This was Thomas
And this was Clara Rowbotham
Eleanor was born in Newark, Nottinghamshire, where her father had a chemist shop at 26, Stodman Street on January 9 1882. She already had a sister Elizabeth born in 1879, and by the next census of 1891 she had 3 other sisters, Clara, in 1883, Florence in 1884 & Maud in 1887. More about her sisters later, just now let me start with Eleanor. On the 18th August 1904 she married John Arthur WILSON at Duncombe Street, Methodist Church, Grimsby, Lincolnshire. My father William Sneath Readman, always referred to Eleanor Wilson, nee Sneath, as Auntie Nellie. I think all the family attended Duncombe Street Methodist Church, so all were Wesleyan Methodists. Having been born in Newark in 1882, the family stayed there until about 1887, when they moved to Lincoln. I think that this was because her father's business in Newark went bankrupt, so he took a job with Boots, the Chemist in Lincoln. Maud Sneath, the youngest daughter was born in Lincoln on 17 August 1887. In the census of April 1891 the family are at 25, Mint Lane, Lincoln (now Mint Street). Soon after the census, the family move to Grimsby, where Thomas, her father, sets up another business in Hainton Square. Evidence for this comes from an advertisement in the Grimsby News, a local Grimsby Newspaper-in the edition dated 18 December 1906.
"THOS. D. SNEATH, CERTIFIED OPTICIAN AND CHEMIST,
is showing some excellent designs in gold filled eyeglasses, they are made for comfort, and certainly are a great improvement on what was formerly used. He also has a good supply of gold filled spectacles for reading and constant use in all the latest patterns. Alumine, nickel, and stell spectacles and folders in every pattern. In another window he has an assortment of all choicest perfumes in caskets, cut-glass bottles, from 6d to 12s. 6d ; fancy boxes of toilet soap, from 8 and half d to 2s. 6d; and many other toilet preparations of the very best quality. His address is Hainton-square, where he has been now for nearly 16 years, and will be pleased to see all old and new friends."
Here are the family in 1892:
Eleanor, Clara & Florence went to Welholme School, Grimsby-below is their school photograph of 1894.
The photograph shows 4 rows of girls, the back row, second row in front of the back one, and the third row, below the second row with Clara Sneath & Eleanor Sneath standing next to each other on the right hand side, next to their teacher. In front of Clara is Florence Sneath sitting on a bench.
So Clara Sneath is standing behind her sister Florence (my grandmother), with her sister Eleanor stood next to her on her left.
In the 1901 Census the family are living at 11, New Street, Grimsby, Lincolnshire, not far from the Town Hall, now a solicitor's office.
So for Eleanor born 1882, by 1894 she was 12, so walking to school from their home in New Street. I think she would have left school at the age of 14, the census of 1901 doesn't give her any occupation at all, so maybe she just helped in her father's shop at 14, Hainton Avenue.
Thomas D Sneath 47, Chemist/Druggist, Own account, born Brant
Broughton, Lincs
Clara Sneath 48,
Wife, married, born Nottingham, Nottinghamshire
Elizabeth Sneath 21,
Daughter, Single, Chemist’s Assistant, born Newark, Notinghamshire
Eleanor Sneath 19, ,
daughter, single, no occupation shown
Clara Sneath 18,
Daughter, Single, Teacher, (Board School), born Newark, Nottinghamshire
Florence Sneath 16,
daughter, single, No occupation shown, born Newark, Nottinghamshire
Maud Sneath 13,
Daughter, Single, born Lincoln, Lincolnshire
On the 18th August 1904 she married John Arthur WILSON at Duncombe Street, Methodist Church, Grimsby, Lincolnshire. I have been trying to find out about John Arthur Wilson. The information for this marriage came from the wife of their son Brian Wilson whom I went to see in her home in Grimsby prior to 2001. She showed me a photograph of John Arthur Wilson with his father William Wilson.
On the 18th August 1904 she married John Arthur WILSON at Duncombe Street, Methodist Church, Grimsby, Lincolnshire. I have been trying to find out about John Arthur Wilson. The information for this marriage came from the wife of their son Brian Wilson whom I went to see in her home in Grimsby prior to 2001. She showed me a photograph of John Arthur Wilson with his father William Wilson.
