A probable link exists, based on residence, between members of Chart 11 (Mirfield), Chart 6 (Hull),
and Chart 16.
JOSEPH Tattersal, baptised 26 Dec 1765, shown at the head of Chart 11, might have been the son of
JAMES Tattersal and Nancy Shaw. There is an unresolved question as to who the parents of JAMES
were.
JOSEPH married SARAH Tattersal on 12 Mar 1809 in Mirfield. They had 7 children. The 4th was MARTHA, born 14 Jan 1816 in Mirfield. The 6th was JANE, born 27 Oct 1822 in Dewsbury. As the 4 eldest children were baptised in Mirfield, and the 3 youngest in Dewsbury, it is believed JOSEPH, SARAH and their family moved from Mirfield to Dewsbury about 1816-18.
In the 1841 Census, the sisters MARTHA, 25, and JANE, 20, were both living with a widow called
Nancy Wood and her 7 children in the very small village of Tintwistle, outside Mottram in
Longendale, Cheshire (now Derbyshire).
The 8th child of JOHN Tattersal of Mirfield was DAVID 1752-1799, who married Martha Hall in
Dewsbury in 1771. They had 13 children, the third being MARK, born 1776, who is at the head of the
Hull family, Chart 6. The 8th was ELIZABETH, born 13 June 1784 in Soothill, Dewsbury. No local record
has been found of her marriage or death.
It is believed that, as BETTY Tattersfield, she married Abraham Shaw on 15 Apr 1805 in Mottram in
Longendale, Cheshire, both being of that Parish.
In the 1841 Census Abraham and BETTY, both aged about 55, were recorded in the village of
Tintwistle, Mottram in Longendale, Cheshire, with children Martha, 15, and John, 10. Abraham and
the two children were born in Cheshire, but BETTY was born outside Cheshire. In the 1851 Census,
BETTY, now a widow, was stated as being born in Dewsbury, Yorkshire. Abraham appears to have
been born in Mottram, and nothing has been found to show when or why Betty moved, lived and
married there.
An interesting discovery was that, in the 1841 Census, BETTY Shaw and her family, lived only 4 doors
away from where MARTHA and JANE Tattersfield were living in the village of Tintwistle. All were born
in Dewsbury. JOSEPH, the father of MARTHA and JANE, might have been a cousin of BETTY Shaw. It is
surmised that the young MARTHA and JANE went to live and work in Tintwistle because BETTY Shaw
was already there.
MARTHA and JANE were both later married in All Saints Parish Church, Glossop, some 3 miles from Tintwistle.
This discovery seems to lend credibility to the hypothesis in Chart 16, that the families of Charts 6 and 11 were related to each other, though the exact relationship is not clear.
Links between the Dewsbury area and Cheshire or Derbyshire continued. JANE and her husband Aaron Roberts had one daughter Martha, born in 1854 in Hadfield, Derbyshire. Martha retained ties with Yorkshire, as she married her own first cousin ALFRED Tattersfield, who was a widower in Gawthorpe, Ossett. They had 5 children born in Gawthorpe, but one, Annie, was to marry in Derbyshire. Another, Minnie, was in Ossett for the Census of 1901, but was in Stones Head, Hayfield, just south of Glossop, Derbyshire with her mother Martha in the 1911 Census. Martha herself was buried in Hayfield in 1920.
Updated 6 February 2024
Header Image: An early photograph of Glossop, including the parish church where Martha and Jane were both married. Their marriages took place early in a 90-year period of substantial rebuilding of the church between 1831 and 1923. Its location and general outline would no doubt have been very familiar to them. Private Collection: G. Tattersfield