John George Egleshaw

John George was the only son of James Maxfield Egleshaw and his second wife Mary nee Hawley. James first marriage was to Ellen Truswell (1862 J/A/S Basford) and they had at least four children: Phillip (b. 1863), Hannah (b. 1865), James Maxfield (b. 1866 O/N/D Basford) and William (b. 1874). Ellen died in 1878 (O/N/D Basford) aged 38. James married Mary Hawley on 24 March 1879 (J/F/M Nottingham) at St Mark's, Nottingham. Mary had a son, William (Hawley) and she and James had at least three children: Florence Mary b. 21 June 1882 (J/A/S Basford), John George b. 3 September 1884 (O/N/D Basford) and Thirza birth registered 1890 (J/F/M Basford) who died in 1902. James and Mary were living at 5 Chelsea Street, Basford, in 1881 but had moved to Oxford Street, Bulwell, by 1891. In the home on the night of the 1891 census were James (39), a lace maker, and Mary (33), James' children Phillip (18) a lace threader, Hannah (16) a lace mender, James M. (14) a lace warper, and William (7) together with Mary's son William Hawley (5). James and Mary had moved to Oxford Street, Bulwell, by 1891; only five children, Wiliam (17) a lace hand, Florence (8), John George (6), Thirza (1) and William Hawley (15) a lace hand, were in the home on the night of the census. The family was living at 7 Byron Street, Nottingham, by 1901. James (59) was still working as a lace maker. In the home on the night of the census were John (16) a coal miner, Thirza (11) and their married daughter Florence Burton (18) and her husband William Burton (19) a boot wheeler at an iron works. Their youngest child Thirza died the following year (1902 (J/A/S Nottingham) aged 12. John's mother, Mary, died in 1910 (O/N/D Southwell) aged 63. John George married Ellen Moore (b. Southwell) in 1908 (J/A/S Southwell). They had four children: Florence Annie b. 1 February 1909 (J/F/M Southwell), Kenneth Maxfield b.11 January 1911 (J/F/M Southwell), Mary Ellen b. 1914 (O/N/D Southwell) and Grace Evelyn b. 28 April 1917 (A/M/J Southwell). In 1911 John (26) a lacemaker-curtain twist hand, and Ellen (24) were living on Spring Terrace, Southwell, with their two children Florence Annie (2) and Kenneth Maxfield (u/1 year). Also in the household was John's widowed father, James Maxfield (69), a retired lacemaker. John's father, James Maxfield, died in 1922 (J/A/S Southwell) aged 81. It appears that John's wife and children moved to Gainsborough, Lincolnshire, after his death. Of John George's four children: Florence Annie married George R Dales in 1930 (J/F/M Gainsborough) and they were recorded on the 1939 England & Wales Register at 16 Burgh Road, Skegness, in the household of George F Dales (b. 2 January 1870) a dairy farmer, and his wife Rose A. (b. 21 Decmber 1869). Florence and George (b. 5 September 1895) were described on the register as 'assisting dairy farmer'. They may have had a son, Kenneth W. b. 1944 (A/M/J Spilsby Lincs-Egleshaw). Florence probably died in 2001 (O/N/D Boston Lincs). Kenneth Maxfield, a railway porter with LNER, was living at 3 Shipyard Lane, East Retford, in 1939 in the household of Herbert and Helen Parkin. Railway employee records show that in 1939 he was based at Walkeringham station; he had probably been working there since 9 March 1938. Kenneth married Dorothy Marguerite Catlow in 1945 (J/F/M East Retford). Dorothy (b. 23 July 1917) died in 1981 (O/N/D Lincoln) and Kenneth died on 23 November 1988 (O/N/D Gainsborough Lincs); the probate record (Leeds) gave his address as 7 Stockwith Road, Walkeringham. Mary Ellen may have married Stephen E Thursby in 1953 (A/M/J East Retford) Grace Evelyn, a shop assistant, was living at 8 Trinity Terrace, Gainsborough, in 1939; also in the property were Kate Dowse (b. 1862), Laura Shearman (b. 1890) both of whose occupation was described as unpaid domestic duties, Wilfred Shearman (b. 1912) a hairdresser's assistant and Robert Shearman (b. 1916) a window cleaner. Grace married Joseph R Shearman in 1941 (J/F/M Gainsborough Lincs). They may have had a son, Michael D. b. 1941 (J/A/S Gainsborough Lincs-Egleshaw). There is a record of the death of a Grace Evelyn Shearman (b. 28 April 1917) in 1998 (June Winchester Hants). Of John George's two siblings: Florence Mary married William Burton on 24 December 1900 at Bulwell St Mary the Virgin and All Souls. They may have had at least five children: Florence May b. 1901 (J/A/S Nottingham), George William b. 1904 (J/A/S Southwell), Ida Ellen b. 1906 (A/M/J Southwell), who were recorded on the 1911 Census, and possibly Mary H. birth registered 1912 (J/F/M Basford), Constance E b. 1914 (J/A/S Basford) and Doris M b. 1922 (O/N/D Southwell), the birth records of whom give the mother's surname as Egleshaw. In 1911 William (29) a lace maker, and Florence (28) were living at Easthorpe, Southwell, with their children Florence (9), George (6) and Ida (4). By 1939 Florence and William (b. 2 April 1882), a twist hand in a lace factory, were living at 14 Lower Kirklington Road, Southwell. Florence died on 28 April 1974; the probate record gave her address as The Old Vicarage, Westgate, Southwell. Thirza died in 1902 aged 12.