Individual Notes

Note for:   William Parker CROSSBY,   1829 - 1891         Index

Occupation:   Wharfinger

Residence:   
     Type:   Primary Address
     Date:   TO 1891

Residence:   
     Type:   Alternate Address

Census:   
     Type:   C06 Civic, Club, Society, Census
     Date:   3 APR 1881
     Place:   Ruswarp, NRY, ENG

Census:   
     Type:   C06 Civic, Club, Society, Census
     Date:   5 APR 1891
     Place:   27 Grey Street, Ruswarp, NRY, ENG

Death Note:    Apr-Jun Quarter



Individual Notes

Note for:   Mary PAGE,   1830 - 30 DEC 1891         Index

Christening:   
     Type:   B04 Birth, Baptism
     Date:   25 SEP 1830
     Place:   Whitby, NRY, ENG

Census:   
     Type:   C06 Civic, Club, Society, Census
     Date:   30 MAR 1851
     Place:   Church Street, Whitby, NRY, ENG

Census:   
     Type:   C06 Civic, Club, Society, Census
     Date:   2 APR 1871
     Place:   27 Gray Street, Ruswarp, NRY, ENG

Census:   
     Type:   C06 Civic, Club, Society, Census
     Date:   3 APR 1881
     Place:   Whitby, NRY, ENG

Census:   
     Type:   C06 Civic, Club, Society, Census
     Date:   5 APR 1891
     Place:   27 Grey Street, Ruswarp, NRY, ENG

Birth Note:    Twin of Juliana

Death Note:    Oct-Dec Quarter



Individual Notes

Note for:   Margaret READMAN,   15 DEC 1821 - 1907         Index

Christening:   
     Type:   B04 Birth, Baptism
     Date:   11 JAN 1824
     Place:   Whitby, NRY, ENG

Occupation:   Dressmaker

Residence:   
     Type:   Primary Address
     Date:   TO 1891

Residence:   
     Type:   Alternate Address

Census:   
     Type:   C06 Civic, Club, Society, Census
     Date:   30 MAR 1851
     Place:   Silver Street, Ruswarp, NRY, ENG

Census:   
     Type:   C06 Civic, Club, Society, Census
     Date:   7 APR 1861
     Place:   146 Silver Street, Ruswarp, NRY, ENG

Census:   
     Type:   C06 Civic, Club, Society, Census
     Date:   2 APR 1871
     Place:   16 Silver Street, Ruswarp, Whitby, NRY, ENG

Census:   
     Type:   C06 Civic, Club, Society, Census
     Date:   5 APR 1891
     Place:   16 Silver Street, Ruswarp, NRY, ENG

Event:   
     Type:   L07 Legal, Court Cases, Petition
     Date:   27 DEC 1851

Death Note:    Oct-Dec Quarter

_TXT    Following the death of her husband,Thomas by drowning she petitioned the Whitby Seaman's Fund for herself and her four children.

"That your Petitioners Means of Support are from the Whitby Seaman's Fund, viz eleven shillings a Month for herself & said four children which not being sufficient to support herself and Family, she most humbly prays that she or her children may be admitted to the Pension of this Corporation."
[She signs]

Thomas Turnbull Managing Owner of the Wave signs to say that Thomas Benjamin Page served on board the ship Wave, 57 tons, as Master, from Hartlepool to Loftus Works in 1851. The Owners are Messrs Hunter & Turnbull.
27 December 1851

[Other evidence presented:
Copy of baptism certificate:

Margaret, daughter of Thomas and Margaret Readman of Whitby, Carpenter,
baptized 11 Jan 1824 by James Andrew, Minister.

Copy of marriage certificate:

4 September [no year visible] at St Paul's Deptford. Thomas Benjamin Page of full age, bachelor of this parish, son of Thomas Page, Master Mariner, and Margaret Readman, of full age, spinster of this parish, daughter of Thomas Readman, Ships Carpenter.
By Licence. B S Finch(?) Rector. Witnesses I or J Richardson & Mary Page.

[Margaret resides in Whitby where she lodges with her father]

Those who sign that she is the widow of Thomas Benjamin Page, has the children stated etc. and is a "person of good Character & Reputation" and is "in indigent Circumstances" are:

James Davidson, Minister, Whitby
James Wilkinson, Churchwarden
Charles Fisher, Churchwarden
John Chapman, Shipowner, Whitby
John Chapman, Banker, Whitby
Henry Simpson, Banker, Whitby
William Usherwood, Shipowner, Whitby
Wm Jameson, Shipowner, Whitby

[written vertically in the margin: "Wm Usherwood St Hilda's Terrace" and
Henry Barrick"(?)]

[Pension of 4 shillings & 6 pence granted]
"Recommended by Capt. Ellerby"

Whitby Congregation Church Year Book.

Mrs Margaret Page 1860 Feb 2nd           16 Silver Street.
Mrs Maria Page 1893 Mar 30 Spantons Yard.
Mrs Maria Page 1896 -7 Spantons Yard
                              1897 - 8 Mc Cladans Yard