49.4 Cousins of Caroline Wheaver (née Barnes)

Charles Barnes and Elizabeth Merry had seven children. Their children were Caroline's siblings and first cousins.

• 34.1.1 Charles Barnes (1819-1906)
• See Chapter 34

• 34.1.2 Richard Aspley Barnes (1823-1893)
• No children

• 34.1.3 - Caroline Barnes (1825-1917)
• Charles Smith (1852-1918)
• Clicker (cutter out of shoe uppers); living in Stone with his mother
• The market town of Stone had lost its status as a coaching town due to the coming of the railways. However, the railways brought prosperity to the shoe industry - at its height in 1851 there were 16 shoe works in the town. Much of the production went to Australia, and at the mercy of tariffs. My photos of Stone are here.

Possible former shoe factory in Stone (my photo)

• Unemployed in 1881; back in work by 1891
• A house agent in 1901, still living with his mother
• Martha Smith (1855-1880)
• Recorded as a clicker, living at home in 1871.
• Died at age 25
• Mary Smith (1860-1888)
• Married Frank Lovelock (1860) at Christ Church, Stone in 1886
• Children:
• Katherine Mary Lovelock (1887)
• Died at age 27

Stone (my photo)

• 34.1.4 Martha Barnes (1826-1904)
• John Charles McGerrow (1843-1848)
• Died as a child

• Mary Elizabeth McGerrow (1845-1922)

Mary McGerrow

• Born Forebridge, Stafford. My photos of Stafford are here. Or in Manchester, according to later censuses!
• Married Henry Slater (1848-1889) in Fulford, Stoke in 1871
• Henry was a dairyman in Walton nr Stone
• Martha was a widowed farmer in Milwich nr Stone in 1891/1901/1911
• Children:
• Alice Mary Slater (1871)
• Harry A Slater (1872)
• Henry Slater (1873)
• John Steedman Astbury Slater (1876)
• Andrew McGerrow Slater (1879)
• William Wright Slater (1882)
• Alfred Kilshaw Slater (1884)
• Blanche Slater (1888)

• Andrew Samuel McGerrow (1847-1848)
• Died as an infant, in West Derby, Liverpool

• Elizabeth Astbury (1854-1929)
• My photos of Bridgwater are here
• Living with her widowed aunt, Jane Astbury on the High St, Eccleshall, Staffs in 1871
• Married George Forden (1859) in Ashcott nr Bridgwater, Somerset in 1890
• My photos of Bridgwater are here
• George was a General Practitioner in Ashcott
• By 1901, he had moved his practice to the Old Estate Office (and The Leaze in 1911) in Berkeley, Gloucs. My photos of Berkeley are here.

Berkeley Arms, Berkeley (my photo)

• Dr Edward Jenner had pioneered the science of vaccination here in the C18. His house is now a museum.
• Children:
• Leonard Astbury Forden (1891)
• Marjorie Ursula Forden (1892)

• John Steedman Astbury (1855-1946)
• Farmer's son; stayed with his mother at Milwich after her widowhood
• His mother gave up the farm and became the licensee at the Horseshoe Inn (here, I think), Hilderstone nr Stone
• John was a farmer's bailiff, living at the inn
• John was still alive, a retired farmer in Milwich at the outbreak of WWII, and appears in the 1939 Register
• Married Frances Lowe (1815-1925)
• No known children

• Ann Astbury (1857-1902)
• Born Milwich
• Married James Collier (1845-1920) in Seighford (this could mean Milwich), Stafford in 1879
• James was a farmer of 124 acres in Seighford, who kept a domestic servant, and three farm 'servants': a waggoner and wagon boy, and a cowman
• Children:
• William Collier (1880)
• James Collier (1881)
• Anne Collier (1882)
• John Astbury Collier (1884)
• Harry Collier (1885)
• Francis Collier (1888)
• Sarah Collier (1891)
• Edward Collier (1893)
• George Steadman Collier (1897)

• Edward Astbury (1859-1921)
• Stayed on family farm (Oulton House Farm). Died only a year after his stepfather. His memorial at Milwich church is recorded here.

Oulton House Farm (credit oultonhousefarm.co.uk)

• Alice Mary Astbury (1861-1937)
• Married James Collier (1845) in (or near) Stafford in 1906
• James was her sister Ann's widower
• In 1911, they were both farmers, living at Oulton House, Milwich

• Blanche Martha Astbury (1864-1953)

Blanche Astbury

• With her grandmother, Martha Astbury, at Oulton House in 1891
• Married James William Hughes (1858-1927) in Uttoxeter in 1897
• James was a land surveyor in Uttoxeter
• Someone counted 79 different historical ways to spell Uttoxeter. It's a market town close to the Staffs/Derbys border. Back then it was dominated by the Bunting's Brewery, now replaced with a shopping centre. 

