John Hallworth: born 1836

John Hallworth was the youngest child of Philip & Eliza Hallworth. He was baptised in 1836 at the church of Flitton-with-Silsoe, Bedfordshire.

The 1861 census reveals that John Hallworth (25, described here as born Toddington, Beds {South of Ampthill}) has moved out of his parent's house and settled with Eliza (29, Bucks). They lived in Little Mill House, Ampthill. They had a baby son Robert, and a live-in Nurse Maid. The Mill employed 2 men. This seems to be a time of prosperity for the family! Click here to read more about Eliza.


Cassey's Directory, 1862: tells us that John Hallworth was the Corn Miller at Ampthill Mill.

Ampthill, Beds - is a town on the map here - it's just East of Milton Keynes.

A page about it's history, here, and the Francis Frith website has an entry for Ampthill here.

An encyclopaedic page on Ampthill is linked here, from the GENUKI site - it covers local history, geography and resources for further study in genealogy.

Some time after 1864, John & his family moved to Grange Mill at Heath & Reach...

On once more by 10 years...Millers
Now, if we step forward in time to 1871, we find John (35, Farmer & Miller) and his wife Eliza (39) living in Grange Mill, Heath & Reach, Bedfordshire with their children Robert (10), Eliza (8), Charles (6), William (2), and baby John (10 mths). Also a visitor, Ann Hammond who is clearly given as "Wife's sister" (born Grt Brickhill, aged 37, unmarried).  Another child (who may be theirs but it's not confirmed) was living with their Grandparents Philip & Elizabeth in Toddington: Jessie (5).

The young Charles Hallworth here was later our Harry's father.

The village of Heath & Reach is near Leighton Buzzard, South Beds. You can read much more about Grange Mill on this TrunkCalls page.

A neighbour of John's at the Grange Mill was the family of George & Rebecca Sharp at Mill Plot Cottage - they were from Toddington, BEDS.  The head of the household is described as an Ag Lab, aged 31. The name is familiar - see the Dog & Badger page.

A little side note from the Bedford Archives about the Grange Mill at Heath & Reach - they have copies of claims by millers in the area against the Grand Junction Canal Company from the period up to 1848.  The name of the miller at Grange Mill then was Mr Joseph Turney - I presume the nearby Canal was affecting the water flow.

By the time of the 1881 Census, John and his family had moved to Berkshire, so I searched the historical directories for Berkshire in this period to find:
1876 Harrod's Directory: Swallowfield, Berkshire, C. Hallworth, farmer. {don't know who he is, haven't found a Census entry for him. Could this be a misprint for J. Hallworth??}  Was he there then???
Otherwise, this could be an unknown relative who helped set up John & his family in this area of Berkshire.


Now to 1881...Farmers in Berkshire
Now in the 1881 Census, we can see John & Eliza Hallworth (with our young Charles Hallworth) were living in Wokingham near Reading, Berkshire.  Not sure how long this has been going on, but John here is described as an Out of Business Farmer.  If we look at this page about John's father, we see that he died in 1880 and his farm stock was sold off in 1881.  The marvellous documents which can be seen there tell us that John purchased several of the farm stock etc.  A letter from John held in that archive tells us he was still at Folly Farm in October 1881.

Transcription for Folly Farm, Wokingham:

John HALLWORTH, aged 45, born Greenfield, Bedford; Farmer (Out Of Business)

Eliza HALLWORTH, Wife, aged 49, born Buckhill, Bucks {that would be Bow Brickhill}

Robert HALLWORTH (Son, unmarried, aged 20, born Ampthill, Bedford)

Eliza A. HALLWORTH (Daughter, unmarried, aged 18, born Ampthill, Bedford)

Charles HALLWORTH (aged 16, born Ampthill, Bedford)

John HALLWORTH (aged 10, born Heath And Reach, Bedford, a Scholar)

Mary HALLWORTH (aged 8, born Heath And Reach, Bedford, a Scholar)

Philip HALLWORTH (aged 6, born Swallowfield, Berkshire)

So...from the details of the entry in 1881, we can see that the Hallworths were living in the Ampthill area up until the time of John's birth when they had moved to Heath & Reach.  Then by the time of Philip's birth (~ 1875) they had moved to the Swallowfield area. 
There are also two children living with their widowed Grandmother in Limersey, Maulden - they would appear to be the children of John & Eliza Hallworth. They are Jessie (aged 15) and William (aged 13), both born in Heath & Reach.
Jessie was recorded as born in the Leighton Buzzard district in 1866, whilst William Henry was recorded as born in the Leighton Buzzard district in 1868 {source FreeBMD; Heath & Reach is in the L. Buzz district}.

I've also seen the Farm & Court shown on a contemporary map at old-maps.co.uk, when the area was much less built up.
Folly Farm, helpfully, has been Grade II listed, and you can view it's entry on the list here. Click on the map tabs to view the property, which is on the opposite side of Barkham Road from Folly Court.
On Barkham Rd in 1881 (near the Folly Farm) there are two households of Licensed Victuallers - one named "New Leather Bottle" and another named "Old Leather Bottle"!

The neighbouring property of Folly Court, home of the Dauberrey family (retired Military). See map here. This property in 1881 had a full complement of domestic staff - including a coachman - so perhaps that is where young Charles (and his brother William) got an interest in his future trade as coachman?
Folly Court is now an area office / Kennels for the Guide Dogs for the Blind Association.

