Shep's Place Family Tree

John Henry Bell 24 years bachelor Coal Merchant's Manager Residence 26 New Street, Altringham ‎(Father)‎ John Henry Bell, a Coal Merchant.
Agnes Muriel Saunders 26 years, Spinster, Pianoforte Teacher, 14 Dorset St., Stretford. ‎(Father)‎ Philip Saunders, a Gardener.

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 in 1901 the Saunders family lived in Cheshire at Ashton upon Mersey where their address was 165 Elm Grove. At that time Philip 50 years worked as a domestic gardner. 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.

In 1909 Muriel married Jack Bell, and they had a daughter Win in 1912.