Elizabeth Crookes

1801 - 1880

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• Ann was born in Tideswell in 1821 and died in 1824.
• George was born just after Christmas 1823 in Tideswell. He only lived for 8 days.
• Mary Ann was born in Tideswell in 1825. She died aged 18 in 1844.
• Hugh was born in Tideswell in 1828. He died in Poynton in 1836 aged 8.
• William was born in 1831, He died the following year.
• Elizabeth was born in Tideswell in 1833. She died in 1846 aged 13.
• Jane was born in Tideswell in January 1836. She died in June the same year in Poynton.
• Frances was probably born in Poynton in 1837. She moved to Tideswell in the 1840s, and later worked there as a weaver. She married Jervis Hall Cartlegde in Tideswell in 1859. They had 5 children - Alfred, Thomas, Ernest, John and Absalom. Her husband died in a quarry accident in 1881. She survived him by another 35 years, dying in 1916.
• Alfred has his own page.
• Harriet was born in 1842 in Poynton. She moved to Tideswell as an infant. As a teenager she worked in a cotton factory. She married William Gibson in 1863, and they set up home in Tideswell. They had 6 children between then and 1879 - Ann Elizabeth, Alice, Mary Jane, Priscilla, Frederick and Ernest. Her husband died in 1906. Harriet died in 1917.
• Martha was born in Tideswell in 1848. Before marriage she worked as a weaver. In 1869 she married Thomas Duffin, a blacksmith originally from Leicester. They had four daughters - Mary Elizabeth, Frances Harriet, Martha and Laura. They still lived in Tideswell at the time of the 1901 census. Nothing later is known of them.