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William Hindmarsh 1819
William was born at Belsay Barns, Bolam, Northumberland; however, soon after his birth, both his mother and father died. Margaret, his mother, died in 1820, and Percival, his father, died in 1821. This left William and his older brother, Percival, 1812, orphans, and they were either taken in by their Uncle, their father's brother, William, a grocer in Alnwick, or could have been taken in by their father's surviving sister Jane, who had married John Anderson of Birdhope Crag.His uncle, William the Grocer, had died in 1838 and soon afterwards his sister Jane Anderson
William marries Frances Wilkinson in February 1841, and in the 1841 Census, they are both shown living in Clayport Street, Alnwick.
William spends some time in Alnwick building up a business as a grocer/tea dealer, and there are many references to his business in the Newcastle Courant of the day. He also acts as surety for his brother Percival when he moves from Newfoundland to Australia as a Customs Officer, ie Tide Waiter -
"£500 sureties given by William Hindmarsh of Alnwick, Tea Dealer, and John Dodds, of London, Gentleman"
William and Frances lived in Alnwick for some years and have 5 children there. William also acted as an insurance agent for some years for the Life Association of Scotland from 1850. There was a bad outbreak of cholera in the late 1840s, and many people died in Alnwick. And William may well have found that the population was so depleted that there was insufficient trade, and so expanded into insurance. In addition, the loss of so many people must have brought home to the surviving population just how important it was to insure against an early death of the bread-winner.
The depletion of the population of Alnwick probably made William question whether there was any future in continuing as a grocer in a town with such a small population, and so by 1851, he looked further afield and joined the Prison Service. In the 1851 Census, Frances is shown as being at Bondgate Without, Alnwick, staying with her parents, where William and Frances' daughter Frances was born. William is not with Frances at Bondgate Without, he is shown as being at St Clement Danes in Middlesex, where he is shown as a lodger with occupation Grocer. By 1852, he had already worked at Pentonville Prison, and by 1853, they had moved to Dartmoor, where they had 4 more children.
William and Frances' Family
Husband:William HindmarshBirth: 1819 Belsay Barns, Bolam, Northumberland
Death: 09 Oct 1882 379 Scotland Rd, Liverpool, England
Marriage:05 Feb 1841 Alnwick, Northumberland, England; His occupation is grocer. His father is a Farmer, hers a Gardener. Witnesses are William Duncan, gentleman and Isabella Duncan.
Wife: Frances Wilkinson
Birth: 08 Mar 1819 35 Bondgate Without, Alnwick, Northumberland, England
Death: 10 Dec 1896 379, Scotland Rd, Liverpool, England
Children:
Percival Hindmarsh
Birth: Jun 1842 Alnwick, Northumberland, England
Death: Sep 1871 Shropshire, United Kingdom
Mary Ann Hindmarsh
Birth: Abt. 1844 Alnwick, Northumberland, England
Marriage: 1873 Whitchurch, Shropshire
Spouse: James Alfred Balshaw Rev
Jane Hindmarsh
Birth: Jun 1847 Alnwick, Northumberland, England
Elizabeth Hindmarsh
Birth: Mar 1849 Alnwick, Northumberland, England
Marriage:24 Sep 1883 Westminster Road Congregational Church, Liverpool by Rev JA Balshaw brother-in-law of Elizabeth
Spouse: Thomas Avery
Frances Hindmarsh
Birth: 01 Apr 1851 35 Bondgate Without, Alnwick, Northumberland, England
Death: 1934 West Derby, Lancashire, England
Spouse 1:Francis Bengough Jones (24 Jul 1879 1 Gloucester St, Kensington, Victoria, Australia)
Spouse 2:John Jones (08 Apr 1886 Melbourne, Victoria, Australia; She married her dead husband's brother which would have been illegal in UK.)
Margaret Elenor Hindmarsh
Birth: Sep 1853 Princetown; Lydford, Devon, England
Death: 06 Nov 1922 32 Balliol Rd Bootle, West Derby, Lancashire, England
William Young Hindmarsh
Birth: 28 Aug 1855 Princetown, Devon, England
Death: 11 Mar 1927 Ryde, Hornsbyshire, NSW, Australia
Marriage:1886 Maryborough, Victoria, Australia
Spouse: Jannetta Lloyd
Isabella Hindmarsh
Birth: 04 Aug 1857 Princetown, Devon, England
Death: 1945
Annie Ellen Hindmarsh
Birth: Mar 1860 Princetown, Devon, England
Marriage:27 Oct 1892 Westminster Congregational Church, Liverpool; Thomas Evan Hughes of (Owen Hughes and Co of Brownlow Hill)
Spouse: Thomas Evan Hughes
William worked at Pentonville Prison as a steward or stockman. He then transferred to Dartmoor prison from Pentonville in March 1853, where they had 4 more children.
