aLittle  Family History

These pages document what I have found out about my ancestry. I was brought up in Sheffield as were my parents and grandparents, Ibbotsons and Skeltons, but only the paternal name is carried from generation to generation and there are many more families in my ancestry, most of them originating outside Sheffield. The histories show members of these families gravitating towards the city in the nineteenth century, probably driven by the increasing mechanisation of agriculture and the abundance of new jobs in the cutlery and steel industries and the coal mines in and around the city.

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Richard Ibbotson c.1801

Mary c.1806

Francis Driver c.1795

Jane Johnson c.1800

William Pearson

Mary

John Skelton 1796

Elizabeth 1801

James Peacock c.1775

Mary Clayton 1785

John Eyre 1796

Mary

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George Ibbotson 1826

Emma Cliff c.1828

William H.Gatrick c.1838

Sarah c.1836

Robert Driver c.1822

Isabella Parker 1820-1877

John Calderbank c.1808-1878

Esther Pearson c.1810-1875

William Skelton 1818

Mary  c.1817

Michael Peacock c.1825

Sarah c.1821

Joseph Eyre 1829

Christania Thompson c.1829-1870

John Ward 1821

Mary

Great Grand- Parents

George Ibbotson c.1861

Kate Helen Gatrick c.1864

Francis Driver c.1847

Ann Calderbank 1851

Job Skelton 1845-1916

Mary Peacock 1855-1925

William Eyre 1855

Selina Ward 1860

Grand- Parents

William Henry Ibbotson 1887

Isabella Driver 1889-1965

Elvin Skelton 1882-1938

Agnes Eyre 1887-1959

Parents

Harry Ibbotson 1917

Constance Skelton 1920

This is a diagram of my direct ancestry, back as far as I know. Click on the name of the person you want to start with. There are pages here about the key figures showing some notes about them, their bit of the family tree, and the (mainly census) data I found. You can click through to other relatives' pages. Places are mentioned in the people pages and you can to see where people lived on the map.

Click on the map pins or choose a place: resetBowdon Bradfield Claypole Dunham, Cheshire Dunham, Notts. East Markham Gleadless Handsworth Hollinsend Little Gringley Occupation Road Rawcliffe Salford Sutton Swinderby Tickhill Upton White Lane Whitehouse, Sheffield Wrose, Shipley When you choose a place the map will zoom and you will see an old map of the area dating from around 1900.

Agnes Eyre

born 1887, Chesterfield,  died 1959, Sheffield 

My maternal grandmother, Agnes Skelton was born in 1887 at the Old Harrow on White Lane (then in Derbyshire) to William and Selina who ran the inn. William died around five months before she was born. She had two older brothers, John Arthur and Joseph, who both went into the coal mines. I think she could have had a brother and a sister who do not appear in the censuses (see her parents' pages).

By 1901 her mother had remarried and the children were living with their mother and stepfather, James Drury, on Stanhope Street, Intake, Sheffield.

Elvin Skelton was a neighbour on the same street and married Agnes at Gleadless parish church on 2 June 1909. They lived on St Joseph's Road, Handsworth in the middle of three houses they owned. They had two children, my uncle Leslie and my mother, Constance. 

Elvin, too, was a miner and was only 56 when he was killed. He was buried in Handsworth cemetry. He had bought a row of houses in Handsworth only weeks before he died and Agnes had an income from the rent on these and her neighbours' houses.

Agnes died of cancer of the stomach in Sheffield Infirmary in 1959 and was buried alongside her husband.

William Eyre  c.1855		Selina Ward 1860-c.1953
John Arthur Eyre c.1881	Joseph Eyre c.1883		Elvin Skelton c.1882 -1938		Agnes Eyre 1887 -1959
			Leslie Skelton c.1910		Constance Skelton 1920-1987

1901 census Stanhope Road, Intake, Handsworth, Yorks.

name	position	age	occupation	born
James Drury	head	35	coal miner hewer	Gleadless
Selena Drury	wife	41		White Lane
John A Eyre	stepson	20	coal miner hewer	White Lane
Joseph Eyre	stepson	18	coal miner hewer	White Lane
Agnes Eyre	stepd't'r	14		White Lane

birth record: Apr-Jun 1887 Chesterfield vol. 7b p.751

marriage certificate: 2 June 1909 Gleadless parish church

Ann Calderbank

born 1851 at Altrincham, Cheshire

Ann Calderbank was brought up in Dunham Massey, near Altrincham, south west of Manchester. Her parents were John Calderbank, a farm bailiff, and his wife Esther. She had an older brother, James, and an older sister, also called Esther. Another member of the family was a Joseph Howarth, described in the 1861 census as a 'relative', who was still with them ten years later listed as 'grandson'. John and Esther had married in 1826 and James was not born until around 1841 so it seems likely there were earlier children and Joseph could have been brought up by his grandparents.

At the time of the 1871 census, James and Esther had left home but Ann was still living with her parents. Meanwhile, her future husband, Francis Driver, had left his family, then living in Sheffield and may have been working on a farm in Dronfield, south of Sheffield. I have no way of knowing whether he travelled into Cheshire or Ann went to find work around Dronfield, but the two met and were married late in 1872 in Altrincham.

The 1881 census has them living in Attercliffe, still, at that time, a settlement separate from Sheffield. Frank had found work making crucible pots for the burgeoning steel industry and their first son, Tom, was three years old. Twenty years later, they were at Cuthbert Bank Terrace with sons Hobart and Ralph, both labourers in the steel works, and daughters Jane, a domestic nurse, and Isabella, 11 and a schoolgirl. Isabella would meet William Ibbotson, my grandfather, whose family lived around the corner. Isabella's birth was registered in Manchester, though the family seem to have stayed in Sheffield. It may be that Ann had spent some time with family back in Cheshire or Lancashire.

