the Welsh-English border (near Oswestry). Arthur was born at 1 Lwyn-y-Cil, close to Chirk Castle.  Janet`s father George had died in 1871, his occupation given as gardener. It is quite possible that he was employed on the Castle Estate, though this has not been verified.

Like his father and brothers, Arthur George was involved in the building trade, but as a plumber. It is known that he worked for a shipping company before the War.  In the First World War he served as a Sapper with the Royal Engineers in Mesopotamia (modern day Iraq). He was married (see photo) in 1902 in Liverpool to Florence Seel (b.Toxteth, Liverpool in 1882), 11 children (3010). Florence died in 1935 aged 53 and in 1936 he remarried to Miriam Haresnape who was his younger brother Robert's widow (Robert also died in 1931). In Liverpool in his early years of marriage he lived at 7 Grafton Street then later at 6 Cope St., and apparantly at 40 Park Place, nearby. Liverpool was heavily bombed during the Second World War and like a number of other Haresnapes he moved away from the city. He lived for a number of years at Rainhill with his wife and stepdaughter Elizabeth. His wife died in 1950 aged 59 and Arthur in 1955 aged 73.

 

William Ewart (see photo, William at rear)  would have been named after William Ewart Gladstone, famous Liverpool politician and several times Prime Minister. William was also in the building trade, and like his father was a joiner (carpenter). William was married in 1916 at Liverpool S. to Elizabeth Mary Jones (b. 1894). Elizabeth (Lizzie) was the sister of William Jones who was married to Agnes, William Ewart's sister. In the 1940s they lived at 10 Rock Hill Rd., Woolton in Liverpool. He died in 1949, she in 1969 Wirral.

 

Ernest Robert died aged 5 in 1892

                             

Agnes Nickal (see photo) was married in 1933 at Toxteth, St.Michael`s Church, Toxteth, Liverpool  to William Isaac Jones (b. 1889), no children. Her first work was in a shoe shop and later worked as a postmistress. In the 1914-18 War, Agnes at one time worked as a "clippie" on the local trams. In later years, William and Agnes opened a fish and chip shop near the Anglican Cathedral in Liverpool. He was quite ambitious and although at first a clerk in a Liverpool shipping office, studied at night school and by the 1930s had become a builder, eventually building an estate of semi-detached houses at Eastham in Cheshire. William was also a Methodist Lay preacher. He built his own home in Bromborough where the couple lived until he died in 1963. Agnes died in 1977 aged 89.

                              

Robert Charles, who was a fireman married in 1920 at Toxteth, Liverpool to Miriam Culwick (b.1891 West Derby), one child (3110). At some time they lived at 36 Cleopas St. in the Dingle area of Toxteth, Liverpool. Robert died in 1931 aged 41 and his widow remarried in 1936 to Robert`s brother Arthur.

                             

Jane Hume Nickal died in 1898 aged 5.

                                                

Archibald and Emily Gertrude were twins. They both died in 1896 at Toxteth.

 

Albert Victor Stanley (see photo) was given his Victor name in the 60th anniversary year of Queen Victoria. In the First World War he served as aGunner with the Royal Field Artillery. He became a shipwright with the Mersey Docks and Harbour Board in Liverpool. He was married in 1919 at High Park St. Registry Office, Toxteth, Liverpool to Louise Foulder, 3 children (3120). They lived at 4, Blomfield Rd. in Liverpool. Louise died 1963 in Liverpool, and Albert in 1986.

 

Alfred Howard, (Alf) had a milk round in his early years at school. He used to carry a churn from Dingle tramsheds to near the Cathedral a mile or so away, and in the old manner served the milk out using a measure. If he was late for school he would be beaten, this being the norm during those days. In the winter to earn a few pennies he would tie the laces of the "toffs" skating on Sefton Park Lake. (Alf's life in those days was perhaps fairly representative of other children's experiences). Alf was also a keen football player and was at one time captain of local teams. From an early age he had only one eye and so was unfit for service in the Forces. Leaving school at 13, he became a plumber by trade, and in his training worked on the Liver Birds, which sit atop the Liver Buildings - a well-known Liverpool landmark. He was, like many others unemployed during the Depression. His search for work took him to Macclesfield in Cheshire where he lodged with his future wife's mother. He married Florence Mary Fare in 1935(b. Macclefield in 1903) and there were three children (3150). They lived in Woolton, Liverpool until just after the Second World War and then moved to the new estate at Speke, where there was a great phase of council house building.  Alfred was made General Foreman at this time. Here they lived first at 25a Speke Church Rd but by 1960s were at 36 Wood End Lane, Speke.  In 1970 Alfred and his wife moved to Cambridge, living with his son who was working in that area. Florence died in Cambridge in 1982 aged 79, and Alfred in Bedfordshire in 1986 aged 86.

  

 

12. Children of George 1851 and Mary (or Catherine) J. Noad (1660)

 

2262. Margaret A.       b. 1880 Bradford.

2263. Jane Elizabeth    b. 1887 Bradford

2265. Richard                b. 1893 Bradford

2267. Johanna               b. 1898 Bradford

Jane was christened Hairsnape, but Johanna as Haresnape.

 

Jane died aged about two in 1889.

 

Richard died aged about two in 1895

 

In 1901 George and Mary were living with their two surviving daughters at 6 Spink Street in Bradford.

George was listed as a bobbin turner and Margaret was a backwash minder at a woollen mill.

 

Johanna married? and had two children (3185).

 

 

12.Children of William 1846 and Margaret Levett (1690)

 

2270. Joseph Aloysius b. 1863 Preston, Lancs

2280. Robert               b. 1866 Preston

2281. John                  b. 1867 Preston

2283. Sarah Ellen        b. 1871 Preston

2285. Sarah Ellen        b. 1872 Preston

2290. John                  b. 1875 Blackburn, Lancs

2291. Agnes                b. 1877 Blackburn

2292. Margaret            b. 1880 Blackburn

2293. Mary                  b. 1882 Blackburn

2295. William              b 1887 Blackburn.

 

Although the family at first lived in Preston, by 1881 they were residing at 13 Whittaker St. in Blackburn.

 

Joseph`s birth was at 209 Ribbleton Lane, Preston. He was listed as a labourer in a Blackburn cloth warehouse in 1881 but at the time of his wedding was cotton "looker". He married in January 1885 at St.George Presbyterian Church, Blackburn to Rachel Hamilton, a cotton weaver, from a neighbouring street. Rachel and her parents (George Hamilton being a Whitesmith by trade) were originally from Liverpool. Joseph and Rachel had at least 1 child (3180). Joseph also fathered three children with Jane Duckworth (3182). Their marriage was in 1894 at Burnley Registry Office.  The first two children seemed to have been named after his brother Robert`s famous team-mate, Willam Townley click , who played at Blackburn Rovers in the same season.

The locations in 1901 of Joseph, Rachel, Jane nor children have not been identified. Rachel died in Blackburn in 1934 aged 69. Joseph died in Preston aged 80 in 1944. Jane, was present at his death. Jane died in Royston, Preston in 1965 at the age of 92.

                       

Robert’s birth was at 159 Fletcher Road, Preston. In 1871, Robert aged 5 was recorded living with his grandfather Robert in Preston He was at first a labourer in a cloth warehouse, and may have worked alongside his brother. At his wedding he was described as an overlooker. He was married in May 1895 at St. James` Parish Church, Blackburn to Charlotte Ratcliffe, a weaver. The certificate shows that Robert was of 4 Hardy St., and Charlotte of 61 Shaw St.(both Blackburn). Her father Watts Ratcliffe was a spinner. Robert and Charlotte had 5 children (3190). In the 1901 census the couple were living at 35 Pemberton St. in Blackburn with their three youngest children. Robert was described as a cotton tape sizer. In fact his eldest son William Watts Haresnape was to continue in this same trade.

