Person:Helen Hadkinson (1)

Helen (or Ellen) Hadkinson was baptised on 8th February 1835 at Didsbury in Lancashire, daughter of John and Lucy Hadkinson. Didsbury at that time was part of the parish of Manchester, but was a village to the south of the growing town. Helen appears in the 1841 census living with her father and two brothers in Didsbury.

By 1851 Helen was working as a housemaid for a widow named Jane Birley and her four adult daughters at Ford Bank in Didsbury. Helen was one of seven servants there. The 1861 census also finds Helen in Didsbury, but on this occasion visiting a lodging house keeper named Elizabeth Cush and her nephew Thomas Barber at Chapel Street South.

On 14th June 1865, aged 30, Helen was married at Manchester Cathedral to a gardener named William Green. He was ten year her senior and originally from Lagness in the parish of Pagham on the Sussex coast near Chichester, some 200 miles from Manchester. Helen and William do not appear to have had any children. The 1871 census finds them living at Whittaker Lane in Prestwich. By 1881 they had moved to 47 Scholes Street in Salford, and William's nephew Charles was living with them.

Helen died in 1890, aged 55. She and William had been married for 25 years. She died in the Prestwich district, which covered the Crumpsall area of Manchester where William appears living alone in the 1891 census. William survived her by less than three years, dying in 1893.

1. ↑ England. Births and Christenings, 1538-1975. (FamilySearch, Ancestry.com, Findmypast).

   ch. 8 Feb 1835, St James, Didsbury, Lancashire: Ellen daughter of John & Lucy Hadkinson

   Needs to be confirmed at Greater Manchester County Record Office. This baptism has been linked to the Ellen or Helen Hadkinson who married William Green in 1865 on the basis that in the censuses after their marriage she consistently claimed to have been born around 1835 in Didsbury and their marriage certificate names her father as John Hadkinson.

2. ↑ England. 1841 Census Schedules for England and Wales, Isle of Man and the Channel Islands. (
   Kew, Richmond, Greater London TW9 4DU, United Kingdom:
   The National Archives (abbreviated TNA), formerly the UK General Register Office.)
   Class HO107; Piece 581; Book 5; Folio 9; Page 11, 6 Jun 1841.

   Address: Didsbury, Lancashire
   John Hadkinson, male, 40 [1796-1801], Porter, born in county
   John Hadkinson, male, 8 [1832/3], born in county
   Ellen Hadkinson, female, 6 [1834/5], born in county
   Dan[ie]l Hadkinson, son, male, 4 [1836/7], born in county

3. ↑ England. 1851 Census Returns for England and Wales. (
   Kew, Richmond, Greater London TW9 4DU, United Kingdom:
   The National Archives (abbreviated TNA), formerly the UK General Register Office.)
   Class HO107; Piece 2219; Folio 116; Page 31, 30 Mar 1851.

   Address: Ford Bank, Didsbury, Lancashire
   Jane Birley, head, widow, female, 63 [1787/8], b. Kirkham, Lancashire
   Jane Birley, daughter, unmarried, female, 40 [1810/11], b. Blackburn, Lancashire
   Cecilia Birley, daughter, unmarried, female, 31 [1819/20], b. Didsbury, Lancashire
   Louisa M. Birley, daughter, unmarried, female, 22 [1828/9], b. Didsbury, Lancashire
   Adealida Birley, daughter, unmarried, female, 20 [1830/1], b. Didsbury, Lancashire
   Elizabeth Jones, servant, unmarried, female, 27 [1823/4], Cook, b. Bangor, Carnarvonshire
   Eliza Linney, servant, unmarried, female, 20 [1830/1], Cook, b. Didsbury, Lancashire
   Susan Bland, servant, unmarried, female, 33 [1817/18], Housemaid, b. Hexham, Northumberland
   Ellen Hadkinson, servant, unmarried, female, 16 [1834/5], Housemaid, b. Didsbury, Lancashire
   Mary Wood, servant, unmarried, female, 18 [1832/3], Housemaid, b. Didsbury, Lancashire
   Mary Rothwell, servant, unmarried, female, 23 [1827/8], Lodge Maid, b. Lancaster, Lancashire
   John Vaughan, servant, unmarried, male, 19 [1831/2], Footman, b. Oswestry, Shropshire

4. ↑ England. 1861 Census Schedules for England and Wales, Isle of Man and the Channel Islands. (
   Kew, Richmond, Greater London TW9 4DU, United Kingdom:
   The National Archives (abbreviated TNA), formerly the UK General Register Office.)
   Class RG9; Piece 2867; Folio 31; Page 25, 7 Apr 1861.

   Address: Chapel Street South, Didsbury, Lancashire
   Eliz[abe]th Cush, head, widow, female, 72 [1788/9], Lodging H[ouse] Keeper, b. Rochdale
   Tho[ma]s Barber, nephew, unmarried, male, 4 [1856/7], Scholar, b. Manchester
   Hellen Hadkinson, visitor, unmarried, female, 26 [1834/5], Serv[ant], b. Didsbury, Lancashire

5. ↑ England. England and Wales. 1871 Census Schedules. (
   Kew, Richmond, Greater London TW9 4DU, United Kingdom:
   The National Archives (abbreviated TNA), formerly the UK General Register Office.)
   Class RG10; Piece 4067; Folio 98; Page 4, 2 Apr 1871.

   Address: Whittaker Lane, Prestwich, Lancashire
   William Green, head, married, male, 46 [1824/5], Gardener, b. Lagness Pagham, Sussex
   Ellen Green, wife, married, female, 36 [1834/5], b. Didsbury, Lancashire
   James Hallworth, lodger, unmarried, male, 24 [1846/7], Under Gardener, b. Norbury Moor, Cheshire

6. ↑ England. 1881 Census Schedules for England and Wales, Isle of Man and the Channel Islands: . (
   Kew, Richmond, Greater London TW9 4DU, United Kingdom:
   The National Archives (abbreviated TNA), formerly the UK General Register Office.)
   Class RG11; Piece 3955; Folio 136; Page 32, 3 Apr 1881.

   Address: 47 Scholes Street, Salford (Broughton), Lancashire
   William Green, head, married, male, 56 [1824/5], Gardener, b. Lagness Pagham, Sussex
   Helen Green, wife, married, female, 46 [1834/5], Wife, b. Didsbury, Lancashire
   Charles Green, nephew, unmarried, male 26 [1854/5], Coachman, b. Lagness, Sussex

7. ↑ Deaths index, in General Register Office. England and Wales Civil Registration. (London: General Register Office).

   d. Helen GREEN, September Quarter 1890, Prestwich Registration District, Volume 8d, page 316, aged 55 [1834/5]