Celia has posted about the early origins of the Wilcockson family. You can find it on her blog at
www.morgansite.wordpress.com. It also tells of the emigrant George Wilcockson and the possible link to Daniel Boone. Happy reading.
Wednesday, 23 January 2013
Wednesday, 14 November 2012
comments
I am hopeless with computers. I have just found out where the comments are to be found.
If Celia is reading this, please could........................................throught the comments - I won't publish it but I can't see another way of contacting you. Thank you for your message.
Sorry that won't work either because I've just read through the blog and seen that comments have automatically appeared !! at one time you had to approve comments and nor does there seem to be a way to hide comments. Grrrrr I have just posted a question on rootschat.com forum - its on the Lancashire board and its called Isaac Wilcockson of Preston. You can then send me a private message by clicking on my user name (Little Wren) on the left hand side.
And sorry to everyone elses comments that have appeared.
I can delete them if you wish me to.
If Celia is reading this, please could........................................throught the comments - I won't publish it but I can't see another way of contacting you. Thank you for your message.
Sorry that won't work either because I've just read through the blog and seen that comments have automatically appeared !! at one time you had to approve comments and nor does there seem to be a way to hide comments. Grrrrr I have just posted a question on rootschat.com forum - its on the Lancashire board and its called Isaac Wilcockson of Preston. You can then send me a private message by clicking on my user name (Little Wren) on the left hand side.
And sorry to everyone elses comments that have appeared.
I can delete them if you wish me to.
Monday, 5 November 2012
The Senols family II
Its ages since I have last been on here and everything has changed grrrrr. Karen has contacted me about the Senols family, so I hope she finds her way here and can check what I have. Welcome Karen. As I think I have already put we are not related to the Senols but Amelia Senols married Isaac Wilcockson, they had no children and I have a soft spot for childless couples if we do not include them in our trees they won't be on anyones tree. And Isaac and Amelia I think lived an interesting life.
For Karen, Isaac was born into a Quaker family in Preston. When Quakers moved from one meeting area to another they would take a certificate with them (national archive site) and so we know that Isaac went to London in 1804. We also know he was disowned by the Quakers in 1815, at that time Quakers were meant to marry other Quakers. I like to think he must have loved Amelia. Isaac lived in the posh part of Preston, published a newspaper was involved with the civic life in Preston, and had various business interests. So I wondered if Amelia had fetched a dowry with her when they married and also they are missing from the 1841 census, were they visiting Amelia's relatives? At the moment I don't think Amelia had a fortune and Isaac and Amelia are still missing in 1841. Did the use of the names Amelia and Isaac indicate that they had contact with Amelia's family in London?
Karen do you know there is a photograph of Amelia in a published book.
The following is research all online.
I have a subscription to Ancestry, (A) indicates records from this site.
IGI Henry Sanols married Mary Capling
23 Aug 1741
Fleet Prison Chapel
Henry Senols appears in the London Tax Records (A) 1751-1761, Wapping.
Henry Senolds 1767, same page as Wapping Dock Street
(A) City of London St Botolph, Bishopsgate
James Smols (on image looks like Sinols)
c. 25 ? 1743
12 Aug 1776
James Senols of St Giles Cripplegate
Jenny Ball of St Edmund + King (minor)
wit. Chas. Greenwood. Edward Collinson
(James' business partner, and brother-in-law)
This marriage was reported in the London Chronicle Sat. Aug 10 1776?
Mr. James Senols of Fore-street Oilman to Miss Jane Ball of Lombard-street
from google books
An Account of the General Dispensary for Relief of the Poor
1776 (Aldersgate St. London)
Senols James, Fore-street
A list of Bankrupts
1787 Senols James, upholder, Fenchurch street
Senols James and William Daniels, upholsterers, Fenchurch street
The London Furniture makers (published 1988)
Greenwood and Senols No. 23 Fenchurch street 1781-83
Greenwood Thomas No. 23 Fenchurch street 1790-1803
The post office annual directory 1814
(don't know where I found this)
Senols James, Oil and colour dearler 81, Fore-street
google books
Kents original London Directory 1823
Senols Jas. oil + Italian warehouse 81 Fore-street
From the oldbailey website, Elizabeth Farrell stole a stove from James Senols of Fore-street Cripplegate. Date of trial 29 May 1816.
Newspaper extracts, I get confused as to which Senols they apply to so I will just copy them all under this James, his son first married in 1816, some just refer to Mr. What they show is that the family were involved in bankruptcy something which I don't quite understand as it seems that they continued working. But this is the reason I do not think Amelia brought a dowry with her.
I include this article because it might be relevant from the oil point of view.
Gazetteer and New Daily Advertiser
Tuesday Aug 20 1793
Oil and colour trade
by James Senols
On the premises, No 66, Backman Street, by order of the assignees, of Mr. Day, Oil and colourman, on Thursday the 22d, and following day, All his valuable stock in trade, shop fixtures, scales, weights, white lead, and hair powder mills, household furniture, linen &c. The stock comprises, a general assortment of oils and colours, a large quantity of stone blues and smaller starch (?) soap, ashes, vinegar, ketchup, mushrooms, capers, walnuts, girkins, mops, brooms, brushes, hair powder, &c, &c the furniture consists of a neat assortment of useful articles, an eight day clock, a table ditto, and good kitchen furniture.
The stock will be sold the first day, which may be viewed til the time of sale - Catalogues had on the premises, and of James Senols, No 81, Fore-street, Cripplegate.
The Morning Chronicle Monday Nov 23 1801
From the London Gazette
Dividends
Dec 15 J. Senols, of Fore street, Cripplegate, shopkeeper
The Morning Post and Gazetteer Nov 23 1801
Dec 15 Jane Senols, of Fore-street, Cripplegate, shopkeeper, at eleven, at Guildhall
Jane Senols is in the land tax redemption records (A) 1798 as an occupier.
The Morning Chronicle Wed Dec 4 1816
Sales by auction
Elegant and well finished stock of a furnishing Ironmonger deceased -
by Mr. Senols, on the premises, the corner of Catherine-street, Strand, on Tuesday next, and following Days, by order of the Trustees, ........
Catalogues had on the premises of Mr. Senols, 81, Fore-street and Mr. Gillbanck, Solicitor,
46 Coleman-street
The Morning Chronicle Tue, Sep 29 1818
To Capitalists and others - reversion to 25 Freehold Houses, in Fore Street, Cripplegate and Tower-hill
...............at Garraway's Coffee-house, in One Lot..................
24 brick built dwelling houses situated in Fore street Cripple-gate - in the various occupations of Messrs. Senols (+list of other occupants)
The Morning Chronicle Wed, Nov 13 1822
From the London Gazette
Dividends
Dec. 3 J. Senols, late of Fenchurch-street, upholsterer
(A) from Apprentices Indentures James had at least two apprentices
in 1779 Wm. Yateman
in 1786 Robt. Hayes
(A) St John of Wapping, Tower Hamlets
Henry Scnols
c. 9 June 1745
burial Henry Senols
10 May 1753
age 7
consump.
(A) St John of Wapping
Mary Sinnols
c. 13 Mar 1746/7
(A) St John of Wapping
Mary Sonols
c. 23 Dec 1750
burial 8 Jan 1750/1
convuls
Wapping Dock
(I have not studied the images in detail, did not check dates carefully because it is before the calendar changed in 1752. But there is a marriage for Mary Senols so was this burial for the earlier Mary or did they have another daughter also called Mary?)