Uttoxeter (credit)

• They had moved to Stafford by 1911
• She married Samuel Leighton (d. 1945) in Stafford in 1928
• No known children

• 34.1.5 Mary Barnes (1826-1886)
• Mary Elizabeth Heath (1853-1907)
• Married William Bradbury (1855-1879)
• Children:
• Mary Rebecca Bradbury (1877)
• Florence Bradbury (1879)
• 1881: with her father, Samuel, and her children
• Married John Brinson (1826-1894) in 1885
• 1891: with her new husband, and his father at the Smithfield Hotel, Lichfield. She is a barmaid.
• Children:
• Arthur Brinson (1870)
• Emily Mary Brinson (1886)
• John Samuel Brinson (1890)
• The hotel was built in 1848 to serve the new railway

Smithfield Hotel, Lichfield (credit)

• 1901: widowed again. Licensed victualler of the Smithfield.
• 2007: Planning permission granted to demolish the Hotel and the old Tesco to build a new Tesco
• Married Frederick John Burton (1864-1946) in 1904

• Martha Heath (1855-1926)
• Stayed at the family farm until at least 25
• 1891: a nurse in Stockwell, Lambeth; 1901: retired

• William Heath (1856-1916) 

Samuel Heath

• 1881: Farm labourer in Milwich
• Married Sarah Elizabeth Lane (1858) in Hereford in 1886
• My photos of Hereford are here
• Children:
• William Stanley Heath (1889)
• William was born in Gloucester
• My photos of Gloucester are here
• 1891: Farm manager / servant to an Elizabeth Wheavel(!) at Brewood (pron. brood) nr Stafford
• 1901: Licensed victualler. Living at 65 Coventry Rd, Deritend. Kept a servant, Annie Green. 
• The pub was the Bordesley Park Tavern, demolished before 1940
• Strikingly, although the pub has gone, Street View shows a large ad for George Heath Motors. I wonder if he'll show up later. Apparently George Heath was a Rootes dealer next to the only Rootes factory (the Singer Factory) in Birmingham. It was less than 2 miles from where William was living. It closed before 2013.
• 1911: Farmer again. Now at Madams Hill, Shirley, parish of Tanworth.

• Samuel Heath (1859-1930)

• 1881: Assistant to grocer ('servant') 98-99 Ladywood Rd, Birmingham (now apparently built over by either the Deaf Culture Centre or the Bethel Apostolic Church of Excellence)
• 1891: Back at home with father in Milwich. Grocer's traveller.
• Married Edith Mary Martin (1873) in Lichfield in 1899
• Edith's father, George Martin, had been a founder of the Lichfield Brewing Company. He gave the house on Sandford St for conversion to the Lichfield Victoria Hospital and President of the Hospital for 20 years. A maternity wing was added in 1941. I was born there in 1966.

Victoria Hospital, Lichfield

• George Martin was Sheriff of Lichfield from 1891-1893. 
• 1901: Baker and grocer; shopkeeper at 25 Sandford St, Lichfield. Kept a servant.
• 1911: At Angorfa, Walsall Rd. Now demolished.
• 1919: Appointed Sheriff of Lichfield. Also re-elected to the Board of Guardians.

• Ann Heath (1861-1928)

Annie Heath

• 1881: Working as a domestic servant at her cousin Thomas Gilbert's house in Milwich
• 1891: Back with her father in Milwich

• Sally Heath (1864-1910)
• Married Adam Haslam (1858-1925) in Radcliffe, Bury in 1885
• Adam was an engine driver in a cotton mill, born locally
• They lived at 9 Park St, Radcliffe; and then No. 10
• In 1901, he was a mechanical engineer
• Children:
• Adam Haslem (1882). Stepchild.
• Claudius Haslam (1886)

• Beatrice Heath (1866-1953)

Beatrice Heath

• 1891: Nurse, living with her sister Martha in Stockwell
• Married William Nevill Cheatle (1862-1920) at St Michael, Stockwell, Lambeth in 1892
• William was an auctioneer. In 1901, they lived in Rugeley, Staffs.
• William was absent in 1911; Beatrice was a housekeeper at Oakfield House, Selly Park. It's now a residential and day support centre for autistic people.
• Children:
• Harriet Beatrice Cheatle (1892)
• Anne May (Maisie) Cheatle (1898)
• Victoria Alexandra N Cheatle (1902)
• 1939: Widowed. Unpaid domestic duties at the Chetwynd Arms, Brocton, Stafford, which is still open

• Lydia Jane Heath (1868-1953)

