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Wilfrid Ernest SADLER

1869 – 1944 · Eccles, Lancashire
Partner: Margaret MCGUINESS · Partner: Amy SWINDELLS
Father: Ephraim SADLER · Mother: Hannah SADLER
👶Birth
13/01/1869
Eccles, Lancashire 📍 1939 NHS Register
Birth Civil Registration Index
🏠Lived (2)
1871
🏛️ Bank Holidays introduced
Danesbury House, Chatsworth Road, Ellesmere Park, Eccles, Lancashire 📍 📎 Census
🏠Lived (12)
1881
12 Half Edge Lane, Eccles, Lancashire 📍 1881 Census 📎 Census
🏠Lived (22)
1891
🏛️ Free elementary education
12 Half Edge Lane, Eccles, Lancashire 📍 1891 Census 📎 Census
💼Occupation (22)
1891
Glass Merchant Assistant 1891 Census
💒Marriage (26)
1895
🏛️ National Trust founded
Margaret MCGUINESS
Barton Upon Irwell, Lancashire 📍 Marriage Civil Registration Index
🏠Lived (32)
1901
🏛️ Second Boer War
10 Abbey Grove, Eccles, Lancashire 📍
with Margaret MCGUINESS 1901 Census 📎 Census

In 1901 Elizabeth A Bourdige aged 19 born in Wolverhampton lived with the family as a domestic housemaid.

💼Occupation (32)
1901
🏛️ Death of Queen Victoria
Plumbers Merchant Employer 1901 Census
🏠Lived (34)
1903
🏛️ Suffragette movement begins
10 Abbey Grove, Eccles, Lancashire 📍
with Margaret MCGUINESS Death Civil Registration Index
He was the informant on his fathers death certificate
🏠Lived (40)
1909
10 Abbey Grove, Eccles, Lancashire 📍 Death Certificate
🏠Lived (42)
1911
🏛️ National Insurance Act
Danesbury House, Chatsworth Road, Ellesmere Park, Eccles, Lancashire 📍
with Margaret MCGUINESS 📎 Census
🏠Lived (52)
1921
🏛️ Irish Free State established
Danesbury House, Chatsworth Road, Ellesmere Park, Eccles, Lancashire 📍 Slaters Directory
1921 Census
📎 Census
💼Occupation (52)
1921
Plumbers Merchant (Employer)
Wilfrid E. Sadler Plumbers Merchant, Ardwick Green, Manchester, Lancashire 📍 1921 Census
🏠Lived (55)
05/06/1924
Hawarden, 59 West Drive, Thornton Cleveleys, Lancashire 📍
with Margaret MCGUINESS 📎 Letter
📌Event (55)
05/06/1924
Letter to Guardian re Lancashire Cricket Team 📎 Letter
🏠Lived (70)
1939
🏛️ Second World War
Hawarden, 59 West Drive, Thornton Cleveleys, Lancashire 📍 📎 1939 Register
💼Occupation (70)
1939
Plumbers Merchant
💒Marriage (73)
26/05/1942
Amy SWINDELLS
Fylde, Lancashire 📍 Marriage Civil Registration Index
British Newspaper Archive
📎 Notice
🏠Lived (75)
1944
🏛️ D-Day
Hawarden, 59 West Drive, Thornton Cleveleys, Lancashire 📍
with Amy SWINDELLS
📝Will (75)
23/03/1944
Will 📎 Will
✝️Death (75)
28/12/1944
Ancoats Hospital, Manchester, Lancashire 📍
Aged 75 British Newspaper Archive
Probate Index
📎 Notice 📎 Memorial

Manchester Evening News Saturday 30th December 1944:

SADLER, on Dec. 28, 1944, suddenly. WILFRED ERNEST, dearly-loved husband of Amy SADLER, of Hawarden, 59, West Drive, Cleveleys, and father of Wilfred, Eric, and Carman. Service at Monton Unitarian Church on Tuesday at 12 noon, prior to cremation at the Manchester Crematorium at 1pm. Enquiries Coop and Sons, Ltd. Tel. Pen 1487.

💼Occupation (76)
1945
🏛️ VE Day
Plumbers Merchant
Wilfrid E. Sadler Plumbers Merchant, 1-5 Plymouth Grove, Manchester, Lancashire 📍 Probate Index 📎 Notice
🕊️Funeral
02/01/1945
Monton Unitarian Church, Monton, Eccles, Lancashire 📍
🔥Cremation
02/01/1945
Manchester Crematorium, Barlow Moor Road, Chorlton-cum-Hardy, Manchester, Lancashire 📍
🪦Burial
abt 09/01/1945
Monton Unitarian Church, Monton, Eccles, Lancashire 📍 Grave Headstone 📎 Grave 📎 Grave 📎 Grave 📎 Grave 📎 Grave 📎 Grave

[Front of Stone]
IN AFFECTIONATE REMEMBRANCE OF
EWART,
DEARLY LOVED SON OF
WILFRID & MARGARET SADLER,
WHO PASSED AWAY JANUARY 1ST 1917
AGED 18 YEARS.

ALSO CARMAN, THEIR YOUNGEST SON
DIED JANUARY 22ND 1958
DEARLY LOVED HUSBAND OF
MARIE SADLER.

[Right of Stone]
IN MEMORY OF
MARGARET,
THE BELOVED WIFE OF
WILFRID ERNEST SADLER
WHO PASSED AWAY DEC 16TH 1938.

[Left of Stone]
WILFRID ERNEST SADLER
BORN JAN.Y 13TH 1869,
DIED DEC.R 28TH 1944.
BELOVED HUSBAND OF
THE LATE MARGARET SADLER
AND ALSO OF

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⚖️Probate
17/03/1945
Manchester, Lancashire 📍
Effects: £48738 13s 9d (Worth £1.73m in 2017) 📎 Notice 📎 Probate
Children with Margaret MCGUINESS
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b. 1897, Eccles, Lancashire · d. 1959, 17 Park Road, Thornton Cleveleys, Lancashire · m. 1919 Dorothy Mona LONGBOTTOM · m. 1941 Mary JOHNSON
Ewart SADLER
b. 1898, 10 Abbey Grove, Eccles, Lancashire · d. 1917, 15 Anchor Street, Southport, Lancashire
Eric Desmond SADLER
b. 1899, Eccles, Lancashire · d. 1953, Newbury, 22 Cavendish Road, Heaton Mersey, Stockport, Cheshire · m. 1922 Dorothy BENNETT
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b. 1901, Eccles, Lancashire · d. 1958, Rhokana, 8 Stanneylands Road, Wilmslow, Cheshire · m. 1927 Marie BENNETT
Notes

Info From: Roger Hart (mancuniensis@btinternet.com)

The 1881 Census has him living in Half Edge Lane in the same house is a Harriet Carman and she is buried at Barton Wesleyan. On the gravestone is the following:

NEW GRAVEYARD, ROW 8, No. 247
FLAT GRAVESTONE 247

Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord
In
Affectionate Remembrance
of
John Carman,
who died March 27th. 1887,
Aged 59 Years.
Jesus Lover of my Soul
Let me to thy Bossom Fly
While the nearer waters roll
While the tempest still is

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Information from Rosalie Sadler:

He lived in Monton, Eccles prior to retirement in Cleveleys. He founded a business of plumbers merchants, sold imported Italian glass for leaded lights along with ceramics. Provided all the replacement gutters, pipes etc. for Buxton Opera House.

He provided the windows for Monton Unitarian Church where rests the Sadler family grave.

His business commenced in 1851 in Ardwick, Manchester and later proceeded (for expansion) to 1, 3 & 5 Plymouth Grove,

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