| 👶 Birth | 04 Dec 1849 | Brooksbottoms, Summerseat, Bury, Lancashire 📍 📎 View 🏛️ Irish Potato Famine — mass emigration |
| ⛪ Baptism | 26 May 1850 | St Anne's Church, 583 Wheatley Lane Road, Fence, Burnley, Lancashire, BB12 9EE 📍 ⓘLancashire Online Parish Clerks 📎 View Baptism: 26 May 1850 St Anne, Fence in Pendle, Lancs. William Tattersall - Son of George Tattersall & Ann Abode: Brooksbottom late Moorcoates Higham Baptised by: Wm. Haworth Register: Baptisms 1837 -1872, Page 34, Entry 266 Source: LDS Film 1471066 |
| 🏠 Lived | 1851 (2) | 5 Plain Tree Row, Brooksbottoms, Summerseat, Bury, Lancashire 📍 ⓘ1851 Census 📎 View 🏛️ Great Exhibition at Crystal Palace |
| 🏠 Lived | 1861 (12) | Brooksbottoms, Summerseat, Bury, Lancashire 📍 ⓘ1861 Census 📎 View 🏛️ Death of Prince Albert |
| 💼 Occupation | 1861 (12) | Scholar Rowlands Wesleyan Chapel (Sunday School), Rowlands Road, Summerseat, Bury, Lancashire 📍 ⓘ1861 Census Teacher: Henry Grimshaw |
| 💼 Occupation | 1864 (15) | Clerk in Cotton Mill John Robinson Kay, Brooksbottoms Mill, Summerseat, Lancashire 📍 |
| 🏠 Lived | 1871 (22) | Brooksbottoms, Summerseat, Bury, Lancashire 📍 ⓘ1871 Census 📎 View 🏛️ Bank Holidays introduced |
| 💼 Occupation | 1871 (22) | Commercial Clerk ⓘ1871 Census |
| 💒 Marriage | 21 Apr 1875 (26) | Sarah Hannah RIGG Wesleyan Methodist Chapel, Littleborough, Lancashire 📍 ⓘMarriage Civil Registration Index 📎 View 1875 Witnesses: James Tattersall, Emily Tiolinger, Henry Cartwright and Edward Lloyd Jones |
| 🏠 Lived | 1875 (26) | Summerseat, Bury, Lancashire 📍 |
| 💼 Occupation | 1875 (26) | Commission Agent |
| 🏠 Lived | 1876 (27) | 17 Marshall Place, Cheetham Hill, Manchester, Lancashire 📍 with Sarah Hannah RIGG ⓘBaptism Records 🏛️ Victoria becomes Empress of India |
| 🏠 Lived | 1880 (31) | 12 Marshall Place, Cheetham Hill, Manchester, Lancashire 📍 with Sarah Hannah RIGG ⓘBurial Records 🏛️ Education Act — school attendance compulsory |
| 🏠 Lived | 1881 (32) | 14 Marshall Place, Cheetham Hill, Manchester, Lancashire 📍 with Sarah Hannah RIGG ⓘ1881 Census 📎 View Hannah Mary Crowcroft aged 23 and born at Thorne Near Doncaster was living with William and Sarah in 1881 as a Domestic Servant |
| 💼 Occupation | 1881 (32) | Cotton Manufacturer ⓘ1881 Census |
| 💼 Occupation | 1890 (41) | Commercial Editor |
| 💒 Marriage | 08 Oct 1891 (42) | Edith POTTS Barton Wesleyan Methodist Chapel, Barton Road, Eccles, Lancashire 📍 ⓘMarriage Civil Registration Index 📎 View 📎 View Geoffrey Whitworth and Lucy Potts were the witnesses when William and Edith married 🏛️ Free elementary education |
| 🏠 Lived | 1891 (42) | Hazelwood, 1 Hazelwood Road, Hale, Cheshire 📍 ⓘ1891 Census 📎 View The 1891 Census records William as a widow. Also living in the house are: Ann E. File, Housekeeper aged 48 born U.S. (British Subject) and Mary Smith, Domestic Servant aged 20 born Butt Lane, Staffordshire. |
| 💼 Occupation | 1891 (42) | Secretary |
| 💼 Occupation | 1891 (42) | Commercial Editor ⓘ1891 Census |
| 🏠 Lived | 1893 (44) | Hazelwood, 1 Hazelwood Road, Hale, Cheshire 📍 with Edith POTTS |
| 💼 Occupation | 1893 (44) | Journalist |
| 🏠 Lived | 1896 (47) | Melbrook, 10 Cambridge Road, Hale, Cheshire 📍 with Edith POTTS ⓘSlaters Directory |
