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Richard Epworth's Family Tree - September 5th, 2011
See also
Joseph EPWORTH's siblings: Benjamin EPWORTH ( - ) and Mary EPWORTH ( - )
Anna HOBSON's father: William HOBSON ( - )

Family of Joseph EPWORTH and Anna HOBSON

Husband: Joseph EPWORTH (1749-1798)
Wife: Anna HOBSON (1753-1822)
Children: Willm EPWORTH (1776-1776)
John EPWORTH (1777-1832?)
Mary EPWORTH (1778- )
James EPWORTH (1780-1782)
Ann EPWORTH (1782-1782)
Joseph EPWORTH (1784-1860)
Thomas EPWORTH (1786-1786)
Girl EPWORTH (1787-1787)
Benjamin Hobson EPWORTH (1789-1862)
Alathea Babb EPWORTH (1791-1853)
Marriage 15 Nov 1775 1

Husband: Joseph EPWORTH

Name: Joseph EPWORTH 2
Sex: Male
Father: John EPWORTH (1714-1781)
Mother: Ann THOMPSON (1705-1754)
Birth 19 Jan 1749 2
Baptism "4 March 1748/1749"
Occupation (1) 1776 (age 26-27) Yeoman; Sheffield, Yorkshire West Riding, England
Occupation (2) btw 7 Mar 1776 and 15 Jul 1794 (age 27-45) Victualler; Sheffield, Yorkshire West Riding, England
Occupation (3) 1787 (age 37-38) Victualler; Sheffield, Yorkshire West Riding, England
Monica Ref. A9
Death 15 Jul 1798 (age 49) Sheffield, Yorkshire West Riding, England 2

Additional Information

Birth Birth "19 January 1748/1749"
Occupation (1) West Bar Green, Whites Close, now called White Croft
Assignment of a lease in trust TT/121/3 7 Mar 1776. Contents:
William Hobson, of Sheffield, filecutter, to Joseph Epworth, of Sheffield, yeoman, and his wife, Ann, the dau. of William Hobson, and their trustee, William Brightmore, of Sheffield, merchant. The leasehold premises of TT/121/1 and TT/121/2, and 4 houses in West Bar Green held by Hobson from the Trustees. For £26 paid by Epworth to Hobson and Hobsons love of the Epworths.
Occupation (2) The Cricket Players Pub, West Bar Green.
Leashold given to Joseph by Father in Law William Hobson in 1776, sold in 1794 when "now used as public house called the Cricket Players with the adjacent brewhouse and stable"
West Bar Green started at the end of Solly Street, and reference to White Croft and Sims croft makes it likely location
Occupation (3) Lambert's Croft, Westbar Green
Residing at Lambert (Lambert's) Croft. Recorded in: Gales & Martin Directory of Sheffield - 1787.

Wife: Anna HOBSON

Name: Anna HOBSON 2
Sex: Female
Father: William HOBSON ( - )
Mother: -
Birth 18 Jul 1753 2
Death 2 Apr 1822 (age 68) 2
Burial 8 Apr 1822 Sheffield, Yorkshire West Riding, England

Additional Information

Burial St Peter & St Paul

Child 1: Willm EPWORTH

Name: Willm EPWORTH 2
Sex: Male
Birth 1776 2
Own Ref: A19
Occupation 1776 (age 0) -
Death 1776 (age 0) 2

Child 2: John EPWORTH

Name: John EPWORTH 2
Sex: Male
Spouse: Ann UNKNOWN (1781?- )
Birth 22 Jun 1777 2
Baptism 25 Jul 1777 (age 0)
Own Ref: A20
Death Apr 1832 (est) (age 54)
Burial 20 Apr 1832 (age 54) Sheffield, Yorkshire West Riding, England
Census 6 Jun 1841 (age 65 (!)) Sheffield, Yorkshire West Riding, England 3
Occupation 6 Jun 1841 (age 63) Cutler; Sheffield, Yorkshire West Riding, England 3

Additional Information

Burial Sheffield St Peter & St Paul
Burial guessed from NBI
Census Pea Croft, now Solly Street, terminating at the junction of Tenter Street and West Bar. In 1851 OS map Pea Croft is located as the eastward extension of Solly Street, terminating at the junction of Tenter Street and West Bar Green.
The Crofts area of Sheffield in the mid to late nineteenth century was a grim area to say the least as explained in the following article Victorian Housing in Sheffield. See "The Archaeology of Urban Landscapes, Explorations in Slumland" (ISBN: 0521779758 / 0-521-77975-8)
Edited by Mayne, Alan Edited by Murray, Tim

