Family of Joseph Tom EPWORTH and Margaret Ethel SKINNER

Husband:	Joseph Tom EPWORTH (1885-1965)
Wife:	Margaret Ethel SKINNER (1887-1974)
Children:	Monica Margaret EPWORTH (1915-2002)
	William Edward EPWORTH (1917-1974)
Marriage	4 Jun 1913	Sheffield, Yorkshire West Riding, England

Additional Information

Marriage

St Andrews Church, Sharrow Residence at time:Joe (Clerk), 50 Burcot Road, Meersborough, Margaret 3 Grange Crescent Rd Cert No, 94 Reg Eccleshall B., Vol 9c , p 597 Residence at time:Joe unreadable "30 Burcot Road, Meersborough????", Margaret "3 Graye Crescent Rd" Cert No, 94, possible date is 7th not 4th? Reg Eccleshall B., Vol 9c , p 597

Husband: Joseph Tom EPWORTH

	Joseph Tom EPWORTH, 1913, age 27, Wedding_JTEpworth_MESkinner

Name:	Joseph Tom EPWORTH 1,2,3
Sex:	Male
Nickname:	Joe
Father:	Joseph EPWORTH (1855-1907)
Mother:	Amy MOSS (1860-1951)
Birth	17 Oct 1885	Sheffield, Yorkshire West Riding, England 3
Census (1)	5 Apr 1891 (age 5)	Sheffield, Yorkshire West Riding, England 4
Census (2)	31 Mar 1901 (age 15)	Sheffield, Yorkshire West Riding, England 5
Census (3)	2 Apr 1911 (age 25)	Sheffield, Yorkshire West Riding, England 6
Occupation (1)	2 Apr 1911 (age 25)	Clerk (Municipal), Sheffield Corporation; Sheffield, Yorkshire West Riding, England 6
Residence (1)	bef 4 Jun 1913 (age 27)	Sheffield, Yorkshire West Riding, England
Residence (2)	btw Jun 1913 and 2 Oct 1915 (age 27-29)	Sheffield, Yorkshire West Riding, England
Title	1914 (age 28-29)	Mens Singles Champion, Brentwood Tennis Club; Sheffield, Yorkshire, England
Residence (3)	btw 1915 and 1918 (age 29-33)	Dronfield Woodhouse, Derbyshire, England
Occupation (2)	Aug 1917 (age 31)	Commercial Clerk
Occupation (3)	1917 (app) (age 31-32)	Poultry business; Dronfield Woodhouse, Derbyshire, England
Residence (4)	aft 1918 (age 32-33)	Sheffield, Yorkshire West Riding, England
Occupation (4)	23 May 1920 (age 2 (!))	woollen merchant
Residence (5)	btw 1922 and 1936 (age 36-51)	Sheffield, Yorkshire West Riding, England
Occupation (5)	1925 (age 39-40)	Draper; Sheffield, Yorkshire West Riding, England
Residence (6)	1936 (age 50-51)	Sheffield, Yorkshire West Riding, England
Own Ref: A48
Occupation (6)		Hosier etc; Sheffield, Yorkshire West Riding, England
Death	31 Mar 1965 (age 79)	Sheffield, Yorkshire West Riding, England 7
Burial	3 Apr 1965	Sheffield, Yorkshire West Riding, England