So straight away I knew that the father of John Arthur Wilson was William Wilson-that's him sitting in that boat alongside his wife with a hat and moustache-that's William with the hat and moustache not his wife!
So I went to the census as usual to find the married couple, John & Eleanor in 1911, so where John was born and when.
On Census day 1911, John & his wife Eleanor, with no children, are living at 159, Durban Road, Grimsby. John is a timber merchant's clerk, age 34, born in Grimsby, Lincolnshire. Eleanor, is a a housewife, aged 29, born Newark, Nottinghamshire, married for 6 years and living in a house with six rooms
This is a photograph of Eleanor in 1911.
John Arthur Wilson, before he married lived with his parents at 64, Heneage Street, now Heneage Road, Grimsby. This I think would have been a terraced house, probably not much changed from today.
This the census of 1901:
William Wilson & Family in 1901 census:-
64, Heneage St, Grimsby
William WILSON, head, married, age 59, Retired Grocer, of Welbourn, Lincolnshire
Florence L. Wilson, daughter, single, age 30, born Grimsby, Lincolnshire
John A. Wilson, son, single, 24, Timber Merchant’s clerk, born Grimsby, Lincolnshire
Wilfred E. Wilson, son, Single, 21, General Merchant’s clerk, born Grimsby, Lincolnshire.
That begs a question doesn't? Who was William' wife, and where was she in 1901?
Well I found the maiden name of William's wife when searching for their daughter Florence Louise Wilson on the 1881 Census.She was 10 years old at the time and staying with her grandmother in East Keal, Lincolnshire. I had to look up East Keal, found it near Spilsby on the A16.
Also at the house was her cousin William Arthur Allen.
The record states:
Dwelling Number 38 in East Keal, no street name mentioned on the record.
Mary Burt, grandmother, 81, born Heckington, Lincolnshire, ground keeper’s widow
Wm. Arthur Allen, grandson, 27, born 1854, Skirbeck, Lincolnshire, agricultural Labourer
Florence Louise Wilson, grand daughter, 10, born Grimsby, Lincolnshire, scholar.
So her grandmother's married name was BURT, so her daughter Mary's maiden name was BURT too. Florence had a brother called William, with BURT as his second forename. So using the surname BURT, the marriage of Florence's father to her mother should be reasonably easy to find.
There is a marriage on Free BMD for the March quarter of 1866 in the Spilsby Registration district
Marriages Mar 1866
Burt Mary Spilsby 7a 681 & WILSON William , Spilsby 7a 681
Any further information would require a certificate-the records on Lincstothepast don't have marriages that late. The other source, mi.lincolnshiremarriages.org.u, doesn't have the marriage either.
However I did find this baptism that does give the name of Mary BURT's parents:
Baptism
26 May 1838 • East Keal, Lincolnshire, England
No. 292: May 26th 1838, Mary Daughter of Thomas & Mary BURT of East Keal, Labourer
This record is on lincstothepast-http://www.lincstothepast.com/Records/RecordDisplayTranscrip
t.aspx?oid=653223&iid=211181
Using the same website I then found the marriage of Mary BURT's parents in Coningsby, Lincolnshire, showing that Mary BURT's maiden name was CLARK and her father was called John, and that Thomas came from Billinghay, Lincolnshire, and had been married before, but his first wife died. It looks like either his sister of mother was called Charlotte.
02 December 1830 • Coningsby, Lincolnshire, England
No. 244: Thomas BURT of the Parish of Billinghay widower & Mary CLARK of this parish, spinster were married in this church by Banns on 2 December 1830 by Samuel Hillyard, minister of Tattersall, in presence of John CLARK & Charlotte BURT.
http://www.lincstothepast.com/Records/RecordDisplayTranscript.aspx?oid=651404&iid=141931
So I went looking for the first marriage of Thomas BURT in Coningsby before 1830, and to be quick I used Family Search and found this record
:Name Thomas Burt
Spouse's Name Frances Vamplew
Event Date 16 May 1825
Event Place Coningsby, Lincoln, England
No. 158: Thomas BURT, of this Parish & Frances VAMPLEW of this parish were married in this church by Banns on 16 May 1825 in presence of Thomas Thornel & Susanna Burt.