Child 3: Mary EPWORTH

Name: Mary EPWORTH 2
Sex: Female
Spouse: Thomas CRESWICK ( - )
Birth 26 Dec 1778 4
Baptism 29 Jan 1779 (age 0)

Child 4: James EPWORTH

Name: James EPWORTH 2
Sex: Male
Birth 1780 2
Baptism 1780 (age 0)
Own Ref: A22
Death 1782 (age 1-2) 2
Burial 10 Jul 1782 Sheffield, Yorkshire West Riding, England

Additional Information

Burial Sheffield Churchyard,

Child 5: Ann EPWORTH

Name: Ann EPWORTH 2
Sex: Female
Birth 16 Jun 1782 2
Own Ref: A23
Death 7 Aug 1782 (age 0) 2

Child 6: Joseph EPWORTH

Name: Joseph EPWORTH 2
Sex: Male
Spouse: Hannah HINCHCLIFFE (1786?-1869)
Birth 22 Feb 1784 Sheffield, Yorkshire West Riding, England 2
Baptism 25 Mar 1784 (age 0) "Sheffield Church", Sheffield, England
Occupation (1) 1798 (age 13-14) Cutlers Apprentice; Sheffield, Yorkshire West Riding, England
Occupation (2) 1808 (age 23-24) Freemason Cutler; Sheffield, Yorkshire West Riding, England
Occupation (3) 1828 (age 43-44) "manufacturer of pen and pocket knives"; Sheffield, Yorkshire West Riding, England 5
Census (1) 6 Jun 1841 (age 55 (!)) Brightside Bierlow, Sheffield, Yorkshire, England 6
Occupation (4) 6 Jun 1841 (age 57) Publican & Cutler; Brightside Bierlow, Sheffield, Yorkshire, England 6
Occupation (5) 1841 (age 56-57) Pen knife mfr. & Victualler.; Sheffield, Yorkshire West Riding, England
Census (2) 6 Jun 1841 (age 55 (!)) Brightside Bierlow, Sheffield, Yorkshire, England 7
Occupation (6) 1841 (age 56-57) Pen & pocket knife manufacturer; Sheffield, Yorkshire West Riding, England
Occupation (7) 1841 (age 56-57) Victualler at the Bridge Inn; Sheffield, Yorkshire West Riding, England
Occupation (8) 1849 (age 64-65) Springknife Cutler; Sheffield, Yorkshire West Riding, England
Census (3) 30 Mar 1851 (age 55 (!)) Brightside Bierlow, Sheffield, Yorkshire, England 8
Monica Ref. A24
Occupation (9) 1852 (age 67-68) Springknife Cutler; Sheffield, Yorkshire West Riding, England
Death 1 Aug 1860 (age 76) 2
Occupation (10) 1862 (age 77-78) Spring Knife manufacturer; Sheffield, Yorkshire West Riding, England

Additional Information

Birth Eccleshall (Bierlow)
Sunday a quarter after Nine in the morning
Baptism 6.0.4.
1.7.8.6
1.8.5.0.
Monica thought numbers of gravestones but it also looks like life dates (REE)
Occupation (1) This could be the earliest record of an Epworth Cutler: There is a Culters Apprentice record (From the list of Cutlers in Joseph Hunters history of cutlers in Hllamshire) for 1798 of a Joseph Epworth son of Joseph Epworth, yeoman, Master John Parkin Knifemaker. http://www.she ffieldrecordsonline.org.uk/index_trades.html
Occupation (2) Freemason in 1808, From the list of Cutlers in Joseph Hunters history of Cutlers in Hallamshire
Occupation (3) near the Lead Mills
http://books.google.c o.uk/books?id=mx4vAAAAMAAJ&;printsec=frontcover&dq=sheffield&lr=& amp;as_brr=1#PPP1,M1

Search for lead mill gives Sheffield, by Porter brook, South of Browne St. (now Brown), Paternoster Row, Suffolk Road
Census (1) Bridge Inn, 1 Bridgehouses
Occupation (4) Bridge Inn, 1 Bridgehouses
Occupation (5) Bridge Inn, 1 Bridgehouses
WHITES Trade Directory 1841 Pen knife mfr. & Victualler
Census (2) Bridge Inn
Occupation (6) Bridge Inn, 1 Bridgehouses
Pigot's directory 1841
Occupation (7) Bridge Houses
Pigot's Directory 1841
Occupation (8) 22 Nursery Street
White's Directory of Sheffield 1849
Census (3) 22 Nursery Street, The Wicker
Occupation (9) 22 Nursery Street
White's Directory of Sheffield 1852
Occupation (10) 1 Joiner Lane

