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GLOVER family (Walsall)
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Photographed at Wolverhampton Road, Walsall, c1907 - Elizabeth Fitch Glover (left), her daughter Amelia Moss (seated centre) and Amelia's children Howard (front) and Beatrice (right).
My great-great-great-grandfather was Timothy Glover, a curb chain maker, born c.1790. He was probably baptised at Meole Brace, near Shrewsbury, on 6 December 1789, son of Richard and Elizabeth (née Elks).
Timothy’s first marriage took place at St Matthew’s, Walsall, Staffordshire, on 4 December 1810, to Jane Whitehouse, and they lived in the area of Park Street. The church register gave Timothy’s occupation as factor (i.e. manufacturer, making saddlers’ ironmongery). The witnesses to the marriage were the parish clerk, and John James, who owned an iron foundry in Ablewell Street (and was possibly Timothy’s employer).
The couple’s children, all baptised at St Matthew’s, were Mary (14 July 1811); Elizabeth (30 May 1813); Sarah (30 Apr 1815, buried 8 Dec 1818); Timothy (3 Aug 1817, died 5 May 1846 - see end note); and John (16 May 1819, buried 29 Dec 1822).
In 1813 Timothy was recorded as receiving ten pence from Molesley’s Dole (one penny for each person) suggesting he was head of a household of ten, possibly because he had taken responsibility for a widowed parent and siblings. He does not appear on the Dole list for 1815, which suggests the family was living with another householder.
• Molesley's Dole is believed to have begun in the mid-15th century, when Thomas Molesley bequeathed land at Bescote, Warwickshire, the revenue from which to be given each year on the anniversary of his death for the benefit of his soul and that of his wife Margaret. Subsequently one penny per member of a household was paid to all those living in the Borough and Foreign of Walsall. By the 18th century this took place annually on the 1st January, thus providing a mini census of heads of household and each household's inhabitants on that night.
In 1816, 1817 and 1818 Timothy received a dole payment of five pence. The following year his wife Jane died at the age of 34 and was buried at St Matthew’s on 6 September 1819. That year he received a dole payment of six pence.
The 1818 Parsons & Bradshaw Staffordshire Directory lists the following Glovers trading in Walsall:
James Glover: iron and brass founder, New Street
Timothy Glover: bridle curb maker, Idle Alley, Park Street
John Glover: hinge maker, Birmingham Street
William Glover: trunk and padlock manufacturer, New Street
Thomas Glover: baker and flour dealer, Rushall Street.
Timothy’s second marriage took place in 1821, when he married Hannah Edwards at All Saints, West Bromwich, on 31 December that year. Their witnesses were James Mills (who later married Hannah’s sister, Frances) and Richard Stanley, churchwarden.
The family was now living at St Paul’s Row, just off Park Street, Walsall. In 1823, the year their son William was born, Timothy received seven pence dole money. Their other children were Louisa (bp. St Matthew’s 1 Feb 1824); Elizabeth, known as Betsey (2 Apr 1826); John (15 Feb 1829); Sarah (1833); and my great-great-grandfather Thomas (5 Jan 1834) - see end notes.
Bagot’s Trade Directory for 1828 lists only two Glovers trading in Walsall:
James Glover, ironfounder and shopkeeper, Ablewell Street
John Glover, ironfounder, Birmingham Street.
Timothy became a widower for the second time on 5 November 1839 when Hannah Glover died aged 45 of apoplexy at St Paul’s Row and was buried at St Matthew’s three days later. Present at her death was Phoebe Mills.
The 1841 census records the family living in Idle Alley, off Park Street:
Timothy Glover, aged 50, curb maker
Louisa Glover, 18, stitcher
William Glover, 18
Betsey Glover, 15, stitcher } all born Staffordshire
John Glover, 12
Sarah Glover, 8
Thomas Glover, 6.
Timothy Glover died on 13 February 1842 at St Paul’s Row, Walsall and was buried at St Matthew’s three days later. His death certificate gives his age as 51, occupation curb maker, cause of death - diseased liver. Witness to the death was Phoebe Mills, who had also been present at the death of Timothy's wife Hannah just over two years earlier.
The 1851 census records my great-great-grandfather Thomas as an apprentice chainmaker, aged 17, lodging at 206 Duncalf Street, Walsall Foreign, with chainmakers named Mills – probably the same family that his aunt Frances Edwards had married into (see Edwards family, below). The census also shows his brother John, a chainmaker, aged 22, unmarried, lodging at 146 Wisemore, Walsall Foreign, with his brother-in-law James Newey, who had married their sister Louisa in 1849.
