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• Find A Grave Link: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/188464030
• Occupation: Cotton Dyer
• Illiterate: 1853
• Residence: 1853, Halliwell, Lancashire, England
• Occupation: Between 1853 and 1879; Crofter
• Occupation: 1860; Mule spinner in a cotton mill
• Residence: 1863, Middleton, Lancashire, England
• Occupation: 1863; Dyer
• Occupation: 1863; Operative Bleacher
• Occupation: 1867; Steam Engine Tenter
• Occupation: 1879; Crofter
• Occupation: 1892; Labourer in an iron forge

George married Sarah Longworth on 11 Jul 1853 in St Mary the Virgin's Church, Deane, Lancashire, England. Sarah (daughter of James Longworth and Sarah Watson) was born on 26 May 1831 in Halliwell, Lancashire, England; was christened on 24 Jul 1831 in Bolton, Lancashire, England; died on 10 Aug 1913 in 132, Manchester Road, Bolton, Lancashire, England; was buried on 13 Aug 1913 in Heaton Cemetery, Bolton, Lancashire, England. [Group Sheet]

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• Alternative Name: Eliza Brockbank

Notes:

(Medical):Not certified

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• Alternative Name: Agnes Brookbank
• Residence: Dec 1858, Halliwell, Lancashire, England

Notes:

(Medical):Certified

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• Witness: 1879; at the marriage of his sister Elizabeth
• Occupation: Between 1887 and 1888; Forgeman and Iron Roller
• Residence: Between Apr 1887 and Dec 1888, 14, Nottingham Street, Bolton, Lancashire, England
• Informant: 30 Dec 1892, Bolton, Lancashire, England; for his father's death
• Census Return: 2 Apr 1911, 12, Ashworth Lane, Astley Bridge, Bolton, Lancashire, England
• Admon: Abt 1913, Manchester, Lancashire, England

Notes:

Admon:
When Sarah Brockbank died, Elizabeth's brother Jim got all the money (however much or little) and Elizabeth was unable to go to Manchester to hear the Will read for some reason.

James married Nancy Hulme on 4 Sep 1886 in Bolton, Lancashire, England. Nancy (daughter of Richard Hulme) was born in 1858 in Bolton, Lancashire, England; died in 1946 in Surrey, England. [Group Sheet]

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• Find A Grave Link: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/186857599
• Alternative Name: Elizabeth Alice Brockbank
• Alternative Name: Ellen Brockbank
• Alternative Name: Lucy Elizabeth Brockbank
• Occupation: Comic singer at the Music Halls
• Occupation: Dressmaker
• Family Story: Tatlock, Brockbank and Windsor Families
• Alternative Birth: Abt 1861
• Alternative Birth: 8 May 1863
• Residence: 1879, Rasbottom Street, Bolton, Lancashire, England
• Residence: 18 Feb 1880, 53, Kirk Street, Bolton, Lancashire, England
• Residence: 22 Apr 1880, 4, Bark Street, Bolton, Lancashire, England
• Residence: Aug 1896, 20, Bower Street, Horton, Bradford, Yorkshire West Riding, England
• Residence: Sep 1896, 34, Hannah Gate, Horton, Bradford, Yorkshire West Riding, England
• Occupation: 1901; Living on own means
• Census Return: 31 Mar 1901, 22, Fortune Street, Bolton, Lancashire, England
• Census Return: 2 Apr 1911, 25, Rose Street, Bolton, Lancashire, England
• Admon: Abt 1913, Manchester, Lancashire, England
• Residence: Between 12 Apr 1915 and 12 Jan 1918, 49, Lever Street, Bolton, Lancashire, England

Notes:

Family Story:
The only information I knew before I started any research was that my great grandmother, Emily Tatlock, was born in Bolton, Lancashire on 18th February 1880 but she had been placed in a children's home in Edgworth when she was young. She knew her mother was a music hall singer but I didn't know any details such as the names of her parents. The only other things Emily remembered from her childhood were that her mother hit the inspector over the head with an umbrella when they took Emily away to the home, also her mother used to practice her stage hairstyles on Emily's hair. Emily did have a photo of her brother and three sisters (the family as it was in 1892) but it has been lost over the years unfortunately.

After researching I found that she was the daughter of Thomas Tatlock and Elizabeth Tatlock formerly Brockbank. The couple had married in November 1879 when Elizabeth was about six months pregnant and aged only sixteen. After Emily's birth in 1880 they also had a stillborn child buried in 1882 in Bolton. The next child was called Annie Tatlock, and according to her baptism she was born 21st August 1884 and from census returns her place of birth was given as Ulverstone, however I have been unable to locate a birth certificate for her. The next child born was called Lily Tatlock, her birth certificate gives her birth date as 6th June 1887 but her baptism states her date of birth as 6th May 1887 which is probably more accurate as her birth wasn't registered until 2nd July 1887 so the mother would have been fined for registering the birth late if she'd stated the birth as 6th May (births had to be registered within 42 days otherwise they were fined for late registration).

It seems the couple split up at some point in the 1880's, and it is possible that only the first child, Emily, is Thomas' child and the others were fathered by someone else. Emily was born in 1880 but by the time of the 1881 census the parents weren't living together, Elizabeth was living with her parents in Bolton and Thomas was living in his married sister's household in Bolton.

Both Thomas and Elizabeth had music hall acts and appeared on stage, this is possibly how they first met in 1879. A relative told me that Elizabeth claimed to have appeared on stage at Madison Square Garden in New York. I think it might be possible that Thomas and Elizabeth travelled to New York together in the early 1880's, possibly their daughter Annie was born there (which would explain why her birth can't be found in the UK) and then Elizabeth came home to Bolton before 1887 leaving Thomas Tatlock to make a new life for himself.

Thomas Tatlock started a new life for himself in Montreal, Canada, according to the 1911 Montreal census he immigrated into Canada in 1884. He remarried 21st May 1888 in Montreal (bigamously) to a Mary McArthur and they had three children. In 1891, 1901 and 1911 he was working as a bar tender/waiter in Montreal. He then went on to marry again to a Mary O'Donnell (also known as Helen) and they had five more children, the youngest being born in 1921 when Thomas Tatlock was aged sixty one. Thomas Tatlock had a part time stage act as a dancer and a comedian and appeared on stage in Montreal and New York. He died in Montreal in 1929.

After Thomas and Elizabeth had split up she went on to have a son called Percy in 1890. His birth was registered as Percy Tatlock but he always used the name Percy Brockbank. His birth certificate states he was born 16th July 1890 and states his father was Thomas Tatlock. On his death certificate in 1970 it stated his date of birth to be 15th June 1890, so again it looks like the mother lied about his birth date to avoid a fine for late registration, his birth was registered 4th September 1890.

The next child was registered as Margaret Brockbank with no father's name stated. Her birth date was stated to be 28th April 1892 (registered 8th June 1892). This is the first time that the mother Elizabeth states her name as "Lucy Elizabeth". This child Margaret was known as Maggie.

In November 1892 a Detective with the Borough Police reported the family to the NSPCC to try and get the eldest child, Emily, into a home to be trained as a domestic servant "as the home surroundings have a tendency to make the child a thief". The report stated that the mother Elizabeth Tatlock had been getting her living as a comic singer at Music Halls and that there were five children, Emily, Annie, Lily (stated as illegitimate), Percy, and Maggie (also stated to be illegitimate). The report states that Elizabeth was separated from her husband when Lily was born but they lived together again when Percy was born, afterwards the husband left and had not been heard of since. Elizabeth was living with her parents and her mother (Sarah Brockbank formerly Longworth) was undergoing a prison term of one month for theft, the report also states that Elizabeth had been before the courts for being in consort with her mother. It states that Elizabeth was willing that her daughter, Emily, should be sent to a home. The report states that the children were well nourished and the house fairly well furnished. However, further in the report it also states that the reasons Emily should be considered to be placed in a home were as follows: 'Continuous neglect, mother and grandmother charged with theft, latter convicted' It also stated that Emily was 'in great moral danger, an attractive girl, used by grandmother, an oft convicted thief, for felonious purposes. Now in wretchedness and filth. Grandmother in prison, mother living away in sin'. Elizabeth stated that her husband Thomas had "died away" in June 1891, but this was untrue, perhaps she just said that he was dead so that the authorities could not ask her for any money towards Emily's keep. Her weekly income was just 10 shillings as a dressmaker, it must have been very hard for her to live on that amount with five children to care for. Emily was sent to Edgworth Children's Home which wasn't very far from Bolton but she had no more contact with her family and they would not have known where she was sent to.

On 21st June 1893 Elizabeth and her mother Sarah were in court accused of stealing seven yards of dress material and six yards of flannellette the property of John Bond. Elizabeth gave her name as Elizabeth Alice Tatlock and she pleaded guilty. She was sentenced to fourteen days in Strangeways prison. Her mother Sarah pleaded not guilty but was found guilty and sentenced to six months hard labour in Strangeways prison. Elizabeth would have been about four months pregnant when she went in prison as there was also another illegitimate son called Robert Brockbank born 28th November 1893 in Bolton. He was known as Bob Brockbank in later life. Bob Brockbank married a Bertha Greenhalgh and when she died he went on to marry Elsie Mason. He died in 1959.

Within a couple of years Elizabeth met a man called Corney Windsor in Bolton. They lived together as man and wife but I don't believe they ever married, probably Elizabeth, or 'Lucy Elizabeth' as she then liked to be known as, didn't want to remarry bigamously as she did not know if Thomas Tatlock was still alive. They had five more children together, namely, Arline born 13th August 1896 in Bradford, Clara born 25th September 1898 in Blackpool, Bertha born 14th April 1900 in Bolton, Fred born 2nd May 1902 in Bolton, and George born 1st July 1904 in Bolton - they all had the surname Windsor.

As Arline was born in 1896 in Bradford I would imagine it was about this time when they were resident in that area that her two daughters, Annie and Lily Tatlock, were taken from her in the same manner as Emily was. I do not have any evidence for this but by the time of the 1901 census Lily was aged thirteen and resident in an industrial school in Leeds and Annie was aged seventeen and working as a domestic servant in a household in Headingley near Leeds. Industrial Schools were for children who were either found begging, found wandering or homeless or frequenting with thieves, who had commited an offence or whose parents could not control them. It's possible that the two girls were being used as pickpockets and were caught or their mother got into trouble with the law again and the girls were seen to be in danger of being turned into thieves. The Industrial School would have trained the girls as domestic servants and found them places to work when it was time for them to leave. I do not know what happened to Lily after the 1901 census and I also have no record of what happened to Maggie after she was six months old. It seems like all four girls, Emily, Annie, Lily, and Maggie, were removed from their mother but the two boys, Percy and Bob, stayed with her. Her five later children with Corney Windsor were brought up by her so it seems he was a stabilising influence in her life.

In 1904 the son, Percy Brockbank, aged thirteen, was up before the court in Bolton for stealing a purse. The prosecutor said the lad's mother and grandmother were known by the police. Percy, who was living with his grandmother, had been attending a school for 'defective children'. The Inspector stated he had watched Percy trying to get into more than four pockets of different women before he was successful in stealing the purse. He was committed to a Reformatory until he was seventeen years of age. It's interesting that he was attending a school for 'defective children' as he was described as blind at the time of the 1911 census but it also states that he was afflicted at the age of fifteen, perhaps his eyesight was 'defective' when he was thirteen but deteriorated by the time he was fifteen. I believe the term 'defective' relates to children who were either blind, deaf or who had epilepsy. Percy went on to marry Janet (known as Jenny) Carslow and he died in 1970.

I was in touch with a relative who said that Fred Windsor was a student at Manchester Art School due to the generosity of some local lady who spotted his talent, but he gave it up because his mother needed money, although he would never say anything bad about his mother. He said his childhood was constantly flitting, usually to avoid paying rent. One day they forgot to tell him they were flitting, so he came home from school to find them gone. Fred said his father Corney had left his mother, Lucy Elizabeth, and took to drink and went to live with two sisters in Manchester. Fred married Jean O'Hara and she described Lucy Elizabeth as having a hot temper and that she once threw her out of the house as "an irish bitch". Fred Windsor designed and drew the Fairy liquid 'baby' and was paid £100 for it. He also made the decorative scrolls presented to the Bolton athletes who represented England in the 1948 Olympics. Fred Windsor died in 1979.

George Windsor was younger than Fred by two years and Fred looked after him. George had a weak arm, either despite which he worked at a timber yard, or he may have had an accident at the yard. He married Alice Turner and he died in 1976. The eldest Windsor daughter, Arline, married Fred True, and she died in 1975. Clara Windsor married Fred Davies but they split up when Fred Davies left Clara, she died in 1979.

Bertha Windsor had been a pretty and active girl till about twenty years of age when suddenly she was struck with a paralysis which took about six months to come on. It seems likely she suffered from either MS or Polio. Bertha did retain some movement early on, but not enough to walk. She used to be carried by her brother Fred and she always had to be propped in a chair with cushions. She never married and died in 1985.

Emily Tatlock was nothing like her mother, being very kind and quiet. She also had some artistic tendencies like her half-brother Fred Windsor. Emily Tatlock stayed at the children's home in Edgworth out on the moors near Bolton, working there after she had officially left. In the early 1900's she moved to the city of Leicester to set up a cake shop with a friend. In Leicester she met and married her husband in 1911. He was called Frank Smith, an engineer, and then they moved down to Harrow in Middlesex for his work. She knew her father's name was Thomas Tatlock but she stated his occupation as Hotel Proprietor at the time of her marriage which was incorrect. Emily Smith died in 1947 in South Harrow.

I located Annie Tatlock on the 1911 census, living with Daniel Walsh, who she later married.

The mother, Lucy Elizabeth Windsor, died in 1934 in Bolton.

Admon:
When Sarah Brockbank died, Elizabeth's brother Jim got all the money (however much or little) and Elizabeth was unable to go to Manchester to hear the Will read for some reason.

Residence:
Address when she registered the birth of her grandson Tom Brockbank.

Elizabeth married . Unknown [Group Sheet]

Elizabeth married Corney Windsor. Corney (son of Thomas Windsor and Mary Hancock) was born on 6 Nov 1871 in 47, Bridge Street, Monks Coppenhall, Cheshire, England; died on 16 May 1927 in Townley Hospital, Farnworth, Lancashire, England; was buried on 19 May 1927 in Heaton Cemetery, Bolton, Lancashire, England. [Group Sheet]

Elizabeth married Thomas "Tommy" Tatlock on 16 Nov 1879 (Separated) in St Emmanuel's Church, Bolton, Lancashire, England. Thomas (son of William Tatlock and Jane Unsworth) was born on 7 Nov 1860 in 6, Liveseys Court, Bolton, Lancashire, England; was christened on 2 Dec 1860 in St Peter's Church, Bolton, Lancashire, England; died on 9 Jan 1929 in St Michael's Parish, Montreal, Quebec, Canada; was buried on 11 Jan 1929 in Notre Dame Des Neiges Cemetery, Montreal, Quebec, Canada. [Group Sheet]

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• Residence: Between Feb and Mar 1909, 34, Maybank Street, Bolton, Lancashire, England
• Find A Grave Link: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/103966949
• Occupation: Mar 1909; Iron Turner
• Occupation: 1911; Machinist
• Emigration: 13 Oct 1911, Quebec, Canada; S.S. Teutonic
• Residence: 1930, 106, Robina Ave, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
• Occupation: 1930; Machinist

Arnold married Amy Woods in 1891 in Bolton, Lancashire, England. Amy was born in 1870 in Bolton, Lancashire, England; died in 1957; was buried in 1957 in Prospect Cemetery, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet]

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• Residence: 14, Nottingham Street, Bolton, Lancashire, England

Herbert married Ethel Pilkington on 12 Aug 1911 in Baptist Chapel, Astley Bridge, Lancashire, England. Ethel and died. [Group Sheet]

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• Alternative Name: Elizabeth Ann France
• Residence: Dec 1888, 14, Nottingham Street, Bolton, Lancashire, England
• Residence: 1970, 37, Blackburn Road, Egerton, Bolton, Lancashire, England
• Probate: 1 Jan 1971, Manchester, Lancashire, England

Notes:

Probate:
Elizabeth Ann France of 37 Blackburn Road Egerton Bolton died 4 December 1970. Probate Manchester 1 January 1971. £1536.

Elizabeth married John Thomas France on 2 Sep 1916 in Baptist Chapel, Astley Bridge, Lancashire, England. John and died. [Group Sheet]

Ada married Arthur Crompton on 25 Apr 1925 in Baptist Chapel, Astley Bridge, Lancashire, England. Arthur and died. [Group Sheet]

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• Alternative Name: Percy Tatlock
• Family Story: Tatlock, Brockbank and Windsor Families
• Court: 1904, Bolton, Lancashire, England
• Illness: Between 1905 and 1906; blind
• Medical: 1911; blind
• Occupation: Between 1911 and 1970; Skip Maker
• Census Return: 2 Apr 1911, 25, Rose Street, Bolton, Lancashire, England
• Residence: Aug 1916; 49 Lever Street, Bolton
• Administration: 27 Jan 1971, Manchester, Lancashire, England

Notes:

Family Story:
The only information I knew before I started any research was that my great grandmother, Emily Tatlock, was born in Bolton, Lancashire on 18th February 1880 but she had been placed in a children's home in Edgworth when she was young. She knew her mother was a music hall singer but I didn't know any details such as the names of her parents. The only other things Emily remembered from her childhood were that her mother hit the inspector over the head with an umbrella when they took Emily away to the home, also her mother used to practice her stage hairstyles on Emily's hair. Emily did have a photo of her brother and three sisters (the family as it was in 1892) but it has been lost over the years unfortunately.

After researching I found that she was the daughter of Thomas Tatlock and Elizabeth Tatlock formerly Brockbank. The couple had married in November 1879 when Elizabeth was about six months pregnant and aged only sixteen. After Emily's birth in 1880 they also had a stillborn child buried in 1882 in Bolton. The next child was called Annie Tatlock, and according to her baptism she was born 21st August 1884 and from census returns her place of birth was given as Ulverstone, however I have been unable to locate a birth certificate for her. The next child born was called Lily Tatlock, her birth certificate gives her birth date as 6th June 1887 but her baptism states her date of birth as 6th May 1887 which is probably more accurate as her birth wasn't registered until 2nd July 1887 so the mother would have been fined for registering the birth late if she'd stated the birth as 6th May (births had to be registered within 42 days otherwise they were fined for late registration).

It seems the couple split up at some point in the 1880's, and it is possible that only the first child, Emily, is Thomas' child and the others were fathered by someone else. Emily was born in 1880 but by the time of the 1881 census the parents weren't living together, Elizabeth was living with her parents in Bolton and Thomas was living in his married sister's household in Bolton.

Both Thomas and Elizabeth had music hall acts and appeared on stage, this is possibly how they first met in 1879. A relative told me that Elizabeth claimed to have appeared on stage at Madison Square Garden in New York. I think it might be possible that Thomas and Elizabeth travelled to New York together in the early 1880's, possibly their daughter Annie was born there (which would explain why her birth can't be found in the UK) and then Elizabeth came home to Bolton before 1887 leaving Thomas Tatlock to make a new life for himself.

