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This part of my family tree is the most recently researched. Information from my gran, Ada May Rothwell, told me that her mother was Alice Ada May Worsley, born on 30 March 1893, possibly in Canada. It is probable that the Worsleys lived in Canada at some point around the turn of the century, but a copy of Alice's birth certificate told me otherwise. She had, in fact, been born in Bootle.
The Worsleys do not seem to have travelled far. James Worsley, is currently my earliest ancestor on this branch, and he came from Lowton in Lancashire. He was thirty one when he married Sarah Tinker at the Cathedral in Manchester on 5 January 1842; Sarah, from Salford, was just twenty-two. A year after the marriage, a son named James Edwardson Worsley was born in Lowton. Sarah Ann followed, christened on 13 May 1846. The next child was Alice, born in 1848, then Ellen, who was baptised on 4 Oct 1848. John was the second son, born in 1850, and three years later Ralph Leigh Worsley was born. Finally, Elizabeth was baptised on 17 Nov 1854 in Lowton.
There is a possibility that James (1811) had been married before his wedding to Sarah. The 1841 census for Lowton shows a James, aged thirty, living with twenty year old Ellen Worsley at Rookery Fold. James is described as a cotton spinner. However, it may be that Ellen was in fact his sister. A decade later, James and Sarah lived on School Lane, Lowton, with four children and four servants - a cook, a housemaid, a general servant and one with an illegible job description. James was a master cotton spinner at this time, and extra notes above the occupation column tell the viewer he was employing 14 men, 9 women, 16 boys and 13 girls.
The 1861 census only describes James Worsley as a cotton spinner but then adds that he employed "160 hands". The family lived at Mill Bank in Lowton, where he also employed a governess from Oswestry named Charlotte Hughes. Cecily Stringman, the family cook from ten years before, still worked for them. Curiously, the other two servants in the house were both named Elizabeth Gregson, one aged 20 and one 25.
Sarah Worsley died in c. 1865, and James moved with his family to Lowton Grove. By 1871, he had become a commission agent, son James Edwardson was a law student, John was a mechanical draftsman and Ralph worked as a merchant's apprentice. Sarah, the only sister still at home, is described only as a spinster. They continued to employ Cecily Stringman as well as fourteen year old Elizabeth Webster.
Ellen married paper manufacturer Ferguson Mason (b. 1828 in Limerick, Ireland) in 1870, and they, with Ellen's sister Elizabeth, can be found the following year, visiting William and Margaret Newton at Broad Walk, Buxton, Derbyshire. Elizabeth was, however, back home with her father James, sister Sarah and brother Ralph for the next census, of 1881. James remained in employment at seventy years old, a general agent, and Ralph was also an agent - for a cotton merchant. The two sisters are described as annuitants and Ralph is described as being married.
A year earlier, he had married Susan Darwell, aged twenty-five, from Southport. She was living with her mother at the time of the census. James Edwardson Worsley (b. 1843) was also married. His wife was Paulina Alice Parker (1846- c.1900), born in Cumbria. After their wedding in 1874, they had six children, all with quite long names.
Edward Geoffrey Parker Worsley was the eldest, born in Winwick in 1876. Two years later, Mary Olivia Frances was born. Helena Isabella Beatrice arrived in 1879, Hugh Ottiwell Leigh followed in 1880, Paulina Agnes Sophia was born in 1883 and the youngest child was Katherine Avice Joyce, born late in 1886. Interestingly, the census enumerator for 1891 chose to record the full names of the entire family (in very small writing), so I can tell from the original page that they lived at Winwick Cottage and that James was a solicitor and coroner. James Edwardson Worsley died in 1899 and on the census that followed two years later, his wife Paulina is named simply as "Mrs. Worsley" and no occupation is given. All of her children remained at home, where the family employed a sick nurse, a domestic cook and a housemaid.
Ralph and Susan Worsley moved to Birkdale, living at 20 Oxford Road in 1891. Eldest son Charles Leigh Worsley (1882) is described as being born in Belford, Northumberland, but the other children had been born in Birkdale. There was also Alice Darwell Worsley (1883), Ralph Stanley Worsley (1885), George Norman Worsley (1887) and James Harrison Worsley (born about November of 1890). Ralph and Susan employed a nurse governess, a cook and a housemaid.
