See also
Husband:
Thomas MATHEWS (c. 1848-1919)
Wife:
Ann CANHAM (1839-1912)
Children:
Marriage:
29 Jan 1874
Address: Our Lady of Good Hope RC Church
Name:
Thomas MATHEWS2
Sex:
Male
Father:
Henry MATHEWS (c. 1795-1878)
Mother:
Elizabeth (MATHEWS) (c. 1811-1889)
Note:
Not known when he came over from Ireland.
Married to Anne Canham on 29th January 1874 [8b 739] at Our Lady of Good Help Church, Liverpool. At the time he was a gardener possibly for one of the large nearby houses, and Anne was living at Dudlow Lane, probably a housekeeper for the Sharples family.
In about 1876 or 1877 they moved to Ashton in Makerfield. Don't yet know why, but apparently employed by the first Lord Gerard, Robert Tolver Gerard, who died in 1887and who moved over from Ireland in the second half of the 19th c., first to his estate in Cambridgeshire, then to Ashton, Garswood Hall. The second Lord Gerard died in 1902 and the next Lord Gerard then moved to Hertfordshire in 1929. Garswood Hall was used as a hospital for officers during WW1 (Lady Mary Emmeline Laurs was the matron, she died in February 1918). Later Garswood Hall became a golf club, which it remains.
Thomas attended St Oswald's RC church, Liverpool Road where he rang the bells, maintained the gardens and dug the graves: on his gravestone it says he was the 'faithful custodian of St Oswald's for 42 years'.
Thomas is described as a Gardener.
Thomas senior is given as a gardener in the 1901 census,living at 60 Warrington Road.2
Birth:
c. 1848
Stackallen, Co. Meath, Ireland
Occupation:
1874 (age 25-26)
Gardener
Residence:
1874 (age 25-26)
West Derby, Liverpool
Address: Montague Street
Census:
3 Apr 1881 (age 31)
Ashton-in-Makerfield, Lancs3
Address: 26 Bryn Street
Occupation:
3 Apr 1881 (age 31)
Gardener3
Census:
5 Apr 1891 (age 43)
Ashton-in-Makerfield, Lancs4
Address: 4 Ashton Court, Warrington Road
Occupation:
5 Apr 1891 (age 43)
Gardener4
Occupation:
1901 (age 52-53)
Gardener5
Census:
31 Mar 1901 (age 53)
Ashton-in-Makerfield, Lancs6
Address: Warrington Road
Occupation:
31 Mar 1901 (age 53)
Gardener6
Employer, Worker, or Own account: Worker
Census:
2 Apr 1911 (age 63)
Ashton-in-Makerfield, Lancs7
Address: 31 Bryn Street
Occupation:
2 Apr 1911 (age 63)
Domestic Gardner7
Whether Employer, Worker, or Working on Own Account: Worker
National or Tribal Origin:
2 Apr 1911 (age 62-63)
Irish Resident7
Death:
23 Apr 1919 (age 70-71)
Ashton-in-Makerfield, Lancs1
Name:
Ann CANHAM2
Sex:
Female
Father:
John CANHAM (c. 1813-1842)
Mother:
Ann HARVEY (c. 1814-1841)
Note:
It seems from census data that both her parents, John and Ann, died young: between the ages of 25 and 35. The 1851 census gives Ann and her brother William living with their (Harvey) grandparents in Greenend, next door to their family home, in Fen Ditton, along with their various uncles and aunts. Her sister, Sarah, who is 13 by now, is working as a 'nurse' in Cambridge.
In 1861 she is found living with her Uncle, Richard Harvey, in London. No particular employment is given at that time. This would appear to coincide with the murder of her grandmother in Fen Ditton in 1861.
In 1871 she is working as Housekeeper at Burn Hall, County Durham.
The owner of the property is a local JP called Marmaduke Salvin, a member of a prominent Durham Catholic family from pre-reformation times. Marmaduke had a number of children including Francesca Josephine (born 1856 at 'St Oswald. Durham'). At some point after 1871 Francesca left Durham for Liverpool where she married George Oswald Sharples (he was born in 1848 in Wavertree, Liverpool into a well-to-do Timber Merchant family); marriage date 25.9.1877. George went to Stoneyhurst College and so it appears that they were both Catholic. They lived at 79 Beech Lane, which is adjacent to Dudlow Lane in Wavertree. By 1881 they had a son, Henry Oswald, aged 2 (at that time two of George's sisters from Ohio (BS) were staying with them).
George died in 1885 aged only 38 [8b]. In 1891 Francesca is to be found as a patient at an expensive private lunatic asylum in Ticehurst, Sussex (see image in the Wellcome Foundation archive). Oswald was living at that time with his paternal grandmother, Frances, in Streatham, Wandswoth, London, together with two unmarried aunts (and 4 servants). By 1901 Francesca is living with Oswald as a Boarder with a family in Folkestone.
