Individual Notes

Note for: Elizabeth Scholes, Abt 1697 - Index

Event:
     Type:   Marriage
     Date:   17 FEB 1717
     Place:   of Ibstone Parish, Buckinghamshire, Englad

Individual Notes

Note for: Sydney Clifford Scholes, 12 DEC 1884 - 28 MAR 1968 Index

Occupation:
     Place:   Steelworks representative, book keeper

Burial:
     Date:   DEC 1968
     Place:   Abbey Lane Garden of Rest, Sheffield Parish

Individual Notes

Note for: Nelly Abrahams, 12 JUL 1887 - 17 DEC 1965 Index

Event:
     Type:   Miscellaneous
     Date:   23 OCT 1959
     Place:   Had a Harry Abrahams in her address book. A cousin?

Individual Note:   Mother has a Harry Abrahams in her address book, d.23.10.1959. Was he a cousin? Dob a guess at 1890

Individual Notes

Note for: Thomas Scholes, 15 MAR 1856 - Index

Baptism:
     Date:   24 MAR 1856
     Place:   St Lawrences's Ch, Rhuddlan

Christening:
     Date:   24 MAR 1856
     Place:   Hatfield Parish near Doncaster, West Riding Yorkshire, England

Occupation:
     Place:   Grocer's assistant; master grocer

Event:
     Type:   Address (2)
     Place:   Sheffield Parish

Individual Note:   Thomas Scholes of Sheffield (b.1856):
Thomas was born at Slay Pits on 15 March 1856 and baptised at St Lawrence Church, Hatfield on 24 March 1856. He married Mary Jane Haydock (b.1848 in East Retford) at Chapeltown Parish Church in 1883; Chapeltown is now part of Rotherham.
Mary Jane was the daughter of Charles Haydock and Mary Jane Swinburn of East Retford, Notts. She was one of ten children; the family moved to Sheffield about 1852. Both Charles Haydock and his father were cordwainers; Charles had a shop in Retford but appears to have given up making boots and shoes after moving to Sheffield and is described on Mary Jane's marriage certificate as a (commercial) "traveller". See The Haydocks of Retford.
We have no information about the early life of Mary Jane and Thomas before their marriage in 1883, or where they were living in the 1860s and 1870s after the families moved to Sheffield.
Mary Jane is described on her marriage registration certificate as "a spinster" (no occupation given) residing in Chapeltown. But no Haydocks were enumerated in Chapeltown in the 1881 Census. Thomas was residing in Sheffield in 1883 working as a grocer.
At the time of the 1891 Census Thomas was a "master grocer" with a house and grocery shop and a "servant domestic" at 51/53 Fitzwilliam Street in the suburb of Broomhall, Sheffield, but then moved 'round the corner' to 3 Travis Place. Later he apparently gave up the shop and is described in registration documents as a "grocer's assistant" and appeared to have given up the shop.
In the 1891 Census, grandfather wrongly stated his place of birth as Bawtry (instead of Slay Pits). This does imply a strong connection with Bawtry when grandfather was a child and I do remember father speaking of visits to (cousins?) in Bawtry. But so far I have failed to discover any family connection. Thomas and Elizabeth had three sons.
        Sydney Clifford (b.1884), my father, a steelworks representative before the depression and then a book-keeper at Midgeley and Sons, a firm of Sheffield ferro-alloy merchants, who married Nelly Abrahams of Sheffield at Ecclesall Registry Office in 1925.
        Bernard Alwynne (b.1886), a grocer's assistant and commercial traveller, who lived in Leeds and was unmarried.
        Thomas Hill (b.1887) was drowned in a swimming accident at the age of 14.
Figure 9 is a photograph of grandfather dated about 1925. Grandmother died in 1927 aged 79 and grandfather in 1928 aged 72; both were buried at Abbey Lane Cemetery, Sheffield in a grave without a headstone.