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1 Married at Register Office Family: F292
 
2 NSW No 374 Family: F213
 
3 Sister Mary Elizabeth Bradbury was a witness Family: F344
 
4 The witnesses were George Lord; M.S. Schroeder; E.S. Emma Schroeder; Charles Barber junr Family: F238
 
5 Witnesses Albert Job Parkes and S J Parkes Family: F391
 
6 WItnesses James Gale and Caroline Mead Family: F40
 
7 Witnesses John James Jones and Sarah Jones Family: F407
 
8 Witnesses Mary Oakley, Joseph Nock. Family: F355
 
9 At least one living individual is linked to this note - Details withheld. Family: F430
 
10 Witnesses Thomas Boam and Hannah Besop.
Edwin was under age.
By Banns 		Family: F222
 
11 Witnesses Thomas Vernon and Alfred John Oliver Family: F304
 
12 Witnesses were Ann Dangerfield and John Biddulph Family: F410
 
13 Witnesses were Charles Lewis and Esther Angell Family: F194
 
14 Witnesses were David and Emma Elliott Family: F69
 
15 Witnesses were John Burnside Boyd and Margaret Sefton Family: F255
 
16 Witnesses were John Kendrick and Hardwick ????? (llegible) Family: F157
 
17 Witnesses were Samuel and Elizabeth Hawgood Family: F178
 
18 Witnesses were William Parkes and James Williams.

Data from www.oldhamfamily.co.uk 		Family: F340
 
19 Witnesses were William Parkes and Jane Williams Family: F409
 
20 Witnesses were:
EA Oliver
Ellen Edith Banks
Alice JAne Banks
Elizth Banks 		Family: F71
 
21 Witnesses: John G Oliver and Doris A Austin Family: F61
 
22 Witnesses: William Clough and Annie E Austin Family: F436
 
23 From:
Subject: ANGELL: Haslingfield. Early 1800s
Date: Fri, 21 May 1999 14:22:07 +0100


I have a John ANGELL who married Sarah Coxall SCOTT in All Saints Church,
Haslingfield on 9 April 1848. He is shown as a minor, therefore under 21 so
born
post 1827.

In the graveyard at All Saints Church, Haslingfield are two ANGELL graves.
One
for William ANGELL who died Jan 13, 1858 aged 62 also Esther (his widow) who
died Jan 22 1870 aged 74. the other is for Sarah wife of William Angell who
died
May 1st 1833 (buried 5th May) aged 36 years.

Does anyone have information on the ANGELLs at Haslingfield? Or can anyone
confirm if William and Esther ANGELL were John's parents? (I know that
John's
father was William from his marriage records).

Thanks

Tim Barker
tim.barker@btinternet.com 		William ANGELL
 
24 Probably born at Schlusselberg Vera AUSTIN
 
25 There is a great deal of evidence that he was actuallly born between Dec 20 and Dec 25 1845. For example his gravestone, and his 1901 practice certificate application. Silas BOAM
 
26 Was he qualified?

According to his obituaries, Silas Boam studied medicine after arriving in the United States .

Yet on his 1901 application for a Kansas State practice certificate, he declared that he had studied at the college of Physicians and Surgeons, Birmingham England from 1868 to 1872, and at Buffalo University of Medicine from 1881 to 1883.

However we know from Ontario marriage, birth and census records that he was resident in Hamilton in from 1868 to 1871, where he worked as a machinist and later as a provision dealer.

He was in Buffalo in 1879-1883 but working as a machinist.

There is no record of him at the University at Buffalo School of Medicine.

The earliest record of him practicing medicine is the 1885 census for Topeka Kansas. 		Silas BOAM
 
27 Death Registered by nephew William Nock. Edwin BRADBURY
 
28 reported in Liverpool Journal 7/1/82 Lillian CRANE
 
29 His Pilot's licence was withdrawn for 6 months in 1837 for keeping public house:

"Thomas Crane Boat 6
December 15th 1836 license withdrawn in consequence of keeping a public house
18th May 1837 Thomas Crane license given to him on his petition stating that he had given up the public house 29th October 1838 on the complaint of ?? Buddle? Mate ? Of her majesty Cutter for abusive language. Ordered that he be fined £2
24th November 1845.Appointed 3rd Master of no 7
5th July 1847 Appointed to 2nd Master during Jones sickness.
27th August 1849. Appointed 1st Master of no 9
19th January 1852. For the disgraceful insubordination shown to ???1st in his boat and which he had sanctioned.Fined £5 and reprimanded by the chairman
3rd April 1854 fined £5 for violation of bylaw-5
17th November 1862 superannuated on £35 per anum
Died 27th April 1875."