Lydia Heath

• 1891: Barmaid at the Smithfield Hotel with sister Mary
• Married James Acker (1856-1924) in Lichfield in 1891
• Children:
• Arthur Howard Asker (1892, Williamstown, Ireland)
• 1901: James was an army pensioner; they lived at the District 38/64 Regimental Depot; 1911: 42 Bore St, Lichfield
• 1939: Widowed, and living with her widowed sister Beatrice

• Arthur Thomas Heath (1870-1931)
• 1891: Grocer's apprentice, Hanley, Stoke
• 1901: Farmer in Rugeley
• Married Lizzie Toy (1880-1954) in 1906
• Children:
• Beatrice Mary Heath (1908)
• Kathleen May Heath (1910)
• 1911: Farmer and auctioneer; 31 Station Rd, Rugeley

• 34.1.6 Edward Barnes (1828-1873)
• Charles Aspley Barnes (1854-1930)

Charles Ashley Barnes

• 1871: Joiner. Living with mother, hotel keeper, Liverpool
• Married Mary Elizabeth George (1851-1929) in Derby in 1877
• 1881: Poultry breeder in Formby. Formby beach is now belongs to the National Trust 
• Children:
• Florence Mary Barnes (1878)
• John Edward Barnes (1880)
• Ethel Margaret Barnes (1882)
• Alice Emery Barnes (1884)
• George Aspley Barnes (1886)
• Percy Ratcliffe Barnes (1888)
• Lillian Harriet Barnes (1890)
• Lucy Barnes (1893)
• 1891: Electrician and model maker, Toxteth Park, Liverpool
• Toxteth Library was built in 1902, and I like it. 1901: Electrical engineer.

Toxteth Library (my photo)

• 1911: Estate agent, living at 14 Brabant Rd, Aigburth, Liverpool

• John Edward Lloyd Barnes (1862-1942) 
• Married Annie Avis Astbury (1863) in Toxteth Park in 1883
• He was a patent agent and consulting engineer, and they lived at 46 Poplar Road, [Oxton] Tranmere, Birkenhead; later No 56. My photos of Birkenhead are here.
• He has a page on Grace's Guide, which has his obituary from the Institution of Mechanical Engineers:

"JOHN EDWARD LLOYD BARNES, Wh.Sc., whose death occurred on 15th January 1942, was a Member of the Institution for more than half a century, having been elected in 1891 and for fully as long had practiced as a consulting engineer and chartered patent agent in partnership with Mr. R. A. Sloan in Liverpool, where he was from his early years prominent as a pioneer in the field of technical education. He was born in 1863 and received his technical education at the Liverpool School of Science, obtaining a Whitworth Scholarship and Royal Exhibition in 1883, and served his apprenticeship with the Victory Engineering Company of Edge Hill, in whose employment he continued as draughtsman in sole charge of the drawing office for a further three years.

In 1884 he began his long association with technical education by accepting an appointment as lecturer on engineering at the Birkenhead School of Science and Art and in the following year he became lecturer on electrical engineering at the Liverpool School of Science and Technology; these classes were the first of their kind to be held in the provinces and he brought them by his efforts to a high pitch of efficiency.

Mr. Barnes retired in 1936, having held the office of principal of the Birkenhead Technical College for twenty-five years. He was also a past-president of the Chartered Institute of Patent Agents [1927-1928] and a past-president of the Liverpool Engineering Society."

• In 1893, filed his own patent for Improvements in Safety Devices for Hitching Horses. There are probably more!
• Children:
• Mary Astbury Barnes (1885)
• Daniel Edward Lloyd Barnes (1887)
• Annie Dorothea Barnes (1890)
• John Alexander Lloyd Barnes (1890)

• 34.1.7 Thomas Merry Barnes (1830-1908)
• James Adams Barnes (1855)
• 1871: Apprentice draper in Stone with John and Alice Foden
• 1881: Draper, Tunbridge Wells, Kent
• My photos of Tunbridge Wells are here
• Married Catherine Esther Tidy (1857) in Blean, Canterbury, Kent in 1882
• My photos of Canterbury are here
• Children:
• Miney Cotton Barnes (1884)
• James Olly Barnes (1886)
• 1891: Assistant draper, 20 Prestonville Rd, Preston, Brighton, Sussex
• My photos of Brighton are here
• 1901: Linen buyer, draper at 8 Lewes Rd, Eastbourne
• My photos of Eastbourne are here
• 1911: Farmer! Inheritance?; Waldron, Sussex

• Elizabeth Sarah Barnes (1856-1882)
• 1881: Milliner, living with draper, Stone

• Caroline Mary Barnes (1859-1943)
• 1881: At home, age 21. No further record found.

