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Mary was born on 8th
December 1825, the second daughter of George and Elizabeth Pickard. The
earliest record for Mary is the
1841 census
which records her in the township of Blacktoft where she was employed as
an agricultural labourer aged 14.
Mary Pickard next appears
in the 1851 census aged 24 in Old Goole where on 30th March she is now employed as a
general servant. Old Goole is an area of farmland to he south of Goole
town which, according to the census enumerators report, incorporates the
village of Old Goole, the fields, the bank and the moors. Mary appears on
page 8 of the census whilst her future husband Joseph Waterworth is
recorded on page 9. As the couple were living and working very close to
one another it can be assumed that this where they met.
Mary and Joseph were
married in Howden in 1852. Shortly afterwards they moved to Bubwith and
their first child Elizabeth was born in 1854 The
census of Sunday 7th
April 1861 lists them at 83 Main Street with four children all of whom were
born in Bubwith. Mary's elder sister
Elizabeth is
also living on Main Street (number 73) in
1861 with husband William Fowler.
Ten years later the
family have moved to York, where Joseph is employed as groom and gardener
and living at Belle Vue Lodge, part of The Retreat Estate on Heslington
Road. The couple have four further children, two of which were
employed but still living with their parents. Mary's widowed Mother
Elizabeth Pickard is also living with them aged 68.
The Family remained at
Belle Vue Lodge as shown on the
1881 and
1891 census records.
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