(Transcription by Celia from Pilotage records) 		Thomas CRANE
 
30 Name recorded as Binyoun Drage Bynion DRAGE
 
31 Baptisms: 4 Feb 1838 St Patrick, Liverpool, Lancashire, England
Mary Anne Gleaves - Daughter of John Gleaves & Elizabeth (Hayes)
Born: 24 Jan 1838
Baptised by: G.Gibson
Register: Baptisms 1838, Page 1, Entry 4
Source: LDS Film 396375 		Mary Ann GLEAVE
 
32 At least one living individual is linked to this note - Details withheld. Living
 
33 Address given as Newington Workhouse, Walworth Caroline Ann HARWOOD
 
34 Somers Town is close to Camden Town. Caroline Ann HARWOOD
 
35 In January 1919 Sapper GH Jones was on active service in Italy evidence by a postcard discovered in papers of Martha May Jones George Henry JONES
 
36 1891 census Lucy Eveline JONES
 
37 Robert William Jones 1833-1884

1833 Born 23 January 1833 in Liverpool. Father Samuel Jones, a whitesmith.

1851 census: Robert Jones, apprentice engineer aged 18, recorded as a visitor to William Dyson engineer, Gothic Terrace, 1 Upper Dalton Street, Liverpool.

1853: Robert marries Lucy Parkes on 26 December at St Mary's Edge Hill (Lucy was then aged just 16 - baptised 20 Feb 1837 parish of St Peter ; parents Job and Charlotte Parkes. However her age is stated as 18 on the marriage certificate). Robert's address is given as Dalton Street. (The Parkes and Jones families would maintain a connection for many years - Robert and Lucy's son Samuel Job Jones worked for John Parkes and Sons, manufacturers of ship's chronometers and sextants.)

1855: joins Royal Navy 11 December 1855 and appointed to HMS Polyphemus as acting assistant engineer 3rd class.

1856: Polyphemus is wrecked off Jutland on 29 January 1856 with some loss of life. Robert is listed as a survivor in the subsequent court martial record. Son Samuel Job ("Sam Job" ) born April 5th. Robert joins HMS Ringdove, then transfers to HMS Blenheim.

1857: Robert is assigned to Her Majesty's Steam Troopship Transit on 10 March. Transit sails for Hong Kong with 1000 troops on board but is wrecked in the Straits of Banca (Sumatra) in July. All aboard are saved and taken to Singapore. The troops are promptly diverted from there to India because of the Mutiny, and will not reach China until December. The Transit's master and commander are court martialed aboard HMS Sibylle on the Canton River in November 1857. Robert is assigned to HMS Esk and serves with Esk on the China station for the next 4 years. His commanding officer is polar explorer Sir Robert M'Clure (who had been recently knighted and awarded £5000 for his navigation of the North West passage). This is the time of the Second China (Opium) War and Esk takes part in a number of engagements. M'Clure commands a division of the Naval Brigade in the battle for Canton.

1859: Robert is posted to HMS Chesapeake but appears never to have joined this vessel.

1860: promoted to Asst Engineer 2nd class (M'Clure wrote to the Admiralty: "a very deserving officer of whom I have invariably reported most favourably")

1861: Census data: Lucy and young Sam Job ae living at 124 Duke Street Everton . Also recorded with them is Robert's youngest brother Peter Jones aged 16, a watch jeweller. Lucy's mother Charlotte Leadbeater (formerly Parkes) is also head of a household at that address: with her are Lucy's brothers John and William Parkes, and sister Charlotte Parkes. Robert returns to England as Asst Engineer 1st class in June when Esk is paid off at Portsmouth. He attends the Royal Naval College and passes the engineer's examination "highly creditably". He is lent to the new ironclad HMS Warrior which is commissioning at Portsmouth.

1862: While serving on Warrior, Robert is awarded the China medal for his service on Esk

1863: promoted Engineer, and formally posted to Warrior, Channel Squadron.

1865: joins HMS Minstrel for commissioning. Passes 2nd class certificate from Director of Education.

1866: Robert passes creditably for Chief Engineer. Minstrel commissioned and sails to serve on the North America and West Indies station until 1870.

1869: Robert receives a severe reprimand from Admiral Sir George Munday for the state of Minstrel's boilers. Saved from further disciplinary action by the intercession of Lt. Commander Medlycott (later Admiral Sir Mervyn B Medlycott) - "an act of grace" granted on the occasion of Medlycott's promotion.

