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to view a picture of the person183. William MILNES was born on 9 Aug 1807 in Denby, Yorkshire. He was christened on 6 Sep 1807 in St. John's Church, Denby, Yorkshire. In 1841 he was a Joiner in Denby, Yorkshire. He died about 1849 in Denby, Yorkshire.
William MILNES and Nancy HARGREAVES were married
on 31 Oct 1836 in High Hoyland, Yorkshire. They lived in Upper Denby,
Yorkshire in 1841. In 1841 William and Nancy lived with their surviving
child, Alfred, aged 6 months. The family was transcribed as Milner.
After William's death in 1849 Nancy married John Kilner later in the year.
The Kilner Family John's parents were William Kilner (c.9 March 1788 Denby
son of William; bur.12 June 1862) and Jane Biltcliffe (c.22 March 1789 Cumberworth
daughter of Thomas and Sarah Biltcliffe). William and Jane had married at Penistone
church on 15 March 1812 and had had eight children, all christened at Denby.
Their children were Ann (b.31 July 1812; c.31 July 1812), Mary (b.1 May 1815;
c.27 June 1815), John (b.29 March 1818; c.6 July 1818), Sarah (b.23 January
1821; c.5 August 1821), James (b.11 July 1824; c.5 June 1825; d.1 January 1832),
Charles (b. 9 December 1828; c.26 July 1829) and twin girls Elizabeth and Jane
(b.3 June 1831; c.1 January 1832). William was a fancy weaver in Upper Denby
in 1841 and he and Jane had their children Mary (a straw bonnet maker), John,
Sarah and Charles (all fancy weavers) and Jane and Elizabeth at home. They also
had their granddaughter Sarah Eliza Kilner (b.3 May 1838; c.30 September 1838
Denby; Mary's illegitimate daughter) living with them.
By 1851 William was 63 and "formerly weaver now ag. labourer" and in
his household he had Charles (fancy waistcoat weaver), Eliza (house maid at home)
and his granddaughter Sarah Eliza (errand girl). They lived next door to his
son John and his wife Nancy.
In 1851 John was a shopkeeper and farmer in Denby and he and Nancy had her children
Mary, Hannah, Rowena and Ellen with them. They had four more children, all christened
at Denby Church. They were John (b.1 June 1851; c.14 September 1851), Charles
William (b.4 November 1854; c.21 March 1855), Ann (b.21 February 1856; c.9 August
1857) and Jane Elizabeth (b.3 February 1860; c.8 April 1860; buried 22 August
1861 aged 16 months at St. John's Church, Denby).
It was a close-knit family as John's sister Elizabeth Kilner had married Thomas
Birkhead (b.1811 Cawthorne) in 1852 and they also lived in Denby and Thomas worked
as a blacksmith. Their three eldest children had all been christened in Denby
church. Their children were Jane (b.22 June 1852; c.1 May 1853), Henry (b.4 March
1855; c.9 December 1855), Kilner (b.18 September 1857; c.11 July 1858) and Charles
(b.1860). By 1871 the family had moved away from Denby (sometime after John (b.1862)
was born. From 1871-1901 they lived in Brownhill Row, Hunshelf, Yorkshire and
Thomas worked as a blacksmith and then a whitesmith. When Elizabeth was widowed
she lived in the same house with her son John and daughter-in-law Clara and their
family.
John and Nancy stayed in Denby and in 1871 John and Nancy had in their household
her children Mary and Rowena, their children Charles and Ann plus two grandchildren,
Mary E. Milnes (b.1865 Sheffield) and Ervin/Irvine (b.4 August 1870; c. 20 November
