Parents of
Harriet Eliza DEAKIN:

Samuel Pownall DEAKIN
Sarah Ann SIDEBOTTOM

Siblings of
Harriet Eliza DEAKIN:

William Robert DEAKIN
(1862 - 1943)
George Edward DEAKIN
(1864 - 1940)
Martha Elizabeth DEAKIN
(1866 - 1939)
Samuel Pownall DEAKIN
(1869 - 1899)
Emma DEAKIN
(1871 - 1966)
Sarah Ann DEAKIN
(1873 - 1960)
Minnie DEAKIN
(1876-1956)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


Harriet Eliza DEAKIN
(1878 - 1955)

Harriet DEAKIN was the youngest daughter of Samuel Pownall DEAKIN and Sarah Ann SIDEBOTTOM. Harriet was born in 1878, Wigan, Lancashire[1].

In the 1881 Census, Harriet is recorded as a 'Scholar', living at 13 Wignall Street, Wigan, with her mother, Sarah and her 7 brothers and sisters. In the 1891 Census, Harriet is recorded as a 'Scholar' living at 49 Corporation Street, Wigan, with her parents, brother and 4 sisters.

Harriet married Albert Edward WEBSTER (1874-1937) in 1899 at the Methodist Free Church, King Street, Wigan[2]. In 1881, Albert's family lived at 7 Wignall Street a couple of doors away from Harriet and her family at 13 Wignall Street.

Harriet and Albert had the following children:

  1. George Melbourne WEBSTER, b. 2 Dec 1899, Wigan[4]
  2. Minnie Gertrude WEBSTER, b. 1901, Wigan, d. 1967, Wigan.

In the 1901 Census Harriet and Albert are recorded as living at 9 Corporation Street, Wigan. Albert's occupation is listed as 'Assistant Jam Boiler' presumably working for Deakin's at the Eclipse Preserve Works in Bradford Place, Wigan.

In the 1911 Census, Albert's occupation is listed as 'Railway Clerk and Storekeeper'.

Albert died, aged 62 years, on 20 Nov 1937[6] at 6 Second Avenue, Wigan and Harriet on 16 August 1955 at Avondale Road, Wigan.


 

[1]: Source: Register of Births registered in October, November, December in 1878, Wigan, Vol 8c page 50.
[2]: Source: Register of Marriages registered in July, August, Septmber in 1899, Wigan, Vol 8c page 241.
[3]: Source: Register of Births registered in October, November, December in 1899, Wigan (via Lancashire BMD).
[4]: Source: Register of Births registered in October, November, December in 1915, Ormskirk, Vol 8b page 1428.
[5]: Source: Register of Births registered in October, November, December in 1919, Ormskirk, Vol 8b page 1761.
[6]: Source: Register of Deaths registered in October, November, December in 1937 in Wigan, Vol 8d page 5.

Further notes:
Norman WEBSTER, b. 1915, Aughton, Ormskirk, Lancashire[5], mother Deakin
Albert Edmund WEBSTER, b. 1919, Aughton, Ormskirk[6], mother, Deakin