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The Winstanleys of the Hartlepool Headland The Winstanleys of the Hartlepool Headland Ancestors of John Seymour Winstanley (1897 – 1967) John Seymour Winstanley with Wife Laurena and Eldest Son Ronald Researched and written by his Grand-daughter Elaine Laurena Bell (2012) © 2010, Elaine Bell © 2010, Elaine Bell TABLE OF CONTENTS CHAPTER 1 - FIRST IMPRESSIONS .................................................................................................... 4 CHAPTER 2 - MISLEADING .............................................................................................................. 5 CHAPTER 3 - PERCY STANLEY ........................................................................................................ 7 CHAPTER 4 - MISSING ..................................................................................................................... 8 CHAPTER 5 - MEASLES.................................................................................................................... 9 CHAPTER 6 - THE BIBLE ............................................................................................................... 11 CHAPTER 7 - NORTHGATE ............................................................................................................. 14 CHAPTER 8 - COUNCILLOR AND ALDERMAN ............................................................................... 18 CHAPTER 9 - ST HILDA’S CHURCH ................................................................................................ 23 CHAPTER10 - CATHERINE SEYMOUR ........................................................................................... 25 CHAPTER 11 - THE FINAL PROOF .................................................................................................... 10 CHAPTER 12 - A BOX OF TREASURES ............................................................................................. 26 Appendix 1: Letters ...................................................................................................................... 29 Appendix 2: Other Documentation .............................................................................................. 38 © 2010, Elaine Bell A collection of ageing, tea-coloured letters and folded birth, marriage and death certificates. Kept safely bundled up together for a lifetime, almost forgotten. Echoes from long dead and distant relatives. These letters provide a snapshot in time of my Winstanley ancestors over 100 years ago, and are the key to tracing back further to reveal events of the past . CHAPTER 1 – FIRST IMPRESSIONS I would imagine that my Grandmother Laurena was the one who kept all of the household papers and documents filed away. These letters belonged to her mother-in-law Florence who was the recipient of most of them, and written at a time before Laurena was born. I am grateful that she kept them safe. It took time to understand the thread of each letter and to identify precisely who the sender and recipient in each was, in essence they speak of welcoming a long lost son home and of embracing into the family his hitherto unknown wife and family. (See Appendix). Dear Sister, We are all pleased to know we have a new sister and to think for so long we did not know. We were all so pleased and surprised to see our long lost brother. Mother got a terrible shock she didn’t know him, he has so altered, but of course its such a long time since we saw him, and the little ones is the greatest treat of all..... The family from Hartlepool were clearly pleased to reconnect with their son and brother after what seems like a very long absence. One of the ‘little ones’ referred to in this letter was my Grandfather John Seymour who was aged three at the time. After reading the letters repeatedly it became clear that the long lost son and brother was my Grandfathers Father Robert, this letter had been written by Roberts younger sister Alice to his wife Florence welcoming her to the family even though she had been married to him for six years already. © 2010, Elaine Bell CHAPTER 2 - MISLEADING Clearly at some point and for some reason, Robert made a journey from Sheffield where he worked as a blacksmith to Hartlepool to be re-united with his family. It seems that his wife and family stayed at home whilst he made this visit. Home at this time for my Grandfather John Seymour, his siblings and parents lived at 14 Furnace Hill in Sheffield. (Fig 1) Figure 1 - Furnace Hill, Sheffield, Circa 1900 The Census of 1901 however was confusing, there was no Winstanley family listed, but there was a family of Stanley’s all with the correct forenames, various cross-checks have proved that this is indeed the correct family, surprisingly the Census shows that my Grandfather also had a sister called Alice that none of John’s family seem to have known about. Fig 2: Extract from 1901 Census A cross-check of the Census from ten years earlier also showed a childless couple Robert and Florence Stanley. My mother remembers her father John Seymour telling her about the house on Furnace Hill. It had a steep staircase, people used to come to the house to play musical © 2010, Elaine Bell instruments and sing, John and his brother Percy amused themselves during these times by throwing a tailors dummy down the stairs onto the people below. Fig 3: Extract of 1891 Census So clearly Robert and Florence had called themselves Stanley’s for at least ten years from one Census to the next. It can also be seen that although Robert and Florence claim to be married, their marriage certificate proves that they were not married until 3 years after this Census was taken. They had misled the enumerator twice on this Census night. It may go some way in explaining these lies to learn that their first child Percy was born in 1891, the year of the Census and therefore three years before they Figure 4 - Back of Houses on Furnace Hill were married. I remember Laurena my Grandmother telling me the popular story that Robert had been so drunk when he went to register the birth of his first son that he slurred his words and couldn’t pronounce the name Winstanley properly so Percy ended up with the surname of Stanley. I ordered Percy’s birth certificate from the General Records Office to find out if this story could be true. The birth certificate gives the name of the person who has registered the birth, the ‘notifier’. Upon opening the envelope I was surprised to see that Florence was the person who had registered Percy and who had given the surname as Stanley. The facts show that the family consistently used the name of Stanley, only after Percy had been born and after Robert and Florence had been married did they begin to name their subsequent children with the Winstanley surname. The fact that Florence officially registered her first born son with an incorrect surname, a lie that she knew the child would have to bear for the rest of its life, is mystifying to me. For me it questions whether Florence was even aware that the name Stanley was false. It also indicates that at some point a ‘conversation’ must have been had which put the correct surname Winstanley back on official record from that point. What would motivate you to change your surname? Did someone make up the story about Robert being drunk in order to explain the discrepancy to the children in the future? It looked like the plan worked, but irritatingly we’ll probably never know the reason for it. © 2010, Elaine Bell CHAPTER 3 - PERCY STANLEY As Percy and John grew up and married they saw less of each other, visiting only occasionally with their families. John’s daughter Irene remembers playing in their back garden with her Cousins and their chickens. That is all we had of Percy, not a single photograph or anything else to trace him with. Out of interest I posted a couple of things on local discussion forums just to see if anyone had known the Stanley family, in particular Percy. Months later I was contacted by Kirsten Swift, Percy’s Great Grand-daughter. Kirsten had been researching her family tree and had found that she couldn’t trace any further back than Percy. Of course having a surname different to his parents had put a block on her research. We spent a lovely afternoon discussing the family and I was able to give Kirsten all of the information she needed to fill in the gaps on Percy and she shared all of the information she had gathered about Percy. Percy had clearly kept his surname and it carried on being passed to his ten children and down to successive generations. Fig - Alice daughter of Percy and Fanny Many months later however another distant relative contacted me with a picture of Percy and Fanny. It has been digitised and heavily enhanced but at least we have an image of him now. Is it fair to mention that my Grandma Laurena used to refer to Percy’s wife as ‘Fat Ass Fanny’? I mention this not to be cruel but as an example of the wicked sense of humour my Grandma had. I also defend myself by trying to record everything that is remembered of these generations of the Winstanleys and their relatives. She never held back did Laurena Winstanley, once remarking at a wedding that she couldn’t hear and ‘should have brought my knitting’. As a child I remember watching the surrounding family shaking their shoulders and trying to stifle their laughter. © 2010, Elaine Bell CHAPTER 4 - MISSING The bundle of letters reveal that Florence and the children had received a warm welcome from their in-laws in Stockton and Hartlepool, in addition to the cycling mad Alice, two other sisters Ada and Jinny had also written to Florence
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