1870 Denby). Mary was the mother of Mary Elizabeth and Rowena was Ervin's mother.
In 1870 John and Nancy's elder son John had married Harriet Matthews (b.1851
Shepley). They had eight children, all christened at Denby - John (b.4 September
1870; c.20 November 1870; bur.21 June 1871), Aurette Jane (b.8 April 1872; c.21
July 1872), Charles (b.22 October 1873; c.12 September 1875), Emily (11 May 1875;
c.12 September 1875), Florence (b.10 February 1877; c.1 April 1877), Nellie (b.19
November 1878; c.17 November 1878; bur.13 September 1893), Percy (b.27 January
1881; c.13 March 1881), Joseph William (b.20 January 1883; c.4 February 1883)
and Elsie Marion (b.11 January 1887; c.28 August 1887). Their youngest daughter
Eveline Nancy was born in 1888 in Deepcar, Yorkshire. In 1871 John and Harriet
and their 7 month old son John lived with her parents (Joseph and Nancy Matthews)
and her 9 siblings at their 100 acre farm at Papist House, Denby. In 1881 they
lived in their own home in Denby with their children and a domestic servant.
John was a grocer and a farmer of 5 acres. By 1891 they had moved from the village
to Sheffield and lived at 184 Ellesmere Road. By 1901 they had moved down the
road to number 91 and had two boarders.
In 1876 John and Nancy's younger son, Charles William, had married Selina Marsh
(b.1856). They probably went to live with his parents as he worked with his father.
In 1877 John Kilner died and was buried at St. John's Church, Denby on 18 July
and Nancy continued to live with Charles William and his family until her death
in 1884. By 1881 he was classed as the head of the household and had two daughters
(christened in Denby) Edith (b.3 October 1877; c.31 March 1878) and Janey (b.23
November 1879; c.28 December 1879). He was a farmer of 37 acres in Denby and
had a farm servant and a domestic servant living at the farm. Beatrice was born
on 25 March 1882 (c.23 April 1882) and then Charles and his family went to Denby
Dale to the Prospect Hotel, Wakefield Road and Charles was classed as an innkeeper
when his next two children were christened:- John William (b.2 August 1884; c.30
November 1887) and Ethel (b.23 December 1886; c.30 November 1887). His youngest
children were Thomas (b.31 August 1889) and Anne (b.7 June 1892). (In 1891 the
family was transcribed as Kelner.) By the time these two youngest children were
christened on 27 April 1901 his wife Selina had died (in 1900) and he was classed
as "late innkeeper" on the Baptismal Record. However in March 1901
he and his family were still at the Prospect Hotel.
Ethel Kilner married Thomas Moxon and had two children. She died in Upper Denby
in 1976.
Anne Kilner married Herbert Naylor and had a daughter.
Nancy HARGREAVES was born about 1814 in Cumberworth,
Yorkshire. She died about 1884 in Denby, Yorkshire.
She was buried on 17 Aug 1884 in St. John's Church, Denby, Yorkshire.
William MILNES and Nancy HARGREAVES had the following children:
286 | i. | Ann MILNES was christened on 26 Feb 1837 in High Hoyland, Yorkshire. She was buried on 26 Feb 1837 in High Hoyland, Yorkshire. She was born about 1837 in Denby, Yorkshire. She died about 1837 in Denby, Yorkshire. |
287 | ii. | Henry MILNES was born about 1838 in Denby, Yorkshire. He died about 1838 in Denby, Yorkshire. He was christened on 2 Dec 1838 in High Hoyland, Yorkshire. He was buried on 2 Dec 1838 in High Hoyland, Yorkshire. |
288 | iii. | Alfred MILNES was born on 23 Nov 1840 in Denby, Yorkshire. He was christened on 6 Apr 1841 in St. John's Church, Denby, Yorkshire. |
+289 | iv. | Mary MILNES. |
+290 | v. | Hannah MILNES. |
+291 | vi. | Rowena MILNES. |
292 | vii. | Ellen MILNES was born on 3 Aug 1849 in Denby, Yorkshire. She was christened on 30 Sep 1849 in St. John's Church, Penistone, Yorkshire. She was christened with her sister Rowena. In 1872 she maried Fred Charlesworth and their children were John (1873), Ann (1874), Harriet (1876), Dora (1880) and Annie (1882). |
