Descendants of William WOODWARD
Notes
Emigrated to America in 1833 and settled in Sharon, Medina County, Ohio
1870 Census - Sharon Twp., Medina Co., Ohio
Edward Broderick wrote a diary of which extracts are recorded in the Book "Men of Swaledale" by Edmund Cooper published in 1960.
Edmund Broderick wrote:-Page 39-40
2nd March 1833 - About a fortnight ago Wm. Woodward received a letter from Metcalfe Bell in which he tells us that he has married again and describes America in such flattering terms as to induce William seriously to think of going. He has persuaded my father to take the land off his hands, given Mr. Overton notice and had his sale of stock this day. They sold well. It is so unexpected, I hardly know what to think of it. John Bell is for going too.20th April 1833 - I am neglectful of my diary but since writing the above, John Bell has had his sale, both stock and furniture. I bought the plough, nearly new, for 12s. 6d. William Woodward got a letter from Joseph Daykin, who having barely recovered from the typhus fever, to say he was now beginning with the smallpox. Poor Joseph has had hard fortune. The little money that he has been scraping up to carry him to America will, I doubt, go fast.
William Woodward has had his sale of furniture and I have been writing for him. The sale was uncommonly well attended and the things sold well. They all kept their spirits well up considering they sold nearly all except their bedding.
24th April 1833 - The Woodwards have been packing up their things and taking leave of their friends and now when parting begins to be so near, we all find it to be very painful. It was late before I got to bed. William and Nanny slept at our house and John Bell and his wife and child Peggy and Ruth. I was truly sorry to part with Ruth, she was a fine little girl. Sisters Ann and Mary sat up all night. I got up at 2 o'clock and after attending to a cow which we have calving, I came back and found William busy packing the boxes and preparing to load the carts. He possesses wonderful resolution.
Though I had always thought favourably of America and believed they were acting wisely in going, yet I confess that my spirits were so much depressed at the thought of their long and dangerous journey and the difficulties which they would have to encounter, that I felt very much inclined to persuade William to stay. They set off soon after 5 o'clock.
END OF DIARY RECORD
From Edward Broderick's unpublished diary,...
"Friday 20th.
We called and had dinner at Wm. Watters who married John Woodward's sister Nanny. She made us each a glass of punch and we sat by the first log-fire which was blazing finely, that I have seen. We had a good dinner, they were making soap, the women were. Wm Watters suffers from asthma and is far from well. He has a good farm. John Woodward's farm joins on to it. They are both good ones. The land is uneven but most of it can be ploughed. It is mostly in grass however and is very good land. Thomas Woodward has bought a part of it and rents the other part off his father. We called there and looked around, then started for home and got there in time for supper and found Mrs. Woodward and their daughter Bessie quite well."..........
Emigrated to America in 1833
From Edward Broderick's unpublished diary,...
"Friday 20th.
We called and had dinner at Wm. Watters who married John Woodward's sister Nanny. She made us each a glass of punch and we sat by the first log-fire which was blazing finely, that I have seen. We had a good dinner, they were making soap, the women were. Wm Watters suffers from asthma and is far from well. He has a good farm. John Woodward's farm joins on to it. They are both good ones. The land is uneven but most of it can be ploughed. It is mostly in grass however and is very good land. Thomas Woodward has bought a part of it and rents the other part off his father. We called there and looked around, then started for home and got there in time for supper and found Mrs. Woodward and their daughter Bessie quite well."..........
Farmer and cattle brokerMethodist
William was the first to go to Dubuque, returning to Sharon to marry Nancy Woodward in 1836. William and Nancy returned to Dubuque after marriage and stayed for about two years before returning to live the rest of their lives in Sharon, Medina Co., Ohio. Obituary in The Medina County Gazette - September 27, 1878, p.7 - Death of an Old Citizen - William Waters, well known as "Uncle Billy," of Sharon, who suffered a long and severe sickness, died last Monday morning at 5 o'clock, at his home in Sharon. The funeral took place Wednesday afternoon and was largely attended. Mr. Waters was 64 years of age and was a pioneer of the county and one of its most substantial citizens.
died age 74
Enlisted November 8, 1861 as a private in C Co. 67th Infantry Regular Ohio. Discharged May 8, 1862.
