Ancestor Table of the daughters of
Alan Blythe and Jessie Clara McCullough

This table presents the entire known ancestry of the three daughters (and only children) of Alan Blythe and his wife Jessie Clara McCullough, of Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. It is intended merely as a genealogical outline, and fuller biographical detail on some of these persons is given in the individual family sketches on this site, including Blythe and McCullough. It is also available as a chart.

The paternal ancestry of Edward Inkley (no. 42 in the table) was developed by Beth (Inkley) Memmott, of Omaha, Nebraska, who patiently answered our many questions. The ancestry of Isaac Whittington (no. 134 in the table) is almost entirely based on Stuart Hill, Hill-Froggatt-Whittington … Family Tree, available online at http://wc.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?db=sah1717. We are grateful to Mr. Hill for bringing this source to our attention, and for furnishing supplementary information.

Generation I

1. (a)  Barbara Ann Blythe, born 8 January 1930 at Winnipeg, living in Fresno, California (2007). She married (as his first wife) 7 March 1959 at Fresno, California, as his first wife, and divorced 1982, John Arbuthnot Bennett, born 28 May 1925 at Buxton, died 13 October 1986 at Fresno, of lung cancer. She has three children.
1. (b)  Kathleen Ellen Blythe, born 23 July 1934 at Winnipeg, living in Winnipeg (2003). She married (1) 27 December 1958 in St. Edward’s Church (Roman Catholic), Winnipeg, Carl George Dawshka, born 17 February 1933 at Pratt, near Austin, Manitoba, died 28 January 1969 at Portage la Prairie, Manitoba. She married (2) (as his third wife) 12 April 1975 at Winnipeg, but separated 1984, and divorced 21 December 2000, Ross Victor Goodwin Dobson, of Winnipeg, born 15 April 1934 at London, Ontario, living 2007. In 1998 Kathleen legally resumed the surname of Blythe. She married (3) 24 February 2001 in Christ the King Church (Roman Catholic), Winnipeg, Ronald Douglas Slate, born 3 January 1936, living 2007, formerly husband of Muriel Watt (daughter of Ed Watt, of Brandon, by his wife Florence Stewart), widower of Marie Marguerite Cecile Jeannette (Leveque) Williams, and son of Frank Douglas Slate, of Winnipeg, by the latter’s wife, Georgianna Hester Robinson. She has two adopted children from her first marriage.
1. (c)  Judith Ann Blythe (who used the surname Wilkes until after her first divorce, when she reverted to her maiden surname), born 20 September 1940 at Winnipeg, living at Calgary, Alberta (2007). She married (1) 30 December 1960 in St Jude’s Anglican Church, Home Street, Winnipeg, and divorced 1984, John (“Jack”) David Wilkes, born 25 March 1933 at Winnipeg, living 2007. She married (2) (as his second wife) 19 September 1987 at Calgary, but separated December 1988 and divorced 19__, Norman Jackson, born 20 May 1923 at Edmonton, died 1 May 2007 at Calgary. She married (3) (as his second wife) in 199_, Martin T. Smith, born ____, living 2007, a widower, who prior to his retirement was a building contractor. She has three children, all by her first marriage.

   Generation II

2. Alan Blythe, of Winnipeg, Manitoba, born 2 April 1907 at Brandon, Manitoba, died 7 April 1992 at Winnipeg, aged 85 years. He married (1) 8 October 1927 in St. Matthew’s Anglican Church, Winnipeg,
3. Jessie Clara McCullough, born 28 December 1903 in the Romford District, London, England, died 25 August 1958 at Winnipeg, aged 54 years.

   Generation III

4. John Jarratt Blythe, of Winnipeg, born 18 August 1878 at Blackpool, Lancashire, died 21 January 1942 at Winnipeg, aged 63 years, and buried there in Brookside Cemetery. A class photograph of him, taken about 1884, proves that he had some elementary education. But in 1891, at the age of only 12 years, he was already working as a “tailor’s errand boy,” and was thus no longer in school. At the time of his marriage J.J. Blythe, then a steel worker, was living at Sheffield, and his wife at North Terrace, Birstall; the witnesses were her father, John Flint, and his brother, Willie Blythe. They lived briefly at Birstall, at Appleby, Westmoreland, at Sheffield, and at Blackhill, Durham. They are found at 5 Cranworth Place, Brightside, in the 1901 census, in which John is called a worked for Liemans Steel Furnace. In 1903, planning to go to Australia, he mistakenly boarded the SS Lake Manitoba, bound for Canada; he decided to remain there and settled at Winnipeg, his wife and children joining him the following year. After a variety of jobs, J.J. Blythe found work with the Canada Malting Company in 1914, beginning as a laborer but being promoted after obtaining his third-class engineering papers; he retired about 1939. He went overseas in 1914 as a sargeant-major in the Canadian Machine Gun Corps, was wounded in 1918, hospitalized, and discharged (these wounds ultimately being the cause of his death). J.J. Blythe and his wife lived at many different addresses in Winnipeg, including 863 Sherburn Avenue (1928-1936). They became members of Epworth Methodist Church by 1906 and remained so until March 1915, when they transferred briefly to Maryland Methodist, and then (his wife conceiving a dislike of the minister) joined St. Matthew’s Anglican Church. He married 16 April 1900 in Mt. Tabour United Methodist Free Church, Birstall, Yorkshire,
5. Mildred Mary Flint, born 25 February 1876 at Wisbech St. Peter, Cambridgeshire, died 26 July 1947 at Winnipeg, aged 71 years, and buried there in Brookside Cemetery. In 1891, at the age of 15 years, she was living with her elder sister, Sarah (Flint) Raine, of Dukinfield, Ashton under Lyne, Cheshire, probably to help with the young Raine children; the census of that year incorrectly records her as Mildred M. Raine. As a married woman living at Winnipeg, Mildred Blythe was a member of the Women’s Christian Temperance Union (WCTU), and sometimes played as a church organist. She spent her last years at the home of her son Alan, but died at that of her daughter Noel, at 1932 Elgin Avenue.
6. Thomas McCullough, of London, born 7 August 1877 at Ballycowan, a townland in the parish of Drumbo, in the barony of Upper Castelreigh, co. Down, Northern Ireland, died 17 September 1921 at 16 Baron Road, Canningtown District, London, aged 44 years, and buried 22 September following in East London Cemetery, Plaistow, London, lot no. 19574. Thomas McCullough worked for some time after his family’s arrival in England as a secretary in a coal mine in Wales which is said to have been owned by his father’s former employer. He is, however, probably the 26-year-old Thomas McCullough, “clerk commercial,” who at the taking of the 1901 census was living as a boarder at 28 Driffield Road E., St. Mary Stratford Bow, London, despite this man’s stated birthplace of London. Certainly he was living in Old Ford, London, at the time of his marriage, as was his wife; the registration gives his occupation as “clerk” and hers as “domestic.” In London, Thomas McCullough worked as a calculator for the touts at the race tracks, and later became a tallyman for the Thames Oil Warf Co., alternating between Glengall Wharf and Dungeons Wharf at the East India Docks. His death certificate calls him a “shipping clerk.” He married 20 September 1901 in the parish church of Old Ford, London,
7. Deborah Sophia Hales, born 8 December 1873 at 47 Wych (now Aldwych) Street, St. Clements parish, Westminister, Middlesex (now in London), bapt. 4 January 1874 in St. Clement Danes parish church, died 23 March 1951 at the home of her daughter, Jessie (McCullough) Blythe, 957 Ingersoll Street, Winnipeg, aged 77 years, and buried in Brookside Cemetery. We have not found her in the 1901 census. Left destitute on her husband’s death, Deborah took their five younger children to Canada in search of better opportunity. They left on 12 May 1922 on the Empress of India, and arrived in Canada on 19 May following, subsequently settling at Winnipeg, Manitoba, and at first staying briefly with her younger sister Rebecca (Hales) Nixon, who was already living there. The family later lived at a number of locations in the West End.

