Find Ancestors

Using traditional Irish naming patterns I'd assume Matthew's father was Joseph

Oh dear! What would my mother have said; she always considered herself to be a cut above the neighbours. It does explain the break-up of the family in the mid 1870s. Matthew’s wife died in Feb 1874, I suspect in childbirth as Winifred was born the same month/year. She died a year later, in the workhouse. By the 1881 census Matthew appears to be in Leeds (a rag trade city), the older children were independent and lodging locally, my grandfather and his younger brother were inmates at the Moral & Industrial School, and their sister was in an orphanage in Manchester. So this clears up a lot of questions and I can now focus my research a lot better. Thank you AustinQ.

Execellent article relative to Angel Meadow.....



https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/features/my-forefathers-life-in-manchesters-slums-discovering-family-roots-in-the-hell-on-earth-of-angel-a6896021.html

I have his book on Kindle. It really brings home the meaning of the word ‘slum’.
“Angel Meadow : Victorian Britain’s Most Notorious Slum”