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VOSE

in Lancashire

[VOSE611] Thurstan Vose m. Mary
. [VOSE621] William Vose m. [MINS622] Jane Minshall
. . [VOSE631] Thurstan Vose m. [RIGB632] Mary Rigby
. . . [VOSE641] William Vose m. [ELLI642] Pheby Ellison
. . . . [VOSE651] Samuel Vose m. [SMTM652] Margaret Smith
. . . . . [VOSE661] William Vose m. [HOUG662] Eliza Houghton
. . . . . . [VOSE671] Alfred Vose m1. [HAMP672] Mary Hewitt alias Hampson
. . . . . . . [VOSE682] Eliza Vose m. [LEEE681] Arthur Lee

The confirmation of a link between the Vose families at Lunt and Rainford is Esther Vose (born at Lunt, 1707) who married (at Sefton, 1730) Joseph Birch. This family moved from Lunt to Rainford (between 1736 and 1738), probably following Esther's elder brother William Vose (born at Lunt, 1704), who was at Rainford by 1728.

9.  [VOSE611] Thurstan Vose and his wife Mary had three children born at Lunt and baptised at Sefton as follows:

• Alexander (baptised 5th April 1702);

• 8. [VOSE621] William (baptised 14th January 1704-05), married Jane Minshall, see later;

• Esther (baptised 1st May 1707), married (at Sefton, 1st April 1730, "both of this parish") Joseph Birch. Joseph & Esther had three children born at Lunt (1731-36), followed by six children born at Rainford (1738-52). Esther was buried at Rainford (7th July 1758), and Joseph was buried there also (16th June 1782).

	Sefton Church (13 October 2008)

The family later moved from Lunt to Rainford, where Thurstan was Chapel Warden (1729),  though when Esther married (at Sefton, 1730) she said she was "of this parish". Mary died at Rainford (buried there 4th February 1739-40), and Thomas died at Rainford also (buried there 17th April 1742).

8.  [VOSE621] William Vose (born 1705), a labourer, married (at Prescot, 22nd April 1728) [MINS622] Jane Minshall (born 1706, see MINSHALL), both of Rainford.

They had eight children born and baptised at Rainford as follows:

• 7. [VOSE631] Thurstan (baptised 2nd February 1728-29), married Mary Rigby, see later;

• Ann (baptised 28th January 1732-33), married (at Rainford, 12th September 1756) James Smith);

• Mary (baptised 6th July 1735), married Richard Moyers;

• Martha (baptised 25th September 1737), died at Rainford (buried there 15th July 1749);

• William (baptised 28th October 1739);

• John (baptised 7th November 1742);

• James (baptised 7th February 1744-45);

• Martha (baptised 21st March 1750-51).

William was Chapel Warden at Rainford (1736) and shown as a husbandman when he died at Rainford (buried there 30th December 1778), and Jane died at Rainford also (buried there 2nd April 1788).

7.  [VOSE631] Thurstan Vose (born 1729), a husbandman, married (at Rainford, 21st August 1754) [RIGB632] Mary Rigby (born 1736, see RIGBY) of St. Helens. They had thirteen children born at Windle and baptised at Rainford as follows:

• 6. [VOSE641] William (baptised 16th January 1755), married 2. Pheby Ellison, see later;

• Alice (baptised 10th November 1756);

• Robert (born 10th August 1758, baptised 27th August 1758);

• Thomas (baptised c. January 1760);

• James (born 21st October 1761, baptised 15th November 1761);

• Giles (born 16th November 1763, baptised 27th November 1763), married Mary Martindell;

• Ann (born 30th November 1765, baptised 8th December 1765);

• George (born 11th December 1767);

• Ellen (born 3rd May 1769);

• Mary (born 18th April 1772);

• Jane (born 3rd November 1774);

• Henry (born 27th December 1776), married Sarah Pardoe;

• Ellen (born 3rd May 1779, baptised - May 1779), died (age 3) at St. Helens (buried at Rainford, 11th July 1782).

Mary died at Windle (buried at Rainford, 13th April 1806), and Thurstan (a labourer) died at Windle also (buried at Rainford, 10th April 1811).

6.     [VOSE641] William Vose (born 1755), a husbandman of Prescot, married 1. (at Farnworth, 30th October 1775) Christian Pye, witnessed by James Barron and Richd Pye. They had one child born at Windle and baptised at Prescot as follows:

• Mary (born 31st August 1776, baptised 22nd September 1776), married William Sephton.

Christian died shortly afterwards, and William (a husbandman) then married 2. (at Prescot, 22nd April 1781) [ELLI642] Pheby Ellison (born 1750, see ELLISON), both of Windle, witnessed by William Banister (parish clerk) and Thomas Calderbank. They had eight children born at either Hardshaw or Windle, and all baptised at Windle as follows:

• Hannah (born 7th June 1782, baptised 23rd June 1782), died age 4 (June 1786);

• Elizabeth (born 4th September 1784, baptised 26th September 1784), married Henry Gatley;

• John (born 28th November 1786, baptised 10th December 1786), married (at Liverpool, St. Peter, 31st December 1821) Elizabeth Smith;

• William (born at Hardshaw, 14th December 1788, baptised 18th January 1789), married (at Liverpool, Old Haymarket, St. John, 5th February 1815) Margaret Smith;

• Abegel (a twin, born at Hardshaw, 17th February 1791, baptised 3rd April 1791), died (age 4) at Windle (buried at Rainford, 15th November 1795);

• Pheby (a twin, born at Hardshaw, 17th February 1791, baptised 3rd April 1791), married Joshua Smith;

• Ellen (born 24th January 1793, baptised 7th April 1793), married 1. (at Prescot, 6th May 1812) Thomas Lythgoe, then 2. (at Liverpool, St. Peter, 5th January 1824) William Boardman;

• 5. [VOSE651] Samuel (born 28th August 1797, baptised 10th September 1797), married Margaret Smith, see later.

