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Eliza Ann Parker Webster
1820-1896
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Places named in Webster records:
Parish of Ripley (Yorkshire)/ Village of Killinghall (part of
the Ripley Parish) /Bowling, Bradford (West Riding of Yorkshire)/
Bradford (Parker)/ Spofforth (Parker)/ Linton-upon-Ouse (Parker)/
Calverley/ 73 Wakefield Road, Bradford/ Boston, Lincolnshire/Woodhall
Spa, Thornton railway station/ village of Thornton Moor/ Armley
Hall, Wortley/ 2 Mount Place, Wortley/ Brunell Street in Wortley/
12 Wallace Street, Wortley/ 25 Danube Grove, Wortley /13 Danube
Street, New Wortley
US Places Bridgeport, CT, Shelton, CT, San Franciso,
CA, Berkeley, CA
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The following was composed/compiled by Colin Webster
CHARLES BENJAMIN WEBSTER born 1820, died 1896 and
ELIZA PARKER born 1823, died 1900
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WILLIAM WEBSTER, born 1778, died 1848
And
MATILDA, born 1782, died 1852
(Note: Some of this research is derived only from the I.G.I. database
without any supporting evidence to verify William’s descendants
and, although the lineage of William is reasonably claimed to
be through a father Samuel Webster of Spofforth, absolute certainty
cannot be guaranteed.)
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William Webster was christened in Spofforth in the West Riding
of Yorkshire on 30 August 1778. He appears to be the youngest
of 11 children, the son of Samuel Webster and Mary Wood. Extensive
searches have been made in an attempt to verify this parentage.
That he was born in 1778 in Yorkshire is clear but the specific
location and, from that the identification of his father is not
available from any census. The 1841 census clearly states that
he was born in Yorkshire but this early census does not specify
the village/town location. It is believed that he had died before
the census of 1851 which does list specific birth locations.
The only Yorkshire birth of 1778 listed on the IGI is of a William
Webster born in Spofforth, a village which had a number of family
connections, e.g. Eliza Parker, wife of his son Charles Benjamin,
was born there. A search of Spofforth Parish records confirm that
a William Webster was christened there on 30 August 1778 to parents
Samuel and Mary Webster, William being the youngest of their eleven
IGI listed children. Furthermore, the IGI shows a marriage between
Samuel Webster and Mary Wood at Spofforth on 27 March 1757.
This William Webster therefore is reasonably claimed to be the
correct lineage of my Great Grandfather, Charles Benjamin Webster,
born in 1820. (See CBW’s biographical notes).
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In 1778, when William was born, George the 3rd. was on the throne
and Lord North was the Prime Minister. These were troubled times:
war was declared on France and a year later Spain declared war
on Britain, during which time the American colonists were fighting
for independence. But Spofforth, a small and attractive Yorkshire
village, really must have seemed a long way off, in all respects.
William’s generation was the last of the Websters to live
and work in the countryside because he would, in his lifetime,
experience the beginnings of the industrial revolution. He, like
so many others, would move, with his family, into one of the fast
developing industrialised centres of the West Riding to take advantage
of the new work opportunities.
PIC
Spofforth Castle
Spofforth Castle had been the home of the famous Percy family
(Duke of Northumberland) until they abandoned it to move to Alnwick
Castle in Northumberland.
The castle was already a dilapidated ruin in William’s
time and would have, undoubtedly, provided a great place for play
for William and his friends.
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William Webster married Matilda (surname not known) who was born
around 1782. The couple set up home in Allerton Mauleverer (a
small village, with an old castle and a large manor house, close
to Knaresborough, on its eastern side, and just off the Great
North Road – could this have been where Matilda lived before
her marriage?). The first seven of their nine known children were
born here as follows:
Isaac Webster, born 30 March 1804 Christened 4 Sept 1804
(Minister: James Neale) George Webster ‘’ 13 January
1807 ‘’ 9 Oct 1807
William Webster ‘’ 7 January 1808 ‘’ 9
Jan 1809 Matilda Lydia ‘’ 14 October 1809 ‘’
28 May 1810
Frances Elizabeth ‘’ 19 May 1811 ‘’ 31
May 1811
Caroline ‘’ 12 February 1813 ‘’ 15 Feb
1813
Sarah (Joaca ?) ‘’ ‘’ 2 April 1815
(Note: The IGI records the mother of Sarah to be Ann, not Matilda.
