Happy Mather

1889 Happy Shuttleworth

Happy was born on February 6th, 1823 in Little Bolton.¹ 

• Birth Notes

  Born about 1823, so before Samuel.
  
  Aged 15 on 1841 census (rounded down)
  Aged 28 on 1851 census
  Aged 37 on 1861 census
  Aged 47 on 1871 census
  Aged 58 on 1881 census
  Aged 65 on 13 May 1889, when she died,
  
  Therefore born mid 1823 (i.e. after 13-May).
  1881 census has Happy born in 1823 at Little Bolton, Higher End.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

Happy's father was Samuel Mather and her mother was Alice Mather.  Her paternal grandparents were James Mather and Happy Lomax; her maternal grandparents were William Mather and Betty Holt. She had eight brothers and four sisters, and also a sibling of unknown gender, named Isaac, William, James, John, Lomas, Samuel, George, James, Mary, Alice, Ellen, Maria and <child>.  She was the sixth youngest of the fourteen children.  She died from cancer, Epithelioma of Tongue, at the age of 66 on May 13th, 1889 in Astley Bridge.  She was buried on May 17th, 1889 at St. Paul's (Astley Bridge).^2 3 

• Death Notes

  Name: Happy Shuttleworth
  Estimated birth year: abt 1824
  Year of Registration: 1889
  Quarter of Registration: Apr-May-Jun
  Age at Death: 65
  District: Bolton, Greater Manchester, Lancashire
  Volume: 8c
  Page: 224
  
  In 1891 Phineas was recorded as a border and widowed.
  
  Cause of death was "Epithelioma of Tongue", a tumor, certified by J Robinson MD.  Age 65.  Wife of Phineas Shuttleworth a labourer at the Iron Foundry. 
  
  Death reported by "Phineas Shuttleworth, widower of the deceased, present at the death.  9 Nell Street, Sharples".
  
  Death registered on 14 May 1889 by Robert Lever, Registrar.
  
  Happy and Phineas are buried in a grave with 4 other Shuttleworts at Astley Bridge: Albert (1); John G (0); Samuel (62) and Lois (68).
  
  

• General Notes

  Living in Little Bolton in 1841, 1851
  
  Happy, was a minor (about 20) when she married John Barrow, a Chemist, on 5th Sep 1842 at Ainsworth Christ Church, Bury (parish of Middleton). No other Mathers married here, although there are several BARROW marriages.
  
  John Barrow died three years after the marriage in 1845.
  
  By 1851, Happy had lost her first husband and was living with her daughter Maria and parents, Samuel and Alice.  1851 census has her as Married, not Widowed, but she probably was.
  
  Happy's father Samuel died in 1854. It appears that Happy of Rose Hill,.was in attendance at her fathers death (but it looks like Harry Shuttleworth on the certificate).
  
  By 1861 Happy's father Samuel has died.  Happy has remarried Phineas Shuttleworth, and is now living at 167 Lever Street, Little Bolton, still with her daughter Maria and mother Alice Mather.
  
  Happy, Phineas and son Samuel living at 67 Blackbank Street, Little Bolton in 1871.
  
  Happy died in 1889, followed by Phineas three years later.  Happy and Phineas Shuttleworth are buried in a grave with 4 other Shuttleworts at Astley Bridge: Albert (1); John Greenhalgh (0); Samuel (62) and Lois (68).

Details of Happy's family with John Barrow

Details of Happy's family with Phineas Shuttleworth