(A) St John of Wapping
John Senols
c. 26 Apr 1754
*occupation of Henry looks like Taylor
abode, Wapping Dock.
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In an earlier post I detailed some marriages for Senols - which suggests there is another sister Elizabeth.
12 Aug 1776 James Senols + Jenny Ball
17 May 1778 John Dryland + Elizabeth Senonls
was John a butcher? were they the family using St Mary Whitechapel?
If so the following may be their children
James bap 18 Apr 1779
Elizabeth bap 6 May 1781
Mary bap 22 Jun 1783
Charlotte bap 18 Mar 1787
John Dryland buried 29 Jul 1808
2 Dec 1795 Thomas Joslin + Mary Senols
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The family of James Senols and Jenny Ball.
Are these their burials
from IGI Jane Senols buried 2 Oct 1809 London, City Road
James Senols buried 8 May 1821 London, City Road
St Edmund, Lombard
Jane Ball Senols
b. 27 Nov 1777
c. 23 Dec 1777
m. St Leonard Shoreditch
28 Dec 1824
William Coldwell
((A) from Crisps marriage licence index, William Coldwell, Sheffield Yorks
Jane Ball Senols, St Leonard Shoreditch
28 Dec 1824)
1841 census St Luke, Old Street
Jane Caldwell 55 Ind.
Mary Baxter 40 F.S
Daniel Senols 15 compositors ap.
and next door
Elizabeth Hume 30 milliner
Mary Ann Dudley 30 milliner
Caroline Dudley 20 milliner (with the Senol family in 1871)
Isabella Gibson 20 milliner
Caroline Drinkwater 15 milliner
Jane Senols 15 milliner ????? is this Sarah Jane
1851 census Shoreditch St Leonard 31 Hayton Sq
Thomas Hannasch? 79 wid minister? born Northumberland
Jane 51 dau U born West Indies
Jane B Coldwell 73 cousin wid born Middlesex
Rebecca Ellip 19 servant
This image was difficult to read. Have not found a connection.
1861 St Luke, City Road
Jane Ball Coldwell 83
Amelia Sonels 30
Marin 10
Jame J 7
Betsey Datson 55
(A) probate 1866
Jane Ball Coldwell, will
late of 16 Regent-street City road
widow d. 24 Nov 1865
under £450
probate to Edward Collinson, 95 Blackman St, Southwark
Lamp manufacturer
1861 census 95 Blackman St
Edward Collinson 54 gas fitter b. Surrey St George, empl. 3 men
Sarah Burton 22 house servant
William Janner 15 porter
(Edward, a widow)
possibly Edward Collinson bap 29 Jul 1806
St. George the Martyr, Surrey, Southwark
son of Thomas Ball Collinson + Elizabeth
probate 1871
Edward Collinson, will
under £2000
late of 95 Blackman-street, Southwark, Surrey
d. 15 May 1871
probate to Ellen Collinson the widow
(might this probate also be connected to this Collinson family....
1865 Edward Collinson, letters of admin, under £200
late of Crooked-lane, City of London
Oil merchant, widower, d. 20 Nov 1849 at Morden College,
Blackheath, Kent
probate to Henry Collinson of 6 Lawrence-Pountney-Hill in the City
Gentleman, the son)
(A) St Dionis Backchurch
"Thomas Ball Senols son of James and Jenny Senols/upholder/ was born 27th November and baptized 28th December 1781"
(A) London Freedom of the City Admission Papers
"This is to certify whom it doth as may con....Thomas Ball Senols, son of James Senols of No. 81 Fore street Cripplegate in the City of London, Citizen and upholder was this 7 day of Febuary 1816 admiited into the Freedom of the worshipfull company of Upholders of the city of London by Patrimony....."
m. Ealing St Mary
24 Oct 1813
Jane Woodall
will of Thomas Ball Senols 1836 some details online at www.bhsproject
His widow married William Barton
MarQ 1845 Jane Senols, Brentford
census 1861 Brentford South Rd.
William Barton 63 retired grocer b. Herts Barkway
Jane 73 b. Essex, Clavering
Jane Chipperfield 12 house servant b. Old Brentford
probate 1871
Jane Barton died 17 Jan 1871 at North House, New North road Old Brentford widow
probate to William Moginie of 35 queens square optician
under £200
(A) St Dionis Backchurch
"Amelia Senols daughter of James and Jenny Senols/upholder/ was born 11th September and baptized 9th October 1783."
m. St Giles Cripplegate
23 Jul 1815
Isaac Wilcockson
(google books) The monthly magazine 1815
"Mr Wilcockson, printer of the Preston Chronicle, to Amelia, second daughter of Mr. Senols, Fore-street, London."
(A) probate 1867 will
Amelia Wilcockson under £3,000
late of Preston, widow d. 3 Dec 1866 at Preston.
Mary Ball Senols
(A) St. Giles Cripplegate
Mary Ball Senolds daughter of James
Upholstorer
born Jan 4 1790
bapt. Jan 29 1790
(A)Ealing Hanwell St Mary
6 June 1813
William (L, J, S?)anson
Mary Ball Senols
witn: Thomas Cogswell
the mark of Sarah Edwards
not found anything more on this family.
James Senols
(google books) The New Monthly Magazine 1816
"At Hammersmith, Mr. Jas. Senols, jun. of Fore-street, to Miss E. Springthorpe, second daughter of the late Dan. S. esq."
(does the fact that James is described as jun. mean that his father James was still alive in 1816?)
(is her father Daniel, explains sons name?)
(A) St George the Martyr's Southwark, Surrey
Ellen Eliz. Senols b. 25 Mar 1818
c. 17 Apr 1818 daugher of James & Elizabeth, Greate Guildford st
It appears she was also christened at St. Giles Cripplegate
Helena Elizabeth Springthorp Senols b. 25 Mar 1818
c. 17 Jan 1819
daughter of James & Elizabeth, Guildford St. merchant
maybe this is her in census 1841
Richmond, Surrey
Maria Carter 60 indep.
Ellen Senols 20 F.S.