Therefore she cannot be positively claimed but (a) the 2 year
birth interval from Caroline, (b) a father’s name of William
and (c) the same village, suggests a possible error in recording
the mother’s name of Ann). There is further support for
the claim: in 1841 a daughter Sarah, of the right age, appears
on the census with parents William and Matilda.
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In or before 1820 the family moved to the village of Killinghall
in the parish of Ripley, about 1 ¼ miles from Ripley village
and just north of Harrogate, where they had two further children:
CHARLES BENJAMIN WEBSTER (my GGrandfather) and, Georgiana Webster.
Both were christened on 28th.August 1825. It has been established
that Charles Benjamin was born in 1820 but his christening was
delayed and done at the same time as his sister in 1825. A case
of ‘’buy one, get one free’’, perhaps!
Certainly, the evidence above is that they were not always in
a hurry to get their children baptised.
The bishop’s transcript (seen at the West Yorkshire Archive
Service in Leeds) records that William was a Cattle Dealer but
Piggot’s Directory of professions and trades shows that
by 1829 he was the village butcher in Killinghall. The two descriptions
may have been compatible.
It is interesting that Horatio Gratton, an uncle of his daughter-in-law
Eliza Parker (wife of Charles Benjamin) was, in1841, a farmer
in Killinghall and by 1851 the village butcher! William had by
this time, moved to pastures new, as recorded below?
MAP PIC
The village of Killinghall in the parish of Ripley, Yorkshire
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Then came the move into the industrialised and major woollen area
of the West Riding, because the 1841 census shows that William
and Matilda were living with their son, Charles Benjamin and two
of his siblings in Hall Lane, Bowling, Bradford. William was employed
as a Wool Buyer. (The date of the move to Bowling was probably
before 1834 because Pigot’s Directory of 1834 shows that
the village butcher is no longer William but a Charles Greenhow.).
The census shows the following, with ages rounded to the nearest
5:
William Webster, father. Age 65, a Wool Buyer
Matilda Webster, mother Age 60.
Sarah Webster, dau. Age 25, a Milliner
Charles (B) Webster, son. Age 20 a Butcher
Georgiana Webster, dau. Age 15
The son, young William, 33, was now married to Sarah with children,
including Matilda, named after her grandmother.
Their son George, 35, was also married with a wife, Hannah, and
a family and working as a butcher in the family tradition.
Son, Charles Benjamin, was also working elsewhere in Bowling
as a Butcher.
Their son Isaac was living in nearby Horton and was, at various
times, a Clerk, a Bookkeeper, and later a Commercial Clerk. It
is not clear if he married but in the 1861 census his sister Caroline
was living with him, together with her husband, Robert Midgeley
and their four children.
HALL BOWLI NGPIC
The Hall. Bowling Hall Road, Bowling, Bradford.
It has been difficult to ascertain the date of William’s
death but the date of 3 June 1848 appears to be authentic. The
death certificate correctly matches all known facts except for
the age which is shown as 77 when, in fact, he would have been
around 70. Alternative searches have proved abortive so it is
assumed that this is the right one in which the age has been incorrectly
declared or recorded. The certificate shows that William died
of apoplexy at Wakefield Road, Bowling and that he was a butcher.
The informant was Sarah Webster of Hall Lane, Bowling (where William
and Matilda lived in 1841).
It is interesting that son, Charles Benjamin lived and worked
as a butcher in Wakefield Road in 1841 before moving to Lincolnshire
to work on the Railways. I wonder; did father William take over
the business and premises, leaving daughter Sarah at Hall Lane?
WILLM CERT
Matilda died on 6 July 1852 at Goose Hill in Bowling at the age
of 71. Present at the death was her daughter, 41 year old Frances
Elizabeth Webster.
MATILDA CERT
Colin Webster. Sept. 2007 ( Please note: The certs are not for
publication.)
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CHARLES BENJAMIN WEBSTER (my Great Grandfather) was born in 1820
in the parish of Ripley, north of Harrogate, Yorkshire. The Bishop’s
Transcripts for Ripley Parish show that he was christened, at
the same time as his younger sister, Georgiana,
by the Rev. Howell W Powell on the 28th. August 1825.
The Bishop’s Transcripts also record that the ‘’abode’’
of the family was in the village of Killinghall, part of the Ripley
parish and about 1 ¼ miles south of Ripley village. Charles
Benjamin was the son of William and Matilda Webster. At the time
of the christening in 1825 father William was described as a ‘’Cattle
Dealer’’ but the 1829 Pigot’s Directory of professions
and trades for Ripley show him to be the butcher in Killinghall
village.
