Joseph Shipley

Joseph Shipley Joseph Shipley

Joseph was born on March 25th, 1875 in Lichfield.¹ 

• Birth Notes

  Aged 26 in 1901 and born in Lichfield (Staff)
  
  Births Jun 1875   (>99%)
  Shipley  Joseph     Lichfield  6b 442
  
  Joseph was 36 in 1911
  
  1939 register shows Joseph born 25 Mar 75
  

Joseph's father was William Shipley and his mother was Sarah Hunt. He had three brothers and four sisters, named William, Arthur, Edward, Annie, Alice, (Ellen) and Emily.  He was the second oldest of the eight children.  He died at the age of 77 in March 1952 in the Wirral.² 

• Death Notes

  Name:    Joseph Shipley
  Death Age:    76
  Birth Date:    abt 1876
  Registration Date:    Mar 1952
  Registration district:    Wirral
  Inferred County:    Cheshire
  Volume:    10a
  Page:    825

• General Notes

  Joseph's parenst were William Shipley and Sarah Hunt.  They were married in 1873.  He was the second oldest of eight children.
  
  By the 1901 census Joseph is married to Ada (Brereton) (married 12 Sept 1899) and living in Birkenhead at 32 Camden Street.  Joseph is a railway points maker and Ada a dressmaker working from home.
  
  In 1902 he became licensee of the White Lion, Childer Thornton and in 1908 had moved to the Wynnstay Arms, Birkenhead.  John and Eliza Brereton had the White Lion in 1911
  
  In 1939 Joseph and Ada were at 47a New Chester Road , Bebington.  Joseph was license of a Beer House.
  
  n 1940 he was Birkenhead Brewery’s oldest serving tenant. In 1912 he became a member of the Lower Bebington U.D.C representing Park Ward.  He was defeated in March 1922.
  Founder member of the Riverside and the James Thompson Masonic Lodges. 
  Former President of the Bromborough Old Age Pensioners’ Association.
  Original organiser of the New Ferry fancy dress walking race and organised fancy dress football matches every Boxing Day.
  Presented the Shipley Knock-out Challenge cup for Junior football.
  
  Joseph aged 64 (a financier on departure and licensee on arrival) and Ada of 51 New Chester Rd, New Ferry departed 22 April 1939 to New York on Cunard's Britannica, arriving back at Liverpool on 8 May on the Scythia.
  

Details of Joseph's family with Ada Brereton