• Thomas Merry Barnes (1861-1937)
• 1881: Shopman and grocer in Castle Church
• Married Elizabeth Mary Maggs (nee Key) (1867) in Stafford in 1889
• Children:
• Elizabeth Mary Barnes (1890)
• Thomas Merry Barnes (1891)
• James Adams Barnes (1892)
• Victor Robert Barnes (1896)
• Herbert Frank Barnes (1899)
• John Edward Barnes (1900)
• 1891: Linesman for telegraph co in Stafford ; 1901: Foreman
• 1911: 109 Cannock Road, Wolverhampton

Telegraphy

• Developed in the 1830s and 1840s by Samuel Morse (1791-1872) and other inventors, the telegraph revolutionized long-distance communication. It worked by transmitting electrical signals over a wire laid between stations. In addition to helping invent the telegraph, Samuel Morse developed a code (bearing his name) that assigned a set of dots and dashes to each letter of the English alphabet and allowed for the simple transmission of complex messages across telegraph lines. In 1844, Morse sent his first telegraph message, from Washington, D.C., to Baltimore, Maryland; by 1866, a telegraph line had been laid across the Atlantic Ocean from the U.S. to Europe. Although the telegraph had fallen out of widespread use by the start of the 21st century, replaced by the telephone, fax machine and Internet, it laid the groundwork for the communications revolution that led to those later innovations. (History).
• During WWI, electric telegraphs were used throughout the war, on both sides. They were used to communicate from the front line trenches to the officers, and from nation to nation via telegraph lines throughout Europe and across the Atlantic, telegraph machines allowed governments and their leaders to instantly receive information on troop movements, battle outcomes, and other crucial information. (USMC Museum) The Allied artillery and the infantry soon separately developed complex ‘closed-circuit’ wireline networks for both Morse telegraphy and voice telephony, with the two distinct sets of networks interconnected at headquarters and at ‘forward positions’. Some tens of thousands of miles of copper-core cables were laid behind the trenches as well as right up to the frontline itself, initially resulting in a chaos of interference and interruption which was only later overcome by the use of insulation. (E&T)
• Historically, telegrams were sent across a network of interconnected telegraph offices. A person visiting a local telegraph office paid by the word to have a message telegraphed to another office and delivered to the addressee on a paper form. Messages sent by telegraph could be delivered faster than mail, and even in the telephone age, the telegram remained popular for social and business correspondence. At their peak in 1929, an estimated 200 million telegrams were sent.

NTC Linesman (or Lineman) at Work, c 1900 (BT)

Post Office Telegraphs Manhole Cover (my photo)

• Edward Bartlane Barnes (1865-1903)
• No record found after 1871

• Arthur Barnes (1866-1892)
• Born in Eccleshall, Staffs
• 1881: Apprentice draper at brother James' shop in Tunbridge Wells
• Died in 1892, Stone, Staffs

• 34.1.8 Horatio Barnes (1837-1877)
• William Charles Barnes (1868)
• At home in Chebsey in 1881; no later record found

• Horatio John Barnes (1869)
• 1891: Miller, staying with cousin William Kelsall, drayman in Stone
• Married Mary Elizabeth Devereux (1871) in Stone in 1892
• Children:
• Martha Louisa Barnes (1893)
• William Horatio Barnes (1895)
• Arthur John Barnes (1898)
• 1901: Labourer at brewery, living at 11 Mount Rd, Stone
• This would have been the former Montgomery & Co brewery, Mount St, which had been bought out, and enlarged, by Bent's Brewery of Liverpool

Bent's Brewery (credit)

• Married Annie
• 1911: A dairy farmer! In Yarnfield nr Stone

• Elizabeth Ward Barnes (1871-1875)
• Died as a child

• Caroline Mary Barnes (1873-1959)
• Married Marshall Thomas Evans (1877-1967) in Stoke in 1904
• He was an assistant to china & earthenware dealer
• They lived at 89 Neville St, Oak Hill, Stoke-on-Trent in 1911...
• ...and were still there in 1939, by when he was a bricklayer
• Children:
• John Asbury Evans (1911)

• Martha Louisa Barnes (1875)
• Married George Cooper in Stoke on 1903
• No record found after then; no known children

• Bertha Alice Barnes (1879)
• Staying with cousin William Kelsall, and brother Horatio in Stone in 1891
• No record found since

Sarah had a half-sister in Bromsgrove, Worcs but Caroline had no cousins on her mother's side.

• 34.2.1 Mary Ann Hedges (1803-1828)
• Sarah's Stepdaughter
• Died unmarried at age 25

• 34.2.2 Sarah Rose Hedges (1822)
• See Chapter 34

More information on these individuals in Chapter 57.

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