 

Robert was also a professional footballer, probably one of the first, as before 1888 the game was played on an amateur basis. In the 1888-1889 season he played for Blackburn Rovers, mainly in the no. 7 position. In 9 appearances in the League, he scored 2 goals, but fared better in the F.A. Cup making 4 appearances and scoring 6 goals. In the Cup game against Aston Villa on 3 Mar 1889 they beat Aston by 8 goals to 1, Robert scoring 3 of these. In fact he was the team's top scorer in the Cup that year. Blackburn got as far as the semi - final replay when Wolves won 3 goals to 1. Robert transferred to Burnley in 1889 and played for them until 1891. (see photo) At Burnley he made 27 appearances in the league scoring 7 goals and 1 appearance in the Cup. From Burnley he transferred to a lesser club, Irwell Springs and here probably ended his football career. Robert died in 1951.

       

 John died in 1869 aged about two years.

 

Sarah Ellen (2283) died as an infant in 1871 (note her eldest brother Robert was living with his grandfather)                     

       

Sarah Ellen (2285) married in 1900 at Blackburn.                             

  

John died in Blackburn in 1885 aged about ten.

 

Margaret married in Blackburn in 1904.

William, an Iron Turner and Fitter aged 23 was married in 1910 at Chapel Street Congregational Church to Margaret Riley. Margaret also from Blackburn was a Cotton Weaver, her father James also a Cotton Weaver.

 

 12.Children of Sarah Anne 1848 and Robert Aspden (1700)

 

2300. Ada Florence born Preston.

Ada married Peter Barraclough, one son  Philip born 1908.

 

 

12.Children of Agnes 1856 and James Taylor (1730)

2310. Arthur R.(Taylor)          b. 1885 Fallowfield, Manchester

2320. Albert E.(Taylor)          b. 1887 Greenhayes, Manchester

2330. Sarah M.(Taylor)           b. 1889 Chorlton on Medlock, Manchester

2340. Rowland (Taylor)          b. 1890 Chorl. on Med.

2350. Eveline (Taylor)            b. 1891 Chorl. on Med.

2360. Bernard G.(Taylor)       b. 1893

2370. Ethel G.(Taylor)           b. 1895 Moss Side, Manchester

2380. Ethel V. (Taylor)           b. 1897 Moss Side

2390. Gwendoline M.(Taylor) b. 1899 Moss Side        

 

Arthur Robert was married to Henrietta ?, one child.

 

Albert Edward, a co secretary and director of a cinema chain in South Wales and West of England, was married  in ? at ? to May Gaukroger, the daughter of a prosperous Manchester Gent. They had 2 children, born after 1907.

                         

Sarah Mabel married Joseph O'Rourke, 1 child.

 

Rowland while collecting wood for bonfire celebrations (Guy Faulkes Night) suffered a cut on his leg. He contracted blood poisoning (tetanus?) and died aged 10 on 8 Nov 1900.               

  

Eveline married Arthur William Bates. They ran drapery and gent's outfitters businesses at Northenden, and had one child born after 1907.

        

Bernard Gladstone, who must have been named after the British Prime Minister of the time, married Alice Sandiford of Rochdale. One child born after 1907.

                                                     

Ethel Gertrude died in infancy 1896.

  

Ethel Victoria was born in 1897 and therefore given her name from Queen Victoria's diamond jubilee year. She married Thomas Henry Bates and they had one child.                         

 

Gwendoline Mary was married in 1925 at Manchester to William Warhurst, (b.1895) one child (3240). In later years, Gwendoline and her husband moved to join their son in Nottingham where Gwendoline died in 1978 aged 79 and William in 1984 aged 89.

  

                  

12.Children of Robert S. and Della Gibbs (1760)

 

2400. Gertrude Belle    b.   1880 Boulder, Colorado, U.S.A.

2410. Louis                  b. say 1880s Boulder

 

Gertrude was married in 1906 at Boulder, Colorado to Harry Beach Smiley, 3 children (3250), and they lived in Boulder

 

Louis was known to have served in the US army. He left Boulder at some time presumably for California. He was killed by a car, crossing a road in Los Angeles - He would have been quite old. No marriage information.

12.Children of Mary 1854 and Samuel Castell (1770)

 

2420. Adelaide Zenobia (Castell)     b.1876 Chicago, Illinois

2430. Lucy    (Castell)                      b. before 1880 Illinois

 

Adelaide (Addie) married Will Albert Fair in Fremont, Nebraska, 3 children. Will was born in 1877, and died in Kansas following a farming accident. Adelaide became ill in later life and went to California to stay with her daughter. Adelaide died in 1952 in Modesto, California. Both Will and Adelaide are buried in Oakland Chapel of Pines, Oakland California.  

Lucy Castell died in infancy.   

 

 

 12.Children of John Murray 1856 and Eugenia Josephine Carper. (1780)

 

2440. Robert S.          b. 1886  Lebanon, Kansas

2450. Lee  Wade        b. 1891  Lebanon, Kansas

2460. John V.             b. 1887 Lebanon, Kansas

2470. William  J.         b. 1893 Lebanon, Kansas

 

Robert Seamore (Bob) like his father and grandfather continued the trade of farmer in Smith County. In his early years he also trained and worked as a barber. He married Ruth Wilhemeina Crocker in 1908 at Mankato in Kansas, 3 children (3280). Ruth who was born in 1890 taught school for over 40 years in various rural schools in Smith County while raising her three sons. Ruth died in 1972 aged 82 and Robert in 1973 aged 87, both in Lebanon.

 Lee married Jessie Mae Carper (born 1891 and perhaps related to his mother) at Decatur in Kansas in 1913, at least 2 children (3310). Lee seems to have moved to live in California with his family sometime after 1914 and died in Alameda in 1954 aged 62. Jessie probably died in Oberlin, Kansas in 1968.

John Van Buren was married in about 1910 in Lebanon, Kansas to Viola Upp, 1 child (3330). Vi died and John remarried to Hazel Haxton, in 1928, 2 children (3340). John died in Lebanon in 1967 aged 85. Hazel died in Lebanon in 1987 aged 94.

William James married Dorothy Helen Crocker in 1917 in Lebanon, Kansas, 5 children (3360). Dorothy was Ruth Crocker's sister and she was also a teacher. William died in 1977 in Lebanon.

 

 

12. Children of William 1859 and Sadie Picket (1790)

 

2480. Val                     b say 1900 Kansas

2490. Leo                    b. 1891 Kansas

2500. Eloise H.           b. 1902 Nebraska

Val married Geneva T. "Someone", (born 1893 in Illinois), no children.

Val was a motor racing enthusiast and in 1926/7  was the secretary of the American Automobile Association Contest Board. He was closely involved in the historical records of motor racing in the USA.

In the spring of 1930 the couple went to Florida where Val was superintending the speed trials of Kaye Don who was attempting to break Major Henry Segrave`s World Land Speed Record. It is reported that Val was a chief mechanic.      However he became ill with scarlet fever. Geneva took him home, but having had a previous heart condition Val died a week later at the age of 30. Geneva did not remarry but settled in San Diego, California and died there in 1975 aged 82.

nb. It is claimed in the family history that before the event, Edsel Ford was a house guest with Val. This story contains  grains of truth, for Edsel who was the son of Henry Ford, and the President of the Ford Motor Company was also keen on fast sporty cars. He was also about the same age as Val. The two motor car enthusiasts should certainly have known of each other`s existence and may well have met.

nb. The pursuit of the World Land Speed Record in the years 1924-1935 saw a continuing rivalry between Henry Segrave and Malcolm Campbell, both from Britain. There were other contenders for the record including Kaye Don, also from Britain. In the earlier years the attempts were made on the best stretch of flat beach in that country, but as the cars became faster, the attempts had to be transferred  abroad, and in the 1930s the beach at Daytona, Florida was found suitable. The use of local advice, expertise and other facilities would have been a pre-requisite. Kaye`s attempt at the record was unsuccessful. A photo of the car that Kaye Don drove at Daytona in 1930 can be seen at  click

 

Leo was born on Christmas Day, 1891. He married but had no family. He died in 1969 in El Monte, Los Angeles aged 77.