Burt Mary Spilsby 7a 681 & WILSON William , Spilsby 7a 681
Any further information would require a certificate-the records on Lincstothepast don't have marriages that late. The other source, mi.lincolnshiremarriages.org.u, doesn't have the marriage either.
However I did find this baptism that does give the name of Mary BURT's parents:
Baptism
26 May 1838 • East Keal, Lincolnshire, England
No. 292: May 26th 1838, Mary Daughter of Thomas & Mary BURT of East Keal, Labourer
This record is on lincstothepast-http://www.lincstothepast.com/Records/RecordDisplayTranscrip
t.aspx?oid=653223&iid=211181
Using the same website I then found the marriage of Mary BURT's parents in Coningsby, Lincolnshire, showing that Mary BURT's maiden name was CLARK and her father was called John, and that Thomas came from Billinghay, Lincolnshire, and had been married before, but his first wife died. It looks like either his sister of mother was called Charlotte.
02 December 1830 • Coningsby, Lincolnshire, England
No. 244: Thomas BURT of the Parish of Billinghay widower & Mary CLARK of this parish, spinster were married in this church by Banns on 2 December 1830 by Samuel Hillyard, minister of Tattersall, in presence of John CLARK & Charlotte BURT.
http://www.lincstothepast.com/Records/RecordDisplayTranscript.aspx?oid=651404&iid=141931
So I went looking for the first marriage of Thomas BURT in Coningsby before 1830, and to be quick I used Family Search and found this record
:Name Thomas Burt
Spouse's Name Frances Vamplew
Event Date 16 May 1825
Event Place Coningsby, Lincoln, England
No. 158: Thomas BURT, of this Parish & Frances VAMPLEW of this parish were married in this church by Banns on 16 May 1825 in presence of Thomas Thornel & Susanna Burt.
http://www.lincstothepast.com/Records/RecordDisplayTranscript.aspx?oid=651404&iid=141903
So Thomas married Frances Vamplew in Coningsby on 16 May 1825, but she must have died before his second marriage, so again on Family Search I went looking for the burial of a Frances BURT in Coningsby and found that she died very soon after her marriage was buried in Coningsby churchyard.
Burial Date 18 Oct 1825, Burial Place Coningsby, Lincolnshire, England
Age 22, Birth Date 1803.
Sure enough there was this burial record.
445: Frances BURT, Coningsby, October 18th, aged 22. http://www.lincstothepast.com/Records/RecordDisplayTranscript.aspx?oid=780662&iid=143022
Okay so the birth date of 1803 was calculated by the taking the age at death from the year. A friend of mine with Vamplew ancestry has told me that Frances was the daughter of Peter & Martha Vamplew, nee Kent.. Going on that I searched first on Family Search for a Frances Vamplew born 1800 to 1805, daughter of Peter & Martha, and this was the result.
Name Frances Vanplugh
Gender Female, Christening Date, 07 Jul 1803
At GREETHAM, LINCOLNSHIRE,ENGLAND
Father's Name Peter Vanplugh
Mother's Name Martha
"England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:NGHH-3T5 : accessed 20 November 2015), Frances Vanplugh, 07 Jul 1803; citing GREETHAM,LINCOLN,ENGLAND, reference ; FHL microfilm 432,513.
So on Lincstothepast I searched in Greetham Parish Registers and this was the result.
Greetham Parish Records - Baptisms & Burials (1795-1803) Baptisms 1803 Frances daughter of Peter Vamplugh & Martha his wife 17th July, 1803
Thomas BURT was from the parish of Billinghay when he married Mary CLARK, so after the death of Frances BURT in 1825 in Coningsby, Thomas went to Billinghay, which is only about 5 to 6 miles away.
The 1851 Census gave me the birth place of Thomas BURT and his wife Mary:
Okay so the birth date of 1803 was calculated by the taking the age at death from the year. A friend of mine with Vamplew ancestry has told me that Frances was the daughter of Peter & Martha Vamplew, nee Kent.. Going on that I searched first on Family Search for a Frances Vamplew born 1800 to 1805, daughter of Peter & Martha, and this was the result.