Emigrated to the U.S.A in 1833.
From Edward Broderick's unpublished diary..
Ruth Ingham ("John W's sister and George Ingham's second wife. Her first husband was Watters brother of Mrs. John Woodward.")
George's parents were William Watters and Mary. In England, William and Mary lived in an area known as Heights, just east of Gunnerside, Swaledale, Yorkshire, England. William emigrated with his family to America in 1834. The family settled in Sharon Township, Medina Co., Ohio before moving on to Dubuque, Iowa sometime between 1838 and 1840.
From Edward Broderick's unpublished diary..
Ruth Ingham ("John W's sister and George Ingham's second wife. Her first husband was Watters brother of Mrs. John Woodward.")
On the death certificate of William Woodward, who died in 1865, the informant was Wilson Newcombe, who was married to William Woodward's granddaughter, Mary Ann Middleton, the daughter of John Middleton and Mary Woodward.
BIRTH: year and place from census records
DEATH: family records of Brian Middleton, Hessle, Yorkshire, England, 1993
MARRIAGE: St. James's parish church, Sutton (near Hull), Yorkshire, England (this marriage is NOT on the I.G.I.). One witness was Jane Woodward, who is probably the Jane Woodward who later married John Neville in 1842.
CENSUS: 1851 census of Church Street, Drypool, Hull
RELATIONSHIP: on the 1851 census she is just two doors from her parents, William and Mary Woodward; At her marriage one witness was Jane Woodward; In the marriage of Robert Woodward in 1847 one witness was John Middleton (Mary's husband); In the 1910 address book of Thomas Albert Woodward (Robert's son) appears the address of James Middleton of Hull, who would be Mary's son James Woodward MIDDLETON; When Mary's daughter Fanny Middleton died by accident in 1856 there was a coroner's inquiry, and the documents mention that Fanny's grandparents lived next door, and William Woodward was one of the signatures on the coroner documents; Thomas Albert's daughter Laura (Mrs. Sam HENRY) heard a story from her father that a Woodward ancestor of theirs had been in Canada many years earlier to fight in a war and he had received a grant of land in Canada. This Woodward ancestor spent a few years being a farmer in Canada, but the farming was not very good, so he decided to return to England. He took a copy of the land deed back to England, and this land deed was still in the family in the 1860s, but by 1910 this document had been lost. This would explain Mary Woodward being born in Canada about 1820 but living in England by 1851, where she remained for the rest of her life.
MARR: St. James's parish church, Sutton (near Hull), Yorkshire, England
CENSUS: 1851 Church St., Drypool, Hull, Yorkshire
George Woodward, was baptised April 15, 1838 at St. Andrew's Church, Drypool, Hull. He married Ann, and had a family. On the 1861 census George is a labourer and he and his family are living on Church Street next door to his father John Middleton. In 1881 George is a shipyard labourer living at 13 Wentworth Street, and in 1891 he is an oil miller living at 5 Albany Terrace, Hedon, Hull (39213923, page 33). The children of George Middleton and Ann were:
1. John Middleton, born about 1859 in Hull, married Elizabeth,
who was born about 1863 in Hull. On the 1891 census he and his wife
live at 12 Prospect Place (1 room occupied), Hedon, Hull (39213923), and he was a shipyard labourer.
2. George Middleton, born about 1863 in Hull
3. Thomas Middleton, born about 1869 in Hull
4. Ann Middleton, born about 1870 in Hull
5. Robert Middleton, born about 1874 in Hull
6. Ada Middleton, born about 1877 in Hull
7. James Middleton, born about 1881 in Hull
James Woodward Middleton, born about 1854 in Drypool, Hull, the seventh child of John Middleton and Mary Woodward. He was a confectioner, wholesale tripe dresser. He married Phoebe Fell on May 19, 1873 at St. Andrews Church, Drypool, Hull (P.E.109/36, entry 235). Witnesses were John Middleton and Mary Ann Newcombe. Phoebe
Fell was born in about 1854 at Lincoln, daughter of George Fell, labourer of Drypool. In the directory named "1876 Hull Yearbook" J. W. Middleton was a confectioner at #22 Church Street, Drypool. On the 1881 census (film 4755) and the 1891 census (3923 to 3925, page 1) he and his family were at #1 Station Parade, Holderness Road, and he was a "wholesale tripe dresser".