Eloise married Ellsworth Sype, one child (3410).  Eloise died in Los Angeles in 1988 aged 85.
                                  

 

12.Children of Joan Agnes 1861 and Ed Guello (1800)

 

2505. Walter

2506. Minnie May

2507. William

 

There were two very sad deaths in this family. Walter, when still a young child drank what he thought was water, but it was a liquid lye that a neighbour had left on the table. Minnie May, just eight years old also died from poisoning, this happening when she ate a wild parsnip root which she thought was an artichoke, and died before it was possible to obtain a doctor. It perhaps should be appreciated that in those times, especially in country areas, health and other services that we now take for granted were simply not available.

William grew to manhood and was married to Margaret. They had one daughter.

 

 

12.Children of Joan Agnes 1861 and Henry Charles Weber (1800)

 

2510. Henry Charles (Weber) Jr. b. say 1890s Smith County, Kansas

2520. Bertha Louse (Weber)       b. Kansas

2530. Estella Christina (Weber)  b. 1896 Webster County, Nebraska.

                                                             

The children were raised in Kansas and then from 1902 in Alberta, Canada.

 

Henry Jr. died in 1918. He must have been in his late twenties or early thirties.

 

Bertha was married in Alberta to John Bigam, 3 children born after 1907. Bertha died in 1941.

 

Estella (Stella) was married in 1916 in Alberta to John Frederick Zimmerman, (born 1888 in Marshall County, Kansas), 4 children born after 1907. Her husband died in Red Deer, Alberta Canada, 1965. Stella provided much of this early information about the American branch of the family in a letter to Gene Haresnape. She would have been perhaps 80 at that time. Her contributions have been invaluable in drawing up a history of the Haresnapes in the USA.

 

12.Children of Thomas 1841 and Mary Houghton (1840)

 

2540. John Henry                     b. 1863 Blackburn, Lancs.

2550. Ann Lee                          b. 1865 Blackburn

2560. Richard                            b. 1867 Preston

2570. Jane                                 b. 1868 Preston

2580. Edith  Louisa                   b. 1870 Preston

2581. Thomas                           b. 1872 Preston

2585 Richard                             b. 1874 Preston

2584. Mary Eleanor                   b.  say 1878 Preston

2585. Herbert                            b. say 1881 Preston

2585A. Thomas                        b. 1876 Preston

2586 Agnes Alice                       b. say 1884 Preston

 

In 1863, when the first child was born, the family Thomas and Mary`s address was in Fylde Road, Preston.

By 1871, Thomas, Mary and the younger children were at 1 Ashton St. in Preston. In 1881 they lived at 12 Whittingham St. in Preston.

John Henry (surname Hairsnape at birth), a plumber like his father, was married in 1893 at Ormskirk, Lancashire (actually at St.Andrew`s Parish Church, Southport) to Mary Hughes, 3 children (3419). The couple were living in a terrace cottage in Southport.  Mary was born in Holyhead in North Wales, and her father was a Clerk. At John Henry’s marriage he was registered with the spelling Hearsnep? They lived in Blackburn and later in Preston where John died in 1944, aged 80. In 1901 the census shows John and Mary living at 57 Whittingham Street in Preston.

The 1901 census also reveals that John Henry`s mother Mary now aged 69 and a widow, was living at no. 69Whittingham Street  with four of her grown-up children (Ann Lee, Mary Eleanor,  Herbert and Agnes Alice). All of these were unmarried and working as weavers in the local cotton mill.

Two doors down the street lived Edith Louisa who was married to John Foster(a cotton weaver). Living with them was their two year old daughter Mary Haresnape Foster.

At this time then, Mary`s  married children remained very close by her with their own children. 

 

Ann Lee Haresnape took her name from her grandmother Ann Lee. In the 1881 census she was a cotton weaver aged 16. She did not marry.

 

Richard (2560) died in 1868.

 

Edith Louisa married at Preston in 1897 to John Foster, one child (see above)

 

Thomas (2581) died in Prston in 1875 aged 2.

 

Richard (2582) died about two weeks after Thomas in 1875.

 

Mary Eleanor married in 1902 at Preston. Husband not known (possibly a Mr.Nabarro?)

Herbert died in 1931 at Preston aged 51. He was probably unmarried.

 

Thomas (2585A) died in Preston in 1883 at Preston aged 7. 

 

Agnes Alice remained unmarried. In later years she lived at Bath St. in Preston. She died in 1959 in hospital in Preston, aged 75. 

All but John Henry, Edith Louisa, and Mary Eleanor were interred in the Preston family grave with their parents. 

 

 12.Children of Robert 1852 and Agnes Atkinson (1890)

2590. Sarah Ann b. Ulverston, Lancs.

 

Sarah died there in 1907.

             

 

12.Children of Robert 1852 and Sarah Alice Basford (1890)

 

2600.  born after 1907.

2610.  born after 1907.

 

12. Children of Ann 1835 and Thomas Coulton (1900)

 

2612. Jane Eliza (Coulton) b. 1861 Kendal

2613. William James (Coulton) b. 1863 Kendal

2614. Isabella Mary (Coulton) b .1866 Kendal

2615. Miles Henry (Coulton) b. 1868 Kendal

2616. Mary Ann (Coulton) b. 1872 Kendal

 

Jane married Robert Grisedale (b.1862 Kendal) in 1881. There were nine children, born in Kendal between 1882 and 1900. These were Annie, Mary Ellen, Eleanor, Joseph, Thomas, John, Janet, Robert, and Violet.

The family initially lived in Captain French Lane, then later in Highgate, Kendal.

 

12.Children Of William 1839 and Anne Dinsdale (1910)

 

2620. Mary Ann b. 1867

2630. James Squire b. 1869 Auckland, N/Z

2640. Ernest b. 1870

2650. Robert Edward b. 1874/5

 

Mary Anne married Donald McDonald, nine children (3428A ). Donald was born in Argyllshire, Scotland in 1856.

Donald and Mary had a farm at Matahura valley in the Waikato. Mary Anne died in 1940 at Titirangi, six months before the death of her husband at Hoe o Tainui in 1940. Note, however, the date on Donald`s grave in Huntly reads August 1942.

nb. The Haresnapes and the McDonalds seem to have been quite interrelated as Donald McDonald`s sister Elizabeth was the second wife of William Haresnape (1910).

Also Donald and Elizabeth McDonald`s mother Christine had the maiden name of McColl,  which was the same as the maiden name of William Haresnape`s (1910) stepmother Mary McColl. Mary was the second wife of William Haresnape (1470) following the death of his first wife Jeanette Mary Airey.

 

James Squire married Matilda Mary Webb, 5 children (3430). She was b. in New Zealand but her parents were from Bo'ness on Windermere in the English Lake District, and we must wonder if they knew the Haresnapes who lived there. James died in 1934 aged 65 and his wife in 1926.

 

Ernest (perhaps a twin of James) was married in say 1900 in Auckland to Ida Burrows (b. 1881), 1 child (3480). Ernest died in 1935 aged 67, she in 1934.

 

Robert Edward at age 8 was living at Kyber Pass, Auckland. He was admitted to Auckland provincial Hospital with Scarlatina (Scarlet Fever), and discharged after about 3 weeks. Robert a farmer at Onoke, Rowene, Hokianga was married in 1901 (a week before Christmas) to Elizabeth Adeline Augustus Freese, 6 children (3490). Robert died in 1941.   

 

 

12.Children of William 1839 and Elizabeth Watson (1910)

2660. Jessie Mary Christina    b. 1881 Auckland

2670. Donald Duncan           b. 1885  ditto

2680. Archibald McDonald   b. 1888  ditto

 

William's wife's Scottish origins seem to have had some influence in the selection of Christian names!

 

Jessie was married in 1908 to Patrick Charles White (born 1873), 2 children (3550). Patrick died in 1957 aged 84 and Jessie in 1976 aged 95.

 

Donald was married in 1912 in Auckland to Edith Alice Simpkin (b. 1889) one child (3570). Elizabeth died in 1948 aged 59, Donald in 1971 aged 89 (seems to have outlived his son).

