Ref Y6
See here for an alphabetical list of all surnames in the Train pages with links to the relevant text.
Our interest in this East Riding family now spans around 250 years and the story is therefore a long one.
Annie Maria Train (1874-1957) married Walter Young, Mike’s grandfather, 7.8.1894 in Hull. (See Ref. Y2). She was then aged 19 and her birth certificate in October 1874 shows her mother as Annie Train but with no father disclosed. Great uncle George William Train had been born in May 1873 in similar circumstances. He witnessed his sister Annie Maria’s wedding.
The mother Annie (officially Anne) Train was living in Milton Square, Bourne Street, Hull, when George was born and at Manor Alley* for Annie Maria. She made her mark rather than a signature.
*In the 19th Century, Manor Alley had something of a reputation. It ran east-west to meet Lowgate almost opposite St Mary’s Church. In “Images of Victorian Hull – F.S. Smith’s Drawings of the Old Town”, item 5 is a sketch of Manor Alley during the construction of Alfred Gelder Street, 1902. The caption explains that the buildings on the north side of the alley and on the south side of Leadenhall Square had been demolished at the time the sketch was done. All that remained, in Smith’s drawing, was a strip of rough ground between Manor Alley and the new street. Leadenhall Square was notorious in the 19th Century as a “red light” district and it was suggested in the mid-century that the square should be knocked down as it constituted a legal nuisance. The clergy and organisations such as The Society for the Supression of Vice battled against immorality in Hull but the character of the area did not change until the construction of Alfred Gelder Street.
On the 1881 Census Annie Train declares herself to be a cotton spinner, living at 2 Bethel Place. George is then 8 and Annie Maria 6. We have not been able to find them at the 1891 Census.
At the 1901 Census Annie was living with Annie Maria and Walter Young at 3 Fern Street, Hull and George William was also there, as a 27 year old leather worker. Ten years later, Annie Train is still with the Youngs, now at 7 Fern Avenue, Fern Street, Sculcoates. On 9.4.1913 she was walking home down Waterloo Street after visiting a sick friend when she slipped on a piece of orange peel and hit her head badly on the pavement. Treated at first as an outpatient at the Hull Royal Infirmary, her condition deteriorated and she was admitted to the Sculcoates Infirmary where she died 18.4.1913, at the age of 70. At the inquest, schoolchildren’s litter habits were blamed. Mike’s father, who was eight years old when she died, remembered his grandmother Annie as a nice little old woman.
In his autobiography Mike’s father said that he only remembered his uncle, George William Train from about 1910 or so, when the latter was living at Liversedge in the West Riding and paid the family a visit to introduce his new bride, Annie. At the 1911 Census we duly found George as a single man, aged 36 and born in Hull, a hydraulic leather worker, boarding with a Frank Crossman, a yard dyer at Grange Ash Cottage, Union Road, Liversedge. At the same time we find there was residing at the Liversedge Hotel (landlord Harry Marsden) Annie Brayshaw, a 23 year old servant, who was said to have been born in Dewsbury, which is nearby. George and Annie married 22.7.1911 at Christ Church, Liversedge. As already mentioned, George said his father was George Train, deceased, an engineer and Annie said her father was John Brayshaw deceased, engine driver.
Mike’s father’s autobiography then goes on:
“Annie came to stay with us for a short time, as Uncle George was about to come back to Hull to work for a firm in Osborne Street and she was making the arrangements for setting up home in Hull. Uncle George did not like the set-up at his new firm and he gave the job up straight away, returning to Liversedge without the furniture, which had been sent on, being unpacked. Later Uncle George came back to work at Rose, Down & Thompson in Cannon Street. He retired from this firm in 1938 [when he reached65] and received from them a gold watch, commemorating 26 years’ service. He was a nice quiet person when sober, but when drunk his personality changed and after his initial good humour wore off he became rather nasty and aggressive. On one occasion when at our house in Sykes Street he went too far with Amy’s [the author’s elder sister] future husband and was invited to go outside to settle the matter, but this offer was not accepted!”
