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Joseph Dark
According to the
FreeBMD Birth Index, the birth of a John Joseph Dark was registered for the
Oct-Dec quarter 1837 at Norwich Norfolk. According to the census returns for
1841, 1851, and 1861, Thomas and Sarah Dark had a son named Joseph Dark and he
was found at home for these three census nights. At this stage I am assuming
that John Joseph and Joseph are one and the same. Joseph has been a bit of a
research problem as the various census transcribers have confused the numbers 3
and 8, so for some returns Joseph’s estimated date of birth is 1833 and for
others it is 1838. I have opted for the age given for Joseph (3 years old) for
the 1841 census as the correct one. During his lifetime he was a iron turner,
glass worker and finally a pub owner.
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Sarah Dark
Sarah Dark’s birth is
registered for the Apr-Jun 1841 quarter of 1841 in the district of Norwich. She
was the second daughter and fifth known child of Thomas and Sarah Dark. She was
recorded in the 1841 census as a baby of 1 month, for the 1851 census as a young
girl of 9, and in 1861 as a young woman of 19 and a dressmaker. On 8th February
1866, at the age of 24, Sarah married Joseph Allison, a 26 year old bachelor who
was a Provision Dealer. Joseph’s home town at the time of the marriage was
Kingston upon Hull and Sarah’s was Leeds. By the time of the 1871 census, the
couple (mistranscribed at Wilson), together with a daughter, was living at the
Smiths Buildings, Garibaldi Street, Grimsby, and it was at Grimsby, as far as is
known, that Sarah and Joseph spent the rest of their lives.
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Charles Dark
Tracing the life of Charles Dark, the youngest child of
Thomas and Sarah Dark, was far less complicated that researching his siblings.
Charles never married and, apart from one census, was found living with his
mother and/or immediate family.
His birth was registered for the Oct-Dec of 1843 in the
district of Norwich. He
makes his first appearance in the 1851 census as a young boy of 7.
He possibly never knew of would not have remembered his father who had died
before this census. He is still at home ten years later and is now working as a
Stone Carver.
He was at Blackburn, Lancashire, for the 1871 census as a lodger with Thomas and
Margaret Fairhurst at 195 Walley Range. Charles was presumably one of the men
employed by Thomas Fairhurst.
Thomas Fairhurst 34 Stone
Mason employing 8 men and 2 boys Blackburn
Margaret Fairhurst
34
Blackburn
Charles Dark (Lodger) 27 Stone
Mason Norwich
For whatever reason, Charles was back in Leeds in 1881
with his mother both now boarders at his sister Elizabeth’s house at 41 Bismark
Street, Hunslet.
For the 1881 census Charles is described at a Sculptor, but for the 1891 census
his occupation is recorded as Stone Carver and is at home with his mother and
niece, Sarah Allison.
After the death of his mother Sarah in late 1891, Charles
must have moved in with his niece Laura Mallinson who was living at 3 Bismark
Street for the 1891 census. It was at this address that Charles Dark died on 3rd August 1893
at the relatively young age of 49. Laura was present when Charles died and was
the informant of the death to the Registrar, H. Snowden. The cause of death,
certified by the same doctor as for his mother’s death, Thomas Smith, was
Phthisis Pulmonalis.
The commonly known name for this chronic illness is tuberculosis of the lungs,
to which stonemasons, constantly exposed to stone dust, were particularly
susceptible.
Descendants of
George and Mary Ann (née Furness) Newton
James Furness
Newton
An IGI Family Group reference places the
christening of James Furness Newton, son of George and Mary Ann Newton, as 30th
December 1831, at St. Peter’s, Leeds. From this, we can put James’s birth year
as 1831. The first census record we have for James is the 30th March 1851, when
he was at home with his parents at 1 Hanover Street, Leeds. By this time James
was a young man of 19 and, like his father, he was a painter. Also by this time
his mother, Mary Ann Newton (née Furness) had died, and her maiden name is
carried on by James’s second name. At the age of 21 by Licence, James married
Marianne Jordan, at St Mark’s Church, Woodhouse on 24th April 1853. They then
proceeded to establish quite a dynasty. For ease of reading I have provided
multiple charts - one showing one generation of children, and separate ones for
those children who married and had children of their own.