It appears very likely that Ann Canham followed Francesca to Liverpool sometime about 1873 and worked for her until perhaps about 1881, when Ann and Thomas moved to Ashton in Makerfield.
Marriage to Thomas Mathews 29th January 1874 at Our Lady of Good Help RC Church, Liverpool [see Wedding Certificate copy, 13.6.2008]. Best man was James Murphy and bridesmaid/maid of honour was Margaret Plunkett. Thomas was given as a Gardener, of Montague Street, West Derby and she as a Spinster, of Dudlow Lane, Wavertree.
In 1891 census living at 4 A. Court, Warrington Road, Ashton.
In 1901 living at 60 Warrington Road (referred to as 'Annie').
Grave is in St Oswald's churchyard, Ashton in Makerfield, buried with her grand daughter Annie Byrne, husband Thomas and daughter Mary.2
Birth:
24 Sep 1839
Fen Ditton, Cambs
Baptism:
1 Dec 1839 (age 0)
Fen Ditton, Cambs8
Census:
6 Jun 1841 (age 1)
Fen Ditton, Cambs9
Address: Baitsbite
Census:
30 Mar 1851 (age 11)
Fen Ditton, Cambs10
Address: Green End
Occupation:
30 Mar 1851 (age 11)
Scholar10
Census:
7 Apr 1861 (age 21)
Hackney, London E11
Address: 7 Queens Terrace
Occupation:
7 Apr 1861 (age 21)
Housekeeper11
Occupation:
1871 (age 31-32)
Housekeeper; Burn Hall, Co Durham12
Residence:
1874 (age 34-35)
Liverpool, Merseyside
Address: Dudlow Lane, Wavertree
Census:
3 Apr 1881 (age 38)
Ashton-in-Makerfield, Lancs3
Address: 26 Bryn Street
Occupation:
3 Apr 1881 (age 38)
Housekeeper3
Census:
5 Apr 1891 (age 49)
Ashton-in-Makerfield, Lancs4
Address: 4 Ashton Court, Warrington Road
Census:
31 Mar 1901 (age 59)
Ashton-in-Makerfield, Lancs6
Address: Warrington Road
Census:
2 Apr 1911 (age 69)
Ashton-in-Makerfield, Lancs7
Address: 31 Bryn Street
Death:
3 Jan 1912 (age 72)
Ashton-in-Makerfield, Lancs
Burial:
Ashton-in-Makerfield, Lancs
Address: St Oswald's
Name:
Mary Elizabeth MATHEWS2
Sex:
Female
Birth:
20 Nov 1874
West Derby, Liverpool1
Census:
3 Apr 1881 (age 6)
Ashton-in-Makerfield, Lancs3
Address: 26 Bryn Street
Occupation:
3 Apr 1881 (age 6)
Scholar3
Occupation:
1891 (age 16-17)
Teacher; Liverpool, Merseyside13
Census:
5 Apr 1891 (age 16)
Ashton-in-Makerfield, Lancs4
Address: 4 Ashton Court, Warrington Road
Occupation:
5 Apr 1891 (age 16)
Teacher4
Employer/Employed/Neither Employer nor Employed: Employed
Occupation:
1901 (age 26-27)
School Teacher; Ormskirk, Lancs5
Census:
1901 (age 26-27)
Ormskirk, Lancs5
Address: 79 Aughton Street
Residence:
1911 (age 36-37)
Ashton-in-Makerfield, Lancs
Address: Vicarage Road
Occupation:
1911 (age 36-37)
Head Mistress; Ashton-in-Makerfield, Lancs
Address: Lancashire Elementary School
Census:
2 Apr 1911 (age 36)
Ashton-in-Makerfield, Lancs7
Address: 31 Bryn Street
Occupation:
2 Apr 1911 (age 36)
Head Teacher7
Industry or Service with which worker is connected: Lancs CC
Residence:
29 Sep 1939 (age 64)
Ashton-in-Makerfield, Lancs14
Address: 11 Rookery Avenue
Death:
23 May 1964 (age 89)
Leigh, Lancs1
Burial:
1964
Ashton-in-Makerfield, Lancs
Address: St Oswald's
Name:
Clara Mary MATHEWS15
Sex:
Female
Spouse:
Children:
Birth:
12 Nov 1876
Wavertree, Lancs16
Address: Dudlow Lane
Baptism:
19 Nov 1876 (age 0)
Wavertree, Lancs2
Address: Our Lade of Good Help RC Church
Occupation:
Assistant Teacher; Liverpool, Merseyside
Census:
3 Apr 1881 (age 4)
Ashton-in-Makerfield, Lancs3