Nearly all references to Charles Benjamin are simply Benjamin,
so I will continue to use this style. (It is interesting that
his grandson, my father, who was named Charles Benjamin after
him was also known as Ben, he too never using his first name).
Benjamin was born into a time of considerable change in the country:
previous generations had lived and worked in the countryside but
Benjamin, born early in the Industrial Revolution, would later
be, with his parents, of the early migration into the towns where
new and different work opportunities were presented in a crowded
industrialised community but where the living environment was
so different to life in the countryside and where most of occupations
were on the land.
The whole of Ripley village was a part of the Ripley Castle estate
owned by Sir William Amcotts Ingleby, the latest in the Ingleby
dynasty which first moved into Ripley way back in the early Middle
Ages. Cottages in the villages would doubtless be basic: a stone
cottage sparsely lit by whale oil lamps supplemented by candles
to find the way to bed or to go to the lavatory which would be
an outside earth toilet, probably shared with neighbours but,
nevertheless, the surroundings and fresh air would be in stark
contrast to the smoke and sulphur laden streets of industrial
Leeds and Bradford where Benjamin later worked and lived. Shortly
after the birth of Benjamin, Sir Wiliam rebuilt virtually all
the properties in Ripley village, including the school, creating
a model village based on styles he had seen on his European tours.
Mary and Catherine Ingleby founded the ‘’Free School’’
in Ripley in 1702 which gave free education for the children of
the whole parish. The jobs which Benjamin did in adulthood show
that he did have an education at a time when much of the population
of the working classes could not read of write, so it is reasonable
to assume that he attended this school. The headmaster of the
school was the Rev. Powell who had christened him.
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The model village of Ripley and Ripley Castle in North Yorkshire.
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Ripley Free School. |
The world into which Benjamin was born was pre steam, gas, electricity
and any motive power: aeroplanes would have been science fiction!
In the year he was born, George the 3rd. died and George 4th.
and Queen Caroline succeeded to the throne with the Earl of Liverpool
as Prime Minister. Not for another 12 years did the Factories
Acts ban children under the age of 9 working in factories and
limiting the working hours of children between the ages of 9 and
13 to 8 hours a day! I do not have pictures of working people
but these pictures of the upper classes, to whom they answered,
show the dress of 1820.
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Killinghall in the parish of Ripley
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The 1841 Census finds that the family have moved into the industrialised
West Riding of Yorkshire. Benjamin, aged c 20, is working as a
Butcher and living at Hall Lane in Bowling, Bradford with his
parents William, aged c65 and Matilda, aged c60 and sisters Sarah,
aged c25 and Georgiana, aged c15. At some point, Eliza’s
parents also moved to Bradford, her father also a butcher.
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Charles Benjamin Webster married Eliza (or Elizabeth) Ann Parker,
from Spofforth who was the daughter of William Parker and Mary
Ann, nee Gratton. Eliza was christened at Spofforth on 23 May
1823 but the 1841 Census shows her living as a ‘’FS’’
(female servant) with her aged maternal grandparents, Samuel and
Elizabeth Gratton in nearby Knaresborough.
The couple were married on 17th June 1850 at Calverley, near
Leeds.
By the census of 1851 they were living in their own home at 73
Wakefield Road, Bradford. Benjamin was 31 and still working as
a butcher: Eliza was 28 and the couple had 2 children:
• Benjamin Webster jnr., aged 7 and born in Bowling, Bradford
• William Webster, aged 4, also born in Bowling, Bradford.
The ages of these boys puts their dates of birth at c. 1844 and
1847 which is before the date of their parents’ marriage.
(Is there some discrepancy here?)
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There then followed some eventful years for Benjamin and his family:
In the early 1850’s, Benjamin left behind his trade as
a butcher in Bradford and became an employee on the new and fast
developing railways and he and his family were living in Boston,
Lincolnshire where their third child, Ann was born in c 1855.
The GNR (Great Northern Railway) opened the Boston to Lincoln
line in 1848 so Benjamin joined the company in its infancy.
The family then moved further up the line because the 1861 census
records that their 4th. child, Samuel, was born in Woodhall Spa.
In fact, Samuel’s birth certificate shows that he was born
in the nearby village of Thornton Moor, close to Horncastle on
3rd. February 1857. The 7 ½ miles Woodhall Spa to Horncastle
branch line was opened on the 11th. August 1855 and Samuel’s
birth certificate shows father Benjamin to be ‘’Station
Master’’.
The Boston Stump (Church Tower)
and tidal river.