Thomas Tatlock started a new life for himself in Montreal, Canada, according to the 1911 Montreal census he immigrated into Canada in 1884. He remarried 21st May 1888 in Montreal (bigamously) to a Mary McArthur and they had three children. In 1891, 1901 and 1911 he was working as a bar tender/waiter in Montreal. He then went on to marry again to a Mary O'Donnell (also known as Helen) and they had five more children, the youngest being born in 1921 when Thomas Tatlock was aged sixty one. Thomas Tatlock had a part time stage act as a dancer and a comedian and appeared on stage in Montreal and New York. He died in Montreal in 1929.

After Thomas and Elizabeth had split up she went on to have a son called Percy in 1890. His birth was registered as Percy Tatlock but he always used the name Percy Brockbank. His birth certificate states he was born 16th July 1890 and states his father was Thomas Tatlock. On his death certificate in 1970 it stated his date of birth to be 15th June 1890, so again it looks like the mother lied about his birth date to avoid a fine for late registration, his birth was registered 4th September 1890.

The next child was registered as Margaret Brockbank with no father's name stated. Her birth date was stated to be 28th April 1892 (registered 8th June 1892). This is the first time that the mother Elizabeth states her name as "Lucy Elizabeth". This child Margaret was known as Maggie.

In November 1892 a Detective with the Borough Police reported the family to the NSPCC to try and get the eldest child, Emily, into a home to be trained as a domestic servant "as the home surroundings have a tendency to make the child a thief". The report stated that the mother Elizabeth Tatlock had been getting her living as a comic singer at Music Halls and that there were five children, Emily, Annie, Lily (stated as illegitimate), Percy, and Maggie (also stated to be illegitimate). The report states that Elizabeth was separated from her husband when Lily was born but they lived together again when Percy was born, afterwards the husband left and had not been heard of since. Elizabeth was living with her parents and her mother (Sarah Brockbank formerly Longworth) was undergoing a prison term of one month for theft, the report also states that Elizabeth had been before the courts for being in consort with her mother. It states that Elizabeth was willing that her daughter, Emily, should be sent to a home. The report states that the children were well nourished and the house fairly well furnished. However, further in the report it also states that the reasons Emily should be considered to be placed in a home were as follows: 'Continuous neglect, mother and grandmother charged with theft, latter convicted' It also stated that Emily was 'in great moral danger, an attractive girl, used by grandmother, an oft convicted thief, for felonious purposes. Now in wretchedness and filth. Grandmother in prison, mother living away in sin'. Elizabeth stated that her husband Thomas had "died away" in June 1891, but this was untrue, perhaps she just said that he was dead so that the authorities could not ask her for any money towards Emily's keep. Her weekly income was just 10 shillings as a dressmaker, it must have been very hard for her to live on that amount with five children to care for. Emily was sent to Edgworth Children's Home which wasn't very far from Bolton but she had no more contact with her family and they would not have known where she was sent to.

On 21st June 1893 Elizabeth and her mother Sarah were in court accused of stealing seven yards of dress material and six yards of flannellette the property of John Bond. Elizabeth gave her name as Elizabeth Alice Tatlock and she pleaded guilty. She was sentenced to fourteen days in Strangeways prison. Her mother Sarah pleaded not guilty but was found guilty and sentenced to six months hard labour in Strangeways prison. Elizabeth would have been about four months pregnant when she went in prison as there was also another illegitimate son called Robert Brockbank born 28th November 1893 in Bolton. He was known as Bob Brockbank in later life. Bob Brockbank married a Bertha Greenhalgh and when she died he went on to marry Elsie Mason. He died in 1959.

Within a couple of years Elizabeth met a man called Corney Windsor in Bolton. They lived together as man and wife but I don't believe they ever married, probably Elizabeth, or 'Lucy Elizabeth' as she then liked to be known as, didn't want to remarry bigamously as she did not know if Thomas Tatlock was still alive. They had five more children together, namely, Arline born 13th August 1896 in Bradford, Clara born 25th September 1898 in Blackpool, Bertha born 14th April 1900 in Bolton, Fred born 2nd May 1902 in Bolton, and George born 1st July 1904 in Bolton - they all had the surname Windsor.

As Arline was born in 1896 in Bradford I would imagine it was about this time when they were resident in that area that her two daughters, Annie and Lily Tatlock, were taken from her in the same manner as Emily was. I do not have any evidence for this but by the time of the 1901 census Lily was aged thirteen and resident in an industrial school in Leeds and Annie was aged seventeen and working as a domestic servant in a household in Headingley near Leeds. Industrial Schools were for children who were either found begging, found wandering or homeless or frequenting with thieves, who had commited an offence or whose parents could not control them. It's possible that the two girls were being used as pickpockets and were caught or their mother got into trouble with the law again and the girls were seen to be in danger of being turned into thieves. The Industrial School would have trained the girls as domestic servants and found them places to work when it was time for them to leave. I do not know what happened to Lily after the 1901 census and I also have no record of what happened to Maggie after she was six months old. It seems like all four girls, Emily, Annie, Lily, and Maggie, were removed from their mother but the two boys, Percy and Bob, stayed with her. Her five later children with Corney Windsor were brought up by her so it seems he was a stabilising influence in her life.

In 1904 the son, Percy Brockbank, aged thirteen, was up before the court in Bolton for stealing a purse. The prosecutor said the lad's mother and grandmother were known by the police. Percy, who was living with his grandmother, had been attending a school for 'defective children'. The Inspector stated he had watched Percy trying to get into more than four pockets of different women before he was successful in stealing the purse. He was committed to a Reformatory until he was seventeen years of age. It's interesting that he was attending a school for 'defective children' as he was described as blind at the time of the 1911 census but it also states that he was afflicted at the age of fifteen, perhaps his eyesight was 'defective' when he was thirteen but deteriorated by the time he was fifteen. I believe the term 'defective' relates to children who were either blind, deaf or who had epilepsy. Percy went on to marry Janet (known as Jenny) Carslow and he died in 1970.

I was in touch with a relative who said that Fred Windsor was a student at Manchester Art School due to the generosity of some local lady who spotted his talent, but he gave it up because his mother needed money, although he would never say anything bad about his mother. He said his childhood was constantly flitting, usually to avoid paying rent. One day they forgot to tell him they were flitting, so he came home from school to find them gone. Fred said his father Corney had left his mother, Lucy Elizabeth, and took to drink and went to live with two sisters in Manchester. Fred married Jean O'Hara and she described Lucy Elizabeth as having a hot temper and that she once threw her out of the house as "an irish bitch". Fred Windsor designed and drew the Fairy liquid 'baby' and was paid £100 for it. He also made the decorative scrolls presented to the Bolton athletes who represented England in the 1948 Olympics. Fred Windsor died in 1979.

George Windsor was younger than Fred by two years and Fred looked after him. George had a weak arm, either despite which he worked at a timber yard, or he may have had an accident at the yard. He married Alice Turner and he died in 1976. The eldest Windsor daughter, Arline, married Fred True, and she died in 1975. Clara Windsor married Fred Davies but they split up when Fred Davies left Clara, she died in 1979.

Bertha Windsor had been a pretty and active girl till about twenty years of age when suddenly she was struck with a paralysis which took about six months to come on. It seems likely she suffered from either MS or Polio. Bertha did retain some movement early on, but not enough to walk. She used to be carried by her brother Fred and she always had to be propped in a chair with cushions. She never married and died in 1985.

Emily Tatlock was nothing like her mother, being very kind and quiet. She also had some artistic tendencies like her half-brother Fred Windsor. Emily Tatlock stayed at the children's home in Edgworth out on the moors near Bolton, working there after she had officially left. In the early 1900's she moved to the city of Leicester to set up a cake shop with a friend. In Leicester she met and married her husband in 1911. He was called Frank Smith, an engineer, and then they moved down to Harrow in Middlesex for his work. She knew her father's name was Thomas Tatlock but she stated his occupation as Hotel Proprietor at the time of her marriage which was incorrect. Emily Smith died in 1947 in South Harrow.

I located Annie Tatlock on the 1911 census, living with Daniel Walsh, who she later married.

The mother, Lucy Elizabeth Windsor, died in 1934 in Bolton.

Court:
From the Evening News, June 2, 1904:
A Schoolboy named Percy Brockbank, aged 13, of Old Hall Street, was charged before the Borough Justices this morning with stealing a purse containing 4d, a piece of paper and a medal.
Mr JH Hall prosecuted and said prisoner, who lived with his grandmother, had been attending a school for defective children, but it appeared he was not defective in the art of picking pockets. Insp Smith said he watched prisoner on the wholesale market try to get into about four women's pockets before finally picking prosecutrix's pocket. Prisoner was committed to a Reformatory until 17 years of age.

Illness:
On the 1911 census Percy Brockbank was listed as blind from the age of 15 - this would have occurred in 1905-1906 whilst he was in the reformatory.

Occupation:
A Skip Maker made skips or large baskets, used in mining and quarrying, for transporting product or personnel.

Administration:
Percy Brockbank of Hulton Hospital Bolton died 30 December 1970. Administration Manchester 27 January 1971 £263.

Percy married Janet "Jenny" Carslow on 12 Aug 1916 in St Bartholomew's Church, Bolton, Lancashire, England. Janet (daughter of Hugh Carslow) was born in 1887; died on 15 Aug 1963 in Bolton District General Hospital, Bolton, Lancashire, England. [Group Sheet]

Other Events:

• Alternative Name: Maggie
• Family Story: Tatlock, Brockbank and Windsor Families

Notes:

Family Story:
The only information I knew before I started any research was that my great grandmother, Emily Tatlock, was born in Bolton, Lancashire on 18th February 1880 but she had been placed in a children's home in Edgworth when she was young. She knew her mother was a music hall singer but I didn't know any details such as the names of her parents. The only other things Emily remembered from her childhood were that her mother hit the inspector over the head with an umbrella when they took Emily away to the home, also her mother used to practice her stage hairstyles on Emily's hair. Emily did have a photo of her brother and three sisters (the family as it was in 1892) but it has been lost over the years unfortunately.

After researching I found that she was the daughter of Thomas Tatlock and Elizabeth Tatlock formerly Brockbank. The couple had married in November 1879 when Elizabeth was about six months pregnant and aged only sixteen. After Emily's birth in 1880 they also had a stillborn child buried in 1882 in Bolton. The next child was called Annie Tatlock, and according to her baptism she was born 21st August 1884 and from census returns her place of birth was given as Ulverstone, however I have been unable to locate a birth certificate for her. The next child born was called Lily Tatlock, her birth certificate gives her birth date as 6th June 1887 but her baptism states her date of birth as 6th May 1887 which is probably more accurate as her birth wasn't registered until 2nd July 1887 so the mother would have been fined for registering the birth late if she'd stated the birth as 6th May (births had to be registered within 42 days otherwise they were fined for late registration).

It seems the couple split up at some point in the 1880's, and it is possible that only the first child, Emily, is Thomas' child and the others were fathered by someone else. Emily was born in 1880 but by the time of the 1881 census the parents weren't living together, Elizabeth was living with her parents in Bolton and Thomas was living in his married sister's household in Bolton.

Both Thomas and Elizabeth had music hall acts and appeared on stage, this is possibly how they first met in 1879. A relative told me that Elizabeth claimed to have appeared on stage at Madison Square Garden in New York. I think it might be possible that Thomas and Elizabeth travelled to New York together in the early 1880's, possibly their daughter Annie was born there (which would explain why her birth can't be found in the UK) and then Elizabeth came home to Bolton before 1887 leaving Thomas Tatlock to make a new life for himself.

Thomas Tatlock started a new life for himself in Montreal, Canada, according to the 1911 Montreal census he immigrated into Canada in 1884. He remarried 21st May 1888 in Montreal (bigamously) to a Mary McArthur and they had three children. In 1891, 1901 and 1911 he was working as a bar tender/waiter in Montreal. He then went on to marry again to a Mary O'Donnell (also known as Helen) and they had five more children, the youngest being born in 1921 when Thomas Tatlock was aged sixty one. Thomas Tatlock had a part time stage act as a dancer and a comedian and appeared on stage in Montreal and New York. He died in Montreal in 1929.

After Thomas and Elizabeth had split up she went on to have a son called Percy in 1890. His birth was registered as Percy Tatlock but he always used the name Percy Brockbank. His birth certificate states he was born 16th July 1890 and states his father was Thomas Tatlock. On his death certificate in 1970 it stated his date of birth to be 15th June 1890, so again it looks like the mother lied about his birth date to avoid a fine for late registration, his birth was registered 4th September 1890.

The next child was registered as Margaret Brockbank with no father's name stated. Her birth date was stated to be 28th April 1892 (registered 8th June 1892). This is the first time that the mother Elizabeth states her name as "Lucy Elizabeth". This child Margaret was known as Maggie.

In November 1892 a Detective with the Borough Police reported the family to the NSPCC to try and get the eldest child, Emily, into a home to be trained as a domestic servant "as the home surroundings have a tendency to make the child a thief". The report stated that the mother Elizabeth Tatlock had been getting her living as a comic singer at Music Halls and that there were five children, Emily, Annie, Lily (stated as illegitimate), Percy, and Maggie (also stated to be illegitimate). The report states that Elizabeth was separated from her husband when Lily was born but they lived together again when Percy was born, afterwards the husband left and had not been heard of since. Elizabeth was living with her parents and her mother (Sarah Brockbank formerly Longworth) was undergoing a prison term of one month for theft, the report also states that Elizabeth had been before the courts for being in consort with her mother. It states that Elizabeth was willing that her daughter, Emily, should be sent to a home. The report states that the children were well nourished and the house fairly well furnished. However, further in the report it also states that the reasons Emily should be considered to be placed in a home were as follows: 'Continuous neglect, mother and grandmother charged with theft, latter convicted' It also stated that Emily was 'in great moral danger, an attractive girl, used by grandmother, an oft convicted thief, for felonious purposes. Now in wretchedness and filth. Grandmother in prison, mother living away in sin'. Elizabeth stated that her husband Thomas had "died away" in June 1891, but this was untrue, perhaps she just said that he was dead so that the authorities could not ask her for any money towards Emily's keep. Her weekly income was just 10 shillings as a dressmaker, it must have been very hard for her to live on that amount with five children to care for. Emily was sent to Edgworth Children's Home which wasn't very far from Bolton but she had no more contact with her family and they would not have known where she was sent to.

On 21st June 1893 Elizabeth and her mother Sarah were in court accused of stealing seven yards of dress material and six yards of flannellette the property of John Bond. Elizabeth gave her name as Elizabeth Alice Tatlock and she pleaded guilty. She was sentenced to fourteen days in Strangeways prison. Her mother Sarah pleaded not guilty but was found guilty and sentenced to six months hard labour in Strangeways prison. Elizabeth would have been about four months pregnant when she went in prison as there was also another illegitimate son called Robert Brockbank born 28th November 1893 in Bolton. He was known as Bob Brockbank in later life. Bob Brockbank married a Bertha Greenhalgh and when she died he went on to marry Elsie Mason. He died in 1959.

Within a couple of years Elizabeth met a man called Corney Windsor in Bolton. They lived together as man and wife but I don't believe they ever married, probably Elizabeth, or 'Lucy Elizabeth' as she then liked to be known as, didn't want to remarry bigamously as she did not know if Thomas Tatlock was still alive. They had five more children together, namely, Arline born 13th August 1896 in Bradford, Clara born 25th September 1898 in Blackpool, Bertha born 14th April 1900 in Bolton, Fred born 2nd May 1902 in Bolton, and George born 1st July 1904 in Bolton - they all had the surname Windsor.

As Arline was born in 1896 in Bradford I would imagine it was about this time when they were resident in that area that her two daughters, Annie and Lily Tatlock, were taken from her in the same manner as Emily was. I do not have any evidence for this but by the time of the 1901 census Lily was aged thirteen and resident in an industrial school in Leeds and Annie was aged seventeen and working as a domestic servant in a household in Headingley near Leeds. Industrial Schools were for children who were either found begging, found wandering or homeless or frequenting with thieves, who had commited an offence or whose parents could not control them. It's possible that the two girls were being used as pickpockets and were caught or their mother got into trouble with the law again and the girls were seen to be in danger of being turned into thieves. The Industrial School would have trained the girls as domestic servants and found them places to work when it was time for them to leave. I do not know what happened to Lily after the 1901 census and I also have no record of what happened to Maggie after she was six months old. It seems like all four girls, Emily, Annie, Lily, and Maggie, were removed from their mother but the two boys, Percy and Bob, stayed with her. Her five later children with Corney Windsor were brought up by her so it seems he was a stabilising influence in her life.

In 1904 the son, Percy Brockbank, aged thirteen, was up before the court in Bolton for stealing a purse. The prosecutor said the lad's mother and grandmother were known by the police. Percy, who was living with his grandmother, had been attending a school for 'defective children'. The Inspector stated he had watched Percy trying to get into more than four pockets of different women before he was successful in stealing the purse. He was committed to a Reformatory until he was seventeen years of age. It's interesting that he was attending a school for 'defective children' as he was described as blind at the time of the 1911 census but it also states that he was afflicted at the age of fifteen, perhaps his eyesight was 'defective' when he was thirteen but deteriorated by the time he was fifteen. I believe the term 'defective' relates to children who were either blind, deaf or who had epilepsy. Percy went on to marry Janet (known as Jenny) Carslow and he died in 1970.

I was in touch with a relative who said that Fred Windsor was a student at Manchester Art School due to the generosity of some local lady who spotted his talent, but he gave it up because his mother needed money, although he would never say anything bad about his mother. He said his childhood was constantly flitting, usually to avoid paying rent. One day they forgot to tell him they were flitting, so he came home from school to find them gone. Fred said his father Corney had left his mother, Lucy Elizabeth, and took to drink and went to live with two sisters in Manchester. Fred married Jean O'Hara and she described Lucy Elizabeth as having a hot temper and that she once threw her out of the house as "an irish bitch". Fred Windsor designed and drew the Fairy liquid 'baby' and was paid £100 for it. He also made the decorative scrolls presented to the Bolton athletes who represented England in the 1948 Olympics. Fred Windsor died in 1979.

George Windsor was younger than Fred by two years and Fred looked after him. George had a weak arm, either despite which he worked at a timber yard, or he may have had an accident at the yard. He married Alice Turner and he died in 1976. The eldest Windsor daughter, Arline, married Fred True, and she died in 1975. Clara Windsor married Fred Davies but they split up when Fred Davies left Clara, she died in 1979.

Bertha Windsor had been a pretty and active girl till about twenty years of age when suddenly she was struck with a paralysis which took about six months to come on. It seems likely she suffered from either MS or Polio. Bertha did retain some movement early on, but not enough to walk. She used to be carried by her brother Fred and she always had to be propped in a chair with cushions. She never married and died in 1985.

Emily Tatlock was nothing like her mother, being very kind and quiet. She also had some artistic tendencies like her half-brother Fred Windsor. Emily Tatlock stayed at the children's home in Edgworth out on the moors near Bolton, working there after she had officially left. In the early 1900's she moved to the city of Leicester to set up a cake shop with a friend. In Leicester she met and married her husband in 1911. He was called Frank Smith, an engineer, and then they moved down to Harrow in Middlesex for his work. She knew her father's name was Thomas Tatlock but she stated his occupation as Hotel Proprietor at the time of her marriage which was incorrect. Emily Smith died in 1947 in South Harrow.

I located Annie Tatlock on the 1911 census, living with Daniel Walsh, who she later married.

The mother, Lucy Elizabeth Windsor, died in 1934 in Bolton.

