PARISH Story Pt 2

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William Beeley PARISH, the son of Thomas and Elizabeth (née BEELEY) PARISH, was baptised in 1817 at Broughton by Brigg, LIN. He became a woodman and in 1844, married Maria HAWKES.

They had three children:
1. Thomas PARISH (1844-) an ironworker and married Sarah MILLER, the daughter of Thomas and Martha (née MOUNSEY). They first lived at 125 Appleby Road (Old Street), Broughton, and moved to Town Street, Broughton with their eight children.
2. Mary A PARISH (1846-) and
3. My John PARISH (1848-1894) husband of Elizabeth (née GREEN).

Maria (née HAWKES), the wife of William Beeley PARISH, died from tuberculosis (or consumption, as it was then known) on Monday, 4 March 1850 aged twenty-five years old.

In the July 1850, the same year, William Beeley PARISH remarried. Emma, his second wife was a servant, born in Yorkshire in 1825, the daughter of William and Hannah FOSTER. William Beeley PARISH had another four children with Emma: Henry PARISH (1853-); Elizabeth PARISH (1855-) married Thomas HARE in 1873 and had four children, all born in Broughton by Brigg; William Beeley PARISH junior (1860-); George (1864-1914); both of the last two brothers became agricultural labourers.

William Beeley PARISH senior died in October 1867 at Broughton and his wife, Emma (née FOSTER), then became a charwoman to support herself, her family and her eighty-nine year old mother, Hannah FOSTER, all living at 90 Appleby Road (Old Street), Broughton by Brigg LIN.

John PARISH, my paternal great grandfather and son of William Beeley and Maria (née HAWKES) PARISH, was born 13 October 1848. After the deaths of his parents, he continued to live with his stepmother, Emma, until he married Elizabeth GREEN in 1872. He worked as an agricultural labourer and later as a brickyard labourer.

Elizabeth GREEN was born 20 November 1849 in Brigg Union Workhouse, the illegitimate daughter of Jane GREEN.

John PARISH and his wife Elizabeth (née GREEN) lived at Humber Bank, Barrow on Humber.

Children:
1. Martha PARISH (aft 1872) born at Barrow Haven.
2. Maria PARISH (1876-1954?) born at Barrow Haven.
3. Lucy Ann PARISH (1877-1962) married Joseph Robert DAWSON, a carter, in 1896 at the Primitive Methodist Church, Flottergate, Grimsby.
4. Susanna PARISH (1878-) born at Barton on Humber.
5. William Thomas (1879-1903), their only son. He was buried at Scartho Road Cemetery, Grimsby;
6. Lily Maud PARISH (1883-1965) my paternal grandmother.

In 1894, at South Killingholme, John PARISH, aged forty-six years old, died from a chronic heart condition and was buried in North Killingholme St Denys graveyard, leaving his youngest child, eleven year old Lily Maud and her older brothers and sister, fatherless.

After a period of a year's mourning, Elizabeth (née GREEN) PARISH, widow, married Henry Barton STAMP (known as Harry) on 1 December 1895, a former draper's assistant and now a carter, at the Primitive Methodist Church of Flottergate, Grimsby LIN.

On 1 July 1912, Elizabeth STAMP (widow of John PARISH). living at 18 Anderson Street, Grimsby, died aged sixty-three. Henry Barton STAMP died in December 1932, aged seventy-three, and like his wife, Elizabeth (née GREEN), before him, was buried at Scartho Road Cemetery, Grimsby.