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Richard Townroe (1771-1825) & Elizabeth Weston (1780-1848)

Lenton Priory, c1825. The parish church was superseded by the building of Holy Trinity church in 1842 and the priory church fell into disrepair until it was rebuilt in the 1880s.

Richard, the son of Robert Townroe and Ann (Clarke?), was baptised at Skegby, Nottinghamshire, on 17 November 1771. The Townroe family members are listed in the parish records from the late C17th.

Elizabeth, the daughter of James Weston and Elizabeth (Barrat?), was baptised at Lenton, south of the River Trent at Nottingham, on 24 July 1780.

Richard Townroe married Elizabeth Weston in 1805 at Lenton, Nottingham.

Skegby Church, 1787. The church was comprehesnively restored in 1870 and very little remains of the earlier church infrastructure, including grave stones.

On 9 May 1809 a commission of bankruptcy was made against “Richard Townroe of the Town and County of Nottingham, Maltster, dealer and chapman [hawker or itinerant seller]” and a final payment of creditors was made in 1814 ( Nottingham Gazette).

Richard and Elizabeth had six chidlren whose records have survived. James Weston Townroe was baptised at St Mary’s Nottingham in 1808. There were also two daughters, Mary Ann (baptised on 19 October 1817 at Lenton) and Elizabeth, and three other sons, William (baptised at Lenton on 26 November 1820), Robert and John.

Richard died c1825.

At the time of 1841 census, Elizabeth was living in Eccleshall Bierlow, Sheffield, in the house of Sarah Andrews, with her children Robert (aged 25 and a clerk), Elizabeth (aged 22), William (aged 20 and a clerk) and John (aged 12). Her son James Weston Townroe was recorded as living with his paternal grandfather in Skegby at this time.

The death was announced in the Sheffield Independent on Saturday 7 November 1848 “On Sunday, at Forest House, near Nottingham, Mrs Elizabeth Townroe, late of Sheffield, aged 66”.  The parish records at Skegby, where she was buried on 11 November, gave her abode as Radford.

The Townroes continued to live in Sheffield. In 1871 the census recorded at 254 Rotheringham Street, Ecclesall Bierlow, William aged 50 a corn and flour dealer, Mary Ann aged 52 as the housekeeper, and John aged 43 a shop assistant. Both William and John were similarly listed in the 1881 census.

Robert had moved to Wakefield where he worked as a grocer and also as a church clerk. He married Mary and had a son Harrison Bibly Townroe.