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ANDERTON family (Solihull and Hall Green)
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My Anderton forebears came from the area covered by Solihull Lodge, Forshaw Heath, Wythall, and Tanworth-in-Arden, on the Worcestershire/Warwickshire border.
My direct forebear was Richard Anderton, who married Margaret Lunge on 7 May 1633 at Kings Norton. Their son John, born about 1634, married Anne Lawe at Kings Norton on 28 April 1657; and John’s son Baldwin Anderton, baptised on 18 April 1664, married Mary Medley at Kings Norton on 7 April 1699.
One of Baldwin’s sons was Thomas, who was baptised on 23 August 1705. He married Margaret Deuse about 1730, and their children included Isaac 1732, Mary 1734, John 1737, Hannah 1740, and Thomas 1743.
The last-born, Thomas, married Elizabeth Baldwin at Solihull on 21 April 1767. Their children included Mary 1770, Hannah 1772, Sarah 1774, William 1776, Thomas 1779, James 1786, and my great-great-great-grandfather Isaac, who was baptised at Wythall on 2 January 1780.
Isaac, a farm labourer, married Sarah Law at Solihull on 30 September 1803. In 1841 he appeared on the Solihull census residing at Forshaw Heath with his wife and two youngest children, next-door to his brother John and sister-in-law Mary:
Anderton, John, 60, agricultural labourer
Anderton, Mary, 65
Anderton, Isaac, 60, agricultural labourer, born Warwickshire
Anderton, Sarah, 60, not born in Warwickshire
Anderton, George, 10
Anderton, Charles, 7
Nearby lived another brother, Thomas Anderton, also an agricultural labourer, and his wife Elizabeth, both shown aged 65.
Isaac and Sarah had the following known children, some being born at Solihull Lodge, others at Forshaw Heath:
Thomas, baptised 20 Oct 1805
Elizabeth, 9 Oct 1808
Richard, 27 Jan 1811
James, 20 Mar 1814
*Isaac, born 4 Feb 1817 at Forshaw Heath
William (my great-great-grandfather) 9 Jan 1820 – see below
Hannah, 20 May 1821
John, 13 July 1823
Esther, 5 June 1825
Maria, 28 May 1826
George, 9 March 1828
Charles, 14 August 1831 (in 1851 Charles was employed as a house servant by Howard Holden, a brassfounder, of Green Bank Cottage, Yardley).
*Isaac emigrated with his family to Utah, USA, in 1869, dying there in 1894.
On the 1841 census his brother William Anderton was lodging in Berkely Street in the parish of St Thomas, Birmingham, working as a wiredrawer’s labourer. He was living with a couple named John and Hannah Page – Hannah was probably his cousin, daughter of Benjamin Anderton, who married John Page at Aston on 13 July 1835. The census shows the Page children as William 4, John 2, and Thomas 6 months.
William married Ann Walker at St Phillips’ church, Birmingham, on 12 June 1844. The marriage certificate shows them both of full age, residing at Rea Street, Digbeth. The groom’s father is given as Isaac, labourer, and the bride’s as Thomas, bone turner. The groom’s occupation is shown as labourer. Witnesses were Maria Anderton (probably William’s sister) and Thomas Anderton (probably his oldest brother).
By the time of the 1851 census William had become baker at Sarehole Mill, Hall Green, and he and Ann had had two daughters and a son - Elizabeth, baptised at Kings Norton on 1 June 1845, who died before the census; Ann baptised at Kings Norton on 20 June 1847; and Isaac, born 1850.
On the census, the family were recorded living at Cottage Lane, Yardley, adjacent to Sarehole Mill:
William Anderton, head, aged 31, born Solihull; baker, master employing one man
Ann, wife, aged 33, born Birmingham
Ann, daughter, aged 3, born Kings Heath
Isaac, son, aged 1, born Yardley
Alfred Webb, servant, aged 19, born ….ham; baker
Elizabeth Stanton, servant, aged 14, born Kings Norton; housemaid
Joseph Donohua, lodger, aged 23, born Ireland; ag. labourer.
(Interestingly, a Thomas Anderton had been miller at Sarehole Mill until he went bankrupt in 1847. He was most likely William Anderton's oldest brother, born in 1805.)
Sometime before 1857 William’s wife Ann died, and he began a relationship with Tabitha Dabbs (see DABBS family). Their daughter, my great-grandmother Alice, was born on Wednesday, 7 October 1857 at Hall Green, Yardley. On her birth certificate the father is shown as William Anderton, baker, and the mother as Tabitha Anderton, formerly Dabbs (although they did not actually marry until 1874).
