Thursday, 2 May 2013

William Disney (4th great grandfather)

William was born in 1798 in Draycott and died after 7th April 1861 but in the second quarter that year. He married Sarah Gregory of Breaston at St Chads on 6th November 1821. He was an agricultural labourer all his working life.

They had 12 children; Joseph (1822), Jane (1823), Lucy (1825), Thomas (1825), Samuel (1829), William (1830), Ann (1831), Sarah (1832), Mary (1836), Eliza (1838), James (1840) and George (1842).

1841: also Ann, Sarah, Mary, Eliza and James
1851: also Eliza (lace ?), James and George
1861: also George (ag lab), Eliza (now Hinds a cotton factory worker) and her daughter Elizabeth (1860)
1871: Sarah and Eliza (operative) and her children Elizabeth (operative) and Thomas (1)
1881: Sarah, Eliza (cotton winder), Thomas and Sarah's son James (Ag lab)
1891: possibly James living in same home alone
1901: possibly James living there working as a roof thatcher.

In 1841 Joseph, Thomas and Samuel were on a farm. Lucy and William were on another farm and Jane was ?


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