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Woodhall Spa Railway Station where
probably Benjamin Webster worked. |
Thornton Moor Station Master’s
House where Benjamin and family lived in the 1850’s.
The railway line ran in front of the cottage where the footpath-stile
now exits. (The bricks of the cottage have since been painted
and the windows changed) ( Photo taken by Paul Whiteley,
Aug 2007)
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All Saints' Church,
Ripley
The castle itself owned by the Ingilby family is set in a 1,700-acre
estate, which takes in the entire village
"...so decimated by the plague in the 1620s that it had to
be virtually rebuilt by one of the Ingilby ancestors, Sir William
Amcotts Ingilby, who styled the stone terraced cottages on the villages
of Alsace-Lorraine" |
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1832 Cholera epidemic strikes in Leeds and possibly surrounding
villages.Records don't show any ill effects to Webster family. |
1847 Typhus epidemic in Leeds
1848 Some 2000 die in cholera epidemic |
Calverley
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Benjmin would eventually move to Bridgeport, Connecticut.
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William would invent a number of items in England
before moving to San Francisco, California.
(see below)
Boston Stump, a notable landmark, is the tallest parish church
TOWER in England. Boston is a small port town in Lincolnshire,
on the east coast of England. Emigrants sailing from Boston named
several other settlements after the town, most notably Boston,
Massachusetts
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A further son, Henry, was born on 15th January 1859 at Thornton
railway station where his father Benjamin was now designated as
‘’Clerk on the Railway’’.
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Sometime after the birth of son Henry on 15 January 1859 and the
birth of their next child, Clara on 25th.January 1861, the family
moved back into Yorkshire. Clara’s birth certificate shows
the family living at Armley Hall*, Wortley and father Benjamin
was a Railway Signalman. Very shortly after the birth, when the
census was taken on 7th.April 1961, the family address is recorded
as 2 Mount Place in Wortley and Benjamin had changed his job to
become a Railway Office Clerk. Wortley, a suburb of Leeds, probably
provided a good career move. The railway network was rapidly expanding
and Wortley was criss-crossed with the railway lines of a number
of railway companies, connecting the fast expanding and highly
industrialised City of Leeds with all parts of the country. The
Wortley/Holbeck railway station was probably where he worked.
Front of Mount Place. No.2 is second from left. (Taken in
1961) |
Side view from Hall Lane. No.2 Mount Place is second from
left. (Taken in1961) |
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The 1861 census records the couple and their expanded family
in 2 Mount Place as follows:
• Benjamin snr. Now aged 40 and a Railway Clerk
• Eliza, now 38.
• Benjamin, now 17 and also on the Railways, described as
a Railway Servant
• William, now 14 and a Machine Maker
• George, 9, born in Bradford. A scholar
• Ann, 6, born in Boston, Lincs. A scholar
• Samuel, 4, born in Woodhall Spa, Lincs
• Henry, 2, born in Woodhall Spa, Lincs
• Clara, 3 months, born in Armley, Leeds
An 8th.child, Emma, shown at age 21 in 1871, is not listed either
in 1851 or 1861 so must have been staying elsewhere.
Also staying or living with the family in 2 Mount Place are Eliza’s
parents, William and Mary Ann Parker, both 60, and their son (Eliza’s
brother) William jnr., aged 22. William senior is listed as a
butcher, an earlier occupation of son-in-law Benjamin.
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The family then moved to Brunell Street in Wortley where their
next child was born on 13th. January 1865: my grandfather Edward
Isaac Webster. The family were soon again on the move and by the
1871 census were living at 12 Wallace Street.
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The Webster’s home, No. 12 Wallace Street, is the
second house from the right with washing out to dry. It
was a back-to-back house with a large cellar room accessed
from the outside as well as inside. (Picture taken just
before demolition in 1961 but would have been recently
built when the Webster’s lived there.)
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Wallace Street has some notoriety: at No.66 the famous ‘’Punch’’
cartoonist, Phil May, was born in 1864 but more excitingly, living
at No. 59 in Benjamin’s time was the soon- to- become famous
artist Atkinson Grimshaw! Grimshaw lived here with his wife from
1858 to 1870 and, further coincidentally, worked up to 1861 as
a Railway Clerk, very likely at Wortley station with Benjamin.
Grimshaw was accepted by the Royal Academy in 1874 and later marked
his success by buying and moving into Knostrop Hall, a palatial
manor house across town. Reflected glory indeed!!
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Two Atkinson Grimshaw paintings: Left, Park Lane, Leeds
and Right, Boar Lane Leeds |
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Could this be Benjamin's cleaver? 18" long with a turned ridged
handle.