Other Events:

• Family Story: Tatlock, Brockbank and Windsor Families
• Apprenticeship: 1911; Spindle Maker's Apprentice
• Census Return: 2 Apr 1911, 25, Rose Street, Bolton, Lancashire, England
• Residence: 1919, 11, Spring Street, Bolton, Lancashire, England
• Occupation: Between 1919 and 1926; Railway Man
• Residence: Feb 1926; 7 Poole Street, Bolton
• Residence: Feb 1959; 24 John Brown Street, Bolton
• Occupation: Feb 1959; Goods Checker for British Railways

Notes:

Family Story:
The only information I knew before I started any research was that my great grandmother, Emily Tatlock, was born in Bolton, Lancashire on 18th February 1880 but she had been placed in a children's home in Edgworth when she was young. She knew her mother was a music hall singer but I didn't know any details such as the names of her parents. The only other things Emily remembered from her childhood were that her mother hit the inspector over the head with an umbrella when they took Emily away to the home, also her mother used to practice her stage hairstyles on Emily's hair. Emily did have a photo of her brother and three sisters (the family as it was in 1892) but it has been lost over the years unfortunately.

After researching I found that she was the daughter of Thomas Tatlock and Elizabeth Tatlock formerly Brockbank. The couple had married in November 1879 when Elizabeth was about six months pregnant and aged only sixteen. After Emily's birth in 1880 they also had a stillborn child buried in 1882 in Bolton. The next child was called Annie Tatlock, and according to her baptism she was born 21st August 1884 and from census returns her place of birth was given as Ulverstone, however I have been unable to locate a birth certificate for her. The next child born was called Lily Tatlock, her birth certificate gives her birth date as 6th June 1887 but her baptism states her date of birth as 6th May 1887 which is probably more accurate as her birth wasn't registered until 2nd July 1887 so the mother would have been fined for registering the birth late if she'd stated the birth as 6th May (births had to be registered within 42 days otherwise they were fined for late registration).

It seems the couple split up at some point in the 1880's, and it is possible that only the first child, Emily, is Thomas' child and the others were fathered by someone else. Emily was born in 1880 but by the time of the 1881 census the parents weren't living together, Elizabeth was living with her parents in Bolton and Thomas was living in his married sister's household in Bolton.

Both Thomas and Elizabeth had music hall acts and appeared on stage, this is possibly how they first met in 1879. A relative told me that Elizabeth claimed to have appeared on stage at Madison Square Garden in New York. I think it might be possible that Thomas and Elizabeth travelled to New York together in the early 1880's, possibly their daughter Annie was born there (which would explain why her birth can't be found in the UK) and then Elizabeth came home to Bolton before 1887 leaving Thomas Tatlock to make a new life for himself.

Thomas Tatlock started a new life for himself in Montreal, Canada, according to the 1911 Montreal census he immigrated into Canada in 1884. He remarried 21st May 1888 in Montreal (bigamously) to a Mary McArthur and they had three children. In 1891, 1901 and 1911 he was working as a bar tender/waiter in Montreal. He then went on to marry again to a Mary O'Donnell (also known as Helen) and they had five more children, the youngest being born in 1921 when Thomas Tatlock was aged sixty one. Thomas Tatlock had a part time stage act as a dancer and a comedian and appeared on stage in Montreal and New York. He died in Montreal in 1929.

After Thomas and Elizabeth had split up she went on to have a son called Percy in 1890. His birth was registered as Percy Tatlock but he always used the name Percy Brockbank. His birth certificate states he was born 16th July 1890 and states his father was Thomas Tatlock. On his death certificate in 1970 it stated his date of birth to be 15th June 1890, so again it looks like the mother lied about his birth date to avoid a fine for late registration, his birth was registered 4th September 1890.

The next child was registered as Margaret Brockbank with no father's name stated. Her birth date was stated to be 28th April 1892 (registered 8th June 1892). This is the first time that the mother Elizabeth states her name as "Lucy Elizabeth". This child Margaret was known as Maggie.

In November 1892 a Detective with the Borough Police reported the family to the NSPCC to try and get the eldest child, Emily, into a home to be trained as a domestic servant "as the home surroundings have a tendency to make the child a thief". The report stated that the mother Elizabeth Tatlock had been getting her living as a comic singer at Music Halls and that there were five children, Emily, Annie, Lily (stated as illegitimate), Percy, and Maggie (also stated to be illegitimate). The report states that Elizabeth was separated from her husband when Lily was born but they lived together again when Percy was born, afterwards the husband left and had not been heard of since. Elizabeth was living with her parents and her mother (Sarah Brockbank formerly Longworth) was undergoing a prison term of one month for theft, the report also states that Elizabeth had been before the courts for being in consort with her mother. It states that Elizabeth was willing that her daughter, Emily, should be sent to a home. The report states that the children were well nourished and the house fairly well furnished. However, further in the report it also states that the reasons Emily should be considered to be placed in a home were as follows: 'Continuous neglect, mother and grandmother charged with theft, latter convicted' It also stated that Emily was 'in great moral danger, an attractive girl, used by grandmother, an oft convicted thief, for felonious purposes. Now in wretchedness and filth. Grandmother in prison, mother living away in sin'. Elizabeth stated that her husband Thomas had "died away" in June 1891, but this was untrue, perhaps she just said that he was dead so that the authorities could not ask her for any money towards Emily's keep. Her weekly income was just 10 shillings as a dressmaker, it must have been very hard for her to live on that amount with five children to care for. Emily was sent to Edgworth Children's Home which wasn't very far from Bolton but she had no more contact with her family and they would not have known where she was sent to.

On 21st June 1893 Elizabeth and her mother Sarah were in court accused of stealing seven yards of dress material and six yards of flannellette the property of John Bond. Elizabeth gave her name as Elizabeth Alice Tatlock and she pleaded guilty. She was sentenced to fourteen days in Strangeways prison. Her mother Sarah pleaded not guilty but was found guilty and sentenced to six months hard labour in Strangeways prison. Elizabeth would have been about four months pregnant when she went in prison as there was also another illegitimate son called Robert Brockbank born 28th November 1893 in Bolton. He was known as Bob Brockbank in later life. Bob Brockbank married a Bertha Greenhalgh and when she died he went on to marry Elsie Mason. He died in 1959.

Within a couple of years Elizabeth met a man called Corney Windsor in Bolton. They lived together as man and wife but I don't believe they ever married, probably Elizabeth, or 'Lucy Elizabeth' as she then liked to be known as, didn't want to remarry bigamously as she did not know if Thomas Tatlock was still alive. They had five more children together, namely, Arline born 13th August 1896 in Bradford, Clara born 25th September 1898 in Blackpool, Bertha born 14th April 1900 in Bolton, Fred born 2nd May 1902 in Bolton, and George born 1st July 1904 in Bolton - they all had the surname Windsor.

As Arline was born in 1896 in Bradford I would imagine it was about this time when they were resident in that area that her two daughters, Annie and Lily Tatlock, were taken from her in the same manner as Emily was. I do not have any evidence for this but by the time of the 1901 census Lily was aged thirteen and resident in an industrial school in Leeds and Annie was aged seventeen and working as a domestic servant in a household in Headingley near Leeds. Industrial Schools were for children who were either found begging, found wandering or homeless or frequenting with thieves, who had commited an offence or whose parents could not control them. It's possible that the two girls were being used as pickpockets and were caught or their mother got into trouble with the law again and the girls were seen to be in danger of being turned into thieves. The Industrial School would have trained the girls as domestic servants and found them places to work when it was time for them to leave. I do not know what happened to Lily after the 1901 census and I also have no record of what happened to Maggie after she was six months old. It seems like all four girls, Emily, Annie, Lily, and Maggie, were removed from their mother but the two boys, Percy and Bob, stayed with her. Her five later children with Corney Windsor were brought up by her so it seems he was a stabilising influence in her life.

In 1904 the son, Percy Brockbank, aged thirteen, was up before the court in Bolton for stealing a purse. The prosecutor said the lad's mother and grandmother were known by the police. Percy, who was living with his grandmother, had been attending a school for 'defective children'. The Inspector stated he had watched Percy trying to get into more than four pockets of different women before he was successful in stealing the purse. He was committed to a Reformatory until he was seventeen years of age. It's interesting that he was attending a school for 'defective children' as he was described as blind at the time of the 1911 census but it also states that he was afflicted at the age of fifteen, perhaps his eyesight was 'defective' when he was thirteen but deteriorated by the time he was fifteen. I believe the term 'defective' relates to children who were either blind, deaf or who had epilepsy. Percy went on to marry Janet (known as Jenny) Carslow and he died in 1970.

I was in touch with a relative who said that Fred Windsor was a student at Manchester Art School due to the generosity of some local lady who spotted his talent, but he gave it up because his mother needed money, although he would never say anything bad about his mother. He said his childhood was constantly flitting, usually to avoid paying rent. One day they forgot to tell him they were flitting, so he came home from school to find them gone. Fred said his father Corney had left his mother, Lucy Elizabeth, and took to drink and went to live with two sisters in Manchester. Fred married Jean O'Hara and she described Lucy Elizabeth as having a hot temper and that she once threw her out of the house as "an irish bitch". Fred Windsor designed and drew the Fairy liquid 'baby' and was paid £100 for it. He also made the decorative scrolls presented to the Bolton athletes who represented England in the 1948 Olympics. Fred Windsor died in 1979.

George Windsor was younger than Fred by two years and Fred looked after him. George had a weak arm, either despite which he worked at a timber yard, or he may have had an accident at the yard. He married Alice Turner and he died in 1976. The eldest Windsor daughter, Arline, married Fred True, and she died in 1975. Clara Windsor married Fred Davies but they split up when Fred Davies left Clara, she died in 1979.

Bertha Windsor had been a pretty and active girl till about twenty years of age when suddenly she was struck with a paralysis which took about six months to come on. It seems likely she suffered from either MS or Polio. Bertha did retain some movement early on, but not enough to walk. She used to be carried by her brother Fred and she always had to be propped in a chair with cushions. She never married and died in 1985.

Emily Tatlock was nothing like her mother, being very kind and quiet. She also had some artistic tendencies like her half-brother Fred Windsor. Emily Tatlock stayed at the children's home in Edgworth out on the moors near Bolton, working there after she had officially left. In the early 1900's she moved to the city of Leicester to set up a cake shop with a friend. In Leicester she met and married her husband in 1911. He was called Frank Smith, an engineer, and then they moved down to Harrow in Middlesex for his work. She knew her father's name was Thomas Tatlock but she stated his occupation as Hotel Proprietor at the time of her marriage which was incorrect. Emily Smith died in 1947 in South Harrow.

I located Annie Tatlock on the 1911 census, living with Daniel Walsh, who she later married.

The mother, Lucy Elizabeth Windsor, died in 1934 in Bolton.

Robert married Bertha Greenhalgh on 11 Apr 1914 in St Mark's Church, Fletcher Street, Bolton, Lancashire, England. Bertha was born in 1892; died in 1924 in Bolton, Lancashire, England; was buried on 5 Jun 1924 in Heaton Cemetery, Bolton, Lancashire, England. [Group Sheet]

Robert married Elsie Mason on 6 Feb 1926 in St Mark's Church, Fletcher Street, Bolton, Lancashire, England. Elsie (daughter of William Mason) was born in 1905; died on 6 Dec 1995 in Bolton, Lancashire, England. [Group Sheet]

Other Events:

• Family Story: Tatlock, Brockbank and Windsor Families
• Census Return: 31 Mar 1901, 22, Fortune Street, Bolton, Lancashire, England
• Occupation: 1911; Sewer & Hosiery Mender
• Census Return: 2 Apr 1911, 25, Rose Street, Bolton, Lancashire, England

Notes:

Family Story:
The only information I knew before I started any research was that my great grandmother, Emily Tatlock, was born in Bolton, Lancashire on 18th February 1880 but she had been placed in a children's home in Edgworth when she was young. She knew her mother was a music hall singer but I didn't know any details such as the names of her parents. The only other things Emily remembered from her childhood were that her mother hit the inspector over the head with an umbrella when they took Emily away to the home, also her mother used to practice her stage hairstyles on Emily's hair. Emily did have a photo of her brother and three sisters (the family as it was in 1892) but it has been lost over the years unfortunately.

After researching I found that she was the daughter of Thomas Tatlock and Elizabeth Tatlock formerly Brockbank. The couple had married in November 1879 when Elizabeth was about six months pregnant and aged only sixteen. After Emily's birth in 1880 they also had a stillborn child buried in 1882 in Bolton. The next child was called Annie Tatlock, and according to her baptism she was born 21st August 1884 and from census returns her place of birth was given as Ulverstone, however I have been unable to locate a birth certificate for her. The next child born was called Lily Tatlock, her birth certificate gives her birth date as 6th June 1887 but her baptism states her date of birth as 6th May 1887 which is probably more accurate as her birth wasn't registered until 2nd July 1887 so the mother would have been fined for registering the birth late if she'd stated the birth as 6th May (births had to be registered within 42 days otherwise they were fined for late registration).

It seems the couple split up at some point in the 1880's, and it is possible that only the first child, Emily, is Thomas' child and the others were fathered by someone else. Emily was born in 1880 but by the time of the 1881 census the parents weren't living together, Elizabeth was living with her parents in Bolton and Thomas was living in his married sister's household in Bolton.

Both Thomas and Elizabeth had music hall acts and appeared on stage, this is possibly how they first met in 1879. A relative told me that Elizabeth claimed to have appeared on stage at Madison Square Garden in New York. I think it might be possible that Thomas and Elizabeth travelled to New York together in the early 1880's, possibly their daughter Annie was born there (which would explain why her birth can't be found in the UK) and then Elizabeth came home to Bolton before 1887 leaving Thomas Tatlock to make a new life for himself.

Thomas Tatlock started a new life for himself in Montreal, Canada, according to the 1911 Montreal census he immigrated into Canada in 1884. He remarried 21st May 1888 in Montreal (bigamously) to a Mary McArthur and they had three children. In 1891, 1901 and 1911 he was working as a bar tender/waiter in Montreal. He then went on to marry again to a Mary O'Donnell (also known as Helen) and they had five more children, the youngest being born in 1921 when Thomas Tatlock was aged sixty one. Thomas Tatlock had a part time stage act as a dancer and a comedian and appeared on stage in Montreal and New York. He died in Montreal in 1929.

After Thomas and Elizabeth had split up she went on to have a son called Percy in 1890. His birth was registered as Percy Tatlock but he always used the name Percy Brockbank. His birth certificate states he was born 16th July 1890 and states his father was Thomas Tatlock. On his death certificate in 1970 it stated his date of birth to be 15th June 1890, so again it looks like the mother lied about his birth date to avoid a fine for late registration, his birth was registered 4th September 1890.

The next child was registered as Margaret Brockbank with no father's name stated. Her birth date was stated to be 28th April 1892 (registered 8th June 1892). This is the first time that the mother Elizabeth states her name as "Lucy Elizabeth". This child Margaret was known as Maggie.

In November 1892 a Detective with the Borough Police reported the family to the NSPCC to try and get the eldest child, Emily, into a home to be trained as a domestic servant "as the home surroundings have a tendency to make the child a thief". The report stated that the mother Elizabeth Tatlock had been getting her living as a comic singer at Music Halls and that there were five children, Emily, Annie, Lily (stated as illegitimate), Percy, and Maggie (also stated to be illegitimate). The report states that Elizabeth was separated from her husband when Lily was born but they lived together again when Percy was born, afterwards the husband left and had not been heard of since. Elizabeth was living with her parents and her mother (Sarah Brockbank formerly Longworth) was undergoing a prison term of one month for theft, the report also states that Elizabeth had been before the courts for being in consort with her mother. It states that Elizabeth was willing that her daughter, Emily, should be sent to a home. The report states that the children were well nourished and the house fairly well furnished. However, further in the report it also states that the reasons Emily should be considered to be placed in a home were as follows: 'Continuous neglect, mother and grandmother charged with theft, latter convicted' It also stated that Emily was 'in great moral danger, an attractive girl, used by grandmother, an oft convicted thief, for felonious purposes. Now in wretchedness and filth. Grandmother in prison, mother living away in sin'. Elizabeth stated that her husband Thomas had "died away" in June 1891, but this was untrue, perhaps she just said that he was dead so that the authorities could not ask her for any money towards Emily's keep. Her weekly income was just 10 shillings as a dressmaker, it must have been very hard for her to live on that amount with five children to care for. Emily was sent to Edgworth Children's Home which wasn't very far from Bolton but she had no more contact with her family and they would not have known where she was sent to.

On 21st June 1893 Elizabeth and her mother Sarah were in court accused of stealing seven yards of dress material and six yards of flannellette the property of John Bond. Elizabeth gave her name as Elizabeth Alice Tatlock and she pleaded guilty. She was sentenced to fourteen days in Strangeways prison. Her mother Sarah pleaded not guilty but was found guilty and sentenced to six months hard labour in Strangeways prison. Elizabeth would have been about four months pregnant when she went in prison as there was also another illegitimate son called Robert Brockbank born 28th November 1893 in Bolton. He was known as Bob Brockbank in later life. Bob Brockbank married a Bertha Greenhalgh and when she died he went on to marry Elsie Mason. He died in 1959.

Within a couple of years Elizabeth met a man called Corney Windsor in Bolton. They lived together as man and wife but I don't believe they ever married, probably Elizabeth, or 'Lucy Elizabeth' as she then liked to be known as, didn't want to remarry bigamously as she did not know if Thomas Tatlock was still alive. They had five more children together, namely, Arline born 13th August 1896 in Bradford, Clara born 25th September 1898 in Blackpool, Bertha born 14th April 1900 in Bolton, Fred born 2nd May 1902 in Bolton, and George born 1st July 1904 in Bolton - they all had the surname Windsor.

As Arline was born in 1896 in Bradford I would imagine it was about this time when they were resident in that area that her two daughters, Annie and Lily Tatlock, were taken from her in the same manner as Emily was. I do not have any evidence for this but by the time of the 1901 census Lily was aged thirteen and resident in an industrial school in Leeds and Annie was aged seventeen and working as a domestic servant in a household in Headingley near Leeds. Industrial Schools were for children who were either found begging, found wandering or homeless or frequenting with thieves, who had commited an offence or whose parents could not control them. It's possible that the two girls were being used as pickpockets and were caught or their mother got into trouble with the law again and the girls were seen to be in danger of being turned into thieves. The Industrial School would have trained the girls as domestic servants and found them places to work when it was time for them to leave. I do not know what happened to Lily after the 1901 census and I also have no record of what happened to Maggie after she was six months old. It seems like all four girls, Emily, Annie, Lily, and Maggie, were removed from their mother but the two boys, Percy and Bob, stayed with her. Her five later children with Corney Windsor were brought up by her so it seems he was a stabilising influence in her life.

In 1904 the son, Percy Brockbank, aged thirteen, was up before the court in Bolton for stealing a purse. The prosecutor said the lad's mother and grandmother were known by the police. Percy, who was living with his grandmother, had been attending a school for 'defective children'. The Inspector stated he had watched Percy trying to get into more than four pockets of different women before he was successful in stealing the purse. He was committed to a Reformatory until he was seventeen years of age. It's interesting that he was attending a school for 'defective children' as he was described as blind at the time of the 1911 census but it also states that he was afflicted at the age of fifteen, perhaps his eyesight was 'defective' when he was thirteen but deteriorated by the time he was fifteen. I believe the term 'defective' relates to children who were either blind, deaf or who had epilepsy. Percy went on to marry Janet (known as Jenny) Carslow and he died in 1970.

