Ancestral Trails: Gutteridge

This page covers Northampton families in the paternal line of John's mother Emily May GUTTERIDGE. Those identified to date lived in the parish of All Saints, Northampton. The narrative starts with John's third great grandfather Henry GUTTERIDGE.

Henry GUTTERIDGE (b. Abt 1787)

No baptism has yet been found for Henry. He may, of course, have been born elsewhere. In 1813, he married Sarah GOLDING in the parish church of All Saints in Northampton town centre. They had eight children.

Henry worked as a waterman in the South Quarter of the parish of All Saints adjacent to the River Nene and was living in Bridge Street at the time of his death in January 1840 at the age of 53. His occupation was recorded as Lighterman on his death certificate. Sarah died in December 1840 at the age of 47. In both cases, the cause of death was tuberculosis.

No siblings of Henry have yet been identified, but Sarah had a sister Elizabeth who was present at her death.

George GUTTERIDGE (b.1824)

George was the sixth of eight children born to Henry and Sarah GUTTERIDGE. He lived his whole life in the parish of All Saints, Northampton where - except for a brief period as a beer seller - he was employed as a moulder in an iron foundry. In 1854, George married Hannah MERRILL (or MERALL) in Northampton Register Office. Hannah's parents came from Yorkshire, but she was born in Lancashire shortly before her family moved to Northampton. George and Hannah lived in the Bridge Street area, between Northampton Town Centre and the River Nene, and had four children. George died in Northampton in 1892.

Of George'e eight siblings, Caroline (b.1813) married Robert ORTON and had at least two children. Henry (b.1827) married Elizabeth, who came from Olney, Bucks. Their first child was born in Liverpool and they had at least three more children in Northampton. Sarah (b.1830) was recorded on the 1871 census as receiving parochial relief. Little is yet known about the other siblings.

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George GUTTERIDGE (b.1858)

George was the second of four children born to George and Hannah GUTTERIDGE and was employed as a clicker in the shoe trade. He married Emily Jane WILSON (daughter of William WILSON and Matilda HUTT) in 1880. They lived in the parish of St Sepulchre had only one known child before George died in 1889 at the age of 31. Emily subsequently married Harry WHITEHOUSE, a boot finisher, and they moved to Kingsthorpe.

Of George & Hannah's other children, Henry (b.1856) married Eliza and worked as a clicker. William (b.1861) married Harriet and also worked as a clicker. Joseph (b.1869) worked as a labourer.

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William Normanton GUTTERIDGE (b.1881)

William (John's grandfather) is the only known child of George and Emily GUTTERIDGE. His second name comes from the given name of his great grandfather Norminton MERALL. William was brought up in Kingsthorpe by his mother and step father and went on to work as a boot and shoe finisher. He married Priscilla May HAMBLETON (who had previously been married to Thomas LOAKES) in 1911. William suffered a shrapnel wound during military service in WW1. He went on to work as a labourer and died in Kingsthorpe in 1935 at the age of 53.

Little is known of William's step brother Harry WHITEHOUSE except that he was employed as an errand boy in a shoe factory in 1901.

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Emily May GUTTERIDGE (b.1912)

John's mother Emily was the eldest of two children born to William and Priscilla. She suffered poor health and spent part of her school years living with distant relatives in Turvey, Bedfordshire. On her return to Northampton, she worked for Geo. Webb & Co. as a shoe machinist. Emily married James ("Jim") MARIS son of William MARIS and Eleanor BAZELEY in 1937. They lived with Emily's mother initially in Earl Street and subsequently in Duke Street. The family moved to Cecil Road in the early 1960s where Emily died in 1973 at the age of 60.

Emily had only one true sibling. Her younger brother William Normanton Gutteridge - known to his friends as "Norman" - was born in 1915 and died in 1947 at the age of 32. Emily also had at least four step siblings from her mother's first marriage to Thomas LOAKES. No research has yet been carried out on the LOAKES family.