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Calladine Family - Heanor
replied on: 10/16/2004 8:46:57 PM

This is my info. on the Purdy branch of my family.

Thomas Purdy:
Born 26 Nov.1853 at Langley, Heanor. Reg. Dist; Basford Derby/Notts mother, Fanny Purdy, formerly Jackson, father George Purday, collier.

Acc. to the IGI index he was christened at Kirk Hallam as Thomas Purdey and at Mapperly, Holy Trinity as Thomas Purday on the same day 9 Aug 1857 !
(For more details see census for Derby, Heanor, Ilkeston, St. Lawrence, 1861)

1871 Census, Derby, Heanor, Schedule No. 174
George Purdy, head, wdr, 58, born in Heanor
Mary A. dau. 28, dressmaker, born in Heanor
Joseph, son, 22, coal miner, born in Heanor
Thomas, son, 17, apprentice, fitting and turning, born in Heanor

1875 Aug 10th, National Registry: Marriage of Thomas Purday of Lee
Lane, Langley, Heanor. Age 21 yrs, Occupation, Turner and Fitter. (Father, George Purday, miner.) - to Esther Ann Lancashire Age 21 yrs, of Heanor. Father, Isaiah Lancashire, miner. Witnesses: Joseph Purdy (brother) and Mary Jane Gawthorne (Esther's cousin?)

1875 Oct 5th, National Registry: Birth Registration of Fanny to Thomas and Esther Purday, living at Tag Hill, Heanor, Occupation given as Furnace Labourer

1881, April, National Census
FHL Film 1341810 PRO Ref RG11,folio 105, page 25
Pasture Lane, Sandiacre. Derby
Thomas Purdy Marr. Age 27, birthplace Langley, Derby, England
Esther Ann Purdy Marr. Age 25, Belper, Derby
Jane Lankshur (Lancashire) Purdy, Age 9, Langley, Derby
Fanny Purdy Age 5, Tag Hill, Heanor, Derby

1891 April, National Census, Derby, Heanor, St. Lawrence parish, Page 19 Lea Lane, Schedule No. 100
Thomas Purdy, head, married, 34, mechanic (turner), born in Heanor
Esther, wife, 37, born in Belper, Derbyshire
Fanny, dau, 15, hosh. ironer, born in Heanor
Florence Purdy, dau. 7 mos. ( her mother was Jane Lancashire aka. Purdy, later Hunt)
'Isaac' Lancashire, Father-in-law, widower, 62, born in Heanor
(was actually born in Denby and his name was Isaiah)
Herbert E. Hunt, 21, visitor, single, Railway Servant, born in
Nottingham, (was born in Oct 1871, so actual age was 19)

1892 Also appears as a witness to his daughter Jane's marriage to Herbert E. Hunt. age 22.
So,
My grandfather Herbert Hunt's first appearance in the family tree is as a lodger with Thomas and Esther Purdy at Heanor in the 1891 census - usually taken at about April. His future wife Jane Purdy is missing from the census, presumably living at the place where she was a barmaid - probably Nottingham. His second appearance is at the 21 March 1892 wedding to Jane when both were living at Caroline Street in Nottingham. By 18 December 1893 they had two children, Thomas first, then Harriet, so they didn't waste much time.

Herbert also appears on the 1891 Heanor/Derby census for Lea Lane, Heanor, as a visitor in the house of his wife's parents Thomas and Esther Purdy who were looking after his infant daughter Florence, born in 1890 to Jane. At some point he moved to Idle, nr. Shipley, Yorkshire where Thomas was born and Harriet Esther Lilian in 1893. Herbert moved to Derby, Roe St., Warren St., and Litchurch St. where he married again in 1910 after Jane died of cancer in 1909

Something else that was interesting about the 1891 census entry - this being that Florence Purdy is described as 'daughter' 7 months old. 'Daughter' would be the relationship to the head of the household, Thomas Purdy - which is not impossible given that Esther Purdy was 37 at the time of the census. The question is - Was Florence Purdy an aunty to Jane? or was this a case of the family rallying to avoid the stigma of illegitimacy?

The Birth Index in London cannot find a Florence Lancashire, Purdy or Hunt within the appropriate time scale 1888 - 1892, neither is she found in the 1901 census.

Herbert was a railway servant (1891) in Nottingham, then lived in Idle, Yorkshire with his family, while working as a station porter, and his son Thomas was born there in 1892. He moved with his family to Litchurch Street, Derby abt.1894, and eventually became the Guard (U.S. equiv. = Conductor) for many years on "The Devonian" a prestige passenger train that ran between Newcastle-on-Tyne, Northumberland, and Paignton in Devon. He would often ride his bicycle from Derby to Spondon to visit his daughter Lilian (Harriet) who married John Porter, b.1890 - d.1973.

National Register of Marriages, 1892 Index (Jan/Mar)
shows entry 280 in Nottingham, Vol 7b., Page 316.
The certificate shows these details:
21st March 1892, in the Parish Church of St. Anns, Nottingham
Herbert Edmund Hunt aged 20, bachelor, occup. Porter
Father: Samuel Hunt, occup: Lace Maker
and Jane Purdy aged 19, spinster, occup. bar-maid
Father Thomas Purdy, occup: Mechanic
Residence for both parties 26 Caroline Street, Nottingham
Witnesses: Richard Gashon Bowbanks and Fanny Purdy

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