*Note this Armley is in Wortley not Leeds.
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start p. 6 p 6,7,8
Benjamin by now was a Railway Porter which seems something of
a demotion from Railway Office Clerk. The 1871
census shows him at the age of 51 and Eliza 47 and their children
as follows:
1. George, now 20, at work as a Fitter
2. Emma, now 21, a Weaver
3. Clara, now 10 and left school
4. Samuel, now 14, a Fitter
5. EDWARD ISAAC WEBSTER, AGED 5 (who would become my Grandfather)
6. Ann, aged 3 ( full name Eliza Ann)
As can be seen, there have been two additions to the family but
there is no mention of Benjamin, William, Ann and Henry who would
have been 27, 24, 16 and 12 respectively. It is certain that Ann
has died because the name has again been used for the new baby
Ann. Henry’s whereabouts are not known but we do now know
that Young Benjamin and William have emigrated to America. (Something
of their story is worth telling. See William Webster addendum).
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By 1881 the family have again moved house to
a new address in Wortley: 25 Danube Grove. This was a ‘’through’’
house, the front being 25 Danube Grove and the back 26 Danube
Place! There was a yard at the back which included an outside
toilet. The 1881 census gives the following information:
• Benjamin is now 60 and still a Railway Porter.
• Eliza is 58
• William, 33, (is back from America and living with his
parents), described as a ‘’Gentleman’’.
This was a term used to describe a person of independent means.
(see Addendum: William Webster)
• George, 28 still at home and an Engineer E&M
• Clara, 20. Not working
• EDWARD ISAAC 16, also an Engineer E&M. (my Grandfather)
• Ann E, 13. A scholar ( real name Eliza Ann )
• Emma, 29 said to be the sister of Benjamin but the age
difference makes this impossible: she is obviously the Emma listed
as his daughter in the 1871 census.
• Mary, 9, yet another new arrival. (It is hard to believe
that this is Eliza’s child as she would have had to be 49
when she had her! Could she be William’s daughter, Mary
Ann, from America?)
• Another Emma, 2, described as Benjamin’s daughter.
(Again, out of the question for a 56 year old mother, Eliza)
It has to be said that the 1881 record is suspicious:
it is either incorrectly transcribed or there is an attempt at
cover up! Could it be that Emma junior is the daughter of Emma
senior who may have had her out of wedlock or had been married
but returned to live with her parents after the demise of her
husband? Maybe Emma was not Benjamin’s daughter but the
wife of son George. Any explanation can be only speculation.
25 Danube Grove is second from the left. It went through to Danube
Place where it is number 26. (Photo taken shortly before demolition
in the 60s)
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By the 1891 census, Benjamin, 70, and Eliza,
69, have moved around the corner to 13 Danube Street. EDWARD ISAAC,
26, is unmarried and still at home with his parents and a new
name appears on the census: Roseanna, aged 24 and a Boot and Shoe
Stitcher.
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A copy of the death certificate is available, but I understand
it it not legal to publish copies even via the Internet. Here
are a few portions of the document.
Benjamin Webster lived to the good age of 76 when he died of pneumonia
on 7 September 1896 – now at 17 Danube
View, new Wortley. (The death was registered by his son-in-law,
J E Whiteley, husband of Eliza Ann, who was present at the death).
Eliza went on to 1900, dying at the age of 77. It is very likely,
but yet to confirm, that the couple would have been buried in
the local Wortley Cemetery. Benjamin was born in the year when
George the Third was King. Queen Victoria was now on the throne
and Lord Salisbury her Prime Minister. Benjamin had seen the growth
of a vast Empire and the advance of the Industrial Revolution.
He had made the transition from country- dweller to townie (as
labour moved away from agriculture to work in the expanded industrialised
world of the industrial revolution) and established the Webster
family in the City of Leeds.
My father, Charles Benjamin Webster was born on 1st January
1899, 2 years after his grandfather, after whom he was named,
died. Did he know of him? Certainly he never spoke of him but
after my research I now feel that I know him!
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New Wortley Cemetery, (Armley Gaol in the background)
This is the likely final resting place of Benjamin Webster, aged
76 and Eliza Webster (nee Parker), aged 77.
Colin Webster, January 2006 (updated July 2007, to include contributions
by
Paul Whiteley and Beth Northrop)
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looks like certificate says 12 Oswald Street, New Wortley?? |
ADDENDUM
The story of William Webster, (son of Charles Benjamin and Eliza)
William had gone to America in the 1860’s. where he was
very successful.
