| 12. | William Featherstone was born in Abt. 1777 in Langwith, Nottinghamshire (son of Edward Featherstone and Mary Heardson); died on 13 Jul 1859 in Fishpond Farm, Mansfield, Nottinghamshire (Sep 1859 Mansfield NTT 7b 39). Other Events:
- Baptism: 02 Nov 1777, St Radegund, Maplebeck, Nottinghamshire
- Residence: 1822, Upton, Nottinghamshire
- Residence: 1823, Bull Farm, Chesterfield Road, Mansfield, Nottinghamshire
- Occupation: 1841; farmer
- Residence: 1841, Fish Pond, Mansfield, Nottinghamshire
- Occupation: 1851; farmer of 25 acres employing one labourer
- Residence: 1851, Fish Pond House, Mansfield, Nottinghamshire
Notes:
Maplebeck, Nottinghamshire baptism 2 November 1777 Wm son of Edwd and Mary Featherstone
1841 census HO107/859/6/48/20
Fish Pond, Mansfield, Nottinghamshire
William Featherstone 60 farmer y
Mary Featherstone 15 y
John Spencer 12 M.S. y
1851 census HO107/2124/6/5
Fish Pond House, Mansfield, Nottinghamshire
William Featherstone head W 73 farmer of 25 acres employing one labourer Notts, Langwith
George Featherstone son M 36 farmer’s son employed on the farm Notts, Mansfield
Mary A? Featherstone dau in law M 29 farmer’s wife Kent, Westerham
William Featherstone grandson 8 employed on the farm Kent, Dover
Mary Featherstone granddau 6 France British Subject
Alfred Featherstone grandson 4 Yorkshire, Morley
George Featherstone grandson 3 Notts, Mansfield
Sarah Featherstone granddau 2 Notts, Mansfield
Edwin Featherstone grandson 2mo Notts, Mansfield
death registration index William Featherstone Sep 1859 Mansfield NTT 7b 39 age 81
William Featherstone 1859 Notts
the will of W Featherstone Senr
This is the last will and testament of me William Featherstone Senr of Fish Ponds near Mansfield in the County of Nottingham Cottager being of sound and disposing mind memory and understanding viz I desire to be decently interred by the direction of my executors hereinafter named and after all my just debts funeral and testamentary expenses are paid and satisfied I give devise and bequeath all the rest residue and remainder of my stock estate and effects whatsoever and wheresoever both real and personal whether in possession or reversion remainder or expectancy and every part thereof unto all my children both sons and daughters share and share alike who shall be living at the time of my decease and the issue of them as shall be dead [such issue nevertheless taking only their parents share] to and for his her and their own use and benefit absolutely And I nominate constitute and appoint my friend Mr William Duckmanton of Mile Hill Farmer and my son William Featherstone to be executors of this my last will and testament and hereby revoking all former or other wills and testaments by me at any time heretofor made In witness whereof the said William Featherstone have to this my last will and testament set my hand this thirty first day of January one thousand eight hundred and fifty nine Testator William X Featherstone his mark
Signed by the testator William Featherstone and acknowledged by him to be his last will and testament in the presence of us who at his request in his presence and in the presence of each other have hereunto subscribed our names as witnesses John Hopkinson John Maltby
Probate 1859
William Featherstone Effects under £200.
13 August. The Will of William Featherstone late of Fish Ponds near Mansfield in the County of Nottingham Cottager deceased who died 13 July 1859 at Fish Ponds aforesaid was proved at Nottingham by the oaths of William Duckmanton of Mill Hill in the Parish of Mansfield in the said County Farmer and William Featherstone of Warsop in the said County Laborer the Son the Executors.
Maplebeck is situated in the rolling countryside of the Dukeries, in mid-Nottinghamshire. Population figures as of 2001 census was 74, in 2013 with additional housing and barn conversions, the village now numbers some 96 inhabitants.
From village website: Around the beginning of the 19th century, some of the old ‘stud and mud’ houses were replaced with brick built houses and cottages. The Beehive pub was built in 1803 and the cottages at the top of Church Lane were built by the Key family in 1804. The Keys were independent landowners in the village. The bricks were made in several brickyards around the village and receipts still exist for their sale to other villages.
But although some of the newly built farm houses and the imposing vicarage built for the Reverend William Turton indicated some wealth in the village, Maplebeck was a desperately poor place particularly for agricultural labourers. There is evidence that the poorest labourers lived in hovels built on the village green itself. Many of these labourers had to continue working well into their seventies and William Wombwell, who had run the pub before the Henfrey family ended his days in the Southwell Workhouse. His grand-daughter, who lived with him, had an illegitimate child in 1841 and she too was sent to the workhouse where the baby died.
