SPRING HILL, CROOKES, SHEFFIELD - 1901 CENSUS

These following details are taken from the 1901 Census for the Eccliastical Parish of St Thomas, Crookes in Sheffield 

Census Place: Nether Hallam, York, England
PRO Ref RG13 Piece 4339 Folio 36 Page 7 - SPRING HILL

Census Place: Nether Hallam, York, England
PRO Ref RG13 Piece 4339 Folio 36 Page 8 - SPRING HILL

Extract from Whites Directory for Sheffield 1901

I have been able to find a little bit more about the couple that live in our house ARTHUR and ALICE SHACKLOCK. Arthur George SHACKLOCK was christened in Bolsover, Derbyshire on 25th February 1865. He was the son of Joshua and Elizabeth SHACKLOCK. The 1881 Census has Arthur as a 15 year old boarder in a school in Chesterfield - St Mary's House. (FHLF 1341820 PRO REF RG11/3430/104 Page 1). His marriage to ALICE occurred at the relatively late age of 32 in the March quarter of 1897 (GRO REF Sheffield Vol 9C Page 620). Alice's maiden nmae was MOORE and as the census indicates was born in Wadsley, Sheffield. The only other fact that appears in the 1901 Census is that ARTHUR worked on "his own account", the only person to do so who lived in the houses 23 - 41 Spring Hill

The family next door at 39 Spring Hill, WILLIAM and FLORENCE BRITTLEBANK were from Sheffield, although I believe that there may be a question over whether or not they were born in Wadsley. It is far more likely that they were born in Sheffield itself, Wadsley being a village in the mid nineteenth century. The 1881  Census living as a 15 year old Warehouse Boy (Factory Labourer) with his family at 120 Meadow Street, Sheffield (FHLF 1342122 PRO REF RG11/4645/98 Page 6). He was the son of an unemployed Sheffield born Scale Cutter (Cutler) also called WILLIAM. His mother MARY JANE was also born in Sheffield He married his wife FLORENCE LLEWELLYN in the December quarter of 1895 (GRO REF Sheffield Vol 9C Page 631). Florence Ann was the daughter  of WILLIAM and ELIZA LLEWELLYN who in 1881 lived at 57 Oxford Street in the Netherthorpe area of Sheffield (FHLF 1342116 PRO REF RG11/4621/67 Page19). Her occupation is given as "at home domestic". She had four brothers and a sister, three of which were younger than her.  Her father WILLIAM was a "Steel Toy Forger & Finisher&Hammer Finisher" who originated form Birmingham. William is of interest in as much as he started his working life as a factory labourer and twenty years later was an engineering manager - classic Victorian. He may have had to move for the records show that his son was born in the Edmonton area of London in 1897.  

There is however a terribly sad postscript for the family. Their son WILLIAM LLEWELLYN died at the Battle of The Somme in 1916 at just 19 years of age and like many thousands who died in the Great War he has no known grave.

The ASH family at 33 Spring Hill were living there 20 years earlier in 1881. JOHN ASH was still in the same trade - a Silversmith manger  and had been joined by his son JOHN WILLIAM. One daughter Nelly had left to marry a HERBERT MELLOR in 1895 but the other daughter ADA was still living in the family home. Incidentally, I believe that JOHN and LOUISA had been married for 34 years at the time of the 1901 Census. There is a record of a JOHN ASH and a LOUISA WING getting married in the December quarter of 1866  (GRO REF Ecclesall Bierlow Volume 9C Page 321).

As you have probably gathered from the Census the house next door to the ASH's is occupied by their younger daughter NELLIE and her husband HERBERT MELLOR who must have moved into the house soon after their marriage. They have two daughters DOROTHY MAY and MAJORIE. I cannot be certain but there is a HERBERT MELLOR who is the son of the widow ANN MELLOR in the 1881 Census. The family lived at 87 Carr Road (Family History Library Film 1342117 PRO REF RG11/4626/22 Page35). Carr Road is less than a mile away from Spring Hill in the Walkley district of Sheffield.

And finally there is another sad note to finish on. The son of the GIBBINS family who lived at 21 SPRING HILL was three years old in 1901. Like his near neighbour  WILLIAM LLEWELLYN BRITTLEBANK, he was also killed in The Great War - on Xmas Eve 1917 aged 20

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