When George’s mother Annie had her accident and died in April 1913, we surmise that George and his then heavily pregnant wife Annie went over to Hull from Liversedge, staying with the Youngs at Fern Avenue. It seems Annie stayed on after her mother-in-law’s death, as she was still there when she gave birth to Edith May Train 6.5.1913, i.e. three weeks after the death. The birth was registered 16.6.1913 by Annie, so we think George would have been back in Liversedge by then. Unfortunately the little girl only lived for eighteen months, dying at The Balks, Hightown, Liversedge 25.11.1914, the causes given being meningitis (teething) and convulsions. George was the informant. Mike’s father stated that George and Annie just had the one child. In the 1939 Register we find them at 5 Cliff Terrace, Grange Street, Hull, George described as a hydraulic leather worker and Annie’s birth date given as 25.12.1888. This would make her 22 at the 1911 census and on her wedding day, compared to the age of 23 she stated on both occasions, so we think it should have said 1887.
We have been able to confirm the date of birth because we have so far been unable to discover anything about Annie Brayshaw prior to 1911, despite considerable searching of the data available on the internet.
George Train died at Hull Q3 1950, aged 77 and Annie is said by Mike’s father to have remarried and gone to live in Brunswick Avenue, Hull, but we have not been able to confirm this. Nor do we know what happened to the gold watch which passed to Mike’s father shortly before Annie’s death and which was in working order.
Train Morvinson family
Going back the 70 years, we find an Anne Train born 14.1.1843, the daughter of William Train, a weaver – actually a sailcloth weaver – and his wife Maria Morvinson. (For the Morvinsons see Ref. Y7.) The birth was at Newton Square, Collier Street, Hull, with Maria making her mark, rather than a signature. At first we relied on the fact that there were no other Anne Trains born at that time in the Hull area and we noted that Annie gave her son the second name William and her daughter’s second name Maria. Also she was in the same trade – textiles – as William Train. Proof of the relationship eventually lay in finding that Annie was buried in the same grave as her mother Maria in the Western Cemetery.
Piggotts National Commercial Directory 1830-31 stated of Hull “in commercial importance it ranks as fourth in the Kingdom. Its chief productions are sacking, sail-cloth, chains and chain cables.”
Anne Train was born during her father William Train’s second marriage. He had married firstly Mary Golightly Grant 23.5.1840 at Holy Trinity, with his father given as the late James Train, Brewer, from 31 Myton Street. Nothing was recorded so far as Mary’s father was concerned and the bride made her mark. We found the death (in childbirth) of Mary Train, aged 24, wife of William Train, weaver, on 16 February 1841 at 64 North Street, Prospect Street, Hull, the address from which she had got married nine months earlier. The informant was Henry Grant, presumably her brother or father, of 19 Broadley Street, “present at the death”.
The 1841 Census reveals that William Train, after he was bereaved, went back to his mother’s home in Myton Street, where he is recorded as a sailcloth weaver, aged 20+, with Ann Train who was said to be 60+. She had with her also three grandchildren, i.e. Joseph, Ann and Margaret Tankersley (her daughter Margaret having married Richard Tankersley in August 1821).
William Train and Maria Morvinson married at Holy Trinity, Hull, 21.2.1842. Each party merely said that they were of full age but we believe William was then 24 and Maria 25. Both parties made their mark. [By the way, the GRO has Maria Morvinson indexed as Morrinson (Mar 1842 Hull 22 209)]. At the 1851 Census William and Maria were at John’s Court, Spencer Street, he said to be 33 and she 35 (actually 34). They were both said to have been born in Hull. The children listed were Ann aged 8, Elizabeth 5, Maria 2 and Mary Jane 8 months. However, William and Maria’s marriage did not survive even ten years because he died 26.4.1851, age 34, being buried in the Hull General Cemetery Company’s new facility on Spring Bank West.* The cause of death was said to be “decline” but when we obtained the GRO death certificate it said “Cystitis 12 months”. (If the ages at Census and on death are to be taken literally, William must have just had another birthday, so that his birth would be April 1817.)