I was in touch with a relative who said that Fred Windsor was a student at Manchester Art School due to the generosity of some local lady who spotted his talent, but he gave it up because his mother needed money, although he would never say anything bad about his mother. He said his childhood was constantly flitting, usually to avoid paying rent. One day they forgot to tell him they were flitting, so he came home from school to find them gone. Fred said his father Corney had left his mother, Lucy Elizabeth, and took to drink and went to live with two sisters in Manchester. Fred married Jean O'Hara and she described Lucy Elizabeth as having a hot temper and that she once threw her out of the house as "an irish bitch". Fred Windsor designed and drew the Fairy liquid 'baby' and was paid £100 for it. He also made the decorative scrolls presented to the Bolton athletes who represented England in the 1948 Olympics. Fred Windsor died in 1979.

George Windsor was younger than Fred by two years and Fred looked after him. George had a weak arm, either despite which he worked at a timber yard, or he may have had an accident at the yard. He married Alice Turner and he died in 1976. The eldest Windsor daughter, Arline, married Fred True, and she died in 1975. Clara Windsor married Fred Davies but they split up when Fred Davies left Clara, she died in 1979.

Bertha Windsor had been a pretty and active girl till about twenty years of age when suddenly she was struck with a paralysis which took about six months to come on. It seems likely she suffered from either MS or Polio. Bertha did retain some movement early on, but not enough to walk. She used to be carried by her brother Fred and she always had to be propped in a chair with cushions. She never married and died in 1985.

Emily Tatlock was nothing like her mother, being very kind and quiet. She also had some artistic tendencies like her half-brother Fred Windsor. Emily Tatlock stayed at the children's home in Edgworth out on the moors near Bolton, working there after she had officially left. In the early 1900's she moved to the city of Leicester to set up a cake shop with a friend. In Leicester she met and married her husband in 1911. He was called Frank Smith, an engineer, and then they moved down to Harrow in Middlesex for his work. She knew her father's name was Thomas Tatlock but she stated his occupation as Hotel Proprietor at the time of her marriage which was incorrect. Emily Smith died in 1947 in South Harrow.

I located Annie Tatlock on the 1911 census, living with Daniel Walsh, who she later married.

The mother, Lucy Elizabeth Windsor, died in 1934 in Bolton.

Arline married Frederick W. True on 14 Jun 1919 in St Bartholomew's Church, Great Lever, Bolton, Lancashire, England. Frederick was born on 14 May 1895; died in 1962 in Bolton, Lancashire, England. [Group Sheet]

Other Events:

• Alternative Name: Clara Davies
• Family Story: Tatlock, Brockbank and Windsor Families
• Census Return: 31 Mar 1901, 22, Fortune Street, Bolton, Lancashire, England
• Census Return: 2 Apr 1911, 25, Rose Street, Bolton, Lancashire, England
• Residence: 12 Apr 1915, 49, Lever Street, Bolton, Lancashire, England
• Residence: 1979, 191, Paulhan Street, Higher Swan Lane, Bolton, Lancashire, England
• Probate: 17 Jan 1980, Manchester, Lancashire, England
• Family Story: 17 Dec 2006; Notes from Graham Windsor

Notes:

Family Story:
The only information I knew before I started any research was that my great grandmother, Emily Tatlock, was born in Bolton, Lancashire on 18th February 1880 but she had been placed in a children's home in Edgworth when she was young. She knew her mother was a music hall singer but I didn't know any details such as the names of her parents. The only other things Emily remembered from her childhood were that her mother hit the inspector over the head with an umbrella when they took Emily away to the home, also her mother used to practice her stage hairstyles on Emily's hair. Emily did have a photo of her brother and three sisters (the family as it was in 1892) but it has been lost over the years unfortunately.

After researching I found that she was the daughter of Thomas Tatlock and Elizabeth Tatlock formerly Brockbank. The couple had married in November 1879 when Elizabeth was about six months pregnant and aged only sixteen. After Emily's birth in 1880 they also had a stillborn child buried in 1882 in Bolton. The next child was called Annie Tatlock, and according to her baptism she was born 21st August 1884 and from census returns her place of birth was given as Ulverstone, however I have been unable to locate a birth certificate for her. The next child born was called Lily Tatlock, her birth certificate gives her birth date as 6th June 1887 but her baptism states her date of birth as 6th May 1887 which is probably more accurate as her birth wasn't registered until 2nd July 1887 so the mother would have been fined for registering the birth late if she'd stated the birth as 6th May (births had to be registered within 42 days otherwise they were fined for late registration).

It seems the couple split up at some point in the 1880's, and it is possible that only the first child, Emily, is Thomas' child and the others were fathered by someone else. Emily was born in 1880 but by the time of the 1881 census the parents weren't living together, Elizabeth was living with her parents in Bolton and Thomas was living in his married sister's household in Bolton.

Both Thomas and Elizabeth had music hall acts and appeared on stage, this is possibly how they first met in 1879. A relative told me that Elizabeth claimed to have appeared on stage at Madison Square Garden in New York. I think it might be possible that Thomas and Elizabeth travelled to New York together in the early 1880's, possibly their daughter Annie was born there (which would explain why her birth can't be found in the UK) and then Elizabeth came home to Bolton before 1887 leaving Thomas Tatlock to make a new life for himself.

Thomas Tatlock started a new life for himself in Montreal, Canada, according to the 1911 Montreal census he immigrated into Canada in 1884. He remarried 21st May 1888 in Montreal (bigamously) to a Mary McArthur and they had three children. In 1891, 1901 and 1911 he was working as a bar tender/waiter in Montreal. He then went on to marry again to a Mary O'Donnell (also known as Helen) and they had five more children, the youngest being born in 1921 when Thomas Tatlock was aged sixty one. Thomas Tatlock had a part time stage act as a dancer and a comedian and appeared on stage in Montreal and New York. He died in Montreal in 1929.

After Thomas and Elizabeth had split up she went on to have a son called Percy in 1890. His birth was registered as Percy Tatlock but he always used the name Percy Brockbank. His birth certificate states he was born 16th July 1890 and states his father was Thomas Tatlock. On his death certificate in 1970 it stated his date of birth to be 15th June 1890, so again it looks like the mother lied about his birth date to avoid a fine for late registration, his birth was registered 4th September 1890.

The next child was registered as Margaret Brockbank with no father's name stated. Her birth date was stated to be 28th April 1892 (registered 8th June 1892). This is the first time that the mother Elizabeth states her name as "Lucy Elizabeth". This child Margaret was known as Maggie.

In November 1892 a Detective with the Borough Police reported the family to the NSPCC to try and get the eldest child, Emily, into a home to be trained as a domestic servant "as the home surroundings have a tendency to make the child a thief". The report stated that the mother Elizabeth Tatlock had been getting her living as a comic singer at Music Halls and that there were five children, Emily, Annie, Lily (stated as illegitimate), Percy, and Maggie (also stated to be illegitimate). The report states that Elizabeth was separated from her husband when Lily was born but they lived together again when Percy was born, afterwards the husband left and had not been heard of since. Elizabeth was living with her parents and her mother (Sarah Brockbank formerly Longworth) was undergoing a prison term of one month for theft, the report also states that Elizabeth had been before the courts for being in consort with her mother. It states that Elizabeth was willing that her daughter, Emily, should be sent to a home. The report states that the children were well nourished and the house fairly well furnished. However, further in the report it also states that the reasons Emily should be considered to be placed in a home were as follows: 'Continuous neglect, mother and grandmother charged with theft, latter convicted' It also stated that Emily was 'in great moral danger, an attractive girl, used by grandmother, an oft convicted thief, for felonious purposes. Now in wretchedness and filth. Grandmother in prison, mother living away in sin'. Elizabeth stated that her husband Thomas had "died away" in June 1891, but this was untrue, perhaps she just said that he was dead so that the authorities could not ask her for any money towards Emily's keep. Her weekly income was just 10 shillings as a dressmaker, it must have been very hard for her to live on that amount with five children to care for. Emily was sent to Edgworth Children's Home which wasn't very far from Bolton but she had no more contact with her family and they would not have known where she was sent to.

On 21st June 1893 Elizabeth and her mother Sarah were in court accused of stealing seven yards of dress material and six yards of flannellette the property of John Bond. Elizabeth gave her name as Elizabeth Alice Tatlock and she pleaded guilty. She was sentenced to fourteen days in Strangeways prison. Her mother Sarah pleaded not guilty but was found guilty and sentenced to six months hard labour in Strangeways prison. Elizabeth would have been about four months pregnant when she went in prison as there was also another illegitimate son called Robert Brockbank born 28th November 1893 in Bolton. He was known as Bob Brockbank in later life. Bob Brockbank married a Bertha Greenhalgh and when she died he went on to marry Elsie Mason. He died in 1959.

Within a couple of years Elizabeth met a man called Corney Windsor in Bolton. They lived together as man and wife but I don't believe they ever married, probably Elizabeth, or 'Lucy Elizabeth' as she then liked to be known as, didn't want to remarry bigamously as she did not know if Thomas Tatlock was still alive. They had five more children together, namely, Arline born 13th August 1896 in Bradford, Clara born 25th September 1898 in Blackpool, Bertha born 14th April 1900 in Bolton, Fred born 2nd May 1902 in Bolton, and George born 1st July 1904 in Bolton - they all had the surname Windsor.

As Arline was born in 1896 in Bradford I would imagine it was about this time when they were resident in that area that her two daughters, Annie and Lily Tatlock, were taken from her in the same manner as Emily was. I do not have any evidence for this but by the time of the 1901 census Lily was aged thirteen and resident in an industrial school in Leeds and Annie was aged seventeen and working as a domestic servant in a household in Headingley near Leeds. Industrial Schools were for children who were either found begging, found wandering or homeless or frequenting with thieves, who had commited an offence or whose parents could not control them. It's possible that the two girls were being used as pickpockets and were caught or their mother got into trouble with the law again and the girls were seen to be in danger of being turned into thieves. The Industrial School would have trained the girls as domestic servants and found them places to work when it was time for them to leave. I do not know what happened to Lily after the 1901 census and I also have no record of what happened to Maggie after she was six months old. It seems like all four girls, Emily, Annie, Lily, and Maggie, were removed from their mother but the two boys, Percy and Bob, stayed with her. Her five later children with Corney Windsor were brought up by her so it seems he was a stabilising influence in her life.

In 1904 the son, Percy Brockbank, aged thirteen, was up before the court in Bolton for stealing a purse. The prosecutor said the lad's mother and grandmother were known by the police. Percy, who was living with his grandmother, had been attending a school for 'defective children'. The Inspector stated he had watched Percy trying to get into more than four pockets of different women before he was successful in stealing the purse. He was committed to a Reformatory until he was seventeen years of age. It's interesting that he was attending a school for 'defective children' as he was described as blind at the time of the 1911 census but it also states that he was afflicted at the age of fifteen, perhaps his eyesight was 'defective' when he was thirteen but deteriorated by the time he was fifteen. I believe the term 'defective' relates to children who were either blind, deaf or who had epilepsy. Percy went on to marry Janet (known as Jenny) Carslow and he died in 1970.

I was in touch with a relative who said that Fred Windsor was a student at Manchester Art School due to the generosity of some local lady who spotted his talent, but he gave it up because his mother needed money, although he would never say anything bad about his mother. He said his childhood was constantly flitting, usually to avoid paying rent. One day they forgot to tell him they were flitting, so he came home from school to find them gone. Fred said his father Corney had left his mother, Lucy Elizabeth, and took to drink and went to live with two sisters in Manchester. Fred married Jean O'Hara and she described Lucy Elizabeth as having a hot temper and that she once threw her out of the house as "an irish bitch". Fred Windsor designed and drew the Fairy liquid 'baby' and was paid £100 for it. He also made the decorative scrolls presented to the Bolton athletes who represented England in the 1948 Olympics. Fred Windsor died in 1979.

George Windsor was younger than Fred by two years and Fred looked after him. George had a weak arm, either despite which he worked at a timber yard, or he may have had an accident at the yard. He married Alice Turner and he died in 1976. The eldest Windsor daughter, Arline, married Fred True, and she died in 1975. Clara Windsor married Fred Davies but they split up when Fred Davies left Clara, she died in 1979.

Bertha Windsor had been a pretty and active girl till about twenty years of age when suddenly she was struck with a paralysis which took about six months to come on. It seems likely she suffered from either MS or Polio. Bertha did retain some movement early on, but not enough to walk. She used to be carried by her brother Fred and she always had to be propped in a chair with cushions. She never married and died in 1985.

Emily Tatlock was nothing like her mother, being very kind and quiet. She also had some artistic tendencies like her half-brother Fred Windsor. Emily Tatlock stayed at the children's home in Edgworth out on the moors near Bolton, working there after she had officially left. In the early 1900's she moved to the city of Leicester to set up a cake shop with a friend. In Leicester she met and married her husband in 1911. He was called Frank Smith, an engineer, and then they moved down to Harrow in Middlesex for his work. She knew her father's name was Thomas Tatlock but she stated his occupation as Hotel Proprietor at the time of her marriage which was incorrect. Emily Smith died in 1947 in South Harrow.

I located Annie Tatlock on the 1911 census, living with Daniel Walsh, who she later married.

The mother, Lucy Elizabeth Windsor, died in 1934 in Bolton.

Probate:
Clara Davies of 191 Paulhan Street Higher Swan Lane Bolton died 21 December 1979. Probate Manchester 17 January 1980 £8535. 802100512F

Family Story:
Notes from Graham Windsor - email received Sun 17/12/06 16:13
Clara married Fred Davies. They had one son Robert who was born probably around 1929. I was born in 1935 so I had some contact with Robert. He was a deep sleeper so Clara told once how she poured a bucket of water over his head and he still didn't wake up. I guess he must have been about 33 when he suddenly collapsed at work. Auntie Clara was marked for the rest of her life. They lived at, from memory, 167 Paulhan Street, off Lever Edge Lane, ...The said Fred Davies left Clara, and my parents never had any liking or respect for him, and I never recall meeting him for any length of time. He may have dropped in once or twice very briefly say about 1945... Clara was a noble soul, since she looked after Bertha so long... I remember also in 1955 when my mother despite her health was opening a shop on Derby Street (a curtain-making shop, at which she worked incessantly all day and all evening. It was a place where local women would stop for a chat and a cup of tea) Clara and I cleaned the whole place out, scrubbing etc. A real worker she was.

Clara married Fred Davies on 25 Sep 1920 (Separated) in St George's Church, Bolton, Lancashire, England. Fred was born on 12 Sep 1896; and died. [Group Sheet]

Other Events:

• Family Story: Tatlock, Brockbank and Windsor Families
• Census Return: 31 Mar 1901, 22, Fortune Street, Bolton, Lancashire, England
• Census Return: 2 Apr 1911, 25, Rose Street, Bolton, Lancashire, England
• Residence: 12 Apr 1915, 49, Lever Street, Bolton, Lancashire, England

Notes:

Family Story:
The only information I knew before I started any research was that my great grandmother, Emily Tatlock, was born in Bolton, Lancashire on 18th February 1880 but she had been placed in a children's home in Edgworth when she was young. She knew her mother was a music hall singer but I didn't know any details such as the names of her parents. The only other things Emily remembered from her childhood were that her mother hit the inspector over the head with an umbrella when they took Emily away to the home, also her mother used to practice her stage hairstyles on Emily's hair. Emily did have a photo of her brother and three sisters (the family as it was in 1892) but it has been lost over the years unfortunately.

After researching I found that she was the daughter of Thomas Tatlock and Elizabeth Tatlock formerly Brockbank. The couple had married in November 1879 when Elizabeth was about six months pregnant and aged only sixteen. After Emily's birth in 1880 they also had a stillborn child buried in 1882 in Bolton. The next child was called Annie Tatlock, and according to her baptism she was born 21st August 1884 and from census returns her place of birth was given as Ulverstone, however I have been unable to locate a birth certificate for her. The next child born was called Lily Tatlock, her birth certificate gives her birth date as 6th June 1887 but her baptism states her date of birth as 6th May 1887 which is probably more accurate as her birth wasn't registered until 2nd July 1887 so the mother would have been fined for registering the birth late if she'd stated the birth as 6th May (births had to be registered within 42 days otherwise they were fined for late registration).

It seems the couple split up at some point in the 1880's, and it is possible that only the first child, Emily, is Thomas' child and the others were fathered by someone else. Emily was born in 1880 but by the time of the 1881 census the parents weren't living together, Elizabeth was living with her parents in Bolton and Thomas was living in his married sister's household in Bolton.

Both Thomas and Elizabeth had music hall acts and appeared on stage, this is possibly how they first met in 1879. A relative told me that Elizabeth claimed to have appeared on stage at Madison Square Garden in New York. I think it might be possible that Thomas and Elizabeth travelled to New York together in the early 1880's, possibly their daughter Annie was born there (which would explain why her birth can't be found in the UK) and then Elizabeth came home to Bolton before 1887 leaving Thomas Tatlock to make a new life for himself.

Thomas Tatlock started a new life for himself in Montreal, Canada, according to the 1911 Montreal census he immigrated into Canada in 1884. He remarried 21st May 1888 in Montreal (bigamously) to a Mary McArthur and they had three children. In 1891, 1901 and 1911 he was working as a bar tender/waiter in Montreal. He then went on to marry again to a Mary O'Donnell (also known as Helen) and they had five more children, the youngest being born in 1921 when Thomas Tatlock was aged sixty one. Thomas Tatlock had a part time stage act as a dancer and a comedian and appeared on stage in Montreal and New York. He died in Montreal in 1929.

After Thomas and Elizabeth had split up she went on to have a son called Percy in 1890. His birth was registered as Percy Tatlock but he always used the name Percy Brockbank. His birth certificate states he was born 16th July 1890 and states his father was Thomas Tatlock. On his death certificate in 1970 it stated his date of birth to be 15th June 1890, so again it looks like the mother lied about his birth date to avoid a fine for late registration, his birth was registered 4th September 1890.

The next child was registered as Margaret Brockbank with no father's name stated. Her birth date was stated to be 28th April 1892 (registered 8th June 1892). This is the first time that the mother Elizabeth states her name as "Lucy Elizabeth". This child Margaret was known as Maggie.

In November 1892 a Detective with the Borough Police reported the family to the NSPCC to try and get the eldest child, Emily, into a home to be trained as a domestic servant "as the home surroundings have a tendency to make the child a thief". The report stated that the mother Elizabeth Tatlock had been getting her living as a comic singer at Music Halls and that there were five children, Emily, Annie, Lily (stated as illegitimate), Percy, and Maggie (also stated to be illegitimate). The report states that Elizabeth was separated from her husband when Lily was born but they lived together again when Percy was born, afterwards the husband left and had not been heard of since. Elizabeth was living with her parents and her mother (Sarah Brockbank formerly Longworth) was undergoing a prison term of one month for theft, the report also states that Elizabeth had been before the courts for being in consort with her mother. It states that Elizabeth was willing that her daughter, Emily, should be sent to a home. The report states that the children were well nourished and the house fairly well furnished. However, further in the report it also states that the reasons Emily should be considered to be placed in a home were as follows: 'Continuous neglect, mother and grandmother charged with theft, latter convicted' It also stated that Emily was 'in great moral danger, an attractive girl, used by grandmother, an oft convicted thief, for felonious purposes. Now in wretchedness and filth. Grandmother in prison, mother living away in sin'. Elizabeth stated that her husband Thomas had "died away" in June 1891, but this was untrue, perhaps she just said that he was dead so that the authorities could not ask her for any money towards Emily's keep. Her weekly income was just 10 shillings as a dressmaker, it must have been very hard for her to live on that amount with five children to care for. Emily was sent to Edgworth Children's Home which wasn't very far from Bolton but she had no more contact with her family and they would not have known where she was sent to.

