William Scott (1808 - 1871)

Born 14 Jun 1808 in Broughton in Furness, Lancashire, England

Ancestors

Husband of Mary (Park) Scott — married 6 Jun 1833 in Hawkshead, Lancashire, England

Descendants

Died 1871 at about age 62 in Grasmere, Westmorland, England

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Biography

William Scott was born in Lancashire, England.

William was christened on August 6, 1808 in Broughton in Furness.^[1] By the time he was ten or eleven the family was living at Bowmanstead Cottage in Coniston.

The 1829 directory shows that he was working as a carrier with several routes weekly including a Wednesday route from Hawkshead to Broughton and Coniston as well as a route including Kendal, Hawkshead, Coniston, Broughton, Bootle, Ravenhead and Ulverston on Tuesdays and Saturdays.^[2]

He married Mary Park in Hawkshead in 1833,^[3] the year after his father died. When their first child, Ann , was born in 1834, their address was still listed as Hannakin, Hawkshead, which was his father's last address.^[4]

After the birth of their first two children in Hawkshead, the family moved to Coniston where William farmed 60 acres. By 1851 he had two full time farmhands and a domestic servant to help out his wife in the house. At the time they were living at High Yewdale Farm.^[5] The farm is now owned by the National Trust.

By 1853, the family had moved north to Grasmere, Westmoreland where William farmed 110 acres, employing two men and a boy. He was also, like his father before him, an innkeeper, running the Swan Hotel.^[6]

William's wife Mary died in the fall of 1856^[7] when their youngest child John was only three. William himself died in 1871 in Grasmere and was buried on June 17 of that year in Hawkshead.^[8]

Sources

1. ↑ "England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975," index, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/JWDX-J2C : accessed 04 Aug 2014), William Scott, 06 Aug 1808; citing , reference ; FHL microfilm 0844819 IT 2.
2. ↑ 1829 Directory, pg. 669 and pg. 714.
3. ↑ "England Marriages, 1538–1973 ," index, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/N63X-4JQ : accessed 20 Aug 2014), William Scott and Mary Park, 06 Jun 1833; citing Hawkshead, Lancashire, England, reference item 1 p 82; FHL microfilm 1040306. See original image at William Scott and Mary Park Marriage.
4. ↑ Baptisms Solemnized in the Parish of Hawkshead in the County of Lancaster, 1834, pg. 121.
5. ↑ 1851 England Census, Lancashire, Church Coniston, 2b, pg. 10 of 29.
6. ↑ 1861 England Census, Westmorland, Grasmere, District 6, pg. 9 of 26.
7. ↑ "England Deaths and Burials, 1538-1991," index, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/JC6M-4Z4 : accessed 21 Aug 2014), Mary Scott, 17 Nov 1856; citing Grasmere, reference ; FHL microfilm 1471809.
8. ↑ "England Deaths and Burials, 1538-1991," index, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/JC6M-Z53 : accessed 20 Aug 2014), William Scott, 17 Jun 1871; citing Graymere, reference ; FHL microfilm 1471809.

See also:

• 1841 England Census, Lancashire, Ulverstone, Hawkehead, District 5, pg. 6 of 12.
• Scott Images