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Samuel and Jeremiah Eardley + ms Ginders
Posted By: peterdzik
Date: Wednesday, 5 August 2009, at 6:31 a.m.
This is on behalf of Tony Eardley from Meir, and many others who will be related. He traces back to the marriage of Samuel E. Eardley and Esther Whalley (born Warrington, Lancashire) at St. Lawrence, Biddulph, Staffs. in 1895. The April 1901 census has them with 4 year old twins Albert and Thomas, Leonard 3 and Esther 9 months.
In the 1881 census 13 year old mechanic Samuel is with widowed mother Sophia in John Street, Biddulph. Siblings are Alfred 25, Joseph 21, Roland 19, George 11, Sarah 9. In 1871 Sophia Eardley is visiting the Dean family at Barlaston some miles away (by train?), while husband Samuel is with children including Eleanor 18. Caroline is a servant elsewhere. Curiously Joseph, Roland, Emily, Mary Ellen and George are recorded in that census as Gaskells, although Samuel’s children. In 1861 they are living in Knypersley Park, where Samuel is a gamekeeper, with daughter Eleanor being next door with grandfather Joseph Gaskell. Samuel had married Sophia Gaskell in 1852 at Wolstanton church, as Brown Lees then was part of its parish.
In 1851 38 year old Samuel had been living at Brown Lees with his older widowed sister Sarah Hulme, along with an 8 year old Thomas Eardley? Was he a widower?
Samuel had been born at Thorneyleigh farm, Meerbrook
He was one of the children of John Eardley and Sarah Ginders (many Ginders in Biddulph parish) who had married in Biddulph in 1795, moving to Meerbrook. Children included Jeremiah baptised 31 August 1809, Samuel 8/5/1812, and Isaac 1816. Jeremiah married Amelia Bagley at Astbury, Cheshire in 1838. They had at least one daughter. He married again at Sutton, a few miles north of Rushton Spencer in 1846. What happened to them after that?
John was a son of Isaac Eardley and Mary Taylor who had married at Grindon in the Moorlands on first of March 1762. Isaac was the son of Solomon and Anne Hordern, who had married at Newcastle under Lyme on 17th January 1725. Solomon, born 1690, was the son of Samuel Eardley and Margaret Lockett – cousin to another Samuel. Samuel was to die in 1727 aged about 79, looked after by daughter Esther Unwin.
Its interesting about the Eardley links to this area, in that John and Sarah Eardley moved to Thorneyleigh farm in Meerbrook. In 1715 Richard Eardley (actually Yardley) had married Sarah Wilkinson at Meerbrook chapel, then recorded in Leek parish registers. What is further of interest is that the original Yardleys/Eardleys were living at Roach Grange above Meerbrook in the 1640’s. The younger Samuel had married Sarah Devill in 1694, and she was of the yeoman Devills of the Tittesworth area.
BYE PETE
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