Name Frances Vanplugh
Gender Female, Christening Date, 07 Jul 1803
At GREETHAM, LINCOLNSHIRE,ENGLAND
Father's Name Peter Vanplugh
Mother's Name Martha
"England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:NGHH-3T5 : accessed 20 November 2015), Frances Vanplugh, 07 Jul 1803; citing GREETHAM,LINCOLN,ENGLAND, reference ; FHL microfilm 432,513.
So on Lincstothepast I searched in Greetham Parish Registers and this was the result.
Greetham Parish Records - Baptisms & Burials (1795-1803) Baptisms 1803 Frances daughter of Peter Vamplugh & Martha his wife 17th July, 1803
http://www.lincstothepast.com/Records/RecordDisplayTranscript.aspx?oid=560212&iid=351975
Greetham is a village in the East Lindsey district of Lincolnshire, England. It is situated 3 miles east from Horncastle, and 0.5 miles north from the junction of the A158 and B1195 roads. Greetham & Coningsby are about 12 miles apart.
Thomas BURT was from the parish of Billinghay when he married Mary CLARK, so after the death of Frances BURT in 1825 in Coningsby, Thomas went to Billinghay, which is only about 5 to 6 miles away.
The 1851 Census gave me the birth place of Thomas BURT and his wife Mary:
1851 census
Thomas BURT, head, Married, age 54, Farm Labourer, born Dogdike, Lincolnshire
Mary BURT, wife, married, age 57, , Born Heckington, Lincolnshire
Wm. BURT, son, single, age 15, Farm Labourer, born East Keal, Lincolnshire
Mary BURT, daughter, single, 13, Scholar, born East Keal, Lincolnshire
Elizabeth BURT, daughter, single, 10, Scholar, born East Keal, Lincolnshire
Thomas BURT, head, Married, age 54, Farm Labourer, born Dogdike, Lincolnshire
Mary BURT, wife, married, age 57, , Born Heckington, Lincolnshire
Wm. BURT, son, single, age 15, Farm Labourer, born East Keal, Lincolnshire
Mary BURT, daughter, single, 13, Scholar, born East Keal, Lincolnshire
Elizabeth BURT, daughter, single, 10, Scholar, born East Keal, Lincolnshire
Dogdike? well according to Google maps is: Dogdyke is a hamlet in the East Lindsey district of Lincolnshire, England. It is situated approximately 2 miles south from Tattershall, and at the confluence of the Rivers Bain and Witham, and close to where the River Slea joins the Witham.
Looking at this old map I have, you can see that Dogdyke doesn't have a church, so Thomas couldn't have been baptised there but in a church either at Tattersall or Coningsby.
So on Family Search, this is is what I found
England Births and Christenings
Name Thomas Burt, Male, Christening Date 15 Oct 1797
Christening Place CONINGSBY,LINCOLN,ENGLAND son of William Burt & Sarah.
On Lincstothepast
England Births and Christenings
Name Thomas Burt, Male, Christening Date 15 Oct 1797
Christening Place CONINGSBY,LINCOLN,ENGLAND son of William Burt & Sarah.
On Lincstothepast
Baptisms Coningsby, Lincolnshire, 1797 Thomas son of William & Sarah BURT, October 15th, 1797.
http://www.lincstothepast.com/Records/RecordDisplayTranscript.aspx?oid=590683&iid=573207
So William & Sarah BURT lived in Dogdyke, but took son Thomas to Coningsby to be baptised on October 15, 1797. No doubt he had brothers and sisters too. It looks like he had a sister Mary in 1803 and a brother Isaac in 1795.
Baptisms 1795 on General Register:
Isaac, son of William & Sarah BURT, March 16
http://www.lincstothepast.com/Records/RecordDisplayTranscript.aspx?oid=590683&iid=573201
Yes I have a marriage CD from Lincolnshire Family History Society
http://www.lincolnshirefhs.org.uk/images/lfhs-publications/PublicationsList.pdf
1700-1837 Volume 1: East Elloe, West Elloe, Holland
East and Holland West Deaneries CD Rom £10.00 £8.33
This shows a marriage
BURT William 10 Sep 1793 Lic/WB Billinghay FOWLER Sarah Skirbeck HE
On Lincstothepast website this marriage http://www.lincstothepast.com/Records/RecordDisplayTranscript.aspx?oid=615888&iid=329381
William BURT of the Parish of Billinghay and Sarah FOWLER of this Parish both Single Persons were married by Licence on 10 September 1793 by John Simpson, curate in presence of Edward Scrimshire & Lydia Tobey.
