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Victoria Boiler Works
Dear Brother (William Hartley Budd) This leaves me and my and Family in the enjoyment of good health at present hoping it will find-you and yours the same thank God for it.
To Brother at present from your
Notes.
After the death of Edward, Mary remarried John Renshaw (a Labourer and Bachelor) 28 Jul.1862, Manchester Cathedral.
Confused by the alternating Surname, Hartley/ Budd.
I have a photo (undated) of a John HARTLEY (aged 91 yrs.) from Levenshulme, Manchester.
The Origins of the family have proved to be very Elusive.
I have to inform you that my Wife Rachael Died on the 17th Day of January 1852 and was buried at the Ardwick Cemetery.
I have now got married to the widow of the late William Robertshaw of the Unicorn inn Deansgate Manchester and it is about 2 years since and I still kept the House on in Deansgate the same as it was there is four Children but there is only one of her own a boy about five years old we are living comfortable at the Boiler yard and only go to the other House in Deansgate as occasion requires.
I have Built 3 good Houses and I have Built Workshops for letting off all round the yard and I have two Steam Engines and one of Fairbairns Patent Riveting Machines and when all things are in proper order we can put 18 Rivets in in a minute and I have all things complete about-the Machine I have also 3 punching engines and 1 pair of Rollers etc etc and I am very well Settled in business and comfortably.
My daughter Hannah is Married and has been about 11 years she has 3 Children and has buried 2 and she will have another soon and they are all in good health.
Her Husband Thomas Yates is a Boiler Maker and he went out to the Indies on board a steam Ship about 3 months since he is engaged for the Voyage at £5.10.0 per Month and Rations.
I have a Son Samuel Married about 3 years since has 2 Children and they are 2 fine Boys he is my Foreman he is a very good Lad and I am happy to say he Makes a good Husband and Father.
Our Brother Edward died in august 1853 and of course you will wish to know some particulars of his Death in the first place he had to be bled in the right Arm every year and on one occasion the Doctors man cut the guider in his Arm which caused him to lose the use of two fingers and a thumb
and as he was superintending getting of a Boiler out something gave way and the Boiler caught his Arm against the wall and it being the bad Arm-it went on very bad and the hand had to be cut which caused him to bled to death as he lay in bed reading a Book.
Neither he Nor any one else thinking his Death was near at hand he lived one week after the accident and he walked up to my works during the week and you may be sure when the coach came for me to go and see him I scarcely knew what I was doing
but when I got there he was dead he as left a widow and 5 Children to lament his untimely end but he is gone to a better world I bought all his tools and she started a shop with the Money she is doing very well the Children are very good.
Our Sister Emma is Married to Benjamin Chappall a fine Specimen and they are doing very well-and they have six Chidren living and with the assistance of one of them they are selling and carting coals she has Not such very good health but she puts her trust in God she is the Best in the Family here for attending to a place of workship and her Husband is a Teetolaler and they are all in good health at present-
Our Brother Henry is at presnt out of work but he is getting a living by going amongst the Brokers he has a wife and four Children but they are rather short of work at present but they are all in good health.
Our Brother Nathan is at present living in Manchester and he has been working for me but he is at present looking after a Foremans Situation and I hope he will get it he has a wife and 7 Children but they are all in good health at present.
I am at present about to insure my life and also the life of my wife but I do not know my proper age I have wrote to Chatham and Brompton for my Register but they cannot find it you will bear in Mind that all our ages were put down in a Common prayer book
and I wish to know whether you have got that prayer Book or Not and if you have Not got it our Emma is of opinion that you know all our ages and where we were Christened and if you do please to write as soon as you can Make it convenient after you receive think as I think it will be a very good thing I think I am worth about three Thousand Pounds
and I should very Much like to know how you are getting on and how you are situated you did not send the name of you wife as if we should happen to have any Children I should perhaps call one of them the same Name My wifes name is Elizabeth
I am very happy to hear how well the two Gentlemen who have called upon me speak about you they give you an excellent character for being an upright honest sober industrious and speak of you as being very well to do and of which I am very proud.
