Family Memories
Harold Bruce BRADSHAW'S mother Sarah WILSON was born 1844 at Liverpool Lancashire. On the 1861 census, Sarah A WILSON is staying with her aunt Sarah BOOTH (nee FORD) at Church Street Bollin Fee, Cheshire. She is listed as a visitor, unmarried, aged 17, assisting in the shop. Her birth place is listed as Manchester. She married John Cowieson BRADSHAW, occupation - Bleacher, bachelor from Litherland in Liverpool in 1877. Her nephew Harry Myddleton WORRALL (son of Charles Kershaw WORRALL and Hannah Mary WORRALL (nee WILSON) was one of the witnesses. (page 186 entry 372).
Harold was born in Litherland, Lancashire and in 1903 married Hester Amelia HIBBLE, born in 1880 at St Lukes, London to parents James and Mary HIBBLE, shoe maker and milliner from Middlesex. The Hibble family lived at 15 Lever Street St Lukes in the 1881 and 1891 census (her mother passed away/ left between these 2 dates) and St James Walk, Clerkenwell on the 1901 census. Hester's father James had married again to a Hannah HIBBLE, born 1858 at St Lukes.
In the 1911 census, Harold Bruce BRADSHAW and Hester are married (for 8 years), they have no children as yet and Harold's brother Percy is living and working with Harold as an assistant at H B Bradshaw Ironmonger and Hardward Store at Station Road Letchworth, Hitchen, Hertfordshire.
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