On 25 February 1854 Thomas Glover married Elizabeth Fitch, daughter of John Fitch (see FITCH Family). The marriage certificate gives his age as 22, occupation, curb maker, address Wisemore, father Timothy Glover, curb maker. The witnesses were Thomas’s sister and brother-in-law, Elizabeth and William Cooper.
On the 1861 census the family were at 35 Stafford Road, Walsall:
Thomas Glover, head, aged 28, victualler; born Walsall
Elizabeth, wife, aged 29; born Grantham
Amelia A., daughter, aged 6; born Walsall
Elizabeth, daughter, aged 4; born Walsall
John, son, aged 2; born Walsall.
Jones's Mercantile Directory, 1865, records Thomas Glover as landlord of The Fox inn and a curb chain maker.
On the 1871 census the family was at 82 Green Lane, Walsall Foreign:
Thomas Glover, head, 37, bush & chain maker & butcher; born Walsall
Elizabeth, wife, 38; born Lincolnshire
Amelia Ann daughter, 16; born Walsall
Elizabeth, daughter, 14; born Walsall
John, son, 12; born Walsall
Sarah Jane, daughter, 1; born Walsall
Sarah Jane was baptised in Walsall on 22 May 1870. The other daughters were Amelia Ann, baptised 30 July 1854; and Elizabeth, baptised at St Peter's, Walsall, 22 June 1856.
By the time of the 1881 census Thomas’s family was still at 82 Green Lane:
Thomas Glover, aged 46, born Walsall; chain manufacturer
Elizabeth, aged 48, wife, born Walsall (actually, Grantham, Lincs)
John Thomas, aged 22, son, born Walsall; chainmaker
Sarah J., aged 11, daughter, born Walsall; scholar.
Thomas Glover died at 82 Green Lane, aged 49, on 7 March 1883. Cause of death was cirrhosis of the liver, and his son John Thomas Glover (then living at Proffitt Street) was present at the death.
On the 1891 census, Thomas’s widow Elizabeth was living at 77 Regent Street, Walsall:
Elizabeth Glover, head, widow, aged 59, born Walsall (sic)
Sarah Jane, daughter, aged 21, born Walsall; draper’s assistant
Emmanuel Perkins, boarder, aged 20, born Walsall; tanner
Amelia Ann Moss, daughter, aged 37, born Walsall
Alfred Moss, son-in-law, aged 37, born Walsall; butcher
Beatrice Amelia Moss, granddaughter, aged 11, born Walsall; scholar
Howard Moss, grandson, aged 6, born Norton Canes, Staffs.
• Alfred Moss, son of Arthur & Sarah Moss (née Prince), married Amelia Ann on 16 December 1878. On the 1881 census they were living at 31 Butts Street, Rushall, with 5 month-old Beatrice. Alfred’s brother, Richard Reynolds Moss (also a butcher) married Amelia’s sister, Elizabeth Glover, on 24 May 1880. On the 1881 census they were living at 100 Green Lane, Walsall Foreign; and on the 1891 census they had five children: Florence (9), Ernest (7), Harold (6), Ada (5) and Sadie (2).
On the 1901 census, Elizabeth was living ‘above the shop’ with Amelia and Alfred at 33 Wolverhampton Road Walsall:
Alfred Moss, head, aged 47, born Walsall; butcher, working at home
Amelia A.Moss, wife, aged 46, born Walsall
Howard Moss, son, aged 16, born Norton Canes; iron tube sawyer
Horace A.Moss, son, aged 10, born Walsall
Beatrice A.Moss, daughter, aged 20, born Walsall
Elizabeth Glover, widow, mother-in-law, aged 68, born Grantham.
Elizabeth Glover died at Walsall in 1918 aged 86. Her daughter, Sarah Jane, married Joseph Parker at Walsall March Q 1894. On the 1901 census the family was living at 147 Green Lane:
Joseph Parker, head, aged 32, wood pick helve maker; born Bloxwich
Sarah J., wife, aged 30, born Walsall
Florence E., daughter, aged 2; born Bloxwich
Joseph, son, aged 9mths; born Bloxwich.
My great-grandfather was John Thomas Glover, born June Q 1858. On 31 May 1881 at St Matthew’s, Walsall, he married Ellen Fenn, daughter of Samuel Fenn (see FENN family). On their marriage certificate his age is shown as 23, occupation chain manufacturer, living at Green Lane, father Thomas Glover, chain manufacturer. Their witnesses were the bridegroom’s sister, Elizabeth Moss, and the bride’s brother, Enoch Fenn.
