Chapter 10: Daniel Eggleton (b. c1819 d.1888)
Daniel’s mother died when he was only 16 months old. He was therefore probably raised by a female relative, possibly in Winchcombe, for the first mention we have of him in his own right is in 1841, when he was an apprentice shoe-maker in the town. He worked for Charles Austin, living with his master in the home of John Robinson in Bull lane, a narrow side street off one of the main roads through the town. He married a local girl, Leannah Rowland (Chapter 11), in the parish church, where their first child, Benjamin (Chapter 12), was baptised four years later. This gap between marriage and the baptism of Benjamin indicates that an earlier child may have died at, or very soon after, birth.

At sometime between Benjamin's birth in 1845 and Mathew's (Chapter 18) in 1845 or 1846 the young family moved to Cheltenham. This movement from village to small town, to larger town was typical of social upheavals of the time. Agricultural labourers had to leave the land following the mechanisation of agriculture during the agricultural revolution, which pre-dated its industrial counterpart. Two more sons were born to Daniel and Leannah in Cheltenham.

The family first lived at 33 Queen Street. Cottage. Five years later they were in Queens Cottage, with boot and shoemaker Daniel’s own apprentice Thomas Daniel, living-in. Properties at this time were usually rented, so families frequently changed addresses as they grew. By 1858 the family had moved back to Queen Street, this time to number 38.

Daniel died in 1888, five years after Leannah. Of their eight children, only three, Benjamin (Chapter 12), Matthew (Chapter 18) and William (Chapter 21), are known to have survived in to adulthood. Following Leannah’s death, Daniel re-married, possible to Caroline Parrott, who was 27 years his junior. If Caroline has been identified correctly, she only outlived Daniel by five years.


. . . Daniel EGGLETON b.1819 d.1888 m.#1 Leannah (aka Ann) ROWLAND (Chapter 11) #2 ?Caroline PARROTT
. . . . .#1 John EGGLETON b.1842 d.1849
. . . . .#1 Benjamin EGGLETON b.1845 d 1908 (Chapter 12)
. . . . .#1 Matthew EGGLETON b.1846 d.1908 (Chapter 18)
. . . . .#1 John EGGLETON b.1847 d.1849
. . . . .#1 Elizabeth EGGLETON b.1849 d.1850
. . . . .#1 Raymond EGGLETON b.1852 d.>1861
. . . . .#1 Rhoda EGGLETON b.1857 d.<1861
. . . . .#1 William EGGLETON b. 1860 d.1935 (Chapter 21)

 

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