Additional Information

Birth	64 Glover Road, Eccleshall (Bierlow) "Born 12.55 (noon) pm" in pencil on Birth Certificate "Born 12.55 (noon) pm" pencil on Birth Cert
Census (1)	65 Glover Road
Census (2)	65 Glover Road, Eccleshall (Bierlow) Commercial Clerk
Census (3)	50 Burcot Road, Meersbrook
Residence (1)	50 Burcot Road, from Marriage cert
Residence (2)	Sandford Grove Road, Nether Edge
Title	Brentwood Tennis Club
Residence (3)	Wreaks House, Dronfield Monica told me that both she and William were born at Wreaks House Dronfield (1915 & 1917 respectively). This does not fit, perhaps only William was. She also said that her father Joseph Epworth kept chickens there. I know absolutely nothing more except that they lived elsewhere before they married in 1913, and had moved elsewhere in Sheffield by 1918.
Occupation (2)	Christening of Son
Occupation (3)	Wreaks House
Residence (4)	Brentwood Avenue
Residence (5)	108 Brincliffe Edge Road not sure the 1922
Occupation (5)	108 Brincliffe Edge Rd Kelly's Sheffield Trade Directory Index
Residence (6)	No. 4 The Causeway, Dore
Occupation (6)	Epworth & Hall Ltd. Also Bunneys (Hoisery) Limited, Shops at end of The Moor and Exchange Street, & Castleford certainly from 1955 onwards (earliest I remember) Also Bunneys (Hoisery) Limited, Shops at end of The Moor and The Wicker?? certainly from 1955 onwards (earliest I remember)
Death	Cause: "1(a) Gastric Carcinoma" Address: 4 The Causeway, Dore Village
Burial	Dore Christ Church, Dore Village Died at 4 The Causeway, Dore

Wife: Margaret Ethel SKINNER

Name:	Margaret Ethel SKINNER 3
Sex:	Female
Nickname:	Num
Father:	William Edward SKINNER (1857-1910)
Mother:	Harriet BADGER (1858-1925)
Birth	30 Jun 1887	Burton Agnes, Near Bridlington, Yorkshire, England 3
Census (1)	31 Mar 1901 (age 13)	Sheffield, Yorkshire West Riding, England 8
Residence (1)	1911 (age 23-24)	Ecclesall Bierlow, Sheffield, Yorkshire West Riding, England
Census (2)	2 Apr 1911 (age 23)	Ecclesall Bierlow, Sheffield, Yorkshire West Riding, England 9
Occupation (1)	2 Apr 1911 (age 23)	at home; Ecclesall Bierlow, Sheffield, Yorkshire West Riding, England 9
Residence (2)	bef 1913 (age 25-26)	Sheffield, Yorkshire West Riding, England
Occupation (2)		Seamstress, Home Maker, Reader of Philosophy
Monica Ref.		A49
Death	7 Feb 1974 (age 86)	Sheffield, Yorkshire West Riding, England
Burial	Feb 1974	Dore, Sheffield, England

Additional Information

Birth	Registered in July 1887, Vol 9d, p 345
Census (1)	44 Wostenholme Road
Residence (1)	3 Grange Crescent
Census (2)	3 Grange Crescent Road, Sharrow
Residence (2)	3 Grange Crescent Road, from M. Cert
Death	in Middlewood Hospital Death reg. District Wortley, Vol20 p2036
Burial	Dore Christ Church, It was raining, her son in law Oswald Nicholson (Nick), nearly slipped into the open grave as she was being laid to rest, saying in his broad Yorkshire accent: "Eh up Grandmother, I thought I were comin' to join thee!"

Child 1: Monica Margaret EPWORTH

	Monica Margaret EPWORTH, Monica Epworth at Work

Name:	Monica Margaret EPWORTH 3
Sex:	Female
Birth	2 Oct 1915	Dronfield Woodhouse, Derbyshire, England
Residence (1)	to 1936 (age 20-21)	Sheffield, Yorkshire West Riding, England
Residence (2)	1960 (app) (age 44-45)	Sheffield, Yorkshire West Riding, England
Occupation	btw 1960 and 1990 (age 44-75)	Sculptor, Ceramic animals; St. Ives, Cornwall, England
Residence (3)	bef 1970 (age 54-55)	St. Ives, Cornwall, England
Death	23 Jun 2002 (age 86)	Hayle, Cornwall, England
Cremation	1 Jul 2002 (age 86)	Truro, Cornwall, England

Additional Information

Birth	Wreaks House,
Residence (1)	Brincliffe Edge Road
Residence (2)	4 Laverdine Way, Totley Address on W O Nicholson, Stainless Steel fabrications
Occupation	The Cavalier Studios, Digey, First had a stall in the sloop market
Residence (3)	Menhyr Drive Carbis Bay
Death	Cause: Bronchopneumonia, Address: Bonaer Nursing Home 16.15 BST