The dilapidated church, described in 1820 by William Stretton as ‘the worst and most disgraceful church I have ever seen’ together with the deplorable conditions of the village led to the 4th Duke of Newcastle noting in his diary in March 1849: ‘I am ashamed and annoyed to see the wretched condition of the village - it would take 5 or 6,000 pounds to put it in proper order’.
William Featherstone was born circa 2 November 1777 in Maplebeck, Nottinghamshire (William was born at Maplebeck Notts in 1777 one of eight children. He married Elizabeth Randall at Eakring in 1812 they lived at Maplebeck where their first three children were born, Samuel, George and William. Although there seems to be some confusion about George as in the St Radagens Parish Register for Maplebeck in 1814, it shows William and Mary Featherstone as parents of George, but after many searches and hypothesis we have come to the conclusion that the parish priest made a wrong entry in the register, as you will see as you read through this report, however you may wish to draw your own conclusions. William and family moved from Maplebeck to Upton a distance of only a few miles, it was here that they had four more children, Edward, Elizabeth, Mary Ann and Sarah. the family then moved to Bull Farm Chesterfield Road Mansfield, somewhere around the early 1820s, as William is in ' Whites Directory ' for 1823 as a Farmer at Bull Farm.
Sadly an entry for burials in the St Peter's Parish Register shows 'Elizabeth, wife of William Featherstone, rear of Chesterfield Road buried 14th September 1826 aged 44 years'. We can't be absolutely certain that this is William's wife, but it is the right location, the right age and a wife never appears on a census return, also the name is correct. According to the 1831 census for the Mansfield area, William, along with two more males and two females, occupied land and buildings for agricultural purposes and employed no labour. As there was only one male over the age of twenty years living there at that time, it could be that any two of his sons could be staying there with him as in this particular census, it doesn't name individual family members only the 'head'. However with the two females, I would suggest that the two elder girls stayed with their father and Sarah, the youngest (just two years old when her mother died) went to live with, or should I say was raised by her Aunt and Uncle, John and Ann Heath of Toothill Lane Mansfield, as can be seen by future census returns. (In the 1831 census, living with John Heath were two females so I suggest these to be Ann, his wife and Sarah his niece, who of course is William's daughter). William then moved a mile or so up the road (as the crow flies) to Fishpond Farm probably in the mid 1830s, sadly about this time his mother dies, and is buried at Maplebeck on the 9th February 1834. Just four years later nearly to the day, an entry appears in the burials in the St Peter's Parish Register, Elizabeth Featherstone of Fishpond House, 1st February 1838 aged 18 years. (see death certificate for details). Yet another tragic death occurs within two months of Elizabeth's, this time we find the entry, Edward Featherstone of Clay Cross, 7th May 1838 aged 20 years. Of course we can't be absolutely sure this is 'our' Edward as only the age is the same, but why would he be buried at St Peter's Mansfield if not to be interred in a family grave. I shall endeavour to make more enquiries on this matter, however he must have died at Clay Cross as his death was not registered at Mansfield. Now on to the 1841 census returns for Fishpond Farm, we see that living with William are two children, Mary Featherstone aged 15, and John Spencer Featherstone aged twelve years. As of yet we cannot find a possible link to these children, they don't seem to be Grandchildren of William, yet they seem young to be farm servant's living with a single man. In 1843 William's daughter Mary-Ann has an illegitimate son by a John Clarke, and as yet we haven't been able to find out what happened to her. the baby was born in November 1843, and according to the Baptism entry in St. Peters Parish Register she named him John William Featherstone Clarke. 1851 sees son George with his wife and family living at Fishpond Farm, and all seems well in this decade until William dies on 13 July 1859, age 81 years). He was christened on 2 November 1777 in Maplebeck, Nottinghamshire. He married Elizabeth Randall on 02 Mar 1812 in Eakring, Nottinghamshire (Witnesses at the Marriage of Elizabeth Randall to William Featherstone were William Leeson and Sarah Tipping). He was William is in ' Whites Directory ' for 1823 as a Farmer at Bull Farm in 1823 in Bull Farm, Mansfield, Nottinghamshire. He died on 13 July 1859 in Fishpond Farm, Mansfield, Nottinghamshire (Natural Decay (aged 81 years)). He was buried after 13 July 1859 in Mansfield Cemetery plot no. 240, Mansfield, Nottinghamshire.
Baptism:
son of Edwd and Mary Featherstone
Residence:
age 60
Residence:
age 73; relationship to head: head
Died:
age 81
William married Elizabeth Randall on 02 Mar 1812 in St Andrew, Eakring, Nottinghamshire. Elizabeth was born in Abt. 1782 in Eakring, Nottinghamshire; died in 1826 in rear of Chesterfield Road, Mansfield, Nottinghamshire; was buried on 14 Sep 1826 in St Peter, Mansfield, Nottinghamshire. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]
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