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1901
George Brown - brother ?

Putting this 1901 here, even if just for elimination:

FARRAR, Alfred Head Married M 46 1855 Railway Wagon Builder Brighouse Yorkshire
FARRAR, Mary H Wife Married F 48 1853 Mytholmroyd Yorkshire
>>HIMSWORTH, George Boarder Widower M 44 1857 Railway Wagon Builder Horbury Yorkshire

Registration District: Dewsbury Sub District: Thornhill Enumeration District: 9 Ecclesiastical Parish: Thornhill Lees Holy Innocents

Civil Parish: Thornhill

Address: 5, Albion Terrace, Thornhill County: Yorkshire (West riding)

Julie, just a point to bear in mind - sometimes in those days if a couple separated (divorce wasn't usually an option) a women would sometimes describe herself as a widow.

It's odd that Ada is described as a widow in the 1901 census when her youngest child, Eva Hainsworth, was born in 1903. I've trawled through the death records from the last quarter of 1897 (my grandmother Mildred was born on 20/8/1898) to 1911, and the only George Hainsworth of anything like the correct age died in the first quarter of 1907 at 49 (Wharfedale 9a 122).

Thanks so much!

Julie

Same family in 1901 census:-

HAINSWORTH, Ada Head Widow F 33 1868
Morton
Yorkshire
HAINSWORTH, Herbert Son Single M 14 1887 Errand Boy
Manningham
Yorkshire
HAINSWORTH, Fred Son Single M 13 1888
Manningham
Yorkshire
HAINSWORTH, Norman Son Single M 10 1891
Otley
Yorkshire
HAINSWORTH, Elizabeth Daughter Single F 8 1893
Otley
Yorkshire
HAINSWORTH, Mildred Daughter Single F 3 1898
Otley
Yorkshire VIEW
BROWN, George Brother Single M 43 1858 Labourer (Bricklayer)
Leeds
Yorkshire

Address:
29, Cardigan View, Headingley Cum Burley, Burley


RG number: RG13
Piece: 4242
Folio: 47
Page: 23

Kath. x

Could this be them in the 1891 census:-

HAINSWORTH, George Head Married M 34 1857 Mechanic Fitter
Leeds
Yorkshire
HAINSWORTH, Ada Wife Married F 25 1866
Morton
Yorkshire
HAINSWORTH, Herbert Son M 4 1887
Manningham
Yorkshire VIEW
HAINSWORTH, Fred Son M 2 1889
Leathley
Yorkshire

Address:
8, Ilkley Road, Otley


RG number: RG12
Piece: 3528
Folio: 124
Page: 29

Kath. x

There are a few possibilities for his birth.

Kath. x

This looks like their marriage:-

Marriages Jun 1887
HAINSWORTH George Bradford, Y. 9b 86

Spouse Ada Sunderland.

He was probably born a bit before 1870 I would think.

If you buy the marriage certificate it will give you his father's name which will help finding him in the census records.

Kath. x

I'm trying to trace my great-grandfather George Hainsworth, born c.1870 in the Bradford/Leeds area. Husband of Ada (nee Sunderland), father of Norman, Clarice, Eva, Elizabeth and Mildred Alice. He worked as a printing machine fitter. I am baffled by the fact that he does not appear in birth, marriage or census records - by 1911 Ada was a widow.