The Family of Thomas and Margaret Alice Battersby: Census Returns

1881 CENSUS OF FULWOOD, PRESTON, LANCASHIRE:
NAME:	RELATION:	CONDITION:	SEX:	AGE:	OCCUPATION:	BIRTHPLACE:
Thomas Battersby	Head	Married	M	28	Wheelwright	Samlesbury, Lancashire
Margaret A. Battersby	Wife	Married	F	24	-	Fulwood, Lancashire
John W. Battersby	Son	-	M	4	-	Fulwood, Lancashire
Alice G. Battersby	Daughter	-	F	2	-	Fulwood, Lancashire

NOTES:
1:	Living at Gammul Lane, Fulwood, Preston. (RG11-4247, folio 72, page 37)
2:	The 1880 Preston Directory lists a Thomas and John Battersby of Battersby Brothers Wheelwrights and Blacksmiths, Gammer (sic) Lane, Fulwood.
3:	The above information is taken from the census returns on microfiche at the Lancashire Archives.

Margaret Alice Battersby died on 10 December 1886, aged just 30 years. By 1891, Thomas' widowed mother was living with him - possibly to help him with the younger children:

1891 CENSUS OF FULWOOD, PRESTON, LANCASHIRE:
NAME:	RELATION:	CONDITION:	SEX:	AGE:	OCCUPATION:	BIRTHPLACE:
Thomas Battersby	Head	Widower	M	39	Joiner	Samlesbury, Lancashire
John Battersby	Son	Unmarried	M	14	-	Fulwood, Lancashire
Gertrude Battersby	Daughter	Unmarried	F	12	-	Fulwood, Lancashire
Florence Battersby	Daughter	-	F	10	-	Fulwood, Lancashire
Thomas F. Battersby	Son	-	M	8	-	Fulwood, Lancashire
Elizabeth Battersby	Daughter	-	F	6	-	Fulwood, Lancashire
Catherine Battersby	Mother	Widow	F	75	-	Brindle, Lancashire

NOTES:
1:	Living at 2 Fern Bank, Fulwood Row, Fulwood, Preston. (RG12-3448, folio 42, page 7)
2:	Gertrude is actually Alice Gertrude, who may have been known by her middle name.
3:	The above information is taken from the census returns on microfiche at the Lancashire Archives.

1901 CENSUS OF FULWOOD, PRESTON, LANCASHIRE:
NAME:	RELATION:	CONDITION:	SEX:	AGE:	OCCUPATION:	BIRTHPLACE:
Thomas Battersby	Head	Widower	M	47	Contractor Builder	Fulwood, Lancashire
John W Battersby	Son	Unmarried	M	24	Carpenter & Joiner	Fulwood, Lancashire
A. G. Battersby	Daughter	Unmarried	F	22	-	Fulwood, Lancashire
F. C. Battersby	Daughter	Unmarried	F	19	-	Fulwood, Lancashire
T. F. Battersby	Son	Unmarried	M	18	Carpenter & Joiner	Fulwood, Lancashire
E. M. Battersby	Daughter	Unmarried	F	15	-	Fulwood, Lancashire

NOTES:
1:	Living at Lauderdale House, Fulwood, Preston. (RG13-3963, folio 56, page 37)
2:	Thomas Battersby's actual place of birth was Samlesbury, Lancashire.
3:	For some reason, the Enumerator only entered the first initials for the younger children. He did not do this for any of the other families on the page.
4:	The above information is taken from the census returns on microfiche at the Lancashire Archives.

Thomas Battersby was married for a second time in 1906 to Lottie Southworth (nee Cooper) a widow. They were married in a civil ceremony in Birkenhead, on the Wirral, Cheshire.

By 1911, they were living in the village of Haighton:

1911 CENSUS OF HAIGHTON, LANCASHIRE:
NAME:	RELATION:	CONDITION:	SEX:	AGE:	OCCUPATION:	BIRTHPLACE:
Thomas Battersby	Head	Married	M	57	Retired Joiner & Builder	Samlesbury, Lancashire
Lottie Battersby	Wife	Married	F	43	-	Church, Lancashire

NOTES:
1:	Living at "Beechwood", Haighton, near Preston.
2:	Thomas and Lottie had been married 4 years, and Lottie had no children.
3:	The above information is taken from an image of the original schedule on-line at www.1911census.co.uk.

NOTES:
1:	Gamull Lane, which is the name of a road and an area of Fulwood, seems to have been spelled in a variety of ways over the years and I'm not sure whether these variations were due to poor spelling or whether the name actually changed over time. Today, it is spelled 'Gamull Lane'.
2:	The above information is taken from microfilmed copies of Preston newspapers at the Harris Reference Library in Preston, on-line indexes of births, marriages and deaths at www.lancashirebmd.org.uk, the various census returns, and Preston Trade Directories held at the Lancashire Archives.

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