Ancestors of Sheila Barbara Lloyd, my ex-wife
In order to help our descendants to trace their
ancestors on Sheila’s side, I summarise below what I have so far discovered
about Sheila’s ancestors.
Sheila’s maternal ancestors
Sheila’s
mother was Irene
Wilson; I believe she was born in Little Hulton where her father, Arthur,
was a butcher married to Emily, nee Ashcroft at St. Mary the Virgin, Deane in
1914. Irene was born on Christmas Eve 1919. She had two brothers, Ron
and Jim.
Ron was something to do with British Nuclear Fuels.
He was married to Irene (another Irene!) and they had two sons, Christopher and
Philip (I think). I last saw Ron and Irene at Barbara’s wedding in 1996, but I
don’t know if they are still alive. While I was married to Sheila, they lived
in
Jim was married to Jean and I think he worked at
Horwich Loco Works. They lived in Adlington and had no children. Jean died in
1974 – I may be wrong but I think it was on the day that the first Tesco opened
– 26th November. She made the most delicious hot steak barmcakes!
When I first knew Sheila, Irene’s mother, Emily,
lived at 10 Bank Meadow, Horwich.
Irene’s father had died some years previously.
Irene died in March 1991
George Wilson married Ellen
Ward at St Mary’s Deane in 1889.
On the 1891
census their address was 429, St Helens Road, Middle Hulton, Edge Fold, and Arthur
was one year old. George was a coal miner.
On the 1901
census they were at 348, St Helen's Road, Bolton with their three eldest
children together with Ann Jane Partington (wife’s sister), and John Yates, a
boarder. (Ann Jane Partington was actually Ellen’s step-sister).
On the 1911
census, George (46) and Ellen Wilson (50) and their family of 4 children
(including Arthur (21)) were living at 195 Longfield Road Bolton. George was
born in Leeds about 1865 and was a coal miner hewer. His wife and their
children were born in Bolton. Arthur was a butcher.
It is not easy to find George before his marriage as
there were many George Wilsons born in Leeds.
Ellen Ward’s parents were James Ward and Jane
Partington, nee Elliot, born 1828 and 1820 respectively.
James was born at Middle Hulton and was a coalminer.
Jane Elliot was born at Westhoughton and was a dress
maker. In 1848 she already had one child, Ann Elliot, born Carrington,
Derbyshire, 1844, when she married Peter Partington at St. Peter’s
Bolton. They then had a child called Ann Jane Partington, born Deane 1851 and
by the 1861 census, Ann appears to have taken Peter’s surname and become
Hannah, probably to differentiate between her and Ann Jane.
Peter died in Bolton in 1854 and in 1855 Jane married
James Ward at St. Peter’s Bolton.
On the 1851
census Peter and Jane Partington and Ann Elliot are living in Daubhill.
On the 1861
census James and Jane Ward and Ellen together with Hannah and Ann Jane Partington,
were living at Daubhill.
On the 1871
census the family were living at Blackledge Street in Daubhill, Rumworth.
Hannah was no longer there, but James Ward jnr. aged 8 was now with them
By the 1881 census they were all at 367,
St Helens Road, Middle Hulton and Ann Jane was now “Ward”, not “Partington”.
James Ashcroft married Hannah Rostron in 1886 at Bolton St.
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On the 1911
census James (43) and Hannah Ashcroft (44) and their family of 9 children
(including Emily (20)) were at 69 Deane Road Bolton. They are shown to have had
one more child which had since died. James was a Grocer, Wools and Hosiery
dealer. All the family were born in Bolton and Emily was assisting in the
business.
On the 1901
census the family was at 25 Harris Street Bolton, but Emily was not there.
She was with her grandparents, Abel and Mary A. Ashcroft at 69 Deane Road
Bolton together with their niece Annie Fishwick. (see entry on 1901 census)
On the 1891
census the family are at 83 Mason Street, Great Bolton and James is a
Carver and Gilder. Staying with them are his sister in law, Sarah E.Gallimore
(shown as married) and nephew Herbert Gallimore. (Sarah E. Rostron married John
Gallimore in 1887 at Holy Trinity Bolton-le-Moors).
On the 1881
census Hannah Rostron was living with parents George and Ellen at 16 Chapel
Street Little Bolton. George was a cotton spinner
On the 1871
census Hannah was with her parents at Back of Weston Street, Great Bolton.
On the 1861
census, John Rostron, brother of Hannah is with his grandmother, also
called Hannah, at 5 Back Bare Street, Little Bolton. I can’t find George or
Ellen on this census.
A George Rostron married an Ellen Smith
at Bolton Register Office in 1857. These are probably Hannah’s
parents.
Abel Ashcroft married Mary A. Rigby in 1866 at Bolton St. George.
On the 1881
census, Abel and his wife, and James aged 13 were at 69 Blackburn Street
Great Bolton, where Abel was a Provisions Dealer.
On the 1871
census, Abel was overlooker in a cotton mill but his wife is shown as a
grocer. James was with them and also a Robert Ashcroft aged 56, a cotton
weaver. Their address is Blackburn Street, Great Bolton.
On the 1861 census, Abel
is living with his parents, James and Mary Ashcroft at 14 Cross Street, Little
Bolton. Also with them are Abel’s brothers Thomas and Robert. James and all
three boys are cotton weavers.
On the 1851 census the
family are at 15 Back Lever Street, Little Bolton, all (including Mary) still
in the weaving trade, except Robert who was a scholar.
Unable to find on 1841 census
On 26th March 1826, a James Ashcroft
married a Mary Mather. These are probably Abel’s parents.