*The Hull General Cemetery Co opened the “Spring Bank” cemetery in 1847. By 1866 it covered 20 acres.
At the time of her father’s death, Mike’s great-grandmother Annie Train was just 8 years old and the widow Maria experienced further grief when two out of the three younger daughters died at six month intervals after their father and were buried with him on Spring Bank West.
We have not been able to find Maria or any of her family on the 1861 Census. If she was in the workhouse her identity might have been disguised.
The 1871 Census has Maria as a needlewoman at 5 Carr Street, Sculcoates, Hull,with Anne, a machinist, and Mary, a bag maker, and we were surprised to see there a further daughter, Martha, aged 14. Actually she was 15 having been born at Johns Buildings, New George Street, Hull, 24.4.1855, i.e. four years after William Train’s death. Indeed, no father’s name was entered. Holy Trinity baptisms (Ref. PE 158/13) do not have it, by the way. For some reason the ages of the rest of the family in 1871 are considerably understated.
By 1881 Maria Train had seen (unmarried) daughter Anne set up home with her two children (George and Annie Maria) and the two younger daughters get married, Mary Jane in 1875 and Martha in 1879. The 1881 Census shows Maria living with Martha Route, as she had become, and the latter’s husband Paul Route*, a fisherman, at 6 Vine Court, Holy Trinity Parish, Hull. We have come across a witness statement made by Maria Train in July 1888, when she was living at 1, Mabbs Entry, High Street. See Appendix 1. In 1891 Maria Train and the now widowed Martha Route were at 3 Chambers Entry, High Street and Maria died 14.5.1897 at the age of 80, being buried from 19 Bryant Court, High Street, Hull.
*Thanks to the efforts of Mike’s third cousin, Paul Route, we are able to present, in Appendix 7, something of the Route family and how Martha got on after marrying into it. Martha was 85 when she died in Hull 1941 Q1, having been a widow for over 58 years.
William Train’s ancestry
As mentioned already, in 1851 our William Train said he was 33 year-old weaver born in Hull. Unfortunately, we have not yet seen anything that documents William Train’s birth or baptism. However, the 1841 Census shows, at Myton Street, Hull, a William Train, sail-cloth weaver, aged 20+ in the home of widow Ann Train who was said to be 60+. This would be a few months after our William’s bereavement, so our starting hypothesis was that this was mother and son, i.e. he had returned home to Mum. She had with her also three grandchildren, i.e. Joseph, Ann and Margaret Tankersley. In 1951 we find widow Ann Train again, now a laundress, living off Osborne Street, Hull and said to be 72. As ten years previously, she had with her Joseph Tankersley, her grandson, he being now a widower aged 26 his two small children. (We later established that Ann’s daughter Margaret married Richard Tankersley and died relatively young). So our hypothesis now says 72 year-old Mum and 33 year-old son – quite reasonable.
The next significant piece of evidence is the death in Hull of Ann Train. She died 4.1.1858 in the home of one Richard Train and was buried from there two days later. She was described as Ann Train, widow of James Train, brewer’s journeyman*, Richard Train being the informant. She was said to have died of “natural decay” aged 80, implying a birth in 1777 (or in the first week of 1778!), whereas the above Ann’s 1851 Census declaration suggests 1778/1779. This very much fits with what William said his father’s profession was each time he married and we are therefore satisfied that William Train was the son of James Train and his wife Ann.
*”Journeyman” was an employee, originally paid by the day (as French “journée”), who had served an recognised apprenticeship, so that his competence was acknowledged. However, he was not at the level of “master craftsman” and so could not himself employ others.
Richard Train family and business
The above Richard Train was born in Hull 18.1.1815, the son of James Train, brewer and his wife Ann. This would make him about two years older than our William who must have been his brother. Richard Train established a sailmaker’s business apparently employing four of his sons in the business, and, we assume, our William. See Appendix 2 for the Richard Train branch.