Ellen had a daughter in 1843
(A) Hackney St John
Anne Sennols c. 22 March 1843 daughter of
Ellen Elizabeth Sennols, Workhouse
birth registered Ann Senols Mar Q 1843 Hackney
Ann married Thomas Stock
They had at least two children
(A) marriages in Paris
3 Fevr 1889
Thomas Henry Frederic Stock
parents Thomas Stock & Anne Senols
married Jeanne Eugenie Chatenay
27 Juin 1897
Louise Marie Henriette Stock
parents Thomas Stock & Anne Senols
married Wilfred Leon Juleon Anger
Ann's mother married
23 Dec 1849 St Marys Church, Paddington
John Young Adams private in Grenadeir Guards, Hermitage St
father William, labourer
Helen Elizabeth Springthorp Senols, North Wharf Road
father James, office clerk
witn: J?.....lling
Elizabeth Charlotte.......dge
I can find nothing on them, did he serve overseas?
but
census 1871 John Young Adams 58 (1813) inmate at Chelsea Royal Hospital for pensioners
born Lytchett, Dorset WIDOW
Daniel James Senols b. 15 May 1823
c. 8 June 1823 Old Church Saint Pancras
son of James and Elizabeth
1841 census St Luke, Old Street with aunt Jane Caldwell
m. St Philip, Stepney, Middlesex 11 July 1847
Daniel James Senols compositor (father, James, Clerk)
Maria Simmons (father Samuel, Lighterman)
residence for both at time of marriage Heatte? Street
Witn: Samuel Simmons and John Holliday
birth registered SepQ 1848 Stepney
Maria Elizabeth Senols
perhaps this is her burial
Stepney St Dunstan and all saints
Maria Elizabeth Senolds 21 Ap 1850
age 22 months
((A) also under Maria Elizabeth Senols)
birth registration
Jamie Isaac Senole Jun Q 1853 Hampstead
(A) St John the Baptist, Shoreditch
James Isaac Senols b. 15 May 1853
c. 28 Nov 1860
son of Daniel James Senols and Maria
Maria Simmons Senols b. 8 Dec 1860 ?
c. 28 Nov 1860
(there is a birth registered Mar Q 1851 Stepney
Maria Simmons Senols
so should ? birth year be 1850)
daughter of Daniel James Senols and Maria
both deceased?
from bmds
death Maria Senols JunQ 1854 Stepney
(A) burial Stepney St Dunstan
11 Jun 1854 Maria Senols
death Daniel James Senols DecQ 1859 Bethnal Green
Lloyds Weekly Newspaper Sunday Aug 26 1855
from the London Gazette
Insolvent petitioners
D.J. Senols, Green-street, Bethnal Green, painter
on google books Daniel James Senols mentioned in 1855
Reports of Cases argued and determined in the Court of Queens
( IGI James Isaac Senols b. 1852
m. St Nicholas, Great Yarmouth, Norfolk 15 Nov 1874
Harriet Keable
father James Daniel Senols)
(I think this is Harriet, widow of James
1881Stepney Limehouse
Harriet Senols 29 gen serv cook b Norton
with Samuel Crane's family
so it would seem that James Isaac died sometime between 1874 - 1881
although in 1881 Harriet is described as unmarried, have been unable to
find James death I followed Harriet to see what happened to her
marriage SepQ 1888 Fulham
Harriet Senols & Charles Trask
1891 Fulham
Charles Trask 47 builders labourer
Harriet 40
+ 2 lodgers
Probate 1893
Harriett Trask of 20 Black's-road Hammersmith
wife of Charles Trask, admin to Charles Trask
builders labourer £51 12s 9d)
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20 May 1822
James Senols widower married Betsy Bowditch spinster
witnesses William Smith and Susanna Smith?
James Senols was witness in the trial of William Dignum. James, lock keeper at the Regent's Canal assisted the victim ; details on the oldbailey website. Trial date 6 sep 1832
census 1841 South Hackney
Elizabeth Sinols 35 charwoman
Amalia 10
Mary 7
census 1851 Bethnal Green 24 Prospect Place
Betsy Watson 48 mar. annuitent b. Camden Town
Jane Senols 24 dau. U milliner b. Shoreditch
Amelia Senols 21 dau. U milliner b. Shoreditch
Robert Kirkaldy 2 grandson b. Bethnal Green*
*this would suggest another daughter married to a Kirkaldy but I have been unable to find out anything more. Other than birth registered for Robert James Senols Kirkaldy.
census 1861 with Jane Ball Caldwell
census 1871 Holborn City Road, 16 Regent Street, Finsbury
Betsy Senols 68 wid b. St Pancras
Amelia Senols 40 milliner b. Hackney
Maria Senols 20 milliner b. Limehouse
Caroline Dudley 51 lodger
John Dickins 26 lodger
burial South Hackney, St John of Jerusalem
Betsy Senols age 70 Regent Street City Road
24 Jan 1872
(A) Shoreditch St. Leonard
Sarah Jane Senols c. 14 Sep 1829 James and Betsey, Regents Canal, lock keeper
b. 6 or 16 April 1826
Sarah Jane Senols married DecQ 1853 Bethnal Green
(family trees online, so have not followed this line)
Amelia Senols c. 14 Sep 1829 James and Betsey, Regents Canal, lock keeper
b. 3 Aug 1829
Death registered Amelia Senole
Mar Q 1891 age 61 Croydon, Surrey
Probate Amelia Senols 1891
£268 12s 4d, will
formerly of 2 Minden-Villas Grange Park but late of 7 Woodville road both in Thornton Heath, Surrey, spinster d. 3 Jan 1891 proved by James Thomas Slater of 7 Woodville road shirt cutter.
Mary Ann Emma Senols c. 2 Dec 1833 James and Elizabeth, Regents Canal, lock keeper
b. 1 Nov 1833
Death registered Mary Ann Emma Senols
Sep Q 1849 Bethnal Green
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from Google books
An account of the experience of Hester Ann Rogers and her funeral 1831
"then hastening to meet my dear husband at our kind friend's, Mr. Senols, where we supped."
same page
"On Wednesday, we dined at Mr. Ball's.....
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This completes the research I have done on the Senols family.
Suggestions for further research if it were my tree, to look at the Ball family, the Collinson family and the Dryland family. And to find out more about the marriage of Henry in 1741.
I have probably made mistakes, so if you are using this information it is a good idea to check it for yourself. If you do find a mistake I don't mind being corrected.
There is also this mystery.
Bap. 22 Apr 1849 Ealing St. Mary
Joseph Thick son of James + Sarah Senols
Old Brentford, Coach Painter
death registration
Sep Q 1886 Sarah Senols Thick (1823) Brentford
Have found the family on census, it would appear Sarah was born in Bedfordshire Shefford?
I think Sarah was related to Thomas Ball Senols wife, Jane. From info about the will, online Thomas mentions his wife's sisters Mary Godfrey and Sarah Godfrey, presumably one of these was married to William and their daughter was Sarah Senols Godfrey. Sarah was with Jane in 1841.
1841 census High Street Brentford
Jane Senols 45 grocer
Willm Barton 35 grocer
John Bunbridge 20
Willm ? 20
James Wright 15
George Wright 10
Sarah Godfrey 15 Dress m.
Elizabeth ? 10 F.S.
Sarah Senols Godfrey married James Thick 20 Dec 1847
Ealing St. Mary.
For Karen, Isaac was born into a Quaker family in Preston. When Quakers moved from one meeting area to another they would take a certificate with them (national archive site) and so we know that Isaac went to London in 1804. We also know he was disowned by the Quakers in 1815, at that time Quakers were meant to marry other Quakers. I like to think he must have loved Amelia. Isaac lived in the posh part of Preston, published a newspaper was involved with the civic life in Preston, and had various business interests. So I wondered if Amelia had fetched a dowry with her when they married and also they are missing from the 1841 census, were they visiting Amelia's relatives? At the moment I don't think Amelia had a fortune and Isaac and Amelia are still missing in 1841. Did the use of the names Amelia and Isaac indicate that they had contact with Amelia's family in London?
Karen do you know there is a photograph of Amelia in a published book.
The following is research all online.
I have a subscription to Ancestry, (A) indicates records from this site.
IGI Henry Sanols married Mary Capling
23 Aug 1741
Fleet Prison Chapel
Henry Senols appears in the London Tax Records (A) 1751-1761, Wapping.
