• General Notes

  Catherine Shipley had an illegitimate son William born on the 28th June 1840 at St Marylebone Workhouse. Catherine married John Banister in 1843 (13 Nov at St Michaels, Lichfield volume 17 page 99).  They had 6 further surviving children.  The family in 1851 lived at Fishwick Staffs. where John was a farm labourer.  By 1861 they had moved to the parish of Weeford.  William can be found to be a soldier at the 1Kent Second Chatham Depot Battalion, Chatham Barracks No1 Gillingham Medway. In 1871 no record can be found for William but the Banister family John, Catherine, Edward and Arthur are still in Weeford.
  
  1881 William now married to Sarah Hunt (1873) have 5 children and living at Tamworth Road Farm Cottages Freeford.
  
  1891 William and Sarah now live at Tamworth Lodge with the four youngest children.  William can be found to be a footman at Freeford Hall for Richard and Matilda Burnaby.  Joseph (17) is a general servant at Kings Bromley. Eventually he arrived in Birkenhead and probably worked as a footman for William Jackson of the Manor House.
  1901 William and Sarah are still at Freeford with children Annie and Edward. Alice is a domestic servant in Toxteth.
  

Details of William's family with Sarah Hunt