I have introduced the Waides, now I must add the Hagues. Their relationship to the Marrs is intriguing so I will try to answer the questions ‘who was Harry Marr`s first wife, Elizabeth (Lily) Sanderson Waide’, and also ‘why were her children virtually adopted by the Hague family?’ It is a rather tortuous tale, but must be spelt out to be understood. The Hague`s stemmed from Smeaton, near Thorpe Audlin, not far from Wrangbrook, south of Pontefract. 2 Hague brothers were drapers in Pontefract and Wakefield. Rebecca Hague married the coroner in Pontefract, James Raper, a solicitor and friend of Henry Marr. Their father Thomas Hague, farmer at Smeaton, nominated Joseph Waide, of Elmsall, as executor to his Will in 1863 (their grandfather had been apprenticed in 1810, when his name was spelt on the Indenture as Haigh, ‘to be taught learnt and informed in the business of weaver, bleacher and farmer’, which to me implies the growing and treatment of flax. On the birth certificates of children born to their gr. Grandparents, Thomas and Rebecca Hague at Little Smeaton, between 1782 and 1795, they were described as linen weavers. That generation came from Wragby.)
In the 1851 census there is a Joseph Waide living (I think as one of 3 farmer tenants, others were Brown and Liversidge) at North Elmsall Hall, and in his household is his mother-in-law, an annuitant widow Mary Sanderson (age 66 so born in 1785), whose surname was to be bestowed as a Christian name on the following generation. The census gives details of Joseph Waide age 39, who farmed 169 acres, his 28 year old wife Elizabeth, and their children Mary Ann age 7 and Francis age 5. Although Lily was not included in that year’s Census on 30 March, I am confident that I have stumbled on to the correct Waide family, for she was born on the 14th April that year.
Further proof of the connection is provided by Mary Ann (Waide) Hives, whose Will we have, who married George Hives, leaving her estate to her nephews and niece, who were Harry Marr`s first family, plus Joseph Waide, son of John Sanderson Waide, brother of Elizabeth (Lily) Sanderson (Waide) and then Marr —- I hope this is crystal clear? I have tried to portray this on the next page.
Muriel says that Aunt Mary Ann had a lavender silk dress which came out on all important occasions and that, at the great age of 60, she astonished everyone by marrying, in that same dress, a widower George Hives, who, in 1881, had been station master at South Elmsall. Both Muriel and Lilyanne say that she too was fond of a glass.
I believe that Sallie in Canada (Marr’s 1850 – 1880) has a sampler made by a Mary Sanderson (when she was 10 in 1819). These figures are taken from a letter written by Muriel to Norrison in 1977. If they are correct they cannot be reconciled with the annuitant, who would have been 10 in 1795. I leave this riddle unsolved.
In the 1871 census (on 2nd April) Joseph Waide now 59 was living near to Grange and Brookside, at any rate it is the next entry in the list. His wife is now Ann, age 57, born at Brimington in Derbyshire, so clearly he married again: In 1851 his wife was Elizabeth, 11 years his junior. His daughters are Maryann (sic) age 29 and Elizabeth age 19. In this Census it says both daughters were born at North Elmsall, although in the earlier Census Mary Ann`s birthplace was given as Whitwood, which lies between Wakefield and Castleford. Joseph Waide`s birthplace was Methley, in the same region.
Mary Ann Hives died 6th February 1913 owning properties at Tanshelf, Knottingley and Hemsworth which her executors sold for £2,419, after the death of her husband George on 21st March 1915. All assets were divided equally between Lily Waide Waide, her husband Joseph Sanderson Waide, Thomas Norrison Marr and Joseph Waide Marr. They received just under £500 apiece.
Tom Marr, butcher, was then at 32 Belle Vue St., Filey, Jo Waide bank cashier and Lily of 313 Park Rd., Oldham. Thomas Hague draper of Pontefract was party to the Indenture which sorted out the distributions of moneys and Henry Hague likewise, late of Wakefield, draper, but now, 12th August 1915 of Pontefract.
George Hives had a daughter Sarah Kitchen by his first wife who agreed to forego interest in return for retention of some furniture in her possession.