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John Newton
John, second child of George and Mary
Ann Newton, was baptised on 11th December 1833 at St. Peter’s Leeds. Along with
his family, no record has yet been located for him in the 1841 census, but he is
shown in the family listing for the 1851 census, living at 1 Hanover Street,
Leeds, as a young man of 16, working (presumably for his father) as a carver and
gilder. In what seems to have been the church of choice for the Newtons at this
time, and after the calling of banns, John, at the age of 25 married a girl 4
years his junior on 11th July 1859 at St. Mark’s Church in the district parish
of Woodhouse. The bride was Sarah Ann Kay, 21 year old spinster, and the
daughter of Thomas Kay, butcher (another lot of Kays!).
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Descendants of
Ann (née Newton) and James Kitson
Frederick William Kitson
Frederick William Kitson was the first
known son of James and Ann Newton. He was born in Leeds in 1829 and baptised in
the same year at St. Peter’s Church, Leeds, on 23rd July.
Frederick was listed as being with his family for the 1841 census and again in
1851. However by the time of the 1861 census he was a married man with a young
family, living at 4 Beech Grove Terrace, Leeds.
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James Kitson
James Kitson Jnr was born on 22nd
September 1835 in Leeds and baptised three weeks later at St. Peter’s Church, on
16th October 1835. Like his father before him, James married twice and fathered
a number of children. When the 1861census was taken James and and his first wife
Emily had only been married for about 6 months. They were married by Licence an
in a Unitarian ceremony on 20th September 1860 at the Mill Hill Chapel. He
married his second wife Mary Smith on 1st June 1881. James Kitson died on 16th
March 1911 in Paris. Such was the esteem in which he was held, the Town Hall
bell at Leeds was tolled on receipt of the news of his death.
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James Kitson
Mary Ann Kitson
We know nothing about the first daughter
(Ann) of James and Ann Kitson (née Newton), but we do have quite a bit of
information for their second daughter, Mary Ann Kitson, born in 1837 and
baptised at St Peter’s Church, Leeds on 7th December of that year. She was with
her family for the 1841 census and ten years later, when she was 13, she was a
pupil at a school for young ladies in the Yorkshire village of Heath. She was
back at home for the 1861 census with her family at Little Woodhouse Street. The
1871 census finds Mary with a new name – Mary Ann Clark. Her marriage to Edwin C
Clark, Barrister at Law, was recorded at the Leeds Registry Office in the
Apr-Jun quarter of 1865 but in fact took place at the Unitarian Mill Hill
Chapel, Park Row, Leeds, and the date was 8th June 1865 when Mary was 27 and
Edwin 29. Mary and Edwin spent most of their married life at Cambridge and their
only daughter was married at the famous church at Grantchester.
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Mary Ann Kitson
Emily Kitson
Emily Kitson was born about 1842 in
Leeds, the third and second surviving daughter of James and Ann Kitson. She
‘missed’ the 1841 census but was with her family for the 1851 and 1861 censuses
as a 9 year old girl and a 19 year old young woman respectively. By the time of
the 1871 census Emily was a married woman. Ann Kitson lived to see both her
daughters well married off. Emily, five years younger than Mary Ann, married on
26th April 1864 at the Mill Hill Chapel. Her husband was William Smoult
Playfair, born in 1835 in India. He was the son of George Playfair, deceased,
Surgeon General, Bengal Army.
William Smoult Playfair
was one of the most eminent physicians of his day.
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Emily Kitson
John Hawthorn
Kitson
John Hawthorn Kitson made his appearance
in 1843 with his birth registered at Leeds for the Apr-Jun quarter of that year.
He was in the census count for 1851 and 1861 as being at home, and for the
latter census described at a 17 year old Collegian. By the 1871 census John had
married and left home to set up house at 19 Hyde Terrace, West Leeds. The
wedding of John and Jessie Ellershaw, at the Church of Headingley on 2nd
September 1868, brought together two well established Leeds families.