Sheila’s
father was Eric Gordon Lloyd. He
was the only son of (Alfred)
Ernest and Ada (nee
Valentine) and he died suddenly in 1964. He had worked at Horwich Loco
Works, as had his father.
Ernest was living at 5 Smeaton Street Horwich in 1901 and was aged 7. He was born in Ruabon in North Wales . The couple had no other children. His parents were Thomas Lloyd born in Threapwood, Cheshire , a forgeman, and Ellen (nee Downward), born in Hanmer in Flintshire, aged 34 and 32 respectively. Thomas married Ellen in 1891 at Hanmer St. Chad . The registration was entered at Wrexham. At the 1901 census there is a William Downward (born Manchester ) aged 26 staying with the Lloyds. Further investigation shows that Thomas Downward, father of the said William was born in Hanmer and his wife Elizabeth (nee Ross) was born at High Legh in Cheshire . However, Ellen’s parents were Joseph Phillips and Sarah Downward married at Hanmer in 1870 – Ellen was the illegitimate daughter of Sarah, born in 1868. Joseph was a lot older than Sarah. Joseph 1818 -1891 and Sarah 1845 -1928. Ellen had 5 siblings.
(1) Joseph 1874 -1966 was a bachelor and came to live with Margaret Edmonds and her family at Maristan House in Audlem and died there.
(2) James 1884 -1978 lived in Bradenheath, married with 4 or 5 children,
(3) Mary (known as Polly) 1887-1981 Margaret’s Grandmother, married with one child Stanley, her husband died
when Stanley was 12.
(4) Edith (known as Ann) married with three children.
(5) Unknown
At the 1881 census Thomas Lloyd was shown as 16 years
old, (farm) servant (indoor) at Whalebone Farm, Hanmer, with the Huntbatch
family. I have found a Francis Lloyd, Blacksmith, born Threapwood in 1832 who
may be Thomas’s father, given that Thomas’s occupation was a forgeman. This
Francis was a visitor to the Fox and Hounds at Tilston in
I am grateful to Margaret Scott (nee Edmonds) for information regarding Ellen Downward’s ancestors.
Alfred Ernest Lloyd married Ada Valentine on
In 1901, John and Ann Valentine (nee Cadwallender),
born at Blackrod and Hindley respectively, were living at
At the 1881
census, John, 18 and as yet unmarried, was living at New Street, Blackrod
with his father Henry, aged 42, a widower whose job was described as Engine
Winder (Colliery) (Driver). Henry (who’s first wife was Alice Mills b.1843) was
married at St Peter Bolton in 1862. Henry and Elizabeth were the grandchildren
of John and Betty Valentine of Folds, Blackrod. After Henry’s wife Alice died,
Henry married a Catherine Valentine born 1843 in Blackrod. Marriage was in 1878
at Wigan RO. She was the illegitimate daughter of Ann Valentine but must have
died before 1881. John’s job was exactly the same as his father John’s brothers
were James (14), Labourer (Collier) and William (5), Scholar. His sister was
Mary, a scholar aged 7. Henry’s unmarried sister,
John Valentine married Ann Cadwallender at
Ann’s father was William Cadwallinder born Haigh 29th
May 1842, baptised at St. Katherine’s Blackrod 26th June 1842, a
coal miner, whose wife Jane Whittle, a cotton doffer, was born in 1845. They
were married in 1865 at Wigan Register Office. They lived at 2 Off
William’s father was James, (occupation illegible),
born about 1805 at Bilston in Staffordshire and married at All Saints Bolton le
Moors on 19th July 1830 to Margaret Hulme, born at Haigh, near Wigan
about 1811. At the 1861 census, James and Margaret lived with their family,
John (29 – Coalminer), William (18 –
coalminer), Thomas (16 – Drawer Coal Miner), Ann (11), James (8) and Elizah
(6) at Beer House Campel,
Jane Whittle’s parents were John and Mary. A John
Whittle (labourer) married Mary Walmsley (“works in a factory”) at All Saints
Wigan in 1840 and these were almost certainly the parents of Jane. John’s
father Thomas was a weaver, Mary’s father, also Thomas was a coal miner.
According to the 1861 census, John was a bricksetter born in
John and Mary had eleven children as follows:-
Alice born and died 1842
Thomas born and died 1843
Jane born 1845
Hannah born 23rd
May1847, baptised 6 June 1847 All Saints Hindley. On 10th August
1862 she was baptised again at All Saints Hindley! A note in the baptism
register reads “Baptized in infancy and now received into the Church by me John
Wilson Curate”.She married James Openshaw 1872.
Caroline born 1849, died
1872 aged 22
Mary born 1851, died 1878
aged 27
Alice born 1852
Elizabeth born and died
1855
Ann born 21st March
1857, baptised 25th March 1857 and died 1857
Eve born and died 1859
Betty born 29th
September 1861, baptised 23rd October 1861
John died aged 57 in 1875 and Mary died aged 76 in
1895.
Sheila’s siblings
Sheila had an older brother, Brian
Raymond, who was married four times and I can’t remember any of his wives’ names
except his first, Ursula V. Cardona, who was always called Sue.
They married in Bolton in 1967 and had one child, Philip Andrew, born in
Southampton in 1971, but I don’t think he has been seen by the family since
Brian and Sue split up. However, I have found a marriage at Hertfordshire,
Dacorum in 2001 which I believe to be his. Sue remarried in 1974 at Hertfordshire,
Dacorum. Brian remarried in 1973, 1978 and 1991, all the marriages taking place
in the Southampton area. He died in 1996.
Sheila’s younger brother is Neil Eric, who
married Jean Cochrane on