	John Calderbank c.1808-1878			Esther c.1810-1875
James Cald'bank c.1841	Esther Cald'bank c.1848		Francis Driver c.1847		Ann Calderbank c.1851
		Hobart Driver c.1884	Ralph Driver c.1885	Jane Driver c.1887	Isabella Driver c.1890

1871 census Wash Way, Timperley, Altrincham, Cheshire

name	position	age	occupation	born
John Calderbank	head	63	farm bailiff	Bowdon, Cheshire
Esther Calderbank	wife	62		Dunham Massey, Ches.
Ann Calderbank	daughter	20		Dunham Massey, Ches.
Joseph Howarth	grandson?	22	railway engine cleaner	Timperley, Cheshire

1881 census 5 Livingstone Road, Attercliffe cum Darnall, Sheffield

name	position	age	occupation	born
Francis Driver	head	33	pot maker - steel crucibles	Swinderby, Lincs
Ann Driver	wife	29		Dunham, Cheshire
Tom Driver	son	3		Sheffield, Yorks

1901 census 135 Cuthbert Bank Road, Nether Hallam, Sheffield

name	position	age	occupation	born
Frank Driver	head	54	crucible pot maker	Swinderby, Lincs
Ann Driver	wife	49		Sale, Cheshire
Hobart Driver	son	17	furnace labourer	Sheffield, Yorks
Ralph Driver	son	16	furnace labourer	Sheffield, Yorks
Jane Driver	daughter	14	domestic nurse	Sheffield, Yorks
Isabella Driver	daughter	11		Manchester

marriage record: Oct-Dec 1872 Altrincham vol.8a p.266

The Calderbank Family 

great, great grandparents

My great grandmother, Ann Calderbank was the daughter of John and Esther Calderbank. John Calderbank was born around 1808 in Bowden, Cheshire. This was a rural area and John worked on the land. He married Esther Pearson in 1826 at Bowden. Esther was a young bride and the couple had twelve children over the next 25 years, Ann being the youngest. In the 1841 census they were living in Dunham Massey, close by Bowden, with the first eight of their children. They do not reappear until the 1861 census which has them at Black Brook Farm, Dunham Massey when all the older children had probably left home or died young but younger ones were still at home. Living with the family was twelve-year-old Joseph Howarth, described as a relative. In the next census he is listed as a grandson, so it seems likely he was the son of one of the older daughters and was brought up by his grandparents. By 1871 John was 63 years old and a farm bailiff. He died at the age of 70 in 1878 at Salford, some three years after his wife, Esther. Her death was recorded at Altrincham, the Cheshire town nearest Dunham Massey, so it may be that he went to live with one of his children in the city after her death.

great x3 grandparents

I don't know who John Calderbank's parents were, but Esther was probably the daughter of William and Mary Pearson of Wilmslow. The earlier history of these families remains a mystery.

		William Pearson		Mary
John Calderbank 1808			Esther Pearson 1810
Ellen Calder- bank c.1827	Ralph Calder- bank c.1828	Josiah Calder- bank c.1829	Sophia Calder- bank c.1832	William Calder- bank c.1834	Jane Calder- bank c.1836	John Calder- bank c.1839	Thomas Calder- bank c.1841	James Calder- bank c.1841	Sarah Calder- bank c.1844	Esther Calder- bank c.1846	Ann Calder- bank c.1851

1841 census Dunham Massey, Cheshire

name	age	occupation
John Calderbank	34	agricultural labourer
Ester Calderbank	14	agricultural labourer
Ellen Calderbank	14	agricultural labourer
Ralph Calderbank	13	agricultural labourer
Josiah Calderbank	12	agricultural labourer
Sophia Calderbank	9	agricultural labourer
William Calderbank	7
Jane Calderbank	5
John Calderbank	2
Thomas Calderbank	<1

1861 census Brook (or Black?) Farm, Dunham Massey, Cheshire

name	position	age	occupation	born
John Calderbank	head	53	agriculatural labourer	Bowden, Cheshire
Esther Calderbank	wife	51		Bowden, Cheshire
James Calderbank	son	20	agricaultural labourer	Bowden, Cheshire
Esther Calderbank	daughter	13	scholar	Bowden, Cheshire
Joseph Howarth	relative	12	scholar	Timperley, Cheshire

1871 census Wash Way, Timperley, Altrincham, Cheshire

name	position	age	occupation	born
John Calderbank	head	63	farm bailiff	Bowden, Cheshire
Esther Calderbank	wife	62		Dunham Massey
Ann Calderbank	daughter	20		Dunham Massey
Joseph Howarth	grandson	22	railway engine cleaner	Timperley

The Driver Family 

great, great grandparents

My great grandfather, Francis Driver was the son of Robert and Isabella Driver. Robert was born at Swinderby, north-east of Newark, around 1822. He was a farm labourer and married Isabella Parker in 1845 at Swinderby. 
Isabella had been born in 1820 at Marnham, Nottinghamshire, the third daughter of John and Elizabeth Parker.  They had three children: Francis, Robert W. and John. By the 1871 census they had moved to Sheffield and were living on Charlotte Street, a small street just off West Street. Robert was still a labourer but had moved from the land into the steel works while their youngest, John, was a carter. I believe his brother was living a few streets away as an apprentice crucible pot maker for the steel industry, a trade Francis was to take up later, though he was then a farm worker at Dronfield, south of Sheffield.

great x3 grandparents

Robert's parents were Francis and Jane Driver. Francis was born around 1795 at Panton, many miles from Swinderby, beyond Lincoln. He too was an agricultural worker. He married Jane Johnson in 1822 just six days before Robert was born! The wedding was at Thurlby, a couple of miles from Swinderby where they were to spend their life together and have eleven children.

great x4 grandparents

Francis Driver senior was the son of William and Mary Driver of Panton, Lincs.

Jane Johnson's parents, Robert and Jane Johnson, lived in Claypole, south-east of Newark. Robert was born in 1775 and Jane Beedham in 1777, both in Claypole. They married in 1799 also in Claypole. Robert died in 1838 but the 1841 census has Jane at 65 still living in Claypole as a pauper with a young lodger. She died in 1854.

earlier generations

Jane Beedham was the daughter of Richard and Jane Beedham. The Beedham family can be traced back through three more generations to 1650, all living in Claypole. They married into the Newton, Broughton and Bainbridge families. Jane Beedham senior was the daughter of William and Jane Loverseeds, another Claypole family. The Loverseeds came from South Collingham, Lincs. and, like the Beedhams, can be traced back to 1650. Jane's mother was born Jane Barlow and other names, on the female sides of the Loverseeds line, were Jackson and Smith.