On the 1905/1906 Electoral Roll appears James Woodward Middleton, 129 Holderness Road, Hull. In the 1904/1906/1907/1908 Kelly's Directories appears James W. Middleton, Tripe Dresser, 129 Holderness Road and Craven Street. In the 1909 Kelly's Directory appears James W. Middleton, tripe Dresser, Craven Street (this Craven Street address was a small factory producing "tripe" to sell in his own shop on Holderness Road and maybe also to other shops). In a list of addresses written in about 1905-1915 by Thomas Albert Woodward (1859-1922), of Lavenham, Manitoba, Canada, there is a James Middleton mentioned, living in Witherense, which is a town east of Hull.
The children of James Woodward Middleton and Phoebe Fell were:1. Mary Elizabeth Middleton, born 1874 and baptised on October 18, 1874 at St. Andrews church, Drypool, Hull
2. James Middleton, born about 1878 in Hull
3. Arthur Middleton, born about 1879 in Hull
4. George Fell Middleton, born in July/Aug/Sept 1882 Hull
5. Lillie Middleton, born December 20, 1888 at Holderness Road, Hull, Yorkshire and baptised on January 11, 1889 at St. Andrew's church, Drypool, Hull (P.E.109/10, entry 951).
6. Phoebe Fell Middleton, born June 27, 1890 at Holderness Road, Hull, Yorkshire and baptised on July 20, 1894 at St. Andrews church, Drypool, Hull (P.E.109/10, entry 1134).
7. Elsie May Middleton, born June 14, 1894 at Holderness Road, Hull, Yorkshire, and baptised on June 20, 1894 at St. Andrews church, Drypool, Hull (P.E.109/10, entry 232).
Christopher Middleton, born about 1857 in Drypool, Hull, the eighth child of John Middleton and Mary Woodward. He was a barge boatman, he married Eliza and had a family. On the 1881 census they are at 4 Drypool Square, Drypool, Hull (film 4755) and he is described as a general labourer, and in 1891 they are at 38 Strawberry Street, Drypool, Hull (film 39213923) and he is described as a barge boatman.
Their children were:
1. Alfred Middleton, born August 27, 1878 at 11 Merrick Terrace, Merrick Street, in Drypool, Hull and baptised on Sept. 15, 1878 at St. Marks church, Groves (P.E.156/3, entry 452).
2. John William Middleton, born about 1881 Drypool, Hull
3. Richard Middleton, born about 1883 Drypool, Hull5. Henry Middleton, born about 1886 Drypool, Hull
6. Arthur Middleton, born about 1888 Drypool, Hull
7. Fanny Elizabeth Middleton, born about 1889 Drypool
8. Edith Middleton, born about 1891 in Drypool, Hull
Alfred Middleton, born December 18, 1862 at 3 Church Street, Drypool, Hull, the tenth child of John Middleton and Mary Woodward. Alfred died October 11, 1917, at 4 Florence Ave., Courtney Street, Hull. He was a stone mason and church sexton.
He married on November 7, 1880 at the Register Office, Sculcoates Registration District, to Miss Emma Revell. According to the marriage registration, Alfred Middleton was a labourer, age 19, living at 27 Church Street, Drypool, and he was the son of John Middleton, labourer, deceased. Emma Revell was single, age 18, (daughter of Robert Revell, labourer, deceased) and she lived at 22 Church Street, Drypool, which is the house and confection shop of
Alfred's older brother James Woodward Middleton. Witnesses: Charles Flair and Emma Isabella Coats(??). In reality, Alfred Middleton was 18 years old, and Emma was 16 years old. They were married at the Register Office, possibly because their parents disapproved of the marriage.
