WILLIAM (1850 - 1907) and ANNIE SANBY(1850 - 1906)  

The 1881 Census gave the following details of William and Annie's family which are listed below. WILLIAM first appears in the 1851 Census for Sheffield as a nine month old boy, the first son of HENRY and AGNES SANBY. (Ref Sheffield Vol 2340 Folio 117B). The Census took place on March 30th 1851 and so William was born circa June 1850 

Dwelling: 55 Roundell Street
Census Place: Attercliffe Cum Darnall, York, England
Source: FHL Film 1342128 PRO Ref RG11 Piece 4667 Folio 98 Page 64

NAME STATUS AGE REL OCCUPATION PLACE OF BIRTH
WILLIAM B SANBY Married 30 Head Edge Tool Forger

Sheffield, York, England

ANNIE SANBY Married 31 Wife   Sheffield, York, England
ANNIE E SANBY Female 8 Daughter   Sheffield, York, England
EMILY SANBY Female 7 Daughter   Sheffield, York, England
ADA SANBY Female 3 Daughter   Sheffield, York, England
HENRY W SANBY Male 7m Son   Sheffield, York, England
ENY PATRICK Widower 56 Father Blacksmith Ireland
ENY MARTIN Brother 30 Brother Blacksmith Ireland

Notes

  1. William B. SANBY is William Henry SANBY  (transciption error on Census)

  2. His wife Annie SANBY's maiden name is MACKEVOY - William and Annie married September quarter of 1871 - GRO Ref 9C 634

  3. ANNIE ELIZA  SANBY GRO Ref: 9C 370 - born June Quarter 1872)

  4. ANNIE ELIZA  SANBY (married GRO December quarter 1890 Ref 9C 851)  

  5. EMILY  SANBY  birth was registered in the September quarter of 1873 GRO Ref: Vol 9C Page 369)

  6. EMILY  SANBY (married GRO June qtr 1892 Ref 9C 369)

  7. ADA SANBY birth was registered in the June quarter of 1878 (Ecclesall Bierlow Vol 9C Page 338). She may have married in the September quarter 1900 (GRO ref Sheffield Vol 9C Page 809) but I will need to check this before I can be certain 

1891 CENSUS

Dwelling: 115 No 33 Droppingwells,Kimberworth,Rotherham
Census Place: Kimberworth,Rotherham, York, England  PRO Ref RG12 Piece 3851

 

NAME STATUS AGE REL OCCUPATION PLACE OF BIRTH
WILLIAM H SANBY Married 40 Head Edge Tool Forger

Sheffield, York, England

ANNIE SANBY Married 40 Wife   Sheffield, York, England
EMILY SANBY Female 17 Daughter Packer Sheffield, York, England
ADA SANBY Female 12 Daughter Scholar Sheffield, York, England
WILLIAM H SANBY Male 10 Son Scholar Sheffield, York, England

This confirms that ANNIE ELIZA had left the family home to get married (note 4)                                                                          

1901 CENSUS

Dwelling: 3c 1h Bardwell Road

Census Place: Wincobank, Sheffieldl, York, England
Source: PRO Ref RG11 Piece 4332 Folio 147 Page 44 Schedule Number 269

NAME STATUS AGE REL OCCUPATION PLACE OF BIRTH
WILLIAM B SANBY Married 50 Head Edge Tool Forger

Sheffield, York, England
ANNIE SANBY Married 51 Wife   Sheffield, York, England
WILLIAM H SANBY Single 20 Son General Labourer Sheffield, York, England
ELSIE SANBY Single 8 Daughter   Sheffield, York, England
ALBERT GRIFFITHS Single 30 Boarder General Labourer Stafford, NK, England
SARAH A NORMAN   16 Servant   Hoyland, York, England

Twenty years later William and Annie were still living in Sheffield albeit at a different address with William still working as an Edge Tool Forger. Living with them was a WILLIAM SANBY aged 20. This is undoubtedly the HENRY W SANBY who was aged seven months in 1881. (He was WILLIAM H SANBY in the 1891 Census) He just changed his first and second names around. The three daughters mentioned in the 1881 Census are no longer living with their parents but there is another daughter ELSIE SANBY (Female was registered in Rotherham  December quarter 1892 GRO Ref: 9C 72_ ). A year earlier the family were living in the Kimberworth area of Rotherham. (1891 Census)  The fact that there was a boarder living with the family is not that surprising but the presence of a servant is. Given that the family are living in poor working class accommodation in the industrial east end of Sheffield and taking in lodgers the employment of a servant seems unlikely unless one or more of the family were severely incapacitated and required care. The other option and by far the more likely is that the Census transcriber placed the term "servant" in the relationship column instead of the occupation column. Sarah Norman was far more likely to be a "live-out servant". for some richer family.

The final record I have of WILLIAM SANBY is from the Kelly's Directory for Sheffield and Rotherham that was compiled in 1904. There is an entry for a "William Henry Sanby - Fried fish dealer - 11 Bardwell Road, Wincobank." And so soon after the 1901 Census, William moved into a totally different occupation. He was still a Fried fish dealer when he died in the September quarter of 1907 age 57. (GRO ref Sheffield Vol 9C Page 321). His wife ANNIE predeceased him, dying in the December quarter of 1906 age 56. (GRO ref Sheffield Vol 9C Page 359)

William and Annie's son WILLIAM SANBY (HENRY W SANBY) married in the December quarter of 1911, a Mary STANYARD (Marriages December 1911 Sanby, William H Sheffield Volume 9c Page 1096). The FREEBMD index states that the couple had

1. JACK SANBY - Births Mar 1912 quarter. Sheffield Volume 9c Page 1161

2. EMILY SANBY - Births Mar 1914 quarter Sheffield Volume 9c Page 1088    

3. FRANK SANBY - Births Mar 1920 quarter Ecclesall Bierlow. Volume 9c Page908
 

  

The Sanby Family in 1891

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