Matthew WADE¹ = Margaret A JOHNSON²

Married Sunday 17 March 1872, St Alban, Bevington, Liverpool, LAN, ENG³

Matthew WADE:

Born 1854, Kirkdale, W Derby, LAN, ENG⁴
Died BEF 1907⁵
Occupation: Dock Labourer⁶
living at 1 Lower Bank View, Kirkdale in 1861 Census RG09 2722 94
not found in 1871 census
1872 lived at Eldon Street, Liverpool. (Eldon Street at the time consisted of insanitary court dwellings. In 1905 the street was redeveloped and used to pioneer the construction of pre-fabricated concrete tenements).
1881 lived at 3 Princes Terr, Bootle cum Linacre, LAN, ENG. (Now prob Princes Street, east of A565 near Canada Dock)
1887 lived at 27 St Johns road, Bootle
1891 living at 12 Maleston? Street, Bootle RG12 2971 97
1901 lived at lodging house 62-64 Irlam Road, Bootle (probably seperated from wife).


Margaret A JOHNSON:

Alias Margaret A BURKE
Alias Margaret WADE (1872)
Born 1857, Liverpool, LAN, ENG⁷
lived in St Albans Parish, Liverpool RG9 2652 120 with aunt & uncle. Parents busy with newborn twins
1872 illiterate
1872 lived at Eldon Street, Liverpool
1881 lived at 3 Princes Terr, Bootle cum Linacre, LAN, ENG 1881 Census RG11 3690/13
1887 lived at 27 St Johns Road, Bootle
1891 living at 12 Maleston? Street, Bootle RG12 2971 97
1901 lived at 46A Forth Street, Kirkdale, LAN, ENG 1901 Census RG13 3471 157

Harriet WADE⁸ = John SMITH > Family

Harriet WADE:

Alias Harriet SMITH
Born 1877, Bootle, LAN, ENG⁹
1881 lived at 3 Princes Terr, Bootle cum Linacre, LAN, ENG 1881 Census RG11 3690/13
1891 living at 12 Maleston? Street, Bootle RG12 2971 97
1901 lived at 46A Forth Street, Kirkdale, LAN, ENG 1901 Census RG13 3471 157



John SMITH:

Born 1873, KEN, ENG
Occupation: Dock labourer

Thomas William WADE = > Family

Married EST 1902¹⁰

Thomas William WADE:

Born 1879, Bootle, LAN, ENG¹¹
Occupation: Timber Carter
1881 lived at 3 Princes Terr, Bootle cum Linacre, LAN, ENG RG11/3690/13
1891 living at 12 Maleston? Street, Bootle RG12 2971 97
1901 lived at 46A Forth Street, Kirkdale, Lancashire 1901 Census RG13 3471 157

Mark WADE

Born 1883, Bootle, LAN, ENG
Occupation: Timber Carter
1891 living at 12 Maleston? Street, Bootle RG12 2971 97
lived at 46A Forth Street, Kirkdale, LAN, ENG 1901 Census RG13 3471 157

Sarah Jane WADE¹² = Joseph HERBERT(S)¹³ > Family

Married Saturday 1 June 1907, Register Office, Blackburn, LAN, ENG¹⁴

Sarah Jane WADE:

Alias Sarah Gertrude WALSH
Alias Gertrude Sarah HERBERT(S) (Saturday 1 June 1907)
Born Wednesday 15 June 1887, 27 St Johns Road, Bootle, LAN, ENG¹⁵
Died Tuesday 24 June 1930, Royal Infirmary, Preston, LAN, ENG¹⁶
Occupation: Nurse before marriage
1891 living at 12 Maleston? Street, Bootle RG12 2971 97
1901 Margaret living at 46A Forth Street, Kirkdale RG13 3471/157. Neither Matthew nor Sarah are living in the house, Sarah may be inmate in Liverpool Juvenile Reformatory, W Derby, Bootle. Reformatory located north of Derby Street/Edge Lane (A5047). Matthew is living in lodgings.

Known by the name Sarah. Worked as a Sick Nurse and it may have been because of her work that she found herself in Blackburn about 1906. During the early part of 1907 while living at 18 Simmons Street she became pregnant and married the father, Joseph Herberts that summer. The name Gertrude Sarah is used at this time for unknown reasons. The couple moved to 3 Morton Street, Blackburn in time for the birth of Miriam that December. After a year or two, the family moved to 26 William Henry Street, Blackburn. Sons, Maurice (b.1909) and David (b.1913) were both born there.

After Joseph Herberts was killed in 1917, Sarah married a cellarman, Joseph Walsh who was a neighbour at 29 William Henry Street, Blackburn. There she had two other children, Connie and Freda. Sarah's son Maurice died in 1923 from tuberculosis.

