Post by jbutchart on Jan 23, 2010 15:46:26 GMT -5
CHESHIRE
The Cheshire family I am interested in consisted of James Cheshire, born at 112 Park Street, Toxteth Park on 13/11/1856, who married Helen (known as Ellen) McClure on December 30th 1881 in Glen Luce, Wigtownshire, Scotland. Ellen was born in Wigtownshire 04/04/1862. The couple lived at various addresses in West Derby, Liverpool for the next 20 years. Seven children were born in those years – Frances (1882), Alexander (1885), Ellen (1887), William Wewill (1889), Elizabeth (1892), Caroline (1895) and Louisa (1898). In 1901 the family moved to Glasgow where one more child, Harold (1902) was born.
James Cheshire was a printer (sometimes “compositor letterpress”), as was his father, also James Cheshire (born c.1830), who married Fanny Shields from Cumberland in Toxteth Park Church 02/02/1851. This James Cheshire senior was the son of Richard Cheshire (born c. 1792), a shoemaker, and his wife Elizabeth, who had two other children, Elizabeth (born c. 1833) and Frances (born c.1843). Fanny Shields may have died. By the time of the 1881 census and before his marriage to Ellen McClure, James junior and his older brother Richard (born c. 1854) were living with another “Fanny Cheshire”, actually Frances Miller who was born in Scotland at 21 Hawke Street, Liverpool. I have found neither a death record for Fanny Shields nor a marriage record for James senior and Frances Miller, whom James junior named as his mother when he married.
James Cheshire junior appears to have become an alcoholic, for he died in 1913 from liver cirrhosis. By the time of the 1901 census James, living with two of the children at 34 Mount Vernon, is no longer a printer but a “show card writer” and Ellen had moved up to Govan in Glasgow with the other children. Evidently James and the two children with him joined the rest in Glasgow soon afterwards. He never returned to being a printer, managed only labouring work for a time and, by 1908, the family start appearing in Glasgow’s Poor Law records as destitute. Frances, the oldest daughter, married in Glasgow in 1903 and in 1907 emigrated with her family, first to Canada and then to Chicago. From there she brought her brothers and sisters in ones and twos to join her in Chicago, finally bringing over her mother and the two youngest children at the end of 1914. Only one daughter, Elizabeth (the black sheep of the family and the great grandmother to my family) was left behind after William joined them having survived the whole of Great War.
The Cheshire family I am interested in consisted of James Cheshire, born at 112 Park Street, Toxteth Park on 13/11/1856, who married Helen (known as Ellen) McClure on December 30th 1881 in Glen Luce, Wigtownshire, Scotland. Ellen was born in Wigtownshire 04/04/1862. The couple lived at various addresses in West Derby, Liverpool for the next 20 years. Seven children were born in those years – Frances (1882), Alexander (1885), Ellen (1887), William Wewill (1889), Elizabeth (1892), Caroline (1895) and Louisa (1898). In 1901 the family moved to Glasgow where one more child, Harold (1902) was born.
James Cheshire was a printer (sometimes “compositor letterpress”), as was his father, also James Cheshire (born c.1830), who married Fanny Shields from Cumberland in Toxteth Park Church 02/02/1851. This James Cheshire senior was the son of Richard Cheshire (born c. 1792), a shoemaker, and his wife Elizabeth, who had two other children, Elizabeth (born c. 1833) and Frances (born c.1843). Fanny Shields may have died. By the time of the 1881 census and before his marriage to Ellen McClure, James junior and his older brother Richard (born c. 1854) were living with another “Fanny Cheshire”, actually Frances Miller who was born in Scotland at 21 Hawke Street, Liverpool. I have found neither a death record for Fanny Shields nor a marriage record for James senior and Frances Miller, whom James junior named as his mother when he married.
James Cheshire junior appears to have become an alcoholic, for he died in 1913 from liver cirrhosis. By the time of the 1901 census James, living with two of the children at 34 Mount Vernon, is no longer a printer but a “show card writer” and Ellen had moved up to Govan in Glasgow with the other children. Evidently James and the two children with him joined the rest in Glasgow soon afterwards. He never returned to being a printer, managed only labouring work for a time and, by 1908, the family start appearing in Glasgow’s Poor Law records as destitute. Frances, the oldest daughter, married in Glasgow in 1903 and in 1907 emigrated with her family, first to Canada and then to Chicago. From there she brought her brothers and sisters in ones and twos to join her in Chicago, finally bringing over her mother and the two youngest children at the end of 1914. Only one daughter, Elizabeth (the black sheep of the family and the great grandmother to my family) was left behind after William joined them having survived the whole of Great War.