James and Ann Train family
We believe James and Ann Train had at least seven children, as set out in Appendix 3. Richard Train said that his father James was already dead when he got married in 1826. There is a burial at Sculcoates in January 1824 of a James Train, of Ordovas Place, aged 48, i.e. born 1775/6, making him a couple of years or so older than the wife Ann, so we were inclined to go with that. Later that same address cropped up in the family, making it certain.
The next pressing question is who was Ann, James Train’s wife? In 1851 she said she was aged 72, and born in Hull. There is a distinct shortage of marriage index entries that leap from the page. The only James Train-Ann somebody marriage 1795-1815 in Yorkshire or Lincolnshire is 2.6.1799 at Broughton by Brigg, Lincolnshire between Ann Parker Graham of that parish and James Train of Cottingham ERY. The groom being from a different diocese, a bishop’s licence was needed and this said that James was 24, which fits with our James’ date at death (see above). Ann was said to have had the consent of her guardian, no doubt because she was only 19, implying a birth 1779/80, very similar but not actually fitting in with our Ann being 72 on 30.3.1851 or 80 on death 4.1.1858. That said, we found that there were the baptisms at Broughton by Brigg of the couple’s first two children i.e. 15.3.1801 of a “Margaret, daughter of James & Ann Parker Train” and 12.9.1802 of a “Joseph*, son of James & Ann Parker Train”. Unfortunately, the father’s profession is not given. However, the first one fits very well our Ann Train’s daughter Margaret who married Richard Tankersley at Sculcoates in 1821 and whose son Joseph Train Tankersley was baptised at Bethel Chapel, Hull 16.7.1824, with their address Ordovas Place**, i.e. where our James Train had died six months previously. Of course, as mentioned already, Ann Train had with her at the 1841 Census three Tankersley grandchildren (who were probably orphans by then). So many strands tying together seem to be proof that Mike’s 3 x gr-grandmother was indeed Ann Parker Graham.
*Apart from the Parish Clerk, the only witness to the Lincolnshire marriage was one Joseph Parker. Was he Ann’s guardian? Graham was not a common name in Broughton by Brigg registers. In fact, apart from the above marriage, we only have two baptisms indexed between 1720 and 1840, namely 17.12.1774 Parker Graham, daughter of John Graham and 9.9.1776 John Graham, son of John Graham. That name Parker again! Interesting that James Train and Ann named their first son Joseph – as did their daughter Margaret and her husband Richard.
**According to an entertaining article by Pete Lowden in The Banyan Tree, the magazine of the East Yorkshire Family History Society No. 19 of August 2019, in the late 18C a Dr Francis C. Ordovas built a house in an unnamed street off Chariot Street, Hull. It was put up for sale in June 1799 and probably actually sold a year later. Although the doctor’s connection had ceased, it appears that the street had become known as Ordovas Place and it appears on Cragg’s map of 1817. However, by 1830 it had been rebuilt and renamed as Medley Street.
In 1851 Ann Train said she was born in Hull and we have searched for an Ann Graham birth without finding one there. There is, however, a baptism at St John’s Beverley 5.4.1780 of Ann Parker “bastard daughter of Mary Trowsdale”. It is quite possible to visualise this child’s birth to have taken place in Hull some time before the baptism so that an age of 19 on marrying in 1799 is possible. Also, illegitimacy could well have meant that there was a guardian involved. Hey presto?
Train Nutchy family
Turning now to Mike’s other gr x 4 -grandparent, we note that James Train said he was 24 when marrying in 2.6.1799 and that he was resident in Cottingham. The obvious parents are Richard Train and his wife Ann Nutchy. (See Ref. Y62) They had seven children baptised between 1759 and 1774, most of them at Leven parish church when the family was resident at Baswick on the Hull riverbank. In particular, James Train, their youngest, was baptised 10.6.1774. Assuming he was baptised only a few days old he would still be 24 when the bishop’s licence was applied for, so that fits rather well. Details of Richard and Ann’s family are set out in Appendix 4.