So getting back to Thomas BURT and his wife MARY BURT nee Clark-his second wife, after 1851, what happens to them? First port of call-census.
I can't find the family in 1861 census, well not together anyway. By 1871, she is a widow, on Parish Relief, living with her grandson William Allen on Martin's Lane, East Keal. William Arthur Allen is 17 years of age born in Skirbeck, Lincolnshire. William was born in 1854 in Skirbeck, Lincolnshire in 1853, the son of Arthur ALLEN & Betsey BURT. His mother Betsey BURT, married his father Arthur ALLEN at Boston St Botolph, Boston, Lincolnshire-the bell tower is known as "The Boston Stump" on 14th May 1852. In order to find this fact, I went to Free BMD and found the marriage in that record as Marriages June 1852- Boston 7a 622, then went to http://mi.lincolnshiremarriages.org.uk/ and downloaded the Boston spreadsheet, and then searched for ALLEN in the surname column-
1852, 14-May Allen, Arthur son of Matthew ALLEN married Burtt, Betsey daughter of Thomas BURTT at Boston St Botolph, Lincolnshire.
Just found this entry too: Stamford Mercury - Friday 21 May 1852
Married: On the 14th inst. Arthur ALLEN, of Skirbeck, to Betsy BURTT, of West-street, Boston.
Sure enough, he did on 20 May, 1856 there is this record in the same Lincolnshire Marriage Index, Allen, Arthur son of Matthew married Barrett,Mary daughter of Thomas BARRET at Skirbeck St Nicholas, Skirbeck, Lincolnshire. Mary was born 11 March 1827 in Kirton Holme, a village just 4 miles west of Boston, Lincolnshire. She was baptised at Wesleyan Chapel, Red Lion Street, Boston, Lincolnshire on 22 March 1827, daughter of Thomas & Phebe Barratt, a carpenter & miller.
Sadly though the marriage of Arthur Allen and Mary Barrett did not last long after the 1861 Census, because Arthur died in December 1861-he was buried at Skirbeck Parish Church on 30 December 1861. This fact was discovered because William Arthur his son was with his grandmother in 1871, and Arthur couldn't been found in the census-his wife Mary is a widow in Skirbeck for some years so a search on FreeBMD revealed he died in the December quarter of 1861, and then a search on LincstothePast website for Skirbeck found this burial entry.
Arthur ALLEN, of Skirbeck, buried December 30, 1861, aged 40. R E Roy, Rector.
see for yourself at: http://www.lincstothepast.com/Skirbeck-St-Nicholas-Parish-Records---Burials--1861-1862-/612961.record?ImageID=331009&pt=T
So maybe William Arthur's grandmother Mary Burt nee Clark was responsible for bringing him up-he was only 7 when his father died and 2 when his mother died!
Meanwhile, William Arthur's grandmother Mary stays in East Keal; she's there in 1881 as we can see above:-
Dwelling Number 38 in East Keal, no street name mentioned on the record.
Mary Burt, grandmother, 81, born Heckington, Lincolnshire, ground keeper’s widow
Wm. Arthur Allen, grandson, 27, born 1854, Skirbeck, Lincolnshire, agricultural Labourer
Florence Louise Wilson, grand daughter, 10, born Grimsby, Lincolnshire, scholar.
So from this record we know that Thomas Burt, Mary's husband & Mary Burt's father was a ground keeper or is it grounds keeper. I can't find him or his wife in 1861 Census which is when it might mention where he was working and who he was was working for. All the children bar Charlotte are married, but I can't find her as well, so must conclude she is with her parents too. Well now I have found them in the 1861 Census. The only way to do it was to go to the home page, find 1861 census, and browse in the County of Lincolnshire for the village of East Keal, and there they were, transcribed as BUST instead of BURT. Thomas BURT is shown as an agricultural labourer, with his wife Mary and son Isaac, an agricultural labourer too.In this way I found Mary BURT too, the future wife of William WILSON. She was working in the rectory in East Keal as a servant in the 1861 Census.Still can't find sister Charlotte though.
