WHITAKER DOCUMENTS 2.00

MY FAMILY

Kennerley family Census 1851, before the birth of Jane, my great grandmother
Kennerly family census 1861. Daughter Jane wa my great grandmother
Kennerley 1871 census. Jane is 8
Kennerley 1881 census, Jane’s last census at home
Kennerley family 1891 census after Jane had left home
1891 Census for the Daniels at 63 Town Lane, Mobberley. Ada was 1
Daniel census 1901 at 36 Town Lane Mobberley. Ada (my Grandmother) is on the next sheet as the household was recorded of 2 pages
Page 2 with Ada aged 11
Grandma (Ada Daniels) birth
Ada Whitaker death. Grandma was staying with us at the farm and I heard a crash one morning. Sheila and I went to investigate finding grandma on the floor in pain. An ambulance took her to hospital where a fractured neck of femur was diagnosed. Simple op now but then the death rate in old people was high because their morbidity often led them in to pneumonia. She died in Moss lane convalescent hospital several weeks after the fall
Ada Whitaker Probate
Hewitt census 1871 (Julia married John Whitaker in 1851 with both the male offspring given a middle name of Hewitt
Joseph Hewitt Whitaker – died 1910
Probate of Joseph Hewitt Whitaker, my Great Grandfather
Joseph Hewitt Whitaker and his wife Jane nee Kennerley with 4 of their 6 children
Vale Wood census 1901. Joseph Hewitt Whitaker, wife Jane and all 6 children (5 boys; 1 girl. There is a second entry for Vale Wood – ? lodgers. They did take lodgers as the Pankhurst’s were there for some time.
Vale Wood Farm Census 1911. Jane Whitaker head of house after death of her husband (Joseph Hewitt Whitaker). 2 sons live there: George aged 15 who works in a Grocer’s and William Horace aged 24, married to Ada nee Daniels. Their 7 month old son Joseph Raymond is also there.
Eunice Whitaker marriage to William Shaw
Florence Sigley birth
My dads residence in 1939 at Ivy Cottage Farm
Dad’s marriage to my mum January 1951. I was what you would call a honeymoon baby
Sheila Whitaker birth record