A gathering place for my dad's side of the family would appear to be Aughton, near Ormskirk, in Lancashire. No matter who came from where, they all seem to have migrated in the same direction, and Ralph was no exception. Described as a widower in 1901, he lived with Alice, Charles and James at Granville Park in Aughton. Ralph remained a cotton merchant and son Charles was a cotton broker's apprentice. A search of the deaths index of England and Wales showed that Susan died in the first three months of 1900. Her death was registered in Ormskirk.
John Worsley was probably the most elusive of James and Sarah's children. Indeed, the only proof he married into the Willday family is in three documents. A marriage certificate for 26 August 1890 shows that forty year old John Worsley, an engineer of 20 Dale Street, Liverpool and the son of a deceased cotton spinner named James, married twenty three year old Ada Willday, a spinster daughter of county court bailiff Edward Willday who lived at 34 Hamilton Square, Birkenhead. Interestingly, the marriage took place at Liverpool Register Office by Licence. It seems that a marriage by licence was quicker than a marriage by banns, but Ada was not pregnant.
UPDATE(11/12/2006) - Ada and John Worsley have now been located in 1891, living at 18 Rowett Street, Walton on the Hill. In that same year, Ursula her mother is named as Ada, while Ada herself is named as Edith (which could be explained by her name being misheard). John is described as a draughtsman, aged 40, born in Newton le Willows, Cheshire. Ada, we see, was born in the city of Worcester, and the couple are lodging with forty year old Mary Flynn, a single woman from Liverpool.
On the eleventh of May 1893, Ada registered the birth of their daughter Alice Ada May. Baby Alice had been born at 57 Rimrose Road, Bootle on the thirtieth of March. Ada described her husband as a marine engineer in the merchant service. This may explain why John was missing from the 1901 census, which locates Ada and Alice (known as May on the document) at 34 Prescot Road, Melling, Lancashire. Perhaps John's absence meant Ada had to become the provider of the family because she has an occupation - market gardener. The exact date of John's death is unknown, but in 1910 Ada remarried to Edward Sherman and had a daughter, Ursula Ellen (Ursey) on 25 October that year. On the fifteenth of February, five years later, Alice Ada May married Fred Rothwell of Aughton.
It is believed that John Worsley died in Canada before 1910 (at least, that was the year in which his wife Ada Worsley remarried to Edward Sherman, producing daughter Ursula Ellen "Ursey" later in the year).
The other Worsleys seem to have a definite link with Canada. Whether this arose through their work in the cotton trade is unclear, but in the second half of the nineteenth century several of them moved in and out of the country. Ralph visited the American continent several times:
Arrived in New York 5 Sept 1885 on the Germanic from Liverpool
Arrived in New York 30 Sept 1887 on the Britannic from Liverpool
Arrived in New York 23 Sept 1889 on the Alaska from Liverpool
Arrived in New York 14 Oct 1896 on the Majestic from Liverpool
Arrived in New York 15 Feb 1905 on SS Baltic from Liverpool
Similarly, Ralph's son Charles Leigh Worsley and daughter Alice Darwell Worsley arrived together in Los Angeles on 5 May 1929. They had sailed on the Pacific President, which left from Manchester. Three years to the day later, Charles and Alice returned again, this time to San Francisco on the Pacific Grove. Immigration records suggest that they were visiting a "friend" - one R.S. Worsley. (It would seem that this was their brother, Ralph Stanley.)
George Norman Worsley, brother of Charles and Alice, settled in Canada. Born on 13 May 1887, he lived to the age of eight-five, dying in British Columbia on 12 Jun 1972. George arrived there much earlier in life. When arriving in New York from the Columbia on 30 Aug 1919, he was described as a Canadian citizen, on his way to Armstrong, also in British Columbia. He was a land surveyor who could read and write and had also lived in Salmon, B. C.
He married twenty-nine year old Margaret Pelly of Armstrong on 15 Feb 1932 (she died fifty-four years later) and had at least one child - Charles Pelly Worsley. Born on 10 Feb 1934, Charles married Pauline Greville Jones and both died in 1994 in Cobble Hill, Canada.
