This page covers Staffordshire families in the maternal line of Pam's grandmother Florence Olive CLEWS. The narrative starts with Pam's third great grandfather John GREAVES.

John GREAVES (b.1794)

Very little is yet known about John except that he married Mary WOLLESCROFT at Stoke-on-Trent in 1819. They went on to have seven children in Hanley where John worked as a potter's printer.

Thomas GREAVES (b.1822)

Thomas was the youngest of seven children born to John & Mary GREAVES. He married Ann BREEZE in Bucknall-cum-Bagnall in 1844. The family lived for about forty years at Keelings Lane, Northwood, Hanley where seven children were born. Thomas worked alternately as collier and crate maker. Following Ann's death in 1888, he moved to Festing Street, Hanley to live with his daughter Rosannah DAVIES and her family. By 1901, he was living with another daughter Mary DAVIES at Mount Street, Hanley.

Little is currently known about Thomas' six siblings.

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Lucy GREAVES (b.1848)

Lucy was the fourth of seven children born to Thomas & Ann GREAVES. She lived with her parents at Keelings Lane, Hanley and worked as a warehousewoman until 1872 when she married Charles CLEWS.

Of Lucy's siblings, Eliza (b.1839) was still living with her parents in 1871. Mary Ann (b.1843) married John DAVIES, potter's fireman, and went on to have foure children. Rosannah (b.1845) married David DAVIES, crate maker, and had four children. John (b.1850) worked as a collier and married Fanny DAY. They lived in Northwood and had ten children. Margaret (b.1850) married Thomas HARDING who worked as a porter and had thirteen children. Martha (b.1859) married Thomas GROCOTT who worked a a potter's labourer and had two children.