Henry Senolds 1767, same page as Wapping Dock Street
(A) City of London St Botolph, Bishopsgate
James Smols (on image looks like Sinols)
c. 25 ? 1743
12 Aug 1776
James Senols of St Giles Cripplegate
Jenny Ball of St Edmund + King (minor)
wit. Chas. Greenwood. Edward Collinson
(James' business partner, and brother-in-law)
This marriage was reported in the London Chronicle Sat. Aug 10 1776?
Mr. James Senols of Fore-street Oilman to Miss Jane Ball of Lombard-street
from google books
An Account of the General Dispensary for Relief of the Poor
1776 (Aldersgate St. London)
Senols James, Fore-street
A list of Bankrupts
1787 Senols James, upholder, Fenchurch street
Senols James and William Daniels, upholsterers, Fenchurch street
The London Furniture makers (published 1988)
Greenwood and Senols No. 23 Fenchurch street 1781-83
Greenwood Thomas No. 23 Fenchurch street 1790-1803
The post office annual directory 1814
(don't know where I found this)
Senols James, Oil and colour dearler 81, Fore-street
google books
Kents original London Directory 1823
Senols Jas. oil + Italian warehouse 81 Fore-street
From the oldbailey website, Elizabeth Farrell stole a stove from James Senols of Fore-street Cripplegate. Date of trial 29 May 1816.
Newspaper extracts, I get confused as to which Senols they apply to so I will just copy them all under this James, his son first married in 1816, some just refer to Mr. What they show is that the family were involved in bankruptcy something which I don't quite understand as it seems that they continued working. But this is the reason I do not think Amelia brought a dowry with her.
I include this article because it might be relevant from the oil point of view.
Gazetteer and New Daily Advertiser
Tuesday Aug 20 1793
Oil and colour trade
by James Senols
On the premises, No 66, Backman Street, by order of the assignees, of Mr. Day, Oil and colourman, on Thursday the 22d, and following day, All his valuable stock in trade, shop fixtures, scales, weights, white lead, and hair powder mills, household furniture, linen &c. The stock comprises, a general assortment of oils and colours, a large quantity of stone blues and smaller starch (?) soap, ashes, vinegar, ketchup, mushrooms, capers, walnuts, girkins, mops, brooms, brushes, hair powder, &c, &c the furniture consists of a neat assortment of useful articles, an eight day clock, a table ditto, and good kitchen furniture.
The stock will be sold the first day, which may be viewed til the time of sale - Catalogues had on the premises, and of James Senols, No 81, Fore-street, Cripplegate.
The Morning Chronicle Monday Nov 23 1801
From the London Gazette
Dividends
Dec 15 J. Senols, of Fore street, Cripplegate, shopkeeper
The Morning Post and Gazetteer Nov 23 1801
Dec 15 Jane Senols, of Fore-street, Cripplegate, shopkeeper, at eleven, at Guildhall
Jane Senols is in the land tax redemption records (A) 1798 as an occupier.
The Morning Chronicle Wed Dec 4 1816
Sales by auction
Elegant and well finished stock of a furnishing Ironmonger deceased -
by Mr. Senols, on the premises, the corner of Catherine-street, Strand, on Tuesday next, and following Days, by order of the Trustees, ........
Catalogues had on the premises of Mr. Senols, 81, Fore-street and Mr. Gillbanck, Solicitor,
46 Coleman-street
The Morning Chronicle Tue, Sep 29 1818
To Capitalists and others - reversion to 25 Freehold Houses, in Fore Street, Cripplegate and Tower-hill
...............at Garraway's Coffee-house, in One Lot..................
24 brick built dwelling houses situated in Fore street Cripple-gate - in the various occupations of Messrs. Senols (+list of other occupants)
The Morning Chronicle Wed, Nov 13 1822
From the London Gazette
Dividends
Dec. 3 J. Senols, late of Fenchurch-street, upholsterer
(A) from Apprentices Indentures James had at least two apprentices
in 1779 Wm. Yateman
in 1786 Robt. Hayes
(A) St John of Wapping, Tower Hamlets
Henry Scnols
c. 9 June 1745
burial Henry Senols
10 May 1753
age 7
consump.
(A) St John of Wapping
Mary Sinnols
c. 13 Mar 1746/7
(A) St John of Wapping
Mary Sonols
c. 23 Dec 1750
burial 8 Jan 1750/1
convuls
Wapping Dock
(I have not studied the images in detail, did not check dates carefully because it is before the calendar changed in 1752. But there is a marriage for Mary Senols so was this burial for the earlier Mary or did they have another daughter also called Mary?)
(A) St John of Wapping
John Senols
c. 26 Apr 1754
*occupation of Henry looks like Taylor
abode, Wapping Dock.
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In an earlier post I detailed some marriages for Senols - which suggests there is another sister Elizabeth.
12 Aug 1776 James Senols + Jenny Ball
17 May 1778 John Dryland + Elizabeth Senonls
was John a butcher? were they the family using St Mary Whitechapel?
If so the following may be their children
James bap 18 Apr 1779
Elizabeth bap 6 May 1781
Mary bap 22 Jun 1783
Charlotte bap 18 Mar 1787
John Dryland buried 29 Jul 1808
2 Dec 1795 Thomas Joslin + Mary Senols
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The family of James Senols and Jenny Ball.
Are these their burials
from IGI Jane Senols buried 2 Oct 1809 London, City Road
James Senols buried 8 May 1821 London, City Road
St Edmund, Lombard
Jane Ball Senols
b. 27 Nov 1777
c. 23 Dec 1777
m. St Leonard Shoreditch
28 Dec 1824
William Coldwell
((A) from Crisps marriage licence index, William Coldwell, Sheffield Yorks
Jane Ball Senols, St Leonard Shoreditch
28 Dec 1824)
1841 census St Luke, Old Street
Jane Caldwell 55 Ind.
Mary Baxter 40 F.S
Daniel Senols 15 compositors ap.
and next door
Elizabeth Hume 30 milliner
Mary Ann Dudley 30 milliner
Caroline Dudley 20 milliner (with the Senol family in 1871)
Isabella Gibson 20 milliner
Caroline Drinkwater 15 milliner
Jane Senols 15 milliner ????? is this Sarah Jane
1851 census Shoreditch St Leonard 31 Hayton Sq
Thomas Hannasch? 79 wid minister? born Northumberland
Jane 51 dau U born West Indies
Jane B Coldwell 73 cousin wid born Middlesex
Rebecca Ellip 19 servant
This image was difficult to read. Have not found a connection.
1861 St Luke, City Road
Jane Ball Coldwell 83
Amelia Sonels 30
Marin 10
Jame J 7
Betsey Datson 55
(A) probate 1866
Jane Ball Coldwell, will
late of 16 Regent-street City road
widow d. 24 Nov 1865
under £450
probate to Edward Collinson, 95 Blackman St, Southwark
Lamp manufacturer
1861 census 95 Blackman St
Edward Collinson 54 gas fitter b. Surrey St George, empl. 3 men
Sarah Burton 22 house servant
William Janner 15 porter
(Edward, a widow)
possibly Edward Collinson bap 29 Jul 1806
St. George the Martyr, Surrey, Southwark
son of Thomas Ball Collinson + Elizabeth
probate 1871
Edward Collinson, will
under £2000
late of 95 Blackman-street, Southwark, Surrey
d. 15 May 1871
probate to Ellen Collinson the widow
(might this probate also be connected to this Collinson family....
