Rev. 25 March 2013, Gen. 400

 

DESCENDANTS OF THOMAS GREAVES AND MARY ------ OF RADFORD, NOTTINGHAMSHIRE, ENGLAND

 

 

GENERATION 1

 

Thomas Greaves (1) was born about 1793 in Radford or Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, England.  He married Mary ‑‑‑‑‑‑.  She was born about 1793 in Attenborough, Nottinghamshire.  They were in the 1841 and 1851 censuses for Radford, Nottinghamshire.  In 1851, only children Eliza, Emma, and Ellen were still at home.  Thomas was a frame work knitter.  Mary was in the 1861 census for Radford, widow and sewer, 70, with daughter Emma and her husband living with her.

Children - Greaves

  2. Eliza Greaves, b.c. 1816 (Chilwell, Notts.).

+3. John Greaves, b.c. 1818, m. Elizabeth Burton.

+4. Jesse Greaves, b.c. 1822-1826, m. Mary Ann ‑‑‑‑‑‑..

  5. Emma Greaves, b.c. 1825-1829 (Radford, Notts.), m. William Watkin.  He was b.c. 1832 in Newark, Notts., tailor.

  6. Thomas Greaves, b.c. 1831.

  7. Ellen Greaves, b.c. 1834 (Radford, Notts.).

 

 

GENERATION 2

 

CHILDREN OF THOMAS GREAVES (1) AND MARY ------

John Greaves (3) was born about 1818 in Radford, Nottinghamshire.  He married Elizabeth (ŌBetsyĶ) Burton.  She was born about 1814 in Radford, Nottinghamshire, and died before 1881.  They were in the 1841-1891 censuses for Radford.  His widowed mother was living with them in 1861.  He was a framework knitter.  All their children were born in Radford.

Children - Greaves

  8. Ellen Greaves, b.c. 1832.

  9. Emma Greaves, b.c. 1834.

+10.  Henry Greaves, b.c. 1838, m. Eliza Castles.

  11.  Elizabeth Greaves, b. 1841.  Not in 1851 census.

+12.  John Greaves, b.c. 1846, m. Harriet ‑‑‑‑‑‑.

  13.  William Greaves, b.c. 1848, not married in 1881 or 1891.  Railway platelayer in 1891.

+14.  Thomas Greaves, b.c. 1851, m. Harriet ‑‑‑‑‑‑.

  15.  Ebhorn (or Ebborn) Greaves, b.c. 1854.

 

Jesse Greaves (4) was born about 1822-1826 in Radford, Nottinghamshire.  He married Mary Ann ‑‑‑‑‑‑.  She was born about 1821 in Radford.  They were in the 1851 census for HetheringtonÕs Yard, Radford, Nottinghamshire.  They were in the 1881 census at 5 Bloomsgrove St., Radford.  He was a house painter.  All their children were born in Radford.

Children - Greaves

  16.  Thomas Greaves, b.c. 1844, not married in 1881.

  17.  Eliza Greaves, b.c. 1846.

  18.  Edmund Greaves, b.c. 1848.

 

 

GENERATION 3

 

CHILDREN OF JOHN GREAVES (3) AND ELIZABETH BURTON

Henry Greaves (10) was born about 1838 in Radford, Nottinghamshire.  He married Eliza Castles.  She was born about 1841 in Carlton, Nottinghamshire.  They were in the 1861, 1871 and 1881 censuses for Radford.  They were in the 1891 census for Wigston, Leicestershire.  He was a hairdresser in 1861 and 1871, a provision dealer and beer seller in 1881, and a hairdresser in 1891.

Children - Greaves

+19.  Samuel Parr Greaves, b.c. 1862, m(1) Betsy Offiler, m(2) Isabella Else.

+20.  Arthur Greaves, b.c. 1863, m. Sarah Jane Flear, 12 April 1884, d.c. 1900 or soon after.

  21.  Henry Greaves, b.c. 1865 (Nottingham, Notts.).

  22.  Louisa Greaves, b.c. 1866 (Nottingham, Notts.).

  23.  Betsy Greaves, b.c. 1881 (Radford, Notts.).

 

John Greaves (12) was born about 1846 in Radford, Nottinghamshire.  He married Harriet ‑‑‑‑‑‑.  She was born about 1844 in Basford, Nottinghamshire.  They were in the 1881 and 1891 censuses for Ollerton, Notts.  He was a school master and she was a school mistress.  Their first 4 children were born in Radford, and the next in Ollerton.

Children - Greaves

  24.  Frank Greaves, b.c. 1871.

  25.  Ernest Greaves, b.c. 1873.

  26.  Edward Greaves, b.c. 1875.

  27.  Charles Greaves, b.c. 1876.

  28.  Harriet Greaves, b.c. 1878.

 

Thomas Greaves (14) was born about 1851 in Radford, Nottinghamshire.  He married Harriet ‑‑‑‑‑‑.  She was born about 1852 in Radford, and died before 1891.  They were in the 1881 census for Radford, living with his father, when he was an unemployed iron turner, and she was a lace mender.  He was in the 1891 census for Radford, living with his father.

Children - Greaves

  29.  Thomas Greaves, b. 1881.  Probably died young.

  30.  Arthur Greaves, b.c. 1884.

  31.  Thomas Greaves, b.c. 1888.

 

 

GENERATION 4

 

CHILDREN OF HENRY GREAVES (10) AND ELIZA CASTLES

Samuel Parr Greaves (19) was born about 1862 in Radford, Nottinghamshire.  He married Betsy Offiler, daughter of David Offiler and Elizabeth Farnsworth.  She was born in the Sept. quarter 1861 in Hyson Green, Nottinghamshire.  They were in the 1891 census for Radford, when he was a hosiery framework knitter.  (R‑1)

Children - Greaves

+32.  Gertrude E. Greaves, b.c. 1887 (Hyson Green, Notts.).

  33.  Florence E. Greaves, b.c. 1890 (Radford, Notts.).

 

Arthur Greaves (20) was born about 1863 in Radford, Nottingham, Nottinghamshire.  He married Sarah Jane Flear, daughter of Thomas Flear and Mary Anne Abbott, on 12 April 1884 in Nottingham, Nottinghamshire.  She was born about 1863 in Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, England, and died 15 June 1951 in Milton, Northumberland Co., PA.  SarahÕs family was in the 1881 census for Nottingham, St. Mary, when her father Thomas was a tailor.

Arthur and Sarah emigrated to America about 1900.  Daughter Miriam told her grandson that she was born in London, and at some point they went back to England, possibly to bury Arthur, and then they returned to America.  Sarah, probably widowed about 1900 or so, was naturalized and lived in Milton, Northumberland Co., PA.  She remarried a man named Thomas Cope, probably about 1902 (assuming that Helen was their child).  Thomas was born about 1861 in England.  (The Cope family appears to have had connections with the Flear family in England, since the 1881 census showed Jane Cope, 52, as a boarder in the Flear household.)  They were in the 1910 census for Milton, PA, with children Raymond and May Greaves, and Helen Cope, 7, at which time 4 of SarahÕs children were still living.  Thomas and Sarah had 2 children, Helen and Harold (b.c. 1905).  Thomas was an iron moulder in 1910.  (R‑1)

Children - Greaves

  34.  Raymond Greaves, b. 13 Feb. 1897 (or 10 Aug. 1896).

  35.  Miriam Greaves, b. 26 April 1900, m. Ernest E. Minier.  He was b. 5 Oct. 1894 in Milton, PA.

 

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