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Ambleside, Westmorland

George Staveley was born in 1832 the son of Henry Staveley of Dent and his third wife Betty GOTH.  George first married Ellen WAINMAN in Ulverston on April 24, 1853. A daughter Elizabeth was born later that year, but died in infancy.  George's wife Ellen died the following year in 1854.  George remarried in Kendal in 1856 to a Barbara REDMAYNE, and briefly resided in South Shields, Durham prior to the 1861 census, but the family eventually settled in Ambleside, Westmorland.  George and Barbara are known to have had the following children:

1861: Middleton, Westmorland, England

Note that George and Barbara's first two sons were born in South Shields Durham.  It is known that George's half brother, Edward (son of Henry Staveley (b. 1785) of Dent and his second wife Nanny MIDDLETON) is found residing in South Shields in the 1871 census.

1871: Edenburgh, Ambleside, Westmorland, England

We find George Staveley in the Ambleside Herald and Lakes News in 1880, regarding not one, but two offences related to public drunkeness less than six months apart:

1881: Church Street, Ambleside, Westmorland, England

George and Barbara are both mentioned in the local newspaper regarding a courtcase surrounding the education of their daughter Fanny in 1881:

In 1881 George and Barbara's daughter Barbary is a servant in the Barrow household in Cartmel Fell, Lancashire.  Daughter Ellen is a servant in the Lowden household in Ambleside.  Daughter Annie is a servant in the Thornborrow household in Langdale, Westmorland.  George Jr. has not been located in the 1881 census.  However, son Henry married Mary Jane ATKINSON at Kendal on November 13, 1878, and is lodging at "The Green" in 1881:

1881: The Green, Ambleside, Westmorland, England

A William Henry Staveley was born in the Kendal district in b. 1879, and died as an infant, and is believed to have been the son of Henry and Mary Jane.

George Staveley again makes the papers in 1882:

A month later we learn of the death of George's son Thomas:

Two years later, we learn of George's own untimely death:

The year after George's death was clearly not a good one for this family.  First, a court case is brought against Barbara:

Less than a month later, George and Barbara's grandson died:

In 1891 George's widow Barbara is residing with her daughter Ellen, who married Charles RICHARDS in 1886:

1891: 7 Oxford Street, Millom, Cumberland, England

Barbara died in Cumberland in 1896, aged 63 years.

Barbara's son Henry remained in Ambleside with his wife Mary:

1891: Edinboro, Ambleside, Westmorland, England

1901: Edinboro, Ambleside, Westmorland, England

Henry and Mary's daughter Florence married James W. WALLACE in 1911, and was living at 9, Church St., Maryport, Cumberland in 1915.

Henry and Mary's son William was a Private serving with the Royal Lancaster Regiment during World War 1.  He fought in the second Battle of Ypres, and died on May 8, 1915.

Henry and Mary lost another son during the Great War. Son Norman McCleod Staveley was serving with the 8th Battalion of the Border Regiment when he was killed in action in France, during the Battle of the Somme, on July 3, 1916.  He is commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial in Somme, in France.  This is a Memorial to the 75,085 missing officers and men of the Somme who have no known grave.

* Special thanks to David Leverton for transcribing the Staveley family articles from the Ambleside Herald and Lakes News.

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