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Joseph BRIERLEY

1840 – 1908 · Brooksbottoms, Summerseat, Bury, Lancashire
Father: William BRIERLEY · Mother: Alice YATES
👶Birth
01/09/1840
🏛️ Penny Post introduced
Brooksbottoms, Summerseat, Bury, Lancashire 📍 1891 Census
Birth Civil Registration Index
Birth Certificate
1851 Census
📎 Birth Cert
🏠Lived (1)
1841
Brooksbottoms, Summerseat, Bury, Lancashire 📍 1841 Census 📎 Census
🎓Education (5)
from 1845 to 1846
🏛️ Irish Potato Famine
Rowlands Wesleyan Chapel (Sunday School), Rowlands Road, Summerseat, Bury, Lancashire 📍 Church Records
Bury Archives

Teacher: Robert Birtwistle of Summerseat

🏠Lived (11)
1851
🏛️ Great Exhibition at Crystal Palace
Brooksbottoms, Summerseat, Bury, Lancashire 📍 1851 Census 📎 Census
💼Occupation (11)
1851
Back Tenter 1851 Census
🏠Lived (21)
1861
🏛️ Death of Prince Albert
Brooksbottoms, Summerseat, Bury, Lancashire 📍 1861 Census 📎 Census
💼Occupation (21)
1861
Cotton Weaver 1861 Census
🏠Lived (31)
1871
🏛️ Bank Holidays introduced
Brooksbottoms, Summerseat, Bury, Lancashire 📍 1871 Census 📎 Census
💼Occupation (31)
1871
Cotton Mill Store Keeper 1871 Census
💒Marriage (35)
25/08/1875
Sarah TATTERSALL
Rowlands Wesleyan Chapel, Rowlands Road, Summerseat, Bury, Lancashire 📍 Marriage Civil Registration Index
Ref: 8c 682 Bury
Marriage Certificate
📎 Marriage 📎 Marriage Cert

The witnesses were: George and Jane Tattersall (Brother and sister of Sarah)

🏠Lived (35)
1875
Brooksbottoms, Summerseat, Bury, Lancashire 📍
with Sarah TATTERSALL
💼Occupation (35)
1875
Assistant Bookeeper
🏠Lived (36)
1876
🏛️ Victoria becomes Empress of India
Brooksbottoms, Summerseat, Bury, Lancashire 📍
with Sarah TATTERSALL
🏠Lived (39)
1879
Woodhill, Elton, Bury, Lancashire 📍
with Sarah TATTERSALL
🏠Lived (41)
1881
2 Prospect Terrace, Elton, Bury, Lancashire, BL8 1BB 📍
with Sarah TATTERSALL 1881 Census 📎 Census

The 1881 Census on familysearch shows their dwelling as "Brandlesome Road, Prospect Ter, Elton, Lancashire"

After checking this address is would appear to be Prospect Terrace off Brandlesome Road, Elton, Bury. However the address on the Death Certificate for Ann Shaw is Woodhill, Elton, Bury. There was a Woodhill Cottage but another family lived here in 1881.

💼Occupation (41)
1881
Book Keeper in Cotton Mill
🏠Lived (51)
1891
🏛️ Free elementary education
Prospect Terrace, off Brandlesome Road, Elton, Bury, Lancashire 📍
with Sarah TATTERSALL 1891 Census
Ref: RG12/3142 folio 47
📎 Census
💼Occupation (51)
1891
Book Keeper in Cotton Mill 1891 Census
🏠Lived (61)
1901
🏛️ Second Boer War
1 Woodbank Place, Brandlesome Road, Elton, Bury, Lancashire 📍
with Sarah TATTERSALL 1901 Census 📎 Census
💼Occupation (61)
1901
🏛️ Death of Queen Victoria
Book Keeper in Cotton Mill
🏠Lived (65)
1905
6 Woodbank Terrace, Brandlesome Road, Elton, Bury, Lancashire 📍 Grant of Probate
Will
📝Will (65)
01/11/1905
Will 📎 Will
✝️Death (68)
27/05/1908
🏛️ Old Age Pensions introduced
1 Woodbank Place, Brandlesome Road, Elton, Bury, Lancashire 📍 Probate Index
🪦Burial
30/05/1908
Rowlands Wesleyan Chapel, Rowlands Road, Summerseat, Bury, Lancashire 📍 📎 Grave 📎 Grave 📎 Grave

Grave 489. No formal headstone, but a stone on the grave which is in the lower graveyard under a tree near to the wall along Rowlands Road and reads:

In Loving Memory
of
JOSEPH BRIERLEY
OF FAIRY ST. SUNDAY SCHOOLS
A FAITHFULL & DEVOTED
SERVANT
FOR OVER 25 YEARS
"THE MEMORY OF HE JUST
IS BLESSED."
ERECTED BY
THE FAIRY ST. FRIENDS

(Fairy/Bolton Street Methodist Chapel, Elton, Bury - records CFY 1896-1979 at Bury Archives)

⚖️Probate
17/07/1908
Manchester, Lancashire 📍
Effects: £497 1s 9d Probate Index 📎 Probate Grant 📎 Probate
Children with Sarah TATTERSALL
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b. 1877, Brooksbottoms, Summerseat, Bury, Lancashire · d. 1928, 273 Walshaw Road, Bury, Lancashire · m. 1898 Margaret Alice DOWNHAM
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