On 21st June 1893 Elizabeth and her mother Sarah were in court accused of stealing seven yards of dress material and six yards of flannellette the property of John Bond. Elizabeth gave her name as Elizabeth Alice Tatlock and she pleaded guilty. She was sentenced to fourteen days in Strangeways prison. Her mother Sarah pleaded not guilty but was found guilty and sentenced to six months hard labour in Strangeways prison. Elizabeth would have been about four months pregnant when she went in prison as there was also another illegitimate son called Robert Brockbank born 28th November 1893 in Bolton. He was known as Bob Brockbank in later life. Bob Brockbank married a Bertha Greenhalgh and when she died he went on to marry Elsie Mason. He died in 1959.

Within a couple of years Elizabeth met a man called Corney Windsor in Bolton. They lived together as man and wife but I don't believe they ever married, probably Elizabeth, or 'Lucy Elizabeth' as she then liked to be known as, didn't want to remarry bigamously as she did not know if Thomas Tatlock was still alive. They had five more children together, namely, Arline born 13th August 1896 in Bradford, Clara born 25th September 1898 in Blackpool, Bertha born 14th April 1900 in Bolton, Fred born 2nd May 1902 in Bolton, and George born 1st July 1904 in Bolton - they all had the surname Windsor.

As Arline was born in 1896 in Bradford I would imagine it was about this time when they were resident in that area that her two daughters, Annie and Lily Tatlock, were taken from her in the same manner as Emily was. I do not have any evidence for this but by the time of the 1901 census Lily was aged thirteen and resident in an industrial school in Leeds and Annie was aged seventeen and working as a domestic servant in a household in Headingley near Leeds. Industrial Schools were for children who were either found begging, found wandering or homeless or frequenting with thieves, who had commited an offence or whose parents could not control them. It's possible that the two girls were being used as pickpockets and were caught or their mother got into trouble with the law again and the girls were seen to be in danger of being turned into thieves. The Industrial School would have trained the girls as domestic servants and found them places to work when it was time for them to leave. I do not know what happened to Lily after the 1901 census and I also have no record of what happened to Maggie after she was six months old. It seems like all four girls, Emily, Annie, Lily, and Maggie, were removed from their mother but the two boys, Percy and Bob, stayed with her. Her five later children with Corney Windsor were brought up by her so it seems he was a stabilising influence in her life.

In 1904 the son, Percy Brockbank, aged thirteen, was up before the court in Bolton for stealing a purse. The prosecutor said the lad's mother and grandmother were known by the police. Percy, who was living with his grandmother, had been attending a school for 'defective children'. The Inspector stated he had watched Percy trying to get into more than four pockets of different women before he was successful in stealing the purse. He was committed to a Reformatory until he was seventeen years of age. It's interesting that he was attending a school for 'defective children' as he was described as blind at the time of the 1911 census but it also states that he was afflicted at the age of fifteen, perhaps his eyesight was 'defective' when he was thirteen but deteriorated by the time he was fifteen. I believe the term 'defective' relates to children who were either blind, deaf or who had epilepsy. Percy went on to marry Janet (known as Jenny) Carslow and he died in 1970.

I was in touch with a relative who said that Fred Windsor was a student at Manchester Art School due to the generosity of some local lady who spotted his talent, but he gave it up because his mother needed money, although he would never say anything bad about his mother. He said his childhood was constantly flitting, usually to avoid paying rent. One day they forgot to tell him they were flitting, so he came home from school to find them gone. Fred said his father Corney had left his mother, Lucy Elizabeth, and took to drink and went to live with two sisters in Manchester. Fred married Jean O'Hara and she described Lucy Elizabeth as having a hot temper and that she once threw her out of the house as "an irish bitch". Fred Windsor designed and drew the Fairy liquid 'baby' and was paid £100 for it. He also made the decorative scrolls presented to the Bolton athletes who represented England in the 1948 Olympics. Fred Windsor died in 1979.

George Windsor was younger than Fred by two years and Fred looked after him. George had a weak arm, either despite which he worked at a timber yard, or he may have had an accident at the yard. He married Alice Turner and he died in 1976. The eldest Windsor daughter, Arline, married Fred True, and she died in 1975. Clara Windsor married Fred Davies but they split up when Fred Davies left Clara, she died in 1979.

Bertha Windsor had been a pretty and active girl till about twenty years of age when suddenly she was struck with a paralysis which took about six months to come on. It seems likely she suffered from either MS or Polio. Bertha did retain some movement early on, but not enough to walk. She used to be carried by her brother Fred and she always had to be propped in a chair with cushions. She never married and died in 1985.

Emily Tatlock was nothing like her mother, being very kind and quiet. She also had some artistic tendencies like her half-brother Fred Windsor. Emily Tatlock stayed at the children's home in Edgworth out on the moors near Bolton, working there after she had officially left. In the early 1900's she moved to the city of Leicester to set up a cake shop with a friend. In Leicester she met and married her husband in 1911. He was called Frank Smith, an engineer, and then they moved down to Harrow in Middlesex for his work. She knew her father's name was Thomas Tatlock but she stated his occupation as Hotel Proprietor at the time of her marriage which was incorrect. Emily Smith died in 1947 in South Harrow.

I located Annie Tatlock on the 1911 census, living with Daniel Walsh, who she later married.

The mother, Lucy Elizabeth Windsor, died in 1934 in Bolton.

Other Events:

• Family Story: Tatlock, Brockbank and Windsor Families
• Census Return: 2 Apr 1911, 25, Rose Street, Bolton, Lancashire, England
• Residence: 12 Apr 1915, 49, Lever Street, Bolton, Lancashire, England
• Occupation: Oct 1932; Poster Writer
• Residence: Between 23 Oct 1932 and 8 Dec 1935, 24, Brook Hey Avenue, Bolton, Lancashire, England
• Occupation: Dec 1935; Commercial Artist
• Residence: 1979, 318, Willows Lane, Bolton, Lancashire, England
• Administration: 15 Mar 1979, Manchester, Lancashire, England

Notes:

Family Story:
The only information I knew before I started any research was that my great grandmother, Emily Tatlock, was born in Bolton, Lancashire on 18th February 1880 but she had been placed in a children's home in Edgworth when she was young. She knew her mother was a music hall singer but I didn't know any details such as the names of her parents. The only other things Emily remembered from her childhood were that her mother hit the inspector over the head with an umbrella when they took Emily away to the home, also her mother used to practice her stage hairstyles on Emily's hair. Emily did have a photo of her brother and three sisters (the family as it was in 1892) but it has been lost over the years unfortunately.

After researching I found that she was the daughter of Thomas Tatlock and Elizabeth Tatlock formerly Brockbank. The couple had married in November 1879 when Elizabeth was about six months pregnant and aged only sixteen. After Emily's birth in 1880 they also had a stillborn child buried in 1882 in Bolton. The next child was called Annie Tatlock, and according to her baptism she was born 21st August 1884 and from census returns her place of birth was given as Ulverstone, however I have been unable to locate a birth certificate for her. The next child born was called Lily Tatlock, her birth certificate gives her birth date as 6th June 1887 but her baptism states her date of birth as 6th May 1887 which is probably more accurate as her birth wasn't registered until 2nd July 1887 so the mother would have been fined for registering the birth late if she'd stated the birth as 6th May (births had to be registered within 42 days otherwise they were fined for late registration).

It seems the couple split up at some point in the 1880's, and it is possible that only the first child, Emily, is Thomas' child and the others were fathered by someone else. Emily was born in 1880 but by the time of the 1881 census the parents weren't living together, Elizabeth was living with her parents in Bolton and Thomas was living in his married sister's household in Bolton.

Both Thomas and Elizabeth had music hall acts and appeared on stage, this is possibly how they first met in 1879. A relative told me that Elizabeth claimed to have appeared on stage at Madison Square Garden in New York. I think it might be possible that Thomas and Elizabeth travelled to New York together in the early 1880's, possibly their daughter Annie was born there (which would explain why her birth can't be found in the UK) and then Elizabeth came home to Bolton before 1887 leaving Thomas Tatlock to make a new life for himself.

Thomas Tatlock started a new life for himself in Montreal, Canada, according to the 1911 Montreal census he immigrated into Canada in 1884. He remarried 21st May 1888 in Montreal (bigamously) to a Mary McArthur and they had three children. In 1891, 1901 and 1911 he was working as a bar tender/waiter in Montreal. He then went on to marry again to a Mary O'Donnell (also known as Helen) and they had five more children, the youngest being born in 1921 when Thomas Tatlock was aged sixty one. Thomas Tatlock had a part time stage act as a dancer and a comedian and appeared on stage in Montreal and New York. He died in Montreal in 1929.

After Thomas and Elizabeth had split up she went on to have a son called Percy in 1890. His birth was registered as Percy Tatlock but he always used the name Percy Brockbank. His birth certificate states he was born 16th July 1890 and states his father was Thomas Tatlock. On his death certificate in 1970 it stated his date of birth to be 15th June 1890, so again it looks like the mother lied about his birth date to avoid a fine for late registration, his birth was registered 4th September 1890.

The next child was registered as Margaret Brockbank with no father's name stated. Her birth date was stated to be 28th April 1892 (registered 8th June 1892). This is the first time that the mother Elizabeth states her name as "Lucy Elizabeth". This child Margaret was known as Maggie.

In November 1892 a Detective with the Borough Police reported the family to the NSPCC to try and get the eldest child, Emily, into a home to be trained as a domestic servant "as the home surroundings have a tendency to make the child a thief". The report stated that the mother Elizabeth Tatlock had been getting her living as a comic singer at Music Halls and that there were five children, Emily, Annie, Lily (stated as illegitimate), Percy, and Maggie (also stated to be illegitimate). The report states that Elizabeth was separated from her husband when Lily was born but they lived together again when Percy was born, afterwards the husband left and had not been heard of since. Elizabeth was living with her parents and her mother (Sarah Brockbank formerly Longworth) was undergoing a prison term of one month for theft, the report also states that Elizabeth had been before the courts for being in consort with her mother. It states that Elizabeth was willing that her daughter, Emily, should be sent to a home. The report states that the children were well nourished and the house fairly well furnished. However, further in the report it also states that the reasons Emily should be considered to be placed in a home were as follows: 'Continuous neglect, mother and grandmother charged with theft, latter convicted' It also stated that Emily was 'in great moral danger, an attractive girl, used by grandmother, an oft convicted thief, for felonious purposes. Now in wretchedness and filth. Grandmother in prison, mother living away in sin'. Elizabeth stated that her husband Thomas had "died away" in June 1891, but this was untrue, perhaps she just said that he was dead so that the authorities could not ask her for any money towards Emily's keep. Her weekly income was just 10 shillings as a dressmaker, it must have been very hard for her to live on that amount with five children to care for. Emily was sent to Edgworth Children's Home which wasn't very far from Bolton but she had no more contact with her family and they would not have known where she was sent to.

On 21st June 1893 Elizabeth and her mother Sarah were in court accused of stealing seven yards of dress material and six yards of flannellette the property of John Bond. Elizabeth gave her name as Elizabeth Alice Tatlock and she pleaded guilty. She was sentenced to fourteen days in Strangeways prison. Her mother Sarah pleaded not guilty but was found guilty and sentenced to six months hard labour in Strangeways prison. Elizabeth would have been about four months pregnant when she went in prison as there was also another illegitimate son called Robert Brockbank born 28th November 1893 in Bolton. He was known as Bob Brockbank in later life. Bob Brockbank married a Bertha Greenhalgh and when she died he went on to marry Elsie Mason. He died in 1959.

Within a couple of years Elizabeth met a man called Corney Windsor in Bolton. They lived together as man and wife but I don't believe they ever married, probably Elizabeth, or 'Lucy Elizabeth' as she then liked to be known as, didn't want to remarry bigamously as she did not know if Thomas Tatlock was still alive. They had five more children together, namely, Arline born 13th August 1896 in Bradford, Clara born 25th September 1898 in Blackpool, Bertha born 14th April 1900 in Bolton, Fred born 2nd May 1902 in Bolton, and George born 1st July 1904 in Bolton - they all had the surname Windsor.

As Arline was born in 1896 in Bradford I would imagine it was about this time when they were resident in that area that her two daughters, Annie and Lily Tatlock, were taken from her in the same manner as Emily was. I do not have any evidence for this but by the time of the 1901 census Lily was aged thirteen and resident in an industrial school in Leeds and Annie was aged seventeen and working as a domestic servant in a household in Headingley near Leeds. Industrial Schools were for children who were either found begging, found wandering or homeless or frequenting with thieves, who had commited an offence or whose parents could not control them. It's possible that the two girls were being used as pickpockets and were caught or their mother got into trouble with the law again and the girls were seen to be in danger of being turned into thieves. The Industrial School would have trained the girls as domestic servants and found them places to work when it was time for them to leave. I do not know what happened to Lily after the 1901 census and I also have no record of what happened to Maggie after she was six months old. It seems like all four girls, Emily, Annie, Lily, and Maggie, were removed from their mother but the two boys, Percy and Bob, stayed with her. Her five later children with Corney Windsor were brought up by her so it seems he was a stabilising influence in her life.

In 1904 the son, Percy Brockbank, aged thirteen, was up before the court in Bolton for stealing a purse. The prosecutor said the lad's mother and grandmother were known by the police. Percy, who was living with his grandmother, had been attending a school for 'defective children'. The Inspector stated he had watched Percy trying to get into more than four pockets of different women before he was successful in stealing the purse. He was committed to a Reformatory until he was seventeen years of age. It's interesting that he was attending a school for 'defective children' as he was described as blind at the time of the 1911 census but it also states that he was afflicted at the age of fifteen, perhaps his eyesight was 'defective' when he was thirteen but deteriorated by the time he was fifteen. I believe the term 'defective' relates to children who were either blind, deaf or who had epilepsy. Percy went on to marry Janet (known as Jenny) Carslow and he died in 1970.

I was in touch with a relative who said that Fred Windsor was a student at Manchester Art School due to the generosity of some local lady who spotted his talent, but he gave it up because his mother needed money, although he would never say anything bad about his mother. He said his childhood was constantly flitting, usually to avoid paying rent. One day they forgot to tell him they were flitting, so he came home from school to find them gone. Fred said his father Corney had left his mother, Lucy Elizabeth, and took to drink and went to live with two sisters in Manchester. Fred married Jean O'Hara and she described Lucy Elizabeth as having a hot temper and that she once threw her out of the house as "an irish bitch". Fred Windsor designed and drew the Fairy liquid 'baby' and was paid £100 for it. He also made the decorative scrolls presented to the Bolton athletes who represented England in the 1948 Olympics. Fred Windsor died in 1979.

George Windsor was younger than Fred by two years and Fred looked after him. George had a weak arm, either despite which he worked at a timber yard, or he may have had an accident at the yard. He married Alice Turner and he died in 1976. The eldest Windsor daughter, Arline, married Fred True, and she died in 1975. Clara Windsor married Fred Davies but they split up when Fred Davies left Clara, she died in 1979.

Bertha Windsor had been a pretty and active girl till about twenty years of age when suddenly she was struck with a paralysis which took about six months to come on. It seems likely she suffered from either MS or Polio. Bertha did retain some movement early on, but not enough to walk. She used to be carried by her brother Fred and she always had to be propped in a chair with cushions. She never married and died in 1985.

Emily Tatlock was nothing like her mother, being very kind and quiet. She also had some artistic tendencies like her half-brother Fred Windsor. Emily Tatlock stayed at the children's home in Edgworth out on the moors near Bolton, working there after she had officially left. In the early 1900's she moved to the city of Leicester to set up a cake shop with a friend. In Leicester she met and married her husband in 1911. He was called Frank Smith, an engineer, and then they moved down to Harrow in Middlesex for his work. She knew her father's name was Thomas Tatlock but she stated his occupation as Hotel Proprietor at the time of her marriage which was incorrect. Emily Smith died in 1947 in South Harrow.

I located Annie Tatlock on the 1911 census, living with Daniel Walsh, who she later married.

The mother, Lucy Elizabeth Windsor, died in 1934 in Bolton.

Administration:
Fred Windsor of 318 Willows Lane Bolton died 6 February 1979. Administration Manchester 15 March 1979 £2851. 792103164F

Fred married Jean O'Hara in 1929 in Bolton, Lancashire, England. Jean was born on 1 Sep 1904; died on 12 Jul 1987 in Kent, England. [Group Sheet]

Other Events:

• Family Story: Tatlock, Brockbank and Windsor Families
• Census Return: 2 Apr 1911, 25, Rose Street, Bolton, Lancashire, England

Notes:

Family Story:
The only information I knew before I started any research was that my great grandmother, Emily Tatlock, was born in Bolton, Lancashire on 18th February 1880 but she had been placed in a children's home in Edgworth when she was young. She knew her mother was a music hall singer but I didn't know any details such as the names of her parents. The only other things Emily remembered from her childhood were that her mother hit the inspector over the head with an umbrella when they took Emily away to the home, also her mother used to practice her stage hairstyles on Emily's hair. Emily did have a photo of her brother and three sisters (the family as it was in 1892) but it has been lost over the years unfortunately.

After researching I found that she was the daughter of Thomas Tatlock and Elizabeth Tatlock formerly Brockbank. The couple had married in November 1879 when Elizabeth was about six months pregnant and aged only sixteen. After Emily's birth in 1880 they also had a stillborn child buried in 1882 in Bolton. The next child was called Annie Tatlock, and according to her baptism she was born 21st August 1884 and from census returns her place of birth was given as Ulverstone, however I have been unable to locate a birth certificate for her. The next child born was called Lily Tatlock, her birth certificate gives her birth date as 6th June 1887 but her baptism states her date of birth as 6th May 1887 which is probably more accurate as her birth wasn't registered until 2nd July 1887 so the mother would have been fined for registering the birth late if she'd stated the birth as 6th May (births had to be registered within 42 days otherwise they were fined for late registration).

It seems the couple split up at some point in the 1880's, and it is possible that only the first child, Emily, is Thomas' child and the others were fathered by someone else. Emily was born in 1880 but by the time of the 1881 census the parents weren't living together, Elizabeth was living with her parents in Bolton and Thomas was living in his married sister's household in Bolton.

Both Thomas and Elizabeth had music hall acts and appeared on stage, this is possibly how they first met in 1879. A relative told me that Elizabeth claimed to have appeared on stage at Madison Square Garden in New York. I think it might be possible that Thomas and Elizabeth travelled to New York together in the early 1880's, possibly their daughter Annie was born there (which would explain why her birth can't be found in the UK) and then Elizabeth came home to Bolton before 1887 leaving Thomas Tatlock to make a new life for himself.

Thomas Tatlock started a new life for himself in Montreal, Canada, according to the 1911 Montreal census he immigrated into Canada in 1884. He remarried 21st May 1888 in Montreal (bigamously) to a Mary McArthur and they had three children. In 1891, 1901 and 1911 he was working as a bar tender/waiter in Montreal. He then went on to marry again to a Mary O'Donnell (also known as Helen) and they had five more children, the youngest being born in 1921 when Thomas Tatlock was aged sixty one. Thomas Tatlock had a part time stage act as a dancer and a comedian and appeared on stage in Montreal and New York. He died in Montreal in 1929.