Reverting to a “reasonable conjecture” basis, the above Richard could well be the one baptised 23.11.1732 at St John & St Martin, Beverley, son of John Train, who married Jane Smith 23.6.1724 at St John’s Beverley and settled at Thearne, on the west bank of the Hull between Beverley and Hull. Details of their family are at Appendix 5.
Yet further back, we think that John Train could be from the John Traine and Anne who raised a family in Skidby, about five miles south of Beverley, the baptism being 28.7.1695. Details of their family are at Appendix 6. There is a sense of Mike’s family history coming full circle, in that Mike’s father (whose mother’s maiden name was Train) spent his last forty years in Skidby!
We have noted that at one time Skidby was part of Cottingham parish. We will continue our investigations……
Footnote:
Mike seems to be descended from a line of unfortunate ladies who lost their husbands early (or who did not have one!):
| Widowed | Died | Alone | ||
| Grandmother | Annie Maria | Nov 1922 | June 1957 | 34 yr 7m |
| Gr-great-aunt | Martha | Dec 1882 | Jan 1941 | 58 yr 1 m |
| Gr-grandmother | Annie | May 1873* | April 1913 | 39 yr 11m |
| Gr-gr-grandmother | Maria | April 1841 | May 1897 | 56 yr |
| Gr-gr-gr-grandmother | Ann | Jan 1824 | Jan 1858 | 34 yr |
*First child born
October 2021
Witness Statement by Maria Train
Circumstances
Information of witness touching the death of William Foster at George Yard Inn, High Street, St Mary’s, 26 July 1888, John Joseph Thorney, Coroner.
Harry Foster said that the deceased was 39, a grocer, his brother, living at 1 Mabbs Entry, High St, Hull. He had not seen him for about a year. He was subject to fainting fits and had had a bad one at his brother’s funeral a year ago.
Statement by Maria Train
Maria Train of No. 1 Mabbs Entry, High Street, widow, upon her oath saith:
I saw deceased about 10 or half past on Tuesday night last. I had some conversation with him about the dustman getting in next morning, much as usual. He lived above his shop. Yesterday morning his shutters were not opened at the usual time which was between half past 8 and 9. I thought he might have gone away by a cheap trip. A little after 11 a neighbour Mrs Sidebottom and I went together into the deceased’s room – the door was shut but not fastened. We found him laid on the couch. He was dead. We went and fetched another neighbour. I didn’t touch him neither did Mrs Sidebottom, but Mrs Eagle the person we fetched did and saw he was cold.
Maria Train did not sign the statement but made her mark.
Outcome
Verdict, which was signed by the Coroner, the Deputy Coroner and each of the 15 jurors was:
That the said William Foster on the twenty first day of July instant at the Parish of St Mary in the Borough aforesaid was found dead and from natural causes, to wit from syncope caused by heart disease, did die.
Source: Hull Coroner’s papers CQB 388/84-5
Richard Train Branch
According to the 1846 Hull Trade Directory, Richard Train, Mike’s gr-gr-uncle was a sailmaker of West End Old Dock and 4 Christ Church Street. We think he was two years younger than gr-gr-grandfather William, but, as he married younger and lived a lot longer, we have seen much more of him and his family than is often the case with family history.
If it be asked how the Train sailmaking business could still be flourishing late in the 1800s, i.e. a quarter of a century after the introduction of iron ships and steam propulsion, the fact is that ships’ engines were not, ultimately, to be relied upon, so that masts and sails had to remain available. Only with the advent of wireless telegraphy (early 20C) through which help, e.g. a tug, could be summoned, was such self-sufficiency redundant. (From a talk, Shipbuilding on Tyneside 1850-1913 by Joe Clark)
According to the Holy Trinity PR entry for Richard Train’s marriage to Charlotte Kelsey on 25 May 1836, they were said to be both of the Parish and the witnesses were William Fox, Martha Kelsey and Pheobe Kelsey. At the 1851 and 1861 Censuses Charlotte said she had been born at Heckdyke, Lincs* and Stockwith, Lincs respectively. In fact all her family’s baptisms were at Misterton, on the Nottingham side of the Trent and we ascertained that she was the daughter of Thomas Kelsey and Charlotte Steele, being baptised 25.10.1819.
