Weaste Cemetery

Biographies of people buried between 1870 & 79

CHARLES TYSOE (1826 - 1878)


 

Charles Tysoe was a Cotton Spinner and Doubler, in partnership with his older brother John, at Victoria and Albert Mills on Hope Street, Oldfield Road, Salford. He was also a Committee member of the Manchester School for the Deaf and Dumb.

 

He was born in 1826 in Salford and baptised at Christ Church (Bible Christian), King Street, Salford. His father was Charles Tysoe snr (1790 – 1851) an early member of the Bible Christian Church, who had come to Salford from Pebworth in Gloucester-shire in 1804 as an apprentice to Bennett and Benton, Linen Drapers. Charles snr later formed a partnership with William Harvey, spinning cotton at Albert Mill, Hope Street, (which was the mill previously owned and operated by Joseph Brotherton, who became minister of the Bible Christian Church and, in 1832, became Salford's first Member of Parliament). Charles jnr's mother was Harriet Tysoe (nee Slagg) born 1801 at Eckington, Derbyshire. They were married in 1821 in Eckington. Charles jnr was just a baby when his mother died. A memorial plaque at the Bible Christian Church read, "Harriet, wife of Charles Tysoe (snr) of Salford and daughter of William and Mary Cecilia Slagg of Eckington, Derbyshire, who died at Stratford-upon-Avon, July 23rd 1826 and was interred at Pebworth, Gloucestershire, aged 25."

 

Charles Tysoe jnr married Anne Elizabeth Walmsley on 3rd October 1849 in Man-chester AND on 6th October 1849 in Kennington, Surrey. Anne was born in 1828 and was the daughter of Edward Walmsley of Kennington, Surrey. Their children, all born in Salford were: Alfred Edward (born 1850), Charles (born 1852), Ada (born 1853), Frederick Brotherton (born 1854), Florence (born 1856), Frank Walmsley (born 1857), Harriette Gertrude (born 1858), Annie Maude (born 1859, died in 1860 aged 6 months and interred in the grave of Joseph Brotherton at Weaste) and Edith (born 1861). In 1851 the family lived at Irwell Place, Broughton, Salford, in 1861 at Bean Little, Eccles Road, Pendleton, and in 1871 at Adelphi Terrace, Salford.

 

Charles was an active Liberal and supported community endeavours as shown in local newspapers. In August 1862 he was one of the vice presidents of Salford Relief Ctee (Cotton Famine). February 1865 - committee member for the Election of Liberal Candidate Mr Cheetham. April 1865 - Committee member for the Cobden memorial statue in Peel Park. July 1865 – vice chairman Salford Committee for South Lancashire Constituency. November 1866 – Auditor for Salford Borough Council. November 1867 – Committee member for electing Jacob Bright.

 

A serious event occurred at the mill in September 1870 when 13-year-old Elizabeth Thompson was trapped and fatally injured whilst cleaning cotton dust off a spinning machine. The Factory Inspector prosecuted the Overseer, but the Magistrate quashed the charge and blamed the mill owners, John and Charles Tysoe. In September 1872 there was a serious fire at the mill, which was controlled by the fire brigade. And in September 1875 the company went into liquidation, due to a downturn in the market.

 

Charles Tysoe died in April 1878 aged 52 and was buried at Weaste Cemetery grave A4/CE/Vault on 25th April.