Shep's Place Family Tree

31st March 1879. Phillip Saunders 28 years Bachelor Gardener ‎(Res. at time of Marriage)‎ 1 Thornhill St., Hulme William Saunders Gardener.
Adeleve Jane Walker 27 years Spinster no occupation 1 Thornhill Street, Hulme, William Walker, Collier.
Witnessed by William Walker and Mary Ann Walker.

I cannot yet find Philip in the 1861 and 1871 English census reports.

We find Philip and his wife Adeleve Jane Walker Saunders in Chorlton cum Hardy in the 1881 census. They live at 28 Ramsay Terrace. Phillip's work is gardener, his lifetime occupation.

In the 1891 English census Philip Saunders, 40 years, and Adele ve lived in Stretford, Lancashire where they had a young daughter at home. Agnes Muriel was seven years old.

Boarding with the family was 25-year Fanny McDonald, who worked as a confectioners' assistant. Fanny was from Manchester.

Some of the other occupations on their street were office boy, fish salesman wholesale, general servant and clerk in newspaper office. The other names mentioned were Moss and Metcalfe.

Ten years later the Saunders family lived in Cheshire at Ashton upon Mersey. Their address was 165 Elm Grove. At that time Philip 50 years worked as a domestic gardener. Adeleve 49 looked after her husband, daughter Muriel 17 and a boarder Thomas Southerst 61, an estate agent and collector from Manchester. On the day of the census they also had a visitor, Eliza Knighton, 65 and single, from Alfreton.

Some of the occupations of the Saunders' neighbours were unbrella maker and replacer, coachman-domestic, occasional charwoman, butcher, cattleman on farm, and ventilating and heating engineer. The names were Westerman, Lawson, Ellison, Hampson, Dodd, Henson and Button.