| Home Surname List Name Index Sources Email Us | Sixth Generation58. William REDCHESTER was born on 13 September 1811 in Sheffield, Yorkshire, England. He was christened on 6 October 1811 in Cathedral St. Peter, Sheffield, Yorkshire, England. He died on 14 May 1856 at the age of 44 in Sheffield, Yorkshire, England. William was also known as William Regester. He was buried in Pitsmoor Christ Church, Yorkshire, England. The family lived on Pitt Street in the Pitsmoor area of Sheffield. In the 1841 Census, he was a file cutter, living with his wife Jane. She died in 1842, and he married Harriett. They had 6 children. Four were born before the 1851 Census. In the 1851 Census, William and Harriett, 39, were living at 211 Harvest Lane, Brightside Bierlow, Pitsmoor, Sheffield, with children Elizabeth, 8, Harriet, 6, Hannah, 4, and John, 1, daughter Mary, 15, and her husband Willam Pearson, 12? William was a file cutter. -- MERGED NOTE ------------ He was christened October 6, 1811, at Cathedral Saint Peter, Sheffield. A William Regester was married in the spring of 1839 in Sheffield, but it's not clear that it was this one. The family was living at 211 Harvest Lane, Brightside Bierlow, Sheffield, in the 1851 Census. William was a file cutter. They had two boarders living with them. Jane died on 8 June 1842 in Sheffield, Yorkshire, England. Jane or Harriet? Did Jane die in childbirth? Daughter Elizabeth b. 1842 who married Thomas Bird? William REDCHESTER and Harriett were married in 1843 in Sheffield, Yorkshire, England. Harriett was born about 1811 in Sheffield, Yorkshire, England. She died on 31 May 1893 at the age of 82 in Sheffield, Yorkshire, England. She was buried in Pitsmoor Christ Church, Yorkshire, England. Or Harriet? -- MERGED NOTE ------------ In the 1861 Census, she was living on Harriet Lane, Brightside Bierlow, Yorkshire, with her son-in-law, Thomas Bird, 23, file grinder, her daughter Elizabeth Bird, 20, daughters Harriett, 16, file cutter, Hannah, 14, Margaret, 4, sons John, 11, and Thomas, 8, and granddaughter Sophia Bird, 2. In the 1871 Census, she was living at 24 Chapel Street, Brightside Bierlow, with sons John, 21, laborer, and Thomas, 18, edge tool filer, and daughter Margaret, 14. In the 1881 Census, she was a grandmother living with the Crookes family at 39 Catherine Street, Brightside Bierlow, Sheffield. The family included William Crookes, 41, coal agent, wife Hannah, 34 (Harriett's daughter), son Herbert, 15, daughters Florence, 8, Jessie, 6, Eva, 2, and William Percy, 2 months. and a servant, Harriett Wise, 20. In the 1891 Census, she was living at 32 Freedom Street, Nether Hallam, with a Margaret Hallstone (daughter Margarent?), 28, listed as head. William REDCHESTER and Harriett had the following children:
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