Jane Johnson's family tree

James Beedham c.1650

Margaret Bain- bridge c.1660

Robert Lover- seeds c.1650

Susan Smith c.1650

Anthony Jackson c.1650

Elizabeth c.1650

John Beedham c.1688

Elizabeth Brough- ton 1690

John Lover- seeds c.1676

Ann Jackson c.1679

Richard Beedham c.1713

Mary Newton c.1713

William Lover- seeds c.1712

Jane Barlow c.1715

Richard Beedham c.1747

Jane Loverseeds c.1747

John Beedham c.1773

William Beedham c.1774

Robert Johnson 1775-1838

Jane Beedham 1777-1854

Jane Johnson 1800-1854

William Johnson 1804

Ann Johnson 1806

Richard Johnson 1808

Elizabeth Johnson 1811

Robert Johnson 1813

Mary Johnson 1816

Francis Driver's family tree

William Driver

Mary

Francis Driver 1795

Jane Johnson 1800-1854

Robert Driver 1800

Robert Driver 1822

Isabella Parker 1820

Ann Driver 1824

William Driver 1826

Richard Beedham Driver 1829

John Driver 1831

Elijah Driver 1833

Mary Driver 1835

Johnson Driver 1837

Joseph Driver 1839

Phyllis Driver 1842

Francis Driver 1846

Francis Driver 1848

Robert W Driver 1850

John Driver 1856

Isabella Parker's family tree

John Parker

Elizabeth

Elizabeth Parker 1817

Mary Parker 1818

Isabella Parker 1820

John Parker 1822

Sarah Parker 1824-1825

Sarah Ann Parker 1825-1828

Thomas Parker 1827

Francis Parker 1829

Richards  Parker 1831

Robert Parker 1833

Anne Parker 1835

1841 census Swinderby, Lincs.

name	age	occupation
Francis Driver	45	agricultural labourer
Jane Driver	40
Ann Driver	15
Beedham Driver	12
John Driver	10
Elijah Driver	8
Mary Driver	6
Johnson Driver	4
Joseph Driver	1

1841 census Claypole, Notts.

name	age	occupation
Jane Johnson	65	pauper
Mary Dodds	25	lodger
Martha Johnson	4

1851 census Swinderby, Lincs.

name	position	age	occupation	born
Francis Driver	head	59	agricultural labourer	Panton, Lincs.
Jane Driver	wife	52		Claypole, Notts.
Johnson Driver	son	14		Swinderby, Lincs.
Joseph Driver	son	11		Swinderby, Lincs.
Philis Driver	daughter	9	scholar	Swinderby, Lincs.
Francis Driver	son	5	scholar	Swinderby, Lincs.
also...
Robert Driver	head	28	agricultural labourer	Swinderby, Lincs.
Isabella Driver	wife	30		Marnham, Notts.
Francis Driver	son	3		Swinderby, Lincs.
Robert W Driver	son	<1		Swinderby, Lincs.

1871 census 12 Charlotte Street, St George, Sheffield

name	position	age	occupation	born
Robert Driver	head	48	labourer in steel works	Swinderby, Lincs.
Isabella Driver	wife	50		Swinderby, Lincs.
John Driver	son	15	carter	Swinderby, Lincs.
and nearby on Portobello Street...
Jacob Madin	head	45	pot maker (steel melters)	Brampton, Derbys.
...and lodging with his family as an apprentice...
Robert Driver	boarder	20	pot maker	Lincoln
at Hilltop, Dronfield, lodging with the Bullivant family...
Francis Driver	boarder	23	farm labourer	Swinderby, Lincs.

Robert Driver christened 29 June 1822 at Swinderby, Lincs - parents: Francis and Jane Driver

Isabella Parker christened 21 Aug 1820 at Marnham, Notts - parents: John & Elizabeth Driver

Robert Driver & Isabella Parker married 16 August 1845 at Swinderby

Elvin Skelton

born around 1882 at Hollinsend, Sheffield; died 1938, Handsworth, Sheffield 

My maternal grandfather, Elvin Skelton was the son of Job and Mary Skelton. His childhoos was spent around Hollinsend, south-east of Sheffield, where I was to go to school as a boy. He had and older brother, my mother's famous Uncle George Henry and two younger brothers, Edmund and John William who seems to have died as a child. Elvin followed his father into the coal mines.

Elvin married Agnes Eyre, the (step)daughter of neighbours on Stanhope Street, Intake. The wedding was at Gleadless parish church on 2 June 1909. They had two children, my uncle Leslie and my mother, Constance. 

Agnes had lost here own father (also a miner) when she was a child and was later to lose her husband in a mining accident. Elvin was only 56 when he was killed. He is buried in Handsworth cemetry.

Elvin seems to have done well an owned the family home on St Joseph's Road, Handsworth as well as the neighbouring house(s). He had purchased a row of houses in Handsworth only weeks before he died.

Elvin is clearly a fairly unusual name. It is related to names such as Alvin, Alwyn and Elwyn (pronounced Elvin in Wales) and derives from older Anglo-Saxon or Old English names which apparently have meanings derived from their words for elf or noble and love or friend. I inherited my name from my grandfather but I have found no definite indication of how he came to have it, though his cousin was also christened Elvin and there was an older Elvin Skelton living close to where Job used to live and good reason to think this was my grandfather's uncle.

Job Skelton c.1845- -1916		Mary c.1856
George Henry Skelton c.1881	Elvin Skelton c.1882 -1938		Agnes Eyre 1887 -1959	Edmund Skelton c.1887	John William Skelton c.1889
	Leslie Skelton c.1910		Constance Skelton 1920 -1987

1891 census 63 Fox Farm Cottages, Hollinsend, Handsworth

name	position	age	occupation	born
Job Skelton	head	46	coal miner	Sutton-by-Lound
Mary Skelton	wife	35		Rawcliffe, Yorks
George Henry Skelton	son	10		Hollinsend
Elvin Skelton	son	9		Hollinsend
Edmund Skelton	son	4		Intake
John William	son	2		Normanton Hill

1901 census 123 Occupation Road, Beighton (South Yorkshire)

name	position	age	occupation	born
Job Skelton	head	56	coal miner hewer	Sutton, Notts
Mary Skelton	wife	45		Rawcliffe, Yorks
George Henry Skelton	son	20	carter	Hollinsend
Elvin Skelton	son	19	coal miner filler	Hollinsend
Edmund Skelton	son	14	handle labeller in sickle factory	Hollinsend

marriage certificate: 2 June 1909 Gleadless parish church

Francis Driver

born around 1847 at Swinderby, Lincolnshire

Francis (known, I think, as Frank) Driver was the son of Robert and Isabella Driver and had a younger brother, also called Robert. The family had for generations lived around the Nottinghamshire/Lincolnshire border east of Newark but by 1871 they had moved to Sheffield where Francis' father had a job in the steelworks. Francis himself had left home and may have been labouring on a farm in Dronfield, south of Sheffield, r brother was a carter and it is possible that Francis was too and his travels could have taken him west to Cheshire, birthplace of his future wife, Ann Calderbank. However they met ,they married in late 1872 at Altrincham.