 

Archibald McDonald received his middle name from his mother's maiden name. He was married in 1919 in Auckland to Isobel Tozer (b. St.Andrews or at Timaru, Canterbury in N/Z in 1892, 1 child (3580). His wife trained as a nurse in Napier during World War 1. The 1918 epidemic of influenza? found her both as a nurse and a patient. She later organised and ran a temporary hospital in Pukekohe, later taking charge of Te Huni private hospital in New Plymouth. In 1923 she published a popular book on home nursing and in later years wrote a biography of her grandfather Captain John Raymond for a New Zealand newspaper. Archibald died in 1957 aged 69 at home in Titirangi, and his wife in 1984 aged 92.

 

  

12.Children of James 1848 and Elizabeth Edwards (1930)

 

2690. Lilian Elsie                 b. 1877 Auckland

2700. Isobel Jane                 b. 1880 Auckland

2710. Percival Harcourt       b. 1881 Auckland

2720. Arthur Stanley            b. 1890 Auckland

 

Lilian Elsie appears to have been a spinster and died in 1969 aged 92.

                                                                

Isobel also was a spinster. She died in 1939 (Boxing Day) aged 59.

     

Percival served in the First World War in the Otago Regiment. He was killed on the Somme in France in Sep 1916.

The War  Grave details are known.

 

Arthur Stanley, a chemist and factory manager? of 8 Awara St., Auckland was married in 1919 at St.Lukes Church, Mount Albert to Hilda Beatrice Carley 1900, one child (3590). Hilda, a school teacher was the daughter of an army officer(Joseph Carley). She  died in 1928 aged 36 and  was buried at Waikumite cemetery. Arthur remarried  to Isabell Willmette (b. 1905), one child (3600). Isabell was an accountant. She died in 1976.
  

 

12.Children of Edward 1840 and Alice Metcalfe (1940)

2730. John Richard             b. 1861 Sedbergh, Yorkshire                     

2740. Selina Alice                b. 1864 Sedbergh

2750. Alfred Whiteman       b. 1867

2755. Ernest Eccles             b. 1871

 

It should be noted that the two brothers Edward (1940) and John Richard( 2000) both lived with their respective families in the two parts of Hebbelthwaite Hall.

In theory, the Haresnape children who lived in the market town of Sedbergh could have benefited from a good education at the ancient Sedbergh Grammar school. This dated from 1550 and had connections to St. John College in Cambridge University, the school headmaster by tradition being selected by the College. However the years 1862 to 1874 were poor ones for the school, and to correct the situation the school became independent in 1874 and was much improved. It is still in operation today.

 

In 1881, John Richard was aged 19 and a bobbin turner`s apprentice in his father`s manufacturing business. John Richard married Mary J. Capstick, (born 1859) four children (3610). She was with John Richard as his wife in 1881 at Hebblethwaite Hall.

In the 1891 census, John Richard was resident at nearby Ghyll Farm where he was a farmer and drove a mail gig. A photo of John at about that date can be seen at images/John Richard.(2730).JPG

Note that a Henry Capstick aged 14 (therefore born around 1877) was working as a farm labourer in the next property in the 1891 census schedule.

In 1895, though, John Richard`s farm must have experienced problems and he became bankrupt. He left the Sedbergh area and is next seen in Liverpool.

In the 1901 census there, John Richard,  his wife and daughter Jane were registered as living in Liverpool at 74 Andrew St. in the Walton area. John was employed as an electric tram driver. Also in the house was a lodger Richard Bentham, apparantly also similarly occupied and also from Sedbegh, suggesting that he was a friend of the family.  John`s brother Alfred (see below) was also in Liverpool (as were other Haresnapes) and perhaps illustrates the employment opportunities of the city at this time.

John Richard also fathered 6 children  with an  Isabella Whitford (in 1901 a domestic cook in Bradford). Isabella gave her surname as Thompson. The marriage details have so far not been found. The children, (3623) born in Bradford were given the surname Haresnape–Whitford.


 

Alfred Whiteman Haresnape entered the Police Service rising to the rank of Inspector. He had married Mary Handley (b.1858) at Aysgarth in 1884, four children (3628).   The family lived in the Toxteth area of Liverpool in the 1890s and as a policeman he may have known of the other Haresnape branch living there at that time. Mary was from a farming family, and in 1901 her mother, then a widow was living with Alfred and Mary`s family at 14 Brock Street, Kirkdale in Liverpool, and listed as a farmer.

* Re:-Inspector Haresnape 9-11-1911  The following report of the Head Constable Begs to report to the Watch Committee that Inspector Haresnape was taken suddenly ill with ptomain poisoning after eating bacon & mushrooms for his breakfast, when on duty on the 6th instant. He was at once taken to Dr. Bennett Jones, the medical officer for B Division, who administered an emetic. The inspector remained in a very critical condition for 2 & half hours at the Dr’s house under constant attention of the Dr. & Mrs Bennett Jones, when at 1.30 pm. he was able to go home. The Doctor in all probability saved his life, and considering the time the Doctor was engaged, the assistant Head Constable would sugest that a special fee of 3 guineas be paid for his services. The Assistant Head Constable will write to the Doctor, and thank him & Mrs Bennett Jones for their kindness and attention. Resolved (Councillors Boote & Paris dissenting) That a special fee of three guineas be paid to Dr. Bennett Jones for his services in connection with the above case. In 1911 the street directory shows Alfred residing at 14 Empress Rd, (off Kensington). (all information from * provided by Veronica Oldham).

 

 

12. Children of Hannah and Thomas William Wilson (1950)

 

2752. Mary H. (Wilson)     b. 1867 New Wortley Leeds

2753. Clara Jane                b. 1869 ditto

2754. Isabella Agnes          b. 1873 Bishop Auckland

2755. Louisa Esther          b. 1876 ditto

2756. Margaret Alice         b. 1878 ditto

2757. Elizabeth Ellen        b. 1889 ditto

 

Clara Jane died in 1937, buried at Melbeck.

 

Louisa died in 1959 buried at Downholme.

 

Margaret died 1942, buried at Downholme.

 

 

12.Children of Robert 1846 and Agnes Clark (1960)

 

2760. Mary Jane                b. 1880 Sedbergh

2770. John Francis            b. 1883 Sedbergh

2780. Ernest Richard        b. 1885 Sedbergh

 

In 1891, the family were living at Mortarpits Cottages, Soolbank in Sedbergh. Robert is shown as a bobbinmaker employer. A few doors away lived Robert`s brother John Richard and his family.

In 1901 the children were with their parents in Garden House.      

Mary Jane remained a spinster and lived with her parents at Garden House, 2 Loftus Hill, Sedbergh, presumably living on her own after her parents' deaths. Mary died in Garden House in 1966 aged 85, and was buried at Sedbergh cemetery.

     

John Francis worked as a bank clerk in 1901, living with his parents. He later joined the Liverpool Scottish Regiment and later the Machine Gun Corps and served in the Middle East in the First World War. He was married in 1916 (on leave?) to Jane Halliday, two children (3640). After the War John became a Sub Branch Manager in the Midland Bank at Sedbergh and retired in 1946. John died in 1959 aged 76.

    

Ernest Richard, although a student teacher in 1901, became a council clerk ? and was married in 1911 in East Ward, Westmoreland to Constance Ghita Bedingfield, two children (3660). He died in 1944 aged 59 in Westmoreland North. Constance died in 1966 aged 88.

 

 

12.Children of John Richard 1858 and Elizabeth Someone (2000)

 

2790. Mary Ellen            b. 1879 Sedbergh

2800. Thomas Edward   b. 1881 Sedbergh

2810. Richard Harold     b. 1883 Sedbergh

2820. John Stanley          b. 1884 Sedbergh

2830. Elizabeth Agnes    b. 1886 Sedbergh

 

Mary Ellen was married in 1905 at Sedbergh to Thomas Sisson, 3 children.

