RETURN TO CONTENTS PAGE

RETURN TO WESTMORLAND FAMILIES OR WEST RIDING FAMILIES PAGES

RETURN TO POST-1538 FAMILIES PAGE

SHEPHERD

in Stanningley

For earlier history of this family see SHEPHERD in Westmorland

The Shepherd family moved from Westmorland to Yorkshire (c.1835), following the Garnett family which had moved a little earlier (see GARNETT in Westmorland for earlier histories).

4.    [SHEP661] John Shepherd (born 1812) married (at Kendal, 12th November 1832) [GRNT662] Elizabeth Garnett (born 1809, see GARNETT), witnessed by Margaret Dunn and Thomas Garnett (Elizabeth's brother). Their first child was born at Kendal after which they went to live at Stanningley, where John was mainly a night watchman. They had nine children as follows:

• Bella (baptised at Kendal, 29th September 1833), married (at Calverley, 23rd July 1854) Abraham Sunderland, witnessed by John Davey and George Lumby;

• Mary Jane (born at Stanningley, 26th November 1835, baptised at Sunfield, 24th January 1836);

• 3. [SHEP671] John (born at Stanningley, 3rd June 1838), married Martha Ann Elizabeth Wood, see later;

• Margaret (born at Stanningley, 1840), died 1845;

• Richard (born at Stanningley, 1843), married 1. (at Calverley, 15th May 1864) Jane Frankland, witnessed by William Ashworth and Benjamin Collinson; then 2. (at North Bierley, Register Office, 11th March 1905) Annie Elizabeth Atkinson nee Sharpe, witnessed by Mary Gaunt and Reuben Isles;

• Ann (born at Stanningley, 1845);

• William (born at Stanningley, 1847), married (at Calverley, 14th October 1871) Catherine Wilson, witnessed by Thomas Ashton and Robert Musgrave;

• Eliza (born at Stanningley, 1850), died young;

• James (born at Stanningley, 13th February 1853, baptised at Roker Lane, 27th March 1853), died (age 21) at Stanningley (buried at St. Thomas, 6th April 1874).

Their addresses whilst at Stanningley (all in the parish of Pudsey, St Paul), were Richardshaw, Barne’s Croft and Barne's Close. Elizabeth died (age 65, of chronic Bright’s disease and dropsy) at Barne's Close (19th June 1875, buried at St. Thomas, 21st June 1875), and John died (age 75, of senile gangrene of the foot) at Barne's Close also (12th May 1886, buried at St. Thomas, 15th May 1886).

3.    [SHEP671] John Shepherd (born 1838), a farmer, married (at Calverley, February 1859) [WODD672] Martha Ann Elizabeth Wood (born 1839, see WOOD), of Pudsey, both age 20, witnessed by Nancy Firth and James Wood (Martha Ann Elizabeth's uncle).

They had five children as follows:

• John William (born at Stanningley in Pudsey, 1859), married 1. (at Calverley, 27th October 1883) Annice Keighley, witnessed by Frederick Anderson and James Marshall; then 2. (at Calverley, 21st December 1895) Kate Elizabeth Glover, witnessed by Amos Giles and Mary Ann Shepherd (John William's sister-in-law);

• Richard (born at Stanningley in Pudsey, 1861), went to Manchester where he had a relationship, living as husband and wife for some eighteen years with Anne ---, who was about five years his senior. She was perhaps a married woman who had been deserted by her husband, likely because she could bear no children. Richard, who was a carter for the L. & N. W. Railway Co., died (age 50) at Manchester (buried at Manchester Southern Cemetery, 23rd March 1912). The burial book records he was a single man, of 20 Arthur Street, Manchester, which was also his address at the 1911 census;

• James (born at Stanningley in Bramley, December 1864), died (age 7 months) at Stanningley (buried at St. Thomas, 21st July 1865);

• Elizabeth (born at Keighley, 27th July 1866), married (at Calverley, 21st February 1886) Ernest Thomas Wardrop, witnessed by John William Shepherd (Elizabeth's brother) and Sarah Elizabeth Smith;

• 2. [SHEP681] James (born at Stanningley in Pudsey, 30th November 1868, baptised at St. Paul, 23rd May 1885), married Mary Ann Smith, see later.

They lived variously at Richardshaw (Stanningley in Pudsey), Fleece Street (Keighley), and Primrose Hill (Stanningley in Pudsey). John (a carter) died (age 36, of pneumonia) at Primrose Hill (14th March 1873, buried at St. Thomas, 18th March 1873). Afterwards, Martha Ann Elizabeth married 2. (at Calverley, 14th August 1876) Joseph Robinson (born 1841), a plasterer of Pudsey, witnessed by Elizabeth Fishwick and James Woodbine. Martha Ann Elizabeth died (age 72, of pneumonia and heart failure) at Primrose Hill (5th April 1910, buried at Pudsey Cemetery, 9th April 1910), being survived by Joseph.

2.    [SHEP681] James Shepherd (born 1868), a boot riveter, married (at Calverley, 4th February 1888) [SMTH682] Mary Ann Smith (born 1869, see SMITH), a weaver, both age 20, witnessed by Janey Humphries and John William Shepherd (James' brother).

They had five children born at Stanningley in Bramley and baptised at St. Thomas as follows:

• Herbert (born 21st December 1889, baptised 25th January 1890), lived 4 months;

• Leonard (born 18th March 1892, baptised 17th April 1892), married 1. (at Calverley, 10th January 1914) Florence Davey, witnessed by Bertha Ann Crampton and Percy Shepherd (Leonard's brother); then 2. (allegedly in Leeds, autumn 1960) Annie Brace;

• Percy (born 23rd May 1893, baptised 18th June 1893), never married, died (age 91) at Leeds General Infirmary (18th June 1984, cremated at Rawdon, 25th June 1984);

• Harold (born 2nd May 1897, baptised 23rd May 1897), married (at New Wortley, St. John the Baptist, 14th June 1922) Lil Hodges, witnessed by E Bell, John William Hodges (Lil's father) and Percy Shepherd (Harold's brother);

• 1. [SHEP692] Florence (born 10th October 1899, baptised 26th November 1899):

Also see later.

The family lived at Stanningley (in Leeds), variously at Church Hill Street, Coniston Mount, Church Hill Terrace/Street/Mount, Bright Street and Half Mile Lane.

James was originally a boot riveter at Scales & Sons, Grove Works, in Cemetery Road, Pudsey. In early 1901 he lost his job there after Scales’ former partners Salter & Salter opened their own factory at Pudsey in opposition. From February to November 1901 the family lived at Edmund Street, East Crompton, Lancashire, where he was a boot & shoe repairer, then returning to Stanningley. James became a labourer at various local foundries, and at the 1911 Census he said he was a yard-man at an iron foundry. He worked at various foundries, the last being Croft & Perkins until a strike in 1919 threw him out of work again. He then bought a little shoe repairing business, working at a small shop at Sunfield, Stanningley. James died (age 71, of paralysis) at St James’s Hospital, Leeds, (16th April 1940, buried at St. Thomas, 20th April 1940). Mary Ann died (age 90, of cerebral thrombosis) at St. James’s Hospital, Leeds, also (28th November 1959, buried at St. Thomas, 1st December 1959).

The headstone on their grave at Stanningley, St Thomas, reads:

• 1. [SHEP692] Florence Shepherd (born 1899, daughter of James) married (at Stanningley, St. Thomas, 2nd February 1929) [LEEE691] Alfred Lee (born 1904, see LEE).