   Generation IV

8. John Blythe, of Sheffield, born 15 November 1847 at Lowmoor, Yorkshire, forgeman, died 22 February 1916 at no. 7 Claywood Road, Sheffield, of cancer, aged 68 years. He was living with his father at Kirkstall at the taking of the 1861 census, when, at the age of only 13, he was already working in a forge. At the time of their marriage he and his wife were both single. He was a forgeman, of 47 Cemetery Road, North Brightside, Bierlow, Sheffield, and she was living with her parents at 3 Ditchingham Street, Brightside, also in Bierlow. John Blythe is also called a forgeman in his son John’s birth certificate (1878) and a steel-worker in the same son’s marriage certificate (1900). This son John told his own son Alan Blythe that his father was a “steel puddler” and worked in a number of different factories. John and Martha Blythe lived for some time after their marriage with her parents, and are found with them in the 1871 census. On 18 August 1878 (when their son John was born) they were residing at 57 Talbot Road, Blackpool, Lancashire; and they were there for several months at least. They had however returned to Sheffield by 1880 (when their son William was born), and were enumerated at 144 Petre Street, Brightside Bierlow (for all practical purposes a suburb of Sheffield), in the 1881 census, which seems to calls John a “steel tyre hammerman.” They were living at no. 8 Buckenham Street, Brightside Bierlow, in 1891, when he is called a hammerman. In 1901 they were still at no. 8 Buckenham Street, Brightside Bierlow, and he was working as a forgeman in a steel-works; the only one of their children still living with them at that time was their son Willie. Martha’s 1911 will refers to her husband as “John Blythe, of 57 Nottingham Street in the City of Sheffield … out of business [i.e. retired].” He married 27 December 1870 in Surrey Street Chapel (Methodist), Sheffield,
9. Martha Ellen Jarratt, born 1849-50 (aged 1 year in 1851, 11 in 1861) at Sheffield (but her birth seems to have gone unregistered), died (testate) 11 February 1919 at no. 7 Claywood Road, Sheffield, of a brain embolism and heart failure, aged 69 years. According to information given by her son John to his own son Alan, Martha (Jarratt) Blythe “was very strict and tyrannical. She used to knit with unspun flax, pulling it from a pouch at her left side and twisting it while she knit.” Alan Blythe has identified a sweater made by her in a school class photograph of her son John, evidently taken about 1884, in which all the other boys are wearing blazers. Her will, dated 26 January 1911, is mainly conventional and makes no personal bequests, leaving the income from her investments to her husband for his lifetime and the capital after his death to her children in equal shares. Her death record calls her “widow of John Blythe, forgeman.”
10. John Flint, of Wisbech St. Peter, Cambridgeshire, born 17/18 December 1836 at Holbeach, Lincolnshire, baptized 27 December following, apparently in the Methodist Church on Albert Street, died (testate) 17 December 1925 at Walsoken, Norfolk, aged 88 or 89 years, of old age, and buried beside his first wife in Leverington Road Cemetery, near Wisbech. John Flint became a butcher by 1851, and later a master butcher. He established himself in business in Wisbech at 54 Norfolk Street E. by 1861, at 35 Sluice Row by 1871, and at 16 Norfolk Street E. by 1876 (and until 1881); his family lived above these shops. Some time after the death of his first wife in 1886, John Flint married (2) (registration in the first quarter of 1887 at Marylebone), his first wife’s cousin, Sarah Ann Harrold, born probably 1834-35 at Tydd St. Giles, Cambridgeshire, died s.p. 19 August 1923 at Wisbech, daughter of George and Mary (Sketcher) Harrold. She too predeceased him, and he spent his last years at “Barton Lodge” on the North Brink, Wisbech, the home of his daughter Kate Cook. He died at Walsoken House, Walsoken, Norfolk, the home of his daughter Susannah Miller. According to a letter written by Kate to her sister Mildred, he had a very peaceful end, and his last words were, “Oh, if only I had wings to take me to heaven.” Family tradition states that John Flint and his family led lives of strict obedience to the tenets of the Methodist faith. They used no alcohol or tobacco, and the Lord’s Day was observed so strictly that his wife prepared the Sunday meal the day before in the church’s communal kitchen, known as the “parish oven.” The whole of the Sabbath was spent at church. John Flint was certainly a lay preacher, as his father is said to have been. His will left his assets in trust, with the income to be paid to his (second) wife during her lifetime, and afterward to his son Harry (who was an epileptic and unable to work); after whose death his estate was to pass equally to his other children except James and John, who had received their shares earlier. In fact his second wife predeceased him, and the funds passed directly to Harry, on whose death in 1954 the estate (totalling £1080) was finally divided. He married (1) 28 October 1856 in the parish church of Terrington St. Clement, Norfolk,