The 1881 census finds them living in Attercliffe, Sheffield, where Frank had found work as a crucible pot maker for the steel industry. Their first son, Tom, could have died young or may simply have left home when they next appeared in the 1901 census, living in Cuthbert Bank Road, around the corner from my grandfather's family. They had two sons at home: Hobart (possibly continuing the Driver tradition of recycling maiden names) and Ralph; and two daughters, Jane and Isabella, my grandmother. The boys, like their father, were in the steelworks.

Robert Driver c.1822		Isabella Parker c.1820-1877
Francis Driver c.1848		Ann Calderbank c.1852			Robert Driver c.1850
Tom Driver c.1879	Hobart Driver c.1884	Ralph Driver c.1885	Jane Driver c.1887	Isabella Driver c.1890

1851 census Swinderby, Lincolnshire

name	position	age	occupation	born
Robert Driver	head	28	agricultural labourer	Swinderby, Lincs
Isabella Driver	wife	30		Marnham, Notts
Francis Driver	son	3		Swinderby, Lincs
Robert W Driver	son	<1		Swinderby, Lincs

1881 census 5 Livingstone Road, Attercliffe cum Darnall, Sheffield

name	position	age	occupation	born
Francis Driver	head	33	pot maker - steel crucibles	Swinderby, Lincs
Ann Driver	wife	29		Dunham, Cheshire
Tom Driver	son	3		Sheffield, Yorks

1901 census 135 Cuthbert Bank Road, Nether Hallam, Sheffield

name	position	age	occupation	born
Frank Driver	head	54	crucible pot maker	Swinderby, Lincs
Ann Driver	wife	49		Sale, Cheshire
Hobart Driver	son	17	furnace labourer	Sheffield, Yorks
Ralph Driver	son	16	furnace labourer	Sheffield, Yorks
Jane Driver	daughter	14	domestic nurse	Sheffield, Yorks
Isabella Driver	daughter	11		Manchester

marriage record: Oct-Dec 1872 Altrincham vol.8a p.266

George Ibbotson

born around 1861, Sheffield 

My great grandfather, George Ibbotson was the son of George and Emma Ibbotson. George senior was living and working (in the cutlery industry) in Sheffield when George junior was born.

George had one older and one younger brother: Charles and Fred. George became an engineer's tool fitter. His father died while he was in his teens. His younger brother, Fred became a minor legend in the Ibbotson family, rising from his working class roots to become a respected metallurgist and lecturing at Sheffield University. He wrote and co-wrote a number reference books on steel and non-ferrous alloys. Charles first son, Charles Taylor (born before Charles had married Clara Taylor) was given the George medal for saving gas tanks in WW1.

In 1871 the family were living at 71 Gatefield, near Infirmary Road along with a young lodger, and ten years later the widowed Emma lived with her sons and a different lodger at 7 White House Lane.

George married Kate Helen Gatrick in Sheffield in 1884 and their first son, Fred, was born around 1886. My grandfather, William Henry, followed a couple of years later, before the family went to live in Birmingham where they had three daughters, Ethel, Sarah A (Ann or Alice?) and Dorothy. Soon after Dorothy's birth they moved back to Sheffield and the familiar surroundings of White House Lane. By the time my grandfather married in September 1912 the family was a few streets away on Burton Street. Sadly, it seems that Kate died soon after. George may already have died, earlier that year, or may have lived to 68; the records are ambiguous.

George Ibbotson c.1826		Emma Cliff c.1828
Charles Ibbotson c.1859	George Ibbotson c.1862		Kate Helen Gatrick c.1863		Fred Ibbotson c.1868
	Fred Ibbotson c.1886	William Henry Ibbotson 1887-1973	Ethel Ibbotson c.1896	Sarah A Ibbotson c.1898	Dorothy Ibbotson c.1890

1871 census 71 Gatefield, Sheffield

name	position	age	occupation	born
George Ibbotson	head	45	table knife grinder	Sheffield
Emma Ibbotson	wife	43		Sheffield
Charles Ibbotson	son	12	drapers' assistant	Sheffield
George Ibbotson	son	9	scholar	Sheffield
Fred Ibbotson	son	3		Bradfield
George Skelton	apprentice	14	table blank grinder (app.)	Bradfield

1881 census 7 Whitehouse Lane, Sheffield

name	position	age	occupation	born
Emma Ibbotson	widow	53		Sheffield
Charles Ibbotson	son	22	file cutter	Sheffield
George Ibbotson	son	19	engineer's tool fitter	Sheffield
Fred Ibbotson	son	13	scholar	Sheffield
Arthur Holmes	boarder	20	ivory cutter	Sheffield

1901 census no.5 ct.2 Whitehouse Lane, Sheffield

name	position	age	occupation	born
George Ibbotson	head	39	engineer's tool fitter	Sheffield
Kate H Ibbotson	wife	37		Sheffield
Fred Ibbotson	son	15	steel bolt turner	Sheffield
William Ibbotson	son	13	errand boy	Sheffield
Ethel Ibbotson	daughter	5		Birmingahm
Sarah A Ibbotson	daughter	3		Birmingham
Dorothy Ibbotson	daughter	1		Birmingham

birth record: Jan-Mar 1862 Ecclesall Bierlow (Sheffield) vol.9c p.200

marriage record: Jan-Mar 1884 Ecclesall Bierlow (Sheffield) vol.9c p.385

possible death records: Jan-Mar 1912 age 51 Sheffield vol.9c p.616
or Jul-Sep 1930 age 68 Ecclesall Bierlow (Sheffield) vol.9c p.286

The Ibbotson Family 

My great grandfather, George Ibbotson was the son of George and Emma Ibbotson. George senior was born in or near Bradfield, several miles north-west of Sheffield, around 1826 but his parents moved to the White House area just outside Sheffield before he was seven. By the age of 15 he had left home and was an apprentice knife grinder living a mile or so further west at Crookes. The cutlery industry would then be evolving from the old system of 'little mesters' and there were no doubt very many small cutlery businesses in and around Sheffield. George married Emma Cliff, two years his junior and in 1871 they were living at 71 Gatefield, still in the old White House area which was seeing rapid development as the city and its steel industry expanded. By 1881 Emma was a widow and living with her three sons at 7 Whitehouse Lane.