Address: 26 Bryn Street
Occupation:
3 Apr 1881 (age 4)
Scholar3
Census:
5 Apr 1891 (age 14)
Ashton-in-Makerfield, Lancs4
Address: 4 Ashton Court, Warrington Road
Occupation:
5 Apr 1891 (age 14)
Candidate for Teaching4
Employer/Employed/Neither Employer nor Employed: Employed
Census:
31 Mar 1901 (age 24)
Ashton-in-Makerfield, Lancs6
Address: Warrington Road
Occupation:
31 Mar 1901 (age 24)
School Teacher's Assistant6
Employer, Worker, or Own account: Worker
Census:
2 Apr 1911 (age 34)
Liverpool, Merseyside17
Address: 40 Scotland Road
National or Tribal Origin:
2 Apr 1911 (age 34)
British17
Residence:
29 Sep 1939 (age 62)
Knowsley, Merseyside14
Address: 24 Radway Road
Death:
19 Sep 1955 (age 78)
Burial:
22 Sep 1955
West Derby, Liverpool2
Address: Yew Tree Cemetery
Name:
Henry MATHEWS
Sex:
Male
Alt. Name:
Harry
Spouse:
Margaret Ellen FOSTER (1881-1941)
Children:
Mary Veronica MATHEWS (1907-1984)
Thomas MATHEWS (1909-1982)
James MATHEWS (1912-1990)
Anne MATHEWS (1913-1990)
Winifred Sarah MATHEWS (1914-1973)
PRIVATE
Kevin MATHEWS (1921-c. 2000)
Note:
1911 census notes spelling as Mathews
Birth:
7 Apr 1879
Address: 198 Liverpool Road
Census:
3 Apr 1881 (age 2)
Ashton-in-Makerfield, Lancs3
Address: 26 Bryn Street
Census:
5 Apr 1891 (age 11)
Ashton-in-Makerfield, Lancs4
Address: 4 Ashton Court, Warrington Road
Census:
31 Mar 1901 (age 21)
Ashton-in-Makerfield, Lancs6
Address: Warrington Road
Occupation:
31 Mar 1901 (age 21)
House Painter6
Employer, Worker, or Own account: Worker
Census:
2 Apr 1911 (age 31)
Ashton-in-Makerfield, Lancs20
Address: 198 Liverpool Road
Occupation:
2 Apr 1911 (age 31)
House Painter20
Industry or Service with which worker is connected: Lord Gerard's Estate
Whether Employer, Worker, or Working on Own Account: Worker
Occupation:
8 Feb 1915 (age 35)
Sapper, Royal Engineers2
Service Record:
8 Feb 1915 (age 35)
Enlisted2
11th Field Company, Royal Engineers
Service Record:
8 Feb 1915 (age 35)
Service No. 1665902
Service Record:
20 Apr 1916 (age 37)
Posted Overseas; France2
Residence:
9 Feb 1919 (age 39)
Ashton-in-Makerfield, Lancs
Address: 198 Liverpool Road
Service Record:
9 Feb 1919 (age 39)
Demobbed
Residence:
29 Sep 1939 (age 60)
Ashton-in-Makerfield, Lancs14
Address: 192 Liverpool Road
Occupation:
29 Sep 1939 (age 60)
House Painter14
Death:
18 Jun 1953 (age 74)
Ashton-in-Makerfield, Lancs
Name:
Thomas MATHEWS2
Sex:
Male
Birth:
14 Feb 1882
Ashton-in-Makerfield, Lancs14
Occupation:
Steam Engine Fitter
Census:
5 Apr 1891 (age 9)
Ashton-in-Makerfield, Lancs4
Address: 4 Ashton Court, Warrington Road
Census:
31 Mar 1901 (age 19)
Ashton-in-Makerfield, Lancs6
Address: Warrington Road
Occupation:
31 Mar 1901 (age 19)
Steam Engine Fitter6
Employer, Worker, or Own account: Worker
Occupation:
1911 (age 28-29)
Engineer's Fitter2
Census:
2 Apr 1911 (age 29)
Ashton-in-Makerfield, Lancs7
Address: 31 Bryn Street
Occupation:
2 Apr 1911 (age 29)
Engineer's Fitter7
Industry or Service with which worker is connected: Colliery
Whether Employer, Worker, or Working on Own Account: Worker
Residence:
29 Sep 1939 (age 57)
Ashton-in-Makerfield, Lancs14
Address: 11 Rookery Avenue
Occupation:
29 Sep 1939 (age 57)
Engineer's Fitter14
Death:
5 Feb 1956 (age 73)
Billinge, Lancs
Not known when he came over from Ireland.