Emma Revell was born in the 4th quarter of 1864 at Mansfield, Nottinghamshire, England, the daughter of Robert Revell, and she died March 3, 1937.
On the 1881 census the family is at 7 Harriet's Terrace (RG11/4754) and Alfred is a dock labourer. On the 1891 census the family is at the Cemetery house, Hedon Road (3923 3925) and Alfred Woodward is the "Parish Church Sexton".
Alfred Middleton and Emma Revell had fifteen children:1. Albert Middleton, born in about 1882 in Drypool, Hull, the first child of Alfred Middleton and Emma Revell. On April 25, 1908 at St. Andrews church, Drypool (P.E.109/44, entry 481), Albert Middleton, age 26, bachelor, Reserve Soldier, living at 40 Bright Street, son of Alfred Middleton, Corporation Foreman (the Corporation of the City of Kingston-upon-Hull) married Edith Annie Warrener, age 25, spinster, (born about 1883), living at 88 Bright
Street, daughter of Thomas Warrener, Foreman Painter. Witness was A. Middleton.2. Alice Middleton, born in about 1883 in Drypool, Hull, the second child of Alfred Middleton and Emma Revell. She may have been a nurse and may have became Matron (head nurse) at De-la-pole hospital in Hull), and she may have married John Thomas Ward, and may have had a son named John William Ward who died at 20 or 21 years of age. They may have lived at Keldgate, Beverley, Yorkshire (information from Betty Gosling).
3. Gertrude Middleton was born in about June 1884 in Drypool, Hull, the third child of Alfred Middleton and Emma Revell. Gertrude was buried August 24, 1884 at St. Andrew's church, Drypool, aged 3 months, daughter of Alfred and Emma Middleton (P.E.109/77/2, entry 79). (The vicar's name was Robert Middleton whose relation, if any,
is unknown)4. Ernest Middleton, born 1885 at 84 Church Street, Drypool, the fourth child of Alfred Middleton and Emma Revell. Ernest was baptised June 17, 1885 at St. Batholomew's church, Drypool, son of Alfred and Emma Middleton, labourer (P.E.109/10, entry 617).
5. Mary Middleton, born January 8, 1887 at 7 Wilson Street, Drypool, Hull, the fifth child of Alfred Middleton and Emma Revell. Mary was baptised January 27, 1887 at St. Batholomew's, Drypool, daughter of Alfred and Emma Middleton, parish sexton (PE.109/10, entry 756). Mary was buried May 8, 1887 at St. Andrew's church, Drypool, age 3 months (P.E. 109/77/2, entry 728).
6. Ethel Middleton, born December 26, 1887 at 9 Wilson Street, Drypool, Hull, the sixth child of Alfred Middleton and Emma Revell. Ethel was baptised January 18, 1888 at St. Bartholomew's church, Drypool, daughter of Alfred and Emma Middleton, parish sexton (PE.109/10, entry 844). Ethel was buried on April 10, 1899 at St. Andrew's church, Drypool, aged 15 months (P.E.109/77/2, entry 1221).
