G is for George Blackledge AtoZ Challenge 2106

George Blackledge is my paternal grandmother's great grandfather. Joseph and Elizabeth Blackledge welcomed their eighth son  George Blackledge to Eccleston, Lancashire in 1794. They had him christened in the parish church of St Mary the Virgin at Eccleston(near Croston) on the 7th December 1794.(a)

By 1822 George had found himself a wife-Ellen Dandy and they married in her parish of St Wilfrid's  Standish Lancashire in August 1822 (b) and very quickly their first son Henry arrived on the scene.(c)
More children arrived Jane 1824, William 1826, Betty 1828, Thomas 1831 and George II 1834 and Ellen 1837

From tithe records in 1842 we get a picture of how he used the land. He leased 13 plots ( 8 acres)  from Charles  Standish and he paid tithes in total of £1/1/1d (d)

It is interesting to see the different uses of the plots.

Plot number	Name & description of lands & premises	State of cultivation
503	Field	Pasture
504	Watering pond
505	Field	Arable field
509	Field	Meadow
510	Field	Pasture
519	Enclosure & lane	Pasture
513	Field & path	Pasture
514	Field	Meadow
515	Cottages & garden
516	Cottages & garden
517	Dwelling house
518	Enclosure	Garden
519	Enclosure	Garden

As well as having the land he was a grocer/provisions dealer. (f)

He continued to live at Almond Brook, Standish until his death on June 24 1863. (e)







(a) St Mary the Virgin, Eccleston, Lancashire, England
    Register: Baptisms 1782 - 1812, Page 114, Entry 4
    Online Parish Clerk Lancashire Source: Roy Lowe Transcript

(b)Ancestry (www.ancestry.com : accessed 17 Sep 2015), marriage George Blacklige and Ellen Dandy;  Lancashire Anglican Parish Registers. Preston, England: Lancashire Archives.

(c) St Wilfrid (Standish, Lancashire, England), "Christening," Henry Blackledge; FHL microfilm 1526140 1,526,140, item 663.

(d) The genealogist (www.thegenealogist.co.uk : accessed 2 Sep 2015), entry for George Blackledge, Almond Brook Standish Lancashire; Citing tithe records 1842.

(e) Death certificate 24 June 1863 registered Wigan volume  8c page  5

(f) English census 1851, Class: HO107; Piece: 2198; Folio: 159; Page: 8; GSU roll: 87207.