52 residents #11 Luck
15/03/20 21:45
One lucky resident, who will probably feature in a number of these posts, is Charles Patrick. Lucky or shrewd, you decide!
Patrick was born in Edmonton, Middlesex to a pretty well off middle class family. He rapidly disappears from the UK records and pops up in Canada, occupation as yet unknown (though I haven't looked hard!). He was found though as a volunteer in the Canadian mounted reserves which he later milked as constituting 'considerable active service abroad'. Mmm.
By 1855 he has popped up in Rochdale, Lancashire, as sub-inspector of factories. At this point he marries Mary Ann Ashworth, the spinster daughter of a local colliery owner and his main heiress. He moves into the house she inherited from her father and set about extending it. He also extended the staff, to a single female domestic servant were rapidly added a gardener, a groom and two further domestic servants. Have to keep up appearances, you know…
All the evidence is that they had a happy marriage. There was no issue, which is scarcely surprising since Mary Ann was in her mid 50s at the time of her marriage.
Patrick was born in Edmonton, Middlesex to a pretty well off middle class family. He rapidly disappears from the UK records and pops up in Canada, occupation as yet unknown (though I haven't looked hard!). He was found though as a volunteer in the Canadian mounted reserves which he later milked as constituting 'considerable active service abroad'. Mmm.
By 1855 he has popped up in Rochdale, Lancashire, as sub-inspector of factories. At this point he marries Mary Ann Ashworth, the spinster daughter of a local colliery owner and his main heiress. He moves into the house she inherited from her father and set about extending it. He also extended the staff, to a single female domestic servant were rapidly added a gardener, a groom and two further domestic servants. Have to keep up appearances, you know…
All the evidence is that they had a happy marriage. There was no issue, which is scarcely surprising since Mary Ann was in her mid 50s at the time of her marriage.