BOAT FAMILIES

of the Leeds and Liverpool Canal and connected waterways

1858 - 1937 (79 years)

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Father	Thomas Quinn, d. Abt Nov 1857, Liverpool
Mother	Jane Eliza, b. 1832, Ireland
Family ID	F10222	Group Sheet \| Family Chart

Family 2 Samuel Fairhurst, b. 21 Jan 1858, Witton cum Twambrooks , d. 19 May 1927, Birkenhead (Age 69 years)

Married 6 Mar 1882 St Paul, Liverpool [2]

Children

1. Florrie Fairhurst, b. 1887, Liverpool

Last Modified 21 Apr 2024

Family ID F10221 Group Sheet | Family Chart

Notes

Josephine is in the 1861 census in Liverpool with her widowed mother Jane Eliza Quinn, and in 1871 as "grand-daughter" (?stepdaughter) of Jane Eliza's deceased subsequent husband (unknown) Palmer.
Marriage records show that Josephine married Feles Natural in 1877, then (as Josephine Quin, spinster) Samuel Fairhurst in 1882. No record of Feles has been found other than the marriage, and in the 1881 census Samuel Fairhurst is recorded with a wife Susan, 22, b Liverpool: this must be Josephine, who appears as Susan in all subsequent censuses, but Josephine in her Memorial Inscription and "Josephine otherwise Susan" in her probate record. It is possible that her first husband died, but why then would she not have been recorded as a widow in her second marriage. It seems more likely that Feles, a sailor, abandoned her and that she married Samuel bigamously, using the name Susan in the censuses to disguise her past.