George senior's parents were Richard and Mary Ibbotson. Richard was born around 1800 at or near Bradfield. He married Mary and they set up home in Bradfield and their first children were christened there, but by 1841 they had moved to White House Lane just outside Sheffield and Richard was working as a quarry man - quite probably in the nearby White house sandstone quarry and sourcing the grindstones his son would be using. By then Mary had had around 12 children though it is likely that several would not have survived to their teens. By 1851 Richard was dead and Mary was living on Infirmary Lane with two of her sons, Reuben and William, both file smiths. In the 1861 and 1871 census data Mary and Reuben were at 79 Gatefield but by 1881 Mary had died and Reuben was living with his brother George's son Charles on Whitehouse Lane.

Richard Ibbotson c.1801		Mary c.1806
George Ibbotson c.1826		Emma Cliff c.1828		Reuben Ibbotson c.1827	Charles Ibbotson c.1829	William Ibbotson c.1833	Mary Ann Ibbotson c.1837
Emily Ibbotons c.1853	Charles Ibbotson 1859	George Ibbotson 1861	Harry Ibbotson c.1866	Fred Ibbotson c.1868

1841 census White House Lane, Nether Hallam, Sheffield

name	age	occupation
Richard Ibbotson	40	quarryman
Mary Ibbotson	35
Reuben Ibbotson	14	file cutter
Charles Ibbotson	11
William Skelton	8
Mary Ibbotson	4

1851 census Infirmary Lane, Sheffield

name	position	age	occupation	born
Mary Ibbotson	head	45	widow	Bradfield
Reuben Ibbotson	son	23	file smith	Bradfield
William Skelton	son	18	file smith	Nether Hallam

1861 census 79 Gatefield, Sheffield

name	position	age	occupation	born
Mary Ibbotson	head	55	widow	Bradfield
Reuben Ibbotson	son	33	file smith	Bradfield

1871 census 71 Gatefield, Sheffield

name	position	age	occupation	born
George Ibbotson	head	45	table knife grinder	Sheffield
Emma Ibbotson	wife	43		Sheffield
Charles Ibbotson	son	12	drapers' assistant	Sheffield
George Ibbotson	son	9	scholar	Sheffield
Fred Ibbotson	son	3		Bradfield
George Skelton	apprentice	14	table blank grinder (app.)	Bradfield

1881 census 7 Whitehouse Lane, Sheffield

name	position	age	occupation	born
Emma Ibbotson	widow	53		Sheffield
Charles Ibbotson	son	22	file cutter	Sheffield
George Ibbotson	son	19	engineer's tool fitter	Sheffield
Fred Ibbotson	son	13	scholar	Sheffield
Arthur Holmes	boarder	20	ivory cutter	Sheffield

Isabella Driver

born 1889, Salford, Manchester; died 1965, Sheffield 

My paternal grandmother, Isabella Ibbotson was the daughter of Francis (Frank) and Ann Driver. Her three (older) siblings, Hobart, Ralph and Jane, were all born in Sheffield, but Isabella's birth was recorded at Salford, Manchester, not too far from where her mother grew up.

In 1901 the Driver family were living on Cuthbert Bank Road, near my grandfather's family, but twenty years earlier Frank and Ann were living in Attercliffe. Frank made crucible pots for the steel industry which was centred on this part of Sheffield.

William Henry (Harry) and Isabella married in 1912 and they had four boys: George, Harry (my father), Hugh and Wilf.

In 1930 William, Isabella and the boys were living at Cuthbert Bank Terrace which no longer exists but was presumably very close to their parents' homes; but by 1938 had moved to Bracken Road which was probably part of a new development in the Shiregreen/Firth Park area. They stayed here many years as the boys all married and set up their own households, but then lived for a little while (in the late fifties, I believe) next door to my other grandmother at Handsworth. William and Isabella spent their last years in a Graves Trust flat on the Longley estate.

Isabella died of a stroke at the age of 76 in 1965.

	Francis Driver c.1847		Ann Calder- bank 1851
Hobart Driver c.1884	Ralph Driver c.1895	Jane Driver c.1897		William Henry Ibbotson 1887-1973		Isabella Driver 1889-1965
			George Ibbotson 1913-2008	Harry Ibbotson 1917-1983	Hugh Ibbotson 1922-2003	Wilf Ibbotson 1925-

1901 census 135 Cuthbert Bank Road, Sheffield

name	position	age	occupation	born
Frank Driver	head	54	crucible pot maker	Swinderby, Lincs.
Ann Driver	wife	49		Sale, Cheshire
Hobart Driver	son	17	furnace labourer	Sheffield
Ralph Driver	son	16	furnace labourer	Sheffield
Jane Driver	daughter	14	domestic nurse	Sheffield
Isabella Driver	daughter	11		Manchester

birth record: Apr-Jun 1889, Salford vol.8d p.36

marriage certificate: 2 September 1912, Owlerton parish church

death record: Jul-Sp 1965 age 76 Sheffield vol.2D p.62

Job Skelton

born around 1845 at Sutton-by-Lound, Nottinghamshire; died 1916, Sheffield 

Job Skelton was the son of William and Mary Skelton. His name appears in the 1871, 1881, 1891 and 1901 censuses but earlier censuses seem to show him as William. It may be that he was christened William Job and took to using his second name as he grew up.

The censuses indicate that Job may have had a younger sister and brother who did not reach adulthood and that the sister had a child, Henry, who was brought up by William and Mary.

He began life as an agricultural labourer in Nottinghamshire but was a coal miner on the outskirts of Sheffield most of his life.

Job married Mary Peacock in Snaith, near Goole in 1879. There is some confusion between the censuses but Mary came from Rawcliffe, near Goole (my mother had relatives there). The marriage certificate shows Job as a currier (in the leather trade) living in Handsworth.  It seems he had left home and farm labouring, based himself near Sheffieldwhere there would be more work available. It is a bit of a mystery how he met Mary.They lived around Hollinsend, where I was at school some 80+ years later. Here Job took work in the coal mines in the area and they brought up my grandfather, Elvin, his older brother George Henry (a bit of a family celebrity for some reason) and his younger brother Edmund. Two more sons died young.

