Tracing family roots back to Derbyshire, Ireland and the Isle of Man.

... a collection of notes about my family history - for a book one day (?) The order is not particularly logical, they are created as and when I think about something; hopefully the labels will facilitate searching. The blog is not about absolute accuracy and validation, but it is not fiction - however I might speculate now and again.

Monday 9 April 2007

The Beginning (in the middle)

In 1872 (I think), John Hall who was born in Brassington in Derbyshire in 1840, married Ellen Margaret Stephen who was born in Ballaugh in the Isle of Man in 1843. They were married in Wigan! What brought them together and what had brought them to Wigan?
These two people are my great grandparents, and they are buried in Weaste Cemetry in Salford - one day I need to go and find their gravestone.
John was a SADDLER by trade or in some Census Returns, he is listed as HARNESS MAKER - probably one and the same thing.
Ellen was a HATTER. Her parents had worked as Hatters in the Isle of Man; a cottage industry that was failing and so they moved to England. Initially they went to Cockermouth in Cumbria in the late 1840s and appeared there in the 1851 census. By 1861 they were living and working in Stockport at a famous Hat Making Institution called CHRISTIES.

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