1865 Edward Collinson, letters of admin, under £200
late of Crooked-lane, City of London
Oil merchant, widower, d. 20 Nov 1849 at Morden College,
Blackheath, Kent
probate to Henry Collinson of 6 Lawrence-Pountney-Hill in the City
Gentleman, the son)
(A) St Dionis Backchurch
"Thomas Ball Senols son of James and Jenny Senols/upholder/ was born 27th November and baptized 28th December 1781"
(A) London Freedom of the City Admission Papers
"This is to certify whom it doth as may con....Thomas Ball Senols, son of James Senols of No. 81 Fore street Cripplegate in the City of London, Citizen and upholder was this 7 day of Febuary 1816 admiited into the Freedom of the worshipfull company of Upholders of the city of London by Patrimony....."
m. Ealing St Mary
24 Oct 1813
Jane Woodall
will of Thomas Ball Senols 1836 some details online at www.bhsproject
His widow married William Barton
MarQ 1845 Jane Senols, Brentford
census 1861 Brentford South Rd.
William Barton 63 retired grocer b. Herts Barkway
Jane 73 b. Essex, Clavering
Jane Chipperfield 12 house servant b. Old Brentford
probate 1871
Jane Barton died 17 Jan 1871 at North House, New North road Old Brentford widow
probate to William Moginie of 35 queens square optician
under £200
(A) St Dionis Backchurch
"Amelia Senols daughter of James and Jenny Senols/upholder/ was born 11th September and baptized 9th October 1783."
m. St Giles Cripplegate
23 Jul 1815
Isaac Wilcockson
(google books) The monthly magazine 1815
"Mr Wilcockson, printer of the Preston Chronicle, to Amelia, second daughter of Mr. Senols, Fore-street, London."
(A) probate 1867 will
Amelia Wilcockson under £3,000
late of Preston, widow d. 3 Dec 1866 at Preston.
Mary Ball Senols
(A) St. Giles Cripplegate
Mary Ball Senolds daughter of James
Upholstorer
born Jan 4 1790
bapt. Jan 29 1790
(A)Ealing Hanwell St Mary
6 June 1813
William (L, J, S?)anson
Mary Ball Senols
witn: Thomas Cogswell
the mark of Sarah Edwards
not found anything more on this family.
James Senols
(google books) The New Monthly Magazine 1816
"At Hammersmith, Mr. Jas. Senols, jun. of Fore-street, to Miss E. Springthorpe, second daughter of the late Dan. S. esq."
(does the fact that James is described as jun. mean that his father James was still alive in 1816?)
(is her father Daniel, explains sons name?)
(A) St George the Martyr's Southwark, Surrey
Ellen Eliz. Senols b. 25 Mar 1818
c. 17 Apr 1818 daugher of James & Elizabeth, Greate Guildford st
It appears she was also christened at St. Giles Cripplegate
Helena Elizabeth Springthorp Senols b. 25 Mar 1818
c. 17 Jan 1819
daughter of James & Elizabeth, Guildford St. merchant
maybe this is her in census 1841
Richmond, Surrey
Maria Carter 60 indep.
Ellen Senols 20 F.S.
Ellen had a daughter in 1843
(A) Hackney St John
Anne Sennols c. 22 March 1843 daughter of
Ellen Elizabeth Sennols, Workhouse
birth registered Ann Senols Mar Q 1843 Hackney
Ann married Thomas Stock
They had at least two children
(A) marriages in Paris
3 Fevr 1889
Thomas Henry Frederic Stock
parents Thomas Stock & Anne Senols
married Jeanne Eugenie Chatenay
27 Juin 1897
Louise Marie Henriette Stock
parents Thomas Stock & Anne Senols
married Wilfred Leon Juleon Anger
Ann's mother married
23 Dec 1849 St Marys Church, Paddington
John Young Adams private in Grenadeir Guards, Hermitage St
father William, labourer
Helen Elizabeth Springthorp Senols, North Wharf Road
father James, office clerk
witn: J?.....lling
Elizabeth Charlotte.......dge
I can find nothing on them, did he serve overseas?
but
census 1871 John Young Adams 58 (1813) inmate at Chelsea Royal Hospital for pensioners
born Lytchett, Dorset WIDOW
Daniel James Senols b. 15 May 1823
c. 8 June 1823 Old Church Saint Pancras
son of James and Elizabeth
1841 census St Luke, Old Street with aunt Jane Caldwell
m. St Philip, Stepney, Middlesex 11 July 1847
Daniel James Senols compositor (father, James, Clerk)
Maria Simmons (father Samuel, Lighterman)
residence for both at time of marriage Heatte? Street
Witn: Samuel Simmons and John Holliday
birth registered SepQ 1848 Stepney
Maria Elizabeth Senols
perhaps this is her burial
Stepney St Dunstan and all saints
Maria Elizabeth Senolds 21 Ap 1850
age 22 months
((A) also under Maria Elizabeth Senols)
birth registration
Jamie Isaac Senole Jun Q 1853 Hampstead
(A) St John the Baptist, Shoreditch
James Isaac Senols b. 15 May 1853
c. 28 Nov 1860
son of Daniel James Senols and Maria
Maria Simmons Senols b. 8 Dec 1860 ?
c. 28 Nov 1860
(there is a birth registered Mar Q 1851 Stepney
Maria Simmons Senols
so should ? birth year be 1850)
daughter of Daniel James Senols and Maria
both deceased?
from bmds
death Maria Senols JunQ 1854 Stepney
(A) burial Stepney St Dunstan
11 Jun 1854 Maria Senols
death Daniel James Senols DecQ 1859 Bethnal Green
Lloyds Weekly Newspaper Sunday Aug 26 1855
from the London Gazette
Insolvent petitioners
D.J. Senols, Green-street, Bethnal Green, painter
on google books Daniel James Senols mentioned in 1855
Reports of Cases argued and determined in the Court of Queens
( IGI James Isaac Senols b. 1852
m. St Nicholas, Great Yarmouth, Norfolk 15 Nov 1874
Harriet Keable
father James Daniel Senols)
(I think this is Harriet, widow of James
1881Stepney Limehouse
Harriet Senols 29 gen serv cook b Norton
with Samuel Crane's family
so it would seem that James Isaac died sometime between 1874 - 1881
although in 1881 Harriet is described as unmarried, have been unable to
find James death I followed Harriet to see what happened to her
marriage SepQ 1888 Fulham
Harriet Senols & Charles Trask
1891 Fulham
Charles Trask 47 builders labourer
Harriet 40
+ 2 lodgers
Probate 1893
Harriett Trask of 20 Black's-road Hammersmith
wife of Charles Trask, admin to Charles Trask
builders labourer £51 12s 9d)
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20 May 1822
James Senols widower married Betsy Bowditch spinster
witnesses William Smith and Susanna Smith?