 

Thomas Edward moved away from Sedbergh to the Yorkshire Pennine town of Huddersfield. Here he was married in Jan. 1904 to Minnie Leech at High Street Methodist Church. Minnie was born in 1882 Huddersfield and the daughter of Isaac and Dinah Leech. Thomas and Minnie may have had a daughter Vera born 1906.

Thomas died in July 1919 while serving with the Royal Engineers in the British Army. The army was based in Punjab of what was then British India (now Pakistan) The neighbouring country Afghanistan was involved in military operations against the British from May to August 1919 across the North West Frontier.

Thomas was one of some 2000 British killed during those months. He was buried at Rawalpindi Cemetery, and his name is recorded on the War Memorial in Sedbergh churchyard. It was also recorded in Birkby, Huddersfield at the Norman Park Memorial.

His widow Minnie remarried in 1921 at Huddersfield to George Lockwood.

 

Richard Harold is shown as a mechanic in 1901. This was at 3 Bainbridge Terrace in Sedbergh where he lived with his younger siblings, his mother and stepfather James Scarr. Richard Harold probably served in the First World War as a private with the West Riding Regiment. He later became a postman and lived at Bainbridge Rd., Sedbergh where he died in Jan 1941.

  

John Stanley served in the First World war as a Sapper in the Royal Engineers. In peacetime he worked as a post office worker all of his life, at first at Sedbergh but mostly in Bolton, Lancashire. John was married in 1911 at Fylde (Preston in Lancashire area) to Margaret Isabel Atkinson, two children (3680). In 1915 John and wife were living in Fleetwood but by 1923 they were resident in Bolton, Lancashire where John stayed until he died in 1965 aged 81. His wife died in 1957 aged 68.

nb. the Christian name Stanley was uncommon prior until about 1870 when the famous explorer of Africa, Henry Morton Stanley came to the public attention. Incidentally, H.M.Stanley was born in North Wales in 1841 as John Rowlands, so the use of his surname was perhaps not particularly valid. Nevertheless, the use of Stanley as a Christian name has continued to be used down the years.

 

Elizabeth Agnes seems to have been a spinster and died in 1967 at Sedbergh aged 80.

 

 

12.Children of John Richard 1858 and Agnes/Alice Someone (2000)

2840. Robert              b. 1889 Sedbergh

2850. James William   b. 1891 Sedbergh

 

In 1891 the family lived at Mortarpits Cottages, Soolbank in Sedbergh. He would probably have worked for his brother Robert who lived close by.

Note that following the early death of their father, their mother remarried in 1900 to James Scarr, and in 1901 James William and three of his father`s children from his first marriage (Richard Harold, John Stanley and Elizabeth) were living in Bainbridge Terrace with their mother and stepfather.. this being just a short distance from John Richard`s elder brother Robert`s home Garden House.

 

Robert died in infancy in 1889

 

James William died in Sedbergh in April 1917 aged 25.

12. Children of Annie and Edward Tomlinson (1510)

2855A. Ethel  (Tomlinson)                    b. 1869 Brampton, Derbyshire

2855B. Frank (Tomlinson)                    b. 1870 Brampton?

2855C. Alice  (Tomlinson)                    b. 1875  Brampton

2855D. William Edward  (Tomlinson)  b. 1894   Brampton

It should be noted that Brampton is very close to Chesterfield, and also Holymoorside where other relatives lived at this period.

12.Children of Charles Herbert 1859 and Hannah (Anne?) Wright (2030)

2860. Arthur            b. 1884 Holymoorside, Derbyshire

2870. Harry              b. 1886 Chesterfield

 

In 1901 this family lived in Gallery Lane, Holymoorside, Brampton.

Arthur is shown in 1901 as a dyer at a cotton mill. He worked at Manlover Mill, Holymoorside (as did his father) until laid off between 1900 and 1909 when he took a job as timekeeper on a dam under construction. From there he moved to Scotland with his Uncle Frank working at the cotton mill at Neilston nr. Glasgow. It now appears that this was Frank Haresnape (2040).  However by 1909 Arthur had returned to Derbyshire and married in 1909 to Ivy Clayburn Margereson (born 1889 and from Cuthorpe in Derbyshire), 2 children (3700). They lived at Belper in Derbyshire and had a very long marriage (about 70 years), Arthur dying in 1978 aged 94. His wife Ivy was cared for by her daughter in later years until  almost 100. Ivy was apparently a very active woman and a devoted member of Belper's Christ Church and the Mother's Union, and still going to church at the age of 95. She died in the Convent of St.Laurence at Belper a few days after Christmas 1991. She was almost 103 years of age.

 

Harry, a clerk was married in 1914 at Chesterfield to Beatrice Alice Staton, 1 child (3720). He served in the First World War as a private with the Army Service Corps. Harry and his family lived for some time in Holymoorside, Derbyshire, but Harry died at Worthing, Sussex (on holiday perhaps?) in 1960 aged 74. His wife died at Chesterfield 1975.                                     

 

 

12.Children of Frank 1861 and Evelyn Minna Butler (2040)

 

2880. Claude           b 1892 Chesterfield

 

In 1901 Claude was aged 8 and living with his parents at the Post Office in Holymoorside, Brampton, Derbyshire. He seems to have served in the First World War initially at sea as a temporary sub lieutenant. The demands of the land war in Europe resulted in many naval groups being reformed into operation land units, and Claude seems to have been  affected by this. He thus became part of the 63rd RND, Drake Battalion, rank Corporal, Royal Scots Fusiliers.                                  

After his military service he rejoined his parents and relocated  with them to Scotland to live at 5 Millview Terrace, Neilston near Glasgow. In 1922 on his wedding day he was recorded as a Clerk aged 24. He married Janet McConnachie Musket at her home, 4 Wellpark Cottages. Janet was the daughter of David Musket, an Iron Turner and his wife Margaret (deceased).

Claude and Janet had at least two children (3725). It seems that the family lived at 32 Lintmill Cottages, Neilston, but in later years at 5 Millview Terrace. Claude died here in 1950 aged 57, and he was employed as a Mill Foreman at this time.

 

                    

 

12.Children of John Albert 1864 and Frances Hawkesworth (2050)

 

2890. Ellen                b. 1897 Chesterfield

2900. John Rodgers b. 1902 Chesterfield.

 
Ellen (Nellie) was baptised in 1897 at St. Thomas church, Brampton. She was married in 1930 at Chesterfield to Leonard Hall and lived in Chesterfield.


John Rodgers (Jack) was born at Holymoorside. In later life he became the owner of a road haulage business. He married in 1954 at Chesterfield to Nellie Kirk H. Hempsall (b. Salford 1903). Nellie died in 1974 at Chesterfield and Jack there in 1991.
 
 

12.Children of Robert 1867 and Ellen Franks (2060)

 

2910. George Alan   b. 1900 Ecclesall, Sheffield, Yorkshire

2920. Robert             b. 1901 Eccleshall

 

George Alan moved with his parents to London. He joined a shipping company at the age of 16 and in the First World War became a Marconi Radio Officer. On leaving the Merchant Navy in 1923 he married at Wandsworth to Lily Sanderson (b.Bridlington 1905), 1 child (3730). 

Although he also tried his hand as a General Merchant and Shipper, this unfortunately ended in bankruptcy in 1939.The Second World War saw George rejoining the Merchant Navy in Sept 1939 as First Radio Officer aboard the S.S.Heronspool of the Ropners Shipping Co. Liverpool. A month later the ship was bound for Montreal, Canada with a cargo of Welsh Anthracite. The ship was torpedoed by a German submarine on Friday 13th October. However George survived this unlucky day and was rescued by the S.S. President Harding and taken to New York.

Once back in England George joined the S.S. Cortes of Macandrews Shipping. On the 26 Sept 1941 the ship was part of a convoy sailing from Glasgow to Gibraltar. The ship was attacked by submarines and the S.S. Cortes was torpedoed and sank (26 ships lost). George was taken aboard the S.S. Lapwing but again this ship was torpedoed and George was killed (apparently there was only one survivor). The War Memorial at Tower Hill in London bears George's name.    

