William and Elizabeth’s
story
In the 1841 census, there are just three households of
Tattersalls in Stannington: William and Elizabeth Tattersall, living with their
son Charles and their grandchildren from their married (and recently widowed) daughter
Ruth Platts, and, in their own families, their two sons, John and Thomas.
According to the 1841 census, William and Elizabeth are born
outside Yorkshire – William in around 1772 and
Elizabeth in 1773.
I am not sure where they were before about 1797 and the IGI
does not have a marriage that fits, though there are a couple of contenders for
William’s birth in the IGI. It is possible they originate or spent some time in the Hope Valley in Derbyshire, before settling inYorkshire.
They settle in the Sheffield
area from at least 1797, and the children baptised at Sheffiled St Peter are:
Ann (1797)
John (1798) – present in the 1841 census.
Thomas (1804) – present in the 1841 census.
Ruth (1808) -
Joseph (1813)
James (1813-1840)
Charles (1816) – present in the 1841 census (Stannington)
The absence of children William and Elizabeth
are clues that there may be other children born before their arrival in Sheffield.
William Tattershall (b 1794) and his wife Alice, are in the Hope Valley
in Derbyshire in 1841, and move to Stannington soon after and remain there
throughout their lives. I do not have a birth for this William Tattershall in
Derbyshire, though he could be a son or other relation of William and
Elizabeth. William Snr’s son Thomas (1804) marries Elizabeth Watts in Castleton in 1829, and
possibly some children are born in Derbyshire, which suggests more links
between the Hope Valley/Castleton area and the Stannington Tattersalls.
William and Elizabeth both die before the next census.
William dies in August of 1841, aged 69, and his death is reported by his son John
Tattersall. Elizabeth
lives on until 1850, and dies at Knowl Top aged 77. They are both buried at
Stannington.
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