London, England, Electoral Registers, 1832-1965 about John Clempson Browne - Name: John Clempson Browne - Year: 1933 - County or Borough: City of London - Ward or Division/Constituency: City of London - Street address: 98 - Abode - No. 4 Armitagc Rd., Golders Green

Nephew of James Lycett staying at Wheelock House

Lived at No.55 Poplar Street, Blackburn, at the time of his marriage

Married to James Rick ?

Came to Melbourne, Australia aboard the Federal Holdershire line ship
"Somerset" in 1910.

LYCETT, Henry. Born: Winsford, Cheshire Central. 1890-WI/40/019

At the 1881 Census; An Eliza Oaks aged 16 from Wolstanton, and a Frank Lycett aged 14 from Wheelock were staying at Wheelock House.

LYCETT, James. Born: Winsford, Cheshire Central. 1890-WI/40/016

LYCETT, James Edwin. Born: Winsford, Cheshire Central. 1865-WI/17/019

A very intersting site. My Great Grandfather was John Lycett born 1828(Not1826)son of William(1788-1839) John married Emma Leigh of Old Hall Farm, Castle Street, Chesterton. John died in 1862 and was buried in Holy Trinity Churchyard. I was born in Chesterton in 1927 and lived there until 1957.

1901 Census of Saddleworth. - A 'Lizzie Lysett' aged 33 - born Wharton, Cheshire - Servant in the household of George A Watkins - Oil Manufacturer at Grasscroft in Saddleworth. 1901Census.

Lizzie was born on the 9th May 1867 in Wharton. Her father is recorded as a carpenter. Her birth is registered by her mother S.A. Lycett of Wharton on the 25th May 1867 in the registration district of Northwich in the sub-district of Over in the County of Chester.

Niece of Ann (Lycett) Copper staying at Normacot Road.
LYCETT, Melina - 1864, (Apr_Jun), Congleton, 8a/292

Robert Lycett.

We know that the Lycett family for some time were 'Wealthy Gentry' living in Wheelock House. They owned and managed a saltworks. It is said the family lived the high life beyond their means, having to sell Wheelock House and move into the more humble 'Brook Villas' in Wheelock. Our own ancestor, Robert, was born and brought up in Wheelock House. He went to Sandbach Grammer School on a horse, accompanied by a groom carrying his books. His family thought he married 'beneath him' to Lena Broad. He & Lena lived with the Lycett family in Brook Villas until he died in 1905, when Gerald was 5 years and Edna was 3 years. The Lycetts then turned Lena and the children out to a life of extreme poverty.

Nephew of Elizabeth (Son of Henry Lycett) staying at Dairy House.

- William Lycett (1788-1839) had 9 children with his wife Fances. When he died (aged 57) Frances was only 39 and she soon married John Simmill (1798-1869) and had 2 more children: Eliza (19 Oct 1842) and Louisa (11 Nov 1846) when she was aged 42 and 46. Frances died in 1873 aged 73

Came to Australia 1910

Married either Margaret Lancaster or Mary Hannah Maiden

- Think this Charlotte married HOBBS

1881 - Sister - Aged 17 at 92 Westbourne St, Everton.

- Daughter of John Marks (Mason) & Hannah of St. Neot
1881 Census - Aged 29 at Well Park, St. Cleer, Cornwall.
1872 - Aged 21 at 19 Marlborough St, Devonport, Devon.
1883 - At St. Cleer Village, Cornwall.
1891 Census - Age 39 at 2 Barras Cottages, Liskeard. married to William Paul

Abraham Marland left Mossley in 1793 to work in London for 4 years. He married Mary SYKES on 3rd February 1800. They with son Thomas Marland emigrated from Liverpool aboard the ship "Two Pollies" on the 9th July 1801, arriving Boston, Massachusetts on 17th September 1801. Abraham Marland was a Textile Manufacturer and Mill Owner in Andover, Massachusetts.

Jonathon Marland was the son of Abraham Marland (4/9/1695) and Sarah Holt, who were married at St. Michael's Parish Church, Ashton on 23rd May 1738

1841 Census - Aged 3 years at Mile End, Blackburn, Lancashire.

1851 Census - Widow, aged 66 years at No.34 Mile End, Blackburn, with son George Mather & Family.

NOTES: - On Constance Mary Mather 1926 - 2009

Posted on January 9, 2011 by gandhifriends - Mary Mather

Mary Mather was a tireless campaigner for the rights of women and disadvantaged people in Britain and abroad. Born in Blackburn, Lancashire, she attended Folkstone county school for girls in Kent and went to study English at Girton College, Cambridge in 1944. She edited the Cambridge University socialist club bulletin. During the holidays she worked as a volunteer at Kingsley Hall in Bromley-by-Bow where she fell under the spell of the Lester sisters, Muriel and Doris, who had founded the community settlement with the aim of bringing people together regardless of class, race or religion.

In 1949 she was appointed lecturer in English at the University of Hong Kong. She had wanted to go to China from a young age, particularly having heard Muriel Lester?s travel stories. Her plans to travel into mainland China were thwarted by the communist revolution. The friendships she formed with her Chinese students and the writer Han Suyin did not endear her to the university authorities. She returned to London in 1953 to live in Canning Town women?s settlement in Plaistow, working in a sugar factory and teaching at the Keir Hardie primary school.

Active in the West Ham Labour Party during the 1950s and 60s, she got to know Elwyn Jones, who was appointed attorney general by Harold Wilson in 1964, and wrote speeches for him. She also ran equal opportunities courses for magistrates, but was turned down as a magistrate herself because MI5 had a file about her leftwing activities in Hong Kong.

In 1960, after another failed attempt to get into China during the Hundred Flowers campaign, she travelled in India with her father and joined Vinoba Bhave and other Gandhians trying to persuade landowners to give some of their land to those who had none (Bhoodan movement).

From 1966 to 1994 she lectured at the South Bank Polytechnic. In West Ham she established the first community relations council in the country, and for many years she ran a club which met twice a week for girls whose parents had recently arrived from the Indian subcontinent. Their crowning glory was a famine lunch where their meeting place, Durning Hall in Forest Gate, was transformed into an Indian Village complete with sand and saris. John Rowley remembers her:

I met Mary first at a Summer School in the Abbey in the mid 90s. Thereafter, we had a few words at many Gandhi Foundation events and each time I felt an instant rapport with her. She was always quick to smile, ready to banter and very perceptive. I thought of her as a dedicated, radical, academic, practical, social reformer.

Mary became actively involved with the Gandhi Foundation at the beginning of the new millennium when she suggested we might like to support a group of five villages in Orissa whose inhabitants had been displaced by a dam. She had come across them when she inquired of Bhoodan villages from Vinoba?s time. The GF gave financial support until 2005 when Mary felt that sufficient progress had been made by the villagers for them to no longer need outside help.

Her nephew Ian Mather (whose obituary of Mary in The Guardian supplied much of this appreciation) said of her: Constantly fascinated by what was going on in the world, yet frequently absent-minded when it came to day-to-day practicalities, she had a unique ability to make people feel special and was adored by family and friends alike.