What about Mary Clark, the bride of Thomas Burt, who were her parents? Well from above her father's name was John-he was present at her marriage. Mary was baptised at Heckington Parish Church, Lincolnshire on 28 May 1799, as daughter of John Clarke & his wife Elizabeth-see record here:
http://www.lincstothepast.com/Records/RecordDisplayTranscrip
t.aspx?oid=551004&iid=377808
Getting back to John Arthur Wilson and Eleanor-John Arthur, or Arthur as he was more readily known in both census records is shown to be a timber merchant's clerk. In fact the timber merchant in question was Bennett's of Grimsby-established in 1804 according to their website.
http://bennettstimber.co.uk/about-us
One of Eleanor SNEATH's sisters was Clara SNEATH, who was born on the 29th March, 1883, in Newark, Nottinghamshire at 26, Stodman Street, Newark.four years later she moved with her family to Lincoln where in the in the Census of 1891, the family are at 25, Mint Lane, Lincoln (now Mint Street). Soon after the census, the family move to Grimsby, where Thomas, her father, sets up another business in Hainton Square. Evidence for this comes from an advertisement in the Grimsby News, a local Grimsby Newspaper-in the edition dated 18 December 1906.
1901 England Census for Clara SNEATH
Lincolnshire-Great Grimsby-District 08
26, 11, New Street, Thomas D. SNEATH, Head, M, 47, Chemist & Druggist, own acc, born Brant Broughton, Lincs.
Clara SNEATH, wife, M, 48, born Nottingham, Notts.
Elizabeth SNEATH, daughter, Single, 21, Chemist & Druggist assistant, worker, born Newark, Notts.
Eleanor SNEATH, daughter, single, 19, born, Newark, Notts.
Clara SNEATH, daughter, single, 18, Teacher at a Board School, worker, born Newark, Notts.
Florence SNEATH, daughter, single, 16, Born, Newark, Lincs.
Maud SNEATH, daughter, single, 13, Born Lincoln, Lincs.
Ten years later, in the census of 1911, Clara is living at 160, Durban Road, Grimsby, now married to Edward Rawson BENTON.
Clara married Edward Rawson BENTON in the March quarter of 1909 somewhere in Grimsby. I have yet to discover the date of their marriage. I have looked in British Newspapers online but there is no record about that marriage, but maybe it was put into one of the local newspapers like Grimsby Telegraph or another local paper. Edward Rawson BENTON was the son of John Outwin BENTON & Mary RAWSON. Edward was born on 1st June 1880 probably at 90, Strand Street, Grimsby. His father John Outwin BENTON was employed as working joiner according to the 1881 Census. Ten years later according to the 1891 Census the family are living at 39, Pelham Street, Grimsby, where his father is still working as a joiner. Also in 1891, Edward had a brother called Percy and a sister called Gertrude.
So William & Sarah BURT lived in Dogdyke, but took son Thomas to Coningsby to be baptised on October 15, 1797. No doubt he had brothers and sisters too. It looks like he had a sister Mary in 1803 and a brother Isaac in 1795.
Baptisms 1795 on General Register:
Isaac, son of William & Sarah BURT, March 16
http://www.lincstothepast.com/Records/RecordDisplayTranscript.aspx?oid=590683&iid=573201
Yes I have a marriage CD from Lincolnshire Family History Society
http://www.lincolnshirefhs.org.uk/images/lfhs-publications/PublicationsList.pdf
1700-1837 Volume 1: East Elloe, West Elloe, Holland
East and Holland West Deaneries CD Rom £10.00 £8.33
This shows a marriage
BURT William 10 Sep 1793 Lic/WB Billinghay FOWLER Sarah Skirbeck HE
On Lincstothepast website this marriage http://www.lincstothepast.com/Records/RecordDisplayTranscript.aspx?oid=615888&iid=329381
William BURT of the Parish of Billinghay and Sarah FOWLER of this Parish both Single Persons were married by Licence on 10 September 1793 by John Simpson, curate in presence of Edward Scrimshire & Lydia Tobey.
So getting back to Thomas BURT and his wife MARY BURT nee Clark-his second wife, after 1851, what happens to them? First port of call-census.
