Samuel Mather

• Birth Notes
  • Born after Aug 1826 (if death age is correct) and before April 1827 (for census)
    
    Samuel was 15 at the time of the 1841 census (rounded up)
    Samuel was 34 at the time of the 1861 census
    Samuel was 43 at the time of the 1871 census
    Samuel was 53 at the time of the 1881 census (born LB)
    Samuel was 71 when died inj Sep 1898
    

• Death Notes
  • According to census, Samuel must have died between 1891 and 1901 (as theres no 1901 record of him)
    
    Name: Samuel Mather
    Estimated birth year: abt 1827
    Year of Registration: 1898
    Quarter of Registration: Jul-Aug-Sep
    Age at Death: 71
    District: Bolton
    County: Greater Manchester, Lancashire
    Volume: 8c
    Page: 230 
    
    No Probate
    
    Samuel is buried at Astley bridge with wife Ann three others.

• General Notes
  • In 1841, Samuel (aged 15, rounded) was with his parents and family at Waterloo, Little Bolton.
    
    19 Feb 1849, Samuel Mather, spinner of Little Bolton, son of Samuel married Ann Nightingale. James Brooks, Samuel's brother-in-law (Alice Mather's husband), was a witness.
    
    In 1851, Samuel and Ann (23 & 21) were living at 48 Blackburn Road.  Ann Mather (37, Solomon's daughter) was a neighbour. Their first son John, born in 1849 had died an infant.
    
    Between 1852-55 the family moved from Sharples to Eastern Bolton district between, then to Little Bolton by 1859.
    
    In 1861, Samuel and Ann (34 & 31) were living at 12 Back Haigh Street with Alice (8), Samuel (6), and Margaret (2).  They had a house servant Mary Nightingale, Ann's niece.
    
    In 1871, Samuel and Ann (43 & 41) were at 73 Blackbank Street with Alice, Samuel, Margaret and George (18, 15, 11 & 4).  James Cunliffe and Happy Hamer (22 & 24) were neighbours at 71.  Phineas and Happy Shittleworth, son Samuel (16) and Jessie Collins (grandson, aged 6) and Alice Mather (Boarder, Wid, 82) were neighbours at no. 67.
    
    Samuel Johnson and Jane Bleakley and family were also neighbours in 1861 and 1871, so may be related.
    
    Samuel was a spinner when his children John and Alice were Baptised.
    
    In 1898, Samuel died and Ann a year later.  Samuel, Ann and three others are all buried in the same Mather grave at Astley Bridge.

Click here for details of Samuel's family with Ann Nightingale

¹ 1881 UK Census
² Headstone - Samuel & Ann Mather
³ Deceased Online
⁴ 1841 UK Census
⁵ 1851 UK Census
⁶ 1861 UK Census
⁷ 1871 UK Census
Source/Citation FreeBMD.org.uk

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