7. Alfred Middleton, born January 23, 1890 at 9 Wilson Street, Drypool, Hull, the seventh child of Alfred Middleton and Emma Revell. He was baptised February 12, 1890 at St. Bartholomew's church, Drypool, Hull, son of Alfred and Emma Woodward, parish sexton (P.E.109/10, entry 1085). Alfred married on January 30, 1916 at St. Silas' church, Sculcoates, Hull, to a widow, Mrs. Gertrude Brown (nee Wiles). The marriage record says Alfred Middleton, age
29, was a gasworker and lived on Cumberland Street. (P.E.55/12, entry 434). In the 1918-1919 Electoral Register Alfred and Gertrude Middleton live at 2 Caledonia Avenue, Brighton Street, Hessle Road, Hull.8. Mary Ann Middleton, born 1891 at Cemetery Lodge, Hedon Road, Drypool, Hull, the eighth child of Alfred Middleton and Emma Revell. Mary Ann was baptised March 1, 1891 at St, Bartholomew's church, Drypool, daughter of Alfred and Emma Middleton, parish sexton (P.E.109/10, entry 1216). Betty Gosling believes Mary Ann worked on
the stage and perhaps married a German man while living in London.9. James Tranter (Jack) Middleton, born August 31, 1892 at Cemetery Lodge, Hedon Road, Drypool, Hull, the ninth child of Alfred Middleton and Emma Revell. James was baptised on September 21, 1892 at St. Bartholomew's church, Drypool, son of Alfred Middleton, parish sexton, and his wife Emma (P.E.109/10, entry 1465). Jack died on September 27, 1959 at 26 Foredyke Avenue, Stoneferry, Yorkshire. His occupation was "steeplejack." He married Elsie May Clarkson, who was born May 27, 1894 and died April 7, 1971 at 26 Foredyke Avenue, Stoneferry, Yorkshire. Their children were:
10. Wilson Middleton, born September 27, 1893 at Cemetery Lodge, Hedon Road, Hull, was the tenth child of Alfred Middleton and Emma Revell. Wilson was baptised on October 11, 1893 at St. Bartholomew's church, Drypool, son of Alfred Middleton, parish sexton superintendant, and his wife Emma (P.E.109/11, entry 83). Wilson Middleton was buried on October 15, 1893 at St. Andrew's church, Drypool, Hull, aged 18 days (P.E.109/77/2, entry 2373).11. Ethel Gertrude Middleton, the eleventh child of Alfred Middleton and Emma Revell, was born on December 11, 1894 at Cemetery Lodge, Hedon Road, Drypool, Hull and she was baptised on January 3, 1895 at St. Bartholomew's church, Drypool, child of Alfred and Emma Middleton, parish sexton superintendant (P.E.109/11, entry 328).
On January 3, 1920 at St. Andrew's church, Drypool (P.E.109/50, entry 106) Ethel Gertrude Middleton, age 25, spinster, living at 4 Florence Avenue, Courtney Street, daughter of Alfred Middleton, deceased, married Arthur Starling, bachelor, age 30, oxygen cutter, living at 4 Florence Avenue, Courtney Street, son of Samuel Starling, labourer. Witnesses were John Thomas Ward and Irene Middleton.
Ethel's second marriage was on October 6, 1923 at St. Andrew's church, Drypool (P.E.109/52, entry 38) to Edward Gosling, widower, age 35, iron drum maker, living at 5 Florence Avenue, Courtney Street, son of John Frederick Gosling. Ethel was described as a widow, living at 5 Florence Avenue, Courtney Street, daughter of Alfred Middleton, labourer, deceased. Witnesses were J. Middleton and Mary Booth. Mrs. Ethel Gosling (maiden name Middleton) died in about 1966.
Edward Gosling had one child from his first marriage:
1. Grace Ellen Gosling
Edward Gosling and his 2nd wife, Ethel Middleton, had 1 child:
1. Betty Gosling, born in March 1926.12. Newcombe Middleton (Sam), the twelfth child of Alfred Middleton and Emma Revell, was born January 22, 1900 at 3 Ripon Terrace, Kent Street, Hull. He died on October 12, 1972 at Wensley Lodge, West Hill, Hessle, Haltemprice, Hull.
Newcombe Middleton was first married to Mary Elizabeth Billham
during the 2nd quarter of 1923. She was born in the 4th quarter of 1897 at Patrington, Yorkshire. She died in the 3rd quarter of 1924, age 26. They had one child:
After the death of his first wife in 1924, Newcombe Middleton then lived common-law with Florence Annie Barnes from about 1928 to 1952, when they were finally married. This long delay was probably because Florence's first husband, George Arthur Dent, refused to divorce her. George Dent died in about 1952.