11. Sophia Bird, baptized 9 August 1835 in the parish church of Tilney St. Lawrence, Norfolk, died 12 March 1886 at Wisbech, aged 50 years, of multiple illnesses, and buried in Leverington Road Cemetery. She, who for some time prior to her marriage had been a servant to a family at Walpole St. Peter, was living at Terrington St. Clement at the time of their marriage in 1856.
12. William McCullough, of Ballycowan, a townland in the parish of Drumbo, in the barony of Upper Castelreigh, co. Down, Northern Ireland, and later of Wyck Rissington St. Bar, near Stow on the Wold, Gloucester, born 18 February 1845 in Northern Ireland, probably in co. Antrim, died 19 June 1915 at Wyck Hill Stables, Wyck Rissington, of chronic interstitial nephritis, cardiac dilation, and dropsy, aged 72 years. He was a groom and coachman, and was Protestant (Church of Ireland) in religion. He and his wife were in South Kensington, London, in early 1881, when their son Henry was born, and were enumerated there at 10 Cornwall Gardens Stables in the 1881 census, in which William is called a coachman. They were back in Ireland during the years 1887-1891, when three more children were born there, but in 1901 were enumerated with the three youngest of their suriving children (Henry, Frederick, and Jessie) in the parish of Wyck Rissington St. Bar, near Stow on the Wold, Gloucester. They were living as domestics at Wyck Hill Stables, William being recorded as a “stud groom” and his son Henry as a “groom.” William is also called a “stud groom” in the 1901 marriage record of his son Thomas, and in the record of his own death in 1915. He and his wife, with their daughter Jessie, are also found at Stow on the Wold in the 1911 census. He died in 1915, and administration of his estate was granted to his widow, Ellen McCullough on 10 July 1919, and it was evaluated at £284 17s. 1d.. He, at the time a servant, of Greencastle, co. Antrim, married (by licence) 2 June 1867 in St. Anne’s Church (Church of Ireland), Shankill, Belfast, Antrim,
13. Ellen Canning, born probably in 1848 (aged 18 years in 1867, 52 years in 1901, 78 years in 1920) in Ireland, died 14 June 1920 at no. 27 Park Road, Old Stratford Within, Warwickshire, of “malignant disease of stomach [and] heart failure.” Administration of her estate was granted to (her son) William McCullough, stud groom, and it was evaluated at £277 4s. 4d..
14. Samuel William Hales, of London, an ostler and later a basket-maker, was born 20 February 1842 (per his baptismal record), in the Hoxton district of Shoreditch, Middlesex (now in London), according to the 1871 census, or (less likely, we think) in the parish of St. Clement Danes, according to the 1901 census, baptized 27 March 1842 in St. Leonard’s church, in the parish of Shoreditch, Middlesex (now in London), died 6 February 1913 at West Ham Union Infirmary, of “arterio-sclerosis” and “mitral incompetence,” aged 63 years. He was still living unmarried with his parents in 1861, when he is called a stable-man in the census. He and his wife were both single at the time of their marriage and allegedly of “full age” (i.e. 21), he then being of Grafton Place and she of Chalton Street. She was able to make a well-practiced signature in the register, but he made a mark. Samuel Hales appears with his wife and two eldest surviving children (Samuel and Sarah) at 47 Wych (now Adlwych) Street, St. Clement Danes, Westminster, in the 1871 census, in which he is called an ostler (i.e. stable-man). He was still at the same address, and still an ostler, at the birth of his daughter Deborah in 1873. His family seems to have missed detection at the taking of the 1881 census. But they are listed in that of 1891 at no. 35 Stanhope Street, in the parish of St. Clement Danes, which calls him a basket-maker and indicates that he was blind; his wife was a laundress. As “William Samuel [sic] Hales” he is listed at no. 43 Stanhope Street in the 1901 census, which again calls him a basket-maker and indicates that he was blind; the only other member shown in his household was his youngest son, and it seems that the other members of his family were simply missed, as they have not been found elsewhere. He is again called a basket-maker in the marriage certificate of his daughter Deborah (1901), and a basket-weaver in that of his son William (1912). He was living at no. 6 Houghton Street, Strand District, London, at the death of his wife in 1903, in the record of which he is called “Samuel Hales, formerly a basket maker.” His usual address at the time of his death was 21 Poulett Road, East Ham, and at the time he was “a labourer in [a] cable factory.” Family tradition states that he took up basket-making only after going blind, and being unable to continue the heavy work he had previously done. It is said that he relied much on his sense of smell to compensate for the loss of his sight, and remained “adroit at cards and dominoes.” Apparently poverty drove him into menial labor in his last days. He married 10 September 1865 in old St. Pancras church, St. Pancras Road, St. Pancras parish, Middlesex (now in London),
15. Rebecca Elizabeth Keegan, born 22 June 1846 in the parish of St. Giles in the Fields, Bloomsbury, Middlesex, now in London (per her birth certificate), died 11 April 1903 at no. 6 Houghton Street, Strand District, London, of heart disease, bronchitis, and syncope, aged 56 years. She falsely declared herself to be of full age (21 years) at the time of her marriage, although she was only 19 at the time.

