Joseph Palethorpe

c1830-1902

Joseph was baptised on the 29^th April 1830, at St Mary Magdalene, Newark, Nottinghamshire, the son of Daniel (a Labourer) and Elizabeth Palethorpe (nee Hallam) who were married on the 28^th November 1807, in Newark.

Joseph’s father Daniel was baptised on the 13^th November 1786, at St Mary, Newark, the son of Joseph and Martha Palethorpe (nee Flint) who were married on the 9^th January 1775, at St Mary Newark. He died aged 72, in 1860, in Newark.

Joseph’s mother Elizabeth Hallam was born c1786, (place unknown, not Nottinghamshire). Possible death in 1850, in Nottinghamshire, aged 64.

Daniel and Elizabeth also had the following children baptised in Newark:

Hannah, 5^th November 1808, at Christ Church

Sarah, 1^st March 1810, at St Mary

Martha, 9^th March 1812, at St Mary

James, 25^th November 1813, at St Mary

Abraham, 2^nd November 1815, at St Mary

Frances, 19^th May 1817, at St Mary

Elizabeth, 3^rd May 1819, at St Mary

Mary, 24^th February 1821, at St Mary

Daniel, 26^th May 1823, at St Mary

Ann, 16^th May 1825, at St Mary

John, 7^th April 1828, at St Mary

In 1841 Joseph (10) was living in Tomlinson’s Yard, Newark Upon Trent, with his father Daniel (55), a Sail Mender, his mother Elizabeth (55), his brother James (25) a Factory Man, his sister Frances (20), His brother Daniel (17), a Labourer, his sister Ann (15) and his brother John (13).

The 1851 census records Joseph (21) as a Labourer. He was living with his widowed father Daniel (69), B--- Mender, his brother James (37), a Labourer and his sister Ann (26), a B- Mender.

In 1861 Joseph (30) was recorded as a Soldier (a Private), in the Army, stationed in Hougham, Dover, Kent. The UK Royal Hospital Chelsea Pensioner Admissions and Discharges 1715-1925 records record him having served in the 60^th Foot Regiment, in receipt of a pension from the 4^th November 1873

Joseph married Sarah Withers on the 25^th December 1873, in Newark on Trent, Nottinghamshire.

(Sarah Withers was a widow. She was born c1833 in Southwell, Nottinghamshire, the daughter of Henry and Maria Jephson (nee Jackson) who were married on the 4^th September 1820, at St Mary the Virgin (Minster), Southwell. She married Robert Wilson on the 2^nd January 1854, in Southwell. The had three sons, Samuel, 1854, William, 1856 and John Frederick, 1858. Robert Wilson died in 1866. Sarah remarried in 1871, her 2^nd husband was George Withers, who died the following year, aged 23)

The 1881 census records Joseph (49), a General Labourer and Sarah (47), a Laundress, living in Chatham Street, Newark Upon Trent, Nottinghamshire.

In 1891 Joseph (59), a Pensioner and Sarah (57), were living in North Gate, Newark, Nottinghamshire.

The 1901 census records Joseph (69), an Army Pensioner and Sarah (67), living with Sarah’s son Samuel Wilson (47), a Master Foreman, in Malt Cottages, King’s Road, Newbury, Berkshire.

Joseph was widowed in 1901. Sarah died aged 67, she was laid to rest in the Newtown Road Cemetery on the 13^th November. (Abode at time of death, 4 Skinner’s Buildings, King’s Road, Newbury) 

Joseph died aged 69, on the 25^th October 1902, in the Newbury Workhouse. He was laid to rest in the Newtown Road Cemetery on the 28^th November.

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