6th Gen - Whitworth / Jepson

Sixth Generation (3rd Great Grandparents)

John Whitworth and Ann Jepson

Mary Ann Whitworth (1849 – 1940)

Florence Louisa Winterbotham Peet (1879 – 1957)

John Henry Andrews (1907 – 1971)

Dudley John Andrews (1929 – 2010)

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John Whitworth

John is the son of George Whitworth and Ann Dennis and was born about 1825 in Tuxford, Nottinghamshire and died in 1907, about age 82.

In this year, 1825;

The first print of from Samuel Pepys’ diaries.
The Law Society is formed.

Ann Jepson

Ann is the daughter of Jepson and Rachel, was born about 1819 in Bothamsall, Nottinghamshire. She was christened on the 25th of July 1819 in Bothamsall and died on the 5th of December 1893 in Bargate House, Newark-on-Trent, Nottinghamshire aged 74.

In this year, 1819;

James Watt the engineer and designer of steam engines dies at the age of 83.
John MacAdam publishes A Practical Essay On The Scientific Repair and Preservation of Public Roads. His methods greatly improve the quality of road surfaces.

On the 1841 census Ann is at her home in Bothamsall with her mother Rachel, younger brother William aged 20 and Edmund

aged 1. Also there is George Whitworth, tailor, he is the father of her future husband John Whitworth. It looks like Edmund is possibly Ann’s illegitimate son.

Ann’s age is given as 20, the same as William, but she is 21 at the time of the census.

John at that time is at the home of his grandparents George and Priscilla Whitworth and is working as an apprentice tailor.

In 1851 census John and Ann, who married in 1848, are living in Bothamsall, with Rachel Jepson, his mother-in-law, who is the head of the family. The street name is given as just Bothamsall village. John has followed in his father’s footsteps and is working as a tailor, Ann is recorded as being ‘tailor’s wife’. The census shows that the household comprises;

Rachel Jepson – Head – Widow – 63 – Pauper Ag Lab Wife

John Whitworth – Son-in-law – Married – 26 – Tailor

Ann Whitworth – Daughter – Married – 31 – Tailors Wife

Mary A Whitworth – Granddaughter – 1

Edmund Jepson – Grandson – 11 – Scholar

George Whitworth – Visitor – Widow – 52 – Tailor (John’s father).

Since Mary Ann Whitworth is John and Ann’s daughter it again suggests that Edmund Jepson is Ann’s son.

One family tree on Ancestry has Edmund as the son of William Jepson, Ann’s brother, and unknown mother. However William is an agricultural labourer whereas Edmund becomes a tailor as shown on the 1861 and 1891 census. Since Ann’s husband is a tailor it is likely that he picked up the interest and skill from John Whitworth, so the evidence is pointing more to Ann than to William Jepson.

There is a birth for Edmund Dodge Jepson O/N/D 1839 East Retford Vol 15 Page 474.

White’s directory of Nottinghamshire 1853 describes Bothamsall as;

"Bothamsall or Bottomsall parish lies east of Clumber Park, betwixt and near the confluence of the rivers Wollen and Idel, and the village is pleasantly situated near the Retford and Ollerton road, 4½ miles north by east of the latter. The parish contains 1,712 acres of land, including wood and plantations, containing a variety of soil, but mostly a sandy loam, and 319 inhabitants. The Duke of Newcastle is the sole owner, lord of the manor and impropriator.

The church of St Mary is a perpetual curacy, of the certified value of £52, of which the Rev. Henry Fynes Clinton is the incumbent. The church was rebuilt in 1844 by His Grace, on the site of the old one. It is a neat gothic structure, with nave, chancel, north aisle and pinnacled tower, with three bells. There is also a handsome parsonage, a little east of the church. The stone principally used was brought from Worksop Manor, a great part of which is taken down.

In 1852, the Duke of Newcastle converted a barn into a small National School, and he also pays the teacher's salary. The manor, before the Conquest, was held by Earl Tosti, but afterwards by Ralph de St George and Richard de Furnell, who gave the rectory to the Abbey of Welbeck, but in the 20th year of Queen Elizabeth, the tithes and manor were granted to the Earl of Lincoln. Haughton Park, enclosed about 50 years ago, is in this parish. Here are situated the Duke's Kennels, with a neat house, occupied by the head gamekeeper."

By 1861 the family were still in Bothamsall and comprised John, Ann and their children and John was still working as a tailor but Mary Ann (Marian) is not there, she is visiting her aunt, Ann Jephson in Tuxford.

