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Thomas Horobin 1819-1905

Thomas Horobin was born on 7 September 1819 at Crowdecote in Hartington parish in Derbyshire, the son of Thomas Horobin 1777-1858 of Longnor in Staffordshire and his wife née Ellen Mellor 1786-1868.

He married Hannah Wood on 29 July 1840 at Sheen in Staffordshire. She had died by 1851.

He married secondly Martha Skidmore 1831-1872 on 25 December 1850 after banns at Hartington. She was born in 1831 at Brierlow near Chelmorton in Derbyshire, the daughter of Thomas and Ann Skidmore, and was baptised at Chelmorton on 2 October 1831. Her father was the toll keeper at Brierlow Bar.

Stiff Close in the Dove Valley near Longnor

When the Census was taken in 1861 they were farming four acres at Leek Road, Crowdecote in Derbyshire. However by 1871 they had moved across the river Dove to Stiff Close in Longnor where they farmed seventeen acres. The farm adjoinis the River Dove on the Staffordshire side, off the old turnpike road from Crowdecote in Derbyshire up to Longnor and eventually over the moors to Leek in Staffordshire.

His wife Martha Horobin died in 1872 aged 41 years, and was buried at Hartington on 26 November 1872.

Thomas Horobin then appears to have given up his farm, as in 1881 it was in the occupation of his brother Benjamin Horobin. When he died in 1905 he was living at 4 Queen Street in Stockport, Cheshire.

Thomas Horobin and his wife Martha Horobin née Skidmore had the following children, both at Brierlow in Chelmorton parish:

Rachel Horobin. She was born in 1853, and baptised at Chelmorton on 11 January 1853. In 1898 she was married to her cousin Jethro Horobin 1861-1927. He was the son of William Horobin 1807-1886 and his wife nee Mary Edge 1825-1913. They lived at the Crofts Farm in Longnor. She died in 1919 aged 66 years, and was buried at Earl Sterndale on 19 February 1919.

Thomas Horobin. He was born in 1855, and baptised at Chelmorton on 23 December 1855. He married Elizabeth Bradbury (born 1858 in Longnor) in 1875. They lived at Tunstead near Wormhill in Derbyshire, and Thomas Horobin was a joiner at the local lime works. He died on 5 July 1924 aged 67 years.

Their father Thomas Horobin died in 1905 at Stockport aged 85 years, and was buried at Earl Sterndale on 24 April 1905.

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