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John Hawthorn Kitson
Arthur Octavius
Kitson
I had given
up on trying to find any information about Arthur Kitson, the last known child
of James Kitson and his first wife Ann, other than the registration of his birth
in the Apr-Jun quarter of 1848, his presence with his family for the 1851 and
1861 census returns, and the fact that he was a witness for the marriage of his
brother John Hawthorn Kitson on 2nd September 1868. It was not until a later
record came to light that we even find out that he had a middle name – Octavius.
It was research on Arthur’s sister Emily and her husband William Smoult
Playfair, and a reference to legal action and the subsequent sensational 1896
trial of Kitson versus Playfair that put me back on the trail of Arthur.
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Arthur Octavius Kitson
Descendants of James Kitson - from second marriage to Elizabeth Hutchinson
While not strictly direct descendants, I have included some notes of the second
family of James Kitson, son of Ann (née Newton) and James Kitson.
Reginald Francis Kitson
Francis Reginald
Kitson, born on 8th November 1868 at Barwick with Elmet, was the first
child born to James Kitson and his second wife Elizabeth (née Hutchinson).
His christening almost three months later is recorded in the St. John’s
Church Roundhay baptism register 1826-1890 :
Kitson Francis Reginald 31 Jan 1869 so James and Elizabeth
engineer Roundhay, Elmete Hall
At home at Elmete Hall with his
parents for the 1871 census, for the next census young Francis (together
with his younger brother Sydney) is a pupil at Yarlett Hall, a preparatory
boarding school in Stone Road, Yarlett, Staffordshire, the principal of
which was Walter Earle, Clergyman. Francis later attended Charterhouse
Public School and is recorded in the Charter House Register Vol 1
1872-1910 (Long Quarter 1882) as follows :
Kitson,
Francis Reginald. b 8 Nov 1868:
5 s of James Kitson of Elmet Hall, Yorks; (Bodeites-Girdlestoneites);
Left O.Q. 1885. Died at Leeds 27 January 1895.
As did a number of Kitsons,
Francis went up to Cambridge, entering Corpus Christi in the Michaelmas
term of 1887. He obtained a BA in 1890 and his MA in 1895 (which may have
been awarded posthumously). Francis, who never married, has not been found
in the 1891 Census but, according to the record in the Burial Register
below, he was living at 13 Wellclose Place, Leeds when, as noted in the
Charterhouse record he died in 1895.
St John's Burial Register
1827-1921 :
Kitson,
Francis Reginald 30 Jan 1895 26 Leeds,
13 Wellclose Place
The following memorials are found
in St John’s Church, Roundhay :
GG1 Horizontal
cross on flat tombstone
Francis Reginald KITSON son of James and Elisabeth KITSON died January
27th 1895 aged 26 years.
Inside St.
John's Church, Roundhay.
Ch12 To the Glory of God and in loving memory of Francis Reginald KITSON
M.A. Cantab son of James and Elizabeth KITSON of Elmete Hall in the
Parish of Barwick in Elmete who died in Leeds on Sunday 27th January
1895 aged 26 years.
Francis must have been in
considerable pain and suffering in the months immediately preceding his
death and in his last week underwent two operations. The death certificate
gives the cause of death as “Abcess in Frontal Sinus left, 4 months?
Operation 7 days. Purulent deposit in Cranium 7 days, operation 2 days.
His (half) nephew Edward Kitson Clarke was the person recorded as being
present at the death.
Eva Margaret Kitson
The event of the birth of Eva Margaret
Kitson at Barwick with Elmet, the first of two daughters of James and Elizabeth
Kitson, was registered in the Leeds district for the Jan-Mar quarter of 1870.The
marriage of Eva Margaret Kitson and Arthur Wickham Swayne took place on 27th
April 1897 in St Martin’s Church Scarborough. Arthur was for some time the vicar
at St Aidan’s, Potternewton and the couple later
moved to North Wales.
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Eva Margaret Kitson
Sydney Decimus Kitson
Sydney Kitson, born on 26th June 187 and
baptised on 7th August of that year at St. John’s Church, Roundhay, unlike
most of the male Kitsons did not join the family firm but qualified and
practised as an architect. Having established himself professionally, Sydney, at
the age of 31, married Margaret Winifred Tetley of Headingley, on 19th February
1903 at St Michael’s Church Headingley.
