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WILLIAM GILCHRIST William GILCHRIST was born 1806 in Knutsford. He next appears in the Cheadle parish registers in 1828 when he married Maria HENSHALL, although his name is then recorded as William CILGRAM. Maria must have died because in 1836 we find William marrying Mary YOUNG in Weaverham. He was living and working at Moss Farm, Sandiway in 1841 with his new wife living nearby in Gorstage with their two sons, William and David. They had three children, Mary born in 1837, who later married William SMITH and moved to Widnes, William born in 1841, who became a blacksmith and moved to Altrincham, and David, who was born in 1844 but who died a year later, along with his mother Mary shortly afterwards in 1846. William married again in 1855 to Harriet DAVISON (the sister of the Nancy Davison who was to become his son’s mother-in-law). William is recorded on that marriage certificate as William SOYLGRAHAM. Harriet died in 1870 and very soon afterwards we find him living with, and apparently married to, Harriet HOLLAND who was his wife's niece and 40 years his junior. Harriet HOLLAND was born in 1848 in Shurlach, Davenham to James HOLLAND and Ann DAVISON (sister of Harriet DAVISON and Nancy DAVISON). In 1891 they were living in Barnton, together with their daughter Annie and Harriet’s son, John HOLLAND. William died in 1894 aged 88. His daughter Annie went into service in Christleton, Chester, where in 1905 she married William WATSON.
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WILLIAM SILGRAM William Silgram junior married Martha Bate in Witton, Northwich in 1861 and later moved to Altrincham, via Dunham Woodhouses, to become a Blacksmith in the Smithy of Thomas Bates in Goose Green, Altrincham. During the time his children were growing up, William started to breed bulldogs (see photo on Home Page). In the back yard of his house in Lloyd Street were three horse stalls which he made into kennels for the dogs. He would never sit down for his tea until he had fed the dogs, groomed them and made sure they were all right. He had two show dogs, Lord Hitchcock and Bowdon Sylvester, which won him silver spoons and forks and a bronze medal from the Kennel Club of Cheshire.
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| William Silgram at the Smithy, Goose Green, Altrincham |
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CHILDREN OF WILLIAM AND MARTHA SILGRAM Ada Silgram was the youngest child of William and Martha. She was born in 1884 whilst the family were living at 57 Lloyd Street, Altrincham. She married Robert Landsborough, who had recently come down with his family to Altrincham from Dumfries, Scotland. They set up home together in Pownall Street, where they lived for the rest of their married life. Robert was a bricklayer by trade, and it is ironic to think that today nothing remains of Pownall Street, or the many houses that surrounded it, since all the buildings were demolished to make way for a gigantic car park.
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William Silgram was born in 1878. He married Annie Pollard in 1909 in Altrincham. William was a very generous and caring brother to Ada, which makes it all the more sad that from both his marriages (later to Ethel Short) there were no children. The dog in the photo belonged to Annie’s aunt, a lady they were very fond of and who lived with them for a period of time. William died in 1958 whilst living at 21 Moss View, Altrincham.
James Silgram was born in 1875 and married Maud Zillah Pearson in 1900. They had five boys and used to live in a large detached house which stood opposite the little wooden bridge that crossed the railway line in Altrincham. Most of the Silgram children attended the infant’s school, St. Elizabeth’s, which was next to the bridge. The house, and also the school, have now been pulled down apparently to make way for maisonettes.
John Bate Silgram was born in 1870 and married Emily Hannah Brundrett. He used to deliver bread for the bakehouse where he worked and on his rounds would leave four or five loaves for his mother to help her out during the week. He became a house slater and in 1913 he bought and renovated a house in Grove Lane, Hale, which he called “Marglis” ("Silgram" spelt backwards). John and Emily’s eldest daughter, Jessie, became a Justice of the Peace. Their son John (Jack) they called the singing coalman. He delivered coal in the daytime and sang in the pubs at night.
Of the remaining children, there was Martha, Harriet, Mary and Lydia. MARTHA was born in 1883. William Wilfred PRICE married MARTHA after he came back from the Boer War in 1904. Originally from Smethwick, he lived for a time with his new family in Derby and then settled in Birmingham. Shortly after their marriage both William and Martha became ardent Christaldelphians. Their 7 daughters were Winifred, Rose, Elsie, Edna, Millicent, Margery and Irene. Millicent (Millie) married Norman Ronald KIRBY in 1940. HARRIET SILGRAM was born in 1873 and married Albert Davenport. MARY was born in 1867 but was always known as “Polly”. LYDIA was born in 1864, and both she and Mary ran away from home when they were still teenagers. MARY married Francis CARTER, an iron turner and mechanic, in 1886 in Salford, living first at 54 Hartington Street, then at 5 Nutter Street in 1890 and then at 42 West Park Street in 1893. Francis's parents were Francis Carter (a blacksmith) and Elizabeth Frazier. They were both born in Ireland. Mary (Polly) died in 1893 in the Pendleton Sanatorium. They had three children: Francis b. 1887, William b. 1889, and Mary b. 1891. Francis CARTER remarried in 1894 to Mary Eleanor McLAREN (nee THOMAS). Mary Eleanor THOMAS had married John William McLAREN in 1884. They had one child, John William McLAREN, born in 1883 in Salford. He later became a Railway Carter. There was one child of Francis CARTER and Mary Eleanor, Eleanor McLAREN, born in 1895 in Salford. In 1901 the family were living at 109 West Union Street, Salford. A descendant of the CARTER/SILGRAM family has done extensive research on the CARTER family and can be contacted, via myself, if anyone believes they may be related. It is believed the CARTER/FRAZIER family arrived in Salford from about 1850 onwards, possibly from the Armagh county of Ireland and settling around Lower Broughton or Arlington Street in Salford and later in North Hill Street. Mary & Francis Carter's son, William CARTER married Edith HOLT in 1910 at which time William was working as a draughtsman in Hulme, Manchester. Edith's father, Thomas HOLT, worked as a cab driver and Edith was born in Bradford. It is not known what became of Lydia SILGRAM, nor is it known whether she or Mary (Polly) ever contacted their parents after leaving home, although Mary was present at her grandfather’s death (John Bate) in 1890 in Altrincham, having previously lived with her grandparents in Salford before her marriage, as did Lydia when she was 16 years old.
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| William Silgram and Annie Pollard |
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