Child 2: William Edward EPWORTH

Name:	William Edward EPWORTH 3,10,11
Sex:	Male
Nickname:	Bill
Birth	17 Aug 1917	Sheffield, Yorkshire West Riding, England 12,13
Residence (1)	1918 (app) (age 0-1)	Dronfield Woodhouse, Derbyshire, England
Baptism	23 May 1920 (age 2)	Ecclesall Bierlow, Sheffield, Yorkshire West Riding, England
Residence (2)	1930 (app) (age 12-13)	Sheffield, Yorkshire West Riding, England
Residence (3)	1935 (app) (age 17-18)	Dore, Sheffield, England
Occupation (1)	btw 17 Nov 1939 and 14 Nov 1945 (age 22-28)	Royal Air Force Flying in Wellington Bombers. Aircrew and Gunnery Instructor later in the war Served in Egypt at one time
Residence (4)	1945 (app) (age 27-28)	Sheffield, Yorkshire West Riding, England
Occupation (2)	1946 (age 28-29)	Maker of plastic items; Dore, Sheffield, England
Occupation (3)	btw 1947 and 1955 (age 29-38)	Cutler; Sheffield, Yorkshire West Riding, England 10
Residence (5)	1953 (app) (age 35-36)	1 Mercia drive, Totley, Sheffield, Yorkshire, England
Occupation (4)	1957 (app) (age 39-40)	Blacksmith; Dore, Sheffield, England
Death	23 Oct 1974 (age 57)	Bamford, Derbyshire, England
Cremation	btw 23 Oct 1974 and 7 Nov 1974 (age 57)	Sheffield, Yorkshire West Riding, England

Additional Information

Birth	Note from Monica said Bill born at Brentwood, Brincliffe avenue? could be Brincliffe Close, Brincliffe Crescent, Brincliffe Gardens , Brincliffe hill or Brincliffe Edge Birth Registered: William E, Mothers maiden name Skinner, District Chesterfield, Vol 11b, page 1274 Father Commercial Clerk Reg date 28 Sep 1917, from Williams Birth Cert
Residence (1)	Wreaks House
Baptism	All Saints Church, Eccleshall
Residence (2)	108 Brincliffe Edge Road
Residence (3)	4 The Causeway
Occupation (1)	Squadrons: 15, 38 Ops.& then 10 Air Gunnery School, Training Command Service No. 943953?
Residence (4)	54 Trap Lane, Bents Green
Occupation (2)	Started business making items in coloured polycarbonate: combs (sawcut), serviette rings, letter openers
Occupation (3)	Matilda Street? J T Epworth & Sons cutlery business was started by regularly meeting a man who met cutlers at the end of Carver Street. William Edward Epworth & Larry Fulton then set up on their own. They worked together from 1946 to 1954/5 Supplied cutlery to Selfridges & John Lewis', and exported to Australia
Occupation (4)	Epworth Steel Fabricators, High Street After cutlery business folded and brief time selling comptometers. Made many wrought iron gates etc. Also made stainless steel doorstep protectors sold by Nick and Peter Butler. Epworth Steel Fabricators. The mention of Mr Gill's geese brought back many memories, I was terrified of them. I think that my father Bill Epworth was the steel fabricator mentioned, unless Mr Woodhouse was there before him. He worked in a now demolished building at the back of the "new" row of shops below The Devonshire Arms. The geese used to attack him, and their own reflections in his car hubcaps! My grandparents lived in Dore from the early Twenties and my Dad's first business there was in a building behind the Methodist Church, in the 1940s, making plastic combs and serviette rings. He then went on to be a cutler and it was only later, in the late Fifties and early Sixties that he worked in Dore again, making wrought-iron gates and repairing farm machinery etc. He made some gates for my Grandparents who lived on The Causeway. The design featured "branches of leaves", the leaves being made of copper. I think that the idea was that as it aged, the copper leaves would turn green with Verdi Gris, but last time I saw the gates, they had been painted all over and I think they've now gone. From Gill Warburton (nee Epworth)
Death	Cause: Myocardial Infarction. (a sudden Heart Attack at home) Address: 1 Ashopton Drive Intestate, left £18,139 gross, (£17,993 net), Ina got most of it by stealth.
Cremation	in Sheffield crematorium, Gill knows which Service held at church in Bamford. Not sure whether cremated in Sheffield

