A Maitland Genealogy - Lister Section
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Issue Date: 23/2/2007.
THE LISTER FAMILY
Ethel, the wife of
Arthur Parkes, grandfather of Antony Maitland, was a Lister from Willenhall.
Some of her family still live in the Willenhall area (2007).
This family is probably typical of many in the Midlands,
originating in the agricultural areas and migrating to the expanding industrial
urban areas. This Lister family descend from Thomas and Ann (Bradley) Lister
who came from Broseley, (Shropshire) to Wolverhampton and then Willenhall
(Staffordshire, England) in the 1830's.
Thomas was a miner, as were his sons. Broseley was the
original centre of the English Industrial Revolution: it was foremost in iron
and steel production, using locally found iron ore and coal. The mines in the
Midlands were developed later: the Listers probably moved to new fields as
expert miners. Thomas & Ann had 10 recorded children, our line descending
from William. Another line descends to Lesters and Hobsons in Idaho and Utah.
Thomas' son, William (b. 1827) married Martha Roper (b
1822), also from Broseley, and had 5 recorded children.
William's son Samuel (1856-1923) married Sarah Palmer
(1856-1938) whose father David, also a migrant from the countryside, was from
Enville in Staffordshire and was in the lock trade in Willenhall; her mother
came from a farming family near Wellington, Shropshire. They had 3 children,
Howard, Gladys and Ethel Ann (my grandmother, the only child to marry). Samuel
became a commission agent and owned a furniture business in Willenhall. Ethel
Lister married Arthur Parkes in 1915.
Includes lines back to mid 17th Century in Shropshire.
Changes:
23/7/2002: small editing.
23/2/2007: edited