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Sydney Decimus Kitson
Annette Amelia Kitson
Annette Amelia Kitson was the last of
four children and the second daughter of James and Elizabeth Kitson. Her birth
was registered in the Apr-May quarter of 1873 at Leeds and she was baptised at
St John’s Church, Roundhay, on 14th May 1873.
Somewhat late in life, on 10th September 1910,
Annette married widower John Bromhead Matthews at Scarborough. John had an
illustrious career in the legal profession, including time spent in the West
Indies and Singapore. Annette took a particular interest in the education and
employment of girls in domestic service, and was for some time
chairman of the
Women’s Sub-Committee of the Tunbridge Wells Local Employment Committee.
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Annette Amelia Kitson
Descendants of Edward and Thirza Newton
Henry Newton
Henry, the youngest child of Edward and
Thirza Newton, was born early in 1854 at East Retford. He was at home with his
widowed mother and his two sisters for the 1861 census, at Carolgate, East
Retford, and again in 1871, when he was a young man of 22 earning his living as
a railway clerk. Perhaps job prospects were better further south, because by
1881 Henry had moved to East Barnet, Hertfordshire, and it was here that he met
his future wife, Fanny Poore, whose family had also, at some stage move to the
area.
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Descendants of James and Margaret Newton
John William Newton
John was the second and middle child of
James and Margaret Newton. He spent his young years in Hunslet, where he was
listed with the family at 10 Glass House Street for the 1851 Census. Shortly
after this his mother Margaret died and in later in the same year his father
remarried. . Sometime after 1856 the family had upped sticks and moved to West
Ham, London, and by the time of the 1861 census John, now 17 years old, had
acquired two much younger step-sisters. By the 1871 census John William Newton
had left home. In fact John had set up home with his new bride, Emily Jenkinson,
a local girl, whom he married in the June quarter of 1870.
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Descendants of Francis and Jane (née Murray) Newton
Francis Edward Newton
Francis Jnr, the eldest child of Francis
and Jane Newton, was born between April and June, 1846. His first census
appearance was 1851 when he was at home with his parents and two younger
brothers at 49 Elmwood Street, Leeds.Ten
years later he features, long with a number of boys and girls, at a boarding
pupil at the Fulneck Boys Boarding School, Pudsey. In 1874 Francis married Ellen
Giesler, who was ten years his senior, in Hastings. Francis's calling, along
with his younger brothers, was as a clergyman of the Church of England.
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Alfred Seton Newton
Alfred Seton who was born on 27th June 1848, as well as being a clergyman,
followed in his father’s footsteps as a teacher.
In 1878
he married Ann Atkinson. By 1891 he and Ann were living on the Isle of Man where
Alfred had taken up the position of Headmaster at the Ramsey
Grammar School.
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Walter Joseph Newton
It has been much easier to trace the life Alfred’s brother Walter, the third son
of Francis and Jane who made his first formal appearance in the 1851 census as a
1 month old baby. Keeping with the family tradition, 1871 finds him in
Framlingham, Suffolk, working as a teacher at the Albert Middle Class College.
Still unmarried for the 1881 census, Walter now moved to Bradford to teach and
it was here that he married Lucy Broughton. By 1901 Walter had taken holy orders
and was living at Ripon.
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George Herbert
Newton
George was
the ‘baby’ of the family being born in 1867 in Leeds to Francis and Jane Newton,
nearly 21 years after their first born. Until 1891 George was living at home by
which time he had been accepted into the Church and it is a as Curate in Hackney
that he is found in the 1891 census, and by the 1901 census he was a married
man.
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Descendants of Mary (née Newton) and John Beetham
Charles Beetham
Charles was born in Leeds on 16th December 1855. He followed his father in the
drapery trade. He married his first wife, Clara, in November 1886, emigrated to
Australia, and married for the second time, to Bertha Bergin, in Sydney in
October 1902.
