FAMILY HISTORY: NORRIS

THE FAMILY OF JAMES CHADWICK

 

James Chadwick's parents were Daniel and Ann Chadwick. Daniel Chadwick married Ann Bury in Blackburn in 1856. In 1871 they were living in Old Accrington:

 

1871 CENSUS OF ACCRINGTON, LANCASHIRE:
NAME: RELATION: CONDITION: SEX: AGE: OCCUPATION: BIRTHPLACE:
Daniel Chadwick Head Married M 39 Bookseller Eccles, Lancashire
Ann Chadwick Wife Married F 35 Bookseller Church, Lancashire
John Chadwick Son - F 13 Scholar Accrington, Lancashire
James Chadwick Son - F 12 Scholar Accrington, Lancashire
Peter Chadwick Son - F 7 Scholar Accrington, Lancashire
Mary Chadwick Daughter - F 5 Scholar Bretherton, Lancashire
Martha Chadwick Daughter - F 3 Scholar Bretherton, Lancashire
NOTES:
1: Living at 3 Canning Street, Old Accrington. (RG10-4142, folio 142, page 20)
2: Daniel Chadwick's birthplace is listed as Worsley in other records.
3: The above information is taken from the census returns on microfiche at the Lancashire Archives.

 

10 years later much had changed. Their son James had married Elizabeth Ellen Norris but died aged 22 years, and Daniel had moved his family to Bretherton, near Croston:

 

1881 CENSUS OF BRETHERTON, LANCASHIRE:
NAME: RELATION: CONDITION: SEX: AGE: OCCUPATION: BIRTHPLACE:
Daniel Chadwick Head Married M 49 Bookseller Worsley, Lancashire
Ann Chadwick Wife Married F 45 Wife Church, Lancashire
Mary Chadwick Daughter - F 15 - Accrington, Lancashire
Rhoda Chadwick Daughter - F 4 - Bretherton, Lancashire
Ruth Alice Bretherton Servant - F 19 Servant Croston, Lancashire
NOTES:
1: Living at Highfield House, Flag Lane, Bretherton. (RG11-4222, folio 119, page 26)
2: Daniel Chadwick's full occupation was Bookseller employing 2 Agents & 2 Collectors and Farmer of 110 acres employing 1 labourer.
3: Ruth Bretherton's full occupation was General Servant (Domestic).
4: The above information is taken from the census returns on microfiche at the Lancashire Archives.

 


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