More genealogy...

Now that I’m on a roll genealogically speaking, I am a bit frustrated that I cannot keep on keeping on. Well not much anyway.

So at lunchtime today I had a quick play on the putor and had a look for some of William and Elizabeth’s other children, namely Joshua. He’s my great grandfather’s older brother. 

And I have just realised that I have made a mistake with who was home on the 1861 census. Bother. Don’t have time to rectify it right now.

So here goes. 

He first appears on the 1851 census age eight, with no occupation listed.

So far I haven’t been able to find him on the 1861 census, or Sarah either, though I don’t know what her maiden name was. 

Then on the 1871, there he and Sarah are with their two eldest children. Elizabeth age 6 and William age 3. Joshua’s occupation was basket-maker. That occupation helps identify him and Sarah on the next census, the 1881. And to make it even more possible that this is the right family there is George T Cook (lodger) whose occupation was bricklayer. And there are a couple more children too. But no sign of the older two. Now we have Charles age 9, Mary age 8, Samuel age 5.  So moving on to the next census, the 1891. Joshua’s occupation is again basket-maker. No occupation for his wife Sarah. This time there is another child, 8 year old Kate Maud. Charles was a basket-maker, Mary Ellen a shoe machinist, Samuel a basket maker like his father, and young Kate Maud a scholar. The next census is the 1901 We still see Joshua and Sarah, but this time there are only two children at home, Kate Maud and her young brother Arthur J.  Only Joshua has an occupation written down, and again it is basket maker. The most recent census is the 1911. And at home we see Joshua and Sarah and the two youngest children, Kate Maude now 28 and Arthur James aged 17. Joshua is now a basket manufacturer and an employer, Sarah as in previous censuses has no occupation listed. Kate was a cook (domestic) and Arthur a railway engine cleaner. The 1911 is an interesting census as the entry is actually written by the inhabitant so the house. Other things interestingly documented on this census is that Joshua and Sarah had been married for 47 years, and that they had six children were born alive. At the time of this census only five of those children were living.