Hawthornden House and the Bamfords

Following my Hawthorn line back through the records, I've located a Dorothy Bond Hawthorn (my first cousin, 5 times removed). Dorothy, like most of the Hawthorn's in this part of my tree, lived in Uttoxeter and the surrounding areas in Staffordshire. She married a gentleman name Samuel Brassington Bamford in 1875 and in 1901 is living in Hawthornden House, pictured.

More interestingly, Samuel was an 'Agricultural Engineer (Machinery Dealer)'.

Hmm. Agricultural machinery? Bamford? Uttoxeter? Any possibility that this relates to one Joseph Cyril Bamford, or JCB?

There's a job for another night, although I have located the birth record for Joseph in Jul-Sep 1916, mother's maiden name Turner.

Sarah Eleanor Hawthorn b1848

Sarah Eleanor Hawthorn was born AMJ 1848 in Shoreditch, Middlesex. She appears with her parents and siblings in the Census records of 1851, 1861 and 1871 and then marries John Elliott Whiddon.

Sarah appears then with husband John in 1881 but then disappears. There's a death record for John in AMJ 1885 and then a marriage record for Sarah Whiddon in JAS 1888.

Sarah then does not appear in either 1891 or 1901 with any of the three male surnames (Dealey, Roe, Turnbull) present on the same page, although there is a possible death record in 1893 for a Sarah Turnbull b c1849. There is still no matching Sarah Turnbull record in the 1891 Census though.

Grr.