Leeds in the 1870s

Si · Post by Si » Wed 19 May, 2010 4:00 pm

My pleasure. PS I've found Freehold Street. It was to the south of Burmantofts Works. Loads of pictures of it on Leodis...

Si · Post by Si » Wed 19 May, 2010 4:36 pm

...including this beauty!

Dakota · Post by **Dakota** » Wed 19 May, 2010 4:37 pm

My that is attractive -worth of a postcard perhaps?

Si · Post by Si » Wed 19 May, 2010 4:38 pm

Cardiarms · Post by **Cardiarms** » Wed 19 May, 2010 4:51 pm

The sun appears to be shining - it must have been a sunday!

Dakota · Post by **Dakota** » Wed 19 May, 2010 4:52 pm

that's funny - I'll have to remember it.

Si · Post by Si » Wed 19 May, 2010 5:10 pm

Cardiarms wrote: The sun appears to be shining - it must have been a sunday! Could be just the glare from a nearby foundry!

Post by **cnosni** » Thu 20 May, 2010 12:55 am

Dakota wrote: Thank you so much - I have been trying to get a sense of what their life would have been like. But it seemed like they were constantly in different places and I didn't know how common it was that they were that mobile. I believe that they went back to Bowling in the spring of 1871 because my great grandmother's mother was dying and she was probably needed to help with the 9 younger children that were still at home. Six weeks after her mother died, they were back in Leeds where their 3rd son died. Was it that easy to get around? Would they have walked or ws transportation affordable? They immigrated to the US and eventually homesteaded in Dakota Territory. My great grandmother didn't like the way her husband had built the house so she built a new kitchen by herself while pregnant - truly a remarkable woman. My dad's oldest sister lived with my ggrandmother when she moved into town off the farm after my ggrandfatther died and I was able to talk to my aunt about what she remembered about her grandmother before she died. So I have a small sense of her. I don't know if there are any records of the burials in the Beckett Street Cemetary, I have the dates of the 3 babies deaths, but they are buried in common graves and I don't know if there is any way of knowing which graves the boys are buried in. My cousin was going back to England last December and we so badly wanted to be able to find the graves to put flowers on for my ggrandmother, Sarah. She had 16 children in all and as she moved from place to place she was leaving graves behind. When she homesteaded in Dakota Territory she lost several children while living on the farm and had them buried by the house because she didn't want to leave any more babies behind - that's always stayed with me so I was hoping to be able to remember the babies she had to leave in England. Hi DakotaGive me the names and years of the 3 deaths and ill see what i can do with finding where they are buriedHere is a wewbsite that may be of some interesthttp://www.beckettstreetcemetery.org.uk/

Post by **cnosni** » Thu 20 May, 2010 12:57 am

drapesy wrote: it sounds like a very touching human story - people uprooting from the land where they'd lived since time immemorial to find a new life on the other side of the world, and in a wild and dangerous place as it would have been then. Wild and dangerous,are you kidding Steve,they were from Leeds 9 like me!!

Dakota · Post by **Dakota** » Thu 20 May, 2010 1:44 am

Thank you - the children are:George Wells, died of Pertussis Convulsions on March 20, 1868Ernest Wells, died of water on the brain on August 18, 1871William Wells, died of spina bifada on March 18, 1872I appreciate any info you can find on their graves.Thank you again.