The family later moved to Eccleston (by 1812), then afterwards to Rainhill. William (a farmer) died (age 67) at Rainhill (9th August 1822, buried at Rainford, 13th August 1822), and Pheby died (age 77) at Rainhill also (buried at Rainford 27th August 1834). Both William and Pheby left Wills.

5.  [VOSE651] Samuel Vose (born 1797, son of William & Pheby), a labourer, married (at Liverpool, St. Peter, 20th November 1820) [SMTM652] Margaret Smith (born 1799, see SMITH). They had six children born at Rainhill and baptised at Prescot as follows:

• 4. [VOSE661] William (baptised 10th January 1821), married Eliza Houghton, see later;

• James (baptised 24th November 1822), married (at St. Helens, 26th July 1846) Helen Orrett, of Cronton;

• John (baptised 26th September 1824), married (at Liverpool, St. Nicholas, 5th January 1854) Ellen Eaton;

• Samuel (born 25th August 1826, baptised 27th August 1826), married (at Windle, R.C., 4th January 1851) Ann Ranson, of Eccleston;

• Henry (baptised 19th April 1829), married (at Rainhill, 4th November 1855) Mary Harrison, of Eccleston;

• George (baptised 20th February 1831).

Samuel (a gamekeeper) died (age 34) at Rainhill (buried at Prescot, 2nd January 1831), and Margaret (a farmer of 2 acres, with cows) died (age 65, of heart disease and dropsy) at Rainhill also (13th December 1864, buried there 16th December 1864).

4.  [VOSE661] William Vose (born 1821), a file cutter, married (at Liverpool, St. Peter, 21st September 1845) [HOUG662] Eliza Houghton (born 1825, see HOUGHTON), witnessed by James Houghton and Jane Darlington. They had eleven children born and baptised at Rainhill as follows:

• Samuel (baptised 1846), married (at Hulme, 3rd January 1870) Mary Hinds;

• Harriet Sarah (baptised 16th April 1848);

• James (baptised 9th June 1850), married (at Whiston, 15th October 1872) Sarah Elizabeth Lord;

• George (born 17th February 1852, baptised 4th April 1852), died (age 19) at Rainhill (15th January 1872, buried there 19th January 1872);

• 3. [VOSE671] Alfred (born 8th July 1854), married 1. Mary Hewitt, see later;

• Ellen (baptised 1st February 1857), married (at Liverpool, St. John, 27th February 1878) Henry Green;

• William (baptised 24th April 1859), married (at Rainhill, 31st August 1891) Elizabeth Dowse;

• Walter (born 1861), married (at Hooton Pagnell, 1st January 1886) Ellen Brown;

• Eliza (born 1863);

• Margaret (born 1866), died (age 13) at Rainhill (28th September 1880, buried there 1st October 1880);

• Phoebe Lucy (born mid-1868, baptised 7th May 1871). She was assisting her brother Alfred in the Dining Rooms he was managing in Leeds (1911). She died unmarried (age 52) in the Birkenhead area (1921).

William was a tool maker, e.g. making joiners’ compasses. Eliza died (age 71, of decay and catarrh) at Rainhill (8th February 1897, buried there 12th February 1897), and William died (age 78, of decay) at Rainhill also (19th May 1899, buried there 23rd May 1899).

A headstone in the churchyard at Rainhill, records their deaths, and those of some of their children, and one grandson. 

Surprisingly, they were not all buried in the same grave. Two graves (Nos. 165 and 257) were in use, and the persons (all surnamed Vose) buried in them, were as follows:

3.    [VOSE671] Alfred Vose (born 1854), a tool maker of Rainhill, married 1. (at Whiston, St. Nicholas, 15th November 1876) [HAMP672] Mary Hewitt alias Hampson (born 1853), of Whiston (see HAMPSON), witnessed by Annie Hewitt (Mary's half-sister), James Vose (Alfred's brother) and Robert Naylor (parish clerk).

They had two children as follows:

• Alfred (born at Whiston, baptised at Rainhill, 2nd December 1877), died (age 5) at Rainhill (buried there 23rd March 1882);

• 2. [VOSE682] Eliza (born at Rainhill, 23rd September 1880, baptised at Whiston, 24th October 1880), married (at Hunslet, Register Office, 7th June 1902) [LEEE681] Arthur Lee (born 1878, see LEE).

Six days after Eliza was born, Mary died (age 27, of peritonitis) at Rainhill (29th September 1880, buried there 3rd October 1880). Later Alfred married 2. (at Eccleston, St. Thomas, 9th April 1882) Elizabeth Jane Harper (born at Newton-le-Willows, 1845).

	Eccleston St. Thomas (27 October 2008)

The family moved to Hunslet (by 1884). See VOSE in Leeds for subsequent history.