Nat Gould

Samuel Austin 1840-1925

Samuel Austin was born at Heathcote near Hartington, and baptised on 14 October 1840 at Hartington. In 1861 he was working as a carter for farmer Matthew Lowndes at Bank Top, Fenny Bentley in Derbyshire.

On 2 February 1863 he married Elizabeth Wright Heath 1838-1912 at Fenny Bentley.

By 1881 he had become a butcher, living at and trading from 357 Westminster Road, Kirkdale in Liverpool, as he was in 1901. They had ten children, of whom five had died when the 1911 Census was taken. The ten children included the following, all born at Kirkdale:-

Mary Elizabeth Austin. She was born in 1867. She was married to Thomas Henry Hill, and they had three daughters Gertrude Hill (born in Liverpool in 1889), Florence Mary Hill (born in Sheffield in 1891), and Beatrice Hannah Hill (born in Sheffield in 1893). She died in 1909 at Tynemouth in Northumberland.

Ann Austin 1868- She was married to John William Savage 1867-1933, and they had two sons, Wilfred Savage (born in Liverpool in 1896), and Harold Savage (born in Liverpool in 1903).

Walter Austin 1870-1913. On 18 August 1889 at St Paul's church in Kirkdale he married Alice Westhead 1871-1950, daughter of Jonathan and Alice Westhead of Lathom in Lancashire, and later of Everton in Liverpool. In 1891 he was a butcher, presumably working with his father. He and his wife were then living with her parents at 12 Braemar Street in Kirkdale. By 1901 he was a dock labourer, living with his wife and four unmarried sons at 632 Marsh Street in Liverpool. They had eleven children of whom six had died by 1911. The five surviving children were Samuel Austin 1891-1943, Alice Austin (born 1893), Daniel Austin 1896-1980, William Austin 1904-1964, and Walter Austin 1910-1982. In 1911 Samuel Austin 1891-1943 was a master carter, and Daniel Austin 1896-1980 was a grocer's errand boy.

Daniel Austin 1872-1940. He married Sarah Ann Fitzsimons 1872-1892, and secondly Clemetina Mary Graham Aitchison 1872-1936.

Hannah Austin 1874-1959. She was married to Edgar Eldred Carter 1873-1930 of Newlyn in Cornwall. She died in 1959 in Salford, Lancashire.

Martha Austin 1877-1951. She was married on 10 August 1918 at Finchley in London to Patrick Daniel Mason 1880-1937 of Glengarvon, Tamworth, New South Wales, Australia. He had arrived at Plymouth in Devon from Sydney on the Peninsular and Orient liner Borda on 4 March 1918. On the marriage certificate he was recorded as being a munitions worker living at 30A Golders Way, Hendon in London. They had a son, Arthur Daniel Mason, born on 1919 and died in 1991 at Collombatti, New South Wales, Australia. His father Patrick Daniel Mason had previously been married to Elizabeth Gilmore (born in Durham in about 1870 and died on 7 March 1917 in Coast Hospital, Little Bay, Sydney, Australia). He died on 1 December 1937 in hospital at Croydon in Surrey. His wife Martha Mason nee Austin died on 15 June 1951 at 26 Roscoe Street, Bondi Beach, Sydney, and was cremated on 18 June 1951 at the Eastern Suburbs Crematorium in Sydney.

In 1911 Samuel Austin and his wife and then unmarried daughter Martha Austin were living was living at 33 Cedar Road in Aintree (actually Walton) in Liverpool.

Their father Samuel Austin died in 1925 in the West Derby district of Liverpool.

His wife had predeceased him there in 1912.