On the 1861 census they were living next to Sarehole Mill at 84 Cole Bank Lane, Hall Green:
William Anderton, head, 40, baker; born Solihull
Tabitha, wife (sic), 38; born Wellington (Shropshire)
Isaac, son, 11, scholar; born Yardley
Ann, daughter, 13, scholar; born Yardley
Alice, daughter, 4; born Yardley.
Their neighbours were William's cousin Benjamin Anderton, 60, and his wife Ann, 67; and nearby were William's brother Isaac, 43, working as a groom and gardener, his wife Alice, 36, and children John, 14, Isaac, 7, Isaiah, 4, and Charles Henry, 2 (this family emigrated to Utah, USA, in 1869).
On the 1871 census my forebears were still at Cole Bank:
William Anderton, head, aged 50, baker; born Solihull
Tabitha Anderton, wife, aged 50; born Solihull (sic)
Alice Anderton, daughter, aged 13; born Yardley
• William Anderton, baker, Hall Green, appears in the Post Office directory for that year. Sometime during the following three years he gave up his work at Sarehole Mill and became a gardener.
William Anderton and Tabitha Dabbs were married on 20 April 1874, at Birmingham Register Office. William was aged 53, a widower, occupation gardener, and his father was given as Isaac Anderton (deceased) a labourer. Tabitha was aged 52, a spinster, and her father was Joseph Dabbs (deceased) a miner. Their witnesses were John and Ann Coles.
At the time of their marriage William and Tabitha gave their address as Holloway Head, Birmingham.
The 1881 census shows them still living at Hall Green, Yardley:
William Anderton, aged 60, born Solihull; gardener
Tabitha Anderton, wife, aged 59, born Wellington, Shropshire.
William Anderton died at Hall Green on Wednesday, 5 March 1890, aged 69. The death certificate gives his occupation as gardener, domestic servant. Cause of death was catarrhal pneumonia, 14 days, and present at the death was Ann Webb, a neighbour, of Church Road, Hall Green.
In 1891 Tabitha was living alone at Church Road, Yardley. The census showed her age as 70 and her birthplace as Street Lane, Shropshire. She died at Aston Union workhouse on Tuesday, 24 April 1894, aged 73.
Her daughter Alice married William Eyre on 30 June 1879 at Christ Church, Sparkbrook, Birmingham. Their witnesses were Alice’s half-brother, Robert Dabbs and her half-sister Annie Rose (née Anderton).
Alice died of pneumonia aged 40, at Aston on Wednesday, 10 November 1897.
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Annie Anderton, William’s daughter by his first wife, married Henry Rose in 1870. Henry had been baptised on 30 March 1845 at Knowle, son of Richard and Caroline Rose. On the 1881 census they were living at High Chimneys, a 17th century house in the village of Tanworth-in-Arden:
Henry Rose, head, aged 36, born Knowle, Warks; farmer of 61 acres
Ann Rose, wife, aged 33, born Kings Norton; farmer’s wife
Richard Rose, father, aged 60, born Whitchurch; farm labourer
Walter Pye, visitor, aged 12, born Yardley; scholar
Arthur Pace, aged 20, born Tanworth; farm servant indoors.
On the 1891 census they were still at High Chimneys:
Henry Rose, head, aged 46, born Tanworth; farmer
Ann Rose, wife, aged 43; born Kings Norton
*Alice Eyre, visitor, aged 10, born Aston; scholar
Ernest Knight, visitor, aged 8, born Aston; scholar
Ellen Beale, aged 35, born Tanworth; general domestic servant
William Ward, aged 35, born Whitechapel, London; farm labourer
**Thomas Dabbs, aged 51, born Wellington; farm labourer
*Alice Eyre (my great-aunt Alice) was Annie Rose’s niece, daughter of Alice & William Eyre.
** Thomas Dabbs was a brother of Tabitha Dabbs.
By 1901 Henry and Annie Rose had left High Chimneys and were living at 27 The Green, Kings Norton:
Henry Rose, aged 57, provision dealer, born Knowle
Ann, wife, aged 53, born Kings Heath
Samuel Sanders, boarder, aged 21, plumber, born Birmingham
Benjamin Handley, boarder, aged 52, domestic gardener, born Harvington
Frank Salmon, boarder, aged 72, postman, born Kings Norton.
Isaac Anderton, my great-great-uncle, was born at Solihull in 1850. On the 1871 census he was lodging at Giles Hill, Stourbridge, aged 21, working as a glass cutter. On 25 June 1871 he married Emma Jenkins at St Martin’s, Birmingham.
On the 1881 census his family is shown as:
Isaac Anderton, aged 31, born Yardley; flint glass cutter
Emma, wife, aged 31, born Stourbridge; dressmaker
William E., son, aged 8, born Stourbridge; scholar
Annie Jenkins, visitor, aged 13, born Stourbridge; scholar.
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