On May 3, 1952 at the Hull Register Office, Newcombe Middleton, widower, married Florence Annie Dent, known as Middleton (maiden name Barnes), who was a widow by this time. They had five children:13. Irene Middleton, born November 28, 1902 at 12 Bridlington Street, Hull, the thirteenth child of Alfred Middleton and Emma Revell. Irene was baptised on January 21, 1903 at St. Andrew's church, Drypool, Hull (P.E.109/12, entry 2129). She lived with her mother at 4 Florence Avenue, Courtney Street, from at least May 1929 until 1937 when she went to live with her sister Mrs. Ethel Gosling. Irene died in about 1937, possibly in Kingston General Hospital,
Hull. Irene may have suffered from epilepsy.
14. Ivy Middleton, born February 10, 1905 at 1 Lawford Terrace, Dansom Lane, Hull, the fourteenth child of Alfred Middleton and Emma Revell. Ivy was baptised on March 8, 1905 at St. Andrew's church, Drypool, the child of Alfred and Emma Middleton, stonemason and excavator, of 1 Lawford Terrace, Dansom Lane, Hull (P.E.109/13,Ô ( entry 963). Ivy was buried on September 6, 1906 at St. Andrew's
church, Drypool, (P.E.109/77/2, entry 4381), aged 18 months. Ivy was at 28 Lake Street, Hull, at the time of her death.15. Ronald Middleton, born September 4, 1909 in Drypool, Hull, the fifteenth and last child of Alfred Middleton and Emma Revell. Ronald Middleton was a baker. On May 18, 1929 at St. Philip's church, Sculcoates (entry 350) Ronald Middleton, age 20, baker, living at 4 Grotto Square, Mason Street, Hull, son of Alfred Middleton (Alfred's occupation was given as "navvy"), married Gerty Winders, age 23 (born about 1906), living at 8 Wilson's Row, Scott
Street, Hull, daughter of James Henry Winders, oilmiller. Gerty died on January 16, 1992, age 86. Ronald died in Germany in about 1970/71 while working as area manager for the N.A.A.F.I. bake house. He spent 26 years with N.A.A.F.I. in Germany, Belgium, and Holland. He also emigrated to Australia with his wife but returned to England after a short time.
MARR: marriage certificate (which also gives the name and occupation of her
father)JANE WOODWARD AND JOHN NEVILLE
Jane Woodward, daughter of William and Mary Woodward, married
John Neville on ------------------- at -------------------------
Surrey, (in London, south of Tower Bridge, on the south side of the
River Thames). Mr. John Nevil, a builder (carpenter), son of a John
Nevil, florist, lived at 4 Union Street, and Miss Woodward lived at
1 Park Steet, at this time.
MARRIAGE: marriage certificate: civil registration of Great Britain. He was a florist
BIRTH: birth certificate: civil registration of Great Britain.
CENSUS: 1851 and 1861 census of Drypool, Hull, Yorkshire, living with his
grandparents William and Mary Woodward. On the 1861 and 1881 census he was an oil miller (involves grinding seeds to get their oil).NAME: On the 1881 census he appears to be using the surname Woodward, perhaps since he was raised by his grandparents Woodward.
BIRTH: 1841, 1851, 1861 census of Drypool, Hull, Yorkshire, England; and his age and his father are on his marriage certificate
CHR: baptism in the parish church records says "age 10, son of William Woodward, labourer, and Mary Woodward, both of Witham (which is in the Sutton and Drypool area of Hull).
MARR: marriage certificate
DEATH & BURIAL: information from his grand-daughter Mrs. Laura Henry (nee
Woodward) of Treherne, Manitoba, 1981. His last child was born in 1868, and on the 1871 census his wife is described as a widow.1881 census
MISC: he was an agricultural labourer in the 1830s and 1840s, and a
greengrocer, newsagent, and tobacconist in the 1850s and 1860s (from census and business directories); he also was a sailor on steam ships, first as a fire stoker (fireman) and later as a steamship engineer (from birth cert. of son Horatio, 1868, and marriage cert. of son Thomas Albert in 1881). He may have fought in the Crimean War (from Mrs Laura Henry (nee Woodward)) and no children were born during that war. He and his wife are mentioned in the Quarter Sessions (court) records of Hull several times, pressing charges against people who stole things from their store. They also had a few rooms in their house that they rented out to people, like a rooming house.
