R6/63/6/20

Copy Statutory Declaration of William Hardington of Hugglescote [Leicestershire], labourer, copied by WIng & DuCane: - he knew John Salisbury, late of Earl Shilton [Leicestershire], sadler who died there in Dec 1848, he being brother to the declarer's mother Elizabeth; - declarer's grandparents were Thomas and Elizabeth Salisbury who kept the Swan, Ibstock [Leicestershire]; - declarer born and baptised at Ibstock; when his grandfather left the Swan, the declarer's father William went to live there for four or five years; - declarer's grandfather had four sons Thomas, William, Benjamin and John and two daughters Elizabeth and Mary, all baptised at Ibstock; - John Salisbury was apprenticed to a tailor, but the tailor's business failed and John went out to service, where the declarer lived with him as a fellow servant at William Willason's[?], Rice Rock, Bardon [Leicestershire], John afterwards leaving service and working with his uncle John Salisbury at Earl Shilton as a whittawer, then moving to Leicester, then Buckinghamshire from where he brought his first wife, Sarah Browne, to Leicester to be married; Sarah Browne had two sisters in Buckinghamshire; - John and Sarah had two children had two sons, Samuel and Daniel, the latter being accidentally shot whilst staying with an aunt in Woburn; - Sarah Salisbury died in Leicester in Jan 1841 and was buried at St.Margaret's and John went to Earl Shilton, married again and died in Dec 1848, being buried there; - John had visited the declarer and his son at Donnington [Castle Donington, Leicestershire?]; - John's eldest son Samuel went abroad and died there; - John's father Thomas died in Oct 1801 and was buried at Hinckley [Leicestershire]; - John's elder brother Thomas was a sadler at Nottingham, attended his mother's funeral at Hugglescote in Sep 1827; the declarer visited him on his way to Ilkeston Baths in the 1820s; he worked at the Old Maypole Yard in Nottingham as a sadler and died in Feb 1841; his daughter was Angelina who married Samuel Townsend who lived at Snenton [Nottinghamshire]; - after declarer's father's death his mother twice remarried, her last husband being John Yenans; she afterwards moved to Earl Shilton to live with he uncle Joseph Salisbury, dying there in Jan 1842, being buried there; -declarer's aunt Mary married William Stamford and died at Earls Shilton in Apr 1836 "having been burned to death"; - declarer's uncle William was a stockinger and married at Ilkeston [Derbyshire], he was, at one time a soldier, and was drowned near Nottingham in Oct 1836, being buried at Gedling; - declarer's uncle Benjamin was also a stockinger, apprenticed to William Anderson of Sheepshead [Leicestershire], was afterwards a soldier and died abroad in hospital; - sworn before E.M.Green of Ashby-de-la-Zouche [Leicestershire], the declarer signing by mark

30 Apr 1860

From: 1801 To: 1860

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Hardington, William,
Salisbury, John,
Wing & DuCane,
Salisbury, Thomas,
Salisbury, Elizabeth,
Salisbury, William,
Salisbury, Benjamin,
Willason, William,
Browne, Sarah,
Salisbury, Sarah,
Salisbury, Daniel Skinner,
Salisbury, Samuel,
Townsend, Samuel,
Townsend, Angelina,
Salisbury, Angelina,
Yenans, John,
Salisbury, Joseph,
Yenans, Elizabeth,
Stamford, William,
Stamford, Mary,
Anderson, William,
Green, E.M.

E.M. Green, deaths, stockinger, burial, service personnel 1815-1914, labourer, Wing & DuCane, sadler, specific marriages, baptism, Ibstock Swan, tailor, apprenticeship, servants, whittawer, specific emigration, literacy, Leicester, Nottingham, Earl Shilton, Hugglescote, Snenton, Ibstock, Bardon, Bardon Rice Rock, WOBURN, St.Margaret Leicester, Castle Donington, Hinckley, Ilkeston, Nottingham Maypole Yard, Gedling, Sheepshead, Ashby-de-la-Zouche