William Skelton c.1818		Mary c.1817
Job Skelton c.1845- -1916		Mary Peacock c.1856	Ann Skelton c.1850	Henry Skelton c.1852	George Skelton c.1855	Mary Skelton c.1858	John Skelton c.1861	Fanny Skelton c.1864
George Henry Skelton c.1881	Elvin Skelton c.1882 -1938	Edmund Skelton c.1887	John William Skelton 1889-1899	Job Skelton 1894-1898

1861 census 65 Upper Row, Dunham, Nottinghamshire

name	position	age	occupation	born
William Skelton	head	44	agricultural labourer	Gringley, Notts
Mary Skelton	wife	44		Upton, Notts
William Skelton	son	16	agricultural labourer	Sutton-cum-Lound, Notts
Ann Skelton	daughter	11	scholar	Retford, Notts
Henry Skelton	son	9	scholar	Markham, Notts
George Skelton	son	6	scholar	Ragnall, Notts
Mary Skelton	daughter	3		Dunham, Notts
John Skelton	son	<1		Dunham, Notts

1871 census 41, The Green, Dunham, Nottinghamshire

name	position	age	occupation	born
William Skelton	head	53	agricultural labourer	Little Gringley, Notts
Mary Skelton	wife	52	agricultural labourer	Upton, Notts
Job Skelton	son	25	agricultural labourer	Sutton, Notts
Henry Skelton	son	19	agricultural labourer	East Markham, Notts
Mary Skelton	daughter	13	scholar	Dunham, Notts
John Skelton	son	10	scholar	Dunham, Notts
Fanny Skelton	daughter	7	scholar	Dunham, Notts
Henry	grandson	2		Ragnall, Notts

1881 census Gleadless Road, Hollinsend (parish of Handsworth, Sheffield)

name	position	age	occupation	born
Job Skelton	head	37	coal miner	Notts
Mary Skelton	wife	25		Birley, Yorks
George Henry Skelton	son	<1		Birley, Yorks

1891 census 63 Fox Farm Cottages, Hollinsend, Handsworth

name	position	age	occupation	born
Job Skelton	head	46	coal miner	Sutton-by-Lound
Mary Skelton	wife	35		Rawcliffe, Yorks
George Henry Skelton	son	10		Hollinsend
Elvin Skelton	son	9		Hollinsend
Edmund Skelton	son	4		Intake
John William	son	2		Normanton Hill

1901 census 123 Occupation Road, Beighton (South Yorkshire)

name	position	age	occupation	born
Job Skelton	head	56	coal miner hewer	Sutton, Notts
Mary Skelton	wife	45		Rawcliffe, Yorks
George Henry Skelton	son	20	carter	Hollinsend
Elvin Skelton	son	19	coal miner filler	Hollinsend
Edmund Skelton	son	14	handle labeller in sickle factory	Hollinsend

marriage certificate: 18 August 1879 Snaith church, Snaith, near Goole

death record: Jan-Mar 1916 age 71 Sheffield vol.9c p.841

Kate Ibbotson née Gatrick

born around 1863, Sheffield

My great grandmother, Kate Helen was born around 1863 to William and Sarah Gatrick. Theirs was an unusual surname and this is perhaps the least improbable of three different spellings in the records. In the 1881 census the family lived on Langsett Road, Sheffield, close to my great grandfather's home. Kate's father was born in Derbyshire but her mother was a Sheffield girl and her father worked as a grinder of knife blades. Kate had one older sister, Mary Elizabeth and five other sisters, Blanche, Alice Jane, Amy, Annie and Ethel, and one brother, William, all her juniors. In the 1891 census Mary appears to be visiting her sister Blanche, now married and living in Warrington.

Kate married my great grandfather, George Ibbotson, in1884 and they had two sons, Fred and William Henry (my grandfather) before moving to Birmingham for several years where their three daughters, Ethel, Sarah and Dorothy, were born. Soon after Dorothy arrived they returned to Sheffield to live on White House Lane. By my grandfather's marriage in 1912 they were at Burton Street, on the other side of Langsett Road.

The records suggest that Kate Ibbotson died in 1912, aged only 49, shortly after my grandparents married..

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	William H.Gatrick c.1821		Sarah c.1819
Mary E Gatrick c.1862		George Ibbotson c.1861		Kate H Gatrick c.1863	Blanche Gatrick c.1866	William H Gatrick c.1868	Alice Jane Gatrick c.1870	Amy B Gatrick c.1872	Annie T Gatrick c.1874	Ethel B Gatrick c.1878
	Fred Ibbotson c.1886	William Henry Ibbotson 1887-1973	Ethel Ibbotson c.1896	Sarah A Ibbotson c.1898	Dorothy Ibbotson c.1900

1881 census 1 Langsett Road, Nether Hallam, Sheffield

name	position	age	occupation	born
William H Gatarick	head	43	pen and pocket blade grinder	Ashopton, Derbys
Sarah Gatarick	wife	45		Sheffield
Mary E Gatarick	daughter	19		Sheffield
Kate H Gatarick	daughter	17	dress and mantle maker	Sheffield
Blanche Gatarick	daughter	15		Sheffield
William H Gatarick	son	13		Sheffield
Alice Jane Gatarick	daughter	11		Sheffield
Amy B Gatarick	daughter	9	scholar	Sheffield
Annie T Gatarick	daughter	7	scholar	Sheffield
Ethel S Gatarick	dsughter	3		Sheffield

1901 census no.5 ct.2 Whitehouse Lane, Sheffield

name	position	age	occupation	born
George Ibbotson	head	39	engineer's tool fitter	Sheffield
Kate H Ibbotson	wife	37		Sheffield
Fred Ibbotson	son	15	steel bolt turner	Sheffield
William Ibbotson	son	13	errand boy	Sheffield
Ethel Ibbotson	daughter	5		Birmingahm
Sarah A Ibbotson	daughter	3		Birmingham
Dorothy Ibbotson	daughter	1		Birmingham

marriage record: Jan-Mar 1884 Ecclesall Bierlow (Sheffield) vol.9c p.385

death record: Oct-Dec 1912 age 49, Sheffield vol. 9c p.545

Mary Peacock

born around 1856 at Rawcliffe, Yorkshire; died c.1950, Sheffield 

Mary was the daughter of Michael and Sarah Peacock who, like earlier generations of the Peacock family, lived in Rawcliffe between Snaith and Goole. Michael was a weaver and his wife a spinner. They had, I believe, seven children, but at least three had very short lives. George, their first, was born around 1845, followed by Osmond and Ellen, both of whom had died by 1851 when another son was born, again named Osmond. Malah, born around 1853, died as a baby and Mary was born around 1856 followed by Jemima, a year or two later.

I know little else about Mary until she married Job Skeltonin August 1879 at Snaith when she was 24.  It would be interesting to know how they met, living (as far as I know) far apart. Job lived at Hollinsend and they set up home here, and Job found work in the local coal pits. The work would have been dangerous and hard, but the pay good. They brought up three boys, George Henry (born around 1881 and destined to become a minor legend in my mother's family, though I never understood why), my grandfather, Elvin, born a year or so later, and Edmund, another five years younger. The 1891 census also has a John William Skelton, born around 1889, but he may have died as a child as he does not reappear in later records. It is not unlikely that another child may have been born and died between Elvin and Edmund, missing the census records.