Mr Hindmarsh of the Pentonville prison is to be transferred to be steward at Dartmoor Prison"
In 1857, William sells his Grocers Shop back in Alnwick (see advert from Newcastle Courant) and then in 1859, he is involved in the paperwork required when his brother Percival Hindmarsh, 1812, the Customs man, dies young in Australia. William inherits about £1300, the whole of Percival's estate.
In Dartmoor, the family lived with a governess and servants. Broadmoor Hospital opened in about 1863, and William transferred to work there in 1866, replacing a Mr Duncan, the acting Steward.
House of Commons Parliamentary Papers
Report of the directors of convict prisons of the discipline and management of Pentonville, Millbank, and Parkhurst Prisons, and of Portland, Portsmouth, Dartmoor, Chatham, and Brixton Prisons, with F..., 1866
"...changes took place during the year : Mr. Duncan, the acting steward, was transferred to Pentonville on promotion, and was succeeded by Mr. Hindmarsh from Dartmoor prison. Mr. Howitt, schoolmaster, was transferred to Woking prison, and succeeded by......."
[http://www.connectedhistories.org/Search_results.aspx?kw=hindmarsh&pc=pentonville&sr=pp]
By 1868, however, William Hindmarsh had been pensioned off despite only being in his late 40s.
Estimates for civil services 1869-70 (I.-VII.) Class I. Public works and buildings., 1868
"BROADMOOR CRIMINAL LUNATIC ASYLUM: Compensation Allowances : Hindmarsh, William; Taylor, John Acting Steward"
[http://www.connectedhistories.org/Search_results.aspx?pc=Broadmoor&st=80&sr=pp]
The fact that this is referred to as a compensation payment does make me wonder whether he was pensioned off early as a result of injury.
By the 1871 Census, William and Frances are living at 28 St Johns Road, Bootle, with 1 of their children, Percival, aged 29, who is unmarried and a Clerk, and Frances' sister Elizabeth Wilkinson, aged 54, unmarried and a former ladies' maid. She had been a lady's maid to the Mitford family for many years, living in Edinburgh and Kent with them. Percival, at some time after the census, went to Shropshire and died there in the 3rd quarter of 1871.
William and Frances' children had a great deal of independence, and in 1871, all of the daughters were either running or attending a school at 30 Dodington Street, Whitchurch, Shropshire:
Mary Ann Hindmarsh 27 Schoolmistress
Jane Hindmarsh 24 Assistant schoolmistress
Elizabeth Hindmarsh 22 (Living with Aunt)
Fanny Hindmarsh 20 Assistant schoolmistress
Margaret E Hindmarsh 17 (Living with Aunt)
Isabella Hindmarsh 13 Scholar
Annie E Hindmarsh 11 Scholar
Their Aunt and her daughter are listed:
Jane Dixon 40 (Frances Wilkinson's sister)
Mary Jane Dixon 12
Mary Ann Hindmarsh - At the time of the 1871 Census, Rev James Balshaw was a lodger at 2 Doddington St, Whitchurch, Shropshire, and subsequently Mary Ann and James married in Whitchurch in 1873. They spent 9 years in Australia from 1884 to 1894 with their son Frank Balshaw, born in 1880.
Jane Hindmarsh in 1881 was working as a schoolmistress in Ulverston, Lancashire. She remained unmarried and by 1901 was living in Scotland Road with her sister.
Elizabeth Hindmarsh married Thomas Avery in 1883 at Westminster Road Congregational Church, Liverpool and was married by Rev JA Balshaw, her brother-in-law. They had a daughter born in 1892, Frances Margaret Avery and spent their married life in the Midlands.
Margaret Elenor Hindmarsh remained unmarried and was living with her parents in 1881 Census and by the 1891 Census was living at 379 Scotland Road with her widowed mother as a Hosier/Haberdasher. In 1901, she is recorded as being at Cerne Abbots with her sister Mary Ann and James Balshaw; however, by 1911, she is back in Bootle, Liverpool, living with some of her sisters.
Isabella Hindmarsh also remains unmarried and is living with her parents in the 1881 Census.
