Joseph Samuel Powdrill

Joseph Samuel was the eldest son of Reuben John and Eliza Ann Powdrill (née Smith). His father Reuben was born in 1868 and his mother in Barton, Lancashire, in about 1878. They were married at Gotham St Lawrence on 25 December 1897 and had six children five of whom survived infancy or childhood: Sarah Annie b. 1897 (O/N/D, reg. surname Smith) bap. Gotham St Lawrence 20 February 1898, Joseph Samuel b. 17 August 1899 nap. St Lawrence 22 October 1899, Arthur b. 1898 Frederick b. 1906 and Emma Eliza b. 1908. All the children were born in Gotham. Reuben was a gypsum miner and in 1901 he, his wife and two children, Sarah Annie and Joseph, were living on Malt Street, Gotham. By 1911 Reuben and Eliza had moved to Queen Street, Gotham. Four of their five children were in the home on the night of the census; Joseph, Arthur, Frederick and Emma Eliza. The eldest child, Sarah (13), was living in East Leake where she was employed as a farm servant by Mrs Mary Binnersley. At the time of Joseph's death the family home was at Wallace Street, Gotham. Joseph's father, Reuben, died in 1924.