    Generation V

16. William Blythe, of Bradford, Yorkshire, born in the township of Brightside Bierlow in the parish of Sheffield, baptized 5 October 1817 in St. Peter’s Cathedral, Sheffield, living 1861. (Despite the coincidence of their dates of birth, he was not the William Blythe who died 17 December 1888, aged 71 years, at Grimesthorpe, a village in the township of Brightside Bierlow aforesaid.) He is called a hammerman in the 1841 census of Kirstall Forge, Kirkstall, Yorkshire, in which he appears with his parents. At the time of their marriage William Blythe and his wife were both single and of Kirkstall; she was able to sign her name in the register but he made a mark instead. He is called a forgeman in his marriage certificate and in the birth and marriage certificates of his son John (1847, 1870). In 1847, when their son John was born, William Blythe and his wife were living at Low Moor, a hamlet in North Bierley, Bradford; and at the 1851 census their address was 190 Forge Row. The likeliest explanation for his move there is that he had gone to work for the Low Moor Iron Works, a large factory which specialized in the making of rivets, coupling chains, carriage and wagon drawgear and colliery work. William Blythe is found with his children Mary Ann and John at the “farm cottages,” Horsforth Road, in the 1861 census of Kirkstall, in which he is called a “shingler [and] hammerman [in] iron”; his wife was not present in the household and was presumably deceased, although his marital condition is given as “married” rather than “widower.” Although William Blythe died at Sheffield, it would appear that he only went there toward the end of his life. He has not been located in the 1871 census, and neither he nor his wife appear anywhere in Yorkshire in the LDS index to the 1881 census. He married 27 September 1841 in the hamlet of Kirkstall, in the township and chapelry of North Bierley, in the parish of Bradford,
17. Elizabeth Brook(e), born in the township of Bowling, in the parish of Bradford, baptized 18 October 1818 in Bradford parish church, still alive in 1851, but probably not in 1861.
18. John Jarratt, of Brightside, Ecclesall Bierlow (a suburb of Sheffield), Yorkshire, born probably in 1813, between April and November, at Birmingham, co. Warwick (now in the modern county of West Midlands), died 2 November 1885, at Buckenham Street, Brightside, Ecclesall Bierlow, of “senile decay [and] paralysis, 14 days,” aged 72 years, and buried 5 November following in St. Thomas Anglican churchyard, Brightside, Sheffield. They were living at Hoyle Street, Sheffield, at the taking of the 1841 census, in which he is called a brickmaker. They were living at Railway Terrace, Sheffield, at the taking of the 1851 census, in which he is again called a brickmaker; at the time, his widowed mother, Mary Flemming, was living with them. He is found with his family at Carlisle Street East, Railway Terrace, in the 1861 census of Brightside, Sheffield, in which he is called a brickmaker. He is called a “brick-manufacturer” in the 1871 census and in his death certificate. He and his wife were enumerated at no. 4 Buckenham Street in the 1881 census, in which John is called a retired brick manufacturer. He married 27 April 1835 in the Cathedral Church of SS. Peter and Paul, Sheffield, by banns (the ages and parents of the parties not being stated in the record),
19. Mary Baxter, born ca. 1817 (aged 35 in 1851, 43 in 1861, 73 in 1891, and 83 at her death in 1900) at Mansfield, Nottinghamshire, died 20 September 1900 at no. 4 Buckenham Street, East Brightside, of “senile decay,” aged 83 years, and buried 24 September following in St. Thomas Anglican churchyard, Brightside, Sheffield. She was perhaps the one of this name baptized 24 August 1817 at Mansfield, daughter of Thomas and Anne (____) Baxter, of Mansfield. The widow Mary (Baxter) Jarratt, then described as “living on her own means,” was still residing at no. 4 Buckenham Street with two of her grandchildren in 1891. In the certificate of her death she is called “Mary Jarratt, widow of John Jarratt, brick manufacturer.”
20. George Flint, of Wisbech St. Peter, Cambridgeshire, carpenter and joiner, baptized 2 May 1801 in Holbeach parish church, died (intestate) 26 December 1891 at Wisbech, aged well over 90 years. George Flint and his first wife Mary Inkley were both single and of Holbeach at the time of their marriage. He signed his name in the register but she made a mark instead. Various records refer to him as a carpenter or joiner (1821-1840, 1884), a builder (1826, 1836, 1861-1891), a wholesale dealer (1838), a furniture broker (1841-50, 1873), a cabinet or furniture maker (1851-56), a contractor (1891), and a master carpenter. George Flint and his first wife became Methodists by 1836, when they had their son John (our no. 10) baptized in the Primitive Methodist Chapel, Albert Street, Holbeach. Indeed family records claim that George Flint was, like his sons George and John, a Methodist lay preacher. Though no documentary evidence has been found to confirm this assertion, it is not implausible, as Holbeach was an early centre for Primitive Methodist camp meetings. George Flint moved with his family to Wisbech in 1837 or 1838. Mary died shortly after the move, and he remarried soon afterward. He was living with his second wife at Timber Market between 1841 and 1849. In 1851 they were at Norfolk Street East. By 1856 they had moved to Church Terrace, where he had a cabinet-making business, and they are found at 26 Church Terrace in 1861, when he had a servant. They were living at no. 18 Market Place in 1871, and at no. 8 Ryan Street in 1881, where his wife died years later. George Flint remarried shortly afterward to his third wife, and they are found in the 1891 census of Emneth, Norfolk, their household consisting only of themselves. On George Flint’s death in 1891 he left no will, and no letters of administration were ever granted to his estate. He married (1) 1 January 1821 in Holbeach parish church, after publication of banns,
21. Mary Inkley, born 1797-98, probably at Gosberton, Lincolnshire, baptized 3 June 1798 in Money Bridge Lane Chapel, near Pinchbeck, Lincolnshire, died 4 May 1838 at Wisbech, aged about 40 years.
