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| Elizabeth (Longworth) Moore and Bella |
When
Isabella ("Bella") Longworth was born on July 13, 1859, in Chorley, Lancashire, England, her father
John Longworth (1832-1880) was 24 and her mother
Alice (nee Loxham) (1839-1891) was 20.
She had four brothers and seven sisters.
There is an article in the January 20, 1883 Preston Chronicle which I believe mentions our
Isabella. It describes the sudden death of a man named Augustus Bowdon who had lived for 15 months with Isabella Longworth, of Bolton Street. The article reads:
SUDDEN DEATH—On Monday, Mr. Gilberston held an inquest at the Leigh Arms, Chorley on the body of Augustus Bowdon. The deceased, who was about 27 years of age, had been in the employ of James Taylor, coal dealer, Tatton-street, Chorley, and had lived for 15 months with Isabella Longworth, of Bolton-street. He complained of being ill on Friday night, and on Saturday morning about 1130 he was assisting to load a cart with coal from a wagon as the railway station. He was filling the riddle and had just got the spade into the coal when he fell. A man named Turner caught hold of him and the deceased expired in a few minutes. A verdict of "Death from natural causes" was returned.
There are a few hints that this is our same
Isabella.
The Leigh Arms (66 Chapel Street) is a short walk from the family home on Lyons Lane in 1891 and due to its location near the Chorley Railway station, it was used frequently as the venue for coroners inquests (although it was not the location of
John Longworth's inquest). Second,
Isabella's father and several of her brothers were employed in the coal trade. At the time of the article,
Isabella would have been approximately 23 years old, which would have been the right age. And finally, in 1901, we find Isabella, with her siblings, at an address on Bolton Road in Chorley, just as the
Isabella in the article was. Records suggest that
Isabella Longworth never married, possibly because she was traumatized by this early incident.
In 1901, we find the
Isabella,
Elizabeth,
Joanna, and
John all together at
32 Bolton in Chorley.
Elizabeth has married and her husband
Samuel Moore and their two daughters
Lily and
Dora are living with them. All three sisters are employed as cotton weavers, and
John and
Samuel are working at a locomotive works.
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| 32 Bolton Road (likely red door) (image via Google Maps) |
In 1911, we find
Isabella, age 51, at
20 Duke Street (off Bolton) in the home of her sister
Joanna and brother-in-law,
Hugh Blacklidge Sanderson, along with their two children,
Richard and
Elizabeth Alice (named for her maternal grandmother and mother's sister).
Isabella,
Joanna and
Hugh are all employed at a
local spinning mill.
On August 3, 1912, at the age of 53,
Isabella arrived in Quebec, Canada with her sister,
Joanna (Longworth) Sanderson and her nephew,
Richard aboard the
S.S. Corsican.
Isabella's niece died in the months preceding the move, and was possibly the reason for the change of scenery. I've been unable to locate a record, but it's likely that
Joanna's husband
Hugh left for Canada prior to the sisters, possibly staying with his sister and brother-in-law,
Elizabeth and
Samuel Moore, while searching for a home.
The 1921 Canadian Census finds
Isabella, still living with the Sandersons, at
501 Mary Street in Hamilton, Ontario. The family are now naturalized citizens. Isabella and Joanna are not employed, and
Hugh and
Joanna have another daughter,
Lily, born in 1917, also in the home with their son Richard and three boarders (one of whom marries their niece,
Dora, in the next six months).
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| 501 Mary Street, Hamilton, Ontario (image via Google Maps) |
In July 1922, at the age of 63,
Isabella goes on holiday back to England (possibly a birthday trip). She returns to Quebec in September 1923 on the S.S. Regina.
Isabella died on October 13, 1837 at the age of 78. The primary cause of her death appears to be pneumonia, but it appears that she also had some heart issues.
Hugh Sanderson provided the information of her death, and it appears she was still living on Mary Street with him at the time.
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| Certificate of Death (image via Ancestry.com) |
Isabella's headstone at Woodland cemetery was recently uncovered, and held yet another surprise--she's not alone. A woman named Clara Pemberton is resting in the same plot. I'm going to do some more research to figure out who Clara is and why she's buried with my great-aunt--stay tuned.
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