Danny thanks for the information. -----Original Message-----edited down to large for this list to copy. <Date: Thu, 28 Apr 2011 00:40:37 +0100 <Subject: Re: [CROMPTON] Crompton, GeorgeWashington(1849-1911) <From: -----------------------------<crompton.danny@gmail.com> <To: crompton@rootsweb.com My great Grandfather. I have more info on decendants for anyone who wants it. I also have a painting of Annie Strong by his daughter Mabel hanging in my house. ----------------------------------------- I am told that Annie lived in Felling upon Tyne (with her family) and her father lost his legs in an accident in a foundry where he was working and Annie saw her father in a carriage (for the only time in his life) when he was being transported to hospital where he later died. *GEORGE WASHINGTON CROMPTON* *George Washington Crompton* (1) is listed in 1878 Southport Street Directories as a bookbinder, stationer and printer of 109 Lord Street and 52 Kensington Road . In the 1890 street directory he is at 38 Arbour St. His wife *Annie Strong Ibbotson* came from Colne. George, a noted rifle shot, died aged 62, 27 November 1911; his wife died aged 78. The couple were married in Southport on 24 September 1873 at Holy Trinity Church by licence by the vicar Jonathon Jackson. George’s trade is given as printer and his father’s name as Abel Crompton, grocer. Annie Ibbotson (the second name of Strong is not given) is a spinster and the daughter of Edward Ibbotson, painter. Witnesses were George’s brother Alfred Jordan Crompton and Mary Harrison. The painting of George is by his daughter Mabel. On the back of the picture it says: George Washington Crompton painted by Mabel A.E. Crompton at Brandon & Winnipeg 1916-1925 Manitoba, Canada, before at Manchester Chambers, Lord Street, Southport. Annie Strong (as she was named at birth) was born on the 28 October 1850 at Somers Place east in the sub district of Somers Town, Middlesex, part of the registration district of Saint Pancras, London. Her father Edward, describes himself as a painter, of 15 Somers Place East. Her mother is Mary Ann Ibbotson, formerly Strong. George and Annie would go on to have at least 11 children: sons Abel Ibbotson, George Washington (2) and Abraham Alexander, and daughters Mabel, Nora Sarah, Olive Middleton, Hilda, Annie Nesta (known in the family as Nesta), Clarice, Lucy and Mary. *Children of George and Annie Crompton * Mabel Ann Elizabeth, born 12 July 1874, Linden House Roe Lane, Southport: her father George is listed as a printer and stationer. Died 1957 Nora Sarah, 17 February 1876, Linden House, Roe Lane, Southport: George, stationer and printer. Olive Middleton, 2 July 1877, 52 Kensington Road, Southport: George, letter press printer. Hilda Mary Ann, 5 May 1879, 52 Kensington Road, Southport: George, printer of 52 Kensington Road. Abel Ibbotson, 22 February 1881 (by coincidence the anniversary of the birth of George Washington), Roe Lane, Southport: George, letter press printer (master) of Roe Lane. Clarice Sumner, 4 November 1882, 31 Arbour Street, Southport: George, letter press printer (master) of 31 Arbour Street. George Washington (2), 21 May 1884, 31 Arbour Street; Southport: George, printer and stationer. Annie Nesta 8 December 1888, 31 Arbour Street; George printer and stationer. Abraham Alexander 28 January 1891, at 7 Linaker Street, Southport: George lists himself here as printer and stationer Lucy and Mary died as infants. Abraham, Mabel and Nesta never married; Olive, Nora and Clarice married. Olive had children as did Nora and some of her descendants live in Australia. The 1901 census has Mabel, 26, art student Abel 20 printer’s apprentice, Clarice 18, George 16 printer’s apprentice, Annie 12. PRINTER AND PUBLISHER Details drawn from Southport electoral rolls show George Washington Crompton as a printer, bookseller and stationer in 1876 living at 109 Lord Street, with works at Princes Court House on Roe Lane. In 1886 he is at 81 Lord Street and is publisher of the Southport Standard. His residence was at The Elms, 31 Arbour Street. The newspaper, founded in 1885, lasted until 1899 and was one of a number of small papers circulating in the growing town of Southport, though the electoral rolls show that in 1893 the Standard was being run (owned?) by a William Crompton. George Washington however remained in business, as a printer in Arbour Street in 1899 which remained a family home until the late 1920s – early 1930s. No relationship to the William Crompton has been traced, so far. In 1881, the Southport and West Lancashire Banking Company collapsed, George Crompton, stationer, 109 Lord Street, is listed as a shareholder, as is Elizabeth Crompton 33 Adelaide Street, lodging house keeper. George Washington Crompton died 27 November 1911, aged 62, at 1 Marsden Road, Southport, from pulmonary tuberculosis, asthenia. The death was certified by J. F. Rimmer M.B, and witnessed by George’s son, Abel. Annie Crompton died aged 79 on 14 August 1929 at Hollins House, Hebden Bridge, at the home of her son-in-law John Sykes. They are buried in Southport’s Duke Street Cemetery. The inscriptions on the grave read: TO THE LOVING MEMORY OF GEORGE WASHINGTON CROMPTON WHO FELL ASLEEP NOVEMBER 27 1911 AGED 62 YEARS REST IN PEACE ALSO OF ANNIE STRONG CROMPTON HIS WIFE WHO PASSED TO REST AUGUST 14 1919 AGED 78 YEARS On the left side of plinth: ALSO TO HILDA M.A. DAUGHTER OF G.W. & A CROMPTON WHO DIED MAY 19TH 1924 Abel Ibbotson Crompton, born 1881 died 1950, also buried here but no inscription made. The painting of George Washington Crompton (1) is Mabel’s work. Family notes ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -----------------------