(Anne is a cousin of my father, and G.Grandaughter of William Hartley Budd 1812-1888).
A 1863 Directory shows the Victoria Bolier Works at Palmerston St. Ancoats, owned by John Hartley.
By the 1861 Census, Elizabeth appears to have died, and John is now married to Agnes.
The Inn was later run by Elizabeths younger brother, John Bradley Ledley.
The other 3 children are from William Robertshaws first marriage (23 Feb.1861, Esther WOGDEN, Manchester Cathedral).
The marriage of John to Rachael is yet to be found.
The couple had 8 children, but it appears only five had survived by Nov.1856.
Both were resident at 8 Castle St. Manchester.
It appears the Budd children of Edward and Mary, didnt adopt the name of Renshaw.
Hannah was resident at 26 Handman St. Manchester.
In the 1881 Census Samuel and Jane and family are resident at 1 Killing Hall+, Darlington, Durham.
Darlington is near the birthplace (Barton) of Jane.
2 children of Samuel and Jane, were born post Nov.1856 in Manchester.
ie: Annie Maria Hartley Budd (b.1861) and Albert Edward Hartley Budd (b.1865),
while another 4 children were born in Darlington, Durham.
The Marriage is yet to be found.
Three children are known:
Of 12 Children to the couple, 5 were born (1844-1852) in Burton-on-Trent, Staffordshire, birthplace of Emma.
By the 1881 Census, Emma appears to have died, and Nathan is married to Sarah.
Nathan gives his birthplace as Brompton Kent (b.1815) and both are resident at 24 Shooter St. Newton Preswick Manchester.
No children are resident at this address in 1881.
By 1881, Nathan appears to be only one of his siblings still alive in England, except for William Hartley Budd in Australa.
Nathan accompanied his brother, William Hartley Budd to Australia, returning from Hobart, Tasmania to London, England on the Adelaide in 1833.
He was resident at Ridgeway St. Manchester.
Samuel gives his fathers name as Nathan Wetherall Hartley.
It has made research extremely difficult.
It appears it was the mother of John, Edward, Henry, William, Emma and the father of Nathan, that perished on the ship Hibernia.
ie: Samuel Hartley and his wife, Hannah Hartley (nee Evans).
Hannah appears to have remarried Samuel HARTLEY, her first husband being John BUDD (a Soldier).
Therefore the HARTLEY appears to have originated thru Marriage.
It appears that Nathan used BUDD as a Second Christian Name in his family, in contast to his Half-Siblings from the First Marriage who used HARTLEY as a Second Christian Name.
Nathan appears to be the only child from the Second Marriage.
It is said that Samuel Hartley owned a Hotel in Strangeaways Manchester prior to departing for Australia.
Some of the family may have moved to Ireland at some stage (circa 1830), as the son (Samuel) of John and Rachel, in the Censuses, gives his birthplace as Ireland.
In possession of the McNaughton family at Wallan is a Budd Bible, which is a Church of Ireland Bible.
It has no date but is written in Shakesperean English and appears to be a Mass Book that a Minister would use.
I believe this Bible was brought on the ship when the family emigrated from England and belonged to the Hartley Family.
This is in fact the Brother of Samuel HARTLEY and was taken in 1864.
I cannot find the marriage of Johns parents (John Budd and Hannah Evans), maybe it occurred in the Army or maybe in the Church where the children were baptised (St.Margaret, Rochester).
No record of the marriage can be found in the International Genealogical Index (IGI).
John Budd wrote to Chatham and Brompton (Naval and Army towns in Kent), searching for his Baptismal Register, as he did not known his right age.
He would have been successful if he wrote to the nearby town of Rochester.
William Hartley Budds Death Certificate states his father is a Soldier, but until I can find what Regiment he was in, which may give me the origins of the family.
The Army records for this period have not been indexed as yet.
The earliest I can place the family in Manchester, is 1 Feb.1829 (bapt. of Hannah, daughter of John and Rachael).
Johns occupation is given as a Boiler Maker.
Was Samuel Hartley also in the Army ?
After the Battle of Waterloo (1815), did Samuel quit the Army and moved North with his family to Manchester for work.