The Family of Mary & David Hirst
b.1827? (found in 1881 census)
Meltham / Almondbury, Yorkshire
Mary was born in 1827 in Meltham/Almondbury, Yorkshire and David Hirst was born in 1825 in Almondbury, Yorkshire. Mary and David married (perhaps in 1850's) and their first daughter, Alice Ann Hirst, was born in Glossop, Derbyshire, on 14th April 1856. She was the eldest of four daughters. The other daughters were born in 1860s: Henrietta, Emma Jane and Mary Ellen.
It says on the 1881 British Census that Mary & David Hirst lived at 3 Cemetry Road, Glossop Dale, Derbyshire with their daughters Alice Ann and Henrietta. David Hirst is listed as a farmer. And adopted daughter called Alice Horrocks was living with them. Alice was six years old and was born in Ashton, Lancashire.
In 1882, Alice Ann Hirst married into the Aldous family when she married Frederick Aldous when she was twenty-five. Alice Ann was a weaver at the time of her marriage.
By the time of the 1901 Census, Mary Ellen Hirst had married Charles Henry Lyne and they were living with six children at 33 Hadfield Road, Derbyshire and possibly with her mother, Mary Hirst, who is listed on the same household census.
At the time of the 1911 census, Mary Ellen Lyne (age 52) was the head of the household as she was a widow. Their address had changed to 13 Church Street, Hadfield. The house had five rooms including the kitchen. Five of their children are listed as living there: Arthur Lyne (age 31), Jane Lyne (age 29), Polly Lyne (age 22), Fred Lyne (age 17), Minnie Lyne (age 13). All the children were working as cotton weavers.
Henrietta Hirst married Leopold Linney in 1914 and they moved to the United States.
b. 1856 (14 April?)
d. 24 September 1913
m. 1882
Frederick Aldous
b. ?
m. 1914 Leopold Linney, Glossop, Derbyshire
son Leopold Linney born in USA
Emma Jane Hirst
b. ?
Rachel Hirst
b. ?
Mary Ellen Hirst
b. approx 1860/61
Hadfield, Derbyshire
m. 1878
Charles Henry Lyne
