Joseph Shillito and his family (DWG m. Sallie Marr, eldest sister of Harry and Joe) moved from Wrangbrook to Manor Farm, Garforth near Leeds before February 1894, when he was named as one of the TNM`s executors (Jo Waide Marr said in his much quoted cutting, that this farm was later taken over by the County Council, but gave no date). When he died on 15th June 1914 they were at 20 Norwood Terrace, Leeds. Aunt Raper and Ettie left Scarborough on the same train after the town was shelled by elements of the German fleet in December 1914, Aunt Raper was on her way to Pontefract and I imagine that Ettie (DWG – Sallie’s younger spinster sister) was on her way to her sister`s in Leeds. Sallie was still alive in 1921 but her death was not noted in any paper preserved.
We know very little about the family. When houses were sold at the turn of the century, to clear up one of TNM`s affairs, Joseph Shillito could be contacted for details at Marshalls Flour Mill, Lime St., Hull I suppose it was the same Joe.
Joseph and Mary, (who married Sallie`s brother Tom Marr) had a brother Michael Shillito and a sister Lily acting as housekeeper for him, living at 20 Bramshill Gardens, Dartmouth Park, London. He was a partner in a firm of ships ventilating engineers in North London with Keith Blackman, the Blackman Ventilating Company, who seems to have borrowed money from TNM, who also had some shares in it, for this venture.
Of the children of Jo and Sallie our knowledge is slight. They were Frederick born in 1869 and must have died in infancy (for he appears on no record except on the 1871 census), Martha born in 1870 married Edwin Coventry, yet another Thomas Norrison (Norrie) in 1874 who married May Wilson, Benjamin Coulson (1877) who married Winifred (my mother`s tree put Ireland after her name but whether that was her surname or place of origin is not known), Lucy (1879) married John Thomson, Julia 1880, Elsie (died Dumfries 1929), Minnie (died Leeds 1921), and Norman who died as a boy: that is about all I have gathered.
Michael and his sister assumed responsibility for at least some of Tom Marr`s children after his death, (and perhaps even before that). Daisy, Violet and May lived with them, went to the North London Collegiate School and they married from their house.
I think there are 2 more Shillito sisters (of Jo and Mary) who kept a school in Doncaster, judging by a cutting preserved by Ada, one was then widow of Rev. E. Oldfield, for 30 years a superintendent of a Wesleyan Circuit. 45 years ago a Wing Commander Oldfield accosted me at the staff college, claiming to be related to me however, but I was unable to see how. Perhaps this was the tenuous link. Harry Marr had cousins, through his mother Abigail Larder, called Longbottom who kept a hardware store in Doncaster, one of whom was present at Mrs Oldfield`s funeral, though the connection in this case need not have been a family relationship.