The family stayed in the same locality, close to the coal mines of the Shirebrook valley, but moved several times, appearing at a new address in every census and another when Elvin married Agnes Eyre in 1909.

My grandmother had my great grandmother (who I remember being told was 93) living with her until she died while I was still very young.  Two old photographs passed on by my grandmother show my great grandmother at a great age and what I think could be her and Job with four children. The three older boys would be George Henry (kneeling?) with Elvin sitting next to the pillar and Edmund seated behind them. The two small children are, I think, two more sons (it was usual for boys to wear dresses until the were 'breached' into the early twentieth century). There are records of two boys who both died young: John William Skelton and Job. If I am right this photo would have dated from around the end of 1894.

Michael Peacock c.1825-1866		Sarah c.1821-1826
George Peacock c.1845	Osmond Peacock c.1847-1850	Ellen Peacock 1847-1847	Osmond Peacock c.1851	Malah Peacock 1853-1854		Job Skelton c.1845-1916		Mary Peacock c.1856-1950	Jemima Peacock c.1858
					George Henry Skelton c.1881	Elvin Skelton c.1882 -1938	Edmund Skelton c.1887	John William Skelton 1889-1899	Job Skelton c.1894-1898

1861 census 45 Bell Lane, Rawcliffe, Yorkshire

name	position	age	occupation	born
Michael Peacock	head	36	weaver	Rawcliffe, Yorks
Sarah Peacock	wife	41	spinner	Rawcliffe, Yorks
Osmond Peacock	son	9		Rawcliffe, Yorks
Mary Peacock	daughter	5	scholar	Rawcliffe, Yorks
Jemima Peacock	daughter	3	scholar	Rawcliffe, Yorks

1881 census Gleadless Road, Hollinsend (parish of Handsworth, Sheffield)

name	position	age	occupation	born
Job Skelton	head	37	coal miner	Notts
Mary Skelton	wife	25		Birley, Yorks
George Henry Skelton	son	<1		Birley, Yorks

1891 census 63 Fox Farm Cottages, Hollinsend, Handsworth

name	position	age	occupation	born
Job Skelton	head	46	coal miner	Sutton-by-Lound
Mary Skelton	wife	35		Rawcliffe, Yorks
George Henry Skelton	son	10		Hollinsend
Elvin Skelton	son	9		Hollinsend
Edmund Skelton	son	4		Intake
John William	son	2		Normanton Hill

1901 census 123 Occupation Road, Beighton (South Yorkshire)

name	position	age	occupation	born
Job Skelton	head	56	coal miner hewer	Sutton, Notts
Mary Skelton	wife	45		Rawcliffe, Yorks
George Henry Skelton	son	20	carter	Hollinsend
Elvin Skelton	son	19	coal miner filler	Hollinsend
Edmund Skelton	son	14	handle labeller in sickle factory	Hollinsend

marriage certificate: 18 August 1879 Snaith church, Snaith, near Goole

John William Skelton b. June 1889 (Sheffield vol.9c p.492) d.September 1899 age 11 (Sheffield vol.9c p.338)

Job Skelton b. June 1894 (Sheffield vol.9c p.617) d. March 1898 age 4 (Sheffield vol.9c p.386)

Selina Ward

born around 1860 at White Lane, parish of Eckington, Derbyshire; died 1936

Selena (or Selina) first appears in the 1861 census at Birdfield, a row of cottages on White Lane near High Lane (aka Ridgeway) the youngest child of John Ward, a coal miner, and his wife Mary. Her older siblings were Thomas, also a miner, Harriet, Anne and the unusually named Ance (listed as a three-year-old daughter).

Ten years later the family were still living on White Lane but Thomas, Harriet and Anne had all left home (or died?) and Ance (now spelt with an 'H') was now a boy! I think the census taker must have been confused by the name. Two more daughters had arrived: Priscilla and Beatrice.

William Eyre lived just a few doors away and, with his father, worked in the mines. William and Selina married in 1878 and the 1881 census has them living at the Old Harrow, still on White Lane with their baby son, John Arthur. William was described as a licensed victualler and coal miner.

William apparently drank more than was good for him and died in December 1886 from delirium tremens. By 1901 Selina had remarried to James Drury, also a miner, born at Gleadless. Living with them at 53, Stanhope Road,  Hollinsend, were John Arthur, his brother Joseph and my grandmother, Agnes, all listed as James' stepchildren. A third son, Tom appeared in the 1901 census as a cattleman at a White Lane farm.

John Ward c.1821		Mary c.1823
Thomas Ward c.1842	Harriet Ward c.1852	Ann Ward c.1855	Ance Ward c.1858		William Eyre c.1855-1889		Selina Ward 1860-c.1953	Priscilla Ward c.1863	Beatrice Ward c.1866
				John Arthur Eyre c.1881	Joseph Eyre c.1883	Tom Eyre c.1885	Agnes Eyre 1887-1959

1861 census Bird Field, High Lane, Eckington, Derbyshire

name	position	age	occupation	born
John Ward	head	40	coal miner	Beighton, Derbys
Mary Ward	wife	38		Eckington, Derbys
Thomas Ward	son	19	coal miner	Eckington, Derbys
Harriet Ward	daughter	9		Eckington, Derbys
Ann Ward	daughter	6		Eckington,Derbys
Ance Ward	daughter	3		Eckington, Derbys
Selena Ward	daughter	1		Eckington, Derbys

1871 census White Lane, Ridgeway, Eckington, Derbyshire

name	position	age	occupation	born
John Ward	head	50	coal miner	Beighton, Derbys
Mary Ward	wife	47		Carter Lane, Derbys
Hance Ward	son	13		White Lane, Derbys
Selina Ward	daughter	11		White Lane, Derbys
Priscilla Ward	daughter	8		White Lane, Derbys
Beatrice Ward	daughter	5		White Lane, Derbys

1881 census Old Harrow, White Lane, Eckington, Derbyshire

name	position	age	occupation	born
William Eyre	head	26	lic victualler & coal miner	Tickhill, Yorks
Selina Eyre	wife	21		Eckington, Derbys
John Arthur Eyre	son	<1		Eckington, Derbys

