Rose MARKHAM

  Research Notes:

Date of birth: info from Olive Shaw 11 Sept 2003
Census returns North Killingholme 1881aged 1 (33 Manor Farm)
Census returns Goxhill 1891aged 11
Census returns Crumsall, Manchester 1901 aged 21(17 Clarendon Road - visitor to
Fred and Annie Garthwaite)

Notes from Olive F Shaw 2003:

"Annie had married Fred - a bricklayer - at the turn of the century there was a lot of house building going on in north Manchester and the mill towns, with the growth of the cotton industry. Fred would have come for work. I had assumed that Rose had come to be with her sister when her first child was due, - this turned out to be correct as Rose was indeed staying with Anne when Sydney was born. I didn't know that Dinah had come to Manchester also, but would have found her when next I was in central library Manchester looking at the 1901 census, all the Fergusons were also in that same close area. Rose got a job as housemaid in George Street, and obviously decided to stay. Through Fred her brother-in-law she would have met John Ferguson, a painter and decorator. All the Ferguson boys, and their father and his brothers were house builders and each had a different trade, master builder, plumber, plasterer, painter and decorator. They always worked together, and referred to themselves as 'the firm'.

Census 1911, Hightown, Manchester, Lancashire
John Ferguson, Head aged 32 (House Painter)
Rose Ferguson, Wife aged 30
Olive Ferguson, daughter aged 6
Hilda Ferguson, daughter aged 6 months Total children born alive 3, children living 2, children who have died 1 Number of rooms 8

Rose married John FERGUSON in Sep 1903. (John FERGUSON was born in 1879.)