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Norah HEPPLESTONE was born on 2 Nov 1882 in Pemberton, Wigan,
Lancashire. On her birth certificate she was registered as Norah
Heppleston but at the time of her marriage and her death she was Norah Elizabeth
Hepplestone. She lived in Penistone Union Workhouse, Penistone, Yorkshire in
1891. The Penistone Poor Law Union was formed on 27th July 1849.
For its first ten years, the new union operated without a workhouse. Then in
1859 a new workhouse was built on a sloping site at the west side of Huddersfield
Road to the north of Penistone. The architects were Henry F Lockwood and William
Mawson. The porter's lodge, board room, master's office, bed-sitting rooms for
the resident porter and clerk, and a receiving ward were located in a building
at the north-west of the site. This is where the three children were received.
The main building had a cruciform layout with an octagonal hub with short wings.
Males were accommodated at the west, and females at the east. George went one
way and the girls went the other. The rear wing contained the dining room and
kitchen. Day rooms and the laundry block were located behind. An isolation hospital
stood at the east of the site and a small mortuary at the north. A vagrants'
block lay along the roadside at the west, with a piggery situated to the south.
Much of the workhouse grounds were cultivated as a kitchen garden to grow food
for use in the workhouse. In 1871, the workhouse accommodated 95 inmates including
41 males and 29 females aged over sixteen, 17 boys and 8 girls. At the 1881 census,
there were 97 in residence plus 14 vagrants and 5 staff - Master and Matron,
porter, school teacher and nurse. In 1891 there were 53 adults and 16 children
under 14 and 6 staff. George, Norah and Lydia were three of the children. In
1901 she was a Domestic Servant in Silkstone, Yorkshire. She lodged
with her brother Joseph at the Whittaker's household (her mother's brother, his
wife, Kate, and their family. However she was not given much food and when Kate
went to market with the eggs Norah used to take the opportunity to cook a couple
of eggs for herself. She also then went around the neighbourhood asking for work.
An older woman took her in, fed her up and trained her to cook in return for
doing all the housekeeping. She died of a coma and diabetes on 3 Mar 1950 in
Ingbirchworth, Yorkshire. She was described as suffering from diabetes.
As there was no free health care Norah's diabetic problems were a drain on the
family resources as doctors had to be paid. The children remember many times
when the bills could not be paid in full. When the collector came around each
week the family hid behind the sofa until he had gone away.
Norah HEPPLESTONE
and John Edward WALSHAW were married on 12 Apr 1909 in Denby, Yorkshire.
John Edward
WALSHAW (son of Edward WALSHAW and Ann TAYLOR) was born on 26 Feb 1881 in
Ingbirchworth, Yorkshire. He was christened on 7 Apr 1890 in St.
John's Church, Denby, Yorkshire. In 1901 he was a Labourer in a
Steel Works in Penistone, Yorkshire. He died of myocardial failure
and aortic regurgitation on 12 Jul 1951 in Sheffield, Yorkshire.
Norah HEPPLESTONE and John Edward WALSHAW had the following children:
+149 | i. | Clara WALSHAW. |
+150 | ii. | Ronald (Ronnie) WALSHAW. |
+151 | iii. | Ruth WALSHAW. |
+152 | iv. | Kathleen (Kath) WALSHAW. |
+153 | v. | Marjorie Leonorah (Madge) WALSHAW. |
