William Thomas PRESCOTT = Hannah WAINWRIGHT

Married 1903

William Thomas PRESCOTT:

Alias Thomas PRESCOTT
Born 1871, Peckers Hill, Sutton, nr St Helens, LAN, ENG¹
Died after 1901
Occupation: Office Clerk, School Headmaster²
William Thomas in the 1871 Census but Thomas in 1881, 1891 Census and k.a. "Tom". Worked as an office clerk (probably glassworks) in 1891.

1901 census Asst School Master living at Mosbro Road Star cottage, Rainford with mother Ellen and sister maria

Believed to have been headmaster at Bugsworth school and was instrumental in changing the village name to Buxworth in the summer of 1929. lived at Southport before death

A witness at sister Ellen's marriage in Blackburn Feb 1893


Hannah WAINWRIGHT:

Alias Hannah PRESCOTT

Miriam PRESCOTT

Died Buxworth 1980's ??
Occupation: sometime Methodist preacher
religious
unmarried and no issue
William Prescott glass objects originally held by Miriam

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2 :
description on 1891 Census RG12/3026 28 p53

Headmaster Bugsworth (Buxworth) School