Joseph Castledine

Joseph was the son of Joseph Castledine and his second wife, Mary Ann (née Kerry).

Joseph snr. (b. 1860, Somercotes, Derbyshire) was the son of Thomas Castledine and his second wife Elizabeth (née Stevens). Thomas married four times, first to Martha Colston/Coulston at Whatton St John in January 1846 by whom he had three sons, William, Edwin and Isiah born 1852 who died in childhood. Thomas married secondly Elizabeth Stevens in September 1856 at Sandiacre St Giles, and they had two sons, James Henry and Joseph. Elizabeth died in 1862 and her widower married Hannah Whitworth in April 1863 (Riddings St James, Derbyshire). Following Hannah's death in 1871, Thomas married Martha Treice in 1873. Thomas died in 1903 and his widow Martha in 1916.

Joseph had been living in Alfreton with his father, stepmother Hannah, and half-brothers Edwin and James in 1871 but by 1881 was living at Bostquet Farm, Sandiacre, with his widowed maternal grandfather, James Stevens, a retired farmer. Joseph was employed as a general domestic servant.

Joseph married Harriet Smith at Crich St Mary in 1889. They had three children, Laurence (Smith) who was born the year before their marriage, Mabel b. 1890 and Harriet Gladys b. 1893 (bap July 1893). Joseph, Harriet and their children, Laurence and Mabel, were living in Blackwell, Mansfield, in 1891. Harriet died aged 35 in 1893 (death registered in the second quarter) the year their third child, Harriet Gladys, was born. Joseph married Mary Ann Kerry (b. 1864) at Wilford St Wilfrid in February the following year. The couple had four children: Ada b. 1895 and Florence b. 1896 (d. 1898, Croydon) whose births were registered in Mansfield, Nottinghamshire, and Thomas b. 1898 and Joseph b. 1899 who were born in West Croydon, Surrey. Both sons were baptised at Croydon Christ Church, Joseph on 19 February 1899.

Joseph snr, a brickworks labourer, and Mary Ann were living on Thornton Road, Croydon, in 1901 with two of his three children by his first marriage, Mabel and Gladys, and their three surviving children, Ada, Thomas and Joseph. Joseph's eldest son, Laurence (Smith) was living in Crich, Derbyshire, with his maternal aunt Hannah Gretton (née Smith) and her husband Benjamin, a farmer.

Joseph snr. died in 1903 (reg. Burton upon Trent), and his widow Mary Ann, a charwoman, was living at Rupert Grove, Middle Furlong Road, Meadows, Nottingham, in 1911. Also in the household were her stepdaughter Mabel and her three surviving children, Ada, a shop assistant (confectionary), Thomas, an errand boy (stationers), and Joseph who was school age. Also in the home on the night of the census were four visitors, her sister Ada Castledine (b. 1874, née Kerry formerly Winfield), the second wife of William Castledine (b. 1874), their daughter Gladys and Ada's stepdaughters, Bertha and Mary Ellen Castledine.

Mary Ann Castledine was living at 36 White Road, Nottingham Road, Basford, in 1921. Also in the home were her daughter Ada, a cigarette packer, son Thomas, a cigarette machine operator, both of whom worked for John Player and Sons, and a visitor, Margaret Ann Newstead, who married Thomas the following year.

Mary Ann later moved to 61 Scotland Road, Old Basford, where she died on 4 May 1929.

Her son Thomas, his wife and their daughter Margaret were living at the same address at the time the 1939 England & Wales Register was compiled; Thomas was still employed as a cigarette machine operator but was also serving in the Auxialiary Fire Service. Thomas's sister, Ada, who was also still working for John Player & Sons, was living on Fox Road, Nottingham; she died in 1955.