George's wife lived on until 1982 where she died in a nursing home at Brighton, Sussex.

 

Robert died in infancy in 1901

 

 

12.Children of Elizabeth 1880 and  James Parkington (2062)

2921.   born after 1909.

 

 

12.Children of Fred Hairsnape 1881 and  Eliz. Hart (2063)

 

2923. born after 1909

2924. born after 1909

 

12. Children of Thomas Hairsnape 1883 and  Ada Prescott (2065)

 

2925. born after 1909

2926. born after 1909

 

12.Children of Robert Edward Hairsnape 1890 and  Wife (2080)

2930. born after 1909

2940. born after 1909

 

 

12.Children of Amy (Nichol) and Mr. Tozer

 

Isobel (Tozer)           b. 1892 St. Andrews, New Zealand.

 

Isobel married Archibald McDonald Haresnape. For details see (2680).

 

 

Thirteenth Generation

 

13.Children of William 1867 and Annie Elizabeth Pratt (2120)‚

  

2950. Lawrence Littlewood   b. 1904 Pietermaritzburg, Natal, South Africa
2960. Helen Elizabeth           b. 1906 Natal
 

 Lawrence was the first Haresnape born in South Africa. He worked for the Shell Oil Company in Durban.  He married in 1934 in Durban, Natal to Josceline Nelson Girdlestone (born 1906), one child (3790). Josceline was the daughter of Nelson Bolton Girdlestone, who had emigrated from England to Australia with his parents and siblings in about 1870. In about 1905/6, however, following his father Henry`s death in Australia in 1895, Nelson had sailed with his mother Eliza and his siblings to take up residence in South Africa. In later years Lawrence and his family transferred to Cape Town, Lawrence still working for Shell. He died in 1989 aged 85 and Josceline in 1990.

                                
n.b.1. Joscelyne's gt.gt.grandmother was Susannah Nelson, eldest sister of Horatio, Lord Nelson the famous British hero.  
  
n.b.2. Susannah Nelson married Thomas Bolton a wealthy merchant. The Boltons entertained both Lady Hamilton and the young Horatia Nelson from time to time. Lady Hamilton was a witness at the wedding of Susannah's daughter Elizabeth (Joscelyn's gt.grandmother) to the Rev. Henry Girdlestone in 1811. Following the death of Lady Hamilton, the Boltons for a time cared for Horatia.

n.b.3. The hereditary title of Earl (Lord) Nelson was bestowed upon that family in recognition of the services to the country by the deceased Horatio. William, the brother of Horatio assumed this title until his own death. There were no other Nelson male heirs to carry the title forward, so it passed down to Thomas Bolton the eldest son of the Boltons, who changed his surname to Nelson.  The title has continued down to the present day, each heir having Horatio as one of their Christian names.

n.b.4. The third daughter of the Boltons was Elizabeth Anne, who married the Rev. Henry Girdletone, Josceline`s gt.grandfather. Nelson was used as a Christian name in numerous individuals in subseqent generations.


                

Helen Elizabeth m. in 1933 in Durban to Graham Frank Stone, one child (3800). Graham's ancestors came over to South Africa with the 1836 settlers and a grandfather of his was the first surveyor in Natal. When they first emigrated from England, the family brought all their farming equipment with them and built a stone cottage north of Durban and this still stands. When Graham was a child his parents ran trading stores in a little village high up in gold prospecting country. It was not unusual for them to find gold nuggets outside the shop, these being deposited from the heavy rains. In fact for many years Graham's mother wore a broach containing one of these raw nuggets. As a young child, Graham loved to visit the local gold diggers, his favourite prospector being a remittance man from England called Peacock. Old Man Peacock was a special friend and there was great excitement when he found a huge gold nugget the size of a "sweet potato". His fortune was made but his love of whisky perhaps ended his life. The nugget he found was the largest ever discovered in South Africa, and there is a replica, known as the "Peacock" in the Barbeton Museum.(click for link).  Graham, whose mother was from Australia, was a qualified electrician, and was in charge of electrical substations in many parts of Natal. He was also responsible for the installation of power lines in many areas of Natal, and thus Graham, Helen and their daughter lived in various locations.

Graham was skilled with his hands at making items from wood and metal. In earlier years he was a member of a powerboat club, making his own speedboats, and winning many races. One year he travelled to Rhodesia to race on the Zhambesi for South Africa. Together with other club members he was also the first to water ski on Durban Bay. Graham continued in his work for the power company until his retirement in 1972, but unfortunately suffered a heart attack and died the following year. Helen in later years moved to Johannesburg.  Helen, at the age of 88 provided all of the information on the South African branch.

                                                          

 

13.Children of Emmeline Mary 1874 and George Henry Barnsley (2130)

 2970. Cyril Thomas (Barnsley) b. 1907 Derby, Derbyshire

 

 

13.Children of John Richard 1879 and Bertha White (2150)

 

2980.  born after 1909

2990.  born after 1909

 

 

13.Children of Arthur George 1882 and Florence Seel (2170)

 

3010.  Janet                 b. 1902 Toxteth, Liverpool

3015.  James                b. 1903 Toxteth

3020.  Emily                  b. 1905 West Derby, Liverpool 

3030.  Florence A.        b. 1907 Toxteth 

3040.  Arthur                b  1908 Toxteth

3050.  born after 1909

3060.  born after 1909

3070.  born after 1909

3080.  born after 1909

3090.  born after 1909

3100.  born after 1909

Janet (Ginnie) is shown as a young girl with her father Arthur George photo
She married in Liverpool? to Martin Cusack, 5 children (3830).

James died in infancy.

Emily (Pat), was in the hotel trade in various parts of England. Before the Second World War she married Stephen R. Wright in Liverpool in 1935. They were in the hotel business, and ran the Grove Hotel in the fishing port of Whitby, Yorkshire. They also ran the Talbot Hotel (Baxtergate) in the town at some date, however the marriage did not last. 
Pat photo was remarried to Ernest Haywood in 1939 at Leeds Register Office. Ernest, photo who was a master painter and decorator, and the son of Herbert Haywood, was some ten years older than Pat. Pat was described as a hotel receptionist. There were no children from the marriage.
At some stage they came back from Whitby to live about 10 miles from Liverpool, at the village of Rainhill. This is where they stayed during the War, and nearby in Rainhill also lived Pat`s father Arthur and a number of her married sisters. The couple however returned to Whitby after the War, initially living in Tyerman`s Square (off Baxtergate) until the 1970s.
This home (now demolished) was fairly close to the river Esk, which was liable to overflow its banks on occasions, from heavy rainfall on the Yorkshire Moors. Pat and her husband were flooded out on several occasions. Later, following the death of her husband, she moved out to live in Aukland Way also in Whitby. Pat remained in Whitby for the rest of her life.

 

Florence died in 1931 in Pancras, London.


Arthur, a bricklayer, married in 1933, 3 children (3880).
In the early years of their marriage, his wife Jane had to jump from an upstairs window to escape from a house fire (reputedly in Dombey St.). Jane was pregnant at the time but happily both mother and baby survived. After the fire, they lived in Cope St. in the Dingle area of Liverpool, before and during the Second World War, and like many others were there in the "Blitz". Arthur worked in various areas of the country during the Second World War including an Italian Prisoner of War camp in Cumberland. In East Anglia he remembered seeing badly damaged American aircraft returning from their bombing raids over Germany. After the war Arthur and his family made their home in Rainhill, Arthur's main hobbies here being coarse fishing and gardening. photo  Jane was a production line worker in a local cooker factory for many years. Arthur died in Rainhill in 1979.  Jane died in 1999 in Leigh, Lancashire


13.Children of Robert Charles 1890 and Miriam Culwick (2210)

 

3110. born after 1909

 

 

13.Children of Albert Victor 1897 and Louise Foulder (2250)

 

3120. born after 1909

3130. born after 1909

3140. born after 1909

 

 

13.Children of Joseph 1863 and Rachel Hamilton (2270)

 

3180. Thomas William                  b. 1885 Blackburn, Lancs.

 

Thomas, a cotton cloth packer married in 1906 at the parish church of St.Cuthbert, Darwen (Blackburn) to Elizabeth Alice Duckworth (aged 19.  Elizabeth was a weaver and her father (deceased), also a weaver. Perhaps Elizabeth Duckworth was somehow related to Jane Duckworth (below). Thomas and Elizabeth had 2 children (4140).