James Senols was witness in the trial of William Dignum. James, lock keeper at the Regent's Canal assisted the victim ; details on the oldbailey website. Trial date 6 sep 1832
census 1841 South Hackney
Elizabeth Sinols 35 charwoman
Amalia 10
Mary 7
census 1851 Bethnal Green 24 Prospect Place
Betsy Watson 48 mar. annuitent b. Camden Town
Jane Senols 24 dau. U milliner b. Shoreditch
Amelia Senols 21 dau. U milliner b. Shoreditch
Robert Kirkaldy 2 grandson b. Bethnal Green*
*this would suggest another daughter married to a Kirkaldy but I have been unable to find out anything more. Other than birth registered for Robert James Senols Kirkaldy.
census 1861 with Jane Ball Caldwell
census 1871 Holborn City Road, 16 Regent Street, Finsbury
Betsy Senols 68 wid b. St Pancras
Amelia Senols 40 milliner b. Hackney
Maria Senols 20 milliner b. Limehouse
Caroline Dudley 51 lodger
John Dickins 26 lodger
burial South Hackney, St John of Jerusalem
Betsy Senols age 70 Regent Street City Road
24 Jan 1872
(A) Shoreditch St. Leonard
Sarah Jane Senols c. 14 Sep 1829 James and Betsey, Regents Canal, lock keeper
b. 6 or 16 April 1826
Sarah Jane Senols married DecQ 1853 Bethnal Green
(family trees online, so have not followed this line)
Amelia Senols c. 14 Sep 1829 James and Betsey, Regents Canal, lock keeper
b. 3 Aug 1829
Death registered Amelia Senole
Mar Q 1891 age 61 Croydon, Surrey
Probate Amelia Senols 1891
£268 12s 4d, will
formerly of 2 Minden-Villas Grange Park but late of 7 Woodville road both in Thornton Heath, Surrey, spinster d. 3 Jan 1891 proved by James Thomas Slater of 7 Woodville road shirt cutter.
Mary Ann Emma Senols c. 2 Dec 1833 James and Elizabeth, Regents Canal, lock keeper
b. 1 Nov 1833
Death registered Mary Ann Emma Senols
Sep Q 1849 Bethnal Green
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from Google books
An account of the experience of Hester Ann Rogers and her funeral 1831
"then hastening to meet my dear husband at our kind friend's, Mr. Senols, where we supped."
same page
"On Wednesday, we dined at Mr. Ball's.....
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This completes the research I have done on the Senols family.
Suggestions for further research if it were my tree, to look at the Ball family, the Collinson family and the Dryland family. And to find out more about the marriage of Henry in 1741.
I have probably made mistakes, so if you are using this information it is a good idea to check it for yourself. If you do find a mistake I don't mind being corrected.
There is also this mystery.
Bap. 22 Apr 1849 Ealing St. Mary
Joseph Thick son of James + Sarah Senols
Old Brentford, Coach Painter
death registration
Sep Q 1886 Sarah Senols Thick (1823) Brentford
Have found the family on census, it would appear Sarah was born in Bedfordshire Shefford?
I think Sarah was related to Thomas Ball Senols wife, Jane. From info about the will, online Thomas mentions his wife's sisters Mary Godfrey and Sarah Godfrey, presumably one of these was married to William and their daughter was Sarah Senols Godfrey. Sarah was with Jane in 1841.
1841 census High Street Brentford
Jane Senols 45 grocer
Willm Barton 35 grocer
John Bunbridge 20
Willm ? 20
James Wright 15
George Wright 10
Sarah Godfrey 15 Dress m.
Elizabeth ? 10 F.S.
Sarah Senols Godfrey married James Thick 20 Dec 1847
Ealing St. Mary.
Monday, 27 June 2011
New follower.
Hi Michael
can you let me know how you are connected to the Wilcocksons of Preston. I am most interested. You can send me a comment, if you give your permission I will post - or you could ask to just tell me and I will not pass on details.
Although I have not been active on here for quite a bit that does not mean I have given up. Lately I have been researching my mothers side of the family as her sister passed away last year.
I am useless with computers, I did try to send you a message but I could not figure out how to do it.
Tuesday, 8 December 2009
The Senols family.
I have not been able to get out and about, so have been confined to the computer. Therefore I have turned my attention to another family. All prompted by questions which keep niggling away - where are Isaac Wilcockson and his wife Amelia in the 1841 census? and did Isaac marry Amelia for a dowry? Isaac the newspaperman and his wife lived in the better part of Preston, I think he ran a carriage and he was involved in the civic life of the town. I did wonder if they were down in London visiting her family - so I set about looking for them. Then I had a look to see if I could find out about their background. I am putting what I found on here because I have finished trying to follow this avenue of thought and knowing me will misplace the notes, also found it fascinating and want to put down my thoughts at the moment. The absolute answers to these family history questions will never be known with certainty and I find that my thoughts on particular issues change when I read new material or find new information. So whilst I write here what I think today, tomorrow I might well have revised my thinking.
I am leaning more to the thought that Isaac was a self made man. I need to get hold of the biography of Edward Bains, he wrote the history of Lancashire books, (he was apprenticed to the same man as Isaac?) went to Leeds and ran a newspaper there. His son wrote the biography saying his father was a self made man .......I also am reading "Building Jerusalem" by Tristram Hunt. It would seem that it was a requirement to be part of 'society' that they were involved in
civic matters. As for Amelia Senols' family, I think they were a 'trade' family much the same as the Wilcocksons. So I think he was marrying someone of the same standing. I still have not found Isaac and Amelia on the 1841 census, I have found the street they lived on by tracing their neighbours, but the houses are not numbered. There is no indication of uninhabited houses. They could just have been missed out as an enumerator error, they could have been visiting, or an alternative that I had not thought of is that they could have been travelling say in Europe. This idea has come through the orbituary of Isaac's cousin who lived in Preston - Michael Satterthwaite.
I would welcome any more information or any suggestions.
Anyway, here follows the story of the Senols family ..........
Try putting Senols in the IGI site, or on ancestry and you do not get very many results. Try putting Senols in google and one reason could be that it might be a Turkish name. Were they an immigrant family?
The earliest marriage that is interesting is
18 January 1769
Edward Collinson parish of Michael Crooked Lane, London Bachelor and Elisabeth Ball of this parish spinster, married by licence. Both signed and the witnesses were : Thomas Ball, George Barton, Anne Andrews, S. Adderley, Dinah Smith.
(I think Elisabeth and Thomas were Amelia's Aunt and Uncle through her mother).
Edward Collinson is a common name, there is a will for Edward Collinson Tin plate worker, Lombard Street, City of London 1809.
Then the marriage of Amelia's parents
12 August 1776.
James Senols of the parish of St. Giles Cripplegate London Bachelor and Jenny Ball of the Parish of St. Edmund and King London spinster and minor (more writting I cannot read, might say consent of brother) married by licence. Both signed and witnesses were Chas. Greenwood and Edward Collinson.
Charles was James business partner and Edward his brother-in-law.
This marriage was reported in the London Chronicle on Saturday August 10 1776???????
Yesterday was married Mr. James Senols, of Fore-Street, Oilman, to Miss Jane Ball, of Lombard-Street.
Also reported in Gazetteer, New Daily Advertiser and Morning Post.
Monday was married at St. Edmund the King, Lombard-Street, Mr. James Senols, of Fore-Street, Oilman, to Miss Jane Ball, of Lombard-Street.
Why was this marriage reported in the newspapers?
