Allen Chadwick

Other Events and Attributes:

• Occupation: Cotton Spinner
• Residence: Jul 1819, Cockerhill, Stalybridge, Cheshire, England, United Kingdom
• Baptism: 4 Jul 1819, Stalybridge, Cheshire, England, United Kingdom
• Census: 30 Mar 1851, Stalybridge, Dukinfield Parish, ED of St. John, Cheshire, England, United Kingdom
• Residence: 30 Mar 1851, No. 8 Grasscroft Road, Stalybridge, Cheshire, England, United Kingdom

Notes:

It is not clear if the reference to “Newton, Cheshire” for Allan Chadwick’s birthplace refers to the modern town of “Newton Wood” which lies between Dukinfield (to the north) and Hyde (to the south) along the river Tame or to the town of Newton near Chester. The former is much more likely because of its proximity to Glossop, where Allan Chadwick married Mary Firth, to Stalybridge where he lived until his death, and to Mottram in Longdendale where most of his elder siblings were christened.

According to Robert Stanley Fairbanks in Fairbanks-1978], Allen Chadwick lived in Bridge End, Derbyshire, England at the time of his marriage to Mary Firth, but contemporary geographic records do not list a Bridge End (or even the more common “Bridgend”) in Derbyshire.

The notations for source [England-1851a]’s at Ancestry.com list Lancashire as the county, but the Chadwick residence appears to have been on Grasscroft Road in Stalybridge, part of Cheshire. This is consistent other sources that place Allan Chadwick in, or around, Stalybridge at the time of his death.

[LDS-VRI-1860a] actually lists Allen Chadwick’s place of burial as, “St. John, Dukinfield, Cheshire, England”. However it is not clear if this refers to St. John’s Church in Dukinfield, the parish church completed in the 1840’s or to the historical Ecclesiastical District of St. John. Further research is required. Although there is no question that the Allen Chadwick referred to in [LDS-VRI-1860a] is really the husband of Mary (Firth) Chadwick. First the burial records refers to “Leech St.” (in nearby Stalybridge) as location of the Allen’s death, the same street that Mary (Firth) Chadwick and her children were listed as living on in the next English census. Second, the age at death aligns with all known information about Allen.

Allen married Mary Firth on 11 Dec 1842 in Glossop, Parish of Glossop, Derbyshire, England, United Kingdom. Mary (daughter of David Firth and Martha Shaw) was born on 18 Oct 1822 in Marsden, Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom; died before 1903 in _______, _______, _______, United States. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

[FreeBMD-2005a] has an entry for the marriage of Allen Chadwick and Mary Firth that corroborates the information in [Glossop,1842] and lists the district as “Hayfield, County Derbyshire” the month as December but does not list the day.,

1. Martha Chadwick was born about 1844 in Stalybridge, Cheshire, England, United Kingdom; died in ? in (unknown).
2. Maria Chadwick was born on 9 Oct 1846 in Stalybridge, Cheshire, England, United Kingdom; was christened on 20 Jun 1847 in Saint Michael’s, Ashton-under-Lyne, Lancashire, England, United Kingdom; died on 2 Feb 1934 in Melrose, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States; was buried after 2 Feb 1934 in Edson Cemetery, Lowell, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States.
3. David Chadwick was born about Jan 1851 in Stalybridge, Cheshire, England, United Kingdom; died in ? in (unknown).

Other Events and Attributes:

• Residence: Jul 1819, Cockerhill, Stalybridge, Cheshire, England, United Kingdom

Notes:

“Cockerhill”, is how the residence of Samuel and Mary (Tomlinson) Chadwick is listed in [Stalybridge-1819]. It is a neighborhood of weaver’s cottages dating from the early 1800s. The modern location is known as “Cocker Hill”.

Samuel married Mary Tomlinson about 1789 in _______, Lancashire, England, Great Britain. Mary was born about 1770 in (unknown); died in ? in (unknown). [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Residence: Jul 1819, Cockerhill, Stalybridge, Cheshire, England