Maud ELLERTON

• Born - 27th April 1884, in Linthorpe, Middlesbrough (per birth certificate).
• Died - 24th June 1952 at Leamington Spa. Buried at Birkdale, Southport.
• Parents - Robert Charles Ellerton (1861-1910) and Elizabeth Haggerstone (1861-1916)
• Married - James Lennox Crawford (1882-1948) on 27th April 1907, at Christ's Church, Bootle, Lancs. {GRO Index Q2)
• Children - Thomas Ellerton Crawford (1908-1970), and Dorothy Crawford (1913-2003)
• Occupation -

Maud was born at 1 Baxter Street, Middlesbrough (next door to her grandparents William/Maria Haggerstone), before moving to Stockton-on-Tees around 1890, and ten years later to 91 Clare Road, Bootle, Lancashire (as per the 1901 Census) with her parents and siblings.

She married James Crawford (possibly the owner of a timber yard in the Liverpool area, although described as a "book-keeper" on the marriage certificate), on her 23rd birthday and lived initially at 66 Worcester Road, Bootle. Click here for a photograph of Worcester Road taken c.1913 (with Derby Park on the left), and here for another taken at around the same time from the opposite end of the Road.

They later moved to 12 Blundell Drive, Birkdale, Southport, and Maud's brother Charles and his wife/son stayed temporarily with them after their arrival from China in 1922. The picture of Maud, opposite, was taken at Southport a year later in 1923.

After the death of her husband in September 1948 Maud went to live with her daughter at nearby 22 Chatsworth Road, Ainsdale. She died in 1952 while visiting her son Thomas at Leamington Spa.

In 1936/37 Maud's daughter Dorothy made extensive notes on the family's history based on what she recalled. These notes were augmented by many years of research by Dorothy, some details of which were adopted for use within this site. Maud had often stayed at Harley Hill Farm, near Richmond, where her grandmother Margaret had died in 1876.

Page last updated: June 2008