TORKINGTON, Samuel

1860 - 1944  (84 years)

• Name	TORKINGTON, Samuel
  	This is a memo
  Birth	28 Jan 1860	Ashton Under Lyne   [1, 2, 3]
  Gender	Male
  Census	1881	270 Catherine St, Manchester, England   [4]
  Occupation	1881  [5]
  	Joiner
  Residence	1881	270 Catherine St, Ashton Under Lyne   [6]
  Residence	22 Mar 1882	Denver   [7]
  Death	26 Mar 1944	Los Angeles   [2, 8]
  Death	Bef 17 Jul 1944  [9, 10, 11]
  Reference Number	1148
  Person ID	I1148	Main Tree
  Last Modified	29 Mar 2002

  
  

  Father	TORKINGTON, Joseph,   b. 18 Jul 1821, Ashton Under Lyne d. 07 Jul 1872, Aston Under Lyne (Age 50 years)
  Mother	COLLINS, Sarah Ann,   b. 03 Dec 1820, Ashton Under Lyne, Lancashire, England d. 28 Jun 1901, 47 Nixbridge [?] Street, Ashton Under Lyne (Age 80 years)
  Marriage	8 Jan1843	Middleton, St Leonard, Lancashire, England
  	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	LAMB, Lucy Frances,   b. Abt 01 Jan 1865   d. Bef 17 Jul 1944 (Age < 79 years)
  Marriage	10 May 1883	Denver   [7, 8]
  Children	1. TORKINGTON, Florence Annie,   b. 11 Apr 1885, Denver d. 02 Jan 1901, Denver (Age 15 years)   2. TORKINGTON, Ethel,   b. 13 Oct 1890, Denver d. 22 Nov 1901, Denver (Age 11 years)   3. TORKINGTON, Marie,   b. Abt 1891 + 4. TORKINGTON, Albert Frank,   b. 09 May 1892, Denver d. 22 Mar 1977, Los Angeles (Age 84 years)
  Family ID	F495	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Notes

  Left Ashton Under Lyne c. 1880; builder Los Angeles; visited NZ c. 1920; m. Lucy; both died 1944? Visited NZ (Harold'sletter). Left Ashton Under Lyne for US at age 21. Harold was six. Dorothy Davies (730131) gives his Los Angeles address as Denker Ave. Visited the Torkingtons at Leigh: v. Uncle Harold's letter. Dorothy Davies, in my note of 730131, dates this visit as1920. Mentioned in Minnie's and Harold's letters. [12, 13] 'Five or six children were born in Colorado and all died there except for my father, Albert Frank (the youngest born) ...' Marion Holt Left Dever & arrived in L.A. 1905 Marion Holt [7] His brothers James, John and Joseph all visited and perhaps lived with him for a short time. [7]

  
  

• Sources

  [S262] Torkington, Harold, letter of 19440717. [S285] Holt, Marion, 4 Jan 1999, p. 2. [S285] Holt, Marion, 4 Jan 1999, p. 13, xx of birth cert. [S309] Census 1881, CD, s.v. Sarah Ann Torkington. [S309] Census 1881, CD, s.v. Sarah A Torkington. [S309] Census 1881, CD, s.v.Sarah A Torkington. [S276] Holt, Marion. 26 Dec 1998. [S285] Holt, Marion, 4 Jan 1999, p. 9. [S233] Torkington, Minnie. 1944, (17 July 1944), Letter of 17 July 1944, of which I have a copy. [S262] Torkington, Harold, Letter of 19440717. [S1] Russell, Mavis, notes. [S233] Torkington, Minnie. 1944, (17 July 1944), Letter of 17 July 1944. [S234] Torkington, Harold, Letter of 17 Jul 1944.