Descendants of Job and Ann Green



         Left to right: Gladys, Doreen & Marjorie Cartwright, great-great-granddaughters of Job and Ann Green

 

Jeanne Blantern Hughes of Kirkcudbright would like to find out more about her Great-Great-Great-Grandparents, Job and Ann Green. Job was instrumental in building the Totley Methodist Chapel in 1849 and was the farmer and publican at the Cross Scythes until the late 1860s.

 

She recently came across a copy of Job's Last Will and Testament amongst old birth, marriage and death certificates that she inherited from her mother. 

 

Jeanne is related to Job and Ann Green through their daughter Eliza. Eliza married George Wostenholme, who together with John Green, Job's son, were Executors of the Will. The Will was drawn up by Arthur John Binney, Solicitor, Sheffield. Job couldn't write and signed the Will with an X.

 

Job was very specific about his bequests and the Will names many Totley residents. Some of his properties are named and Jeanne would like to know what and where they were: 

 

  • Firstly, there is The Brook occupied in 1873, by John and Martin Fox. 
  • Secondly, three dwelling houses, barnyard and gardens at Mickley, occupied by Thomas Pool, Thomas Reddish and Abraham Biggins.
  • Thirdly, there is property and land named as The Intake, The Dole and The Croft with 4 acres.
  • Fourthly, another four houses occupied by Thomas Fox, Enoch Williamson, John Wostenholme and Mrs. Plackett. 
  • Fifthly, 3 houses and shop in the occupation of Joseph Baxby, Walter Hattersly, and George Wostenholme. These, together with the adjoining land were named as The Orchard and The Croft.


It is this latter parcel of property and land to which Jeanne is connected. She thinks that the shop became Toft House.

 

Job and Ann had four living children at the time the will was made on 19th August, 1873. They are named as John Green, Marian Flint, Letitia Mosely and Eliza Wostenholme. Having made the will, Job died on 26th September, 1873.

 

Eliza and George Wostenholme had a daughter, Alice (Jeanne's great-grandmother) who married Benjamin Beely Booth and lived at Toft House. Jeanne's mother, Doreen Cartwright, was born at Moor View on Butts Hill in 1917. She went to All Saints School. Doreen died at 7 Old Hay Lane, Dore, in 2008 aged 92 years.


Jeanne tells this story about her mother and her great grandfather, Benjamin Beely Booth who is pictured in the garden at Toft House.


"He was a Master Stonemason and in 1923, prepared the 'footings' for All Saints Church. My mother was 5 years old that summer. It was her job to carry refreshments to Benjamin as he worked on the Church. One such trip almost ended in tragedy.  You can imagine the scene;  a hot July day, the pretty golden-haired child skipping happily to the site of the Chuch, carrying the food and drink for her beloved grandfather, the cause of the near fatal accident lying innocently in the long summer grasses.  The scythe!  


The scythe on which the child spilled so much of her blood into the foundations of All Saints. Her knee cap was almost completely sliced off. The screaming, the panic  - there was no Doctor in Totley. Her mother, Emma, and her Aunt Alice, wrapped the child in blankets and carried her a mile to the nearest doctor (I think that the surgery was near Totley Brook Road).  The kneecap was sewn back on, the bleeding staunched and the doctor was paid a shilling.  


Doreen lived for many more years but her scarred knee always served as a warning to her own children of the danger of blades of any shape or size.  Be careful was her mantra!


Her life came full circle when her funeral service was held at All Saints on December 6th, 2008. In the eulogy that I gave for her, I re-called her accident and the blood spilled at the very inception of All Saints. It seemed a fitting conclusion to a life well lived, a Totley lady to the end."

        Marjorie Booth Cartwright, great-great-granddaughter of Job and Ann Green in the orchard at Toft House, circa 1924

 

The Toft House orchard was still there when Jeanne (born 1943) was a child and she remembers playing in Totley Hall Lane adjacent to the house.


Footnote

Job and Ann Green are buried at Christ Church, Dore.

        Job and Ann Green headstone, Dore Christ Church

 

The headstone reads:

 

In Affectionate Remembrance of

      JOB GREEN OF TOTLEY 

WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE SEPR. 26TH 1873.

AGED 73 YEARS.

            "JESUS SAID I AM THE RESURRECTION AND THE

         LIFE. HE THAT BELIEVETH IN ME, THOUGH HE WERE

                          DEAD YET SHALL HE LIVE".

 

     Also ANN,

                        WIFE OF THE ABOVE-NAMED

             WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE JANY. 11TH 1874.

                                     AGED 67 YEARS.

"WATCH THEREFORE; FOR YE KNOW NOT WHAT HOUR YOUR LORD

    DOTH COME."

 

Also buried here at Christ Church are George and Eliza Wo(l)stenholme:


        George and Eliza Wolstenholme gravestone


The inscription reads:

 

In Affectionate Remembrance of

     ELIZA THE BELOVED WIFE OF

         GEORGE WOLSTENHOLME, OF TOTLEY:

    WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE, JULY 17TH 1886. AGED 49 YEARS.

       ALSO THE ABOVE NAMED GEORGE WOLSTENHOLME

WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE NOVEMBER 29TH 1916, AGED 87 YEARS


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