Lambert Cousins of Alice Wheaver

Chapter 57.9

Jesse and Sarah Lambert had ten children. Their children are Alice’s first cousins.

50.1.1 Benjamin Lambert (1832-1907 m Mary Ann Davies (1837-1891)

• Sarah Jane Lambert
  • b 1857, Wellington, Shropshire, England
  • d 1862, Auckland, Durham, England
• Rebecca Lambert
  • b 1860, Dawley, Telford, Shropshire, England
  • d 1877, Stockton, Durham, England

50.1.2 Joseph Lambert (1834-1914) m Elizabeth Fleigle (1839-1917)

• • Thomas Bore Lambert
    • b 1855, Dawley Parva, Shropshire, England
    • Perhaps named after the Severn Bore, the phenomenon which occurs “when the rising tide moves into the funnel-shaped Bristol Channel and Severn Estuary and the surging water forces its way upstream in a series of waves, as far as Gloucester and beyond.”
    • 1861 at home in Great Dawley
    • 1871 at home in Little Dawley
    • 1881, at home in Horsehay. Iron Puddler Forgeman
    • 1891 had moved with parents to Wolstanton. Forgeman/smith. (His father was a superintendent)
    • m 1891, Wolstanton, Newcastle under Lyme, Staffordshire, England
    • to Mary Humphreys (1868-1911)

      • William Ernest Lambert (1892–1962)

      • Arthur James Lambert (1895–1980)

      • Joseph Weldon Lambert (1896–1967)

      • Esther Emily Lambert (1898–1898)

      • Jessie Lambert (1898–1966)

      • Francis Thomas Lambert (1900–1900)

      • Herbert Edward Lambert (1902–1973)

      • Thomas Norman Lambert (1903–1973)

      • Harry Lambert (1903–1903)

      • Martha Evelyn Lambert (1904–1905)

      • Alexander Lambert (1907–1977)

    • 1901, Wolstanton with wife and children. Now an engine driver (stationary)
    • 1911 Widowed. Living with 7 children (4-18) in Smallthorne, Leek, Staffordshire. Iron worker.
    • 1939, Retired. Living with his son Arthur & wife in a cottage outside Stoke.
    • d 1947, Stoke on Trent, Staffordshire, England
  • Margaret Catharine Lambert
    • b 1860, Dawley, Shropshire, England
    • 1861/1871/1881: at home in Dawley, then Horsehay
    • m 1883, Malinslee, Shropshire, England
    • to Enoch Thompson (1857-1890)
      • Elise Hannah Thompson (1886-1900)
    • 1891, widowed at 31; living with daughter in Dawley. Dressmaker.
    • 1891, believed to have remarried, Madeley, Shropshire, England
    • to Edward Manning
    • Not found in 1939
    • Candidate death record (if not remarried) 1943, Oswestry, Shropshire, England
• • (Herbert) Edward Lambert
    • b 1863, Dawley, Shropshire, England
    • 1871, at home in Dawley
    • 1881, at home in Horsehay. Locomotive stoker.
    • 1891/1901/1911, Wolstanton with wife & children. Stationary engine driver, specifically at sanitary works in 1911. I thought this meant that Strongford Sewage Works at Barlaston (and pictured Abbey Pumping Station as contemporary), but Twyford’s sanitaryware was less than 3 miles away.
    • d 1938, Wolstanton, Newcastle Under Lyme, Staffordshire, England

• • • • Such has been the wiping away of the industrial heritage that the City Council ‘believes’ that the rolling mill of the adjoining Etruria Steel Works was developed in the 1960s. (Draft Supplementary Planning Document, Etruria Valley Enterprise Area, 2012)
      • Children:
        • Joseph Edward Lambert (1885)
        • Maria Jane Lambert (1888)
        • Lawrence Harry Lambert (1889)
        • Roland Jesse Lambert (1893)
        • Herbert John Lambert (1895)
        • Clement Edgar Lambert (1898)
        • Doris May Lambert (1901)
        • Florence Edith Lambert (1902)
        • Lucy Evelyn Lambert (1902)
    • (Joseph) Rowland Lambert (1866-1953)
  • • • 1891: At home in Wolstanton. Artist on china and landscape painter.
  • • • 1901: At home in Shelton, Hanley. Now a house painter.
  • • • 1911: At home in Etruria Vale, Hanley. His father has given up the hazardous profession of iron puddling and is now also a house painter. Roland (sic) now also paints signs.