Note on Husband: Joseph Tom EPWORTH (1) - shared note

Monica said that His father died when he was just 13 years old, but dates suggest he was 22 (JTE Born 1885 his dad died 1907 according to Monicas sheet)

 

He had to work to keep family through the depression.

He was a good Sprinter when young.

He kept the family, worked at Sheffield town hall, and studied hard.

He taught himself to play the violin, used to play to his wife's sisters.

Good artist, had a few cartoons published in the Sheffield paper.

Painted a good copy of the famous lute player oil painting for sister Ella's wedding

 

Good tennis player, played with wife Margaret Ethel, Possibly at Eccleshall Tennis club.

 

Enjoyed smoking herbal cigarettes

Note on Husband: Joseph Tom EPWORTH (2) - shared note

Epworth Cutlery business - 1946 to 1954/5. William Epworth jointly ran a small cutlery business in Sheffield with another man (Larry Fulton), from approx 1947-1955. It was being sold at Selfridges until 1955 at least. The business was called JT Epworth and Sons. Work colleague Larry Fulton, wife Marjorie, son Gavin went to Birkdale, born 1946-1950. Gill Warburton believes that Marjorie was the woman who painted gold decoration onto glassware at Bills cutlery works. Larry stood as prospective Conservative? candidate for Penistone North.

Prior to the cutlery business, he had a plastics business from the war's end, possibly also with Larry. It was based in Dore village.

 

Where was the works? Matilda Street, Sheffield

 

Epworth cutlery business was started by regularly meeting a man who met cutlers at the end of Carver Street. Then they set up on their own. They worked together from 1946 to 1954/5. Joseph Tom Epworth helped finance his son William in starting the business, but had no day to day involvement despite the "JT Epworth & Sons" stamp.

Note on Husband: Joseph Tom EPWORTH (3) - shared note

Epworth Cutlers: There have been several cutlers in my Epworth family since the late 1700s, starting with my Great Great Grandfather Joseph Epworth 1784-1860, and all living in Sheffield, Yorkshire, England. I am a blood relative of the following Epworth Cutlers:

Joseph Epworth 1784-1860 Cutlers Apprentice in 1798, probably the first, as his father was a Yeoman

John Epworth 1777-? Cutler

Joseph Epworth 1815-1883 Spring Knife Cutler (may have been the J of JT Epworth& Sons)

Thomas Epworth 1826-1899 Cutler (may have been the T of JT Epworth& Sons)

Samuel Hobson Epworth 1808-1886 Spring Knife Cutler

Mary Ann Hobson Epworth 1817-1899

Thomas Epworth 1860-? Pen Knife Cutler

Joseph Epworth 1855-1907 Cutler

William Edward Epworth 1917 1974 Cutler

 

Richard Epworth 1945-........

 

My grandfather (Joseph Tom Epworth) had never been a cutler, though he may have been intended to follow in his fathers footsteps (Joseph Epworth 1855-1907), rather than becoming a clerk and a businessman (hosiery). He helped his son William E Epworth set up a cutlery business.

Note on Husband: Joseph Tom EPWORTH (4) - shared note

Epworth Cutlery stamps: There is a question regarding the oldest "J T Epworth" stamp on a knife. It clearly predates William Edward Epworth, and his father Joseph Thomas Epworth never was directly involved in the cutlery business. So it is most likely associated with his father Joseph Epworth 1855--1907. But why "J T" Epworth? Possibly it was Joseph and Thomas.

 

The further question is the stamp for the cutlery business of William Edward Epworth (1917-1974). This is "J T Epworth and Sons", yet I Richard Epworth am William's only son, just as he was Joseph Thomas Epworth's only son. Probably it was to continue the original business name (though there was no continuity), and "Sons" meant descendants.

