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to view a picture of the person44. William HEPPLESTONE was born on 13 Feb 1847 in Hoylandswaine, Yorkshire. In 1861 he was a Pit Boy in Silkstone, Yorkshire. He lived in Coates Green, Oxspring, Yorkshire in 1871. In 1871, William was a lodger with the Innkeeper, John Thawley, and his family. In 1871 he was a Coal Miner in Thurgoland, Yorkshire. In 1884 he was a Coal Miner in Silkstone, Yorkshire. He died of 'probably disease of the chest' on 26 Nov 1884 in Black Horse Yard, Silkstone Common, Silkstone, Yorkshire. The cause of death was arrived at after an Inquest on 29th November 1884. It is probable that Samuel Lockwood was his father.
William HEPPLESTONE and Mary Ann WHITTAKER lived in Coates Green, Oxspring,
Yorkshire in 1871. They were married on 4 Dec 1871 in Barnsley, Yorkshire.
They lived in South Yorkshire Buildings, Silkstone Common, Silkstone, Yorkshire
in 1881. Soon afterwards the family moved to Wigan where Norah was
born in 1882. They then moved back to Silkstone where Lydia was born in 1884.
Was William too ill to work by this time? In the November of 1884 he died. After
William's death Mary had obviously fallen on hard times. She had a family of
seven children. George, Norah and Lydia went in the Workhouse. By 1891, Joseph
and Jane were working and lived with relatives in Yorkshire. Mary Ann and her
children Benjamin and Mary Elizabeth went to Wigan. It is there that Mary's illegitimate
daughter Catherine was born in 1889. Mary Ann's mother was a Dunstan and she
certainly had to rely on family for help with her children. She then had another
two daughters within two years.
Joseph and Norah went to live with her brother Joseph Whittaker. Family relationships
were rather complicated as Joseph Whittaker's wife, Kate, was her father's sister
Kate Hepplestone (b1869).
Mary Ann WHITTAKER (daughter of William WHITTAKER
and Phoebe DUNSTAN) was born about 1854 in Hoylandswaine, Yorkshire.
Mary Ann was one of seven children born to William Whittaker (b1825, d1889),
a Colliery Fireman, and Phoebe Dunstan (b1831, m1850, d1890). The family lived
in Silkstone from at least 1851. Mary Ann was the third eldest and she married
William Hepplestone (b1847) whilst her youngest brother, Joseph (b1867), married
Kate Hepplestone (AKA Lockwood), William's youngest sister. In 1871 she was
a General Servant in Top o th' Town, Honley, Huddersfield, Yorkshire.
In 1890 she was a Wagon Filler at a Colliery in Aspull, Lancashire.
After William's death, Mary Ann was left to fend alone for her seven children
who were aged between six months and ten years. Life was hard for widows. There
was little work for women, and women with small children were severely restricted
in what they could do to earn enough money to survive. She had no real choices.
She could not stay in Black Horse Yard and she could not keep the family together.
In a desperate attempt to keep them all from the dreaded workhouse she had to
ask their relatives for help. Her husband's brother, Walter, who was a miner
in Silkstone took ten year old Joseph as he was old enough to work as his hurrier.
Her mother's sister, Grace, and her husband Matthew Peck took seven year old
Jane. They lived nearby in Thurgoland and had eight children. Jane would be a
help in the home. Mary Ann knew that there was work at the pit tops in Lancashire.
Wigan was the centre of the Lancashire coalfield and there were a thousand pit
shafts within five miles of the town. She could stay with another of her mother's
sisters, Sarah Ann, and her husband Thomas Hart in Whelley and she could get
work at the pit top. Benjamin was eight and he would be able to earn and Mary
Elizabeth was nearly five. Sarah would look after her during the day but she
couldn't cope with the youngest three children. Mary Ann took George, 3, Norah,
2, and the baby Lydia to the workhouse in Penistone and set off for Lancashire.