He first married Mary Ann Holmes around 1866 who died shortly
after the birth of their only child, Mary Ann Webster.
The American Census of 1880 shows William living in San Francisco
where he had remarried to Ellen Frances nee Gallagher Mulholland.
William was now 32 and his wife also 32. They had 2 sons, William
jnr, born c.1876 and Benjamin C, born c.1879 living with them.
Also living with them was Ellen’s brother, Joshua Holmes,
aged 28. There is no mention of William’s daughter, Mary
Ann, or other children which by now the couple had: Lily Mae,
and Hattie Gallagher.
As can be seen from the English census of 1881, William returned
to England in early 1881and was temporarily living with his parents.
Very soon after returning to England he set up WEBSTER and CO
in Armley, Leeds, manufacturing and selling his invention which
he patented: ‘’Webster’s Improved Patent Overhead
Hand Stitch Sewing Machine’’, for stitching sacks,
bags, covers, carpets, blankets, and ‘’other like
purposes.’’
A company letter-head of the 1890’s showing the factory:
Germania Works, Armley.
Company promotional material
William’s family: Ellen (his wife), Hattie, William jnr,
and Benjamin, joined him in England in 1882. The couple had further
children born in Armley, England: Minnie Frances in c.1883, Eddington
Henry in c.1884 and Mabel Ellen born in c.1887. The 1891 census
shows the family living at 9 Laurel Grove, Armley, Leeds.
The children were educated and at least one married in England.
By 1991 (1899??) William and family which were still at home
were living at ‘’San Pablo’’, Trinity
Road, Bridlington. Had William sold up his business by this time?
Certainly, two years later on the 28th. March 1903, the family
set sail from Liverpool in SS Celtic to return to live for good
in America and were last living at 1836 Prince Street, Berkeley,
across the Bay from San Francisco.
My recently found cousin, Paul Whiteley has identified a Germania
Hall on ‘’Webster Street’’ in Berkeley.
It is interesting that on a trip to the USA in 1985 I came across
a Webster Street in San Francisco. Could this have any connection!!!!
Certainly, William’s son, Benjamin C went on to be a prolific
inventor with over 100 patents to his name!
And so this branch of Benjamin’s family became established
as Americans.
Colin Webster on Webster Street, San Francisco, 1985!
Colin Webster July 2007, (including Information provided by Beth
Northrop, descendant of William Webster – USA).
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Ellen was also widowed and had a child from that marriage so
it was a "Brady Bunch" -- yours, mine and ours.
Click to link
to the Sewing Machine Page
CClick to
Link to William's Patents.
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William Webster Laurel Grove 1901
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Could this be an older brother to Benjamin??
http://genforum.genealogy.com/cgi-bin/pageload.cgi?england::webster::4640.html
Posted by: Jane Howard (ID *****0772) janemariehoward@hotmail.com
Date: September 30, 2005 at 20:08:10
of 4927
Looking for information on George WEBSTER, born 1809, died 1874,
and his wife Martha GATH, born 1808, died, 1862, who married 25
Dec 1826 in Calverley, Yorkshire, England and came to the US in
1843, settling in Shelby County, Indiana.
Children were William, James G., Mary, John George, Jane, Charles
F., Richard Daniel, Willie, Henry and Walter.
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Household Record 1881 British
Census
Name Relation Marital Status Gender
Age Birthplace Occupation Disability
Benjamin WEBSTER Head M Male 60 Ripley, York, England Railway Porter
Eliza WEBSTER Wife M Female 58 Spofforth, York, England
William WEBSTER Son U Male 33 Bradford, York, England Gentleman
George WEBSTER Son U Male 28 Bradford, York, England Engineer (E
& M)
Clara WEBSTER Daur U Female 20 Leeds, York, England
Edward WEBSTER Son Male 16 Leeds, York, England Engineer (E &
M)
Ann E. WEBSTER Daur Female 13 Leeds, York, England Scholar
Emma WEBSTER Sister U Female 29 Leeds, York, England
Mary WEBSTER Daur Female 9 Leeds, York, England Scholar
Emma WEBSTER Daur Female 2 Leeds, York, England
Dwelling 25 Danube Grove
Census Place Wortley In Bramley, York, England |
1901 census
(from census.pro.gov.uk)
Address 25 Danube Grove
Administrative County Leeds
Civil Parish Wortley
Ecclesiastical Parish St. John the Baptist
Parliamentary Bourough West Leeds
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