There are thought to be descendents of siblings living in Liverpool and Canada but contact has been lost.





Joseph HERBERT(S):

Born ABT 1886, Leamington, WAR, ENG¹⁷
Died Sunday 25 March 1917, Jebel Hamrin, Mesopotamia (Iraq)¹⁸
Buried no known grave. Memorial at Basra War Cemetery¹⁹
Occupation: Furniture Upholsterer and French Polisher²⁰
see Herberts tree for details


Joseph Herberts c1916

= Joseph WALSH > Family

Joseph WALSH:

Occupation: Cellarman
Possibly partially crippled by polio. Rumoured to have been a heavy drinker and sometimes violent.

Margaret married age 15 or 16?, age 19 stated on marr cert
Matthew 18, age 21 stated on marr cert

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named in1907 marriage cert of dau Gertrude Sarah
name Mathiew in 1861 Census RG09 2722 94
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1881 Census RG11 3690/13
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March 1872 Matthew Wade m Margaret Johnson, Liverpool 8b 7
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age 6 in 1861 Census RG09 2722 94
Age 21 in 1872 marr cert Mar 1872 Liverpool 8b 7 unreliable prob marr age 18
Age 27 in 1881 Census RG11 3690/13

Birth Matthew Wade June 1843 Liverpool 20 517. Age discrepancy with census and also death same quarter June 1843 Matthew Wade Liverpool 20 383
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Marr Cert dau. 1907 shows deceased

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1872 marr cert Mar 1872 Liverpool 8b 7 labourer
1881 Census RG11 3690/13, Carter
1891 Dock Labourer RG12 2971 97
1901 Census, Dock Labourer
1907 Marr Cert dau, Farmer but unreliable
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Poss illegitimate, fathers (or stepfathers) name Patrick Burke, labourer
age 19 in 1872 marr cert, unreliable
age 24 in 1881 Census RG11 3690/13
either
FBMD June 1857 Margaret Johnson 8b 226 or
FBMD Mar 1859 Margaret Ann Johnson 8b 30
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1901 Census married to John Smith age 24
probably shown as Margaret in error in 1881 Census aged 4
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age 24 in 1901 Census RG13 3471 157
poss FBMD Harriet Wade June 1876 W Derby 8b 474
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unmarried in 1901
Marriages Mar 1902 Wade Thomas William W. Derby 8b 646
Marriages Dec 1904 Wade Thomas W Derby 8b 637

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FBMD March 1879 Thomas William Wade W Derby 8b 505
age 2 in 1881 Census RG11/3690/13
age 22 in 1901 Census RG13/ 3471 157
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also Gertrude Sarah at marriage 1907, Sarah Gertrude at death 1930
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Marr Cert FBMD June 1907 Blackburn 8e 984

The marriage certificate shows incorrect forenames and ages for both parties which is thought to be deliberate to hide the fact they were both minors and possibly had no parental consent.
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Sept 1887 Sarah Jane Wade W Derby 8b 431 (20 in 1907)
marr cert shows age 21 in 1907 and name to be Gertrude Sarah Wade
likely is 1901 Census RG13 3495 74 Sarah L Wade inmate Liverpool Juvenile Reformatory, at 6 Mount Vernon Green, W Derby, Bootle aged 14 born Seaforth, Lancs. (20 in 1907)
other possibles
Dec 1879 Gertrude Darling S Wade W Derby 8b 590
Dec 1886 Sarah Wade, Chorlton 8c 867 (21 in 1907)
March 1889 Gertrude Wade Birmingham 6d 12 (18 in 1907)
March 1889 Gertrude Wood Birmingham 6d 161 (18 in 1907)
Sept 1886 Gertrude Johnson W Derby 8b 543
Sept 1887 Sarah Johnson W Derby 8b 434

exclude these
March 1886 Gertrude White Aston 6d 405 (not this have cert )
Sept 1885 Gertrude Wade Wade W Derby 8b 389 (22 in 1907, not this have cert, parents James W & Mary Sharples)
Sept 1890 Wade Gertrude Hagar W Derby 8b 566 (promising but death following year June 1891 Wade Gertrude Hagar age 0 W Derby 8b 509)
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Death Cert aged 43

On a trip to Blackpool on the 24th June 1930, Sarah was run over by a motor coach in Long Lane, Ashton. She sustained a compound fracture of the right femur and other injuries and died in the Royal Infirmary at Preston the same day. An Inquest was held by Coroner for Lancashire Southwest 26th June 1930 but no records of the inquest have been located. Compensation was paid by the bus company which Joseph Walsh refused to share with Sarah's children from her first marriage.
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