22. William Bird, of Tilney St. Lawrence, Walpole St. Peter, “Perkins Field,” Terrington St. Clement, and finally of Clenchwarton, all in Norfolk, born probably in 1804 (aged 47 in 1851) at Tilney St. Lawrence, baptized (some time later, and not until after his father’s death) 12 May 1805 in the parish church of Tilney St. Lawrence, died 9 February 1884 at Clenchwarton, aged probably about 80 years (and not 82 as stated in his death record and on his gravestone) of pneumonia and exhaustion, and buried in the parish churchyard of Tilney St. Lawrence. Left an orphan certainly before his seventh birthday, he outlived both his parents by more than 75 years. At the time of their marriage he and his wife were both single and of Tilney; both make marks in the register in lieu of signatures. They were at Tilney from 1833 to 1838, then moved in 1838 or 1839 to Walpole St. Peter. He was enumerated with his family at Walpole St. Peter in the 1841 census, in which he is called an agricultural laborer. In an 1845 directory of the county William Bird is listed as one of two bailiffs of the New Salt Marsh, adjoining Lincolnshire (but lying parochially in Walpole St. Andrew); but though Walpole St. Andrew is thus implied to be his address, there is no direct evidence that he had actually moved there from Walpole St. Peter. However, some time between 1844 and 1848 he returned with his family to Tilney, as proven by the baptisms of his children there; he was enumerated in that parish in the 1851 census, and remained there until at least 1853. Until his return to Tilney he is always called a laborer, but from that point onward he is consistently called a farmer. By 1856 he and his family moved to Terrington, and his daughter Sophia was married there that year. In 1861 he was a farmer of 33 acres at Emersgate Green, Perkin Field, Terrington. His address is also given as Terrington in the 1867 burial record of his son Henry. He was enumerated at Clenchwarton, Norfolk, in the 1871 census. He was still alive in 1881, when he is listed as a “farmer [of] 100 acres, employing three sons” at Low Road, Clenchwarton, Norfolk. In his death record, which also calls him a farmer, the informant is listed as his son John Bird, of Clenchwarton. He married 10 March 1833 in the parish church of Tilney St. Lawrence,
23. Sarah Harrold, baptized 21 May 1812 in the parish church of Tilney St. Lawrence, Norfolk, died 20 March 1883 at Clenchwarton, probably aged 71 or 72 years (as stated on her gravestone, and not 73 years as stated in her death record), of bronchitis, and buried beside her husband. In her death record she is called “wife of William Bird, farmer,” and the informant is listed as her son Henry Bird, of Terrington St. John.
24. Thomas McCullough, coachman, possibly of Greencastle, co. Antrim, was born about 1824 (calculated) in co. Antrim, Northern Ireland, and died 28 March 1887 at 30 Cosgrave Street, Belfast, Antrim. He is called a coachman in the 1867 marriage record of his son William (no. 12 above). He married before 1845 (when their first child was born),
25. Jane Hunter, born about 1826 (calculated), died 3 March 1891 at 30 Cosgrave Street, Belfast, Antrim.
26. Thomas Canning, possibly of Belfast, Northern Ireland, laborer, alive in 1848 given the birthdate of his daughter Ellen (no. 13 above); his name and occupation are known only from the 1867 marriage record of this same daughter.
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28. Samuel Hales, of St. Leonard’s Shoreditch, Middlesex (now in London), born 1805-06 (aged 45 in 1851, 55 in 1861) at Gravesend, Kent (per the 1851 census) or at London (per the 1861 census), died 9 November 1866 at 30 Fleet Lane, West London, aged 60 years, the cause of death being illegible in the record. They were both single, “of full age,” and of Christ Church parish at the time of their marriage, which was witnessed by a J. Knight and an Anne Reeve. Their first child was born less than four months afterward. To judge from the baptismal records of his children, Samuel Hales and his wife were in St. Leonard’s, Shoreditch from 1834 to 1842. They were enumerated there on Willow Street in the 1841 census, in which Samuel is called a laborer. However, at the taking of the 1851 census, in which he is called a “carman & porter,” he was living at no. 14 Milford Lane, St. Clement Danes, Westminster. He appears with his wife and two eldest surviving children (Samuel and Sarah) as residents of the Bull Inn, Milford Lane, St. Clement Danes, Westminster, in the 1861 census, in which he is called a porter. He is also called a porter in the 1865 marriage record of his son Samuel. At the time of his death in 1866, which was reported by “M. [?] Hales, [of] 30 Fleet Lane, Old Bailey, London” (i.e. his wife?) he was a “poulterer’s porter.” He married 22 February 1829 in Christ Church (formerly Grey Friars’), Newgate Street, City of London (the ages of the parties not being stated in the record),
29. Maria Frost, born probably in 1805-06 (aged 45 in 1851, 55 in 1861, 64 in 1871) at Colchester, Essex, still alive in 1871 and possibly also in 1881. In 1871 the widowed Maria Hales, then a laundress, was living in the parish of St. Mary le Strand, Westminster, with two of her daughters, next door to her daughter-in-law Rebecca Elizabeth (Keegan) Hales’s widowed mother, Sarah (Bowen) Keegan (no. 31). We have not found her in the LDS index to the 1881 census.
30. John James Keegan (Sr.), of the parish of St. Giles in the Fields, Bloomsbury, Middlesex (now in London), England, born 1805-06 (aged 45 in 1851) in the parish of St. George Hanover Square, Middlesex (per the 1851 census), died by 1861 (when his wife is called a widow in the census). Although he is not called deceased in the baptismal record of his son John on 21 May 1854, and although the implied date of birth would not agree closely, he may possibly have been the John Keegan who died 9 April 1854 at no. 3, Duke’s Court, Drury Lane, Westminster, aged 45 years, no further information about the deceased being given. He cannot however have been the John Keegan, laborer, who died 3 August 1857 in the Workhouse, Vinegar Yard, St. Giles in the Fields, London, of phthisis (i.e. pulmonary tuberculosis), aged 40 years, and who must therefore have been born about 1816-17. Our John Keegan is called a “boot closer,” of 34 Great N. Andrew Street, in the 1846 birth record of his daughter Rebecca. He and his wife are found at Tower Street, St. Giles in the Fields, in the 1841 census, in which he is called a boot-closer, and at no. 16 White Horse Yard, St. Clement Danes, Westminster, in the 1851 census, in which he is again called a boot-closer, and she a shoe-closer. He married 5 September 1836 in the parish church of St. Anne Soho, Westminster,
31. Sarah Bowen, born about 1816 (aged 20-24 in 1841, 34 in 1851, 45 in 1861, 54 in 1871, 60 in 1877) at Bristol, Gloucestershire (but actually on the Gloucestershire-Somerset border), died 18 April 1877 at no. 5 Houghton Street, Clare Market, St. Mary Le Strand, London, of “apoplexy and epileptic convulsions,” aged 60 years. She was perhaps the Sarah Bowens, baptized 27 April 1817 in the parish church of Holy Trinity, Abbots Leigh, near Bristol (IGI), daughter of Michael Bowens and Ann ____, the only child of this couple to be baptized there, at least according to the IGI. In 1861 the widowed Sarah Keegan, “forewoman in a seed warehouse,” is found at no. 7 Brydges Street, in the parish of St. Mary le Strand, Westminster, with her children George and Emily. In 1871, as a “seedwoman at [a] warehouse,” she is found in the parish of St. Mary le Strand, Westminster, with her children George, Emily, and Frances, and her granddaughter Rebecca Hales; they were living next door to her son-in-law Samuel William Hales’s widowed mother, Maria (Frost) Hales (no. 29). At the time of her death in 1877 she was a charwoman.

