John Berry (abt. 1790)

Born about 1790 in England [uncertain]

Descendants

Biography

John Berry was born in about 1787-1791.

His daughter Matilda Berry was born in about 1818 in Wigan, Lancashire.^[1] Her 1846 marriage record describes John as a painter.

By June 6th 1841, John and Matilda were living in Barracks Yard, Wigan Lane, Wigan. Both were employed as weavers. Also in the household - and listed between them in the ordering, so possibly part of the family - were Ann Bailey (aged 55-59 and a female servant) and Elizabeth Bailey (aged 35-39 and not in paid employment). Both were born in Lancashire. John's birthplace was listed on the census as not known; Matilda's was left blank.

John may have died in 1850 in Wigan district, aged 63. If so, then he was buried on 20 Feb 1850 at St Bartholomew's Church in Westhoughton, Lancashire, and his abode was Hindley. This is the only plausible death registration for him in Wigan district between 1841 and 1851 listed on the GRO website.

Research Notes

Three other Berry girls who were daughters of John Berry weaver married in the vicinity of Wigan around this time, who might possibly be children of this John or might belong to a different one. No others found with father John Berry painter. The three were Margaret (m. Henry Whittle 22 Feb 1841 All Saints, Wigan); Elizabeth (m. Alfred Watmough 15 Nov 1840 St Wilfrid, Standish) and Sarah (m. James Watkinson 31 Mar 1844 All Saints, Wigan).

Sources

• Death Registration (uncertain match): "England & Wales General Register Office"
  GRO Online Indexes - Death (accessed 22 August 2021)
  Berry, John (Age at death: 63).
  GRO Reference: 1850 Jan-Feb-Mar in Wigan Union Volume 21 Page 593.

• Burial (uncertain match): listed on Lancashire Online Parish Clerk

• "England and Wales Census, 1841," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MQLK-GXP : 23 May 2019), Matilda Berry in household of John Berry, Wigan, Lancashire, England, United Kingdom; from "1841 England, Scotland and Wales census," database and images, findmypast (http://www.findmypast.com : n.d.); citing PRO HO 107, The National Archives, Kew, Surrey.

1. ↑ Wigan Archives Services; Wigan, England; Film Number: 3; Reference Numbers: D/P21/1/6 (http://interactive.ancestry.co.uk/60562/41177_334174-00064/441586 : accessed 13 May 2015).