Family Myths

[Jillie42]

"My mum's family was called Sutcliffe and although the last 4 generations were born and bred in SE London..."

Any relation to the former Woolwich Borough Engineer, Jillie42?

I have absolutely no idea! Who is the Woolwich Borough Engineer?

Jillie

[toni*]

My mum's family was called Sutcliffe and although the last 4 generations were born and bred in SE London there was always a myth that the family owned cotton mills in Yorkshire...........and I've found out that yes, we came from Todmordon, Calderdale, West Riding of Yorkshire......... but we certainly never owned any mills - simply worked in them with both Daniel and his son John (gt gt granfather and gt grandfather) being engineers.

Yorkshire & Sutcliffe makes me think of Peter Sutcliffe
 

[Dimps]

J. Sutcliffe - Sutcliffe Park in Eltham was named after him.

Dimps

[sharpie]

A story passed down in my husband's family has one of his ancestors, (family name Warburton), inventing the loom that weaves velvet in the mid 1800's, but  cheated out of the recognition and fortune by his partner.

I have found the name Warburton in a weaving book of the time and also on a website that gives the history of Addingham - Low Mill in Yorkshire and it sort of matches part of the story, but says that the partner bought him out well before the invention, but no first name is mentioned and so I cannot match him up to any of the family.

I'll just have to keep on searching!

Anyone got any ideas?
Sharpie

[Jillie42]

A story passed down in my husband's family has one of his ancestors, (family name Warburton), inventing the loom that weaves velvet in the mid 1800's, but  cheated out of the recognition and fortune by his partner.

I have found the name Warburton in a weaving book of the time and also on a website that gives the history of Addingham - Low Mill in Yorkshire and it sort of matches part of the story, but says that the partner bought him out well before the invention, but no first name is mentioned and so I cannot match him up to any of the family.

I'll just have to keep on searching!

Anyone got any ideas?
Sharpie

Is there a Warburton on the 1841 and 1851 census covering Addingham that mentions and inventor or engineer or simply working in a mill?

[sharpie]

I have searched but was unable to find anyone living locally on the census.
How far would people been able to "commute" at that time?

Sharpie

[~Rachel~]

Apparently my great great grandad 'sold' his daughter, aged about 13/14 into a marriage to a violent Scotsman (they were from Berkshire -andhe was a generally nasty character by all accounts). He took her to live in some remote part of Scotland where she had two little boys, her husband would beat her and treat her as a servant. At some point after WW1 she met a soldier, fell in love and ran off to America, leaving her children behind. There is no doubt she ended up in America, however I have not been able to find her marriage to the Scotsman.

Another one is that a family member married a gypsy girl, meaning his family disowned him, but having bouhg the marriage certs etc it is quite clear she wasn't, was probably more a case that the family didn't like her!