Riverdale

FURTHER INFORMATION AND FAMILY GOSSIP

Timothy Tobias Hingley was, according to various census, a chain maker and chain factor.

His elder son Frank is shown on the 1881 census as a Chain Manufacturer`s Clerk. There is some evidence from subsequent census, not certificated, that he married a Sarah (possibly Weston) in 1882 and became a Warehouseman and Chain Dealer. He appears to have had at least two children, Edith (born around 1894) and Joseph (born around 1896), and that he finally died in 1941.

Martha Matilda is shown on consecutive census as a Pupil Teacher (1881), a Certificated Teacher (1891) and, in 1901, an Elementary School Teacher. In that last census a visitor is shown as staying on the premises, one Police Constable James Wallis. In 1903 a wedding is shown on a register at Dudley Registry Office between Martha M Hingley and a certain James Wallis.

Edith seems to have followed her sister as a Pupil Teacher (1881) although staying, on that census day, along with her younger sister Mary, with her Aunt, Caroline Bloomer. Without recourse to certificates in order to be certain, it seems that Edith married Albert George Bryant in 1886 according to a copy of an entry in the register at Dudley Registry Office.

In the 1891 census Mary was still living with her mother, working as a Dressmaker but it seems that she married George Childs in the June quarter of 1891 as suggested by the 1901 census entry when a grand-daughter, Catherine Childs, was staying at Mary's mother's house (the same night as a certain Police Constable) and a marriage entry in the June quarter of the registry at Dudley Register Office.

James, my great-grandfather, is shown on the earlier census as a Fitter, by 1901 he is an Hydraulic Engineer but by 1911 he's back to being a Fitter. He married Lydia in 1894 and had two children, my grandfather, Horace, and my great-aunt Mildred (known as Millie).