There is a record of a T.W. Haresnape who died in France in the First World War in June 1916. He served as a Private with the Royal Lancaster Regiment. Previously we had no date of death for Thomas, so it is possible that both Thomas William and his half brother William Townley Haresnape died in the service of their country.

 

 

13. Children of Joseph 1863 and Jane Duckworth (2270)

 

3182. William Townley Haresnape b. 1896 Burnley

3183. William Townley                  b. 1897

3184. Helen                                   b. 1904  Blacburn

 

William (3182) died in infancy 1896.

 

William Townley Haresnape (3183) was born in the Padiham district of Burnley. On becoming an adult, he served with the Devonshire Regiment in the First World War. He was awarded the Military Medal. He was killed in Northern Italy in 1918. The War Grave Records are known.

Helen married Harold Taylor in 1928.

 

13.Children of Robert 1866 and Charlotte Ratcliffe (2280)

 

3190. William W.    b. 1897 Blackburn

3200. Albert            b. 1898 Blackburn

3210. Elsie              b. 1900 Blackburn

3220. Edith             b. Blackburn

3230. Margaret        b. Blackburn

 

In 1901 this family lived at 35 Pemberton St, Blackburn.

William Watts Haresnape seems to have been given his Christian names from his grandfathers i.e. William Haresnape and Watts Ratcliffe. William like most of his generation served in the First World War. He may have served with the Royal Army Medical Corps. He did spend some time in the desert areas of Mesopotamia (present day Iraq), fighting the Turks. Apparently casualties in the troops due to various illnesses e.g. typhoid etc. far exceeded those from battles. After the war William worked in a cotton mill (Rowe Lee Mill in Blackburn) as a taper but became unemployed during the 1930's Depression.(as a taper, he had continued in the same trade as his father.) He became a water bailiff for the reservoirs supplying Blackburn's water until he retired in 1962. William married in Blackburn to Elizabeth Ashworth, one child (4160). They lived at 131 Lytham Rd.in Blackburn until 1958, and then relocated to Feniscules. Elizabeth died in 1967 aged 71 but William lived on until he died in 1987 aged 90, both parents outliving their son.

 

n.b. a taper in a cotton mill had the job of coating the warp threads of  the cotton with a size, in order to increase their strength for weaving. This was done in a special machine, the threads being squeezed between rollers before threading onto the weaving looms.

 

Albert seems to have served in the First World War as a private with the Loyal North Lancashire Regiment. He married in 1924 at Blackburn to Carrie Parkinson, 3 children (4170). They lived at Blackburn, then later at Morecambe in Lancashire.                                          

 

Elsie married in 1925 at Blackburn to James Robert Blakeley, one child. They lived in the Blackburn area.

 

Edith m. after 1900, two children.

 

Margaret m. after 1900  and lived in the Blackburn area.

 

 

13.Children of Gertrude 1880 and Harry Beach Smiley (2400)

 

3250. Robert Leeander  (Smiley) b. 1907 Boulder, Colorado.

3260. born after 1909

3270. William Henry  (Smiley)    b. 1908  Boulder 

Robert died in Colorado in 1991.

William Harry may have died in 1919.

  

 13.Children of Robert S 1886 and Ruth Crocker (2440)

 

3280. Elden E. born 1909 Kansas

3290. born after 1909

3300. born after 1909

Elden was a farmer for a time but became a manager of a grocery store. He married Helen Harris, 2 children (4230) and died at the age of 38 in 1947.


            

 

13.Children of Lee Wade 1891 and Jessie Carper (2450)

 

3310. born after 1909

3320. born after 1909

3325. born after 1909

 

 

13.Children of John Van Buren 1887 and Viola Upp (2460)

 

3330. born after 1909

 

 

3.Children of William James 1890 and Dorothy Crocker (2470)

 

3360.  born after 1909

3370.  born after 1909   

3380.  born after 1909

3390.  born after 1909

3400.  born after 1909

 

 

13. Children of John Henry 1863 and Mary Hughes (2540)

 

3419. Lucy        b. 1893 Preston

3420. Richard   b. 1894 Blackburn

3425. Thomas  b. 1898 Preston

 

Lucy died in infancy in 1893 at Preston.

As mentioned previously, the family were living at no 57 Whittingham St in Preston in 1901.

 

Richard married in 1915 at Blackburn to Alice Yates, 6 children (4340). He seems to have been a plumber`s mate. This was the third generation of the family to follow this trade. Richard died (before his father) in 1939 at Amounderness. She seems to have lived in later years in her father in law's house in Preston. She was born in Lunesdale in 1899 and died in Preston in 1976.

 

Thomas was born at 57 Whittingham St. Preston. He died in service in 1916 in the First World War, in the Royal Flying Corps.

 

nb. the Royal Flying Corps was the forerunner of the Royal Air Force.

 

 

13. Children of Mary Anne 1867 and Donald McDonald (2620)

 

3428A. Christina May (McDonald) b. 1884

3428B. Hilda Catherine (McDonald) b. 1886

3428C. Annie Elizabeth (McDonald) b. 1896

3428D. Archie (McDonald) b ?

3428E. Ernest William (McDonald) b. 1898

3428F. Donald (McDonald) b. ?

3428G. Flora Dinsdale (McDonald) b. 1900

3428H. John born 1909

3428I    born after 1909

 

Christina May married Wilfred Alfred Harrison. She died in 1949

Hilda Catherine married Thomas McNally. She died in 1963.

Annie Elizabeth died in 1962.

Ernest William married Beatrice Ann Carruthers. He took over the farm in Waikato. Ernest died in 1956.

Donald (Donie) married Eileen Nation. He died in 1981.

Flora Dinsdale (Dell) married Cecil John McDowell. Flora died in 1991.

n.b. Flora was given her second name after her grandmother Anne (nee Dinsdale).

John (Jack) was married in ? to Agnes (Busby Roll) Hair-Backhouse, one child (4395A).

John died in 1981.

 

13.Children of James Squire 1869 and Matilda Webb (2630)

              

3430. Rosamund Dinsdale   b. 1894 Auckland, New Zealand

3440. Matilda Mary              b. 1889 Auckland

3450. Edith                          b. 1896 Auckland

3460. Ida Lavina Florence   b. 1892 Auckland

3470. Hilda Lillian              b. 1901 Auckland

 

Rosamund D. (Dell) remained a spinster and died in 1969

                                            

Matilda Mary remained a spinster and died in 1970 aged 81

                  

Ida Lavina married in 1914 to Crayton George Brown, one child (4400). Ida's husband died in 1942 and Ida in 1982 aged about 90.

                

Hilda Lillian married in 1924 to Edwin Mafeking Powell McCarthy (b. 1900), two children (4410). Hilda died in 1967 aged 66 and Edwin in 1972 aged 72.

nb. Edwin was born in the same month as the garrison of Mafeking in Cape Colony in South Africa was relieved. The garrison had been held by the British against a seven month siege by the Boers. Its survival was greeted with jubilation abroad. The comander of the British Army in Mafeking was Robert Baden-Powell. Hence Edwin was given an unusual set of Christian names.

 

 

13.Children of Ernest and Ida Burrows (2640)

 

3480. Margaret Dinsdale (Rita) b. 1909 Auckland.

Margaret married in 1939 in Auckland to James Elliot Johnson (b.1910) two children (4430).