| 💼 Occupation | 1897 (48) | Journalist ⓘHale Methodist Church Web SIte 🏛️ Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee |
| 💼 Occupation | 1897 (48) | Church Trustee Hale Methodist Church, Hale Road, Hale, Cheshire, WA15 9HQ 📍 ⓘHale Methodist Church Web SIte 📎 View |
| 🏠 Lived | 1901 (52) | Melbrook, 10 Cambridge Road, Hale, Cheshire 📍 with Edith POTTS ⓘ1901 Census 📎 View The 1901 Census records three servants living with the family. Eunice Smart, Mothers Domestic Help aged 25 born Ingewick, Buckinghamshire; Kate V. Connor, Domestic Cook aged 16 born Leftwick, Chester and Alice M. Balls, Housemaid aged 19 born Norwich, Norfolk. 🏛️ Second Boer War · Death of Queen Victoria — Edward VII accedes |
| 💼 Occupation | 1901 (52) | Journalist 35 Examiner Buildings, Strutt Street, Manchester, Greater Manchester 📍 ⓘ1901 Census |
| 📋 Deed | 1902 (53) | The Cobden Club, Caxton House, Westminster, London, Middlesex 📍 Became a member 📎 View |
| 💼 Occupation | 17 Jan 1903 (54) | Secretary to the Federation of Master Cotton Spinners' Association 📎 View 📎 View Newspaper cutting dated 17th January 1903 obtained from Manchester Central Library: RESIGNATION OF THE MASTER SPINNERS' SECRETARY. - Mr. William Tattersall has resigned the position of secretary to the Federation of Master Cotton Spinners' Association, which he has occupied for ten years. The resignation was accepted with regret at a meeting of the General Committee of the Federation held yesterday afternoon. Mr. Tattersall's resignation is due to his having accepted from the Board of Trade the… Show more 🏛️ Suffragette movement begins |
| 📝 Will | 30 Jun 1904 (55) | 📎 View |
| 🏠 Lived | 1914 (65) | Melbrook, 10 Cambridge Road, Hale, Cheshire 📍 with Edith POTTS ⓘDeath Civil Registration Index 🏛️ First World War |
| 💼 Occupation | 1914 (65) | Journalist 17 St. Ann's Square, Manchester, Lancashire 📍 |
| ✝️ Death | 22 Oct 1914 (65) | Melbrook, 10 Cambridge Road, Hale, Cheshire 📍 Angina Pectoris due to a weak heart ⓘWho Was Who 📎 View Death Notice in Altringham Bowdon & Hale Guardian Friday October 23, 1914 Tattersall on October 22 at Melbrook, Hale, William Tattersall aged 64 very suddenly. Inquiries T. B. Parkes Old Market-place, Altringham. Death certificate received from H. C. Yates Coroner for Cheshire (Knutsford Division) Inquest held 23rd October 1914. Age at death 66 but this is an error on the certificate. Inquest held on 23/10/1914 at Melbrook, Cambridge Road, Hale |
| 🕊️ Funeral | 24 Oct 1914 (65) | Hale Methodist Church, Hale Road, Hale, Cheshire, WA15 9HQ 📍 📎 View 📎 View 📎 View 📎 View 📎 View 📎 View 📎 View 📎 View Report taken from Altringham Bowdon & Hale Guardian, Tuesday, October 27, 1914 THE LATE MR. WILLIAM TATTERSALL INQUEST AT HALE The sudden death on Thursday of last week of Mr. William Tattersall formed the subject of an inquest which Mr H. C. Yates held on Friday at Melbrook, Hale, his late residence. Mrs. Tattersall said that on Wednesday morning her husband left home for Manchester about nine o'clock, when he seemed rather better than usual. He told her he would not be home to dinner, as h… Show more |