The Worsleys do not seem to have travelled far. James Worsley, is currently my earliest ancestor on this branch, and he came from Lowton in Lancashire. He was thirty one when he married Sarah Tinker at the Cathedral in Manchester on 5 January 1842; Sarah, from Salford, was just twenty-two. A year after the marriage, a son named James Edwardson Worsley was born in Lowton. Sarah Ann followed, christened on 13 May 1846. The next child was Alice, born in 1848, then Ellen, who was baptised on 4 Oct 1848. John was the second son, born in 1850, and three years later Ralph Leigh Worsley was born. Finally, Elizabeth was baptised on 17 Nov 1854 in Lowton.
There is a possibility that James (1811) had been married before his wedding to Sarah. The 1841 census for Lowton shows a James, aged thirty, living with twenty year old Ellen Worsley at Rookery Fold. James is described as a cotton spinner. However, it may be that Ellen was in fact his sister. A decade later, James and Sarah lived on School Lane, Lowton, with four children and four servants - a cook, a housemaid, a general servant and one with an illegible job description. James was a master cotton spinner at this time, and extra notes above the occupation column tell the viewer he was employing 14 men, 9 women, 16 boys and 13 girls.
The 1861 census only describes James Worsley as a cotton spinner but then adds that he employed "160 hands". The family lived at Mill Bank in Lowton, where he also employed a governess from Oswestry named Charlotte Hughes. Cecily Stringman, the family cook from ten years before, still worked for them. Curiously, the other two servants in the house were both named Elizabeth Gregson, one aged 20 and one 25.
Sarah Worsley died in c. 1865, and James moved with his family to Lowton Grove. By 1871, he had become a commission agent, son James Edwardson was a law student, John was a mechanical draftsman and Ralph worked as a merchant's apprentice. Sarah, the only sister still at home, is described only as a spinster. They continued to employ Cecily Stringman as well as fourteen year old Elizabeth Webster.
Ellen married paper manufacturer Ferguson Mason (b. 1828 in Limerick, Ireland) in 1870, and they, with Ellen's sister Elizabeth, can be found the following year, visiting William and Margaret Newton at Broad Walk, Buxton, Derbyshire. Elizabeth was, however, back home with her father James, sister Sarah and brother Ralph for the next census, of 1881. James remained in employment at seventy years old, a general agent, and Ralph was also an agent - for a cotton merchant. The two sisters are described as annuitants and Ralph is described as being married.
A year earlier, he had married Susan Darwell, aged twenty-five, from Southport. She was living with her mother at the time of the census. James Edwardson Worsley (b. 1843) was also married. His wife was Paulina Alice Parker (1846- c.1900), born in Cumbria. After their wedding in 1874, they had six children, all with quite long names.
Edward Geoffrey Parker Worsley was the eldest, born in Winwick in 1876. Two years later, Mary Olivia Frances was born. Helena Isabella Beatrice arrived in 1879, Hugh Ottiwell Leigh followed in 1880, Paulina Agnes Sophia was born in 1883 and the youngest child was Katherine Avice Joyce, born late in 1886. Interestingly, the census enumerator for 1891 chose to record the full names of the entire family (in very small writing), so I can tell from the original page that they lived at Winwick Cottage and that James was a solicitor and coroner. James Edwardson Worsley died in 1899 and on the census that followed two years later, his wife Paulina is named simply as "Mrs. Worsley" and no occupation is given. All of her children remained at home, where the family employed a sick nurse, a domestic cook and a housemaid.
Ralph and Susan Worsley moved to Birkdale, living at 20 Oxford Road in 1891. Eldest son Charles Leigh Worsley (1882) is described as being born in Belford, Northumberland, but the other children had been born in Birkdale. There was also Alice Darwell Worsley (1883), Ralph Stanley Worsley (1885), George Norman Worsley (1887) and James Harrison Worsley (born about November of 1890). Ralph and Susan employed a nurse governess, a cook and a housemaid.
A gathering place for my dad's side of the family would appear to be Aughton, near Ormskirk, in Lancashire. No matter who came from where, they all seem to have migrated in the same direction, and Ralph was no exception. Described as a widower in 1901, he lived with Alice, Charles and James at Granville Park in Aughton. Ralph remained a cotton merchant and son Charles was a cotton broker's apprentice. A search of the deaths index of England and Wales showed that Susan died in the first three months of 1900. Her death was registered in Ormskirk.