After Thomas and Elizabeth had split up she went on to have a son called Percy in 1890. His birth was registered as Percy Tatlock but he always used the name Percy Brockbank. His birth certificate states he was born 16th July 1890 and states his father was Thomas Tatlock. On his death certificate in 1970 it stated his date of birth to be 15th June 1890, so again it looks like the mother lied about his birth date to avoid a fine for late registration, his birth was registered 4th September 1890.

The next child was registered as Margaret Brockbank with no father's name stated. Her birth date was stated to be 28th April 1892 (registered 8th June 1892). This is the first time that the mother Elizabeth states her name as "Lucy Elizabeth". This child Margaret was known as Maggie.

In November 1892 a Detective with the Borough Police reported the family to the NSPCC to try and get the eldest child, Emily, into a home to be trained as a domestic servant "as the home surroundings have a tendency to make the child a thief". The report stated that the mother Elizabeth Tatlock had been getting her living as a comic singer at Music Halls and that there were five children, Emily, Annie, Lily (stated as illegitimate), Percy, and Maggie (also stated to be illegitimate). The report states that Elizabeth was separated from her husband when Lily was born but they lived together again when Percy was born, afterwards the husband left and had not been heard of since. Elizabeth was living with her parents and her mother (Sarah Brockbank formerly Longworth) was undergoing a prison term of one month for theft, the report also states that Elizabeth had been before the courts for being in consort with her mother. It states that Elizabeth was willing that her daughter, Emily, should be sent to a home. The report states that the children were well nourished and the house fairly well furnished. However, further in the report it also states that the reasons Emily should be considered to be placed in a home were as follows: 'Continuous neglect, mother and grandmother charged with theft, latter convicted' It also stated that Emily was 'in great moral danger, an attractive girl, used by grandmother, an oft convicted thief, for felonious purposes. Now in wretchedness and filth. Grandmother in prison, mother living away in sin'. Elizabeth stated that her husband Thomas had "died away" in June 1891, but this was untrue, perhaps she just said that he was dead so that the authorities could not ask her for any money towards Emily's keep. Her weekly income was just 10 shillings as a dressmaker, it must have been very hard for her to live on that amount with five children to care for. Emily was sent to Edgworth Children's Home which wasn't very far from Bolton but she had no more contact with her family and they would not have known where she was sent to.

On 21st June 1893 Elizabeth and her mother Sarah were in court accused of stealing seven yards of dress material and six yards of flannellette the property of John Bond. Elizabeth gave her name as Elizabeth Alice Tatlock and she pleaded guilty. She was sentenced to fourteen days in Strangeways prison. Her mother Sarah pleaded not guilty but was found guilty and sentenced to six months hard labour in Strangeways prison. Elizabeth would have been about four months pregnant when she went in prison as there was also another illegitimate son called Robert Brockbank born 28th November 1893 in Bolton. He was known as Bob Brockbank in later life. Bob Brockbank married a Bertha Greenhalgh and when she died he went on to marry Elsie Mason. He died in 1959.

Within a couple of years Elizabeth met a man called Corney Windsor in Bolton. They lived together as man and wife but I don't believe they ever married, probably Elizabeth, or 'Lucy Elizabeth' as she then liked to be known as, didn't want to remarry bigamously as she did not know if Thomas Tatlock was still alive. They had five more children together, namely, Arline born 13th August 1896 in Bradford, Clara born 25th September 1898 in Blackpool, Bertha born 14th April 1900 in Bolton, Fred born 2nd May 1902 in Bolton, and George born 1st July 1904 in Bolton - they all had the surname Windsor.

As Arline was born in 1896 in Bradford I would imagine it was about this time when they were resident in that area that her two daughters, Annie and Lily Tatlock, were taken from her in the same manner as Emily was. I do not have any evidence for this but by the time of the 1901 census Lily was aged thirteen and resident in an industrial school in Leeds and Annie was aged seventeen and working as a domestic servant in a household in Headingley near Leeds. Industrial Schools were for children who were either found begging, found wandering or homeless or frequenting with thieves, who had commited an offence or whose parents could not control them. It's possible that the two girls were being used as pickpockets and were caught or their mother got into trouble with the law again and the girls were seen to be in danger of being turned into thieves. The Industrial School would have trained the girls as domestic servants and found them places to work when it was time for them to leave. I do not know what happened to Lily after the 1901 census and I also have no record of what happened to Maggie after she was six months old. It seems like all four girls, Emily, Annie, Lily, and Maggie, were removed from their mother but the two boys, Percy and Bob, stayed with her. Her five later children with Corney Windsor were brought up by her so it seems he was a stabilising influence in her life.

In 1904 the son, Percy Brockbank, aged thirteen, was up before the court in Bolton for stealing a purse. The prosecutor said the lad's mother and grandmother were known by the police. Percy, who was living with his grandmother, had been attending a school for 'defective children'. The Inspector stated he had watched Percy trying to get into more than four pockets of different women before he was successful in stealing the purse. He was committed to a Reformatory until he was seventeen years of age. It's interesting that he was attending a school for 'defective children' as he was described as blind at the time of the 1911 census but it also states that he was afflicted at the age of fifteen, perhaps his eyesight was 'defective' when he was thirteen but deteriorated by the time he was fifteen. I believe the term 'defective' relates to children who were either blind, deaf or who had epilepsy. Percy went on to marry Janet (known as Jenny) Carslow and he died in 1970.

I was in touch with a relative who said that Fred Windsor was a student at Manchester Art School due to the generosity of some local lady who spotted his talent, but he gave it up because his mother needed money, although he would never say anything bad about his mother. He said his childhood was constantly flitting, usually to avoid paying rent. One day they forgot to tell him they were flitting, so he came home from school to find them gone. Fred said his father Corney had left his mother, Lucy Elizabeth, and took to drink and went to live with two sisters in Manchester. Fred married Jean O'Hara and she described Lucy Elizabeth as having a hot temper and that she once threw her out of the house as "an irish bitch". Fred Windsor designed and drew the Fairy liquid 'baby' and was paid £100 for it. He also made the decorative scrolls presented to the Bolton athletes who represented England in the 1948 Olympics. Fred Windsor died in 1979.

George Windsor was younger than Fred by two years and Fred looked after him. George had a weak arm, either despite which he worked at a timber yard, or he may have had an accident at the yard. He married Alice Turner and he died in 1976. The eldest Windsor daughter, Arline, married Fred True, and she died in 1975. Clara Windsor married Fred Davies but they split up when Fred Davies left Clara, she died in 1979.

Bertha Windsor had been a pretty and active girl till about twenty years of age when suddenly she was struck with a paralysis which took about six months to come on. It seems likely she suffered from either MS or Polio. Bertha did retain some movement early on, but not enough to walk. She used to be carried by her brother Fred and she always had to be propped in a chair with cushions. She never married and died in 1985.

Emily Tatlock was nothing like her mother, being very kind and quiet. She also had some artistic tendencies like her half-brother Fred Windsor. Emily Tatlock stayed at the children's home in Edgworth out on the moors near Bolton, working there after she had officially left. In the early 1900's she moved to the city of Leicester to set up a cake shop with a friend. In Leicester she met and married her husband in 1911. He was called Frank Smith, an engineer, and then they moved down to Harrow in Middlesex for his work. She knew her father's name was Thomas Tatlock but she stated his occupation as Hotel Proprietor at the time of her marriage which was incorrect. Emily Smith died in 1947 in South Harrow.

I located Annie Tatlock on the 1911 census, living with Daniel Walsh, who she later married.

The mother, Lucy Elizabeth Windsor, died in 1934 in Bolton.

George married Alice Turner in 1927 in Bolton, Lancashire, England. Alice was born on 9 Nov 1902; died in 1978 in Bolton, Lancashire, England. [Group Sheet]

Other Events:

• Residence: 21, Howell Croft, Bolton, Lancashire, England
• Residence: 4, Barrows Court, Bolton, Lancashire, England
• Residence: 7, Weston Street, Bolton, Lancashire, England
• Residence: 95, Blackhorse Street, Bolton, Lancashire, England
• Find A Grave Link: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/169307234
• Family Story: Tatlock, Brockbank and Windsor Families
• Residence: 22 Apr 1880, 4, Bark Street, Bolton, Lancashire, England
• Residence: Between 1892 and 1901, Edgworth Children's Home, Edgworth, Lancashire, England
• Residence: 1911, 229, Charnwood Street, Leicester, Leicestershire, England
• Occupation: 1911; Blade Inspector in the Gillette safety razor factory
• Census Return: 2 Apr 1911, 105, Harewood Street, Leicester, Leicestershire, England
• Residence: 1913, 3, Whitby Road, South Harrow, Middlesex, England
• Residence: 1934, 5, Whitby Road, South Harrow, Middlesex, England
• Residence: 1947, 229, Somervell Road, South Harrow, Middlesex, England

Notes:

Family Story:
The only information I knew before I started any research was that my great grandmother, Emily Tatlock, was born in Bolton, Lancashire on 18th February 1880 but she had been placed in a children's home in Edgworth when she was young. She knew her mother was a music hall singer but I didn't know any details such as the names of her parents. The only other things Emily remembered from her childhood were that her mother hit the inspector over the head with an umbrella when they took Emily away to the home, also her mother used to practice her stage hairstyles on Emily's hair. Emily did have a photo of her brother and three sisters (the family as it was in 1892) but it has been lost over the years unfortunately.

After researching I found that she was the daughter of Thomas Tatlock and Elizabeth Tatlock formerly Brockbank. The couple had married in November 1879 when Elizabeth was about six months pregnant and aged only sixteen. After Emily's birth in 1880 they also had a stillborn child buried in 1882 in Bolton. The next child was called Annie Tatlock, and according to her baptism she was born 21st August 1884 and from census returns her place of birth was given as Ulverstone, however I have been unable to locate a birth certificate for her. The next child born was called Lily Tatlock, her birth certificate gives her birth date as 6th June 1887 but her baptism states her date of birth as 6th May 1887 which is probably more accurate as her birth wasn't registered until 2nd July 1887 so the mother would have been fined for registering the birth late if she'd stated the birth as 6th May (births had to be registered within 42 days otherwise they were fined for late registration).

It seems the couple split up at some point in the 1880's, and it is possible that only the first child, Emily, is Thomas' child and the others were fathered by someone else. Emily was born in 1880 but by the time of the 1881 census the parents weren't living together, Elizabeth was living with her parents in Bolton and Thomas was living in his married sister's household in Bolton.

Both Thomas and Elizabeth had music hall acts and appeared on stage, this is possibly how they first met in 1879. A relative told me that Elizabeth claimed to have appeared on stage at Madison Square Garden in New York. I think it might be possible that Thomas and Elizabeth travelled to New York together in the early 1880's, possibly their daughter Annie was born there (which would explain why her birth can't be found in the UK) and then Elizabeth came home to Bolton before 1887 leaving Thomas Tatlock to make a new life for himself.

Thomas Tatlock started a new life for himself in Montreal, Canada, according to the 1911 Montreal census he immigrated into Canada in 1884. He remarried 21st May 1888 in Montreal (bigamously) to a Mary McArthur and they had three children. In 1891, 1901 and 1911 he was working as a bar tender/waiter in Montreal. He then went on to marry again to a Mary O'Donnell (also known as Helen) and they had five more children, the youngest being born in 1921 when Thomas Tatlock was aged sixty one. Thomas Tatlock had a part time stage act as a dancer and a comedian and appeared on stage in Montreal and New York. He died in Montreal in 1929.

After Thomas and Elizabeth had split up she went on to have a son called Percy in 1890. His birth was registered as Percy Tatlock but he always used the name Percy Brockbank. His birth certificate states he was born 16th July 1890 and states his father was Thomas Tatlock. On his death certificate in 1970 it stated his date of birth to be 15th June 1890, so again it looks like the mother lied about his birth date to avoid a fine for late registration, his birth was registered 4th September 1890.

The next child was registered as Margaret Brockbank with no father's name stated. Her birth date was stated to be 28th April 1892 (registered 8th June 1892). This is the first time that the mother Elizabeth states her name as "Lucy Elizabeth". This child Margaret was known as Maggie.

In November 1892 a Detective with the Borough Police reported the family to the NSPCC to try and get the eldest child, Emily, into a home to be trained as a domestic servant "as the home surroundings have a tendency to make the child a thief". The report stated that the mother Elizabeth Tatlock had been getting her living as a comic singer at Music Halls and that there were five children, Emily, Annie, Lily (stated as illegitimate), Percy, and Maggie (also stated to be illegitimate). The report states that Elizabeth was separated from her husband when Lily was born but they lived together again when Percy was born, afterwards the husband left and had not been heard of since. Elizabeth was living with her parents and her mother (Sarah Brockbank formerly Longworth) was undergoing a prison term of one month for theft, the report also states that Elizabeth had been before the courts for being in consort with her mother. It states that Elizabeth was willing that her daughter, Emily, should be sent to a home. The report states that the children were well nourished and the house fairly well furnished. However, further in the report it also states that the reasons Emily should be considered to be placed in a home were as follows: 'Continuous neglect, mother and grandmother charged with theft, latter convicted' It also stated that Emily was 'in great moral danger, an attractive girl, used by grandmother, an oft convicted thief, for felonious purposes. Now in wretchedness and filth. Grandmother in prison, mother living away in sin'. Elizabeth stated that her husband Thomas had "died away" in June 1891, but this was untrue, perhaps she just said that he was dead so that the authorities could not ask her for any money towards Emily's keep. Her weekly income was just 10 shillings as a dressmaker, it must have been very hard for her to live on that amount with five children to care for. Emily was sent to Edgworth Children's Home which wasn't very far from Bolton but she had no more contact with her family and they would not have known where she was sent to.

On 21st June 1893 Elizabeth and her mother Sarah were in court accused of stealing seven yards of dress material and six yards of flannellette the property of John Bond. Elizabeth gave her name as Elizabeth Alice Tatlock and she pleaded guilty. She was sentenced to fourteen days in Strangeways prison. Her mother Sarah pleaded not guilty but was found guilty and sentenced to six months hard labour in Strangeways prison. Elizabeth would have been about four months pregnant when she went in prison as there was also another illegitimate son called Robert Brockbank born 28th November 1893 in Bolton. He was known as Bob Brockbank in later life. Bob Brockbank married a Bertha Greenhalgh and when she died he went on to marry Elsie Mason. He died in 1959.

Within a couple of years Elizabeth met a man called Corney Windsor in Bolton. They lived together as man and wife but I don't believe they ever married, probably Elizabeth, or 'Lucy Elizabeth' as she then liked to be known as, didn't want to remarry bigamously as she did not know if Thomas Tatlock was still alive. They had five more children together, namely, Arline born 13th August 1896 in Bradford, Clara born 25th September 1898 in Blackpool, Bertha born 14th April 1900 in Bolton, Fred born 2nd May 1902 in Bolton, and George born 1st July 1904 in Bolton - they all had the surname Windsor.

As Arline was born in 1896 in Bradford I would imagine it was about this time when they were resident in that area that her two daughters, Annie and Lily Tatlock, were taken from her in the same manner as Emily was. I do not have any evidence for this but by the time of the 1901 census Lily was aged thirteen and resident in an industrial school in Leeds and Annie was aged seventeen and working as a domestic servant in a household in Headingley near Leeds. Industrial Schools were for children who were either found begging, found wandering or homeless or frequenting with thieves, who had commited an offence or whose parents could not control them. It's possible that the two girls were being used as pickpockets and were caught or their mother got into trouble with the law again and the girls were seen to be in danger of being turned into thieves. The Industrial School would have trained the girls as domestic servants and found them places to work when it was time for them to leave. I do not know what happened to Lily after the 1901 census and I also have no record of what happened to Maggie after she was six months old. It seems like all four girls, Emily, Annie, Lily, and Maggie, were removed from their mother but the two boys, Percy and Bob, stayed with her. Her five later children with Corney Windsor were brought up by her so it seems he was a stabilising influence in her life.

In 1904 the son, Percy Brockbank, aged thirteen, was up before the court in Bolton for stealing a purse. The prosecutor said the lad's mother and grandmother were known by the police. Percy, who was living with his grandmother, had been attending a school for 'defective children'. The Inspector stated he had watched Percy trying to get into more than four pockets of different women before he was successful in stealing the purse. He was committed to a Reformatory until he was seventeen years of age. It's interesting that he was attending a school for 'defective children' as he was described as blind at the time of the 1911 census but it also states that he was afflicted at the age of fifteen, perhaps his eyesight was 'defective' when he was thirteen but deteriorated by the time he was fifteen. I believe the term 'defective' relates to children who were either blind, deaf or who had epilepsy. Percy went on to marry Janet (known as Jenny) Carslow and he died in 1970.

I was in touch with a relative who said that Fred Windsor was a student at Manchester Art School due to the generosity of some local lady who spotted his talent, but he gave it up because his mother needed money, although he would never say anything bad about his mother. He said his childhood was constantly flitting, usually to avoid paying rent. One day they forgot to tell him they were flitting, so he came home from school to find them gone. Fred said his father Corney had left his mother, Lucy Elizabeth, and took to drink and went to live with two sisters in Manchester. Fred married Jean O'Hara and she described Lucy Elizabeth as having a hot temper and that she once threw her out of the house as "an irish bitch". Fred Windsor designed and drew the Fairy liquid 'baby' and was paid £100 for it. He also made the decorative scrolls presented to the Bolton athletes who represented England in the 1948 Olympics. Fred Windsor died in 1979.

George Windsor was younger than Fred by two years and Fred looked after him. George had a weak arm, either despite which he worked at a timber yard, or he may have had an accident at the yard. He married Alice Turner and he died in 1976. The eldest Windsor daughter, Arline, married Fred True, and she died in 1975. Clara Windsor married Fred Davies but they split up when Fred Davies left Clara, she died in 1979.

Bertha Windsor had been a pretty and active girl till about twenty years of age when suddenly she was struck with a paralysis which took about six months to come on. It seems likely she suffered from either MS or Polio. Bertha did retain some movement early on, but not enough to walk. She used to be carried by her brother Fred and she always had to be propped in a chair with cushions. She never married and died in 1985.

Emily Tatlock was nothing like her mother, being very kind and quiet. She also had some artistic tendencies like her half-brother Fred Windsor. Emily Tatlock stayed at the children's home in Edgworth out on the moors near Bolton, working there after she had officially left. In the early 1900's she moved to the city of Leicester to set up a cake shop with a friend. In Leicester she met and married her husband in 1911. He was called Frank Smith, an engineer, and then they moved down to Harrow in Middlesex for his work. She knew her father's name was Thomas Tatlock but she stated his occupation as Hotel Proprietor at the time of her marriage which was incorrect. Emily Smith died in 1947 in South Harrow.

I located Annie Tatlock on the 1911 census, living with Daniel Walsh, who she later married.

The mother, Lucy Elizabeth Windsor, died in 1934 in Bolton.

