AITKEN to WHAITE - Person Sheet
NameHenry Ponsonby SPARKS
Birth PlaceWhitehaven, Cumbria, England
OccupationJoiners machine Hand (1881), Grain Elevator Attendant (1891), General Labourer (1901), Warehouseman
Spouses
Birth PlacePatrington, Yorkshire, England
MemoLocation varied census to census but all in Yorkshire. In 1861, 1881 & 1891 was Partington Haven, In 1901 was Hull and 1911 was Bradford.
Alias/AKALeillah Wilfredah ABLITT (@ birth), Leillah W ABLET (1861)
Marr PlaceBootle, Lancashire, England
Marr MemoAt the Bootle Chapel, St. Mary in parish Walton-on-the-Hill Henry Sparks, minor and mariner whose father was Isaac Sparks, miner married, after Banns, Lilian Harvey, minor & widow, whose father was William Ablett, a fisherman. Witnesses were Hannah Hughes and Margaret AnnPrice.
Lilian was nearly 19 years old when she married Henry, yet she was a widow with her a surname of Harvey from her first marriage. This would mean she married her first husband between 1863 and 1867 but no such marriage has been found.