Isaac Mather

1810 Isaac Mather Birth

Isaac was born on October 13th, 1810 in Little Bolton and his baptism took place on January 11th, 1811 at Ridgway Gates Wesleyan conducted by J Baxindale.^1 2 

• Birth Notes

  Aged 30 in 1841
  Aged 41 in 1851
  Aged 51 in 1861
  Missing  in 1871
  Aged 71 in Apr 1881, workhouse
  Aged 72 in Sep 1881 when died
  
  
  Name:    Isaac Mather
  Birth Date:    13 Oct 1810
  Gender:    Male
  Event Type:    Baptism
  Father:    Saml Mather
  Mother:    Alce Mather
  Baptism Date:    11 Jan 1811
  Baptism Place:    Bolton, Lancashire, England
  Denomination:    Wesleyan
  Piece Title:    Piece 1202: Bolton, Great, Ridgway Gates (Wesleyan), 1789-1814
  
  Baptism: 11 Jan 1811 Ridgway Gates Wesleyan Methodist Chapel, Bolton, Lancashire, England
  Isaac Mather - Son of Saml. Mather & Alce
      Born: 13 Oct 1810
      Abode: L. Bolton
      Baptised by: J. Baxendale
      Register: Baptisms 1789 - 1814, Page 62
      Source: LDS Film 560877
  
  Ridgway Gates Wesleyan (Methodist) records show:
  Isaac Son of Samuel and Alice ("Sam'[l & Alec") Mather of L. Bolton
  born 13 Oct 1810 and baptised 11 Jan 1811
  
  

Isaac's father was Samuel Mather and his mother was Alice Mather.  His paternal grandparents were James Mather and Happy Lomax; his maternal grandparents were William Mather and Betty Holt. He had seven brothers and five sisters, and also a sibling of unknown gender, named William, James, John, Lomas, Samuel, George, James, Mary, Alice, Happy, Ellen, Maria and <child>.  He was the oldest of the fourteen children.  He died due to Alzheimer's disease, Senile Decay, at the age of 70 on September 6th, 1881 in Farnworth.³ 

• Death Notes

  MATHER, ISAAC        72 
  GRO Reference: 1881  S Quarter in BOLTON 
  Volume 08C  Page 137
  
  Isaac and his wife Mary, both died in 1881/2 while living at the Bolton Workhouse.
  
  Lancashire Death indexes for the years: 1881
  MATHER Isaac 72 Farnworth Bolton FTH/39/435
  
  No burial record found on Deceased Online.
  

• General Notes

  Isaac was born 13 Oct 1810 and baptised 11 Jan 1811 at the Ridgway Gates Wesleyan Chapel, just a month after his parents married.  Isaac, the oldest of the Mather sons of Samuel and Alice, was living in Little Bolton in 1841, 1851, 1861.  His infant children were buried at St. Peter (CoE).
  
  In 1841, Isaac and Mary (30 & 25) were at Kay Street, Little Bolton with their daughter Eliza (4).  They were Weaver Journeyman.
  
  In 1851, Isaac, a Hand Loom Weaver, and Mary (41 & 39) were at 1 Simpson Street, Little Bolton (with parents at No. 4). Eliza was 13, Samuel 7 and Jane 3.
  
  In 1861, Isaac, cotton weaver, and Mary (51 & 49) are at 2 Nuttall Square "off Blackburn Road West Side", St George's, Little Bolton.  They have Samuel (17), Jane (15) and William (9) with them.
  
  In 1871, Isaac and Mary are missing in the census.  Dont confuse with another Isaac (b.1814) and Mary family from Warrington.
  
  In 1881, Isaac is an inmate at Bolton Union Workhouse, Fishpool, Farnworth, the year of his death.
  
  There is another Issac Mather from England recorded in 1880 US census, living at Warick, Kent, Rhode Island, Working at Print Works, Aged 69 (b.1811).
  
  Isaac's daughter Eliza, lived in the same house as Samuel and Alice Mather, but 40 years after.

Details of Isaac's family with Mary Fairhurst