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Our Family History Our Family History The ancestors of Denise Margaret (nee Harwood) and John Stewart Plant by John Stewart Plant 2 Contents 1 Nana Denise’s ancestors 7 1.1 Harwood: Inherited Information . ....... 7 1.2 Harwood: Genealogical Research . ...... 11 1.2.1 The Stead(e) connection to Harwood . 12 1.2.2 The Bradbury and Barrat(t) connections to Harwood . ......... 13 1.3 Sharpe: Inherited Information . ....... 13 1.4 Sharp(e): Genealogical Research . ........ 16 1.4.1 Goddard.................................... 17 1.4.2 Brackenbury ................................. 18 2 Grandad Stewart’s Plant ancestors 21 2.1 Introduction.................................... 21 2.2 Our family connection to some key events in Sheffield history ........... 21 2.3 Shoemaker William’s origins and kin . ........ 23 2.3.1 Wm(shoe)’s evident father, marriage, and associates ............ 23 2.3.2 Wm(shoe)’s children and death . 24 2.3.3 Wm(shoe) at Sylvester Street and his son James . ........ 26 2.4 Grandad Stewart’s great grandfather James Plant . ............ 26 2.4.1 The Sheffield ‘Little Mester’ James Plant (1829-1904) . 26 2.4.2 Some tales of James (snr) and his children . ....... 34 2.5 Grandad Stewart’s grandfather Tom (snr) and his children.............. 38 2.5.1 Tom’ssonTom(jnr) ............................. 39 2.5.2 Other children of Tom (snr) . 41 2.6 Summary ....................................... 41 3 Rowlinsons in Sheffield 43 3.1 Historical Significance of the name Rollinson . ........... 43 3.2 Family History of Mary Rowlinson . ...... 44 3.3 AldermanEGRowlinson.. ...... ..... ...... ...... .... 45 3.3.1 HisObituary ................................. 45 3.3.2 TheRowlinsonCampus ........................... 47 4 Till Rose Bea (1868-34) 49 4.1 WRIGHT - reconstruction at 18.12.1987 . ........ 49 4.2 FRANKS - reconstruction at 18.12.1987 . ........ 51 4.3 FRANKS - reconstruction at 20.9.91 . ....... 52 4.3.1 Robert’s son Robert (1811-) . 54 4.3.2 Robert’s son John (1811-) . 54 4.3.3 John’s son Thomas (1833-) . 55 4.3.4 John’s son Henry (1836-) . 57 4.3.5 John’s son John (1837-) . 58 3 4 CONTENTS 4.3.6 John’s daughter Sarah Ann (1842-) . 58 4.3.7 John’s son Robert (1846-) . 59 4.3.8 John’s daughter Roseanna (1849-) . ..... 59 4.3.9 John’s son William (1852-) . 59 4.3.10 John’s son Benjamin (1854-) . 60 5 Ellen’s stories: Vasey 61 5.1 Inherited information . ..... 61 5.1.1 Circa George Vasey, d 1888 . 61 5.1.2 BrotherWilliam ............................... 62 5.1.3 CircaMaryHanah,d1897 . 63 5.1.4 Circa George Vasey, d 1905 . 64 5.1.5 SisterLilly .................................. 64 5.2 WidowEllenandLait............................... 64 5.2.1 DaughterAda................................. 64 5.2.2 DaughterMary ................................ 65 5.2.3 GrandsonLouis................................ 65 5.2.4 TheLaitfamily................................ 65 5.3 Genealogical Research . 66 5.3.1 Gunn(ee/ey/y) ................................ 66 6 Ellen’s stories: Sayles 67 6.1 Inherited information . ..... 67 6.1.1 TheFamilyChemistsShop. 67 6.1.2 TheSimpsonWill .............................. 67 6.1.3 Edward Sayles’s children . 69 6.1.4 Ellen’ssisterAda.............................. 70 A Our link to earlier records for the Plant surname 73 A.1 Introduction.................................... 73 A.2 Various William Plants in our family history . ........... 73 A.3 Wm(0)’s 18th century will and family . ....... 74 A.4 PlantsnearSuttonandClowne . ..... 74 A.4.1 Wm(0)’s sons Robert, James and Benjamin . ..... 76 A.4.2 PlantsfromnearBuxton . 76 A.4.3 JamesandEllenofSutton . 78 A.4.4 Wm(0)’s son, our ancestor Thomas ..................... 79 A.4.5 Thomas’s second marriage . 79 A.5 Offspring of our ancestor Thomas . ...... 81 A.5.1 SonsofThomasandAnn........................... 81 A.5.2 SonsofThomasandMary ... ..... ...... ...... ..... 81 A.5.3 Grandsons called William . 82 A.6 DeparturefromClowne. 82 A.6.1 Plants ariving in Sheffield . 83 A.6.2 A contended connection with Clowne . 83 A.7 OurfarmerThomas’ssonWm(1). 85 A.7.1 Wm(1)’sdeathinSheffield. 87 A.7.2 Wm(1)’s wife and children in Sheffield . ..... 87 A.7.3 Wm(1)’ssonThomasfromClowne . 87 A.7.4 Wm(1)’s daughter Ann from Clowne . 88 A.7.5 Wm(1)’s son Benjamin from Clowne . 91 A.7.6 A little guidance to the reader . 92 CONTENTS 5 A.7.7 Some ambiguities of birth place . 92 A.7.8 Possible travels of this family group . ....... 93 B Plants Yard Plants 95 B.1 Early owners of Ben(bellows)’s Coal-pit Lane site . ............. 97 B.2 The Little Sheffield site of Plant’s Yard . .......... 101 B.3 BricklayerJohn .................................. 104 B.3.1 The bricklayer John’s 1816 will . 104 B.3.2 An1834deed................................. 104 B.4 Ben(bellows)’s property and Plant posterity . ............ 