1870: back in Portsmouth. Serves on various vessels Ariadne, Black Eagle, and Duke of Wellington until 1872

1871 Census: Robert W Jones ships engineer born in Liverpool is recorded aboard "HMS Duke of Wellington and/or support vessels" at Portsea (Portsmouth). Lucy Jones is recorded in Portsea "Husband RN engineer aboard".

1873 Robert departs for China Station again to serve on Kestrel. Excellent staff reports from Cdr. Theobald.

1875: promoted Chief Engineer. Service record states "to remain as Chief but to be relieved at first opportunity".

1876: Robert returns to England on HMS Thalia. Posted to HMS Fox. (We have a family heirloom from this time - a pair of slippers inscribed "Miss Williams 1876" and "RW Jones" - presumably a present to Martha Ann Williams who was to marry Sam Job in November 1877).

1878: Robert ill with pneumonia in May and is treated at the Naval hospital at Stonehouse, Plymouth.

1879: Lucy dies of cancer 14 January 1879 at 115 Gladstone Road, West Derby. A few months later, on 24 May Robert marries Elizabeth Lever then aged 23 in a Fylde registry office. Fox is paid off. Robert on half pay.

1880: Posted to HMS London on the East Indies station. London is anchored off Zanzibar as a depot ship for the steam pinnaces engaged in apprehending slavers in the Pemba channel.

1881: The census records Robert at sea on board HMS London. Elizabeth Jones, 25 years old, Chief Engineer's wife, is recorded as a lodger at 20 Brougham Road Portsmouth, and on census night she is being visited by her older sister Emma Lever. (London's commanding officer Capt Brownrigg is murdered by slavers in 1881.)

1882: Robert returns to Portsmouth by mail steamer in October.

1883: Based on HMS Raleigh at Devonport

1884: Based on HMS Resistance at Devonport.

Robert dies of heart disease 16 September 1884, aged 51, at his home 4 Fitzroy Terrace, Stoke Damerel, Devonport.

Robert's 28 year old widow Elizabeth is granted a navy pension of £70 per annum, and she returns to the north west, taking up residence at 81 Esmond Street, Liverpool. Three years later in November 1887 she bears a child, Newton Jones, and when registering the birth in January 1888 she cites the father as Robert Jones, engineer. 		Robert William JONES
 
38 She died intestate per The Times 17 March 1877 page 1 column b Elizabeth KENDRICK
 
39 In GRO as McRickard Liverpool 20 471 Denis MCCRICKARD
 
40 Metcalf (civil engineer)
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia


John Metcalf , also known as Blind Jack of Knaresborough

John Metcalf, or as he was more popularly known, Blind Jack Metcalf (August 15, 1717 – April 26, 1810) was the first of the professional road builders to emerge during the Industrial Revolution. Although made blind from smallpox at the age of six, John had an eventful life, which was well documented by his own account just before his death. In the period 1765 to 1792 he built about 300 km (180 miles) of turnpike road, mainly in Lancashire, Derbyshire, Cheshire and Yorkshire.



Early life

John was born in Knaresborough, England about 15 miles north of Leeds, Yorkshire on August 15, 1717 into a poor family, the son of a horse breeder. At the age of six, he lost his sight to a smallpox infection. The child was given fiddle lessons as a way of making provision for him to earn a living later in life. He became an accomplished fiddler and made this his livelihood in the early adult years. He had an affinity for horses and added to his living with some horse trading. Though blind, he took up swimming and diving, fighting cocks, playing cards, riding, and even hunting. He knew his local area so well he got paid to work as a guide to visitors.

In 1739 Jack befriended Dorothy Benson the landlord's daughter of the Granby inn in Harrogate. When, at the age of 21 he made another woman pregnant, Dorothy begged him not to marry the woman and Jack fled. He then spent some time living along the North Sea coast between Newcastle and London, also lodging with his aunt at Whitby. He continued to work as a fiddler. When he heard Dorothy was to be married to a shoemaker, Jack returned and eloped with her. They married and went on to have four children. Dorothy died in 1778.

His fiddle playing gave him social connections and a patron, Colonel Liddell. In one much repeated story the colonel decided to take his young protégé to London, 190 miles away to the south. John found the colonel’s leisurely progress too slow and went ahead on foot. He reached London first and then returned to Yorkshire before the colonel. He managed this though on foot and blind and the story demonstrates Jacks determination and resourcefulness.

During the Second Jacobite rebellion of 1745 Jack’s connections got him the job of assistant to the recruiting sergeant who was raising a company for the King in the Knaresborough area. Jack went with the army to Scotland. He did not experience action but was employed moving guns over boggy ground. He was later captured but released.