 

 

 

13.Children of Robert Edward and Elizabeth Adeline Freese (2650)

 

3490.  born after 1909

3500.  born after 1909

3510.  born after 1909

3520.  born after 1909

3530.  born after 1909

3540.  born after 1909

 

 

13.Children of Jessie Mary 1881 and Patrick Charles White (2660)

 

3550.  born after 1909

3560.  born after 1909

 

 

13.Children of Donald Duncan 1882 and Edith Simkin (2670)

 

3570.  born after 1909

 

 

13.Children of Archibald McDonald 1883 and Isobel Tozer (2680)

 

3580.  born after 1909

 

 

13.Children of Arthur Stanley 1890 and Hilda Beatrice Carley (2720)

 

3590. born after 1909

 

 

13.Children of John Richard 1861 and Mary J. Capstick (2730)

                     

3610. Edward                  b. 1881 Sedbergh, Yorkshire

3620. Joseph Capstick   b. 1884 Sedbergh

3621. Norman                 b. 1885 Sedbergh

3622. Jane                      b. 1889 Sedbergh

 

The 1891 census shows the family at Gill, (Gyll Farm), Sedbergh, the children as scholars.

Edward is shown as aged 19, single and working as a cowman in the Liverpool area in the 1901 census. His father, mother and sister Mary, aged 12 were also in Liverpool in 1901. Edward probably served in the First World War as a Sergeant in the Liverpool Regiment.

Edward left England and settled in Manitoba, Canada. He married Annie Elizabeth Kirkham (daughter of John and Sarah Kirkham), five children (4645). Annie predeceased Edward and she died aged 74 at home in Kalieda in 1955. Edward lived on for a further 23 years, dying in 1978 aged 97 at Manitou Hospital, Manitoba (buried St. Mary`s, Kaleida, Manitoba). The descendants of Edward and Annie live in the Alberta and Manitoba districts of Canada.

 

Joseph Capstick Haresnape is shown in the 1901 census as aged 17 and working as a horseman on a farm in Westmoreland. In later years he lived at a hamlet called South Dyke near Penrith in Cumberland. His home, a bungalow still stands.

Norman does not show in 1901 census.

Jane is living with her parents in Liverpool in the 1901 census.

13.Children of John Richard 1861 and Isabella Whitford (2730)



3623. Anne Whitford                 b. 1900 Bradford
3624. John Richard Whitford    b. 1902 Horton, Bradford
3625. Eccles Bryden Whitford  b. 1904 Horton, Bradford
3626.  Alice Whitford                b.  1909 Bradford
3627.  b.  after 1909

Anne died in Bradford.

John Richard Whitford moved to the Midlands. He died in Dudley West in Jan 1985.

Eccles would have received this first name from his uncle Ernest Eccles Haresnape. Eccles Whitford died in Bradford in 1993.

Alice married Eugene Clark.   

 

13.Children of Alfred Whiteman 1867 and Mary Handley (2750)

 

3628. William Edward   b. 1889 Toxteth, Liverpool

3629. Alfred  Eccles      b. 1892 Toxteth, Liverpool

3630. John Victor          b. 1897 West Derby, Liverpool

3631. Alice                     b. 1899

 

In 1901 this family lived in the Kirkdale area of Liverpool, together with Mary`s widowed mother.

 

Alfred Eccles may have received his Eccles name from his Uncle Ernest Eccles Haresnape.

John Victor, born at the family home in Brock Street, would have been given his second name from Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee year 1897. It appears that this use of Victor and Victoria was popular during 1897. He served in the First World war as a private with the Liverpool Regiment. He married in 1922 at West Derby to Mabel Ashworth,  5 children, (4650). They moved to Wales in later years and John died in Wrexham in 1972, his wife in 1990 in Meirionnydd.                     

Alice did not marry. She later lived in Penrith, Cumberland (now Cumbria).

  

 

13.Children of John Francis 1883 and Jane Halliday (2770)

 

3640.  born after 1909

3650.  born after 1909

 

 

13.Children of Ernest Richard 1885 and Constance Bedingfield (2780)

 

3660. born after 1909

3670. Born after 1909

         

 

13.Children of John Stanley 1884 and Margaret Atkinson (2820)

 

3680. born after 1909

3690. born after 1909

 

 

13.Children of Arthur 1884 and Ivy Margereson (2860)

 

3700.  born after 1909

3710.  born after 1909

 

 

13.Children of Harry 1888 and Beatrice Alice Staton (2870)

 

3720. born after 1909

13. Children of Claude 1892 and Evelyn Minna Musket (2880)

3725. Born post 1909

3726. Born post 1909

14.Children of Arthur 1908 and  Jane (3040)

 
3880.  Born after 1909
3890.  Born after 1909
3900.  Born after 1909

Fourteenth Generation

14.Children of Thomas William 1885 and Elizabeth Alice Duckworth (3180)

 

4140. Thomas William  b. 1907 Blackburn, Lancs.

4150.  James                 b. 1909 Blackburn.


Thomas was brought up in Darwen, Lancs. He married in 1937 at Darwen to Annie Amelia
Duckworth, 2 children (5100).Thomas died in 1969 and his wife remarried.  
 

James was also raised in Darwen. He was a weaver and then a bus inspector. He married in 1932 at Blackburn to Hilda Howarth, a weaver, and they lived in Darwen, Lancs. They had one child (5120). Hilda died in 1988 and James in 1994.

 

14.Children of William Watts 1897 and Elizabeth Ashworth (3190)

 

4160. born after 1909         

14. Children of Elden E. and Helen Harris (3280)

4230. Born after 1909

4240. Born after 1909

 

14.Children of Richard 1894 and Alice Yates (3420)

 

4350.  born after 1909

4360.  born after 1909

4370.  born after 1909

4380.  born after 1909

4340.  born after 1909

4385.  born after 1909

4390.  born after 1909

14.Children of Hilda Lilian 1901 and Edwin Powell McCarthy (3470)


4410.  born after 1909

4420.  born after 1909


14.Children of Margaret Dinsdale 1909 and James E. Johnson (3480)


4430. born after 1909

4440. born after 1909


The Christian (middle) name Dinsdale has been carried through from Margaret`s grandmother Anne Dinsdale, wife of the first Haresnape immigrant to New Zealand. .

14.Children of Edward 1881 and Annie Elizabeth Kirkham (3610)



4645.  birth date unknown

4646.  birth date unknown

4647. May born 1910.

4648.  birthdate unknown.

4649.  birthdate unknown

 

May was born in the Kaleida-Overdale district of Manitoba, her school days being spent at Overdale to where she travelled by horse and buggy. She had three brothers and one sister. On leaving school she worked firstly at home, then later for various local families. She met and married Morrison McElroy in March 1935. Morrison and May settled down in the Shadeland district, south of Darlingford, Manitoba, where they ran a farm (this is about 100 miles south west of Winnipeg, the capital). 

Here they raised three children, May`s husband Morrison died in 1963, and at this time May`s son took over the running of the farm. May lived at the farm until aged about 73 when she moved to a house in Manitou. Here she was quite active until her later years. Finally at the age of 96 she moved into a care home where she died in 2010 aged 100.

 

 

5.Children of James 1909 and Hilda Howarth (4150)


5120.  born after 1909


 

     

FOOTNOTE (from the authors of the book)

The facts detailed above were compiled from many various sources. We hope that readers will interpret the information not just as factual history but perhaps in a way that helps them to understand the lives of our forebears, and perhaps the hardships and the joys of their lives.

 

The family history continues to the present day and into the sixteenth generation. The text in the book may contain personal information, which would be inappropriate to present on this website. There are also the restrictions under the U.K. Data Protection Legislation. It has been decided to limit the information to that of individuals born one hundred years before the present year.  Currently it is 2007, so we are including  data on individuals born prior to 1907 (excepting those known to be still living). Each country will have its own policy on release of census material so we may be able to modify our text for the individual family groups in those countries. It is difficult, if not impossible to satisfy all wishes and requirements of the individuals concerned. We hope that the present arrangement is acceptable.

 

It should not be too difficult for readers who know their own recent family history to link to the lineages presented in our text. If readers require information on their own direct ancestors this may be supplied on request if they contact the email addresses previously given.

 

ps. If readers wish to have any relevant photos (by this I mean photos of people/places from about 1900 or so) posted on this web site they should send them to R.Haresnape at the above address.