Through the Trees: 53.1 Siblings of John Traviss Squire

Alfred and Agnes Squire had eight children in Barnsley.

In 1881, she is visiting the widowed daughter of a corn merchant in The Lanes, Thurlstone nr Barnsley.
Married her first cousin Henry Green (1856-1928) in Barnsley in 1882
Henry has picked up part of the family business making first steel, then railway wagon springs. They lived in Butterthwaite, Ecclesfield; then 30 Victoria Road, Broomhall, and kept a servant.
1901: 30 Victoria Road, Eccleshall Bierlow. Railway wagon spring manufacturer
This is a couple of streets away from Sheffield Botanical Gardens which had been open for nearly 50 years.

Sheffield Botanical Gardens (my photo)

1901: Bushwood Hall, which is the manor house of Bushwood nr Henley-in-Arden. My photos of Henley are here.

Bushwood Hall (credit)

1911: “Roslyn”, Packwood, [Earlswood Road, according to one source] Dorridge nr Solihull - very close to where the other side of the family ended up
Died in Warwick district. My photos of Warwick are here.

Married Alexander Brown Bell (1861-1939) at St George, Barnsley in 1889
Alexander was a Scot, and a journalist/editor. They lived at 7 Victoria Crescent, Barnsley. Alexander's brother, Robert, also a journalist, was also there; they kept a servant
Alexander was a leader writer for the Sheffield Morning Telegraph, and later Assistant Editor and Chief Leader-Writer of The Yorkshire Evening Post. The paper, founded 1890, is published by the Yorkshire Post but is Leeds-based, and more liberal than its parent.
Children:

1901: 102 Harcourt Road, Hallam [Sheffield]. He is now a journalist, leader writer and author. Robert now has a wife.
1911: He is a managing editor, and they live at Benalla, Linden Road, Gloucester.
Died in Sudbury nr Wembley, London

At the YWCA hostel (est 1884) at 101 Mortimer St, Marylebone in 1891. She is a type writer and has shorthand
1901: Boarding at 5 Farm Avenue, Streatham. Shorthand teacher.
1911: Private estates clerk. 56 Ovington Street, Cadogan Square, Chelsea (flat).

Married Annie; no known children
1881: Draper's apprentice, staying at Lamb Boarding House, Market Place, Gainsborough. The Lamb had been an inn. It closed in 1887. My pictures of Gainsborough are here.

Market Square, Gainsborough (my photo)

1891: Lodger at 57 Gloucester Street, Ecclesall [Broomhall], Sheffield. Draper's assistant.
1901: Married. Manager of a Drapery. At 62 Trafford Street, Farnworth, [Bolton] Lancashire [Manchester]. 1911: Fancy Draper (!). Living at 83 Hampden Street.
My photos of Bolton are here. The Town Hall was finished in 1873. The textile industry employed 36,000 people in Bolton at this time, probably not including drapers!

Bolton Town Hall (my photo)

One night in 1916, a Zeppelin balloon dropped twenty-one bombs on Bolton, killing thirteen people. Incendiaries were aimed at the Town Hall. This was one of about 50 air raids on Britain in WWI.

1891: At home in Barnsley. Art needleworker. The Royal School of Art Needlework was founded in 1872.

Typical Victorian Art Needlework (for sale)

1901/1911: At home with her widowed mother in Barnsley. Now a fancy draper, shopkeeper and employer. She has presumably taken over the family business, which looks like a sudden increase in responsibility!
Another researcher suggests that she died in Australia, presumably retiring and emigrating/travelling after the death of her mother.

More on these individuals in Chapter 59.

Next (John's paternal cousins)

Through the Trees