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Emily Beetham
Emily, the eldest of three daughters of Mary and John Beetham, was born in
the Jul-Sep quarter of 1860. In 1886 she married John William Grice, a tailor
and draper, at St. Augustine, Wrangthorne, Leeds. Living initially in the York
area, the family subsequently moved to Warwick, and by the 1891 census John was
listed as a farmer, living at Pattishall, Northamptonshire.
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Louisa Beetham
Louisa Beetham, born in the Oct-Dec quarter of 1861 in Leeds, shortly before her
27th birthday married James Nicholson, son of Thomas Nicholson, silk manufacturer,
and Lucy Nicholson. James was a mechanical engineer by profession, and one time
manager of a steel works at Bradford.
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Ada Beetham
Ada
was the last of the six known children born to Mary and John Beetham. Her birth
was registered in the Jan-Mar 1866 quarter in the Kirkstall district and she was
brought up in Leeds. The Beetham family celebrated another wedding in 1890 when
Ada married Alfred Taylor, an engineer who excelled at his profession and was
subsequently knighted for his services.
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Descendants of Henry and Rebecca (neé Hepple) May
Mary Jane May
Mary was the first known born child of the third generation of Mays. Her birth
was registered in Bedale in the Oct-Dec quarter of 1852, within the first year
of her parents’ marriage. She was at home for the 1861, 1871 and 1881 census
counts, the last of which records her as a 27 year old woman. Mary Jane married
relatively late in life - when she was about 34. Her husband, ten years her
junior, was George Thomas Linton from a well established brewing family of
Kirkby Fleetham. Sadly Mary died within three years of the marriage, and George
remarried shortly after.
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Rowland May
I
have not found any record of his birth, but Rowland was born about 1855 at
Carthorpe. He was at home as a 5 year old scholar in 1861 and as a nurseryman in
1871. By the 1881 census he had married and set up house at Leyburn, about
12 miles east of Burneston, and the birthplace of his wife. Rowland is listed in
an 1893 Kelly Directory as still operating the nursery at Leyburn. Rowland’s
death was another May to die relatively young - sometime between 1893 and 1897
as we find his widow Margaret remarried and with a 3 year old child for the 1901
Census.
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Rebecca May
As
an adult, Rebecca seems to have been a great help to her siblings, being found
in their various households for the census nights. She was born about 1856 to
Henry and Rebecca May, at Carthorpe. She was with her parents for the 1861 and
1871 census and with her older brother Rowland and his wife Margaret for the
1881 census where she was listed as a dressmaker. Ten years later Rebecca is
staying with her brother in law, George Linton. Rebecca's sister Mary Jane had
recently died - probably in childbirth. Rebecca may have been there for the
birth, but was certainly there shortly after to help out.
It would seem that
she never married and was found for the 1901 census as a housekeeper for her
younger unmarried brother John Henry May and widowed brother William May. They
were all listed as residing at the Hope Nurseries, Burneston.
John Henry
May 40 Nurseryman Gard (Employer) Burneston
Rebecca May
(Sister) 41 Housekeeper
Burneston
William May (Brother)(Wid)
39 Ex Sergeant Ret (S ?? Account??) Burneston
Over the census
returns there are some vagaries in Rebecca’s age. For example, if she was born
about 1856, she would have been about 45 in 1901.
John Henry May
John Henry, the
fourth child of Henry and Rebecca, was another of their children who did not
marry. It was John Henry who, together with his mother, took over the running of
the family business after his father’s death in 1880, and continued to run the
Hope Nursery after the death of his mother in 1886. In the 1893 Kelly’s Trade
directory which listed brother Rowland’s Leyburn nursery (see above) the
Burneston nursery is listed as being operated by May Hy. (execrs of), Burneston,
Bedale.
John Henry’s birth
was registered at Bedale in the Oct-Dec quarter of 1858. He was with his parents
for all the census nights between 1861-1891 – for the first two as a scholar,
for 1881 as a nurseryman, and for the last as a traveler (presumably in
connection with the Hope Nursery).
By 1901, as seen
above, John Henry was the proprietor of the Hope Nurseries, Burneston, being
looked after by his sister Rebecca, who was also looking after her recently
widowed brother William.
