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HINCHCLIFF, Mary Ellen
1875 - 1939 (64 years) Has 11 ancestors and 5 descendants in this family tree.
1837 - 1904 (66 years)-
Name HINCHCLIFF, Mary Ellen Birth 1875 Sheffield, Yorkshire 
Gender Female Death 1939 Blyth Registration District, Suffolk, England Person ID I1273 Edgoose Last Modified 5 Feb 2026
Father HINCHCLIFF, David, b. 5 Jun 1837, Holmfirth, Yorkshire, England d. 9 Feb 1904 (Age 66 years) Mother Alice EDGOOSE, b. 17 Mar 1842, Swineshead, Lincolnshire, England d. 12 Sep 1880, Chicago, Cook County, Illinois, USA (Age 38 years) Marriage 29 Dec 1867 Church of St. Matthew, Sheffield, Yorkshire Family ID F446 Group Sheet | Family Chart
Family BUTTERS,, Stanley Malvern BA, b. 1871, Carlisle, Cumberland, (Cumbria), England d. 1951, Blyth Registration District, Suffolk, England (Age 80 years) Marriage Jul 1900 Alford, Lincolnshire, England Children 1. BUTTERS, Hilda Annie, b. 1903, Bournemouth, Hampshire, England d. 1966, North Walsham Registration District, Norfolk (Age 63 years) [Father: natural] [Mother: natural]2. BUTTERS, Gordon, b. 1905, Forest Hill, Lewisham, London, England d. 1967, Lincoln Registration District, Lincolnshire (Age 62 years) [Father: natural] [Mother: natural]3. BUTTERS, Enid Mary, b. 26 Jul 1908, Banbury, Oxfordshire, England d. 1973, Norwich Outer Registration District, Norfolk (Age 64 years) [Father: natural] [Mother: natural]4. BUTTERS, Gweneth Nora, b. 1912, Swansea Registration District, Glamorgan, Wales d. Aft 1912 (Age > 1 years) [Father: natural] [Mother: natural]5. BUTTERS, Harriet Margery, b. 1914, Swansea Registration District, Glamorgan, Wales d. Yes, date unknownFamily ID F785 Group Sheet | Family Chart Last Modified 27 Jan 2026
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MARY ELLEN HINCHCLIFF 1875-1939
According to the 1880 Census of the USA, Mary E. HINCHCLIFF was born in England in 1875 (e-mail from pwood@pac.com.au 6.2.2003).
(GRO March 1875 Sheffield 9c 434)
The 1880 U.S. Federal Census lists the following in Cook County, Chicago:
David HINCHCLIFF, aged 43, labourer;
Alice HINCHCLIFF, aged 37, wife, keeping house, ill with chills and fever;
David HINCHCLIFF, aged 9, son, at school;
Alfred HINCHCLIFF, aged 8, son, at school;
*Mary E. HINCHCLIFF, aged 5, daughter;
John HINCHCLIFF, aged 3, son, born Illinois.
(www.ancestry.com)
Her Aunt Harriet and her companion, a Miss SCHOFIELD, went to Aberdeen, South Dakota, in the summer of 1890 and returned to England on the City of New York, Inman Line, which sailed from the USA on Wednesday 17 September 1890. She brought two of her sister Alice's children back to live with her, Mamie and David HINCHCLIFF.
Mary Ellen HINCHCLIFF married Stanley Malvern BUTTERS in 1900.
(GRO September Q 1900 Spilsby 7a 1263)
The 1901 census of Murtlewood, Landseer Road, Bournemouth, England:
Stanley M. BUTTERS, head, aged 29, Wesleyan Minister, born at Carlisle, Cumberland;
*Mary E. BUTTERS, wife, aged 26, born at Sheffield;
Clara A. RICHARDSON, servant, aged 17, domestic servant, born in London.
(RG13/1039/65/9)
The 1911 census of Trinity House, Conduct Road, Abingdon, Berkshire:
Stanley Malvern BUTTERS, head, 39 Wesleyan Minister, born at Carlisle;
*Mary Ellen BUTTERS, wife, aged 36, married 10 years, born in Sheffield;
Hilda Annie BUTTERS, daughter, aged 7, born at Bournemouth;
Gordon BUTTERS, son, aged 5, born in Forst Hill S. E.;
Enid Mary BUTTERS, daughter, aged 2, born in Banbury;
Harriet Doris RIGGALL, visitor, single, aged 17, born at Budleigh Salterton;
Dorothy Mariel JAMES, servant, single, aged 19, nursery governess, born at Wellingborough;
Beatrice MASON, servant, single, aged 23, cook general domestic, born at Wantage;
Winiferd (sic) Ethel HOWE, servant, single, aged 17, nurse housemaid domestic, born at Taunton;
Robert Marmaduke RIGGALL, visitor, single, aged 29, surgeon, Royal Navy, born in the City of London.
(RG14PN6460 RG78PN318 RD117 SD2 ED24 SN113)
The death of Mary E. BUTTERS was registered in 1939.
(GRO June 1939 Blyth 41 1162)
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