    Generation VI

32. George Blyth(e), of Sheffield, born in 1786-87 (aged 64 in 1851) at Grimesthorpe, a village in the township of Brightside Bierlow, in the parish of Sheffield (per 1851 census), living 1851. He was perhaps the one of this name baptized 18 January 1786 in Sheffield Cathedral, son of William Blythe and Mary Platt. At the time of his marriage in 1813 both parties were of Doncaster; he was able to sign his name in the register (as “George Blyth”), but his wife made a mark instead. The witnesses were a Joseph Birley and a John Hatfield. George Blythe and his wife were living at Sheffield in the period 1814-28, during which they baptized three children there. George Blythe is found at Kirkstall Forge in the 1841 census, in which he is called a bricklayer, and at no. 21 Kirkstall Forge, Kirkstall, in the 1851 census, in which he is again called a bricklayer. We have not found him or his wife in the 1861 census. George Blythe is called a forgeman in the marriage record of his son William (1841), which he signs as a witness, writing his surname as “Blythe.” Such an occupation is at odds with that given in census records and may be incorrect, but the signature corresponds reasonably well with that made at his own marriage 28 years earlier, considering the amount of time which had passed in between. He married 27 September 1813 in the parish church of St. George, Doncaster, Yorkshire,
33. Ann (“Nancy”) Buxton, born 1792-93 (aged 58 in 1851) at Greasbrough, near Rotherham, in the West (now South) Riding of Yorkshire (per the 1851 census), baptized 15 January 1793 in the Independent Chapel, Masbrough, also near Rotherham, still alive in 1851. She is called Nancy in her baptismal record and in the 1851 census. Apart from the the fact that her baptism falls in the twelve-month interval dictated by her age at the taking of the 1851 census, she named children Henry and Martha for her parents.
34. William Brook(e), of Bradford and later of Kirkstall Forge, both in the West Riding of Yorkshire, born 1776-81 (aged 60-64 in 1841) in Yorkshire, alive in 1841, in which year he is called a forgeman both in the census (in which he appears at Kirkstall Forge with his wife, and daughter Elizabeth) and in his daughter Elizabeth’s marriage record. The surname is spelled Brooke in the census but Brook in the marriage record. He married before 1813,
35. Elizabeth ____, born 1781-86 (aged 55-59 in 1841) in Yorkshire, alive in 1841.
36. (an unknown father)
37. Mary Jarratt, of unknown parentage and surname, was born 1794-95 (aged 56 in 1851, 66 in 1861, 73 in 1868) at St. Helens, now a borough but then a chapelry in the township of Windle in the parish of Prescott, Lancashire (per 1851 census), or at “Duckingfield, Lancashire” (per 1861 census; probably an error for Dukinfield, in the parish of Stockport, Cheshire, just over the border), and died 25 November 1868, aged 73 years, of “old age,” at the home of her son John (no. 18 above), no. 146 Grimesthorpe Road, Brightside Bierlow, Sheffield. She was almost certainly, on chronological and geographical grounds, the Mary “Jarrat” born 10 November 1795, and baptized 6 March 1796 in the parish church of Saint Helen’s, Lancashire, daughter of George Jarrat by an unnamed mother. As “Mary Gerrard” she married (as his second wife) 3 May 1819 in the parish church of Aston-juxta-Birmingham, Warwickshire, Thomas Flemming, born 1786-91 (aged 65-69 in 1841), outside of Yorkshire, died in 1841-51. Her second husband is called a widower in their marriage record, although her own marital status is left blank. The youngest of their three children, the only one born after the beginning of civil registration of births, was born at Oldham, Lancashire, in 1839, the record giving the mother’s maiden name as Mary Jarratt. Mary and her husband are found, with three children, at Brick Yard, Dewsbury, in the West Riding of Yorkshire, at the taking of the 1841 census. She is found with her son John in the 1851 census, in which she is called a widow, and her birthplace is given as “St. Ellens” (sic). As “Mary Fleming” she appears in the household of her daughter Ellen (Flemming) Globe on Powell Street (no house number given), St. George’s Ward, Sheffield, in the 1861 census.
38. (probably) Thomas Baxter, of Mansfield, Nottinghamshire.
39. (probably) Anne ____
40. George Flint, of Holbeach, carpenter and joiner, died (intestate) shortly before 11 September 1806, when he was buried in Holbeach churchyard (where however no gravestone survives). Letters of administration on his estate were granted in 1807. At the time of his marriage he and his wife were of Holbeach; he signed his name in the register but she made a mark instead. He established himself in a carpentry business, and left property (apart from any real-estate) worth almost £1500. He dying intestate, letters of administration for his estate were granted to his widow, who a few weeks later published a newspaper announcement stating that she had sold the business. He married (as her first husband) 22 May 1788 in Holbeach parish church,
41. Elizabeth Lee, baptized 11 November 1769 in Holbeach parish church, died shortly before 9 September 1853, when she was buried in Holbeach parish churchyard, aged nearly 84 years. She married secondly, 15 June 1808, in Holbeach parish church, after reading of banns, John Walker, of Holbeach, a master carpenter, the register calling her a widow and him (surprisingly enough) a bachelor. Although John Walker is known from the 1851 census to have been born at Wigtoft, Lincolnshire, his age is very uncertain, as it is given as only 50 (i.e. 50-54) in the 1841 census, but as 86 in the 1851 census, a wild discrepancy. In 1841 they were enumerated at High Street, Holbeach, he being called a builder therein. He served as parish clerk of Holbeach from June 1833 to June 1835 at least. In 1851 John and Elizabeth Walker were living at High Street, Holbeach. As no other John Walker appears in the 1841 or 1851 censuses, he may have been the one of this name listed both as a cabinet-maker and as “parish clerk, etc.” on High Street in a directory of 1856, although this would seem a credible possibility only if his age were much lower than that suggested by the 1851 census. Neither he nor Elizabeth can be found in the 1861 census of Holbeach, so had probably died by then. No children of this marriage are to be found in the Holbeach baptismal register. Elizabeth Lee’s longevity was apparently inherited by her son George (no. 20) and daughter Elizabeth, who lived to be 90 and 89 years of age respectively.
42. Edward Inkley, of Gosberton, Lincolnshire, farmer, baptized 15 July 1753 in the parish church of Swineshead, Lincolnshire, died at the age of 48 years, shortly before 3 April 1802, when he was buried in the parish churchyard of Gosberton, Lincolnshire. He married 26 February 1781 in the parish church of Pinchbeck, Lincolnshire,
43. Ann Fountain, her father’s elder daughter and eventual sole heiress, baptized 8 April 1763 in Gosberton parish church, died at the age of 57 years, shortly before 28 October 1820, when she was buried in Gosberton churchyard.
44. Robert Bird, of Tilney St. Lawrence, Norfolk, born 1751-52, died (intestate) shortly before 5 May 1805, when he was buried in Tilney churchyard. At the time of his second marriage he was of Tilney and his wife was a single woman, of Walpole St. Peter. Both made marks in the register in lieu of signatures. The witnesses were an Austin Lowden and a William Hackney. On 3 October 1805, an administration bond was granted to his widow Susannah Bird of Tilney and an Austin Lowden of Tilney, farmer, who both make marks in lieu of signatures (Norwich Archdeaconry Court administration bonds, 1804-5, no. 54). He married (1) by 1782, Sarah ____, who died shortly before 14 January 1798, when she was buried in Tilney churchyard. He married (2) 23 April 1799 in the parish church of Tilney St. Lawrence,
45. Susannah Lowden, born 1776-77, died shortly before 13 October 1808, when she was buried in Tilney churchyard. She was presumably a kinswoman of Austin Lowden, above-mentioned. Was this the Austin Lowden who married 5 February 1770 in the parish church of Tilney St. Lawrence, the widow Elizabeth (____) Hallowell. If so, he may have been Susannah’s father.
46. Henry Harold, of Tilney St. Lawrence, Norfolk, born say 1775-80, died shortly before 9 June 1833, when he was buried in Tilney churchyard. He is called a labourer in the baptismal records of his children Christmas (1817), Sophia (1818), Joseph (1820), and simon (1823). He married probably in November 1804 (the date of the third publications of the banns) in the parish church of Tilney St. Lawrence,
47. Sarah Wright, born ca. 1783-84 (calculated) at Tilney, Norfolk (per 1851 census), died shortly before 15 March 1854, when she was buried in Tilney churchyard, reportedly aged 70 years. She is found at Tilney St. Lawrence as Sarah Harrold, aged 55-59 years (thus born in 1781-86), born in Norfolk, of independent means, marital status not stated, in the 1841 census. She is found as a widow in the household of her son George at Walsoken, Norfolk, in the 1851 census, which states her age as 73 years, implying a date of birth in 1777-1778. This is probably exaggerated, as it conflicts with other records and would make her about 45 at the birth of her youngest child. In all likelihood she was the Sarah, daughter of William and Catharine (____) Wright, baptized 3 April 1784 in the parish church of Tilney St. Lawrence.
48. (McCullough)
52. (Canning)
56. (Hales)
58. (Frost)
60. (Keegan)
62. (Bowen)

