Mary Jane Bingham (13)

Mary Jane Bingham

1868 - 1951

Father	Robert Bingham
Mother	Hannah Goodwin
Husband	William Sheldon
Children	Margaret, John Robert, Victor Arnold, Edward

Mary Jane was born on 10th April 1868 in Litton, the only child of Robert & Hannah, and baptised in Tideswell just over 2 weeks later ⁽¹⁾⁽¹⁹⁾. Sometime fairly soon after her birth, the family moved to Cressbrook ⁽²⁾. She appeared twice in the census of 1871, once at home with her parents in Cressbrook ⁽²⁾, and also with her grandmother Elizabeth Bingham, and uncle William, in Litton⁽³⁾. She was obviously staying with her grandmother on the night of the 2nd April - indeed being an only child, its likely that her mother worked full time at Cressbrook Mill, and that Mary Jane spent a fair amount of time with her only living grandpanent.

Sometime in the 1870s, her parents and her moved to Ashton-under-Lyne, and were there at the time of the 1881 census (along with her uncle William and her grandmother, next door) ⁽⁴⁾. However by the next census of 1891 they had moved back to Cressbrook ⁽⁵⁾.

On 27th June 1892, she married William Sheldon from next door but one in Cressbrook, at Tideswell church ⁽⁶⁾. Her father died in December that same year ⁽⁰⁷⁾.

Her first child, Margaret, was born in July 1893 ⁽⁸⁾, and their next, John Robert, in March 1895 ⁽⁹⁾. Her mother died in 1898 ⁽¹⁰⁾. Their third child, Victor Arnold, was born in February 1900 ⁽¹¹⁾, but for some reason wasn't baptised for almost a year ⁽¹²⁾. At the time of the census in March 1901, her husband William was lodging in Hasland in Chesterfield, working as a coal miner ⁽¹³⁾, whilst Mary Jane and the family were still in Cressbrook ⁽¹⁴⁾. It seems that this arrangement didn't last long though, as by the time their last child Edward was baptised the following January, William was was back in Cressbrook working as a warehouseman at Litton Mill ⁽¹⁵⁾.

Her husband William died aged 59 in April 1930 ⁽¹⁶⁾. Mary Jane survived him by 21 years, dying at her daughter Margaret's home in Bakewell on 31st March 1951 ⁽¹⁷⁾.

Brief details of her children:

Margaret (later went by the name Maggie) was born on 18th July 1893 in Cressbrook. She married Lambert Robinson and had three children William, Phylis and Graham. She was living in Bakewell in 1951.
John Robert was born on 6th March 1895 in Cressbrook. He married Jessie Evelyn (unknown surname). They had two children Eric and Connie. Jessie died in 1961 and John in 1967.
Victor Arnold was born in Cressbrook on 3rd February 1900. He worked on the railway in administrative role, which meant he regularly got moved around the country. In 1925, whilst living in Nottingham, he married Dorothy Jackson from Litton Slack. They had a daughter Brenda in 1927 whilst living in Bugsworth. Eventually he moved back to Cressbrook, where he was living when he died of TB in 1935. Dorothy survived him by over 60 years.
Edward was born on 28th December 1901 in Cressbrook. He married Jane (Jinny) Broomhead. They didn't have any children. They stayed in Cressbrook for almost the rest of their lives. Edward died in December 1985 and Jinny in January 1987.

Sources:

Birth Certificate from Registration District of Bakewell states:

When and where born	Name	Sex	Name and surname of father	Name, surname and maiden surname of mother	Occupation of father	Signature, description and residence of informant	When registered
Tenth April 1868 Litton	Mary Jane	Girl	Robert Bingham	Hannah Bingham formerly Goodwin	Power loom cotton weaver	Hannah Bingham Mother Litton	Twentyfifth April 1868

Census of 2nd April 1871 reads:
Place: Top Row, Cressbrook

Robert Bingham	Head	Mar	30	Cotton Power Loom Weaver	[Derbyshire], Litton
Hannah d^o	Wife	Mar	29	d^o	d^o, Monyash
Mary Bingham	Daur		2		d^o, Litton

Census of 2nd April 1871 reads:
Place: Litton

Elizabeth Bingham	Head	W	53	Seamstress	[Derbyshire], [Litton]
William Bingham	Son	Unm	21	Cotton Mill Hand	do, do
Mary Jane Bingham	Grand^r		2		do, do

Census of 3rd April 1881 reads:
Place: 79 Princess St, Ashton-under-Lyne

Robert Bingham	Head	Mar	39	[Cotton Weaver]	Derbyshire, Litton
Hannah - do -	Wife	Mar	39	- do -	- do - Monyash
Mary Jane - do -	Daur		12	Scholar	- do - Litton
Alice Goodwin	Visitor	Mar	49		- do - Tideswell
Ann Heywood	Visitor	Unm	28	Cotton Weaver	- do - Little Longstone

Census of 5th April 1891 reads:
Place: Middle Cottages, Cressbrook, Litton

Robert Bingham	Head	M	49	Powerloom Calico Weaver	Employed	Derbyshire, Litton
Hannah Do	Wife	M	49			Do, Monyash
Mary Jane Do	Daur	S	22	Powerloom Calico Weaver	Employed	Do, Litton
Herbert Bennett	Boarder	Widower	32	Power Loom Overlooker	Employed	Do, Tideswell

Marriage Certificate from Registration District of Bakewell states:

1892 Marriage solemnized at the Parish Church in the Parish of Tideswell in the County of Derby

When married	Name and Surname	Age	Condition	Rank or Profession	Residence at the time of marriage	Father's name and Surname	Rank or Profession of father
1892 June 27th	William Sheldon	21	Bachelor	Labourer	Cressbrook	the late John Sheldon	Gamekeeper
1892 June 27th	Mary Jane Bingham	24	Spinster	-	Cressbrook	Robert Bingham	Weaver