*East Stockwith and West Stockwith lie on either side of the River Trent, respectively in Lincolnshire and Nottinghamshire, about three miles NE of Gainsborough. Heckdyke is (or was in 1824!) a tiny riverside establishment about 3/4 mile north of West Stockwith but just inside the Lincolnshire border.
At the 1851 Census they were at 2 Reform Street and at the 1861 Census they were at 84 Osborne Street and it was from this address that Richard’s mother, Ann, was buried in January 1858 (See main text). In 1871 Richard and Charlotte were at No.1 Mill Lane Convent Cottages, Holy Trinity, Hull, with just James, 21, and Charlotte, 19. In 1881 they were still there, again with daughter Charlotte (now called Wells, but widowed) two of her children and 36 year old William, who had also been widowed (in 1867).
Richard Train’s death is recorded by GRO Q2 1882 at the age of 66 and his widow aged 65 in Q1 1883.
In the following section every male who was at some stage a sailmaker or similar is underlined. There are six of them, including Richard Senior and his brother William but it appears that the next generation did not follow in the business, probably because the trade had peaked. Indeed, in 1901 Thomas Kelsey Train described himself as a sail and cover maker.
To our knowledge, Richard and Charlotte had seven Children, all born in Hull, as under:
Pheobe Train Born 20.1.1838.
There is a marriage of one Phoebe Train to Francis Brusch 1860 Q1 in Hull but we have not found anything further.
Thomas Kelsey Train Born 1839 Q3, died 8.3.1917.
Married 18.1.1864 Sophia Ann Ward born 1844 died 9.1.1930. Their children were:
Alice Maud b. 1865 Sophia b. 1876
Robert b. 1867 Thomas H b. 1878
Ernest b. 1870 Ethel M b. 1886
Nora b. 1874
Richard Train Born 1841 Q2 died 1897. Married Ann E Brier. No children.
William Henry Train Born 1843 Q4, died 1.2.1895.
Married 26.11.1866 Mary Ann Howlett born 1847, died 26.11.1867, child Kate also, 15 days old.
Frederick Train Born 1847 Q3, baptised 18.7.1847 All Saints, Sculcoates
Married Sarah Bailey Jan-Mar 1868. Undenominational evangelist. Last seen in Newton Abbot, Devon in 1881. They had children:
Sarah 1868-9
Frederick 1870-1
Buchanan 1871-2
Maggy 1872-3
James Train Born 16.12.1849, married 25.3.1875 Mary Jane Train, daughter of William and Maria Train and, therefore, his first cousin.
They had children:
Arthur E 1875-6
Ernest H 1877-8
Charles H 1886-7
The children were all born in Lincoln, where James in 1881 and 1891 was reported to be – of course – a sailmaker. However, by 1901, only Charles was still there, as a lodger, age 14, possibly completing his education there. The GRO has a James Train death Jul-Sep 1910, aged 61 (ours would have been 60). Otherwise the trail goes dead.
Charlotte Train Born 1852 Q2
Married name Wells. In 1881, already a widow, she was with her parents, together with her two daughters Alice 4 and Lotite 3. No trace thereafter.
August 2019
The Family of James Train and Ann
James Train, baptised at Leven 10.6.1774, son of Richard Train and Ann – see main text and Appendix 4.
Ann Train: See main text for possible marriage and her origins.
We have seen the following evidence regarding their family:
15.3.1801 Margaret baptism at Broughton by Brigg, Lincs – see main text
She married Richard Tankersley, mariner, 19.8.1821 at All Saints Sculcoates witnesses being John Wilson and James Train. Known children: Joseph 1825 and Ann 1831. She died either Q3 1849 or Q1 1851, the alternative being probably her daughter born Q2 1847.
8.4.1804 Sarah
Baptism at St Mary, Hull. Married Joseph Steele, mariner 29.3.1825, witnesses James Train and Mary Roney. Nothing further found.
