Alice FEATHERSTONE is a “guesswork wife” on Filey Genealogy & Connections. She appears to have three children with William HILL of Scarborough but the GRO Births Index gives their mother’s name as COLLING. Firstborn Edith Hill was baptised on 21 June 1899 and her parent’s marriage was registered in the first quarter of that year. At the end of March 1901, Alice Featherstone was enumerated with her parents at 21 Queen Street – not far from where the tree pictured above would establish itself a hundred years later.
The son of Woodall POOL and Isabella PROCTOR, John was baptised at the old Primitive Methodist chapel (not the Ebenezer) and married Jane Ann COLLEY in Scarborough in the summer of 1883. He was working as a blacksmith. FG&C doesn’t record any offspring but a duplicate ID for Jane Ann on the Shared Tree offers a son, Francis Edward Woodall Pool, baptised at the other side of the country, in Birkenhead. I don’t know what happened next.
George and Elizabeth were Filey-born and bred. They had ten children, (FG&C says eleven), and although only two girls are known to have married, a lot of large families were subsequently created.
I dipped my toes into the waters of Wiki Tree a little over a year ago and chose Jane Margaret as the subject of my first “biography”. (Her St Oswald’s headstone is the first in the East Yorkshire Family History Society survey.)
I don’t think Maud has any close connections to Filey HUNTER families. Born in Kippax near Tadcaster, she married a Lincolnshire man. Her husband Tom followed his father and older brother Alfred into the saddle and harness making trade, though in the 1911 census, aged 39, he gave his occupation as “Antique Dealer”. He noted that only one child had been born in twelve years of marriage.
Filey Genealogy & Connections (FG&C) offers an Alice FEATHERSTONE who fits the story below quite well – but flags her as a “guesswork wife” who baptised her first child with William HILL in 1899. I wouldn’t put money on this being correct. “Mrs Hill” has a sister in law called Mary Featherstone, so I think William must have married someone else.
THEFT FROM A FILEY SCHOOL – A Young Woman Sentenced.
11 February 1901 The Scarborough Evening News
A poorly-clad little woman named Alice Featherstone (20), of Filey, was charged in Bridlington Police-court on Saturday, before Colonel Hudson, Dr. Wheelhouse, Alderman Medforth, and Alderman Creaser-with the theft on Friday afternoon, of two articles of wearing apparel from the cloak-room of the National School, Filey, the properties of Miss Jones and Miss Collins.
Miss Daisy Jones, teacher at the National School, Filey, said the black straw hat produced was her property. It was worth 1s. 11½d. It was last in her possesion at 1.30 the previous day in the cloak-room, where she had left it. She missed it at four o’clock. She had seen the prisoner about twenty-five minutes to four the same afternoon in the passage leading to the cloakroom. Proisoner said she had come to fetch a girl called Atkinson; otherwise she had no business on the premises. She did not say anything more to her. Witness gave information to the head mistress as to the missing hat. She did not see it then in the defendant’s possision.
Mary Featherstone, sister-in-law of the prisoner, said she knew the hat produced. Prisoner had brought it to her house on Friday and said she had it given to her. She brought it about 4.45 p.m. Witness did not buy it from her, and she eventually handed it over to Sergeant Smith.
Sergeant Smith said from information received he saw Mrs. Featherstone, who handed him the hat, about 7.30. He was then in search of the prisoner. At 7.45 he apprehended her and charged her with stealing a black straw hat, the property of Miss Jones, from the Infant School, that afternoon. She made no reply, and he locked her up.
Prisoner pleaded guilty.
THE SECOND CHARGE.
Prisoner was further charged with stealing from Mis Blanche Collins, teacher at the National School, Filey, on Friday, a fur boa (produced), of the value of 5s. 11d. It was last in the prosecutrix’s possesion at 1.30 p.m. on Friday, in the cloak-room. She missed it at 4 o’clock. She had not seen the prisoner near the school that day. Information was given about the missing fur boa to the police. She next saw it in the hands of the police.
Mary Featherstone sister-in-law, said the prisoner brought the fur boa to her house along with the hat. She said that the boa had also been given to her. She afterwards handed it to the police.
Sergeant Smith had also charged prisoner on Friday evening with stealing the boa, and she had made no reply to the charge. He received it from Mary Featherstone, along with the hat.
Prisoner also pleaded guilty to the second charge.
In reply to the bench, Sergeant Cooper said the life the prisoner lead in Filey was a perfect disgrace, not only to herself, but to all connected with her. Her father had authorised him to inform the Court that the prisoner was entirely beyond his control, and that he would be satisfied if the Court sentenced her to a term of imprisonment, or to an institution in order that she might become well again. She had “run to ruin.” She was indeed, he regretted to say, of disreputable character.
Prisoner heard her condemnation without apparent emotion, and, choosing to be dealt with by the bench, she was sent to prison for twenty-eight days-fourteen on each charge.
Anniversaries
Birth Elsie CRABB has an existing ID on the Shared Tree with parents William & Ann née GILLIAM plus four sisters, but no husband yet. She would marry twice.
Baptism James DOUGLAS, the fourth of six sons born to Arthur and Elizabeth Ann née CAMMISH, was baptised in Filey St Oswald’s church. Twenty-two years later, he married Mary Jane SCOTTER there.
The couple’s first child had not arrived by the time of the 1911 census but the family portrait below shows them with Lizzie Ann, Richard Henry, Maud and baby Mary. Two sons followed in 1920 and 1922.
Photographer unknown, c.1919, courtesy Martin Douglas
Jimmy died in 1961 and Jennie (as she was known) in 1987.
The story is different on FamilySearch.
As mistakes on the Shared Tree go, this one is particularly baffling, though “guesswork” seems to cover it.
Following the breadcrumbs brings you to this –
The link takes you here –
Searching won’t bring you children born to our Jimmy and Martha POPE, but here is Jennie’s first child in the GRO Births Index.
Marriage James, the son of James and Sarah Robinson, made the connection to Filey by marrying Grace CAMMISH at St Oswald’s. The grandchildren of today’s married couple liked Filey well enough to stay and raise families of their own.
Shared Tree. There’s a lot of linking up to be done. (James and Sarah’s granddaughter Grace Robinson married Castle Jenkinson – see Anniversaries 29 January.)
Death Descendants of James Knox would put down roots in Gristhorpe, baptising children and marrying at St Oswald’s.
Burial Rose Budd’s life was all too short. Her parents had representation on the Shared Tree as a married couple. I have only had time today to give them Rose. I will add the other children when I can – and the stone.
In loving memory of WALTER BUDD, 24th May 1838, 27th Oct 1892.
Also, ANN his wife, 7th Sept 1849, 29th March 1929.
And LILY their daughter, 20th Oct 1884, 25th July 1931.
Looking at Filey REDUX 