Child 7: Thomas EPWORTH

Name: Thomas EPWORTH
Sex: Male
Birth 1786
Own Ref: A25B
Death 1786 (age 0)

Child 8: Girl EPWORTH

Name: Girl EPWORTH 2
Sex: Female
Birth 1787 2
Death 1787 (age 0) 2

Child 9: Benjamin Hobson EPWORTH

Name: Benjamin Hobson EPWORTH 2,9
Sex: Male
Spouse 1: Mary SLATER ( - )
Spouse 2: Catherine ASTOR ( - )
Birth 20 Nov 1789 2
Own Ref: A27
Census (1) 30 Mar 1851 (age 62 (!)) Kensington, Holy Trinity Brompton, England 10
Occupation (1) 30 Mar 1851 (age 61) Solicitors managing Clerk; Kensington, Holy Trinity Brompton, England 10
Census (2) 7 Apr 1861 (age 71) Hillingdon, Middlesex, England 11
Occupation (2) 7 Apr 1861 (age 71) Retd. ..........; Hillingdon, Middlesex, England 11
Death 1862 (age 72-73) Uxbridge, Middlesex, England

Additional Information

Census (1) 22 Alexander Square, Brompton, Middlesex, England?
Census (2) Blandford House, Hillingdon
Probably: Blandford House, Ashcroft Road, MAIDENHEAD, Berkshire, SL6 6JQ
Death Found B H Epworth died 1862 in Uxbridge Benjamin Hobson Epworth
Year of Registration: 1862
Quarter of Registration: Apr-May-Jun
District: Uxbridge
County: Middlesex
Volume: 3a
Page: 9

Child 10: Alathea Babb EPWORTH

Name: Alathea Babb EPWORTH 2
Sex: Female
Birth 21 Jan 1791 2
Christening 31 Mar 1791 (age 0) Sheffield, Yorkshire West Riding, England
Own Ref: A28
Death 1853 (age 61-62)

Additional Information

Christening Cathedral Saint Peter
Batch #: K007758, Sheet #: , Source Call #: 0919419

Note on Husband: Joseph EPWORTH

Joseph Epworth, Clerk to the Rev. James Wilkinson ? Not sure if same Joseph E. Location: Sheffield Yorkshire

Title: Clerk to the Rev. James Wilkinson

Address(Es): Near Broom Hll (Hill? Hall?), Sheffield, Yorkshire

Other Office(s): Clerk to the Rev. James Wilkinson

Source Date: 1787. Source Info: Listed in A Directory of Sheffield; including the Manufacturers of the Adjacent Villages, 1787, GALES, MARTIN. Sheffield, London. Compiled & Printed by Gales & Martin; and Sold by G. G. J. & J. Robinson, Paternoster Row, London

Sources

1"From Monica Nicholson". Text From Source: Date of Import: 11 Jan 2003
From Monica, also LDS
2Ibid. Text From Source: Date of Import: 11 Jan 2003
3"Census 1841 Sheffield, Yorkshire, England (Strafforth and Tickhill (South Division))". Cit. Date: 6 June 1841.
4"From Monica Nicholson".
5John Blackwell, "Sheffield Directory & Guide, John Blackwell, 1828" (http://books.google.c o.uk/books?id=mx4vAAAAMAAJ&;printsec=frontcover&dq=sheffield&lr=& amp;as_brr=1#PPP1,M1).
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      Source: Blackwell,s Sheffield Directory 1828, JosephEpworthSheffield directory1828
 
6"Census 1841 Brightside Bierlow, Sheffield R.G. 1329 ED7 7B (From Monica's Notes)".
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      Source: Census 1841 Brightside Bierlow, Sheffield R.G. 1329 ED7 7B (From Monica's Notes), 1841Census Bridge Inn, Bridgehouses, Brightside Bierlow_JEpworth
 
7"Census 1841 Sheffield, Brightside, Bierlow RG HO107/1329/3, pages 6,7 (Joseph Epworth, Publican)".
8"Census 1851 Brightside, Bierlow, Eccleshall district R.G. 2342 35B (From Monica's notes)".
9"info from Noreen Sergovich search".
10"Census 1851 Kensington, Holy Trinity Brompton 107 1469, p33, shedule no. 123 (Hamlet of Brompton )". Cit. Date: 30 March 1851.
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      Source: Census 1851 Kensington, Holy Trinity Brompton 107 1469, p33, shedule no. 123 (Hamlet of Brompton ), Benjamin Hobson Epworth in Kensington
 
11"Census 1861 Hillingdon, Middlesex (Uxbridge)". Cit. Date: 7 April 1861.
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      Source: Census 1861 Hillingdon, Middlesex (Uxbridge), Benjamin H Epworth Kensington 1861