And now perhaps the most interesting marriage
17 May 1778 Saint John at Hackney
John Dryland of the parish of St Mary Whitechapel in the county of Middlesex bachelor and Eliz Seynoid of St John Hackney were married in this church by licence. Both signed - John Dryland, Elizabeth Senonls and the witnesses were Ann Coopler? Mary Senols, Henry Senols, Ja. Senols, Jenny Senols, E. Collinson and Eliz. Collinson.
Does this suggest that there were sibblings (perhaps Ann was a sister too) Mary, Henry, James and Elizabeth Senols?
Mary went on to marry 2 December 1795
Thomas Joslin of this parish and Hamlet of M&C J bachelor and Mary Senols of this parish and same hamlet spinster married by banns. Both signed and witnesses were John Dryland and Elizabeth Dryland.
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I tell you now that I am still confused about "Jane", I think sometimes Jenny, Amelia's mother was called Jane and there is also "Jane" who was Amelia's sister-in-law. Then there are the two James. So I shall appologise now if I muddle them up, and if you can make sense and clarify any mistakes please do tell me. Also some of the documents online are difficult to read. I have not made any copies of these because I view this as background research and I do not have a printer.
I think that James and Jenny (Jane) had the following children, although not all baptisms have been found -
Jane Ball Senols
Thomas Ball Senols
Amelia Senols
Mary Ball Senols
and James Senols (possibly James Daniel?)
Wednesday, 7 October 2009
1822 Guild
I had a spare half hour yesterday, so decided to spend it copying up part of the book by Isaac Wilcockson about the Guild Merchant of Preston 1822. This copy is in a reference library, a secondhand bookseller in Preston told me there is a larger copy of this book but it seldom comes on the market and when it does it is very expensive to buy. It is only a small book, and most of it is concerned with the upper classes and what entertainment they got up to. The Guild of Preston is something I need to read up about. At the moment as I understand it, it took place every 20 years and the one of 1822 lasted two weeks. I wonder if the Quakers attended the festivities. Near the end of the book is a bit which perhaps was more relevant to our ancestors.
I would like to find out more about this time period, please correct me if I am wrong -the Napoleonic wars ended 1815, this was a time of economic hardship for ordinary people, price of bread high. (And how does this tie in with Jane Austens works.)
I love the detail Isaac goes into. I wonder if Isaac attended all the festivities. Words in green, my own questions, if you could answer them or add any thoughts would welcome any comments.
page 117-119
GENERAL NOTICES
Admission to the Entertainments.
The Mayor's Ball on Wednesday in the first week, and the Mayoress' Public Breakfast on Thursday in the second, were given gratuitously, at the expence of the Corporation, and tickets of admission were granted to all persons applying for them, who had been introduced to the Mayor and Mayoress. His worship also gave dinners in the Guild Hall by invitation, and was attended almost every day, by about 60 gentlemen, who on each occasion sat down to a repast which was provided on the most liberal, and even sumptuous scale.
Admission to the other entertainments was obtained by tickets, which were sold at the Booksellers and Perfumers' shops, at the following prices:- Balls, Monday, September 2 and 9, and Charity Ball, 10s. 6d.; Fancy Ball, 15s.; Masqued Ball, £1. 1s. Subscription to the Oratorios and concerts, £2. 2s. The same for the Chancel Gallery, £2. 12. 6d; Single Tickets, Oratorios, 10s. 6d.; Ditto, Chancel Gallery, 15s.; Single Tickets for Concerts, Boxes and Pit, 12s.; Gallery, 7s. 6d. The Theatre, during the first week; Boxes, 6s., Pit, 4s. 6d., Gallery, 2s.; they were reduced in the second to Boxes 4s. 6d., Pit, 2s. 6d., Gallery, 1s. (I wonder why they were reduced in the second week?) The charge for admission to the ground from which Mr. Livingston ascended in his Balloon was 5s.
General Amusements.
In the foregoing accounts we have confined our notices to those amusements which were either arranged under the immediate direction of the public authorities, or were so far patronized by the officers of the Guild, as to be admitted into their general programme. There were, however, many other sources of entertainment, where young and old, high and low, sought relaxation from the cares of life. A vacant space of ground at the top of North Road was thronged with shews (what did he mean by this choice of word?) of every description. To this spot the humble mechanic, and the rustic countryman resorted with their wives, their families. or their sweethearts, and derived perhaps as much gratification from the novelties here presented to them, as their superiors in rank obtained from the more refined enjoyments elaborated in the Ballroom and the Theatre.
Other parts of the town also held forth attractions of various kinds.
THE CIRCUS, under the management of Messrs. Adam and Powell, a temporary spacious building, in Woodcock's timber-yard, Fishergate, was uncommonly well supported. They had a very fine stud of horses, and some clever performers, both as riders, tight and slack rope vaulters, and tumblers.
WOMBWELL'S MAGNIFICENT COLLECTION OF WILD BEASTS, stationed first in the North Road, and afterwards in the Market Place, was a most interesting exhibition, but did not repay the public spirit of the proprietor. (?)
MARSHALL'S PANORAMA OF THE BATTLE OF ALGIERS was very well attended, and gave great satisfaction. It was exhibited in a temporary wooden building, erected nearly opposite the Theatre, in Fishergate.
RYLEY (author of the Itinerant) endeavoured, with his BROOMS(?), to sweep off dull care from the minds of his audiences, but they did not prove sufficiently novel to draw crowded houses.
MADAME HENGLER gave several grand displays of Fire Works, at the Bowling Green near North Road, but the unfavourable state of the weather prevented many from attending, who would otherwise have patronized this ingenious woman.
Monday, 5 October 2009
Michael Satterthwaite
Posted on 5th October, in remembrance of Michael Satterthwaite's birthday.
Michael was the nephew of Esther (nee. Satterthwaite) Wilcockson so he was first cousin to her children. Michael was a Quaker and his name crops up on a lot of records. Michael lived in Preston. Like his cousin Isaac (the newspaper man) he seems a very interesting man, and like Isaac he had no children.
The Preston Guardian etc. Saturday July 13 1867
DEATHS
On the 6th instant at the residence of his nephew, Joseph Smithson, Halifax, Michael Satterthwaite, of Bank Parade, Preston, aged 82.
