Mary Firth (1822 - 1902): Lindell-Herndon Genealogy

1822 - Bef 1903 (< 80 years)

Name	Mary Firth [2]
Birth	18 Oct 1822	Marsden, Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom [2, 3]
Gender	Female
Residence	Nov 1822	Sellars Clough, Marsden, Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom [4]
Baptism	10 Nov 1822	Chapelry of Marsden, Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom [4]
Census	6 Jun 1841	District 24, Dukinfield, Stockport, Cheshire, England, United Kingdom [5]
Residence	Mar 1851	Stalybridge, Cheshire, England, United Kingdom [3]
Number 8 Grasscroft Road
Census	30 Mar 1851	Stalybridge, Dukinfield Parish, ED of St. John, Cheshire, England, United Kingdom [3]
Residence	Apr 1861	Stalybridge, Cheshire, England, United Kingdom [6]
Number 20 Leech Street
Census	7 Apr 1861	Stalybridge, Dukinfield Parish, ED of St. John, Cheshire, England, United Kingdom [6]
Census	13 Jun 1870	Town of Pembroke, Merrimack County, New Hampshire, United States [7]
Census	9 Jun 1880	Pembroke, Merrimack County, New Hampshire, United States [8]
Death	Bef 1903	_______, _______, _______, United States [9]
Person ID	I50	Lindell-Herndon Genealogy
Last Modified	15 Mar 2015

Father	David Firth, b. 26 Jan 1792, Marsden, Yorkshire, England, Great Britain d. ?, (unknown)
Mother	Martha Shaw, b. 24 Apr 1793, Marsden, Yorkshire, England, Great Britain d. ?, (unknown)
Marriage	14 Feb 1820	Parish of Almondbury, Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom [10]
	Records of All Hallows Cathedral
Notes	David Firth and Martha Shaw, were probably not married at All Hallows Cathedral nor even at Almondbury. Considering that they were known to both be living at a place called “Sellars Clough” near Marsden in 1820, they were probably married at the chapelry in Marsden. [10, 11]
Family ID	F16	Group Sheet \| Family Chart

Family 1 Allen Chadwick, b. Bef 4 Jul 1819, Newton, Cheshire, England, United Kingdom d. Bef 16 Aug 1860, Stalybridge, Cheshire, England, United Kingdom (Age < 41 years)

Marriage 11 Dec 1842 Glossop, Parish of Glossop, Derbyshire, England, United Kingdom [12]

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., [12, 13]

Children

	1. Martha Chadwick, b. Abt 1844, Stalybridge, Cheshire, England, United Kingdom d. ?, (unknown)
	2. Maria Chadwick, b. 9 Oct 1846, Stalybridge, Cheshire, England, United Kingdom d. 2 Feb 1934, Melrose, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States (Age 87 years)
	3. David Chadwick, b. Abt Jan 1851, Stalybridge, Cheshire, England, United Kingdom d. ?, (unknown)

Family ID F14 Group Sheet | Family Chart

Last Modified 7 Sep 2015

Family 2	Joseph Hardy, b. 19 Jul 1820, _______, _______, England, United Kingdom d. 1 Oct 1903, Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, United States (Age 83 years)
Marriage	21 May 1864	Glossop, Parish of Glossop, Derbyshire, England, United Kingdom [14]
Family ID	F15	Group Sheet \| Family Chart
Last Modified	10 Jun 2001

Event Map

	Residence - Nov 1822 - Sellars Clough, Marsden, Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom
	Marriage - 11 Dec 1842 - Glossop, Parish of Glossop, Derbyshire, England, United Kingdom
	Residence - Mar 1851 - Stalybridge, Cheshire, England, United Kingdom
	Census - 30 Mar 1851 - Stalybridge, Dukinfield Parish, ED of St. John, Cheshire, England, United Kingdom
	Residence - Apr 1861 - Stalybridge, Cheshire, England, United Kingdom
	Census - 7 Apr 1861 - Stalybridge, Dukinfield Parish, ED of St. John, Cheshire, England, United Kingdom
	Marriage - 21 May 1864 - Glossop, Parish of Glossop, Derbyshire, England, United Kingdom
	Census - 9 Jun 1880 - Pembroke, Merrimack County, New Hampshire, United States
	Death - Bef 1903 - _______, _______, _______, United States

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Photos
Mary Firth
Bill's 3G-grandmother (maternal)