By 1891 the family had left Walsall to live at 151 Grange Road, Aston, south Birmingham. The 1891 census records the household as:
John T. Glover, aged 32, born Walsall; engine driver (locomotive)
Ellen, aged 36, wife, born Wolverhampton
John T., aged 9, son, born Walsall; scholar
Vernon, aged 7, son, born Walsall; scholar
Edgar, aged 4, son, born Walsall; scholar.
By the time of the 1901 census, the family had moved to 1 back of 61 Hollier Street, Aston, and are recorded as:
John T.Glover, aged 41, born Walsall; brewer’s drayman
Ellen, aged 45, wife, born Walsall (but Wolverhampton on 1891 census)
John T., aged 19, son, born Walsall; water engineer
*Vernon A., aged 17, born Walsall; mineral water bottle filler
**Edgar V.F., aged 13, son, born Walsall; errand boy
**Lilian M., aged 9, born Walsall.
*Vernon Arnold
** Edgar Victor Fitch
***Lilian Maud.
On the 1911 census they were living at 115 Lombard Street, Deritend, Birmingham:
John Thomas Glover, aged 52, married caretaker, born Walsall
John Thomas, son, aged 29, fitter and turner, born Walsall
Lillian Maud, daughter, aged 19, tube tester, born Birmingham
Nora McQue, visitor, aged 14, born Birmingham.
My great-grandfather John Thomas Glover died at Birmingham on 16 March 1912. The death certificate gives the place of death as the People’s Hall in Hurst Street (where his son was to marry in 1916). Cause of death was chronic bronchitis and syncope, fainting caused by anaemia of the brain, which suggests that he suddenly collapsed and died. At the time of death he was still living at 115 Lombard Street, and his occupation was general labourer.
My grandfather was John Thomas Glover born in 1881 in Walsall. A book I have was presented to him in 1909 for good attendance at Sunday morning adult classes held in The Domestic Mission and People’s Hall, Hurst Street, central Birmingham – he would then be aged about 28.
• His brother Edgar, a fishmonger, married Clara Adaline Inwood on 15 November 1907, and had eight children: Elsie Edna, Edgar John, Olive Ellen, Joan Fenn, Gwendoline Mary, Donald Roy, Thelma Patricia, and Barbara Kathleen.
Edgar died in 1953.
• Vernon became station manager of Priestfield station, Wolverhampton, and had thirteen children.
• Lillian (Lily) married a clergyman, Josiah Riley, in 1923 and had two children, a daughter Monica, and a son. They lived at Paget Road, Pype Hayes, Erdington.
Some of the family moved to the Lickey Hills area, between Halesowen and Bromsgrove, and others moved down to the Bournemouth area.
My grandfather married Annie Elizabeth Eyre (b.1889) at Birmingham Unitarian Domestic Mission Church, Hurst Street, on 8 April 1916. The wedding certificate gives the bridegroom’s age as 34, his occupation as engineer’s fitter, and shows his father, a mechanical engineer, as deceased. The bride’s age is given as 27, her occupation as motor lamp press worker, and her father’s occupation as carpenter. The witnesses were Lilian Maud Glover, sister of the bridegroom, and William Eyre, brother of the bride. Both gave their address as the Glover family home, 32 Vaughton Street South, Birmingham, at the time of their marriage.
During their courtship they used to take cycling holidays in the Cotswolds with another young couple. After their marriage they lived at 42 Hargreaves Street, Stowheath, between Wolverhampton and Bilston, where my father John Thomas was born (12 November 1916). Another son, William Henry, followed (2 September 1921); then a daughter, Mary (13 July 1925) and finally Jean (23 March 1928).
Grandfather Glover taught carpentry and joinery at Bilston College evening classes. He died in 1929 of pneumonia, and is buried in Stowheath cemetery (Sept Q 1929, age given as 47). At some time one of his sisters may have been living at Claregate, Wolverhampton: her married name was Wood, and she was a schoolteacher.
John Thomas Glover married Gwendoline Fowler at Wolverhampton Register Office on 12 April 1941. I am their only child, born at the Elspeth Nursing Home, Birches Barn Avenue, Bradmore, Wolverhampton, and baptised at Christ Church, Tettenhall Wood.
Notes:
Timothy Glover’s eldest son, Timothy, baptised 3 August 1817, died at Rushall Street, Walsall, on 5 May 1846, aged 28. The death certificate gives the cause of death as bronchitis, three or four weeks, phthisis (a wasting disease, similar to TB) six months. Present was Maria Stevenson.
Children of Timothy Glover & Hannah Edwards:
• William married Mary Ann Woodhall 1844. On the 1851 Walsall census he was working as a violin player, living at Holtshill Lane with his wife and daughter Sarah, 6. The 1861 census describes him as a blind musician, living at 4 Hateley Lane with wife Mary, 37, a stitcher, and daughter Jane, 18, also a stitcher.
