The Marsden Family
John James Marsden
John married Eliza Farrington aged twenty-three in 1864 and worked as a loader at the local bleach works. Eliza earned an income in cotton mill as a weaver.
John died aged forty in 1905. The official cause of death – ‘Malignant Disease of the stomach’.
Elizabeth Marsden
Elizabeth married Joseph Rankin Robinson, a grocer and they had four children. The family lived at 155 Harpers Lane in Chorley and later, at no 96 Harpers Lane where the grocery business continued.
Thomas Marsden
Thomas accidently drowned in a brook behind the family home when he was eighteen months old.
Mary Marsden
Mary remained on Eaves Lane with her husband William Sandham, a master wood turner. After the death of her husband in 1912, Mary supported herself by starting her own drapery business at home on Eaves Lane. Daughter Edith worked in her mother’s business as a milliner. The 1939 census confirms that the business was still going ten years later, with daughter Edith then married, still working alongside her.
Dinah Marsden
Dinah committed suicide in 1917 leaving behind three sons Albert Ezra, Arthur Sharples and five month old John Philip. Dinah’s husband John remarried in 1919.
William Marsden
William Henry married Mary Ann Mangnall and remained landlord of the ‘Derby Arms’ until his death. He was also licensee of the ‘Talbot Arms’ in Euxton in 1917. William died aged 57 in 1923.
Phoebe Marsden
Phoebe died aged just five in 1885. The cause of death was Pneumonia.