Hindmarsh Haberdashers, 379 Scotland Road
In the 1881 Census William and Frances are living at 379 Scotland Road, Liverpool, where the business is described as a Hosier's, they are there with 2 daughters, Margaret and Isabella and their son William Young Hindmarsh, as well as Frances' sister's daughter Mary Jane Dixon:William Hindmarsh 63
Frances Hindmarsh 62
Margaret Hindmarsh 27
William Y. Hindmarsh 25
Isabella Hindmarsh 23
Mary Jane Dixon 23 (niece)
William Hindmarsh, the father, dies in October 1882 of angina at only 63 years old and leaves £596 15s to Frances, his wife, of 379 Scotland Rd, Liverpool.
By the 1891 Census, Frances has been widowed for 9 years and is now living with 3 unmarried daughters and still running the Hosiery Business at 379 Scotland Road;
Frances Hindmarsh 72
Margaret Elenor Hindmarsh 37
Isabell Hindmarsh 33
Annie Ellen Hindmarsh 31
Annie Ellen Hindmarsh marries quite late at 32 to Thomas Evan Hughes, 1892, at Westminster Congregational Church, Liverpool. His husband is Thomas Evan Hughes of (Owen Hughes and Co of Brownlow Hill), who is a Timber Merchant. They have a daughter, Winifred Olwen Hughes. In 1901, they are shown staying with her sister Frances at 48 Rumney Road, Kirkdale, Lancashire, England. By 1911, they are living at 26 Balliol Rd, Bootle cum Linacre, Lancashire, near Isobella at 32 Balliol Road.
Frances, the mother, dies in December 1896, aged 77, of "old age and debility, bronchitis", and she leaves £2728 with probate to Jane & Isobel Hindmarsh.
By the 1901 Census, Isabella, age 43, is Head of the household at 377/379 Scotland Road and now has her unmarried sister Jane, age 54, living with her, plus some of her sister Frances' children and her sister Elizabeth's daughter:
Isabella Hindmarsh 43
Jane Hindmarsh 54
William H Jones 18
John S Jones 11
Frances A Jones 9
Frances M Avery 8
Her nephew William H Jones (her sister Frances' child) is now an apprentice in the Timber Trade, no doubt working with Thomas Hughes, her sister Annie's husband.
At some point, Isabella sells the Hosiery business at 379 Scotland Road and moves to 32 Balliol Road, Bootle, before the next census in 1911. She is still working, however, as a Hosiery and Smallwear Dealer, and her unmarried sisters Jane and Margaret still live with her. Now, however, her sister Frances is living with her too. Frances' 3 children, William H, John S and Frances Adelaide are still living with Isabella.
Isabella Hindmarsh 55
Jane Hindmarsh 63
Margaret E Hindmarsh 59
Frances Jones 61
William H Jones 27
John Sydney Jones 21
Adelaide Jones 19
Sarah Plested 25 Servant
William H is still in the Timber Trade, and John Sydney is now training as a Draper's Assistant.
William Young Hindmarsh
William Young Hindmarsh was, I believe, named after his father but also after his father's mother, Margaret Young, who died whilst William, his father, was still a baby.William Young Hindmarsh, in 1881, lived with his parents in Liverpool and was a Hosier; however, in September 1882, he travelled to Melbourne, Australia, on the Wairarapa from Greenock, no doubt to support his sister Frances, who by that time was finding life in Australia difficult. William Y Hindmarsh, at age 30, marries Janetta Lloyd in Maryborough, Australia, in 1886 and is married by his brother-in-law, Rev James Balshaw, who travelled to Australia in 1884 with his family for 9 years. William Y does not return to England and goes on to have 5 children with Janetta:
Percival Hindmarsh 1887 - 1967
William L Hindmarsh 1889
Frances Isobel Hindmarsh 1891 - 1898
Ellen Margaret Hindmarsh 1893
Ruth Hindmarsh
William Young Hindmarsh died in 1927 after 45 years spent in Victoria, Queensland and NSW, Australia. His son, Percival Hindmarsh, becomes a teacher and goes on to become a very popular and respected headmaster in Australia.
Interestingly, there are some common threads developing here: Tailors/Dressmakers and Teachers. The current descendants have skills in both those areas, so quite a good argument for nature over nurture.
William Young's family is mentioned as one of the founding families of Australia, and I will come back to that at some point; however, now I proceed with Frances Hindmarsh, daughter of William Hindmarsh and Frances Wilkinson.
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