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TORKINGTON, William

TORKINGTON, William

Male 1844 - 1923  (79 years)


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  • Name TORKINGTON, William 
    Birth 31 Jan 1844  Ashton Under Lyne, England Find all individuals with events at this location  [1, 2] 
    Gender Male 
    Occupation 1861  [3] 
    Apprentice joiner 
    Residence 1867  Ashton Under Lyne Find all individuals with events at this location 
    266 Katherine St 
    • Marriage Banns (Ancestry)
    Residence 1870  Catherine St Find all individuals with events at this location  [4] 
    Residence 03 Apr 1881  48 St Marks St, Dukinfield Find all individuals with events at this location  [5] 
    • Dukinfield is 2 mi S.E. of Ashton Under Lyne
      Ex 1881 census CD:

      Dwelling:48 St Marks St
      Census Place:Dukinfield, Cheshire, England
      Source:FHL Film 1341968 PRO Ref RG11 Piece 4051 Folio 43 Page 25
      MarrAgeSexBirthplace
      William TORKINGTONW37 MAshton U Lyne, Lancashire, England
      Rel:Head
      Occ:Carpenter
      Herbert A. TORKINGTON 11 MAshton U Lyne, Lancashire, England
      Rel:Son
      Occ:Scholar
      Harold TORKINGTON 6 MAshton U Lyne, Lancashire, England
      Rel:Son
      Occ:Scholar
      Joseph TORKINGTON 5 MAshton U Lyne, Lancashire, England
      Rel:Son
      Occ:Scholar
    Emigration 21 Sep 1883  London Find all individuals with events at this location 
    • Immigrated with his three sons on the "SS Ionic" in 1883.
    • According to Dorothy Davies:
      *He travelled in the USA, and in NZ, and back to the UK, before settling in NZ.
      *Krakatoa erupted as they were waiting for passage in London.
    • Krakatoa erupted in August 1883. This would fit with an immigration on the Ionic in late 1883. According to newspaper reports the Ionic arrived in Wellington on the 10th of November 1883 after leaving London on the 21st September. This was the second trip the steamer had made to New Zealand in 1883.

      http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=d&cl=search&d=GRA18831110.2.4.1

      (Note that this date differs from the year that Alvin smith and Nathan Torkington had previously recorded for the event).

      (added by Raewyn, March 2016)
    • There was a different Torkington family, Mr WJ Torkington, Elizabeth, Sarah, William and Hannah, who left London for Wellington on the 6th of March 1891. I can't find who this family are or any relationship to our Torkingtons.
    Residence 1887 
    • House near Ted's orchard; his house blew over, on the ridge near Ti Tree Hill. - Alvin's note, 24 Apr 1972.

      29 May 1998. In the map that I've recently xeroxed, a house is shown in the sou-west corner of Lot 149 as 'Torkington's house'. Ted believes that this is William Torkington's house. See James Torkington. -- Alvin
    Residence Abt 1890 
    • There seems to have been two really old Torkington houses on the Torkington properties at Ti Point. One of these is the house shown on Lot 149 as 'Torkington's House'. This is in the sou-west corner of that lot. The southern boundary of that lot appears to be the line that forms the southern boundary of 'Aunty Lizzie's section', which became Syd's section.I have an earlier description (24 Apr 1972) of this house as being 'on the ridge near Ti Tree Hill'. The other house is a house that was 'near Ted's cowshed', which was near the first curve on the higher part of the Ti Point Road. This location is near Bill England's gate. It is on the west side of the road. There were two Torkington brothers involved: William (arrived NZ 1887), and James (arrived NZ 1892 ). My guess is that the first house, on lot 149, was William's house, and the second house was a temporary house of James's. James ultimately lived in the Dome Valley. One of these houses, it is said, 'blew over'. I take it that James's house was a temporary shack, where he lived while he negotiated for land in the Dome Valley, and that it is this house that 'blew over'. Perhaps it was merely abandoned, and and in due course it fell down. -- Notes by Alvin Smith
    Residence 1908  Leigh Find all individuals with events at this location  [6] 
    • Farmer
    Death 14 Mar 1923  Auckland Hospital Find all individuals with events at this location  [7, 8] 
    Burial 16 Mar 1923  Whangateau Cemetery Find all individuals with events at this location  [8] 
    Probate 12 Apr 1923  [9] 
    • Filed
    Person ID I1  Main Tree | Ancestor of Vern Smith
    Last Modified 6 May 2020 

    Father TORKINGTON, Joseph,   b. 18 Jul 1821, Ashton Under Lyne Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 07 Jul 1872, Aston Under Lyne Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 50 years) 
    Mother COLLINS, Sarah Ann,   b. 03 Dec 1820, Ashton Under Lyne, Lancashire, England Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 28 Jun 1901, 47 Nixbridge [?] Street, Ashton Under Lyne Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 80 years) 
    Marriage 8 Jan1843  Middleton, St Leonard, Lancashire, England Find all individuals with events at this location 
    • England & Wales marriages 1837-2008 Transcription obtained from FindMyPast.
    • Manchester, England, Church of England Marriages and Banns, 1754-1930, obtained from Ancestry
    Family ID F2  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family HOLLAS, Eliza,   b. 10 May 1843, Ashton Under Lyne, England Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 16 Mar 1879, Ashton Under Lyne, England Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 35 years) 
    Marriage 03 Jul 1867  St James, Hurst Brook, England Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Children 
     1. TORKINGTON, Herbert Arthur,   b. 23 Aug 1869, Ashton Under Lyne, England Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 01 Mar 1928, South Africa Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 58 years)
     2. TORKINGTON, Alfred,   b. 27 Apr 1871, Ashton Under Lyne, England Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 12 Feb 1877, Ashton Under Lyne, England Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 5 years)
     3. TORKINGTON, Agnes,   b. 25 Dec 1872, Ashton Under Lyne, England Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 26 Oct 1875, Ashton Under Lyne, England Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 2 years)
    +4. TORKINGTON, Harold,   b. 06 May 1874, Ashton Under Lyne, England Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 27 May 1960, Auckland Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 86 years)
    +5. TORKINGTON, Joseph,   b. 27 Jan 1876, Ashton Under Lyne, England Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 18 Jan 1936, Auckland Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 59 years)
     6. TORKINGTON, Edith Agnes,   b. 26 Nov 1877, Ashton Under Lyne, England Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 17 Mar 1878, Ashton Under Lyne, England Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 0 years)
     7. TORKINGTON, William Ewart,   b. 22 Jan 1879, Ashton Under Lyne, England Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 04 Apr 1879, Ashton Under Lyne, England Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 0 years)
    Family ID F1  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Event Map
    Link to Google MapsResidence - 1908 - Leigh Link to Google Earth
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  • Photos
    William Torkington    		William Torkington
    William Torkington

  • Notes 
    • There is a photo of Joseph Torkington and his wife and eight children; Marion Holt has it. She sent me a xerox of it c.Jan 1999. [10]

  • Sources 
    1. [S198] Torkington Family Bible.

    2. [S285] Holt, Marion, 4 Jan 1999, p. 2.

    3. [S277] Census for Ashton Under Lyne, (1861).

    4. [S230] McClintock, Jean, Dorothy Davies, 31Jan73.

    5. [S309] Census 1881, CD, s.v. Herbert A Torkington.

    6. [S305] Electoral Roll, 1908 Marsden.

    7. [S1] Russell, Mavis, notes.

    8. [S204] Whangateau Cemetery xeroxes, s.v. 000708.

    9. [S327] NZSG index.

    10. [S279] Holt, Marion. 27 Dec 1998.


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