Nat Gould

Samuel Sheldon 1883-1941

Samuel Sheldon was born in 1883 at Disley in Cheshire (1), the son of Samuel Sheldon 1845-1882 and his wife nee Ann Middleton.

In 1901 and 1911 he was living with his widowed mother, and was a maker up at a bleach works. He signed the 1911 Census Return, although his mother was actually recorded as being the head of the household.

In 1928 he married Maggie Thurling at Providence Chapel, New Mills in Derbyshire.

She was born on 11 March 1904 at Hazel Grove, Stockport in Cheshire, the daughter of George Thurling (born in 1878 at Wymondham in Norfolk) and his wife Annie (born in Hazel Grove in 1877). They lived at 5 Marshalls Yard in Hazel Grove. Maggie (2) was baptised at Norbury church near Hazel Graove on 11 December 1906.

Samuel Sheldon died in Manchester in 1941.

(1) Probably at Newtown in New Mills, Derbyshire. Disley (in Cheshire) and Newtown (in Derbyshire) were contiguous, the houses continuing unbroken across the county boundary.
(2) She was named Maggie in the Norbury register of baptisms.