I can't find the family in 1861 census, well not together anyway. By 1871, she is a widow, on Parish Relief, living with her grandson William Allen on Martin's Lane, East Keal. William Arthur Allen is 17 years of age born in Skirbeck, Lincolnshire. William was born in 1854 in Skirbeck, Lincolnshire in 1853, the son of Arthur ALLEN & Betsey BURT. His mother Betsey BURT, married his father Arthur ALLEN at Boston St Botolph, Boston, Lincolnshire-the bell tower is known as "The Boston Stump" on 14th May 1852. In order to find this fact, I went to Free BMD and found the marriage in that record as Marriages June 1852- Boston 7a 622, then went to http://mi.lincolnshiremarriages.org.uk/ and downloaded the Boston spreadsheet, and then searched for ALLEN in the surname column-
1852, 14-May Allen, Arthur son of Matthew ALLEN married Burtt, Betsey daughter of Thomas BURTT at Boston St Botolph, Lincolnshire.
Just found this entry too: Stamford Mercury - Friday 21 May 1852
Married: On the 14th inst. Arthur ALLEN, of Skirbeck, to Betsy BURTT, of West-street, Boston.
However, Betsey died a few years later, the same newspaper has the entry:
Stamford Mercury - Friday 01 June 1855
Died: At East Keal, on the 27th,May, Elizabeth, wife of Mr. Arthur ALLEN, age 23.
East Keal Parish Records - Burials (1854-1856) 303: Elizabeth ALLEN, of East Keal, buried May 31st, age 23.
So William Arthur ALLEN in the 1861 Census, he is at home aged 7, with his parents, Arthur & Mary ALLEN. So Arthur re-married soon after the death of Betsey:Stamford Mercury - Friday 01 June 1855
Died: At East Keal, on the 27th,May, Elizabeth, wife of Mr. Arthur ALLEN, age 23.
East Keal Parish Records - Burials (1854-1856) 303: Elizabeth ALLEN, of East Keal, buried May 31st, age 23.
Sure enough, he did on 20 May, 1856 there is this record in the same Lincolnshire Marriage Index, Allen, Arthur son of Matthew married Barrett,Mary daughter of Thomas BARRET at Skirbeck St Nicholas, Skirbeck, Lincolnshire. Mary was born 11 March 1827 in Kirton Holme, a village just 4 miles west of Boston, Lincolnshire. She was baptised at Wesleyan Chapel, Red Lion Street, Boston, Lincolnshire on 22 March 1827, daughter of Thomas & Phebe Barratt, a carpenter & miller.
Sadly though the marriage of Arthur Allen and Mary Barrett did not last long after the 1861 Census, because Arthur died in December 1861-he was buried at Skirbeck Parish Church on 30 December 1861. This fact was discovered because William Arthur his son was with his grandmother in 1871, and Arthur couldn't been found in the census-his wife Mary is a widow in Skirbeck for some years so a search on FreeBMD revealed he died in the December quarter of 1861, and then a search on LincstothePast website for Skirbeck found this burial entry.
Arthur ALLEN, of Skirbeck, buried December 30, 1861, aged 40. R E Roy, Rector.
see for yourself at: http://www.lincstothepast.com/Skirbeck-St-Nicholas-Parish-Records---Burials--1861-1862-/612961.record?ImageID=331009&pt=T
So maybe William Arthur's grandmother Mary Burt nee Clark was responsible for bringing him up-he was only 7 when his father died and 2 when his mother died!
Meanwhile, William Arthur's grandmother Mary stays in East Keal; she's there in 1881 as we can see above:-
Dwelling Number 38 in East Keal, no street name mentioned on the record.
Mary Burt, grandmother, 81, born Heckington, Lincolnshire, ground keeper’s widow
Wm. Arthur Allen, grandson, 27, born 1854, Skirbeck, Lincolnshire, agricultural Labourer
Florence Louise Wilson, grand daughter, 10, born Grimsby, Lincolnshire, scholar.
So from this record we know that Thomas Burt, Mary's husband & Mary Burt's father was a ground keeper or is it grounds keeper. I can't find him or his wife in 1861 Census which is when it might mention where he was working and who he was was working for. All the children bar Charlotte are married, but I can't find her as well, so must conclude she is with her parents too. Well now I have found them in the 1861 Census. The only way to do it was to go to the home page, find 1861 census, and browse in the County of Lincolnshire for the village of East Keal, and there they were, transcribed as BUST instead of BURT. Thomas BURT is shown as an agricultural labourer, with his wife Mary and son Isaac, an agricultural labourer too.In this way I found Mary BURT too, the future wife of William WILSON. She was working in the rectory in East Keal as a servant in the 1861 Census.Still can't find sister Charlotte though.
