The Roes of Manchester

Francis Roe, my great-great grandfather, left Parwich, Derbyshire to follow his elder brother, John to Manchester. He ended his journey at Newton Heath near the centre of Manchester where he found work in the brewery trade.

John Roe, Francis’ eldest brother had made the journey to Newton Heath over 15 years earlier. John had met Hannah Cheesebrough and they married on 7^th June 1827 at Manchester. By 1839, when Francis arrived in Manchester, John and Hannah had five children.

Joseph Roe, the youngest of the family, married Sarah Herrick at Marston upon Dove, Derbyshire and followed his brothers to Manchester.

Sarah Roe, the sister of John, Francis and Joseph married Joseph Ardon in Derby in 1844 and also went to Manchester.

Newton Heath is an area of Manchester.

Manchester United was created out of the Newton Heath Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway Football Club.

			John 1798 Tissington
William 1828 Manchester	Martha 1830 Manchester	Mary 1831 Manchester	Jane 1834 Manchester	James 1835 Manchester	Elizabeth 1838 Manchester
John Roe (1798) married Hannah Cheesebrough on 7 Jun 1827 at St John's Church, Manchester.

	John 1798 Tissington
John 1846 Droylsden		Thomas 1848 Droylsden
On 25 June 1846, at Manchester Cathedral, following the death of Hannah, John Roe married a widow, Elizabeth Barber (maiden name – Watson) and they settled in Droylsden where they had two children.

Francis
1818
Parwich

Thomas
1845
Manchester

Ellen
1847
Manchester

George
1849
Manchester

William
1851
Manchester

John
1853
Manchester

Henry
1855
Manchester

Francis
1857
Manchester

Martha Ann
1860
Manchester

James
1862
Manchester

All Saints
Newton Heath

Francis Roe, my great-great grandfather, left Parwich, a picturesque farming village in Derbyshire, in his early twenties to make his way to Manchester. There he met and married Mary Ann Walker, a girl from Middlewich in Cheshire. Mary Ann was christened at St Michaels, Middlewich on 7 April 1822. They married on 29 April 1844 at the Cathedral in Manchester and lived in Spear St, in the centre of Manchester. Their first child, Thomas, was named after his father, a farmer back in Parwich.

John
1853
Manchester

Francis F
1876
Crewe

Mary Ann
1878
Crewe

Ernest
1880
Crewe

Gertrude
1881
Crewe

Jane
1883
Crewe

John T
1885
Crewe

Albert Henry
1889
Crewe

Kate
1886
Crewe

Martha
1887
Crewe

Alice
1891
Crewe

Elsie
1895
Crewe

Robert
1897
Crewe

William
1900
Crewe

John Roe, my great grandfather, married Dinah Yeomans in 1875 at Manchester Cathedral.

Albert Henry Roe, my grandfather worked on the railways. He met Ellen Hamnett, in Manchester where she worked as a maid at a large house in South Manchester. He wooed her by throwing coal over the hedge backing onto the railway. Ellen was born in Withington, Manchester in 1894. Her family lived in Lady Barn, South Manchester, but were originally from Northenden, a village which at the time was in Cheshire. Albert and Ellen married and settled in Withington, South Manchester and had nine children, including three sets of twins. Sadly not all the children survived the traumas of birth.

Fanny
1845
Marston

William Alfred
1873
Blackley

Sarah Ann
1874
Blackley

Fanny
1880
Blackley

Fanny Roe (1845) married Alfred Dunn
in 1869 in the Chorlton district of Manchester.

Elizabeth
1838
Parwich

Robert Ernest
1864
Manchester

Elizabeth Roe (1838)
married Robert H Gregory
on 18 June 1864 at Manchester.

			Thomas William Ardron 1849 Manchester
	Joseph W 1887 Stretford	Herbert Sampson 1889 Stretford	Helen Daisy 1891 Stretford	Bessie 1898 Barton
Thomas William Ardron (1849) married Helen Wilkins Harris in 1885 in the district of Barton on Irwell, Lancashire.

		Joseph 1883 Salford
	Alice 1910 Salford	Frank 1915 Romiley	Mary 1919 Salford
Joseph Roe (1883) married Alice Hulme in 1907 at Salford.

			John 1846 Droylsden
Richard 1868 Manchester	John H 1869 Manchester	Arthur 1871 Manchester	Frances 1875 Manchester	Louisa 1877 Manchester	Ada 1884 Manchester
John Roe (1846) married Frances Smethurst in 1868 in Salford.

Richard
1868
Manchester

Richard Campbell
1897
Prestwich

Richard Roe (1868) married Mary Campbell
in 1896 in Salford.

			Joseph 1823 Parwich
Fanny 1845 Marston	Sarah 1847 Manchester	Ann 1851 Manchester	Elizabeth 1854 Manchester	Mary 1856 Manchester	Joseph 1859 Manchester
Joseph Roe (1823) married Sarah Herrick on 18 Mar 1844 at Marston upon Dove, Derbyshire