1818 A Joseph Harrison is listed as a hatter at Rycroft in Newcastle under Lyme in Parson and Bradsh…

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1818 A Joseph Harrison is listed as a hatter at Rycroft in Newcastle under Lyme in Parson and Bradshore Trade directory Staffordshire vol 1 1818.

Family living with 2nd wife
1841 Joseph Harrison, 43 living at High Street, Tunstall. A hatter. With his (presumably) wife Hannah 32 and children Martha 15, Joseph 10, Hannah 7, David 2, his apprentice Isaac Mayer and also 61 Hannah Hollinshead, probably his mother in law. HO107/993/18 p 31

In 1843 when his daughter Martha married he gave his occupation as hatter and, if she was living with him until her marriage he lived at Hartshill.

1851 Joseph Harrison, aged 54, a hatter and provisions dealer, born Newcastle, married to Hannah, 44 from Stoke is living at 37 George Street, Newcastle with children Hannah 16 (Newcastle) , David 11(Newcastle) , a potter's boy, Donald 9, a scholar (Wolstanton), Jesse (?), 6, a scholar, Josiah 3 months (both born in Newcastle) and a lodger, 21 year old shoemaker Jospeh Russel. (HO107/2001 page 11)

HARRISON, DAVID BARKER HOLLENSHEAD
GRO Reference: 1839 J Quarter in NEWCASTLE UNDER LYME Volume 17 Page 102

Donald is likely to be James Donald Harrison
HARRISON, JAMES DONALD mother's maiden name HOLLINSHEAD
GRO Reference: 1842 J Quarter in WOLSTANTON AND BURSLEM UNION Volume 17 Page 287

HARRISON, JESSE HOLLINSHEAD
GRO Reference: 1844 S Quarter in NEWCASTLE UNDER LYME Volume 17 Page 97

HARRISON, JOSIAH HOWARD HOLLINSHEAD
GRO Reference: 1851 M Quarter in NEWCASTLE UNDER LYME Volume 17 Page 103

If this is the right family and Joseph and Hannah are the parents of Martha, Hannah would have been only 17 at the time of Martha's birth. However it is possible that Hannah is Jospeh's second wife and Martha's mother had died, or that 17 was not then young to have a child. Further research indicates that Joseph was widowed when he married Hannah and his first wife was Elizabeth Hodson:

Children with 1st wife
There are birth and Christening records for Martha Harrison and Hannah Harrison, of the right age to parents Joseph and Elizabeth (nee Hodson) and a Joseph Harrison married Elizabeth Hodson on 24 MAY 1814 at Bucknall Cum Bagnall, Stafford, England . The parish record shows the witnesses were Sampson Dunn(?) and Alice Peel. Joseph and Sampson signed their names, Elizabeth and Alice made their mark. [An Alice Unsworth married William Peel on 2 September 1799 at St Peter ad Vincula Stoke on Trent; death of Alice Peel in 1825 in Newcastle under Lyme gives her age approx 56 suggesting birth in 1769].

Is this possible record of daughter's birth?
MARTHA HARRISON
Female
Birth: 08 NOV 1825
Christening: 27 NOV 1825 Bethesda Chapel Albion Street-Methodist New Connexshe, Shelton, Stafford, England
Parents:
Father: JOSEPH HARRISON
Mother: ELIZTH. HODSON

Other children christened to same parents at the same chapel are:
Hannah b 5 Feb and Christened 24th Feb 1835
Joseph b 14 Sept and christened 16th Sept 1832
Elizabeth b 29 Oct and christened 14th Nov 1830
Joseph b 30 Mar and christened 6th April 1828 (did he die as an infant?) Burial record 30 Sept 1831 for 3 year old Jospeh Harrison of Newcastle, also on the same say (successive entries in register) Elizabeth Harrison, infant.
Martha - as above

Information from the marriage certificate of Martha (witnesses and related searches based on them) suggest that Joseph may also have had an older daughter Mary, who marrried Elijah Cartlidge in 1838. She was of full age suggesting birth not later than 1817. Her age on 1841 census was 20 (20-24). As Enoch was born in 1817 it is most likely she was born in 1816 but I have not found a baptism entry.

I have found two other baptism records for children of Joseph Harrison, hatter, and Elizabeth registered in Newcastle parish church: Charles (1815) and Enoch (1817). Are the parents Jospeh Harrison and Elizabeth Hodson. Date of marriage suggests they could be.

The list of children with parents Jospeh and Elizabeth Harrison has an unexplained gap between the first three and the birth of Martha. It is possible that there are two Joseph and Elizabeth Harrison couples where the occupation was hatter and that the older three are cousins or no relation at all. The family mentioned in the will of John Harrison (see below) is linked to Charles. If the older three are Joseph's children then Joseph is the son of the John Harrison who died in 1819, but there is still no clarity on his birth or whether his mother was Ann or Hannah.

There were so many hatters in Newcastle at the time it is quite possible there were two families of Joseph and Elizabeth Harrison matching the same description,

An Elizabeth Harrison, age 42, was buried in Newcastle on 24 Jan 1838. Joseph must have remarried within the year to Hannah Hollinshead. The most likely marriage record is 1838 Q3 Congleton vol19/p71 which shows both Jospeh and Hannah.

Death
Death of a Joseph Harrison registered Q1 1857 Stoke on Trent 6b 101. There are a few in the 1860’s but all after the 1861 census. If Hannah and Josiah living with Ann Beardmore are his family then Joseph did indeed die before 1861 census. Parish record for burial of Joseph Harrison, Newcastle under Lyme on 4 Jan 1857, age given as 60. If this is the same Joseph he would have been just 61.

Possible parents and birth
Possible birth: 18 Dec 1795 and christened 30 Dec 1795 Joseph son of John and Ann Harrison Newcastle under Lyme parish registers 1771-1812 IGI P010291 A John Harrison, a grocer aged at least 21, married Ann Heath (also at least 21) on 8 June 1789 in Newcastle under Lyme. Both were of the parish and previously unmarried.

Will of John Harrison (d 1819) A John Harrison, hatter of Newcastle died on 28 August 1819 and his will (signed by himself) was proved on 18 Jan 1820. His executors were his wife Hannah and son John ( a tailor). He also mentions other children Joseph and Mary. If this is the same John then he must have remarried as the name of his wife was Ann and not Hannah, but the occupation is relevant as Jospeh was a hatter. Unable to find death and remarriage so maybe the above baptism is incorrect.

A John Harrison, potter from Stoke, married Hannah Day on 11 March 1782 at St Giles, Newcastle under Lyme. Both made their mark.
A John Harrison married Hannah Clifton, both of Newcastle, at St Peter ad Vinculaa in Stoke on 25 Feb 1794. Both signed their own names.

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