Alfred May
Born
in the Apr-Jun quarter of 1860, Alfred made his census debut as a one year old
in 1861, and he remained with his family for the next 3 census collections,
being listed as a scholar in 1871, as a nurseryman in 1881, and promoted to
nursery foreman by 1891 at which time he was 30 years old. By the time of the
1901 census Alfred had married Caroline Richmond and had moved to Halifax where
he had found work that utilised his particular talents.
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William Edmund May
Henry and Rebecca registered the birth in Burneston of William Edmund, their
sixth child and fourth son, in the Jan-Mar quarter of 1862. He is recorded as a
5 year old boy at home for the 1871 census, and ten years later as a nurseryman.
Where William was for the 1881 census is not known, but it is likely that he may
have joined the army. What we do know is that William was in Leeds for the 1891
census, as head of the household at 40 Close Street, North Leeds.
William E
May 28 Club Storekeeper Burneston
Elizabeth
Hiscox 35 Housekeeper Leeds
George W Hiscox
(Adopted Son) 12 Scholar
Leeds
William subsequently married his housekeeper and was
widowed shortly thereafter.
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Charles May
Charles, presumably named after his uncle who had emigrated to Australia in the
early 1850s, was born in Burneston, and his birth was registered at Bedale in
the Jan-Mar quarter of 1866. He has been traced through the 1871 and 1881 census
when he was at home with his parents but by the time of the next census he had
left home. In 1891 he was still involved in the horticultural industry, as a
gardener at Old Sleningford Hall, North Stainley, near Ripon. No record has been
found of the marriage between Charles May and Catherine Fox which would have
occurred sometime between April 1881 and April 1891.
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Frederick May
Frederick was another of the May sons who, having served an apprenticeship with
his family at the Hope Nursery, subsequently left home to earn his living
elsewhere. Born in 1867, by the 1891 census he was working as a gardener (and
later as a waterworks foreman) at Cropston, Leicestershire. His wife Sarah, who
he married in 1891, also hailed from the Bedale area.
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Arthur Hepple May
Arthur was very much the baby of the family, being born in 1875 some twenty
three years after his oldest sibling, Mary Jane. He was only 5 years old when
his father died in 1880 so the responsibility for his upbringing fell to his
mother (assisted presumably by the older children). As for his older brothers,
it is likely that the family business, the Hope Nursery, could not support so
many qualified sons. On the other hand Arthur may just have wanted to spread his
wings and see something of the world outside the Burneston area. Whatever may
have spurred him to move, by 1901 he was a Nursery Foreman at Cheadle,
Stockport, just south of Manchester. But just before he made the move he married
Elizabeth Constantine, a girl from a well established local family.
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Descendants of Julia (nee Todd) and John Woodhead
Amy Isabella Woodhead
Amy Isabella Woodhead was born in 1858 in Leeds. She was found with her mother,
Julia Woodhead, and her grandmother, Isabella Todd, at the house of the latter
in 1871. In 1879 she married John Woodhill, a clerk, at St. Paul’s, Leeds. Via a
short stay in Westminster, Amy and John, together with Amy's mother were at
Wycombe for the 1901 census and John was now a poultry farmer, on his own
account.
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John Charles Woodhead
John Charles was the younger child and only son (as far as has been established)
of John and Julia Woodhead. Born in 1861, he makes his first census 'appearance'
in 1871, where he is found with his paternal grandparents. At the respective
ages of 30 and 28(?) John Woodhead and Margaret Richardson were married in Leeds
on 13th October 1892. Subsequently they relocated to West Ham where John was
employed as a railway clerk.
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Descendants of
Clara (née Todd) and James Kay
Ernest E Kay
Ernest (Edwin?) Kay,
born about 1865, was the first son born to James and Clara and the first of
their children born after the family moved to Southampton. He was with his
parents and his sisters Emeline and Maude for the 1871 census.]
Between that time and the next census he had lost his mother and may have taken
up an apprenticeship in Durham, boarding at 3 Cicero Terrace, Southwick.