| 🪦 Burial | 24 Oct 1914 (65) | Hale Cemetery, Hale Road, Hale, Altringham, Cheshire 📍 Grave 150 Section F ⓘAltringham Crematorium Office 📎 View 📎 View 📎 View 📎 View 📎 View 📎 View 📎 View 📎 View The headstone reads: In Loving Memory of WILLIAM TATTERSALL BORN DEC. 4TH 1849. DIED OCT. 22ND 1914 NOTHING IN MY HAND I BRING, SIMPLY TO THY CROSS I CLING. Edith Tattersall, (wife) purchased the grave. William is the one body in the grave. His age at death is recorded as 66. Altringham Crematorium (Burial Records) Tel: 0161 928 7771 Grave 150 Section F |
| ⚖️ Probate | 17 Nov 1914 (65) | London, Middlesex 📍 Effects £4286 17s 11d 📎 View 📎 View William Tattersall of Melbrook, Hale, Cheshire and of 17 St. Ann's Square, Manchester died 22 October 1914 at Melbrook. Probate London 17 November to Edith Tattersall widow and William Edward Potts architect. Effects £4286 17s 11d |
Children with Sarah Hannah RIGG
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b. 1876, 17 Marshall Place, Cheetham Hill, Manchester, Lancashire · d. 1880, 12 Marshall Place, Cheetham Hill, Manchester, Lancashire
Children with Edith POTTS
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b. 1892, Bowdon, Cheshire · d. 1892, Broomfield Lane, Hale, Cheshire
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b. 1893, Hazelwood, 1 Hazelwood Road, Hale, Cheshire · d. 1987, 39 King Harry Lane, St. Albans, Hertfordshire · m. Marta FLUBACHER
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b. 1895, Melbrook, 10 Cambridge Road, Hale, Cheshire · d. 1895, Melbrook, 10 Cambridge Road, Hale, Cheshire
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b. 1897, Bowdon, Cheshire · d. 1897, Melbrook, 10 Cambridge Road, Hale, Cheshire
Notes
William Tattersall sent and received several letters from Winston Churchill. Some of the letters sent by Winston Churchill to him were auctioned by Sotherby's in London on 12th December 2002 and fetched £11,352.
Two of the letters (including one marked ``Private'') entirely autograph, three with the text in the hand of a secretary, and one typed: referring to articles, circulars, meetings, and the enlistment of Tattersall's ``authority in the cotton trade'' in the Free Trade cause ``against Pro… Show more
Two of the letters (including one marked ``Private'') entirely autograph, three with the text in the hand of a secretary, and one typed: referring to articles, circulars, meetings, and the enlistment of Tattersall's ``authority in the cotton trade'' in the Free Trade cause ``against Pro… Show more
Documents & photographs
📎 PhotoTattersall William with Edward & Annie & Edith Potts [Enhanced]
📎 PhotoTattersall William with Edward [Original]
📎 PhotoDocument
📎 PhotoDocument
📎 PhotoTattersall William
📎 DocumentTattersall William Lancashire Faces & Places 1901
📎 PhotoTattersall William Photo2-Colorized
📎 PhotoTattersall William Photo2
📎 LetterTattersall William Letter re Churchill 9th Nov 1908
📎 LetterTattersall William Letter to Churchill 14th Dec 1905
📎 LetterTattersall William Letter to Churchill 15th July 1908
📎 LetterTattersall William Letters from Churchill 1905-08
📎 DocumentTattersall William - Extract from Lancashire and the Cotton Duties 1896
📎 LetterTattersall William letters to The Times Newspaper 1895-1914
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