Richard Wall and Margaret Manning Sawyer

Saint Leonard's, Malinslee
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Richard Wall (bap. 10 Jan 1840 at St Bartholomew's, Wednesbury) Schoolmaster, son of Wheelwright, Thomas Wall and Harriet Owen, married Margaret Manning Sawyer, the youngest daughter of William Arthur Sawyer and Ann Smith, on 19 Dec 1863 at St Leonard's Church, Malinslee, (Dawley Nova), Shropshire.

Richard and Margaret Wall had one child, a son:

1. Richard Arthur Wall b. 24 May 1865 J Quarter in MADELEY Volume 06A Page 599, bap. 18 Jun 1865 at St Leonard's Church, Malinslee.

Richard Wall late of Malins Lee School House, Malins Lee, in the County of Salop (old name for Shropshire), died, aged 31, on 21 Mar 1871 at Horseley Road, Tipton in the County of Stafford. (1871 M Quarter in DUDLEY Vol 06C Page 30). 

In 1871, Margaret M Wall (30) Widow, School Mistress, was still living and working at Lumpers Row (School House), Dawley, Madeley, Shropshire with son Richard A Wall (5) Scholar. Living with them was her mother, Ann Sawyer (70).

Probate of her husband's estate was granted to Margaret Manning Wall on 26 Mar 1872, by which time she was in Chirk near Ruabon in the County of Denbigh.

In 1881, Margaret M Wall (40) Widow, School Mistress, was living at School House, Sedgwick, Kendal, Westmorland (Old School House, Sedgwick) with Mary Archer (74) Widow, Retired Grocer from Bermondsey, Middlesex, who was her Aunt (her mother's sister), who the record notes was deaf, and Jane Sawyer (48) Single, Retired Grocer, who was Margaret's sister. Meanwhile, Richard A Wall (15) Ironmonger's Apprentice was a boarder in the household of Daniel M G Ross (31) Plumber at 114, Rawlinson Street, Barrow in Furness, Lancashire.

In 1891, Margaret M Wall (50) Widow, Retired School Mistress, was staying with her brother-in-law, George Holland and his wife Ann - Margaret's eldest sister - at Convent Lane, Holy Trinity and St Mary, Hull, Yorkshire.

Mary Manning Wall died, aged 51, in 1892 J Quarter in KENDAL Volume 10B Page 429. She was buried on 28 May 1892 in Kendal, Westmorland.