Sources
Sankey Family Photographic Collection
Cumbria BMD
Ancestry
Barrow Herald and Advertiser
Brighouse News
Place
Walks
Themes
Haden family
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This Sankey photograph must have been taken in 1913, after the death of Elizabeth Haden. Notice how deep the kerbs look, compared to the modern photograph.
IN LOVING MEMORY
OF
JOHN HADEN
DIED 1895 AGED 74 YEARS
ALSO OF ELIZABETH
BELOVED WIFE OF I.S. HADEN,
DIED 1913, AGED 66 YEARS
ALSO THE ABOVE
ISAIAH SAMUEL HADEN
DIED 1931 AGED 85 YEARS
The task is to identify the relationships of those named on the headstone. This is grave B2/610. According to the Cemetery Records, next to it, three more Hadens are buried, in B2/611. These are Francis Haden, buried on 23 August 1894, aged 42; Harold Haden, aged 19 and buried on 12 October 1910; and Ann Haden, presumably his mother, died aged 77 and buried on 2 December 1933. This is supported by Ancestry, where in the 1901 Census Ann and Harold Haden were living at 18 Collingwood Street. Ann Haden was born at Netherton, Worcs. Her deceased husband, Francis Haden, a boilermaker, is listed as being born in Dudley, Worcs. in the 1881 Census. Francis and the above John Haden were brothers. A probable third brother, Edward W. Haden (38) Ship Boiler Maker, born Dudley, Worcs, was living at 18 Earle Street, Barrow, in the 1891 Census, along with wife Ellen (35) born Dudley, and seven children, including an Isaiah S. Haden (9) and John Haden (6).
Ancestry has Isaiah Samuel Haden (DoB 14 January 1846) being baptised in Dudley 12 April 1846. His parents were John and Maria Haden.
1851 Census
In the 1851 Census living at Sledmore? Dudley, are John Haden (30) Miner, born Dudley, Worcestershire, (as are the following); Maria Haden (29); Elizabeth Haden (9); John Haden (8), Isaiah Haden (transcribed as Sarah, but a son!) (5); and Francis Haden (1).
1861 Census
In the 1861 Census the Haden family were living on Cross Guns (Street), Dudley. Father John Haden (40) Coal Miner, born Dudley, Worcestershire (as were the whole family) shares the house with wife Maria Haden (37); John Haden (17) Coal Miner; Isaiah Haden (15) Scholar; Francis Haden (11) Scholar; and Edward Haden (8) Scholar. It was unusual for a boy of 15, of this social class, to be still at school. He must have been special!
The Barrow Herald and Advertiser 24 June 1965 carried an advert:
WANTED
A SITUATION as Clerk, Timekeeper, or Machine man, well educated and good references, wages 16s. per week – Address Isaiah Haden, Steel Works, Barrow.
So it appears that Isaiah had come to Barrow “on spec”, got a job at the steelworks while looking for something better.
Isaiah Samuel Haden married Elizabeth Kendall on 22 December 1867 at St. Edmund’s, Dudley, Worcester.
1871 Census
Both had moved to Barrow by the 1871 Census, where they are at 7 Anson Street. Isaiah Haden (25) is a Draughtsman (Rolling Mill Furnaces), born Dudley, Worcs; and his wife Elizabeth Haden (24) is recorded as being born Wednesbury, Staffs.
1881 Census
In the 1881 Census has the Hadens at 3 Dundonald Street, Barrow. Isaiah S. Haden (35) Ship Draughtsman, born Dudley, Worcs, shares the house with wife Elizabeth Haden (33) born Wednesbury, Staffs; and mother-in-law Eliza Kendall, Widow, born Walsall, Staffs.
1891 Census
The 1891 Census has living at 3 Dundonald Street, Barrow, Isaiah L. (sic) Haden (45) No occupation, born Dudley, Worcs; Elizabeth Haden (44) (occupation illegible), born Walsall, Staffs; Ada Greenhough (15) General Servant (Domestic), born Bolehill, Derbyshire; Ethel E. Kendall (3) Niece, born Barrow-in-Furness. Perhaps Isaiah had been laid off during one of the periodic down-turns in the iron trade.
In the Brighouse News 15 August 1891 there appears:
LIST OF LOCAL PATENTS complied by John E. Walsh, patent agent, Crossley Street, Halifax, and Royal Exchange Chambers, Boar Lane, Leeds. – Applications … Isaiah Haden, Barrow-in-Furness, for a tube welding, re-heating and melting furnace.
The same column appears in the Leeds Times and the Dewsbury Chronicle on the same date.
1901 Census
The 1901 Census sees the Hadens at 1 Lancaster Street, Barrow. Isaiah S. Haden (54) Iron and Steel Works Engineer, born Dudley, Worcs, shares the house with Elizabeth Haden (53) Grocer & Fruiterer, Own Account, born Walsall, Staffs; Elizabeth E. Kendall (13) Niece, no occupation recorded, born Barrow; and Elizabeth Hughes (21) General Servant (Domestic), born Barrow.
1910 Electoral Register
On the 1910 Electoral Register for Barrow, while living at 1 Lancaster Street, Isaiah Samuel Haden qualifies through owning 29 and 39 Stafford Street, Barrow.
1911 Census
In the 1911 Census living at 1 Lancaster Street, Barrow, are Isaiah Samuel Haden (64) Engineer and Draughtsman, Iron & Steel Works, born Dudley, Worcester; Elizabeth Haden (62 – sic) Grocer & Fruiterer (At Home), born Walsall, Stafford; and Elizabeth Jane Walsh (32) Single, General Servant (Domestic), born Askam-in-Furness. The Hadens had been married for 42 years, but not had children.
The National Probate Calendar (Index of Wills and Administrations) 1931 has:
HADEN Isaiah Samuel of 35 Osborne Street Barrow-in-Furness Lancashire died 23 June 1931 Probate London 6 August to Frederick Maybrough Robinson outfitter and Albert Hodgson warehouseman. Effects £781 18s 4d.
It is the father, John Haden who is buried in the grave shown above. He was baptised in Dudley on 4 March 1821, son of Samuel Haden, a sawyer, and his wife Maria Haden. This John Haden married Maria White in Tipton, Staffs, in November? 1842.
In the 1891 Census he was a Steelworks Labourer (67) born Dudley, Worcs, living at 49 Melbourne Street, Barrow with his wife Mary Haden (63), born Plymouth, Devonshire. I’m fairly certain that this is the right family, but puzzled about the birthplace listed.
His death notice in Soulby’s Ulverston Advertiser 7 March 1895 gives the date of death as 4 March 1895, his occupation as steelworker, and his age as 70 years (sic).
According to Cumbria BMD, in 1895 both a John and a Mary Haden died in 1895. If this is the John and Maria above, I wonder why she is either not buried with him, or not recorded on the headstone. However, there was a Mary Haden who was born in 1895, and died the same year. Another Mary Haden died in Barrow in September 1899.
Research is complicated by the fact that there are several John Haden’s born in Dudley or nearby in the early 1820s.
No-one is certain why Edward Sankey took photographs of graves in the period 1910-1920 or later. Were they advertising the skills of his friend William Hull, or later Hull and Fairbairn? Were they to be made into postcards that the bereaved family could send to members who were not able to attend the funeral?
The historic photograph is from the Sankey Family Photographic Collection, courtesy of Cumbria Archives.