After the war he used his Scottish experience to begin importing Aberdeen stockings to England.


[edit] Carrier
Before his army service Jack had tried his hand as a carrier using a four wheeled chaise and a one-horse chair on local trips. When competition cut into this business he switched to carrying fish from the coast to Leeds and Manchester. After 1745 he bought a stone wagon and worked it between York and Knaresborough. By 1754 his business had grown to a stagecoach line. He drove a coach himself, making two trips a week during the summer and one a week in the winter months.

Road builder

In 1765 Parliament passed an act authorising turnpike building in the Knaresborough area. There were few people around with road building experience and John seized the opportunity, building on his practical experience as a carrier. He won a contract to build a three-mile section between Minskip and Feamsby of a new road from Harrogate to Boroughbridge. He explored this section of countryside alone and worked out the most practical path. He went on to build roads all over Yorkshire and Lancashire.

Metcalf believed that a good road should have good foundations, be well drained and have a smooth convex (rounded) surface to allow rainwater to drain quickly into ditches at the side of the road. He understood the importance of good drainage, knowing it was rain which caused most of the problems on the roads.

He worked out a way to build a road across a bog using a series of rafts made from ling (a variety of rush or marsh grass) and furze (heather) tied in bundles as foundations. This established his reputation as a road builder as other engineers had believed it could not be done.

He acquired an unequalled mastery of his trade with his own accurate method of calculating costs and materials, which he could never successfully explain to others.


Later life

Competition from canals eventually cut into his profits and he retired in 1792 to live with a daughter and her husband at Spofforth Yorkshire. Throughout his career he built 180 miles of road. At 77 he walked to York where he related a detailed account of his life to a publisher (see Ref below). Blind Jack of Knaresborough died in his 93rd year on April 26, 1810, in his home in Spofforth. He is buried in Spofforth Churchyard.


References

- -, 1795, The Life of John Metcalf, Commonly Called Blind Jack of Knaresborough, Printed and sold by E. and R. Peck, York, 153 Pages | Google books: [1], [2]
- -, 1804, The Life of John Metcalf, Third edition, Leeds
Smiles, 1861, John Metcalf, Road Maker, chapter in Lives of the Engineers Vol 1 Part III Ch V
Porrit, A. 6th Feb 1962, John Metcalf Blind Road Maker, Halifax Antiquarian Society Pamphlet. 		John "Blind Jack" METCALF
 
41 Captain of Northamptonshire Rugby Union side 1907-1913
7 England caps
Raised the sportsmen's battalion 7th Northants.
Promoted from Private to Lieutenant Colonel in two years 1914-1916.
DSO 1917
Wounded three times.
Killed at Passchendaele 1917 		Edgar Roberts MOBBS
 
42 Private Grave
Reopen 18170
Owner Oliver
Sq 75 		Alfred John OLIVER
 
43 Per Wayne Roddam's upload to Roots Web " He arrived in NSW about 1877, as time in state is recorded as
27years on his death certificate. Arthur was divorced from
his first wife ( Laura Holliday) after he had deserted her. He
then had a relationship with a lady called Mary Brady, and
they had a son called Walter who was seven at the time of
hisfather's death. There is no record of their marriage.
Arthur Oliver died of Phthisi pulmonalis after an illness
of three and a half years. He was buried in Rookwood Cemetery
bythe undertakers Cofill & Co. The minister presiding at
thefuneral was the Roman Catholic priest T.Kenny." 		Arthur Walter OLIVER
 
44 Daughter of William Oliver, Accountant (deceased) Emily OLIVER
 
45 The address was the home of John Metcalf and Charlotte Emily Oliver Kate OLIVER
 
46 from Cecil Street Albert Job PARKES
 
47 John Parkes senior and sons John Parkes and Albert Job Parkes were partners in the firm of John Parkes and Sons, Chronometer Makers and Opticians at 11 St George's Crescent Liverpool. John Parkes senior retired from the business on 1 January 1910. Albert Job PARKES
 
48 From Cecil Street Job PARKES
 
49 John Parkes senior and sons John Parkes and Albert Job Parkes were partners in the firm of John Parkes and Sons, Chronometer Makers and Opticians at 11 St George's Crescent Liverpool. John Parkes senior retired from the business on 1 January 1910. John PARKES
John PARKES
 
50 John Parkes senior and sons John Parkes and Albert Job Parkes were partners in the firm of John Parkes and Sons, Chronometer Makers and Opticians at 11 St George's Crescent Liverpool. John Parkes senior retired from the business on 1 January 1910. John PARKES
John PARKES
 

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