Married to Anne Canham on 29th January 1874 [8b 739] at Our Lady of Good Help Church, Liverpool. At the time he was a gardener possibly for one of the large nearby houses, and Anne was living at Dudlow Lane, probably a housekeeper for the Sharples family.
In about 1876 or 1877 they moved to Ashton in Makerfield. Don't yet know why, but apparently employed by the first Lord Gerard, Robert Tolver Gerard, who died in 1887and who moved over from Ireland in the second half of the 19th c., first to his estate in Cambridgeshire, then to Ashton, Garswood Hall. The second Lord Gerard died in 1902 and the next Lord Gerard then moved to Hertfordshire in 1929. Garswood Hall was used as a hospital for officers during WW1 (Lady Mary Emmeline Laurs was the matron, she died in February 1918). Later Garswood Hall became a golf club, which it remains.
Thomas attended St Oswald's RC church, Liverpool Road where he rang the bells, maintained the gardens and dug the graves: on his gravestone it says he was the 'faithful custodian of St Oswald's for 42 years'.
Thomas is described as a Gardener.
Thomas senior is given as a gardener in the 1901 census,living at 60 Warrington Road.2
It seems from census data that both her parents, John and Ann, died young: between the ages of 25 and 35. The 1851 census gives Ann and her brother William living with their (Harvey) grandparents in Greenend, next door to their family home, in Fen Ditton, along with their various uncles and aunts. Her sister, Sarah, who is 13 by now, is working as a 'nurse' in Cambridge.
In 1861 she is found living with her Uncle, Richard Harvey, in London. No particular employment is given at that time. This would appear to coincide with the murder of her grandmother in Fen Ditton in 1861.
In 1871 she is working as Housekeeper at Burn Hall, County Durham.
The owner of the property is a local JP called Marmaduke Salvin, a member of a prominent Durham Catholic family from pre-reformation times. Marmaduke had a number of children including Francesca Josephine (born 1856 at 'St Oswald. Durham'). At some point after 1871 Francesca left Durham for Liverpool where she married George Oswald Sharples (he was born in 1848 in Wavertree, Liverpool into a well-to-do Timber Merchant family); marriage date 25.9.1877. George went to Stoneyhurst College and so it appears that they were both Catholic. They lived at 79 Beech Lane, which is adjacent to Dudlow Lane in Wavertree. By 1881 they had a son, Henry Oswald, aged 2 (at that time two of George's sisters from Ohio (BS) were staying with them).
George died in 1885 aged only 38 [8b]. In 1891 Francesca is to be found as a patient at an expensive private lunatic asylum in Ticehurst, Sussex (see image in the Wellcome Foundation archive). Oswald was living at that time with his paternal grandmother, Frances, in Streatham, Wandswoth, London, together with two unmarried aunts (and 4 servants). By 1901 Francesca is living with Oswald as a Boarder with a family in Folkestone.
It appears very likely that Ann Canham followed Francesca to Liverpool sometime about 1873 and worked for her until perhaps about 1881, when Ann and Thomas moved to Ashton in Makerfield.
Marriage to Thomas Mathews 29th January 1874 at Our Lady of Good Help RC Church, Liverpool [see Wedding Certificate copy, 13.6.2008]. Best man was James Murphy and bridesmaid/maid of honour was Margaret Plunkett. Thomas was given as a Gardener, of Montague Street, West Derby and she as a Spinster, of Dudlow Lane, Wavertree.
In 1891 census living at 4 A. Court, Warrington Road, Ashton.
In 1901 living at 60 Warrington Road (referred to as 'Annie').
Grave is in St Oswald's churchyard, Ashton in Makerfield, buried with her grand daughter Annie Byrne, husband Thomas and daughter Mary.2
BMD Index (GRO).
Family - David Byrne.
Census 1881 E&W. RG11/3785/F~.
Census 1891 E&W. RG123068/F~.
Census 1901 E&W.
Ibid. RG13/3571/~F100.
Census 1911 E&W. RG14 PN 23089 RD 458 SD 7 ED 2 SN 186.
Cambridge FHS.
Census 1841 E&W. HO107 PN 67 B 10 F - P 14.
Census 1851 E&W. HO107 PN 1759 F 472 P 19.
Census 1861 E&W. RG9/0160/~F103.
Census 1871 E&W.
Census 1891 E&W.
War Register 1939 E&W (29/09/1939).
Marriage Certificate (relative).
Birth Certificate (own).
Census 1911 E&W. RG14 PN 22160 RD 453 SD 2 ED 12 SN 12.
Family.
Death Certificate (own).
Census 1911 E&W. RG14 PN 23095 RD 458 SD 7 ED 8 SN 96.