• • • Laura Jane Lambert (1870-1904)
      • 1891: At home in Wolstanton. School teacher.
      • Married Richard Lewis Mainwaring (1872-1954) in Stoke in 1898
      • He was a furniture salesman, and they lived at 44 Gordon Street, Stoke-upon-Trent [one of the six towns which made up the City of Stoke-on-Trent]. However, it’s now considered Tunstall, and is closer to Burslem…
      • No known children

• • • • Arthur Edward Lambert (1872)
        • • 1891: At home in Wolstanton. Forge engine man (19); 1901 At home at 41 Cavendish Street. Stationary engine driver.
        • • Married Annie Belinda Woolley (1862-1938) in Hope [Hanley], Stoke in 1908
        • • He was a stationary engine driver at the iron and steel works, and they lived at 2A Bath Street, Hanley [now Garth Street], which is a mile away from Shelton Bar, a subsidiary part of which became the rolling mill next to the sewage plant. This opened in 1964 as the world’s first continuous cast production mill, and closed in 2000.

• • • • • • The main site, where Arthur – and his father, and his son probably worked – began around 1830; by 1873 there were 93 puddling furnaces, 7 mills and 8 blast furnaces with extensive iron mines and collieries. The works was closed in 1978, after which the site was reclaimed for the 1986 National Garden Festival. 

• • • • • • Children:
            • • Arthur Edmund Lambert (1907)

        • • 1939: 24 Clyde Street, [Hanley] Stoke. Engine tester. Half a mile from what is now the Industrial Museum.

    • • Sarah Elizabeth Lambert (1874-1900)
        • • 1891: At home in Wolstanton. Dressmaker.
        • • Married Jesse John Lowndes (1874-1945) at St Mark, Shelton in 1897. This was the largest church in Stoke, financed by the Church Commissioners, and designed for a congregation of 2100.
        • • Children:
            • • Edward Lowndes (1898)

        • • 1939: Cottage 2, Hanley Road, Stoke. He was a wheelwright.

• • 50.1.3 – Sarah Lambert (1837-1903)
    • • No known children

• • 50.1.4 – Elizabeth Lambert (1838)
    • • No known 

• • 50.1.5 – Daniel Lambert (1841-1927)
    • • See Chapter 50

• • 50.1.6 – Jane Lambert (1843-1931) m Joshua Biggs (1849-1927) in Madeley (now in Telford) in 1876.
    • • Lilian Lambert Biggs (1879)
        • • 1911: At home in Aylsham, where her father is a Primitive Methodist minister. She is a music teacher.
        • • 1939: Aintree Cottage, Low Street, Sloley nr Norwich. A detached cottage on a village lane. Living with a slightly older Agnes Biggs, semi-retired music teachers?

• • 50.1.7 – Jesse Lambert (1846-1917) m Julia Ann Hodnett (1847-1908) in Liverpool in 1867
    • • William John Baker Lambert (1870)
        • • Born in Tranmere, Birkenhead
        • • 1891: Boarder at Herschel Terrace, [Beck Side, Kirkby-in-Furness] Kirkby Ireleth nr Ulverston, Lancashire [now Cumbria]. Clerk in seed trade.
        • • Married Beatrice Pratten (1877-1958)
        • • He was a manufacturer’s clerk, and they lived at 43 Malmesbury Road, Deritend, a street away from Small Heath Park. 
        • • Children:
            • • Eunice Lambert (1900)
            • • Irene May Lambert (1904)

        • • 1939: 607 Bristol Road South, [Northfield] Birmingham. Retired clerk for an electrical supplier. 
        • • This is less than a mile from the Grade II* listed Black Horse pub, built in 1929 by Francis Goldsbrough of Bateman and Bateman for Davenport’s. “The grandest of the post first world war “reformed pubs” built on a vast scale in a picturesque highly successful Vernacular Revival combining Midlands half timbering and Cotswold stone, giving the impression, in its loose planning, of a gradual evolution from late medieval to Jacobean. The quality of detailing and materials embodies the best of the Birmingham Arts and Crafts tradition.” Listing
        • • Died in Blackpool. My photos of Blackpool are here.

