Notes:

Listed as Sarah in 1871 census, Mary Ann again in 1881

Mary married Thomas Rotheram on 27 Aug 1849 in St Martin in the Fields, Liverpool. Thomas (son of John Rotheram and Ann Swift) was born in 1827 in Ormskirk. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Sarah Rotheram was born in 1851 in Wigan.
2. John Rotheram was born in 1853 in Wigan.
3. Ann Rotheram was born in 1856 in Hesketh Bank.
4. Margaret Ellen Rotheram was born in 1859 in Fleetwood.
5. Mary Rotheram was born in 1864 in Morecambe.

Other Events:

• Occupation: Boatman

Notes:

Great-great-grandfather of Robert Cheetham-Houghton, whose book Burscough Boatmen gives his birth year as 1794, but this would have him aged just 16 when he married. Age given as 50 in the 1841 census, and 58 in 1845 death record on Lancs BMD.
Possibly baptised 30.5.1787 St Mary, West Derby, born 24.4.1787 to Henry and Margaret (E&W Christening Index, Ancestry; Lancashire Baptisms, FindMyPast).
Corresponding burial record at Halsall on Lancs OPC (clearly written in the register) is for a John Cheetham, with a note saying: "Age originally written as 48 yrs, then corrected"; there is no other record of a John Cheetham dying then, so this is assumed to be James.

James married Sarah Bramwell on 1 Jul 1810 in St Peter, Liverpool. Sarah was born in 1792 in Halsall; died in 1841 in Halsall; was buried on 9 Jan 1841 in St Cuthbert, Halsall. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Probably b 26.10 1792 Wigan (bapt 25.11.1792/IGI), daughter of boatman John Bramwell and Sarah Scofield for whom there are three other baptisms on Lancs OPC (1795 and 1798 Halsall, and 1800 Aughton). Likely marriage, John Bramwell and Sarah Scawfield, 30.5.1790 St Mary Lancaster (Lancs OPC).