What about Mary Clark, the bride of Thomas Burt, who were her parents? Well from above her father's name was John-he was present at her marriage. Mary was baptised at Heckington Parish Church, Lincolnshire on 28 May 1799, as daughter of John Clarke & his wife Elizabeth-see record here:
http://www.lincstothepast.com/Records/RecordDisplayTranscrip
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Getting back to John Arthur Wilson and Eleanor-John Arthur, or Arthur as he was more readily known in both census records is shown to be a timber merchant's clerk. In fact the timber merchant in question was Bennett's of Grimsby-established in 1804 according to their website.
http://bennettstimber.co.uk/about-us
One of Eleanor SNEATH's sisters was Clara SNEATH, who was born on the 29th March, 1883, in Newark, Nottinghamshire at 26, Stodman Street, Newark.four years later she moved with her family to Lincoln where in the in the Census of 1891, the family are at 25, Mint Lane, Lincoln (now Mint Street). Soon after the census, the family move to Grimsby, where Thomas, her father, sets up another business in Hainton Square. Evidence for this comes from an advertisement in the Grimsby News, a local Grimsby Newspaper-in the edition dated 18 December 1906.
"THOS. D. SNEATH, CERTIFIED OPTICIAN AND CHEMIST,
is showing some excellent designs in gold filled eyeglasses, they are made for comfort, and certainly are a great improvement on what was formerly used. He also has a good supply of gold filled spectacles for reading and constant use in all the latest patterns. Alumine, nickel, and stell spectacles and folders in every pattern. In another window he has an assortment of all choicest perfumes in caskets, cut-glass bottles, from 6d to 12s. 6d ; fancy boxes of toilet soap, from 8 and half d to 2s. 6d; and many other toilet preparations of the very best quality. His address is Hainton-square, where he has been now for nearly 16 years, and will be pleased to see all old and new friends."
So here is the picture of the girls at school in 1894, with Clara stood next to Eleanor, with Florence, my grandmother, sat in front of her.
Seven years later according to the Census of 1901, Clara & her family are living in New Street, Grimsby, where Clara is working as a teacher at a Board School-maybe it was at her old primary school-called Welholme School-I don't have any records for her.
Lincolnshire-Great Grimsby-District 08
26, 11, New Street, Thomas D. SNEATH, Head, M, 47, Chemist & Druggist, own acc, born Brant Broughton, Lincs.
Clara SNEATH, wife, M, 48, born Nottingham, Notts.
Elizabeth SNEATH, daughter, Single, 21, Chemist & Druggist assistant, worker, born Newark, Notts.
Eleanor SNEATH, daughter, single, 19, born, Newark, Notts.
Clara SNEATH, daughter, single, 18, Teacher at a Board School, worker, born Newark, Notts.
Florence SNEATH, daughter, single, 16, Born, Newark, Lincs.
Maud SNEATH, daughter, single, 13, Born Lincoln, Lincs.
So clearly Clara was named after her mother Clara, wife of Thomas Dixon SNEATH, her father.
So in 1901, Clara(daughter was working as a teacher., maybe she was at Welholme School.Ten years later, in the census of 1911, Clara is living at 160, Durban Road, Grimsby, now married to Edward Rawson BENTON.
Clara married Edward Rawson BENTON in the March quarter of 1909 somewhere in Grimsby. I have yet to discover the date of their marriage. I have looked in British Newspapers online but there is no record about that marriage, but maybe it was put into one of the local newspapers like Grimsby Telegraph or another local paper. Edward Rawson BENTON was the son of John Outwin BENTON & Mary RAWSON. Edward was born on 1st June 1880 probably at 90, Strand Street, Grimsby. His father John Outwin BENTON was employed as working joiner according to the 1881 Census. Ten years later according to the 1891 Census the family are living at 39, Pelham Street, Grimsby, where his father is still working as a joiner. Also in 1891, Edward had a brother called Percy and a sister called Gertrude.
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