    • • Percy Lambert (1871-1939)
        • • 1891: Boarding at 25 Aston Road North, Aston Manor. Chemist’s assistant.
        • • Married Bessie Christina Carter (1875-1971) in Christchurch in 1897
        • • He was a mineral water maker, and they lived at 33 Malmesbury Park Road, Christchurch [Springbourne, Bournemouth] 
        • • This was in 1901. Work started on the town’s sewerage system in the following year. Prior to this date, the drinking water was often contaminated spreading smallpox, cholera and other diseases. Beer became the most popular drink and brewing became big business. Christchurch had 6 breweries, 16 inns and 26 alehouses when the local population was less than four thousand. In the late C19, Boscombe was discovered to have springs with similar properties to Harrogate spa.
            • • Stanley Ashley Lambert (1898)
            • • Eric Percy Lambert (1902)

        • • 1911: The Cottage, Wick, Southbourne, Christchurch. Mineral water maker.
        • • I’ve found some pictures of Lambert Ginger Beer bottles online – I can’t be sure that there’s a link but it seems likely, and worth exploring further. There is a snippet on the Dorset Antique Bottles Facebook page that “Lambert took over from Laney’s around 1907. Then Lambert was taken over by Saul & Pettey in 1908”. And an address of 13 Cotlands Road (now redeveloped).

• • • • Ada Lambert (1877)
        • • 1901: At home in Kings Norton. Telephone operator; keeping house at Hazelwell in 1911. No later record found.

    • • Florence Lambert (1880)
        • • 1901: At home in Kings Norton. Telephone operator; a supervisor for the National Telephone Co in 1911.
        • • NTC (Bell-Edison) was taken over by the General Post Office in the following year.

• • • • Stanley Lambert (1881-1945)
        • • 1901: At home in Kings Norton. Telephone inspector.
        • • Married Lilian Ethel Bottom (1883-1960) in 1909 in Aston
        • • He was an electrician for the National Telephone Company, and they lived in 227 Beaumont Road, Bournville. Tesco was refused an alcohol license in 2019 because Bournville was set up on Quaker principles in the 1890s. Bournville was built by the Cadbury family and the (multinational subsidiary of Mondelez International) company website has a history of the area.
        • • In 1939, he describes himself as a ‘civil service engineer’ for the Post Office, and they live at 62 Featherstone Road.
        • • Children:
            • • Norman Stanley Lambert (1915)
            • • Joan Lilian Lambert (1920)

• • • • Jesse Lambert (1884-1903)
        • • 1891: His parents had moved to Church Stretton but Jesse, aged 6, was left in West Derby with his uncle John, labourer.
        • • 1901: Still with John and Eliza. Assistant pawnbroker.
        • • He died two years later, at age 18.

    • • Beatrice Lilian Lambert (1886)
        • • 1911: At home in Kings Norton. Telephone operator for cocoa manufacturer.
        • • Married Robert Roberts (1884) in Kings Norton 1916
        • • He was a farm merchant. Prior to the wedding, he was living at Grange Farm, Kings Norton. There is now a Grange Farm Drive in West Heath.
        • • No known children

• • • • Leonard Lambert (1888-1975)
        • • 1911: At home in Kings Norton. Moulder for cocoa manufacturer.
        • • Married Margaret Gardner (1892) in Kings Norton in 1911
        • • Royal Naval Volunteer Service in WWI
        • • 1939: 235 Fordhouse Lane, [Stirchley] Birmingham. He is chocolate flavour. There is probably another word after that, lost in the scan… This will mean that he worked for Cadbury, which was a mile from the house. I note that his next door neighbour was a packer for Cadbury.

Cadbury expanded its product range with Flake (1920), Creme eggs (1923), Fruit and Nut (1928), and Crunchie (1929, originally under the Fry’s label). By 1930, Cadbury was the 24th-largest British manufacturing company as measured by estimated market value of capital. Dairy Milk Whole Nut arrived in 1933, and tins of Roses were introduced in 1938. Roses has become a very popular Christmas (and Mother’s Day) gift. Chocolate ceased to be a luxury product and became affordable to the working classes for the first time. By the mid-1930s, Cadbury estimated that 90 percent of the British population could afford to buy chocolate. By 1936, Dairy Milk accounted for 60 percent of the UK milk chocolate market. See also our blog post.

• • 50.1.8 – John Lambert (1848-1925) m Eliza Maiden (1848) in Little Dawley in 1872
    • • No known children

• • 50.1.9 – Mary Ann Lambert (1850)
    • • No known children

• • 50.1.10 – Hannah Lambert (1852) m Jabez Stead Wilson (1836-1923) in Birmingham in 1893
    • • No known children

More information on these families in Chapter 61.2.