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Town with his wife Jane and rheir children, except John who had died as an infant. Alvin and Jane and family were also listed in the next two census reports for Glossop living at 27 George Street. Alvin died in June 1771, in Glossop at the age of 59. His wife Jane died after the census of 1881, in which she was reported as a widow with daughter Sarah Hannah Greenwood still living at home along with two grandchildren George B. and James. Sarah, Harriet, and George B. were all cotton weavers.
Alvin's sister Millicent Alsop had a daughter Ann Morehouse Alsop, born 9 Feb. 1840, and Millicent and her child both died in June 1840. The youngest sister of Alvin was Sarah who was the mother of three children: Samuel Alsop;
Ann Alsop, born 26 August 1834, in Glossop; and Hannah Alsop.
John Alsop a son of James and Sarah Bowden Alsop married Mary Fielding who was born in Glossop on 25 April 1808, the daughter of Samuel Fielding and wife Mary Heggenbottom (Higginbonom). The census of 1831 lists John, Mary, and family as living in Hadfield. The 1841 enumeration reported that John was working as a cotton spinner, and his eleven year old son Levi was employed as a cotton piecer. Several years later this couple moved to the U. S. A. where many of their descendants through their son Levi still reside.
As listed above, John had a brother named James Alsop who married as his first wife on 3 September 1834, in Glossop, Derbyshire, Hannah Hadfield, born 21 March 1805, daughter of John Hadfield and Martha Robinson. James and Hannah Hadfield Alsop produced children as follows:
Ann Grant Bowden Alsop, b. ca. 1835; John Hadfield Alsop, baptized 15 March 1836; Zipporah Alsop, b. 1838; Sarah Alsop, b. 1842; and Charles James Alsop, baptized 21 April 1845-died Septemberl845 in Glossop. James was employed in Glossop during 1841 and 1842 as a joiner. The census of 1841 places him in Glossop with his wife and two children John and Zipporah, as daughter Ann was already dead. Hannah Hadfield Alsop worked as a school mistress. James left his family in England and went to DeWitt Co., Illinois in the United States. When his wife Hannah died in England is nor known for certain, but dates vary from 1846 before James left all the way up to 1855. At any rate, James married two more times in DeWitt County and had four children by his third wife.
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John Hadfield Alsop son of James and Hannah Hadfield Alsop married Millicent Garlick daughter of Joseph Garlick and Martha Moss on 6 April 1856, in Glossop. Millicent was born in Glossop in 1836, and became the mother of eight children, all of them born in Glossop except the last one. The children were: George J., born 1857; Mary E., born 1859; Joe Garlick, born 1862; John Edwin, born 1865; Arthur William, born 1867;
Ada Fanny, born 1869; Cecil H., born 1874; and Percy H., born in 1875, after the family had moved to Hindley, Lanes., England. In 1851, John H. Alsop was working as a coal porter. John was dead when the census of 1881 was tabulated.
Sarah Alsop daughter of James and Hannah H. Alsop married in 1866, Kenneth McLennan, Jr., b. 1827, in London, Middlesex, England, son of Kenneth McLennan and Jane Mann. She left Southampton, England on 11 June 1863, as an assisted passenger on the ship "Robert Small" and arrived in Melbourne, Australia on 16 September 1863, to work as a nurse maid for a well-known doctor, Lt. Harrington of Warrnambool, Australia. She received a weekly wage of 20 shillings. Sarah was the only member other family to immigrate to Australia, and she could also read and write which was unusual for mosr women of her time. She and her husband Kenneth had children as follows: Sarah, born 1866; Hannah, born 1867; William, born 1869; Zipporah, born 1870; Charles James, born 1872; Kenneth, born 1875; Ernest, born 1876; K. Penfold, born 1878; and George Augustus, born 1881.
A letter was received by Sarah Alsop McLennan from her father James Alsop mailed from Illinois dated 16 May 1864, to her home in Warrnambool, Australia. He stated in his letter that he was in Chicago, Illinois "to patent the world's first propeller of power". In this letter he referred to Julius James Alsop, John Hadfield Alsop, and Ann Grant Bowden Alsop. His Australian family never heard from him again after the great Chicago fire which occurred on the 8th and 9th of October, 1871.
Sarah Alsop McLennan's husband Kenneth, Jr., died in Warrnambool, Victoria, Australia in 1901, and was buried in the Warrnambool Cemetery. Sarah died 7 May 1909, and was buried in the plot adjacent to that other husband.
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