Individual Notes

Note for: Mary Jane Haydock, 1 JAN 1848 - 19 SEP 1927 Index

Occupation:
     Date:   1881
     Place:   Hosier

Event:
     Type:   Address (2)
     Date:   1881
     Place:   Lodging with George Thorpe, Sheffield Parish

Burial:
     Date:   SEP 1927
     Place:   Abbey Lane Cemetery, Sheffield Parish

Individual Note:   Mary Jane Haydock was my grandmother (who I never knew).

Individual Notes

Note for: John Scholes, AUG 1826 - 31 MAR 1885 Index

Baptism:
     Date:   31 AUG 1826
     Place:   St Lawrences's Ch, Rhuddlan

Occupation:
     Place:   Farmer, 6 acres

Event:
     Type:   Address (2)
     Place:   1881, Bawtry

Burial:
     Date:   APR 1885
     Place:   Bawtry Cemetry, GN 113

Individual Note:   John Scholes of Woodhouse (b.1826):
John, the second son of the younger William Scholes, was my great-grandfather. He was enumerated in 1841 as a male servant in the house of George Shaw, farmer of Woodhouse. In 1851 he was living with his father and stepmother in Woodhouse, and described as an "agricultural labourer, aged 25".
John married Elizabeth Hill (b.1830 in Messingham); the marriage probably took place in 1855 but does not appear to have been registered. There is no entry in the Hatfield PR; it is not clear whether the marriage took place in another parish, or whether they simply stood under the old oak tree at midnight. Unfortunately the Banns Book for Hatfield for this period is missing and there is no record of banns in the Messingham PR.
John's wife, Elizabeth, was the daughter of Charles Hill and Martha Caulkwell of Messingham, a large viilage south of Scunthorpe in Lincolnshire. Charles was born in Scotterthorpe, a hamlet south east of Messingham; he was a butcher at the time Elizabeth was born and later a farm labourer.
Grandfather was apparently the only child of John and Elizabeth.
        Thomas (b.1856) born at Slay Pits (or Pitts), a hamlet between Woodhouse and Hatfield.
John and Elizabeth were probably living in a farm cottage at Slay Pits at the time of their son's birth, John perhaps working as a labourer for one of the two farmers in Slay Pits at the time, James Schofield or William Howarth.
In the 1850s Slay Pits was a hamlet of nine houses which has, according to Ben Brown, not changed much over the years except that some houses have been rebuilt. John and Elizabeth were not enumerated in the 1861 Census as living in Woodhouse (RG9/3524 District 3); there is no indication of where they went to live, but the most likely probability is Sheffield.
At the time of his son's marriage (in 1883) John Scholes described himself as a "farmer". I have not yet found the registration of the deaths of John and Elizabeth. But I do have a copy of Elizabeth's certificate of baptism (in Messingham) obtained in 1908 and which, for some reason, is marked "Bawtry 75" in pencil.
    GN113 in Bawtry Cemetry:
In affectionate rememberance of Charles Hill of messingham who died April 10th 1880 aged 83 years also of John Scholes who died March 31sr 1885 aged 57 years (b.1827) also Elizabeth wife of the above died May 2nd 1917 aged 86 years (b.1831).
(No inscription for Scholes in Bawtry Churchyard.)

Individual Notes

Note for: Elizabeth Hill, 1830 - 2 MAY 1917 Index

Burial:
     Date:   MAY 1917
     Place:   Bawtry Cemetry, GN 113

Individual Notes

Note for: John Abrahams, 15 MAY 1853 - 13 OCT 1918 Index

Event:
     Type:   Occupation (2)
     Place:   Master grocer

Event:
     Type:   Address (4)
     Place:   12 Travis Place, Broomhall, Sheffield Parish

Event:
     Type:   Occupation (3)
     Date:   1901
     Place:   Waiter at Hay & Sons, Wine & Spitits Vaults, Sheffield Parish

Event:
     Type:   Occupation (1)
     Date:   1883
     Place:   Blacksmith (in Sible Hedingham?)

Event:
     Type:   Occupation (4)
     Place:   Hotel bar manager

Event:
     Type:   Address (2)
     Date:   1887
     Place:   178 Brunswick Rd, Brightside, Sheffield Parish

Event:
     Type:   Address (2)
     Place:   6 Armley Rd, Attercliffe, Sheffield Parish

Individual Note:   Sources: (1) Marriage certificate

Can't find John in 1881 census disk. presumably he was away from home. Had he gone to Sheffield? Was living with parents at C.H. in 1871..
Where was John's grocery shop in Sheffield? Check Trades Directories. Was he in business with the Butterills?

Owned 6 houses in Armley Rd, Attercliffe at the time of his death