Emily married Frank Smith on 30 Dec 1911 in St Mary De Castro Church, Leicester, Leicestershire, England. Frank (son of Tom Smith and Sarah Nixon) was born on 24 Jan 1879 in 10, Clara Street, Leicester, Leicestershire, England; died on 22 Sep 1934 in 5, Whitby Road, South Harrow, Middlesex, England; was buried on 26 Sep 1934 in Eastcote Cemetery, Harrow, Middlesex, England. [Group Sheet]

Other Events:

• Family Story: Tatlock, Brockbank and Windsor Families

Notes:

Family Story:
The only information I knew before I started any research was that my great grandmother, Emily Tatlock, was born in Bolton, Lancashire on 18th February 1880 but she had been placed in a children's home in Edgworth when she was young. She knew her mother was a music hall singer but I didn't know any details such as the names of her parents. The only other things Emily remembered from her childhood were that her mother hit the inspector over the head with an umbrella when they took Emily away to the home, also her mother used to practice her stage hairstyles on Emily's hair. Emily did have a photo of her brother and three sisters (the family as it was in 1892) but it has been lost over the years unfortunately.

After researching I found that she was the daughter of Thomas Tatlock and Elizabeth Tatlock formerly Brockbank. The couple had married in November 1879 when Elizabeth was about six months pregnant and aged only sixteen. After Emily's birth in 1880 they also had a stillborn child buried in 1882 in Bolton. The next child was called Annie Tatlock, and according to her baptism she was born 21st August 1884 and from census returns her place of birth was given as Ulverstone, however I have been unable to locate a birth certificate for her. The next child born was called Lily Tatlock, her birth certificate gives her birth date as 6th June 1887 but her baptism states her date of birth as 6th May 1887 which is probably more accurate as her birth wasn't registered until 2nd July 1887 so the mother would have been fined for registering the birth late if she'd stated the birth as 6th May (births had to be registered within 42 days otherwise they were fined for late registration).

It seems the couple split up at some point in the 1880's, and it is possible that only the first child, Emily, is Thomas' child and the others were fathered by someone else. Emily was born in 1880 but by the time of the 1881 census the parents weren't living together, Elizabeth was living with her parents in Bolton and Thomas was living in his married sister's household in Bolton.

Both Thomas and Elizabeth had music hall acts and appeared on stage, this is possibly how they first met in 1879. A relative told me that Elizabeth claimed to have appeared on stage at Madison Square Garden in New York. I think it might be possible that Thomas and Elizabeth travelled to New York together in the early 1880's, possibly their daughter Annie was born there (which would explain why her birth can't be found in the UK) and then Elizabeth came home to Bolton before 1887 leaving Thomas Tatlock to make a new life for himself.

Thomas Tatlock started a new life for himself in Montreal, Canada, according to the 1911 Montreal census he immigrated into Canada in 1884. He remarried 21st May 1888 in Montreal (bigamously) to a Mary McArthur and they had three children. In 1891, 1901 and 1911 he was working as a bar tender/waiter in Montreal. He then went on to marry again to a Mary O'Donnell (also known as Helen) and they had five more children, the youngest being born in 1921 when Thomas Tatlock was aged sixty one. Thomas Tatlock had a part time stage act as a dancer and a comedian and appeared on stage in Montreal and New York. He died in Montreal in 1929.

After Thomas and Elizabeth had split up she went on to have a son called Percy in 1890. His birth was registered as Percy Tatlock but he always used the name Percy Brockbank. His birth certificate states he was born 16th July 1890 and states his father was Thomas Tatlock. On his death certificate in 1970 it stated his date of birth to be 15th June 1890, so again it looks like the mother lied about his birth date to avoid a fine for late registration, his birth was registered 4th September 1890.

The next child was registered as Margaret Brockbank with no father's name stated. Her birth date was stated to be 28th April 1892 (registered 8th June 1892). This is the first time that the mother Elizabeth states her name as "Lucy Elizabeth". This child Margaret was known as Maggie.

In November 1892 a Detective with the Borough Police reported the family to the NSPCC to try and get the eldest child, Emily, into a home to be trained as a domestic servant "as the home surroundings have a tendency to make the child a thief". The report stated that the mother Elizabeth Tatlock had been getting her living as a comic singer at Music Halls and that there were five children, Emily, Annie, Lily (stated as illegitimate), Percy, and Maggie (also stated to be illegitimate). The report states that Elizabeth was separated from her husband when Lily was born but they lived together again when Percy was born, afterwards the husband left and had not been heard of since. Elizabeth was living with her parents and her mother (Sarah Brockbank formerly Longworth) was undergoing a prison term of one month for theft, the report also states that Elizabeth had been before the courts for being in consort with her mother. It states that Elizabeth was willing that her daughter, Emily, should be sent to a home. The report states that the children were well nourished and the house fairly well furnished. However, further in the report it also states that the reasons Emily should be considered to be placed in a home were as follows: 'Continuous neglect, mother and grandmother charged with theft, latter convicted' It also stated that Emily was 'in great moral danger, an attractive girl, used by grandmother, an oft convicted thief, for felonious purposes. Now in wretchedness and filth. Grandmother in prison, mother living away in sin'. Elizabeth stated that her husband Thomas had "died away" in June 1891, but this was untrue, perhaps she just said that he was dead so that the authorities could not ask her for any money towards Emily's keep. Her weekly income was just 10 shillings as a dressmaker, it must have been very hard for her to live on that amount with five children to care for. Emily was sent to Edgworth Children's Home which wasn't very far from Bolton but she had no more contact with her family and they would not have known where she was sent to.

On 21st June 1893 Elizabeth and her mother Sarah were in court accused of stealing seven yards of dress material and six yards of flannellette the property of John Bond. Elizabeth gave her name as Elizabeth Alice Tatlock and she pleaded guilty. She was sentenced to fourteen days in Strangeways prison. Her mother Sarah pleaded not guilty but was found guilty and sentenced to six months hard labour in Strangeways prison. Elizabeth would have been about four months pregnant when she went in prison as there was also another illegitimate son called Robert Brockbank born 28th November 1893 in Bolton. He was known as Bob Brockbank in later life. Bob Brockbank married a Bertha Greenhalgh and when she died he went on to marry Elsie Mason. He died in 1959.

Within a couple of years Elizabeth met a man called Corney Windsor in Bolton. They lived together as man and wife but I don't believe they ever married, probably Elizabeth, or 'Lucy Elizabeth' as she then liked to be known as, didn't want to remarry bigamously as she did not know if Thomas Tatlock was still alive. They had five more children together, namely, Arline born 13th August 1896 in Bradford, Clara born 25th September 1898 in Blackpool, Bertha born 14th April 1900 in Bolton, Fred born 2nd May 1902 in Bolton, and George born 1st July 1904 in Bolton - they all had the surname Windsor.

As Arline was born in 1896 in Bradford I would imagine it was about this time when they were resident in that area that her two daughters, Annie and Lily Tatlock, were taken from her in the same manner as Emily was. I do not have any evidence for this but by the time of the 1901 census Lily was aged thirteen and resident in an industrial school in Leeds and Annie was aged seventeen and working as a domestic servant in a household in Headingley near Leeds. Industrial Schools were for children who were either found begging, found wandering or homeless or frequenting with thieves, who had commited an offence or whose parents could not control them. It's possible that the two girls were being used as pickpockets and were caught or their mother got into trouble with the law again and the girls were seen to be in danger of being turned into thieves. The Industrial School would have trained the girls as domestic servants and found them places to work when it was time for them to leave. I do not know what happened to Lily after the 1901 census and I also have no record of what happened to Maggie after she was six months old. It seems like all four girls, Emily, Annie, Lily, and Maggie, were removed from their mother but the two boys, Percy and Bob, stayed with her. Her five later children with Corney Windsor were brought up by her so it seems he was a stabilising influence in her life.

In 1904 the son, Percy Brockbank, aged thirteen, was up before the court in Bolton for stealing a purse. The prosecutor said the lad's mother and grandmother were known by the police. Percy, who was living with his grandmother, had been attending a school for 'defective children'. The Inspector stated he had watched Percy trying to get into more than four pockets of different women before he was successful in stealing the purse. He was committed to a Reformatory until he was seventeen years of age. It's interesting that he was attending a school for 'defective children' as he was described as blind at the time of the 1911 census but it also states that he was afflicted at the age of fifteen, perhaps his eyesight was 'defective' when he was thirteen but deteriorated by the time he was fifteen. I believe the term 'defective' relates to children who were either blind, deaf or who had epilepsy. Percy went on to marry Janet (known as Jenny) Carslow and he died in 1970.

I was in touch with a relative who said that Fred Windsor was a student at Manchester Art School due to the generosity of some local lady who spotted his talent, but he gave it up because his mother needed money, although he would never say anything bad about his mother. He said his childhood was constantly flitting, usually to avoid paying rent. One day they forgot to tell him they were flitting, so he came home from school to find them gone. Fred said his father Corney had left his mother, Lucy Elizabeth, and took to drink and went to live with two sisters in Manchester. Fred married Jean O'Hara and she described Lucy Elizabeth as having a hot temper and that she once threw her out of the house as "an irish bitch". Fred Windsor designed and drew the Fairy liquid 'baby' and was paid £100 for it. He also made the decorative scrolls presented to the Bolton athletes who represented England in the 1948 Olympics. Fred Windsor died in 1979.

George Windsor was younger than Fred by two years and Fred looked after him. George had a weak arm, either despite which he worked at a timber yard, or he may have had an accident at the yard. He married Alice Turner and he died in 1976. The eldest Windsor daughter, Arline, married Fred True, and she died in 1975. Clara Windsor married Fred Davies but they split up when Fred Davies left Clara, she died in 1979.

Bertha Windsor had been a pretty and active girl till about twenty years of age when suddenly she was struck with a paralysis which took about six months to come on. It seems likely she suffered from either MS or Polio. Bertha did retain some movement early on, but not enough to walk. She used to be carried by her brother Fred and she always had to be propped in a chair with cushions. She never married and died in 1985.

Emily Tatlock was nothing like her mother, being very kind and quiet. She also had some artistic tendencies like her half-brother Fred Windsor. Emily Tatlock stayed at the children's home in Edgworth out on the moors near Bolton, working there after she had officially left. In the early 1900's she moved to the city of Leicester to set up a cake shop with a friend. In Leicester she met and married her husband in 1911. He was called Frank Smith, an engineer, and then they moved down to Harrow in Middlesex for his work. She knew her father's name was Thomas Tatlock but she stated his occupation as Hotel Proprietor at the time of her marriage which was incorrect. Emily Smith died in 1947 in South Harrow.

I located Annie Tatlock on the 1911 census, living with Daniel Walsh, who she later married.

The mother, Lucy Elizabeth Windsor, died in 1934 in Bolton.

Other Events:

• Family Story: Tatlock, Brockbank and Windsor Families
• Alternative Birth: 1888
• Residence: 1924, Pearl Street, Haverton Hill, Billingham, Durham, England

Notes:

Family Story:
The only information I knew before I started any research was that my great grandmother, Emily Tatlock, was born in Bolton, Lancashire on 18th February 1880 but she had been placed in a children's home in Edgworth when she was young. She knew her mother was a music hall singer but I didn't know any details such as the names of her parents. The only other things Emily remembered from her childhood were that her mother hit the inspector over the head with an umbrella when they took Emily away to the home, also her mother used to practice her stage hairstyles on Emily's hair. Emily did have a photo of her brother and three sisters (the family as it was in 1892) but it has been lost over the years unfortunately.

After researching I found that she was the daughter of Thomas Tatlock and Elizabeth Tatlock formerly Brockbank. The couple had married in November 1879 when Elizabeth was about six months pregnant and aged only sixteen. After Emily's birth in 1880 they also had a stillborn child buried in 1882 in Bolton. The next child was called Annie Tatlock, and according to her baptism she was born 21st August 1884 and from census returns her place of birth was given as Ulverstone, however I have been unable to locate a birth certificate for her. The next child born was called Lily Tatlock, her birth certificate gives her birth date as 6th June 1887 but her baptism states her date of birth as 6th May 1887 which is probably more accurate as her birth wasn't registered until 2nd July 1887 so the mother would have been fined for registering the birth late if she'd stated the birth as 6th May (births had to be registered within 42 days otherwise they were fined for late registration).

It seems the couple split up at some point in the 1880's, and it is possible that only the first child, Emily, is Thomas' child and the others were fathered by someone else. Emily was born in 1880 but by the time of the 1881 census the parents weren't living together, Elizabeth was living with her parents in Bolton and Thomas was living in his married sister's household in Bolton.

Both Thomas and Elizabeth had music hall acts and appeared on stage, this is possibly how they first met in 1879. A relative told me that Elizabeth claimed to have appeared on stage at Madison Square Garden in New York. I think it might be possible that Thomas and Elizabeth travelled to New York together in the early 1880's, possibly their daughter Annie was born there (which would explain why her birth can't be found in the UK) and then Elizabeth came home to Bolton before 1887 leaving Thomas Tatlock to make a new life for himself.

Thomas Tatlock started a new life for himself in Montreal, Canada, according to the 1911 Montreal census he immigrated into Canada in 1884. He remarried 21st May 1888 in Montreal (bigamously) to a Mary McArthur and they had three children. In 1891, 1901 and 1911 he was working as a bar tender/waiter in Montreal. He then went on to marry again to a Mary O'Donnell (also known as Helen) and they had five more children, the youngest being born in 1921 when Thomas Tatlock was aged sixty one. Thomas Tatlock had a part time stage act as a dancer and a comedian and appeared on stage in Montreal and New York. He died in Montreal in 1929.

After Thomas and Elizabeth had split up she went on to have a son called Percy in 1890. His birth was registered as Percy Tatlock but he always used the name Percy Brockbank. His birth certificate states he was born 16th July 1890 and states his father was Thomas Tatlock. On his death certificate in 1970 it stated his date of birth to be 15th June 1890, so again it looks like the mother lied about his birth date to avoid a fine for late registration, his birth was registered 4th September 1890.

The next child was registered as Margaret Brockbank with no father's name stated. Her birth date was stated to be 28th April 1892 (registered 8th June 1892). This is the first time that the mother Elizabeth states her name as "Lucy Elizabeth". This child Margaret was known as Maggie.

In November 1892 a Detective with the Borough Police reported the family to the NSPCC to try and get the eldest child, Emily, into a home to be trained as a domestic servant "as the home surroundings have a tendency to make the child a thief". The report stated that the mother Elizabeth Tatlock had been getting her living as a comic singer at Music Halls and that there were five children, Emily, Annie, Lily (stated as illegitimate), Percy, and Maggie (also stated to be illegitimate). The report states that Elizabeth was separated from her husband when Lily was born but they lived together again when Percy was born, afterwards the husband left and had not been heard of since. Elizabeth was living with her parents and her mother (Sarah Brockbank formerly Longworth) was undergoing a prison term of one month for theft, the report also states that Elizabeth had been before the courts for being in consort with her mother. It states that Elizabeth was willing that her daughter, Emily, should be sent to a home. The report states that the children were well nourished and the house fairly well furnished. However, further in the report it also states that the reasons Emily should be considered to be placed in a home were as follows: 'Continuous neglect, mother and grandmother charged with theft, latter convicted' It also stated that Emily was 'in great moral danger, an attractive girl, used by grandmother, an oft convicted thief, for felonious purposes. Now in wretchedness and filth. Grandmother in prison, mother living away in sin'. Elizabeth stated that her husband Thomas had "died away" in June 1891, but this was untrue, perhaps she just said that he was dead so that the authorities could not ask her for any money towards Emily's keep. Her weekly income was just 10 shillings as a dressmaker, it must have been very hard for her to live on that amount with five children to care for. Emily was sent to Edgworth Children's Home which wasn't very far from Bolton but she had no more contact with her family and they would not have known where she was sent to.

On 21st June 1893 Elizabeth and her mother Sarah were in court accused of stealing seven yards of dress material and six yards of flannellette the property of John Bond. Elizabeth gave her name as Elizabeth Alice Tatlock and she pleaded guilty. She was sentenced to fourteen days in Strangeways prison. Her mother Sarah pleaded not guilty but was found guilty and sentenced to six months hard labour in Strangeways prison. Elizabeth would have been about four months pregnant when she went in prison as there was also another illegitimate son called Robert Brockbank born 28th November 1893 in Bolton. He was known as Bob Brockbank in later life. Bob Brockbank married a Bertha Greenhalgh and when she died he went on to marry Elsie Mason. He died in 1959.

Within a couple of years Elizabeth met a man called Corney Windsor in Bolton. They lived together as man and wife but I don't believe they ever married, probably Elizabeth, or 'Lucy Elizabeth' as she then liked to be known as, didn't want to remarry bigamously as she did not know if Thomas Tatlock was still alive. They had five more children together, namely, Arline born 13th August 1896 in Bradford, Clara born 25th September 1898 in Blackpool, Bertha born 14th April 1900 in Bolton, Fred born 2nd May 1902 in Bolton, and George born 1st July 1904 in Bolton - they all had the surname Windsor.

As Arline was born in 1896 in Bradford I would imagine it was about this time when they were resident in that area that her two daughters, Annie and Lily Tatlock, were taken from her in the same manner as Emily was. I do not have any evidence for this but by the time of the 1901 census Lily was aged thirteen and resident in an industrial school in Leeds and Annie was aged seventeen and working as a domestic servant in a household in Headingley near Leeds. Industrial Schools were for children who were either found begging, found wandering or homeless or frequenting with thieves, who had commited an offence or whose parents could not control them. It's possible that the two girls were being used as pickpockets and were caught or their mother got into trouble with the law again and the girls were seen to be in danger of being turned into thieves. The Industrial School would have trained the girls as domestic servants and found them places to work when it was time for them to leave. I do not know what happened to Lily after the 1901 census and I also have no record of what happened to Maggie after she was six months old. It seems like all four girls, Emily, Annie, Lily, and Maggie, were removed from their mother but the two boys, Percy and Bob, stayed with her. Her five later children with Corney Windsor were brought up by her so it seems he was a stabilising influence in her life.

In 1904 the son, Percy Brockbank, aged thirteen, was up before the court in Bolton for stealing a purse. The prosecutor said the lad's mother and grandmother were known by the police. Percy, who was living with his grandmother, had been attending a school for 'defective children'. The Inspector stated he had watched Percy trying to get into more than four pockets of different women before he was successful in stealing the purse. He was committed to a Reformatory until he was seventeen years of age. It's interesting that he was attending a school for 'defective children' as he was described as blind at the time of the 1911 census but it also states that he was afflicted at the age of fifteen, perhaps his eyesight was 'defective' when he was thirteen but deteriorated by the time he was fifteen. I believe the term 'defective' relates to children who were either blind, deaf or who had epilepsy. Percy went on to marry Janet (known as Jenny) Carslow and he died in 1970.

I was in touch with a relative who said that Fred Windsor was a student at Manchester Art School due to the generosity of some local lady who spotted his talent, but he gave it up because his mother needed money, although he would never say anything bad about his mother. He said his childhood was constantly flitting, usually to avoid paying rent. One day they forgot to tell him they were flitting, so he came home from school to find them gone. Fred said his father Corney had left his mother, Lucy Elizabeth, and took to drink and went to live with two sisters in Manchester. Fred married Jean O'Hara and she described Lucy Elizabeth as having a hot temper and that she once threw her out of the house as "an irish bitch". Fred Windsor designed and drew the Fairy liquid 'baby' and was paid £100 for it. He also made the decorative scrolls presented to the Bolton athletes who represented England in the 1948 Olympics. Fred Windsor died in 1979.

George Windsor was younger than Fred by two years and Fred looked after him. George had a weak arm, either despite which he worked at a timber yard, or he may have had an accident at the yard. He married Alice Turner and he died in 1976. The eldest Windsor daughter, Arline, married Fred True, and she died in 1975. Clara Windsor married Fred Davies but they split up when Fred Davies left Clara, she died in 1979.