 

I (Richard Epworth) have a collection of cutlery, mostly made by my father William (Bill) Edward Epworth, I have just one solitary knife from my Great grandfather's cutlery business Joseph Epworth (1855-1907).

 

"JT Epworth and Sons" was always a bit of a puzzle to me as my father's father was Joseph Tom Epworth, but he only had one son William (my father). It appears that the JT Epworth name originally came from the cutlery business of my Great Grandfather Joseph Epworth (1855-1907),and his brother Thomas Epworth (b 1860). The "J" and the "T" being the two brothers respectively.

 

My grandfather (Joseph Tom Epworth) had never been a cutler, though he may have been intended to follow in his fathers footsteps (Joseph Epworth 1855-1907), rather than becoming a clerk and a businessman (hosiery).

 

"Epworth" trade stamps.

Variations in the stamps.

"JT.Epworth & Sons' " (note no fullstop between J&T, and the apostrophe at the end)

"J.T.Epworth & Sons"

"J.T.Epworth & Son" (note the singular Son here)

"Epworth & Son"

"Epworth"

 

Update November 2009 by Richard Epworth

It has been brought to my attention that cutlery exists with the stamp: "Epworth EPNS A1", with a registration number which would give a date of 1926!

 

I checked the canteen of modern Epworth cutlery that I have and the date comes out as 1953, entirely feasible.

Joseph Epworth 1885 - 1907 was dead then, perhaps his brother Thomas b 1860, d unknown???

(But see the note on Joseph Epworth 1885 - 1907 regarding questions of his death date.)

The mystery deepens as the mark is simiar to several others that I have.

Note on Wife: Margaret Ethel SKINNER (1) - shared note

Went deaf at 12, had a succession of hearing aids with increasing technology. Father went deaf too, after Margaret

Note on Wife: Margaret Ethel SKINNER (2)

Birthplace in 1911 census as:Burton Fleming Hummanty Yorks. Probably Hunmanby near Filey, Yorks

Sources

1	"Page added to The Amazing Exercise Book by Joseph Thomas Epworth".

2	Richard Epworth, "Glover Road Addresses, Sheffield".

3	"From Monica Nicholson". Text From Source: Date of Import: 11 Jan 2003

4	"Census 1891 Sheffield, Yorks, England RG12/3809 Fische 2 F55 (Joseph Epworth)".

5	"Census 1901 65 Glover Road, Eccleshall (Bierlow), Sheffield, England RG13_Pc-4355_Fo-82_Pg-27 (Joseph Epworth)".

	Source: Census 1901 65 Glover Road, Eccleshall (Bierlow), Sheffield, England RG13_Pc-4355_Fo-82_Pg-27 (Joseph Epworth), 1901Census_65and67_GloverRoad_RG13_Pc-4355_Fo-82_Pg-27

6	"Census 1911 Sheffield, Yorkshire, England". Cit. Date: 2 April 1911.

	Source: Census 1911 Sheffield, Yorkshire, England, JT_EPWORTH_50Burcot_Road_C1911

7	"Joseph Tom Epworth Death Certificate IC 247447 No. 493".

8	"Census 1901 Sheffield, Yorkshire West Riding, England". Cit. Date: 31 March 1901.

9	"Census 1911 Ecclesall Bierlow, Sheffield, Yorkshire, England RG14PN27829". Cit. Date: 2 April 1911.

	Source: Census 1911 Ecclesall Bierlow, Sheffield, Yorkshire, England RG14PN27829, SKINNER MARGARET ETHEL Mother Harriett_C1911

10	"MyTotalFile.FTW". Text From Source: Date of Import: Sep 22, 1998

11	"PeaceSp.FTW". Text From Source: Date of Import: 11 Jan 2003

12	"William Epworth Birth Certificate, District Chesterfield, Subdistrict Dronfield, No.429, Reg sept 28th 1917". Text From Source: Date of Import: Sep 22, 1998

13	"William Edward Epworth_1917-1974_CV".