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John Edward WALSHAW 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.
John Edward WALSHAW and
Norah HEPPLESTONE were married on 12 Apr 1909 in Denby, Yorkshire.
Norah HEPPLESTONE
(daughter of William HEPPLESTONE and Mary Ann WHITTAKER) 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. John Edward WALSHAW and Norah HEPPLESTONE had the following children:
+681 | i. | Clara WALSHAW. |
+682 | ii. | Ronald (Ronnie) WALSHAW. |
+683 | iii. | Ruth WALSHAW. |
+684 | iv. | Kathleen (Kath) WALSHAW. |
+685 | v. | Marjorie Leonorah (Madge) WALSHAW. |