Married in the Parish Church according to the Rites and Ceremonies of the Established Church after banns

in the presence of Fred Dawson, Charlotte Jackson

Death Certificate from Registration District of Repton states:

When and where died	Name	Sex	Age	Occupation	Cause of death	Signature, description and residence of informant	When registered
Sixteenth December 1892 The County Asylum Mickleover R.S.D.	Robert Bingham	Male	51 years	Formerly a weaver at Cressbrook Bakewell	Exhaustion from Epilepsy Certified by J Murray Lindsay MD	J Murray Lindsay MD Superintendent County Asylum Mickleover	Twentieth December 1892

Parish Register of St John the Baptist, Tideswell includes the entry:

When baptized	Child's Christian Name	Parents Name		Abode	Quality, Trade or Profession
		Christian	Surname
1893 July 20^th	Maggie	William & Mary Jane	Sheldon	Cressbrook	[Cop Carrier]
Born 18^th July 1893

Parish Register of St John the Baptist, Tideswell includes the entry:

When baptized	Child's Christian Name	Parents Name		Abode	Quality, Trade or Profession
		Christian	Surname
1895 July 4	John Robert	William & Mary Jane	Sheldon	Ravens Dale Cressbrook	Labourer
Born March 6 1895

Death Certificate from Registration District of Bakewell states:

When and where died	Name	Sex	Age	Occupation	Cause of death	Signature, description and residence of informant	When registered
Thwentieth November 1898 Ravensdale Litton RD	Hannah Bingham	Female	56 years	Widow of Robert Bingham a Powerloom Cotton Weaver	Influenzal Bronchitis Asthemia Certified by J S Parke MRCS	William Sheldon Son-in-law present at the death Ravensdale Litton	Twenty first November 1898

Birth Certificate from Registration District of Bakewell states:

When and where born	Name	Sex	Name and surname of father	Name, surname and maiden surname of mother	Occupation of father	Signature, description and residence of informant	When registered
Third February 1900, Cressbrook, Litton	Victor Arnold	Boy	William Sheldon	Mary Jane Sheldon formerly Bingham	General Labourer	Mary Jane Sheldon, Mother, Cressbrook, Litton	First March 1900

Parish Register of St John the Baptist, Tideswell includes the entry:

When baptized	Child's Christian Name	Parents Name		Abode	Quality, Trade or Profession
		Christian	Surname
1901 January 15	Victor Arnold	William & Mary Jane	Sheldon	Cressbrook	Labourer

Census of 31st March 1901 reads:
Place: 48 New St, Grassmoor, Hasland, Chesterfield

William Sheldon Boarder M 30 Coal Miner Worker [Derbys], Tideswell

Census of 31st March 1901 reads:
Place: Middle Row, Cressbrook

Mary Jane Sheldon	^{Head away} Wife	M	32	Cotton Weaver	Worker	Derby, Litton
Maggie Sheldon	Dau	s	7	~~School~~	.	" Cressbrook
John Rob^t Sheldon	Son	s	6	-	.	" "
Victor Arnold Sheldon	"	s	1	.	.	" "
Ethel Bingham	Visitor	s	16	Cotton Winder	Worker	Lanc, Hurst

Parish Register of St John the Baptist, Tideswell includes the entry:

When baptized	Child's Christian Name	Parents Name		Abode	Quality, Trade or Profession
		Christian	Surname
1902 January 28	Edward	William & Mary Jane	Sheldon	Cressbrook	Warehouseman at Litton Mill

Death Certificate from Registration District of Bakewell states:

When and where died	Name	Sex	Age	Occupation	Cause of death	Signature, description and residence of informant	When registered
Sixteenth April 1930, Cressbrook, Litton	William Sheldon	Male	59 years	An Overlooker in Cotton Doubling Mills	1.(a) Acute Cardiac Ashtma (b) Fatty Degeneration of Heart (c) Chronic Bronchitis 2. Chronic Phlebitis Left Leg No PM. Certified by [Fred K B Quanbrough] MRCS	Edward Sheldon, Son, in attendance, Cressbrook, Litton	Seventeenth April 1930

Death Certificate from Registration District of Bakewell states:

When and where died	Name	Sex	Age	Occupation	Cause of death	Signature, description and residence of informant	When registered
Thirty-first March 1951. Butts Cottage, Bakewell	Mary Jane Sheldon	Female	82 years	Widow of William Sheldon. Overlooker at Cotton Mill	1.(a) Myocardial degeneration. Certified by D S Cooke MB	M Robinson, Daughter. In attendance, Butts Cottage, Bakewell	Second April 1951

Census of 2rd April 1911 reads:

William Sheldon

Head

Married

Cop Winding Overlooker

Cotton Doubling

Worker

Cressbrook, Derbyshire

Mary Jane Sheldon

Wife

Married

Litton, Derbyshire

Maggie Sheldon

Daughter

Single

Cop Winder

" "

Worker

Cressbrook, Derbyshire

John Robert Sheldon

Son

Single

Bobbin Doffer

" "

Worker

Cressbrook, Derbyshire

Victor Arnold Sheldon

Son

" "

School

Cressbrook, Derbyshire

Edward Sheldon

Son

" "

School

Cressbrook, Derbyshire

Number of Rooms: 5
Postal Address: 47 Cressbrook via Buxton

Baptism entry in the parish register of St John the Baptist's, Tideswell reads :

When baptized	Child's Christian Name	Parents Name		Abode	Quality, Trade or Profession
		Christian	Surname
1868 April 27^th	Mary = Jane	Robert & Hannah	Bingham	Litton	Weaver
Born April 10 1868

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