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Plot A39 in Mountsorrel Cemetery
In the cencus of 1881 the birth place of Thomas was Rothley and for Ann it was Quorndon.Thomas was born in 1839 because he was 42 at the time of the cencus an Ann was 40 which tell us nothing.
Thomas nickname was Denby . He married twice and was a paving cutter. The roads were made up of stone blocks.
Greg was given his pocket watch by Grace Newbold.
Feb. 22, 2002 info from Allen Newbold
I visited the Quebec Historical Society today and spent about 4 hours looking at micro fiches on the 1851 and 1881 cencuses.The 1851 cencus was all hand written and not easy to read and was not available for all of England.I found 3 Thomases but not in the area I thought he should be.
The 1881 cencus is much more complete and I found our Thomas in it.I found him and some of the family in the county of Burrow on Soar and it stated that Thomas was 42 and born in Rothley county .Ann was 40 and born in Quorndon county.The names of Ernest 10 Mary Hannah 6 Alfred 4 and Jessie 3 were living at home at that time.Also in Burrow on Soar were the names of 2 Newbolds George age 80 and his wife Maria age 72.The cencus was taken street by street and we see the name The Green and Main street in Mountsorrel to name but two that I remember.I found a William Newbold age 52 living in Mountsorrel his wife Mary Ann age 48 born in Rothley,maybe Thomas,s brother.Also found a George Rudkin age 32 wife Sophia age 36 with 3 children Edna 6 Lily 4 and Florence 2 also an Emma Newbold age 46 and son George age 17.
On another mocro fiche I found a John Newbold with wife Rebecca married in Burrow upon Soar abt 1791 their 1st son was George Cook Newbold named after his mother Rebecca Cook.
I brought a small lunch with me but didn,t eat it until I got in the car to go home.They have alot of information there but were do you look first? The people there were helpful today and very accomodating. They told me to go to the Mormon Church in Lasalle,it,s just over the bridge from were I live so I might spend a day there next week.
In the cencus I saw the names of Woodhouse an Antill , I don,t know if you need any info on them but if so maybe I could go back and research it for you. Hopefully the Mormons can help me with birthdays of Thomas an Ann and maybe connect the George and John to our family.I feel they are related in some way because they lived close together in that area and I didn,t find any other Newbolds close by.
The research is fun and the time just flys while doing it.
I hope you have a good week-end and give my regards to the family. Allen
quote from Mountsorrel website:
Shearer Smith & Co. :
Between the 1830s and 1878, the Dalbeattie firm of Curteis and Shearer (later Shearer & Smith)) quarried granite at Craigmath and at Craignair Hill. They also operated quarries at Stead Stone, further down the Urr Valley. Dalbeattie was a comparatively small town, and there was a shortage of skilled granite quarriers. For this reason, from 60 to 80 English quarrymen were recruited from the Rothley, Mountsorrel and Hartshill quarries near Leicester, arriving in Dalbeattie during 1873. In the quarry, the men served as shot-blasters and stonedressers, others working in the masons' yard as stone polishers and sett-makers, As quarries were frequently worked out within decades, the quarriers were used to travelling from site to site.
Shearers' developed quarries elsewhere during a brief quarrying boom from 1851 to 1881. Red granite from their quarries at Peterhead, and blue granite from the Newall quarries at Westerly, Rhode Island, were imported for shaping and polishing in the Dalbeattie workshops. The names of Scots and English quarrymen such as Baum, Billson, Goodman, Henderson, Marriott, Newall, Preston and Toon, are to be found in the graveyards of Rhode Island. Descendants of the Marriotts still run the Oneca quarry in Connecticut.
The boom was followed by a recession between 1881 and 1891, during which time Shearers' folded. However, the descendants of the quarrymen still keep in touch with their Dalbeattie relatives. Despite the recession, some of the quarrymen remained in Dalbeattie, their descendants contributing much information towards this account. Former quarrymen started in other or related trades, notably the families of Goodman, Johnstone (builders), Marriott, Morris, Stuart and Toon.
The quarriers initially lodged in the Town Hall (completed in 1865) but soon moved out to lodgings with local families, or into houses they built for themselves. The houses of the English quarrymen were located within a comparatively small area at the southern end of Dalbeattie's High Street, at the junctions with Port Street and Blair Street. Some of the quarriers married local women, others had brought their own families north with them; from marriage records, it is evident that many of these English-bred quarriers married the daughters of their English workmates. It is also sadly possible that these newcomers were unpopular, so formed a distinct community in the south of the town. This was probably a consequence of their English origin and Episcopalian beliefs, which were a central part of their community.
from Barbara in Scotland
Many families moved to Dalbeattie from Leicestershire, the Newalls, Bransons and Newbolds to name a few. I have strong connections with there because of this.
My Susannah Branson who married John Mountney Antill, was previously married to Henry Branson, and had a son George, born in Mountsorrell 1838 and a son Thomas b. 1840. Thomas married Mary Newbold...(one of yours?), and George married Mary Mullen. The family moved to Dalbeattie in the 1870's, where george was a Granite set maker/Quarryman. In 1891 they were living at 2 Blair st Dalbeattie, but by 1901 the whole family had returned to Mountsorrel. George and mary had a daughter Clara Branson who married David crosbie Wilson in Dalbeattie, where he was also a quarryman. They were my great grandparents. Dalbeattie was famous for its granite, and many families moved there for the work. What happened around 1900 which made them all return to Leicestershire, I don't know.
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