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CHILDREN OF GEORGE WATERHOUSE 1807 - 1885
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William
was the first born child of George and Betty.
He was baptised at the Church of St Michael and All Angels,
Ashton-under-Lyne on the
4th September, 1836.
William, like his father, was a pawnbroker. In 1864 he married Hannah Porter
and they lived first at
33 Wharf Street, Dukinfield and then at 7 Crawford Street, Cockbrook,
Ashton-under-Lyne.
William and Hannah had five children:
Edward
born 1867 and married to Mary,
CHILDREN:
Dorothy born 1899 in Pendleton
Wilfred born 1900 in Oldham
Elsie born 1901 in Manchester
Mary
Jane born 1872
George
1874-1898
Anna
1877-1939
Alfred
born 1881
William died aged 56 years
on the 28th February, 1892.
He is buried in St Peter's Churchyard, Hope with his paternal grandparents,
John and Betty Waterhouse.
Memorial Inscription pertaining to William
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Elizabeth
was baptised at St Michael and All Angels Church, Ashton-under-Lyne on the
21 May, 1837.
She had died before 1841.
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Mary Hannah
was born on the 26th August, 1848
and baptised at St Michael and All Angels, Ashton-under-Lyne on the 24th
September, !848.
There is no record of Mary Hannah's birth being registered in the Civil
Registration Index.
From various census returns, we learn that Mary Hannah had some kind of
disability. On these documents she is
labelled with the unfortunate term " imbecile ".
After the deaths of her parents, Mary Hannah's widowed sister-in-law, Sarah
Elizabeth Waterhouse, and her family moved in
with her at 6 Chapel Street, Stalybridge.
Mary Hannah died aged 61 years in 1909 and is buried with her parents and
brother Edward at Old Chapel, Dukinfield.
Memorial Inscription pertaining to Mary
Hannah
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