Bertha Windsor had been a pretty and active girl till about twenty years of age when suddenly she was struck with a paralysis which took about six months to come on. It seems likely she suffered from either MS or Polio. Bertha did retain some movement early on, but not enough to walk. She used to be carried by her brother Fred and she always had to be propped in a chair with cushions. She never married and died in 1985.

Emily Tatlock was nothing like her mother, being very kind and quiet. She also had some artistic tendencies like her half-brother Fred Windsor. Emily Tatlock stayed at the children's home in Edgworth out on the moors near Bolton, working there after she had officially left. In the early 1900's she moved to the city of Leicester to set up a cake shop with a friend. In Leicester she met and married her husband in 1911. He was called Frank Smith, an engineer, and then they moved down to Harrow in Middlesex for his work. She knew her father's name was Thomas Tatlock but she stated his occupation as Hotel Proprietor at the time of her marriage which was incorrect. Emily Smith died in 1947 in South Harrow.

I located Annie Tatlock on the 1911 census, living with Daniel Walsh, who she later married.

The mother, Lucy Elizabeth Windsor, died in 1934 in Bolton.

Annie married Daniel Walsh on 16 Feb 1915 in St Mary's Catholic Chapel, Norton Road, Stockton-on-Tees, Durham, England. Daniel (son of Michael Walsh) was born on 7 Sep 1881 in Stockton-on-Tees, Durham, England; died on 30 May 1966 in Plymouth, Devon, England. [Group Sheet]

Annie married Thomas Edward Dee on 12 Oct 1940 in Register Office, Durham South Eastern, Durham, England. Thomas was born on 21 Apr 1890; died on 20 May 1955. [Group Sheet]

Other Events:

• Family Story: Tatlock, Brockbank and Windsor Families
• Alternative Birth: 6 Jun 1887, 21, Howell Croft, Bolton, Lancashire, England

Notes:

Family Story:
The only information I knew before I started any research was that my great grandmother, Emily Tatlock, was born in Bolton, Lancashire on 18th February 1880 but she had been placed in a children's home in Edgworth when she was young. She knew her mother was a music hall singer but I didn't know any details such as the names of her parents. The only other things Emily remembered from her childhood were that her mother hit the inspector over the head with an umbrella when they took Emily away to the home, also her mother used to practice her stage hairstyles on Emily's hair. Emily did have a photo of her brother and three sisters (the family as it was in 1892) but it has been lost over the years unfortunately.

After researching I found that she was the daughter of Thomas Tatlock and Elizabeth Tatlock formerly Brockbank. The couple had married in November 1879 when Elizabeth was about six months pregnant and aged only sixteen. After Emily's birth in 1880 they also had a stillborn child buried in 1882 in Bolton. The next child was called Annie Tatlock, and according to her baptism she was born 21st August 1884 and from census returns her place of birth was given as Ulverstone, however I have been unable to locate a birth certificate for her. The next child born was called Lily Tatlock, her birth certificate gives her birth date as 6th June 1887 but her baptism states her date of birth as 6th May 1887 which is probably more accurate as her birth wasn't registered until 2nd July 1887 so the mother would have been fined for registering the birth late if she'd stated the birth as 6th May (births had to be registered within 42 days otherwise they were fined for late registration).

It seems the couple split up at some point in the 1880's, and it is possible that only the first child, Emily, is Thomas' child and the others were fathered by someone else. Emily was born in 1880 but by the time of the 1881 census the parents weren't living together, Elizabeth was living with her parents in Bolton and Thomas was living in his married sister's household in Bolton.

Both Thomas and Elizabeth had music hall acts and appeared on stage, this is possibly how they first met in 1879. A relative told me that Elizabeth claimed to have appeared on stage at Madison Square Garden in New York. I think it might be possible that Thomas and Elizabeth travelled to New York together in the early 1880's, possibly their daughter Annie was born there (which would explain why her birth can't be found in the UK) and then Elizabeth came home to Bolton before 1887 leaving Thomas Tatlock to make a new life for himself.

Thomas Tatlock started a new life for himself in Montreal, Canada, according to the 1911 Montreal census he immigrated into Canada in 1884. He remarried 21st May 1888 in Montreal (bigamously) to a Mary McArthur and they had three children. In 1891, 1901 and 1911 he was working as a bar tender/waiter in Montreal. He then went on to marry again to a Mary O'Donnell (also known as Helen) and they had five more children, the youngest being born in 1921 when Thomas Tatlock was aged sixty one. Thomas Tatlock had a part time stage act as a dancer and a comedian and appeared on stage in Montreal and New York. He died in Montreal in 1929.

After Thomas and Elizabeth had split up she went on to have a son called Percy in 1890. His birth was registered as Percy Tatlock but he always used the name Percy Brockbank. His birth certificate states he was born 16th July 1890 and states his father was Thomas Tatlock. On his death certificate in 1970 it stated his date of birth to be 15th June 1890, so again it looks like the mother lied about his birth date to avoid a fine for late registration, his birth was registered 4th September 1890.

The next child was registered as Margaret Brockbank with no father's name stated. Her birth date was stated to be 28th April 1892 (registered 8th June 1892). This is the first time that the mother Elizabeth states her name as "Lucy Elizabeth". This child Margaret was known as Maggie.

In November 1892 a Detective with the Borough Police reported the family to the NSPCC to try and get the eldest child, Emily, into a home to be trained as a domestic servant "as the home surroundings have a tendency to make the child a thief". The report stated that the mother Elizabeth Tatlock had been getting her living as a comic singer at Music Halls and that there were five children, Emily, Annie, Lily (stated as illegitimate), Percy, and Maggie (also stated to be illegitimate). The report states that Elizabeth was separated from her husband when Lily was born but they lived together again when Percy was born, afterwards the husband left and had not been heard of since. Elizabeth was living with her parents and her mother (Sarah Brockbank formerly Longworth) was undergoing a prison term of one month for theft, the report also states that Elizabeth had been before the courts for being in consort with her mother. It states that Elizabeth was willing that her daughter, Emily, should be sent to a home. The report states that the children were well nourished and the house fairly well furnished. However, further in the report it also states that the reasons Emily should be considered to be placed in a home were as follows: 'Continuous neglect, mother and grandmother charged with theft, latter convicted' It also stated that Emily was 'in great moral danger, an attractive girl, used by grandmother, an oft convicted thief, for felonious purposes. Now in wretchedness and filth. Grandmother in prison, mother living away in sin'. Elizabeth stated that her husband Thomas had "died away" in June 1891, but this was untrue, perhaps she just said that he was dead so that the authorities could not ask her for any money towards Emily's keep. Her weekly income was just 10 shillings as a dressmaker, it must have been very hard for her to live on that amount with five children to care for. Emily was sent to Edgworth Children's Home which wasn't very far from Bolton but she had no more contact with her family and they would not have known where she was sent to.

On 21st June 1893 Elizabeth and her mother Sarah were in court accused of stealing seven yards of dress material and six yards of flannellette the property of John Bond. Elizabeth gave her name as Elizabeth Alice Tatlock and she pleaded guilty. She was sentenced to fourteen days in Strangeways prison. Her mother Sarah pleaded not guilty but was found guilty and sentenced to six months hard labour in Strangeways prison. Elizabeth would have been about four months pregnant when she went in prison as there was also another illegitimate son called Robert Brockbank born 28th November 1893 in Bolton. He was known as Bob Brockbank in later life. Bob Brockbank married a Bertha Greenhalgh and when she died he went on to marry Elsie Mason. He died in 1959.

Within a couple of years Elizabeth met a man called Corney Windsor in Bolton. They lived together as man and wife but I don't believe they ever married, probably Elizabeth, or 'Lucy Elizabeth' as she then liked to be known as, didn't want to remarry bigamously as she did not know if Thomas Tatlock was still alive. They had five more children together, namely, Arline born 13th August 1896 in Bradford, Clara born 25th September 1898 in Blackpool, Bertha born 14th April 1900 in Bolton, Fred born 2nd May 1902 in Bolton, and George born 1st July 1904 in Bolton - they all had the surname Windsor.

As Arline was born in 1896 in Bradford I would imagine it was about this time when they were resident in that area that her two daughters, Annie and Lily Tatlock, were taken from her in the same manner as Emily was. I do not have any evidence for this but by the time of the 1901 census Lily was aged thirteen and resident in an industrial school in Leeds and Annie was aged seventeen and working as a domestic servant in a household in Headingley near Leeds. Industrial Schools were for children who were either found begging, found wandering or homeless or frequenting with thieves, who had commited an offence or whose parents could not control them. It's possible that the two girls were being used as pickpockets and were caught or their mother got into trouble with the law again and the girls were seen to be in danger of being turned into thieves. The Industrial School would have trained the girls as domestic servants and found them places to work when it was time for them to leave. I do not know what happened to Lily after the 1901 census and I also have no record of what happened to Maggie after she was six months old. It seems like all four girls, Emily, Annie, Lily, and Maggie, were removed from their mother but the two boys, Percy and Bob, stayed with her. Her five later children with Corney Windsor were brought up by her so it seems he was a stabilising influence in her life.

In 1904 the son, Percy Brockbank, aged thirteen, was up before the court in Bolton for stealing a purse. The prosecutor said the lad's mother and grandmother were known by the police. Percy, who was living with his grandmother, had been attending a school for 'defective children'. The Inspector stated he had watched Percy trying to get into more than four pockets of different women before he was successful in stealing the purse. He was committed to a Reformatory until he was seventeen years of age. It's interesting that he was attending a school for 'defective children' as he was described as blind at the time of the 1911 census but it also states that he was afflicted at the age of fifteen, perhaps his eyesight was 'defective' when he was thirteen but deteriorated by the time he was fifteen. I believe the term 'defective' relates to children who were either blind, deaf or who had epilepsy. Percy went on to marry Janet (known as Jenny) Carslow and he died in 1970.

I was in touch with a relative who said that Fred Windsor was a student at Manchester Art School due to the generosity of some local lady who spotted his talent, but he gave it up because his mother needed money, although he would never say anything bad about his mother. He said his childhood was constantly flitting, usually to avoid paying rent. One day they forgot to tell him they were flitting, so he came home from school to find them gone. Fred said his father Corney had left his mother, Lucy Elizabeth, and took to drink and went to live with two sisters in Manchester. Fred married Jean O'Hara and she described Lucy Elizabeth as having a hot temper and that she once threw her out of the house as "an irish bitch". Fred Windsor designed and drew the Fairy liquid 'baby' and was paid £100 for it. He also made the decorative scrolls presented to the Bolton athletes who represented England in the 1948 Olympics. Fred Windsor died in 1979.

George Windsor was younger than Fred by two years and Fred looked after him. George had a weak arm, either despite which he worked at a timber yard, or he may have had an accident at the yard. He married Alice Turner and he died in 1976. The eldest Windsor daughter, Arline, married Fred True, and she died in 1975. Clara Windsor married Fred Davies but they split up when Fred Davies left Clara, she died in 1979.

Bertha Windsor had been a pretty and active girl till about twenty years of age when suddenly she was struck with a paralysis which took about six months to come on. It seems likely she suffered from either MS or Polio. Bertha did retain some movement early on, but not enough to walk. She used to be carried by her brother Fred and she always had to be propped in a chair with cushions. She never married and died in 1985.

Emily Tatlock was nothing like her mother, being very kind and quiet. She also had some artistic tendencies like her half-brother Fred Windsor. Emily Tatlock stayed at the children's home in Edgworth out on the moors near Bolton, working there after she had officially left. In the early 1900's she moved to the city of Leicester to set up a cake shop with a friend. In Leicester she met and married her husband in 1911. He was called Frank Smith, an engineer, and then they moved down to Harrow in Middlesex for his work. She knew her father's name was Thomas Tatlock but she stated his occupation as Hotel Proprietor at the time of her marriage which was incorrect. Emily Smith died in 1947 in South Harrow.

I located Annie Tatlock on the 1911 census, living with Daniel Walsh, who she later married.

The mother, Lucy Elizabeth Windsor, died in 1934 in Bolton.

Other Events:

• Find A Grave Link: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/144760277

Nellie married Thomas Ward on 6 Jun 1914. Thomas was born about 1892; died in 1951; was buried in 1951 in Pine Hills Cemetery, Scarborough, Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet]

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• Find A Grave Link: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/151659197
• Residence: 1930, 46, Conway Ave, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Harry married Phyllis Clee on 23 Jun 1928 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Phyllis died in 1982; was buried in 1982 in Prospect Cemetery, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet]

Fred married Lucy Gladys May. Lucy was born about 1901; died in 1982; was buried in 1982 in Prospect Cemetery, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet]

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• Residence: Feb 1909, 34, Maybank Street, Bolton, Lancashire, England
• Alternative Birth: 1913

Frank married Christina Anderson. Christina and died. [Group Sheet]

Other Events:

• Residence: 12 Dec 1917, 49, Lever Street, Bolton, Lancashire, England
• Residence: 15 Aug 1963-27 Jan 1971, 51, Dunsop Drive, Bolton, Lancashire, England

Tom married Mildred Farnworth in 1943. Mildred (daughter of Arthur Farnworth and Rebecca Winward) was born on 30 Nov 1920 in 117, Great Moor Street, Bolton, Lancashire, England; died in 1989. [Group Sheet]

Living married Living. [Group Sheet]

Living married H.W. Birch [Group Sheet]

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• Alternative Name: Edith Blackman
• Alternative Birth: 22 Mar 1921

Edith married Michael Ernest Blackman in 1948. Michael was born on 20 Nov 1922; died on 3 Aug 2003 in Surrey, England. [Group Sheet]

Other Events:

• Alternative Name: Joyce Knight
• Executor: 1980, Manchester, Lancashire, England; for her aunt Clara Davies
• Residence: 1980, 40, Marld Crescent, Bolton, Lancashire, England
• Administration: 1 Sep 1999, Manchester, Lancashire, England

Notes:

Administration:
Joyce Knight
Date of Probate 28 October 1999
Probate number 247392
Date of Death 01 September 1999
Grant only Manchester

Joyce married Leslie Knight in 1948 in Bolton, Lancashire, England. Leslie was born in 1925; died on 22 Mar 2007. [Group Sheet]

Other Events:

• Executor: 1980, Manchester, Lancashire, England; for his aunt Clara Davies
• Residence: 1980, 173, Red Lane, Breightmet, Bolton, Lancashire, BL2 5HP, England
• Probate: 14 Nov 2004, Manchester, Lancashire, England

Notes:

Probate:
Fred True
Date of Probate 13 December 2004
Probate number 1694680
Date of Death 14 November 2004     
Grant and will Manchester

Other Events:

• Alternative Death: Abt 1960
• Residence: 1976, 191, Paulhan Street, Higher Swan Lane, Bolton, Lancashire, England
• Administration: 9 Sep 1976, London, England

Notes:

Alternative Death:
searched 1956-1965 - death not located for Robert W. Davies

Administration:
Robert Windsor Davies of 191 Paulham Street Bolton died 17 July 1976. Administration London 9 September 1976 £613 760116504A

Living married U. Jablonski [Group Sheet]

Living married Living [Group Sheet]

Living married R.H. Wagstaffe [Group Sheet]

Maurice married Sylvia G. Lloyd in 1960 in Bolton, Lancashire, England. [Group Sheet]

Other Events:

• Find A Grave Link: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/186856781
• Alternative Name: Olive Downs
• Probate: 9 Oct 2006, Bristol, Gloucestershire, England

Notes:

Probate:
Olive Downs
Date of Probate 09 October 2006
Probate number 2258943
Date of death 12 August 2006
Grant and will Bristol

Olive married George Henry Downs on 3 Aug 1940 in St Paul's Church, South Harrow, Middlesex, England. George (son of George Alfred Downs and Eleanor Catherine Fordham) was born on 17 Feb 1910 in 11, Tubbs Road, Willesden, Middlesex, England; died on 17 Jun 1974 in Paddington, Middlesex, England. [Group Sheet]

Other Events:

• Alternative Name: Edna Barr
• Residence: 2003, Adderley House, 23, London Road, Long Sutton, Lincolnshire, England
• Probate: 10 Dec 2003, Ipswich, Suffolk, England

Notes:

Probate:
Probate number 1390470 Grant and Will

Edna married George Charles Biddulph Curtis on 18 Jan 1942 in St Paul's Church, South Harrow, Middlesex, England. George (son of George B. Curtis and Ada May Spooner) was born on 3 Mar 1918 in Hackney, Middlesex, England; died on 13 Jul 1968 in Harrow, Middlesex, England; was buried in Harrow Weald Cemetery, Clamp Hill, Stanmore, Middlesex, England. [Group Sheet]

Edna married Derek Ernest Dougal Barr on 19 Jul 1976 in Harrow, Middlesex, England. Derek (son of Barr and Clack) was born on 3 Sep 1913 in Lambeth, Surrey, England; died in Aug 1989 in Huntingdonshire, England. [Group Sheet]

Other Events:

• Cremated: 18 Oct 2000, Breakspear Crematorium, Ruislip, Middlesex, England
• Ashes Interred: 20 Oct 2000, Eastcote Cemetery, Harrow, Middlesex, England

Notes:

Ashes Interred:
His ashes were interred where his parents are buried.

Stanley married Mary Bridget "Maureen" Conway on 22 Sep 1945 in Church of the Most Sacred Heart, Ruislip, Middlesex, England. Mary (daughter of Patrick Conway and Bridget O'Grady) was born on 20 Mar 1921 in Rathkeale, County Limerick, Munster, Ireland; died on 25 Aug 2014 in Kenton, Middlesex, England. [Group Sheet]

Other Events:

• Alternative Name: Helen Walsh

Other Events:

• Residence: Between 1924 and 1929, Pearl Street, Haverton Hill, Billingham, Durham, England
• Occupation: 1929; Domestic Servant

Other Events:

• Alternative Name: Ena Walsh

Josephine married George Heatley Stainthorpe. George was born in 1911; died in 1993. [Group Sheet]

Josephine married Leonard Ainsley in 1935 in Edmonton, Middlesex, England. Leonard was born on 18 Jun 1910; died on 5 Dec 1974 in Worcestershire, England. [Group Sheet]

Josephine married Frank Glover-Brookes in 1973 in Worcestershire, England. Frank was born on 6 Oct 1918; died on 12 Dec 2002 in Worcester, Worcestershire, England. [Group Sheet]

Winifred married Albert Dorn on 13 Aug 1932 in Haverton Hill, Durham, England. Albert and died. [Group Sheet]

Winifred married Horace Herbert Hughff in 1936. Horace and died. [Group Sheet]

Other Events:

• Administration: 1963, York, Yorkshire North Riding, England
• Residence: 1963, 50, Rievaulx Avenue, Billingham, Durham, England

Notes:

Administration:
Frank Walsh of 50 Rievaulx Avenue Billingham county Durham died 28 July 1963 at The General Hospital Sedgefield county Durham. Administration York 4 November 1963 to Mary Walsh widow. Effects £648 2s 6d.

Frank married Mary Watkins on 29 Oct 1949. Mary died after 1963. [Group Sheet]

Lily married Raymond Taylor Hadaway on 2 Mar 1940 in Register Office, Durham South Eastern, Durham, England. Raymond was born on 17 Jul 1917; died on 5 Dec 1973. [Group Sheet]