    Generation VII

64. (Blythe)
66. Henry Buxton, of Greasbrough and Masbrough, both near Rotherham, in the West (now South) Riding of Yorkshire, born 1751-52, died 78 years, and buried at 28 September 1830 in St. Mary’s (Anglican) churchyard, Greasbrough. We have not found a corresponding baptism in the IGI or in the LDS Vital Records Index. Stuart Hill informs us that Henry Buxton is believed to have come from Chesterfield. He married 3 June 1776 in the parish church of Rotherham, Yorkshire,
67. Martha Whittington, baptized 28 November 1756 in the parish church of Rotherham, died aged 70 years, shortly before 13 June 1827, when she was buried in St. Mary’s (Anglican) churchyard, Greasbrough.
68. (Brook)
80. (Flint)
82. Thomas Lee, of Holbeach, baptized there 1736, alive in 1796. He married by 1769,
83. Mary ____.
84. William Hinkley, of Swineshead, of unknown parentage, born say 1710, an adult in 1735, died shortly before 5 May 1754, when he was buried in Swineshead churchyard. He married (2) (as her first husband) 2 February 1746/7 in Swineshead parish church,
85. Elizabeth Moore, baptized 7 May 1723 in Swineshead parish church, died at the age of 39 years, shortly before 13 October 1762, when she was buried in Swineshead churchyard, having married secondly, in 1754, Thomas Audis.
86. Robert Fountain, of Gosberton, Lincolnshire, farmer, baptized 26 December 1737 in Gosberton parish church, died (testate) in 1777, between 5 August (when his will was made) and 11 August (when he was buried in Gosberton churchyard), aged 39 years. A gravestone for him survived in the 1980s. He married (1) (as her second husband) 18 February 1762 in Gosberton parish church, by licence,
87. Ann (Billings?) Middlebrook, born in 1731-32, died aged 36 years, shortly before 6 November 1768, when she was buried in Gosberton churchyard; widow (with issue) of John Middlebrook (who was buried 16 November 1760 in Gosberton churchyard). Ann’s prior marriage occurred before the birth of her first son, John Middlebrook, who was baptized 18 February 1757 in Gosberton parish church. She and her first husband were thus probably the Jno. Middlebrook and Ann Billings who were married 9 February 1756 in the parish church of Donington-in-Holland, Lincolnshire. An Ann, daughter of James Billins (sic), was baptized 5 July 1732 in the parish church of Sutterton, less than five miles from Donington.
88. (Bird)
90. (Lowden)
92. (Harold)
94. (Wright)