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The Preston Guardian etc. Saturday July 13 1867
DEATH OF MR. MICHAEL SATTERTHWAITE
We have this week to record the death of an old and worthy townsman, one of our oldest inhabitants, and one of the few connecting links between the Preston of the present day and our ancient borough when it was "an elegant and economical town, the resort of well-born but ill-portioned and ill-endowed old maids and widows." Mr. Michael Satterthwaite died on Saturday evening last, at Halifax, while on a visit to a nephew, Mr. Joseph Smithson. He was in the 83rd year of his age, having been born on the 5th of October, 1784. He was one of the sons of Edward and Mary Satterthwaite. Edward Satterthwaite was a currier and leather cutter, who came to Preston about 90 years ago, from the neighbourhood of Hawkshead, the relaxation of our municipal laws, about that time, allowing of non-freemen to carry on business in the town. His wife, whose maiden name was Parkinson, came from Sawley, in Yorkshire. They were respected members of the Society of Friends, of which body their son, the subject of this notice, remained an honoured and influential member until his death. When Michael Satterthwaite was born, his parents lived in the premises now occupied by Mr. Orrell, shoemaker, but before Michael was a year old, they removed to the premises known as the "Big Patten", where Edward Satterthwaite carried on business until his death, in 1794. His widow continued the trade after her husband's death until her marriage with Mr. Ralph Alderson, who then carried it on, on the same premises, first on his own acount, and then in partnership with his step-son, until his death in 1832, Mrs Alderson having predeceased him five years. Mr. Alderson was a man of scientific tastes, and was one of the founders of the Preston Institution for the Diffusion of Knowldedge. Mr. Satterthwaite continued the business after the death of his partner, until March of the present year, when he retired in favour of two of his nephews. When he gave up, he was the oldest tradesman in Preston, having been in business above sixty years, and during the whole of that period on the same premises, a circumstance without a parallel in the shopkeeping annals of this town. This shop has long been a noted one, and its appearance tells to a stranger that its possessor was of the "old school:" its old fashioned bay windows, of a kind of which there are now few in the town, were about the first bay windows ever inserted in a shop in Preston; previously shops had windows no different than cottages. It was the fore runner, - some however claim for the shop of Mr. Prescott, saddler, in Cheapside, the honour of being a few months its senior - of many scores that have been since displaced for more modern shapes with greater capabilities of display. Antiquated as their appearance is, when first inserted, they were considered quite an enterprising innovation, and were regarded as one of the wonders of the town, so much so, that country people, on a market day, for long after their erection, considered a visit to the town incomplete without a peep at the "new shop windows."
Mr. Satterthwaite was a shrewd and energetic man of business, but with a keen relish for travelling as a relaxation. For many years he seldom missed going to London to attend the annual meeting of the Society of Friends, in whose affairs he ever took a deep interest, and on this occasion he usually made a tour of some part of England famous for historic associations or scenic beauty. He, on more than one occasion, extended his rambles to the continent, and , in the spring of last year, in his 82nd year, he was one of a party that went through France and Switzerland to Italy, extending their tour to Milan, Venice, Florence, Rome, Naples and Pompeii, and was one of the most active and observant of the many thousand interested spectators of the grand ceremonial which marked the Easter of that year in the "Eternal City." It was while on a visit to a nephew in Halifax, after a visit to the yearly meeting of the Friends' school at Ackworth, in Yorkshire, where he was himself educated, of which he was one of the trustees, and in the welfare of which he ever took a deep interest, that he closed his life. He had arranged for a trip to Wales during the present month.
When at business he was remarkable for close application thereto, and was highly esteemed as a high-minded and honourable tradesman. Although retiring and unobtrusive in daily life, he was not an uninterested observer of public events. Like most members of the Society of Friends he was a Liberal in politics, and an energetic and consistent supporter of every measure of political, social, commercial, and religious freedom. The first time that he had the privilege of a vote for a member of Parliament was at the general election of 1807, when George the Third dissolved parliament to get rid of Fox and the Whigs, and by which he unfortunately secured a long lease of power to Toryism, and its then attendants of political and commercial monopoly, and persecution and exclusion from civil offices of citizens on account of religious belief. On that occasion two candidates offered themselves together, one a Whig, the other a Tory, and though so opposite in their principles that they perhaps never voted together during a whole parliamentary session, they came forward together before the Preston constituency, they canvassed together, their names were subscribed to the same address, they had only one committee, and they jointly resisted any attempt to break through a compact providing for this state of things, and which, on political grounds, was certainly "unprincipled." Mr. Samuel Horrocks was the Tory candidate, and Lord Stanley, the late Earl of Derby, the Whig. The Independent Liberal party invited Mr. Joseph Hanson, Colonel Hanson, as he was styled, to fight their battle against the "coalition," and among the memorable "1,002" who supported Mr. Hanson on that occasion, was Mr. Satterthwaite. How few now survive who took a part in that exciting twelve days' contest! In a hasty glance over the 2,582 names of the voters who exercised the suffrage on that occasion, we only recognise the name of one person now living, John Bairstow, Esq; possibly there may be another or two, but the youngest voter on that occasion, if now living would be above eighty-one years old. From that time Mr. Satterthwaite was ever found in the Liberal ranks at the Preston elections, and he uniformly recorded his vote on the side of popular progress. In the local demonstrations in favour of parliamentary reform, municipal reform, Free Trade, and the abolition of negro slavery he was accustomed to take part.
In one department of public duty, Mr. Satterthwaite took his full share. On the first establishment of the Board of Guardians for the Preston Union, on the adoption, in this district, of the New Poor-Law, in the year 1837, he was elected one of the guardians for the town-ship of Preston, being returned, by a large majority, at the head of the poll. At the end of the term for which he was elected, he declined re-appointment, and was out of office two or three years. He afterwards resumed his place at the Board, and since that time with one exception, he has been re-elected for the town-ship, or for one of the wards into which the town is divided. For many years he was very active in the discharge of the duties devolving on him, and he has frequently filled the post of one of the vice-chairmen of the Board.
Mr. Satterthwaite was once, for a short period, a member of the Preston Corporation. On the 15th August 1838, he was elected a councillor for St. George's Ward, to supply the vacancy occasioned by the death of Mr. Bulman. He had only the opportunity of attending one meeting of the Corporation, for the term for which he was elected expired on the ensuing 1st of November, and he then declined re-election. With the exception of Mr. Dodd, who represented the same ward for a few weeks, in 1852, Mr. Satterthwaite's term of office as a town councillor is the shortest in the annals of the Preston Corporation. The deceased gentleman was a director of the Blackpool Pier Company, of the Lytham Pier Company, and of the Preston Steam Sawing Company.
Mr. Satterthwaite was one of the founders of the Preston Auxiliary of the British and Foreign Bible Society; he was a member of the committee of management from its establishment till the day of his death, and on the death of the late Mr. John Fisher, in 1864, he was appointed treasurer of the auxiliary. Two of his colleagues in the formation of the Preston Society still lives:- Mr. Thomas Clarke and Mr. John Hamer.
Mr. Statterthwaite was twice married, but on both occasions he lost his wife very shortly after entering the matriomonial state. He had never any family. He was seized with a fainting fit on Saturday evening, while walking with his nephew, in the streets of Halifax, and fell into his arms. He was taken to Mr. Smithson's house, and the assistance of two doctors was called in, but he expired immediately. He had on a few previous occasions had similar fits, and in other ways, within the last year or two had shown symptoms of failing health and strength, but until he had long passed his eightieth year, he was uncommonly hale and hearty. He preserved his business aptitude and memory to the last.
Yesterday, his remains were interred in the secluded graveyard of the Society of Friends, at Calder Bridge, near Garstang, near those of his sister, Mrs. Sarah Ord, a minister of the Society of Friends, who died a few months ago. The prohibition of intramural interments in Preston prevented his being buried in his own family grave, in the yard of the Preston Friends' Meeting House. His remains were followed to the grave by a large circle of relatives, in seven mourning coaches, and the funeral cortege was preceded, to the outskirts of the town, on the Garstang road, by about eighty or ninety gentlemen of the town, who thus showed their respect for the character of the deceased. As a mark of respect to the memory of the deceased, nearly all the shops in Friargate, and many in the Market-place, were closed as the funeral procession passed.
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