106 B.4.1 Some pre-Enclosure Award rate books and deeds . ....... 107 B.4.2 Allotments from the 1788 Enclosure Award and our ancestor Wm(1) . 109 B.4.3 Land near the Broomhall Wheel . 110 B.4.4 DukesAllotment ............................... 111 B.4.5 TheSpurror‘SpurGart’Wheel . 112 B.4.6 Some business and family connections . 113 B.4.7 The three favoured Plant nephews in Ben(bellows)’s 1805 will . 116 B.4.8 Benjamin’s finally listed properties . ....... 117 B.5 Some offspring of Ben(bellows)’s brother James (1740-1825)............ 119 B.5.1 Two1816deeds ............................... 119 B.5.2 Four deeds of 1823 and 1824 . 119 B.5.3 Ben(carp)’s son Ben(son.of.Ben) . 121 C Austin Plant: World War I casualty 125 C.1 TheGreatWar..................................... 125 C.1.1 Historical context of Austin’s actions . ........ 125 C.2 Austin’sfirstBattle .............................. 126 C.3 Austin’sfinalBattles .... ...... ..... ...... ...... .. 126 C.4 Austin’s personal record . 129 C.5 NamesandAddresses............................... 141 C.6 FromtheMinistryofDefence . 141 D ‘Sayles’ addresses 143 D.1 TheSimpsonTrust ................................. 143 D.2 AdaGamble’sNotebook .. ...... ..... ...... ...... .... 143 6 CONTENTS Chapter 1 Nana Denise’s ancestors THE ANCESTORS OF NANA DENISE’S FATHER ERIC HARWOOD AND MOTHER EDNA SHARPE 1.1 Harwood: Inherited Information Nana Denise’s father was called Eric Harwood whose father was called Frank Harwood whose father was called Harry Harwood. Both Harry (b 1861) and Frank (b 1887) were silversmiths. Eric (b 1917) was a transport manager. Eric’s grandfather Harry Harwood is recorded in 18871 as being a silversmith sets maker of 17 Pembroke Street, Sheffield.2 Harry is said to have been born (30.11.1860) at the Stag Hotel, Psalter Lane, Sheffield3 and he died in 1924 at his home (41 Glover Road); he was described by Eric to have been ‘clean living and a good citizen’ and ‘liked walking and a drink of beer before Sunday lunch’. Harry’s wife (Eric’s grandmother) (see Figure 1.2) is believed to have been the younger sister of Joseph Stead (1850-3.1917). She was said by Eric to have ‘loved baking bread, etc.’ and she died (aged 69) in the Sheffield Royal Infirmary. Eric’s father Frank Harwood is recorded to be a projectile examiner on Frank’s marriage certificate of 1916; this became similarly a shell examiner on the 1917 birth certificate of Eric. Later, Frank was a silversmith for the company Mappin & Webb; his address (41 Glover Road4) was that of his parents in 1916 but had become 27 Woodhead Road in 1917, 1926 and at his death, in his sleep, in 1958. Frank’s daughter Nora (Eric’s sister) was still living with her father at Woodhead Road5 in 1958; her mother had died earlier there (aged 50) in 1936. Eric had an Aunt Emily and Uncle Harry at the same Glover Road address as Eric’s grandfather Harry’s as well as his father Frank’s (until Frank left there in 1916). Frank’s sister, Emily B, is recorded to be at this address (41 Glover Road) in 1924, 1931, 1936, and 1958. Frank’s younger brother Harry (jnr) served in the Royal Artillery during the 1914-18 war and died suddenly in 1963 aged 68 years; Hugh, the son of Harry (jnr), was born at the same Glover Road address and he served in the RAF Coastal Command during the Second World War 1939-45. Eric’s mother Seney Barrat Bradbury was the twin of Francis Barratt Bradbury and Seney in turn had twin children who both died. Seney was born (5.1.1886) at 23 Malvern Road, Darnall, Sheffield and was married (6.5.1916) at St Barbabas Church, Highfield. She was described by Eric 1This is on the birth certificate (1887) of Eric’s father Frank. 2Pembroke Street lies off Cemetery Road near the General Cemetery (opened in 1836) and nearly opposite the end of Washington Road. 3The Stag Hotel derived its name from the Stag’s head in the MacKenzie family crest; the Reverend Alexander MacKenzie, Vicar of St Pauls, Pinstone Street (on the site of the present Peace Gardens by the Town Hall), had inherited the nearby Sharrow Head House from his wife’s family, called Battie, in 1789 (his second wife belonged to the Wilson family of the nearby snuff mill). 4Glover Road is on the opposite side of Wolsey Road from the ‘Harwood Works (Cutlery)’ that are marked on a 1903 map as being on land between Staveley Road and Abbeydale Road; adjoining the Harwood Works was the Atlas Foundry. 5Woodhead Road is the next road but one to Harwood Street. 7 8 CHAPTER 1. NANA DENISE’S ANCESTORS Figure 1.1: Denise in 1969 and with her sister Pauline and mother in 1953. Also, Denise’s parents: Eric Harwood in 1944 and Edna (n´ee Sharpe) in 1942. 1.1. HARWOOD: INHERITED INFORMATION 9 (a) Earliest inherited information Nellie m Ernest Bates Emmie Reginald m Ernest Evans Kenneth George (jnr)
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