41.1 Siblings of Alfred Squire

John and Sarah Squire had ten children in Sherburn in Elmet.

• 41.1.1 - Ann Squire (1814-1879)
• Married William Robinson (1809-1864) in Sherburn in 1833
• William was an agricultural labourer
• They lived on the family farm at Rest Park
• Children:
• Elizabeth Robinson (1833)
• John Robinson (1834). John died in 1837.
• Susanna Robinson (1838)
• John Robinson (1840)
• Ann (Annie) Robinson (1849)
• In 1871, Ann is widowed, living in York, and describing herself as a retired farmer. She keeps a servant.

• 41.1.2 - Edward Squire (1816-1862)
• Married Mary Rishworth (1818-1886) in Sherburn in 1856
• In 1851, described as a farm labourer - but his father is a farmer in the same household at Rest Park
• By 1861, Edward had inherited the farm at Rest Park but died a year later
• His gravestone is the oldest of the Squire gravestones in the churchyard
• Children:
• Mary Squire (1857)
• Edward Henry Squire (1861)

Edward Squire's gravestone,
Sherburn in Elmet (my photo)

• 41.1.3 - Sarah Ellen Squire (1818)
• Became a domestic servant in nearby Cawood
• Married George Shenkstone (1819) in Bradford in 1871. My photos of Bradford are here.
• He was a farmer. In 1881, they are recorded as visitors at her sister Mary's farm

• 41.1.4 - Alfred Squire (1820-1900)
• See Chapter 41

• 41.1.5 - Caroline Squire (1823-1888)
• Married William Smith (1805-1888)
• In 1851 was a farmer of 125 acres at Biggin, a small village a mile or two from Sherburn
• Children:
• David Smith (1845-1911)
• William Smith (1847-1928)
• Edward Smith (1849-1916)
• James Smith (1849-1941)
• Mary Smith (1856)
• Sarah Smith (1856)
• John Smith (1857)
• Thomas Smith (1857-1930)
• Charles Albert Dawson Smith (1863-1949)

• 41.1.6 - Mary Squire (1825-1897)
• 1851: At Rest Park. Next household is the Helm farm - William is the eldest son
• Married William Helm (1825-1929) at Sherburn in Elmet in 1854
• Children:
• Mary Jane Helm (1856)
• 1861: Main Street, Aberford. He farms 130 acres, employing 1 man and 2 boys
• 1871: Becca Farm. 450 Acres. Employing 10 labourers; 1881: Now nearly 600 acres; employing 11. Still there in 1891
• Becca Farm was on the Becca Hall estate, adjacent to the Parlington estate where the Rowlands lived (see Chapter 20)

• 41.1.7 - Charlotte Squire (1826)
• Baptism only recorded

• 41.1.8 - Edgar Squire (1827-1902)
• Married Isabella Featherstone (1821-1856)
• 1861: Farmer of 36 acres, Thurgoland nr Barnsley
• 1871: Farmer of 20 acres, Skelmanthorpe nr Huddersfield
• 1881-1901: Farmer (probably at the same farm) Cumberworth nr Huddersfield
• Children:
• Henry Squire (1853)
• John Squire (1856). John died in 1856.
• Isabella died in the year of John's birth
• Edger remarried Sarah Bradley (1836)

• 41.1.9 - David  Squire (1829-1830)
• David died as a baby.

• 41.1.10 - Hannah Squire (1830-1830)
• Hannah died as a baby.

More on these families in Chapter 53.

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