So what was I saying about reminding me to remember? Here's what else I just dug up. Mary Lever ws definitely an unmarried mother. Here's her daughter's birth and marriage details: Date - 8 May 1840 Where - Hag Gate, Briercliffe Name - Tabitha Lever Sex - Girl Father - ---------------------- Mother - Mary Lever Occupation of Father - ------------- Informant - The mark of Mary (x) Lever, mother of Haggate, Briercliffe Registered - 18 June 1840 Registrar - Thomas Sutcliffe, Registrar
When - 25 August 1860 Where - The Register Office, Burnley Groom - Henry Burrows, 27years, widower, cotton power loom weaver of Haggate, Briercliffe Bride - Tabitha Leaver, 20yrs, spinster, cotton power loom weaver of Haggate, Briercliffe Grooms father - Henry Burrows, cotton twister Brides father - ---------------------- Witnesses - Thomas Burrows and the mark (x) of Margaret Nuttall
A couple of years ago my tree got badly scewed up and I had to restore it from a back-up. Not everything got restored and these bits are obviously some of what didn't. (They're on again now tho).
Also here's what I posted 12/6/08, with regard to Tabitha's likely father.
"I'm sure I've been down this road before as I recognise some of the details I've just unearthed. Tabitha appears on 1851 at Haggate with her grandmother. Trouble is it's a poor image and the names of her and her grandmother have been mis-transcribed.
Piece: 2251; Folio: 104; Page: 15 Haggate Mary Rackser*, head, wid, 67, born Briercliffe Tabatha Davis,** gr'daur, 12, born Briercliffe Alen*** Lord, daur, 25, handloom weaver cotton, born Briercliffe James Lord, son-in-law, 28, handloom weaver cotton, born Briercliffe James Lord, gr'son 1 , born Briercliffe John Lord, gr'son 4 , born Briercliffe Robert Lord, gr'son 2days, born Briercliffe
*this should read 'Jackson' **this should read 'Leaver' ***This should read 'Ellen' So it looks like the father of Mary's child was a Jackson.
The Jackson family are at Haggate in 1841 with a 20-year old Tabatha, so that's obviously where the name came from
I only know it's Jackson because I looked up the son-in-law's marriage to find his wife's maiden name, then looked up the Jacksons on 1841 to make sure there was a family there that fit the bill. On this one occasion I don't blame the transcriber!"
I've followed Mary through the censuses to 1881 In 1871 she's still with Matthew Green, living at Ash Hole Burnley. He dies in 1877, In 1881 she's living on her own at Haggate as a washerwoman. There's a death in 1882 of a Mary Leaver aged 69. I've been through all my Mary Leavers, and all the Leaver wives called Mary and none of them fit this death so it may be her.
I note that on the censuses where Mary and Matthew are together, she sometimes describes herself as unmarried, and sometimes a widowed. He on the other hand always puts 'married' So maybe they were and maybe they were in fact 'living tally' And yes, I'll definitely keep her on my tree. She's a challenge.
|