Notes

According to [Fairbanks-1978], Mary Firth lived in Bridge End, Derbyshire, England at the time of her marriage to Allen Chadwick, but contemporary geographic records do not list a Bridge End (or even the more common “Bridgend”) in Derbyshire. [2]
Mary (Firth) Chadwick and her 2 daughters are enumerated in her father’s household in 1861 UK census, and she is listed as widowed. [6]
“Sellars Clough” is probably a reference to the modern “Cellars Clough”, an area along the Huddersfield Narrow Canal just to the northeast of Marsden along the A62 near Sparth Reservoir. This is the location of the Cellars Clough Mill, a woolen mill that opened in the late 19th century and was owned by brothers Samuel and Copper Firth. [1, 4]
A second set of census entries may exist for Mary (Firth-Chadwick) Hardy and her husband Joseph Hardy. On 11 Aug 1870, a Joseph and Mary Hardy, both born in England and having correct approximate ages, were enumerated in Ward 5, Lawrence, Essex County, Massachusetts. It appears that they may have been visiting Joseph Hardy’s son (by a previous marriage) and daughter-in-law. Mary and Joseph had already been enumerated in June in Pembroke, Merrimack County, New Hampshire, the location of the China Mill where Joseph worked with Mary’s son Samuel Lowe. [15, 16]

Reference Herndon, William Robert. "Mary Firth", Lindell-Herndon Genealogy. [Online]. Available: https://lindell-herndon.org/getperson.php?personID=I50&tree=LindellHerndon. [Accessed: 08-Jun-2025].

Sources

[S315] [Herndon-2024] Herndon, William Robert, Lindell-Herndon Genealogy, Washington, District of Columbia: By the author, 2024.
[S3] [Fairbanks-1978] Fairbanks, Robert Stanley, Fairbanks, Lowe, and Chadwick Families.
[S542] [England-1851a] "Stalybridge, Dukinfield Parish, Cheshire," Census Returns of England and Wales, 1851,
Richmond, Surrey: National Archives of the UK - Public Records Office (PRO), class HO107, GSU roll 87249, piece 2237, folio 262, page 30.
[S600] [WYAS-1822a] "Baptismal Entry for Mary Firth," Yorkshire Parish Records: Baptisms Solemnized in the Chapelry of Marsden, Wakefield, Yorkshire, England: West Yorkshire Archive Service, Reference (old) D143/3, Reference (new) WDP143/1/2/1, page 71, Entry 568.
[S597] [England-1841b] "District 24, Dukinfield, Stockport, Cheshire," Census Returns of England and Wales, 1841,
Richmond, Surrey: National Archives of the UK - Public Records Office (PRO), class HO107, GSU roll 241243, piece 110, folio 4, page 3.
[S543] [England-1861a] "Stalybridge, Dukinfield Parish, Cheshire," Census Returns of England and Wales, 1861,
Richmond, Surrey: National Archives of the UK - Public Records Office (PRO), class RG 9, GSU roll 543062, piece 2997, folio 28, page 49.
[S1033] [US-1870-2d2] "Town of Pembroke, Merrimack County, New Hampshire," Ninth Census of the United States, 1870,
Washington, District of Columbia: National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), publication M593, roll 846, sheet 446B, page 46.
[S369] [US-1880-1q] "Pembroke, Merrimack County, New Hampshire," Tenth Census of the United States, 1880,
Washington, District of Columbia: National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), publication T9, roll 766, E.D. 188, sheet 411C, page 20.
[S671] [NEHGS-1903a] "Return of a Death: Joseph Hardy," Massachusetts Vital Records, 1840 – 1911: Deaths Registered in the City of Boston, 1903, Boston, Massachusetts: New England Historic Genealogical Society, volume 32, page 313.
[S598] [WYAS-1820a] "Marriage Entry for David Firth and Martha Shaw," Yorkshire Parish Records: Marriages Solemnized in the Parish of Almondbury, Wakefield, Yorkshire: West Yorkshire Archive Service, reference (old) D12/30, reference (new) WDP12, page 126.
[S601] [WYAS-1820b] "Baptismal Entry for Maria Firth," Yorkshire Parish Records: Baptisms Solemnized in the Chapelry of Marsden, Wakefield, Yorkshire, England: West Yorkshire Archive Service, Reference (old) D143/3, Reference (new) WDP143/1/2/1, page 55, Entry 438.
[S90] [Glossup-1842] "Marriage Certificate of Allen Chadwick and Mary Firth".
[S388] [FreeBMD-2005a] British General Register Office, England and Wales, Civil Registration Index: 1837 - 1983, Provo, Utah: FreeBMD - MyFamily.com, 2005.
[S89] [Glossup-1864] "Marriage Certificate of Joseph Hardy and Mary Chadwick".
[S606] [US-1870-1u1] "Ward 5, Lawrence, Essex County, Massachusetts," Ninth Census of the United States, 1870,
Washington, District of Columbia: National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), publication M593, roll 609, sheet 299A, page 13.
[S1032] [US-1870-2d1] "Town of Pembroke, Merrimack County, New Hampshire," Ninth Census of the United States, 1870,
Washington, District of Columbia: National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), publication M593, roll 846, sheet 446A, page 45.

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Mary Firth[1]

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