John Whitworth – Head – Married – 36 – Tailor

Ann Whitworth – Wife – Married – 41

George John Whitworth – Son – 9 – Scholar

Eliza Whitworth – Daughter – 6 – Scholar

William Jephson Whitworth – Son – Only just born

George Whitworth – Father – Widow – 62 – Tailor

But by 1871 they had moved to 42 Whitfield Street in Newark-on-Trent, Nottinghamshire and Marian is with John and Ann along with Emily and William Harrison a three month old child. Emily at the time was 14 years old but Marian is about 22. Perhaps William Harrison is Marian’s child, or even Eliza’s who is 16 years old and working as a domestic servant in Newark, although there is no evidence, but William was born in Newark.

John Whitworth – Head – Married – 46 – Tailor

Ann Whitworth – Wife – Married – 51

Marian Whitworth – Daughter – Unmarried – 22

William Harrison – Visitor – 3 months (????? Child)

In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Bothamsall like this:

BOTHAMSALL, a parish in East Retford district, Notts; on the river Medan, 5½ miles NNE of Ollerton, and 6 WNW of Tuxford r. station. Post Town, Walesby, under Newark. Acres, 1,630. Real property, £2,275. Pop., 296. Houses, 57. The property is all in one estate. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Lincoln. Value, £52. Patron, the Duke of Newcastle. The church is good.

John and Ann were still Whitfield Street at the time of Marian’s marriage on the 29th of June 1872 and John’s occupation has, not surprisingly, remained the same.

By the time of the 1881 census all of the children had by now left home and John and Ann were now at Cherryholt in Newark. John was still working as a tailor.

On the 28th of July 1889 John was present at the time of death of Henry Peet, his son-in-law. The address is given for both Henry and John is Bargate House, Bargate, Newark. It appears that this is also the home of John and Ann as they were also there on the night of 1891 census though it is likely that the house belongs to their daughter, Marian (sic Mary A) Peet. The census also gives the house as 5 Bargate, Newark.

On the 8th of December 1893 the Stamford Mercury announced Ann’s death.

“Newark – ….. Dec 5, at Bargate House, Ann wife of John Whitworth, tailor, 74.”

By 1901 John has retired and is now on his own following Ann’s death and living at 81 North Gate in Newark.

Throughout his working life John's occupation of tailor follows in his father’s footsteps and his daughter Marian kept the family tradition going as at one point she was a dress maker.

Married Qtr 1 1848 - East Retford - Vol 15 Page 655

Ann – Death Oct-Nov-Dec 1893 Newark Vol 7b Page 262

John – Death Jul-Aug-Sept 1907 Newark Vol 7b Page 228

Noted events in their lives were:

* Living: 1841, John was in Tuxford, Nottinghamshire, at the home of his grandparents.

* Living: 1841, Ann was in Bothamsall, Nottinghamshire, at the home of her mother.

* John worked as an apprentice tailor in 1841.

* Living: 1851, Bothamsall, Nottinghamshire.

* John worked as a tailor in 1851.

* Ann was classed as a tailor’s wife.

* Living: 1861, Bothamsall, Nottinghamshire.

* John worked as a tailor in 1861.

* Living: 1871, 42 Whitfield Street, Newark-on-Trent, Nottinghamshire.

* John worked as a tailor in 1871.

* Living: 29th June 1872, 42 Whitfield Street, Newark-on-Trent, Nottinghamshire.

* John worked as a Tailor on 29th June 1872. From Marian's marriage certificate

* Living: 1881, Cherryholt Lane, Newark-on-Trent, Nottinghamshire.

* John worked as a tailor in 1881.

* Living: 28th of July 1889, Bargate House, Bargate, Newark-on-Trent, Nottinghamshire.

* John worked as a tailor in 1891. From Henry Peet’s death certificate.

* Living: 1891, 5 Bargate, Newark-on-Trent, Nottinghamshire.

* John worked as a tailor in 1891.

* Living: 1901, 81 North Gate, Newark-on-Trent, Nottinghamshire.

* John worked as a retired tailor in 1901.

John married Ann Jepson in 1848 in East Retford, Nottinghamshire.

Children from this marriage were:

i. Marian Whitworth – (1849 –6/4/1936)

ii. George John Whitworth – (1852 - )

iii. Eliza Whitworth – (1855 - )

iv. Emily Whitworth – (1857 - )

v. William Jephson Whitworth – (1860 – After 1911)

Before the marriage Ann had a child

Edmund Dodge Jepson – (1839 - )