John Henry Tate (1864 - 1899)

Born 1864 in Hull, Yorkshire East Riding, England, United Kingdom

Ancestors

Husband of Jane Ann (Gledhill) Booth — married 1884 in Sculcoates, Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom

Died 1899 at about age 35 in Hull, Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom

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Biography

Born about 1864 Hull

John Henry Tate was born in Sculcoates, Hull, England about 1864. ^[1]

John is the son of Dickinson Tate and his new wife Sarah Colley.

Ballast Lighterman 1881 Stoneferry Hull

John Henry Tate was a Ballast Lighterman in 1881 in Hull with his father, Dickinson Tate and his grandfather John Colley who was 73 but apparently still active in the same trade. ^{[2] [3]}

[[Website

Lightermen. This deals with Port of London Lightermen but the job in Hull was very similar.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lighterman]]

Marriage 1884 Hull

John Henry Tate marries Jane Ann Gleadhill in Sculcoates when he is just 20, in the second quarter of 1884. The fathers of both spouses Dickinson Tate and Ezra Gleadhill are Lightermen like John Henry Tate himself. ^[4]

Sailor 1891 Union Court

In 1891 John Henry Tate is living in a two room flat with his wife and two young daughters and a lodger, next door to his mother Sarah Tate and grandmother Mary Colley, who were also in two rooms at Witham Union Court (Witham, close to the centre of Hull, was then still in Sutton Parish. This is the same address as ten years earlier). all seven are born in Hull. ^[5]

Death 1899 Hull

John Henry Tate dies late in 1899 in Hull : Not only is his full name and age correct but Jane is a widow in 1901. ^[6]

Sources

1. ↑

   Two possible birth entries in BMD --

   WES20/371 West Sculcoates 1864 or

   DRY/10465 Drypool 1863

   It is not certain that these are two different births.

2. ↑

   Census 1881 : 2 Union Court, Sutton on Hull

   PRO RG11 Piece 4746 Page 78 Family 55

   Head John Bolley 73 Ballast Lighterman b Kenningham

   Wife Mary Bolley 66 b Kenningham

   Son-in-Law Dickinson Pate 41 Ballast Lighterman b Hull

   Daughter Sarah A Pate 40 b Hull

   Son John H Pate 17 Ballast Lighterman b Hull

   Daughter Alice Pate 15

   Daughter Mary E Pate 12 Scholar b Hull

   Granddaughter Salina Pate 6 Scholar b Hull

   @@Kingston Upon Hull, Sutton St Mark's, Sculcoates

   RG11 Piece 4746 Page 78 Family 55

   very poorly transcribed in MyHeritage.com : Colley read as ;Bolley, and Tate as Pate and youngest child's forename:

3. ↑

   Ballast Lighterman : A docker crewing a vessel (a lighter) used for loading and unloading a ship away from the quayside. A Ballast Lighterman specialised in transferring rocks, cobbles, bricks etc. which add weight to the bottom of the hull, below the cargo or instead of a cargo to keep the vessel upright even in a storm.

4. ↑

   freebmd Marriages Jun 1884

   Gleadhill Jane Ann @@Sculcoates 9d 207

   Tate John Henry @@Sculcoates 9d 207

5. ↑

   Census 1891 Sutton Witham:

   PRO RG12 /3912 page 73

   John Hy TATE, head, married 28 -- sailor

   Jane Ann Tate wife 26

   Emily Tate 3,

   Alice Tate 1,

   Lodger Mary HILARY un 34 -- spinner

   previous household

   Sarah Ann TATE wid char 50,

   Mary COLLY mother wid 74

6. ↑

   freebmd Deaths Dec 1899

   Tate John Henry age 35 @@Hull 9d 173