1901 census Stanhope Road, Intake, Handsworth

name	position	age	occupation	born
James Drury	head	35	coal miner hewer	Gleadless, Yorks
Selina Drury	wife	41		White Lane, Derbys
John A Eyre	son	20	coal miner hewer	White Lane, Derbys
Joseph Eyre	son	18	coal miner filler	White Lane, Derbys
Agnes Eyre	daughter	14		White Lane, Derbys

birth record: Jan-Mar 1860, Chesterfield vol.7b p.578

death record: September 1936, Sheffireld vol.9c p.504; buried St Johns, Ridgeway

marriage record: Apr-Jun 1878 Sheffield vol.9c p.582

William Eyre

born around 1855 at Tickhill, Yorkshire died 1886 at Old Harrow, White Lane

William Eyre was born around 1855, the son of Joseph and Christiana (mis-spelled 'Christany' in the 1861 census). Different censuses had him born at Stainton, Sheffield and Tickhill but  by the age of three the family were at White Lane between Gleadless and Ridgeway. His mother died before he reached 16.  He had an older brother, George, and younger siblings Fanny (who seems to have died as a child) John Thomas, May Anne and Agnes.

William's father was a colliery labourer and William followed him into the mines. A neighbour's daughter on White Lane was Selina Ward who became William's wife in 1878. In 1881 they were at The Old Harrow, also on White Lane, and the census showed William as licensed victualler as well as a miner. At least three children, John Arthur, Joseph and Agnes, my maternal grandmother, were born at the Old Harrow, and it is possible they had two other children there, though they do not appear in the census data (more detail in Selina Ward's page).

The Eyre family seems to have been cursed by untimely deaths. William's mother died when she was only around 40, his daughter was to lose her husband (my grandfather Elvin Skelton) in a mine accident, and William himself died when only 32 years old in December 1886. It seems the pub was not the best environment for him as his death certificate describes the cause of death as delirium tremens which can be caused by withdrawal from a long history of heavy drinking and is often fatal if not treated. It is unlikely there were effective treatments in the 1880s. My grandmother was born around five months later and never knew her father. By 1901 Selina and the children were living at Intake with her second husband. 

Joseph Eyre c.1830		Christiana Thompson c.1829
George Eyre c.1851	William Eyre c.1855-		Selina Ward 1860-c.1953		Fanny Eyre c.1858	John Thomas Eyre c.1861	May Anne Eyre c.1864	Ages Eyre c.1868
John Arthur Eyre c.1881	Joseph Eyre c.1883	3rd son ?	daughter ?	Agnes Eyre 1887-1959

1861 census White Lane, High Lane, Eckington, Derbyshire

name	position	age	occupation	born
Joseph Eyre	head	33	colliery labourer	Wadworth, Yorks
Christany Eyre	wife	43		Cantler, Yorks
George Eyre	son	10		Cantler, Yorks
William Eyre	son	6		Stainton, Yorks
Fanny Eyre	daughter	3		Eckington,Derbys

1871 census White Lane, Ridgeway, Eckington, Derbyshire

name	position	age	occupation	born
Joseph Eyre	head	42	pit labourer	Sheffield, Yorks
George Eyre	son	20	pit labourer	Sheffield, Yorks
William Eyre	son	16	pit labourer	Sheffield, Yorks
John Thomas	son	10	scholar	White Lane, Derbys
May Anne Eyre	daughter	7	scholar	White Lane, Derbys
Agnes Eyre	daughter	10	scholar	White Lane, Derbys
Mary Swift	servant	7	housekeeper	Sheffield, Yorks

1881 census Old Harrow, White Lane, Eckington, Derbyshire

name	position	age	occupation	born
William Eyre	head	26	lic victualler & coal miner	Tickhill, Yorks
Selina Eyre	wife	21		Eckington, Derbys
John Arthur Eyre	son	<1		Eckington, Derbys

marriage record: Apr-Jun 1878 Sheffield vol.9c p.582

death certificate: 18 December 1889 age 32, Old Harrow, White Lane

William Henry Ibbotson

born 1887, Sheffield 

My paternal grandfather, William Henry Ibbotson, known, I gather, as Harry, was the son of George and Kate Ibbotson. He had an older brother, Fred, and three younger sisters, Ethel, Sarah Ann and Dorothy.

Harry was born in Sheffield, probably in the area around Whitehouse Lane where George had grown up and where his grandmother and uncles and aunts lived, but when he was still a young boy the family moved to Birmingham where they lived for several years and where all his younger sisters were born. By the time of the 1901 census the family was back in Sheffield, living on Whitehouse Lane and some years later they had moved to Burton Street on the other side of Langsett Road, close to Cuthbert Road where George's brother Charles' family lived and to Cuthbert Bank Road where the Driver family lived.

Harry was a skilled worker in the steel industry, an edge tool forger. He married Isabella Driver, the Drivers' youngest daughter, at Owlerton parish church in 1912 and they had four children, all boys: George, Harry (my father), Hugh and Wilf. William worked in Sheffield's steel industry

In 1930 they were living at Cuthbert Bank Terrace which no longer exists but was probably very close to Cuthbert Road; but by 1938 had moved to Bracken Road in the Shiregreen/Firth Park area. They stayed here many years as the boys all married and set up their own households, but then lived for a little while (in the late fifties, I believe) next door to my other grandmother at Handsworth. William and Isabella spent their last years in a Graves Trust flat on the Longley estate.

Isabella died of a stroke but my grandfather survived at least one heart attack before finally succumbing in 1973.

George Ibbotson c.1859		Kate Helen Gatrick c.1864
Fred Ibbotson c.1886	William Henry Ibbotson 1887- 1973		Isabella Driver 1889 - 1965		Ethel Ibbotson c.1896	Sarah A Ibbotson c.1898	Dorothy Ibbotson c.1900
	George Ibbotson 1913-2008	Harry Ibbotson 1917-1983	Hugh Ibbotson 1922-2003	Wilf Ibbotson 1925-

1901 census no.5 ct.2 Whitehouse Lane, Sheffield

name	position	age	occupation	born
George Ibbotson	head	39	engineer's tool fitter	Sheffield
Kate H Ibbotson	wife	37		Sheffield
Fred Ibbotson	son	15	steel bolt turner	Sheffield
William Ibbotson	son	13	errand boy	Sheffield
Ethel Ibbotson	daughter	5		Birmingahm
Sarah A Ibbotson	daughter	3		Birmingham
Dorothy Ibbotson	daughter	1		Birmingham

birth record: 31 October 1887, Ecclesall Bierlow, Sheffield vol.9c p.332

marriage certificate: 2 September 1912, Owlerton parish church