7.9.1806 James
Born 8.8.1806. Baptism at All Saints Sculcoates. Married Hannah Scott at Holy Trinity 29.4.1827 botp. She made her mark. Witnesses Stephen Goodson and Jane Richardson. James was a whitesmith and they had children:
Sarah Ann 1832
John 1834
Elizabeth 1837
Margaret 1939
Elizabeth 1842
Emma 1843
Eliza 1849
17.10.1808 George
Baptism at Holy Trinity, Hull
8.1.1812 John Peal
Baptism at Holy Trinity, Hull, born 13.12.1811.
18.3.1816 Richard
Baptism at Holy Trinity, Hull, born 18.1.1815.
See Appendix 2.
1817 William
Mike’s gr-gr-grandfather. See main text.
August 2017
The Family of Richard Train and Ann
There was a birth recorded at St John & St Martin, Beverley 23.11.1732 of Richard, son of John Train. We believe Richard married Ann Nutchy 28.1.1756 at the same church (by licence). The licence said that both parties were aged 22.
There is a discrepancy in Richard’s age of a year or so, but it is the only Richard and Ann marriage that does not require the groom to have come from somewhere like Cornwall. Information on licences has been known to be incorrect! So far we have not seen Ann’s birth, although there was a James Nutchy, Tailor, who as James Nutchie, married Mary Bewley 26.6.1735 at Beverley and whose seven children were baptised at St Mary & St Nicholas Beverley between 1736 and 1750. All that tells us is that there were people of that name in Beverley in that era!
They had children as follows:
29.1.1758 Beverley St John. William s. of Richard Traine, labourer
29.3.1759 Beverley St John. Richard s. of Richard Traine, Stakehill, labourer
20.2.1761 Leven. William s. of Richard Train and Ann of Baswick
22.11.1762 Leven. Ann* d. of Richard Train and Ann of Baswick
15.2.1765 Leven. John** s. of Richard Train and Ann of Baswick
16.3.1767 Leven. George s. of Richard Train and Ann
21.6.1769 Leven. Ann d. of Richard Train and Ann of Baswick
3.1.1772 Leven. Sarah d. of Richard Train and Ann
10.6.1774 Leven. James s. of Richard Train and Ann. The line of succession – see main text.
*There is a death entry at St Johns Beverley 22.2.1766 for Ann Train, daughter of Richard and Ann Train.
**There is a death entry at St Johns Beverley 2.8.1789 for Richard Train, son of John.
The father Richard was said to be 81 when his burial took place at St John’s Beverley 10.6.1816. He had been living at Keldgate, Beverley. The mother Ann had predeceased him, being buried 2.11.1794
The Family of John Train and Jane
John Train married Jane Smith 23.6.1724 at St John Beverley, when they both were living at Thearne, near Beverley, he being a servant. It is possible that Jane Smith was the girl baptised at Leven 15.9.1770, daughter of William Smith or Smyth or equally the girl baptised at North Cave 7.1.1701 NS, daughter of Robert Smith.
They had children at Thearne as follows, the baptism dates per the St John Beverley register:
20.3.1725 William Trean
6.7.1727 John Trean
15.6.1729 Elizabeth Trean
23.11.1732 Richard Train – the line of succession
15.3.1737 Jane Treyn (father a labourer or farmer. Buried 13.9.1739
19.5.1739 Christopher Train (father a farmer) who married 20.1.1760 Mary Butler, with witness Richard Traine, all three making their mark. They moved from Thearne to Woodmansey. He was buried 26.8.1781 and Mary 22.10.1796.
30.11.1741 James Train (father a labourer).
We do not know when John Train died, but there was a burial at St John’s Beverley 3.1.1782 of “Jane Train, widow”.
The Family of John Train and Anne
We have, as yet, not see a suitable marriage but there are baptisms at Skidby as follows:
28.8.1687 Robert Train
5.8.1690 Elizabeth Train
3.4.1692 Jain Train
26.7.1695 John Traine. Married Jane Smith 23.6.1724 at St John Beverley. See main text and Appendix 5 hereto.
2.10.1700 (born 24.9.1700) Alice Traine. Buried Skidby 9.11.1700
We think the father John was buried 5.7.1731 at Skidby, described at “householder” and “Anne Train, widow” likewise 10.10.1738.