    Generation VIII

132. (Buxton)
134. Isaac Whittington, of Rotherham, in the West (now South) Riding of Yorkshire, a smith, baptized 18 February 1727[/8?] in the parish church of Ecclesfield St. Mary, living 1762 (when he had a child baptized). He 18 April 1751 in the parish church of Rotherham, of Isaac Whittington, bachelor, a smith,
134. Mary Smith, also living 1762; called a spinster, of Greasbrough (in the West Riding of Yorkshire), in their marriage record. She was perhaps the Mary, daughter of Samuel Smith, baptized 1 January 1730 in the parish church of Rotherham.
164. Robert Lee, of Holbeach and Fleet, Lincolnshire, died 1766. He married by 1736,
165. Keturah ____.
168. (Hinkley)
170. Luke Moore, of Swineshead, Lincolnshire, born say 1690, died (apparently intestate) shortly before 29 September 1726, when he was buried in Swineshead churchyard. He married 18 November 1712 in Swineshead parish church,
171. Mary Perkins, baptized 27 May 1694 in Swineshead parish church, living 1723. It seems likely that she survived her husband and was the Mary Moore who married 8 June 1727 in Swineshead parish church, of Heckington, Thomas Chase.
172. John Fountain, of Surfleet and Gosberton, Lincolnshire, baptized 24 October 1703 in the parish church of Surfleet, died (apparently intestate) at the age of 38 years, and buried 6 January 1741/2 in Gosberton churchyard (where no gravestone survived in 1988). He married 13 June 1726 in Surfleet parish church,
172. Eleanor Oridge/Orange, living 1740. Her surname is given as “Oridge” in her marriage record, but when used as a middle name among her descendants, it consistently appears as “Orange,” a rare local surname. Assuming she survived her husband, she is perhaps the (widow?) “Elinor Fountain” who married 29 July 1745 at Pinchbeck, John Air.

     Generation IX

268. Richard Whittington, of Ecclesfield and Rotherham, in the West (now South) Riding of Yorkshire, was baptized in 1700 the parish church of Ecclesfield. He married 15 November 1724 in the parish church of St. George, Doncaster,
269. Mary Hartley, baptized 4 May 1703 in the parish church of Brodsworth, near Doncaster, died 1781 at Greasbrough, in the West (now South) Riding of Yorkshire.
270. (Smith)
328. (Lee)
340. (Moore)
342. John Perkins, of Swineshead, born say 1660, died (intestate) in mid-November 1736, when he was buried in Swineshead churchyard. He married 4 August 1685 in Swineshead parish church,
343. Mary Pounder, baptized 23 December 1659 in the parish church of Swineshead, died at the age of 68 years, shortly before 11 November 1728, when she was buried in Swineshead churchyard.
344. Robert Fountain, of Surfleet, Lincolnshire, died (testate) between 7 October 1728 when he made his will) and 1729 (when it was proved). He is called a laborer in the baptismal record of his son William (1701). In his will, dated 7 October 1728, in which he makes a mark in lieu of a signature, he calls himself a drover, of Surfleet, and his bequests included cattle. He married (2) 14 May 1691 in Surfleet parish church,
345. Elizabeth Cordley, living 1703.

     Generation X

536. Isaac Whittington, of Ecclesfield, in the West (now South) Riding of Yorkshire, baptized in 1674 at Ecclesfield. He married 29 December 1698 in the parish church of St. Mary, Ecclesfield,
537. Ann Jubb, said to have been born at Barnsley, a chapelry in the parish of Silkstone, in the West (now South) Riding of Yorkshire.
538. Joseph Hartley, of Brodsworth (as he is specifically styled in the baptismal records of all of his children), near Doncaster, in the West (now South) Riding of Yorkshire, was born say 1670-75, and was still alive at the death of his wife in May 1743, so he may be safely assumed to be the “Joseph Hartley, labourer” buried 16 December 1751 in the parish churchyard. There does not seem to be any record of the baptism of such a man at Brodsworth, although the name was certainly known there before his time. He married 24 November 1696 in the parish church of Brodsworth,
539. Mary Hirst, almost certainly the one of this name baptized 3 December 1676 in Brodsworth parish church, daughter of Robert Hirst; as “Mary wife of Joseph Hartley” she was buried 13 May 1743 in the parish churchard, Brodsworth.
684. (Perkins)
686. William Pounder, of Swineshead, Lincolnshire, born say 1615, an adult in 1640, living 1659. He married (3) 15 May 1649 in Swineshead parish church,
687. Katherine Duddicke, living 1659. The only man in the area of the right age to be her father is Ozias Duddicke or Diddicke, of Coningsby and Dogdyke, Lincolnshire, baptized 20 June 1630 in Coningsby parish church; but the will of “Osias Duddick of Dockdike in the p[ar]ish of Billighay and County of Lincoln, husbandman,” dated 16 March 1651, makes no mention of such a daughter although he names two other daughters, and also two nieces and a nephew.

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