• Louisa married, firstly, Joseph Brough at West Bromwich in 1844. Their son William was born c1845. Joseph Brough died in 1846. Louisa’s second husband was James Newey, married at Walsall in 1849. Their children included James (bp 30 Dec 1849); Elizabeth (4 July 1852); Edward Glover (7 May 1854, died in infancy); and Sarah Jane (25 Nov 1855). James Newey died in 1858. By the 1861 census Louisa , now 36 and twice widowed, was working as a curb filer and living at 17 Hateley Lane with her children William Brough, 16, a saddler, and Elizabeth, 8; and also her sister Sarah Glover, 27, and two lodgers. Louisa died in 1878, aged 53.
• John, unmarried, was a chain maker lodging at Adams Street in 1881.
• Sarah, unmarried, a leather stitcher, was living with her widowed sister Louisa in 1861 at Hateley Street. In 1881 she was with her nephew, William Brough, his wife Sarah, and sister Elizabeth Newey, at 85 Wisemore, Walsall Foreign. In 1891 she was at Lower Forster Street with the family of her niece Sarah Jane Tomes (daughter of Betsy & William Cooper).
• Elizabeth (Betsey) married William Cooper at Walsall 25 Mar 1849. On the 1861 census William, 32, was working as a victualler and bridle cutter, living at the White Lion, Portland Street, Walsall, with Elizabeth, 34, and their children Joseph, 11, George, 10, Edwin, 4, and William, 3. Their daughter Sarah Jane (bp 29 Nov 1863) married Alfred William Tomes in 1881.
EDWARDS Family:
Timothy Glover married Hannah Edwards on 31 December 1821. One of their witnesses was James Mills, who married Hannah's sister Frances Edwards at St Matthew’s, Walsall, on 13 September 1824. On the 1851 Walsall census James and Frances Mills are shown living in Stafford Street, Walsall Foreign, with their five children. James is aged 51, a snaffle bit maker, and Frances is aged 49.
Hannah and Frances were the daughters of John and Mary Edwards (née Turner) who had married at St Matthew’s on 17 October 1784.
Children of John and Mary Edwards baptised at St Matthew’s church, Walsall:
John 22 June 1788
Ann 5 Apr 1790
John and James 28 May 1792
Maria and Hannah 22 Sept 1794
Elizabeth 1 Apr 1799
Frances (Fanny) 2 Jan 1803
LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT of Thomas Glover
7 March 1883
This is the last Will and Testament of me Thomas Glover of Walsall in the County of Stafford Chain Manufacturer. I appoint Edward Davis Wooton of Walsall aforesaid Provision Dealer and my son John Thomas Glover Trustees and Executors thereof.
I devise the Shopping in which I now carry on my said Trade of a Chain Manufacturer and also my Business of a Chain Manufacturer which I now carry on together with all Book Debts and the balance now standing to my Credit at the Birmingham Banking Company Limited Park Street unto my son John Thomas Glover he paying to my wife Elizabeth Glover the sum of Two pounds per week and also allowing her to live in my present residence during her life and also finding a home for and supporting and maintaining my Daughter Sarah Jane until she attains the age of twenty one years.
I give devise and bequeath all the rest and residue of my Real and personal Estate to my said Trustees Edward Wooton and John Thomas Glover upon trust to permit my son John Thomas Glover to receive the rents and profits thereof during the life of my said Wife he paying the Interest from time to time accruing due on the Mortgage of my Real Estate and after the decease of my said Wife upon trust to sell the same and after payment of the Expenses thereof and Mortgage debt to hold the balance thereof in trust for my four children in equal shares and proportions.
As witness my hand this Seventh day of March One thousand eight hundred and eighty-three.
Signed by the above named Thomas Glover
as his last Will in the presence of us both
being present at the same time who in his
presence and in the presence of each other
have hereunto subscribed our names as
Witnesses
William Oliver 131 Lichfield St Walsall Surgeon
Harry H.Jackson Clerk to Mr T.H.Stanley Solicitor Walsall
Proved at Lichfield the fourteenth day of June 1883 by the Oath of John Thomas Glover the Son one of the Executors to whom Administration was granted power reserved of making the like grant to Edward Davis Wooton the other Executor. The Testator Thomas Glover was late of Walsall in the County of Stafford Chain Manufacturer and died on the seventh day of March 1883 at Walsall aforesaid.
Personal Estate £113.13.4
T.H.Stanley
Solicitor
Walsall
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