Child of Henry and Mary Ann was [19] [2]:
- Alfred Foster, born 1858 at Hunshelf, West Yorkshire. Married Martha Swallow.
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Henry Wrigley and Mary Ann Foster |
Genealogical Details
Henry Wrigley, born circa 1831 [19], in Hepworth, West Yorkshire [19], son of ???? Wrigley (Rigley) and Ann ???? [6]. Died after 1901 [3], at ????. Buried at ???? [?].
Did not marry, but had a child by:
Mary Ann Foster, born circa 1838 [19], in Leeds, West Yorkshire [19], [10], daughter of UNKNOWN (Mary Ann was a foundling and her parents were never known to her). Died between 1871 and 1881 [10] . Buried at ????, [?].
Henry Wrigley later lived with his mistress Ann Bennett, and later married Sarah.
Mary Ann Foster later married Eli Holdham
Family History Details
According to family history [1], Alfred Foster's mother was a foundling who took the last name of her adoptive family (Foster). She had Alfred out of wedlock. The names of his parents have been deduced from census records - - in 1861 and 1871, Alfred lived with Eli and Mary Ann Holdham and their younger children. He was listed as Eli's stepson and thus probably Mary Ann's son. In 1891 and 1901, Alfred's son Ernest Foster lived at the home of Henry Wrigley, and was listed as Henry's grandson. Ernest's maternal grandfather was James Swallow, therefore Henry must have been his paternal grandfather, Alfred Foster's father.
In 1851, Henry Wrigley aged 20 (spelled Rigley in that census) lived at the home of his widowed mother in Hepworth. He was working as a handloom weaver (woolen).
There was a Mary Ann Foster living at 4 Hope Street in Leeds in 1851, with the same year and place of birth as Mary Ann Holdham of the 1861 census. It is likely that this is the same person. The head of the household was Mary Ann's (adoptive) father John, a brush maker foreman from Elvington, Yorkshire. There were four older siblings in the house (Emma, Sarah, William, and John Foster). There was a seven-year age gap between Mary Ann and the next youngest sibling (John).
In 1861 (census), about three years after Henry and Mary Ann's child Alfred Foster was born at Hunshelf, both Henry and Mary Ann were living in nearby Thurgoland, but Mary Ann had married to Eli Holdham, and Henry was living at No. 3 Thimble Lodge (employed as a coal miner) with a local woman Anne Bennett who was listed as his mistress.