Two couples named James and Martha Schofield [13 May 2023]
An 1851 census listing has now been found for the "extra" children of James and Martha Schofield.
1851 census
Rochdale, Spotland Nearer, Enum Dist 1l
(Class: HO107; Piece: 2245; Folio: 257; Page: 18; GSU roll: 87264-87265)
Household Schedule 54: 6 Butterworth Street, Rochdale
James Schofield, head, mar, 51, woollen weaver, born Lancashire, Rochdale
Martha Schofield, wife, mar, 47, woollen spinner, born Lancashire, Rochdale
Joseph Schofield, son, unm, 20, woollen divler, born Lancashire, Rochdale
Mary Schofield, daur, unm, 18, woollen weaver, born Lancashire, Rochdale
Thomas Schofield, son, unm, 16, woollen mule piecer, born Lancashire, Rochdale
Benjamin Schofield, son, 14, woollen mule piecer, born Lancashire, Rochdale
Martha Schofield, daur, 12, woollen mule piecer, born Lancashire, Rochdale
William Schofield, son, 10, rope maker, born Lancashire, Rochdale
Ellen Schofield, daur, 8, scholar, born Lancashire, Rochdale
An equivalent census listing for 1841 has not been found in the Ancestry index.
This couple were married in 1823 under the following entry:
Manchester, England, Church of England Marriages and Banns, 1754-1930
Anglican Parish Registers. Manchester, England: Manchester Libraries, Information and Archives.
Reference Number: L48/1/4/15, Archive Roll: 650 (Rochdale, St Chad, page 169, #506)
James Scholfield of Littleborough of this parish [Rochdale], weaver, and Martha Wild of the same place, spinster, were married in this church by banns this twenty-eighth day of December in the year one thousand eight hundred and twenty-three [28 Dec 1823] by me [signed] Jas Aspinall, curate.
--Goldenoldie 13:36, 13 May 2023 (UTC)
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