John Worsley was probably the most elusive of James and Sarah's children. Indeed, the only proof he married into the Willday family is in three documents. A marriage certificate for 26 August 1890 shows that forty year old John Worsley, an engineer of 20 Dale Street, Liverpool and the son of a deceased cotton spinner named James, married twenty three year old Ada Willday, a spinster daughter of county court bailiff Edward Willday who lived at 34 Hamilton Square, Birkenhead. Interestingly, the marriage took place at Liverpool Register Office by Licence. It seems that a marriage by licence was quicker than a marriage by banns, but Ada was not pregnant.
UPDATE(11/12/2006) - Ada and John Worsley have now been located in 1891, living at 18 Rowett Street, Walton on the Hill. In that same year, Ursula her mother is named as Ada, while Ada herself is named as Edith (which could be explained by her name being misheard). John is described as a draughtsman, aged 40, born in Newton le Willows, Cheshire. Ada, we see, was born in the city of Worcester, and the couple are lodging with forty year old Mary Flynn, a single woman from Liverpool.
On the eleventh of May 1893, Ada registered the birth of their daughter Alice Ada May. Baby Alice had been born at 57 Rimrose Road, Bootle on the thirtieth of March. Ada described her husband as a marine engineer in the merchant service. This may explain why John was missing from the 1901 census, which locates Ada and Alice (known as May on the document) at 34 Prescot Road, Melling, Lancashire. Perhaps John's absence meant Ada had to become the provider of the family because she has an occupation - market gardener. The exact date of John's death is unknown, but in 1910 Ada remarried to Edward Sherman and had a daughter, Ursula Ellen (Ursey) on 25 October that year. On the fifteenth of February, five years later, Alice Ada May married Fred Rothwell of Aughton.
It is believed that John Worsley died in Canada before 1910 (at least, that was the year in which his wife Ada Worsley remarried to Edward Sherman, producing daughter Ursula Ellen "Ursey" later in the year).
The other Worsleys seem to have a definite link with Canada. Whether this arose through their work in the cotton trade is unclear, but in the second half of the nineteenth century several of them moved in and out of the country. Ralph visited the American continent several times:
Arrived in New York 5 Sept 1885 on the Germanic from Liverpool
Arrived in New York 30 Sept 1887 on the Britannic from Liverpool
Arrived in New York 23 Sept 1889 on the Alaska from Liverpool
Arrived in New York 14 Oct 1896 on the Majestic from Liverpool
Arrived in New York 15 Feb 1905 on SS Baltic from Liverpool
Similarly, Ralph's son Charles Leigh Worsley and daughter Alice Darwell Worsley arrived together in Los Angeles on 5 May 1929. They had sailed on the Pacific President, which left from Manchester. Three years to the day later, Charles and Alice returned again, this time to San Francisco on the Pacific Grove. Immigration records suggest that they were visiting a "friend" - one R.S. Worsley. (It would seem that this was their brother, Ralph Stanley.)
George Norman Worsley, brother of Charles and Alice, settled in Canada. Born on 13 May 1887, he lived to the age of eight-five, dying in British Columbia on 12 Jun 1972. George arrived there much earlier in life. When arriving in New York from the Columbia on 30 Aug 1919, he was described as a Canadian citizen, on his way to Armstrong, also in British Columbia. He was a land surveyor who could read and write and had also lived in Salmon, B. C.
He married twenty-nine year old Margaret Pelly of Armstrong on 15 Feb 1932 (she died fifty-four years later) and had at least one child - Charles Pelly Worsley. Born on 10 Feb 1934, Charles married Pauline Greville Jones and both died in 1994 in Cobble Hill, Canada.
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Hello im also a worsley and i wonder if we are related in some way so funny if we were!
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| Anonymous | Lowton Grove. | 1 | Oct 14 2008, 8:24 PM EDT by katehurst | ||
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Im researching our old house, which was Grove House, The Grove. Lowton. I have discovered recently that the area was called Lowton Grove. We knew it was a 16 century squires house. Are you able to provide us with any more information.
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Actual date and place of death of death.
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