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Location, Location, Location: view my Google Map to try & get a handle on where the folks lived over the years. This map has details of Cox/Garrett family in Northamptonshire, and also Hallworth family in Bedfordshire. {It's in draft.}
John's birthplace, the village of Greenfield is near Flitwick & Ampthill in Bedfordshire.
Phillip Junior's birthplace, the village of Swallowfield in Berkshire is south of Reading.


1887 Kelly's Directory: Waltham St. Lawrence, Southlake St. - John Hallworth, Baker. {This page told me that Southlake St. (or Shurlock Row) is an area just SW of Waltham St. Lawrence, the area dominated by Billingbear Park.}


Grocers & Bakers
In the 1891 return, we see John was no longer a farmer. He was a Baker & Grocer, and he lived with his wife Eliza Hallworth and son Robert (Baker Asst.), son William (22, a groom, born Heath & Reach) and daughter Mary.

They were living in Southlake St. (White Hart - is it still there?), Waltham St. Lawrence (Cookham district).

• Charles had left home by then, read more about him in this page.
• Eliza Junior -- there's a reference in FreeBMD to the marriage in Richmond (Surrey) of Eliza Annie Hallworth in 1891.  Her husband's name was not recorded, sadly. (No other cases found more locally, nor was her death found on the BMD index.)
• John Junior - ?
• Philip - settled with a wife by 1901.
• The son William had not appeared on papers until I found this 1891 return!
• Jessie (who may be their child, born 1866) may have been in service with a well-off Widow & daughter in Paddington, London. (The area of St. Luke's, which is familiar from our Charles' life story!)

Marriage records in Berkshire begin to show Hallworth marriages in the year 1893 (none before that, unless it was spelled differently!) - the first was William Henry Hallworth (1893 to Ruth Clements; Vol 2c, p781) in the Cookham district, and the second was Jessie Hallworth (in 1895 to Ivan George Obree) in Cookham.
In 1895, a lass named Jessie Hallworth married Evan/Ivan George Obree (?) in the Cookham district Vol 2c, p273.  (No proof yet, but I think she may be John & Eliza's daughter, born 1866, Heath & Reach.  I've not found her husband anywhere else - except in Kent; Ivan George Obree, born Eastry, 1871. Perhaps they met when they were both in service in London?)

1899 Kelly's Directory: Waltham St. Lawrence, Southlake St. - John Hallworth, Baker.
(also similar entry in 1903)


Then to 1901 census return - we can see John (64, Baker & Grocer) & Eliza (69, born Bow Brickhill, Bucks). They live with their children Robert (40; Grocer's assistant) & Mary (28) - and they were still living in Waltham St. Lawrence.
This census enumerator has a much neater hand, so I can finally be confident of Eliza's place of birth. Great site here for info & photos on Bow Brickhill; Thanks to Zoomalison for recommending that link.

• I found William in 1901 settled with a wife Ruth, and 4 children on Waterloo Road, Wokingham. Like his brother Charles, he also worked as a Coachman.
• Their youngest son Phillip (born 1875, Swallowfield) is seen settled with his wife Lucy in Shurlock Row (near his parents), Waltham St. Lawrence in the 1901 Census. He worked as a Baker.

John Hallworth died in September 1904, see more on the probate registry: here.

Then, from the 1911 census we know that Robert Hallworth (48) is still living in the Cookham district, with his brother Philip (36). I wonder if one of them was the Cookham grocer shown in this painting?!
Philip is the Head of the household, married to Lucy Louisa Hallworth (nee Bird, married for 12 years, no children) and living above the shop at White Waltham near Maidenhead (Sheepcote Lane, next to the Mission Chapel). He was a Baker & Grocer, whilst his brother Robert was an assistant. Also in the household were his wife's mother & sister.

Their other brother William Henry Hallworth was still a Coachman, living at 4 Waterloo Rd, Wokingham.  Also with him are his wife Ruth & 4 children, though we read that they have another child still living.  (Perhaps living in service somewhere?)
*NEW*  A Wokingham Local History page has some helpful details about a son of William & Ruth in this very proud entry: Wokingham Remembers

Also in the 1911 Census, Eliza Hallworth (79, widowed) is living with her daughter Mary (unmarried, aged 38) - at 37, Barkham Rd., Wokingham.  She made a useful mistake when she filled in the form, and entered helpful extra details about her marriage to John. (As she was a widow, these details were not required and so the enumerator struck them out.)  She tells us she was married for 51 years, and had 8 children, though one had died.  This was news to me - I knew of only 7 children, although I have suspected Jessie Hallworth was a child of theirs.  I can't fix yet on which child had died by 1911 - it's either Eliza, John, or Jessie.

In 1911 a retired Farm Labourer named Alfred Hallworth (75, born Harwell) was living in a very small house at Twyford, just west of Waltham.  I hadn't previously heard of this gent.  Interesting to note that he was born in Berkshire, rather than Beds (unlike all the others of his generation in the family).

1915 Kelly's Directory (and similar entry in 1907): just SE of Waltham at Paley St. - Philip Hallworth, Baker and Sub-Postmaster. {John's youngest son, born in 1875}

1916 Robert P. Hallworth died, aged 55.

1917 Philip Hallworth died, aged 43. See more on the probate registry: here.