The Wesleyan-Methodist magazine Volume 57 [year?] At Attercliffe,
in the Sheffield East Circuit, Mr. John Shirley, aged fifty-five
years. For more than thirty years he had been a member of the
Methodist society ; and for thirteen, a Class-Leader. In the
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The Sheffield Independent Saturday 15 March 1834 has the
following death. On Friday the 14th instant at Attercliffe, Mr
John Shirley in the 55th year of his age. He died in the full
assurance of a blissful immortality. The same paper has the death
of his wife in March 1830.
The obituary for Johns wife was published on Saturday 20th
March and said the death was on Tuesday, after a short illness,
aged 40 but only named her as Mrs Shirley, wife of John of Attercliffe
corn mills. And for Johns death an entry in the Leeds mercury
Saturday 22th March 1834 It states John died in the 54 year of
his age of Apoplexy and he was a consistant member and class
leader of the Wesleyan methodist society
LW&T of John Shirley of Attercliffe, Sheffield Yorkshire
(Prerog. Court York) "...bequeath to my daughter Ann my
estate situate int he parish of Alstonfield County of Stafford
and called or known by the name of the Holmes with all my other
property of whatever kind situate and being in the said county
now in the and or that may or will come to me under the
will of my late Father Joseph Shirley of the Holmes, yeoman of
or as the Heir at law of my Aunt Sarah Gilman late of the Holmes,
widow and my trustees will pay any legacy named in my Father's
will or any mortgage which remain unpaid at the time of my death
or against the said estate out of my personal property...."
(Note: No son John was named in the
1810 will of Joseph Shirley of The Holmes, Staffordshire, and
no other will for a Joseph Shirley has been identified)
London Gazette. 1838. Pursuant to a decree of the High
Court of Chancery, made in a cause Shirley vs Shirley the creditors
of John Shirley, late of Attercliffe, in the county of York,
Miller deceased (who died in the month of March 1834)....
married 1) Abigail Hudson on 14 January 1808 at Yorkshire
married 2) Catherine Workman of Doncaster Yorkshire
on 17 June 1819 at Yorkshire
"My Mother's mother was second wife of John Shirley and
was before marriage Catherine Workman of Adwick Le Street Near
Doncaster. Of my mother's sisters, Mary, widow of Richard Tindal,
left a son Walter and a daughter Augusta, and the former left
two sons. Another sister Eliza left six sons and two daughters
to her husband Rev. Samuel Blackburne- one Stewart Blackburne
is the chess authority."
married 3) Sarah Simpson by license on 13 October 1831
at Great Badminton Gloucestershire. Her will was probated in
Prerogative Court of York, naming her spinster sister surnamed
Simpson, naming her "daughter-in-laws" (the children
of John Shirley of Attercliffe)
1842 Mar 12 Sheffield and Rotherham Independant (newspaper)
pg 5 - Deaths - On Wednesday last, at Broomsgrove, in her 56th
year, Mary Shirley, relict of the late John Shirley, Esq of Attercliffe.
Children:
1(i) Ann Shirley born 20 Jan 1811; Baptised 6 Feb 1811
to John and Abigail Shirley at Cathedral of St Peter, Sheffield
Yorkshire
1(ii). Frederick Shirley. Baptised May 8, 1816 at Sheffield
Parish Church, Church Street, Sheffield, son of John Shirley
(grocer) and wife Abigail.
1(iii). Mary Workman Shirley Baptised July 19, 1820
at Sheffield Parish Church, Church Street, Sheffield. She married
Robert N. Tindall on 27 April 1847 at Sheffield, Yorkshire.
1(iv). Jane Wintringham Shirley. Baptised December
25, 1821 at Hill Top Chapel of Ease, Attercliffe.
married William Edwood Smith an attorney of Doncaster Yorkshire
who legally changed his name to William Edwood Shirley on 23
November 1863. He was twice mayor of Doncaster
Children: [surname: SHIRLEY]
2(i). Walter Shirley born 1851. educated at Rugby and
Balliol College Oxford. Graduated in 1875. Inner Temple. Member
of Parliament for Doncaster beginning 1885. He died in 1888,
age 36
1(v). Catherine Workman Shirley. Baptised November
14, 1823, by E.Goodwin at Sheffield Parish Church, Church Street,
Sheffield; Co-heiress of her deceased father. She married the
Rt Rev. Bishop Thomas Nettleship Staley D.D. on 4 September 1850
at Sheffield Yorkshire. He was Bishop of Honolulu 1861-72, rector
from 1872 of Croxall Tamworth.
1(vi). Selina Sewallis Shirley Baptised September 21,
1825 at Sheffield Parish Church, Church Street, Sheffield.
1(vii). Eliza Oliver Shirley Baptised May 25, 1828
at Christ Church, Attercliffe She married Rev Samuel Blackburne
Shirleys of Attercliffe, Sheffield