Annie
Pearson
30
Sunderland
Elizabeth
Pearson
8
Sunderland
John
Pearson 7
Sunderland
William Daud
(Boarder) 20 Bookkeeper, Engine Works Scotland
Charles T Ratasel
(Boarder) 16 Engine fitter upper at works
Barnstaple, Devon
Ernest E Kay
(Boarder) 16 Engine Fitter Apprentice at Works
Southampton
Leopold Brown
(Boarder) 18 Engine Fitter Apprentice at Works Hylton,
Durham
Mary S
Parker 18 General
Servant Wiltshire
No doubt having a
number of boarders was a welcome income for the young widow Annie Pearson.
Ernest has not been
located in the 1891 census but may have featured in the 1901 census (but note
the slight discrepancy in age) as still a bachelor, and a boarder in the
household of James Broad at 13 Lausanne Road, Deptford, London.
James
Broad 59 Printer
Traveller Winford, Somerset
Kate
Broad
61 Corfe
Ernest E Kay
(Boarder) 34 Mechanic and Draughtsman Southampton
Frederick W Mallett
(Boarder) 37 Foreman Engine Fitter St Heliers,
Jersey
Thomas Harper
(Boarder) 28 Journeyman Tailor Scotland
Maud(e) Kay
Not too much is known
about Maude. She was born in Southampton in the first quarter of 1870
and would have been about 6 years old when her mother died. Together with her
younger sister Laura, she is located for the 1881 census a girls’ school at
Alexandria College, 36 Shirley Road, Stoneham. The head of the establishment is
John Sherrett, widower aged 82 and a retired tradesman. His daughter, Emma
Sherrett is recorded as being the Principal. There were 33 other scholars
enrolled. Apart from a couple of visitors and servants, there were also 3
teachers in residence at the time of the census.
Maud
Kay 11
Scholar Southampton
Laura
Kay 8
Scholar Southampton
Maud(e) appears again
the 1891 census, now a young lady of 21, living at home with her father and
Charles and Laura.
Nothing more has been found for Maud(e) after the 1891 census. She may have
married or died before the 1901 census.
Laura Kay
Laura, born in the
second quarter of 1872, would have been 3 when her mother died.
As noted above, in 1881 she was a pupil at Alexandria College with her older
sister Maud(e). For the next two census returns she is living at home with her
father. Laura was present at,
and was the informant of the death of her father at home at South Stoneham on
5th February 1909.
No further record has been found for Laura.
Charles R Kay
Charles Ray Kay, the
youngest child of James and Clara, was born in the first quarter of 1876 and
would have no memory of his mother, who died in the same quarter. As a very
small boy of 5 he is found in 1881 as a boarder with the Gardiner family at 6
and 7 Orchard Road, Southampton.
William Henry
Gardiner 57
Superintendent of Fire Brigade Leeds
Emma Maria
Gardiner
42 Poplar,
Middlesex
Alice Martha
Gardiner 17 Dressmaker
Southampton
Eliza Ethel
Gardiner 15
Scholar Southampton
Bessie Constance
Gardiner 13 Scholar
Southampton
Charles Ray
Kay 5
Boarder Southampton
William Gardiner was
born in Leeds and was about the same age as James Kay. It is interesting to
speculate whether there was a family connection or whether they were old
acquaintances. Regardless, James would have appreciated the Gardiners’
willingness to look after his young son. Charles appears again
the 1891 census, living at home with his father and Maud and Laura.
A possible ‘sighting’ for him has been made in the 1901 census as a 25 year old
single man, boarding with the Washington family at 29 North Road, Deptford.
His name was transcribed as Charles Ray, but the date and place of birth tally
and, perhaps to substantiate this at ‘our’ Charles Ray Kay is the fact that the
Ernest Kay mentioned above as also living at Deptford in 1901
may have been his brother Ernest.
Thomas
Washington 50 Marine
Engineer Romford, Essex
Mary
Washington
50 Sutton, Surrey
Ernest
Washington 19 Solicitors
Clerk Croydon, Surrey
George Rayson (Boarder)(W)
60 House Decorator Norfolk
John Ross
(Boarder) 35 Marine Engineer
Scotland
Charles Ray (Kay)
(Boarder) 25 Railway Porter Southampton