Mary Ann worked at the pit top or pit brow. Wigan pit brow lasses had one of
the most gruelling jobs imaginable. Their job involved picking stones and shale
from the coal on the screen before washing. They shovelled the coal and riddled
it. They loaded it onto coal wagons. It was backbreaking work. She lived in
3 Back Withington, Aspull, Lancashire in Mar 1891. At the Census
Mary Ann and her children Benjamin, Mary Elizabeth and Catherine were noted as
'Edwardson' by the Enumerator. As Mary Ann could not write he obviously had difficulty
with the Yorkshire accent. In Mar 1891 she was an Office Cleaner in Aspull,
Lancashire. In 1891 she was a Charwoman in Wigan, Lancashire.
She lived in 77 Scholes Street, Wigan, Lancashire on 10 Oct 1891.
In 1901 she was a Farmer's Housekeeper in Standish with Langtree, Lancashire.
She was buried on 28 Jun 1919 in Lower Ince, Wigan, Lancashire.
She died about 1919 in Wigan, Lancashire. She lived in 7, Cumberland
Street, Wigan, Lancashire in 1919. She lived with her son, Benjamin.
William HEPPLESTONE and Mary Ann WHITTAKER had the following children:
+74 | i. | Joseph HEPPLESTONE. |
+75 | ii. | Benjamin HEPPLESTONE. |
+76 | iii. | Jane HEPPLESTONE. |
+77 | iv. | Mary Elizabeth HEPPLESTONE. |
78 | v. | George HEPPLESTONE was born about 1881 in Silkstone, Yorkshire. He lived in Penistone Union Workhouse, Penistone, Yorkshire in 1891. |
+79 | vi. | Norah HEPPLESTONE. |
80 | vii. | Lydia HEPPLESTONE was born about 1884 in Silkstone, Yorkshire. She lived in Penistone Union Workhouse, Penistone, Yorkshire in 1891. In 1901 she was a Domestic Servant in Wigan, Lancashire. In 1901 she was a Servant in the home of Samuel Parr, a Coal Miner, whose wife was a Grocer. They all lived at 96 Ormskirk Road, Wigan. Later in life, Lydia lived at Hillsborough near Sheffield and she met up with her sisters Norah and Mary. |
81 | viii. | Catherine Hart HEPPLESTONE was born on 24 Feb 1889 in Station House, Whelley, Wigan, Lancashire. In 1891, Thomas Hart lived at the Station House, Whelley with his wife Sarah Ann. Sarah Ann had been born Sarah Ann Dunstan in Barnsley in 1852. Thomas was a Railway Pointsman from Hinde in Lancashire. Sarah's illegitimate son Colin Dunstan had been brought up by Thomas and Sarah. Colin Dunstan Hart (b1870, Barnsley) was a Stoker on a locomotive (d1897, Wigan). Sarah Ann and Thomas married in 1873 in Barnsley. It appears that Thomas and Sarah took in Mary Ann when she was due to give birth to Catherine. To show her gratitude she gave her daughter the middle name Hart. The Dunstan and Hepplestone families had close family ties as Sarah Ann's sister and her husband took in Mary Ann's daughter Jane instead of letting her go into the Workhouse after her father's death. Now back to Catherine.... She was christened on 8 Apr 1889 in Wigan, Lancashire. She lived in 3 Back Withington, Aspull, Lancashire in 1891. |
82 | ix. | Phoebe HEPPLESTONE was born in Mar 1890 in Wigan, Lancashire. Phoebe was illegitimate and had no father's name registered. She died of enteritis on 30 May 1890 in Chilver's Houses, Aspull, Lancashire. "Phoebe Hepplestone, female, 2 months, daughter of Mary Ann Hepplestone, a waggon Filler at a Colliery" Registered by the mark of Mary Ann Hepplestone, Mother, Present at the death, Chiver's Houses, Aspull. Registered on 31 May 1890 |
+83 | x. | Mary Ann HEPPLESTONE. |
