THE NEEDHAM FAMILY |
LINKS: Neil Wagstaff's Great NEEDHAM Site Derbyshire Family History Society Website My webpage on the History of the Duke of York Inn, in relation to the Needhams. |
The Needham family originate from the Chelmorton area of Derbyshire. I have followed
the line back from Maria Needham, who married Henry Tyrer in 1908, to her Great grandfather George Needham, publican of the Duke of York Inn, Pomeroy. There was still a question mark,
however, over the line beyond George. Thanks here, go to Neil Wagstaff, who has done alot of research on the Needhams and has helped aim me in the right direction. However, a while ago I realised that something was not right and I needed to be able to make sense of the fact that I there was a Richard Needham, innkeeper of the Duke of York just prior to George and had no idea of the connection between them as he did not show up on the family tree. Certain that he should, as it would be too much of a coincidence for them not to be related, I realised that in all probability I had taken the wong branch with George and began instead to research the line of Richard. Here I found that Richard did indeed have a brother called George baptsied only a few months later than the one I originally had and there was my connection. Thanks must go here to Derek Gilchrist, a Derbyshire research specialist who has helped me make sense of this and agrees that I am now on the right lines. The furthest I can go at present is Richard Needham, who was possibly the son of Ricardus Needham, baptised on 12th June, 1675 at Taddingtson/Priestcliffe which is near Chelmorton. It is also very likely that his wife was Deborah Goodwin of Flagg, the daughter of Hugh Goodwin of Monyash. If this is the case they were married on 17th June, 1714 at Bakewell. [Deborah is mentioned in her uncle George Goodwin's will of 1725, as wife of Richard Needham and daughter of his late brother Hugh]. What I do know is that Richard, who was buried at Chelmorton on 27th October, 1749 (according the the NBI) was the father of the following seven children i: Richard Needham bp 10/16.11.1714 Chelmorton m 3.3.1746 Chelmorton to Mary Swann bur 26.4.1786 Chelmorton Joan Needham bp 10.3.1716 Chelmorton Edward Needham bp 6.9.1718 Chelmorton Ann Needham bp 14.4.1719 Chelmorton John Needham bp 30.7.1723 Chelmorton d 2.8.1723 John Needham bp 28.1.1724 Chelmorton Joseph Needham bp 24.8.1729 Chelmorton Richard Needham was the eldest son of Richard Needham and Deborah Goodwin, baptized on 10/16th November, 1714 at Chelmorton parish church i. He married Mary Swann, daughter of Jonathan Swann and Sarah Hawkesworth on 3rd March, 1746 at Chelmorton parish church i. They had eight children, all baptized at Chelmorton; i Mary Needham bp 3.4.1748 Chelmorton Sarah Needham bp 7.10.1750 Chelmorton Hannah Needham b 1754 Chelmorton Richard Needham bp 7.4.1754 Chelmorton m 1.7.1779 Chelmorton to Elizabeth Dawson bur 28.3.1818 Chelmorton Martha Needham bp 28.1.1759 Chelmorton Joseph Needham bp 7.2.1762 Chelmorton George Needham bp 9.5.1765 Chelmorton Betty Needham bp 13.12.1767 Chelmorton It seems likely that Richard was buried on 26th April 1786 at Chelmorton i but nothing is known about his wife Mary. A will for Richard has been found, dated 11 April, 1786 in which Richard is stated to be an 'Innholder' and a son Joseph (previously not known about) is to receive all the estate after his mother's death. The only other children mentioned in the will are son Richard and daughters Mary and Elizabeth. So had the others died by this time? Richard Needham was the eldest son of Richard Needham (of Bakewell) and Mary Swann born in 1754 at Chelmorton and baptized there on 7th April 1754.i He married Elizabeth Dawson, daughter of Robert Dawson and Jane of Chelmorton, on 1st July 1779 at Chelmorton parish church. They had seven children between 1781 and 1803 all baptized at Chelmorton i; Sarah Needham bp 11.2.1781 Chelmorton Martha Needham bp8.5.1784 Chelmorton Joseph Needham bp 23.11.1786 Chelmorton Richard Needham (Publican Duke of York) bp 12.4.1779 Chelmorton m 15.4.1813 Bakewell to Nancy Hulme d 1852 Heaton Norris George Needham (Publican Duke of York) bp 15.2.1793 Chelmorton m 4.4.1817 Chelmorton to Ann Nall bur 3.8.1824 Taddington Eliza Needham bp 3.5.1796 Chelmorton Hannah Needham bp 3.8.1803 Chelmorton George Needham was the third son of Richard Needham and Elizabeth Dawson baptised on 15th February,1793 at Chelmorton, Derbyshire. George married Ann Nall, daughter of Robert Nall and Ellen Dicken (Thanks to Cath Collison for this info) on 4th April, 1817 at Chelmorton parish church. The same year, George became Publican of The Duke of York Inn at Pomeroy, which up until 1816 had been run by his brother Richard and his wife Nancy. They had four children born at the Duke of York, baptised at Chelmorton: George Needham (Farmer) bp 15.2.1818 Chelmorton Matthew Needham (Farmer) bp 9.5.1819 Chelmorton m1 18.3.1861 Tideswell to Julia Elizabeth Bowden m2 28.9.1857 Tideswell to Mary Howell bur 25.11.1888 Taddington aged 69 Mark Needham (Grocer) bp 1.10.1820 Chelmorton m 21.6.1846 Buxton to Ann Brocklehurst (born 1828) d 1852? Ellen Dicken Needham (Publican) bp 12.5.1822 Chelmorton m 1847 to George Dicken d 1899 Richard Needham and Nancy Hulme married on 15th April 1813 at Bakewell. They had two children born at the Duke of York: Elizabeth Needham bp 3.4.1814 Chelmorton George Needham bp 3.12.1815 Chelmorton m 1838 Disley to Jane Wilks But it appears that they moved to Heaton Norris and had four further children; Enoch Needham b 9.11.1820, bp 6.1.1821 Longton, Stafford m 19.12.1852 Heaton Norris to Sophia Bardsley Louisa Needham born abt 1826 Mary Needham born abt 1826 Heaton Norris m 15.7.1850 Didsbury to John Wild Alfred Needham born abt 1828 They moved to Longton and then to Heaton Norris by 1820 and 1826 but it is likely that they left Chelmorton as early as 1816 when George took over the Duke of York. They lived at Ince Street, Heaton Norris at the time of the 1841 census (Ref HO107/582/3/5/17 Page 26), although his eldest son George who was by now married to Jane Wilks and was living at Love Lane, Heaton Norris and was a cotton weaver at this time (ref HO107/ 582/4/6/9 Page 90). Richard died at Heaton Norris in 1852 aged 64. George died at the young age of 34 in 1824 and was buried on 3rd August 1824 at Taddington. His widow Ann and her children continued to run the pub; she was listed as both Farmer and Duke of York publican in the 1857 Directory of Chelmorton. Ann was publican up until 1859 when she died. Her son George took over as publican but only for a short time. Mark Needham was the third son of George Needham and Ann Nall, born in 1820 at the Duke of York Inn, Pomeroy, near Buxton, Derbyshire. He was baptised at Chelmorton parish church on 1st October 1820. In 1841 he was living with his widowed mother Ann and his siblings at what was called "Shut House", Chelmorton, ie The Duke of York. His mother ran the pub from the time of his father's death until her own in 1859. Mark married Ann Brocklehurst, daughter of John Brocklehurst, farmer and Maria on 21st June 1846 at Buxton parish church. He was a Bathman at that time. They had two sons: George Francis Needham bp 26.10.1846 Buxton m 1.4.1872 Earle Sterndale to Ann Wardle d 1896 Buxton John Needham (Railway/Hotel Porter) b 23.8.1848 bp 10.9.1848 Buxton m ? to Ann Sneath d 24.5.1910 Walton Workhouse By 1848 Mark had become a shopkeeper. His wife Ann appears to have died before the time of the 1851 census, when he was living back at the Duke of York with his mother and eldest son George. In 1851 the young son John was found to be living with his grandmother Maria Brocklehurst and ?grt grandmother Sarah Newton, at Buxton. It is not yet clear what happened to Mark after 1851 or when exactly he died, but he does not appear to be on the 1861 census. John Needham was the second son of Mark Needham and Ann Brocklehurst, born in Buxton on 23rd August 1848. He was baptised at Buxton parish church, Derbyshire on 10th September, 1848. John was living with his grandmother Maria Brocklehurst at the time of the 1851 census. By 1881 John is living in Burlington Place, Burbage with his wife Ann (nee Sneath), children and his grandmother Maria (now Maria Drake) aged 73. So far there is no sign of this marriage; all we know about her is that she was born in Cottesmore, Rutland. John and Ann had three children: John Needham b 1874 Derby (remained unmarried) Anne Needham b 1876/7 bp 18.2.1877 Buxton Maria Needham b 22.11.1879 Burbage bp 7.1.1880 Buxton m 23.5.1908 Walton-on-the-Hill to Henry Tyrer (b 1881) d 1957 At the time of Maria's birth, John was a goods Porter for the Midland Railway, but by the 1881 census he was a hotel porter and his wife Ann, a lodging house keeper. It seems likely that their daughter Ann died at some time before 1891. At this time they had moved to Liverpool and were living at 51 Buchanan Road, Walton-on-the-Hill. John was now a Dock porter and was married to Anny, (although this looked like Amy and for a long tiome, I thought he had had a 2nd wife), born in Rutland. Their son John was 16 and working at a grain store and Marie/Maria was at school. There is no mention of her sister Ann. In 1901, John, now a widower, was still living at 51 Buchanan Road with his son John and daughter Maria who was a topper at a jam factory. His wife, Ann had died on 24th April, 1900 aged 54, at their home of broncho-pneumonia. John died on 24th May, 1910 aged 61. Maria Needham was born on 22nd November 1879 at Burlington Place, Burbage. She was baptised on 7th January, 1880 at Buxton parish church. Maria married Henry Tyrer on 23rd May, 1908 at the parish church in Walton-On-the-Hill. She was still living at Buchanan Road at the time with her father John, who was a witness at the wedding and a labourer. Maria and Henry lived at Walton-on-the-Hill and had seven children. Maria died in 1957. i Chelmorton Parish registers |
The opposite photograph shows Maria with husband Henry Tyrer and their two youngest children taken approx. 1911 |
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