The Route Family
Martha Train, the daughter of Maria Train, nee Morvinson, married Paul Aloysius Route at St Mary’s, Hull, 12.4.1879. He was said to be 22, the son of Alphonso Route decd, a soldier. She is down as aged 21 (rather than the correct 24), the daughter of the late William Train, sailmaker. As the main text says, that also was not correct, as William had died some years before her birth.
At the 1881 Census Paul, Martha and her mother Maria were at 6 Vine Court, Hull. However by the time Martha and Paul Route’s son, Paul Albert was born on 11.7.1881 they had moved to 4 Spinsters Court, Church Lane. The young boy would hardly have known his father because on 5.12.1882 the latter was drowned at sea. Mike’s cousin Paul Route’s lively account of his family history includes a cutting from the Hull Packet describing how the fishing smack Socrates was caught in a severe storm 150 miles from Spurn Point in the middle of the night, causing the fourth gib to be blown away. Paul Route, the third hand, went forward to let it in. Unfortunately just then the boat shipped a heavy sea and he was swept overboard. The sea conditions and the darkness made rescue impossible. His body was not recovered.
The said family history goes on to say that in 1888 Martha, then resident at 1 Mabb’s Entry, High Street (where her mother Maria was living – evidenced by Appendix 1 hereto), successfully applied for the seven year old Paul Albert to be admitted to the Hull Seamen’s and General Orphan Asylum situated in Spring Bank. He is duly recorded as being there at the 1891 Census, while his mother was a charwoman, resident in Chamber’s Entry with mother Maria.
By 1901 Martha Route had Paul Albert, aged 19, back with her at 25 Lowgate, Hull, she being a sack mender and he a self-employed hairdresser. In 1911 Martha was still doing the same work but living at 1 Locke’s place, Chapel Lane, Hull, but Paul Albert was hairdressing at 10 Church Street, Uckfield, Sussex, with his Hull born wife, Olive Ann, and one year old Joan (born in Uckfield). Reverting to cousin Paul’s account of his family, it seems that Paul Albert Route had married Olive Ann Kingdom in January 1909 at Christ Church, Sculcoates, Paul having already moved out of his mother’s home by then, and, once he was married, the separation was made all the more definite by his promptly moving to Uckfield. By 1914 they had two more children – Paul in August 1911 and John William in January 1913 – and so thoroughly was Paul immersed in the life of the town that by 1914 he was the Bandmaster and Conductor of the Town Band.
Then, in August 1914, the First World War broke out. Paul Albert Route joined a “pals” battalion of the Royal Sussex Regiment (The “Southdowns”), while Olive went back to Hull with the children. In March 1916 Paul found himself in the trenches and three months later was lucky to survive the Battle of the Boar’s Head. In five hours of fighting the 13th Battalion was all but wiped out. The next year, on March 2nd, Paul Route and his 11th Battalion were engaged in the Ypres area and in very heavy shell fire a man was wounded some distance from the aid post. Taking two stretcher bearers with him Lance-Corporal Route went to attend to the man. Despite shells bursting all round, he successfully completed his work. His coolness, bravery and devotion to duty was recognised by the award of the Military Medal. By the time the Hull newspaper reported all this Paul had been hospitalised with either trench feet or trench fever and was still being treated in hospital in May 1917.
Post-war, Paul Albert, thanks to a grant from the Great War Trust, was able to set up a hairdressing business at 2 Spring Street, Hull, but the business only lasted five years before, in 1928, he was declared bankrupt, evidently contributed to by a spell of illness. In July 1929 he managed to find the resources to have his son Paul start on an apprenticeship as an upholsterer (which became a career for life). Only a few months later Paul Albert had a hernia operation at Hull Royal Infirmary but contracted pneumonia and died there 29.10.1929 at the early age of 48. Olive Route died in Hull 16.2.1954, aged 69.
Young Family History 