eliza mallandain + john thomas wade
Eliza was born in Manchester on 17 February 1850 and baptised at St Thomas in Heptonstall, West Yorkshire on 10 April. She was the only surviving daughter of George Mallandain and Sarah Jackson. George was originally from Prestwich while Sarah grew up in Hebden Bridge. The family lived in Newton, now a suburb east of Manchester city centre, for many years.
Eliza left home to work as a housekeeper for her uncle, William Jackson, a retired innkeeper in Hebden Bridge. In both 1851 and 1861, William was recorded in the census as the landlord of the White Horse Hotel in Lees Yard but by 1871, he had retired and James Winterbottom had taken over the hotel.
Eliza was first listed in William’s household on Old Gate in Hebden Bridge in the 1871 census. Five years later, she married John Thomas Wade at St John the Baptist in Halifax on 11 October 1876 and both her father and uncle William acted as witnesses.
John Thomas Wade was born in Hebden Bridge in 1855, the son of Benjamin Wade and Mary Ann Barker. His father worked as a cloth dyer and later as a fustian manufacturer; fustian was a heavy cloth woven with cotton and used primarily for men’s clothing. In the 19th century, Hebden Bridge and the neighbouring villages was a centre for cloth manufacturing and home to several water powered textile mills. John grew up in the family home on Machpelah (now called Burnely Road) very near to the Machpelah Mill on the River Calder.
John and Eliza had one daughter, Constance Mary, born in Hebden Bridge on 30 August 1877 and baptised on 14 November. In 1879, William Jackson died aged 64 years and was buried in the church yard at St James. Eliza and John remained in the house on Old Gate and were still living there when the 1881 census was taken. John was employed as a Cotton Clothier Dealer. A year later, Eliza was left a widow following John’s death and he was buried in the Wade family plot in the church yard of Wainsgate Baptist Church in Hebden Bridge. In 1891, Eliza and Constance were living at 14 Wood End and Eliza was recorded as ‘living on own means’ however, they did have a lodger, 26 year old James Hurst.
By 1901, they were living at Edgewood on Savile Road and both Eliza and her 23 year old daughter Constance were again listed as ‘living on their own means’. Two years later, Constance married Thomas Teare at St James in Hebden Bridge and shortly after, they returned to Thomas’ family farm on the Isle of Man.
There are no other records of Eliza until the 1911 Census when she was recorded at her father’s house in Disdbury, south of Manchester. She may have been visiting him as his second wife, Hannah Hoyle, had died only months before but it is not known if Eliza remained with her father in Didsbury until his death in 1913 or if she returned to Hebden Bridge. At some point, Eliza moved to the Isle of Man to live with her daughter Constance as she died at Ballacooil Farm on 31 March 1940 and was buried at the Douglas Borough Cemetery on 4 April.
Her will was proved in Manchester on 13 June and she left her estate, valued at £1240, to her daughter Constance.