Wednesday, August 26, 2009

Jane Myatt of N Staffordshire (my 3*great-grandmother)

Richard and Mary Myatt lived in Wolstanton, Staffordshire at the end of the eighteenth century. They were probably born around 1760 and married around 1780. Their daughter Jane was born in 1782 and she was baptised in St Margaret’s Church, Wolstanton, on April 21. Six years later, another daughter, Anne, was born there and baptised on 24 August 1788. By 1795 the family had moved 8 miles SW to Maer where their son James was born. There may have been other children, including a Mary who died at birth in Abbots Bromley, Staffs, in 1805.

On February 16 1807 when she was a 25 year-old spinster, Jane Myatt married James Patrick in St Peter’s Church, Maer. James was a labourer from Stafford. They had seven children between 1807 and 1828, all born in Maer. Only the last died young and the third was William, my great-great-grandfather, who moved the Patrick family to Mow Cop.

In 1813, Jane’s sister Anne died in Maer at the age of 24 and was buried there on 24 April. Jane’s brother James Myatt became a tailor and married at a young age to a girl named Sarah from the next village of Chorlton: their first child, Anne, was baptised at Maer on October 15 1815, on the same day as her cousin George, the 4th child of Jane Myatt and James Patrick. Another daughter, Mary, was born in Chorlton in 1827 and a third, Emma, in Maer in 1828. Anne (13) and Emma (8 months) both died young in Maer in 1829 and were buried in the churchyard. By 1851, James and Sarah were again living in Chorlton with their surviving daughter Mary, and in the 1861 census they are shown as visitors in Burslem. James died in Wolstanton in 1867 aged 72.