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Family
Marriage: Children:
  1. Maria Whiteley: Birth: 1856 in Church Lane, Cardington, PA. Death: BEF 1860

  2. Joseph E Whiteley: Birth: 1858 in Church Lane, Cardington, PA. Death: 16 FEB 1931

  3. Mary Anna Whiteley: Birth: 8 JAN 1860 in Church Lane, Cardington, PA. Death: 4 APR 1937 in Arlington Cemetery, Drexel Hill, PA, Sunnyside section

  4. Ada Anne Whiteley: Birth: 3 NOV 1863 in Church Lane, Cardington, PA. Death: 3 SEP 1910

  5. Henry Whiteley: Birth: 1865 in Church Lane, Cardington, PA. Death: 28 JAN 1923 in Arlington Cemetery, DH, PA, Melrose section

  6. Mariah Whiteley: Birth: 1868. Death: 1873


Notes
a. Note:   orkshire. Listed in the Austonley census of 1841 and 1851 as living at Greenowlers. On September 2, 1854 Henry married Hannah Dearnley and emigrated to America, the following year settling in Cardington, a suburb of Philadelphia. Henry and Hannah had five children, all were born in the US at Church Lane in Cardington, PA and baptized at St James Church in Kingsessing.
  In 1865, Henry joined three of his brothers, Joseph, John, and Hugh in the Whiteley Brothers Company partnership, which manufactured cotton and woolen goods. The company owned a mill on Cobbs Creek in Upper Darby, PA. The company had operated previously as a partnership of Joseph, John, and Joshua Whiteley, and John Ashworth which was dissolved on January 4, 1865 when the new partnership was formed. The new partnership was dissolved in 1873. The mill operated until 1881, when it was sold to Wolfenden, Shore and Co. Henry died in 1899 and was interred in the cemetery of St James in Kingsessing, PA. Hannah died in 1907.
  He was a 33rd Degree Mason
  1899 Death Registration, page 195:
 Henry Whiteley
 66 yr b. England
 Died March 28, 1899 buried March 31, 1899
 Cause: heart disease
 Residence: 6055 Callowhill, Ward 34
 Physician: J. E. Tally/Talley
 St. James Cemetery, Kingsessing, Pennsylvania, Deed 4, Lot B
  <i>Birth: 
 </i>Henry Whiteley was born on 7 May 1832 at Greenowlers, Yorkshire,
 AKA Green Alders. Owler is a dialect pronunciation of alder. 
 This was one of the buildings compulsorily acquired when the nearby reservoir was built and the surrounding area cleared of population. I remember it as a ruinous abandoned building but its now demolished. 
 I'm told it was one of the houses that my grandfather (& Dearnley descendant grandmother) considered moving to when he retired in 1930. 
 <i>- Ian Goddard.
 </i>
Note:   Christened May 26, 1833, Chapelry of Holmfirth, parish of Almondbury, Y


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