Boughey, Mrs Josephus,
Seedley Road, Pendleton, Manchester. A heavily pregnant young wife from Manchester.
Mary Fernie
McMichael was born in Manchester in about 1843, In 1861 she was living with her
widowed mother at 55 Upper Brook Street, Chorlton on Medlock. ( In 1866 two neighbours from Upper Brook
Street signed the petition, Sarah Steinthal an Unitarian Minister’s wife and Mrs
Elizabeth Hope Grundy, whose husband was a professor of Music.) . Mrs McMIchael had two middle aged boarders
(a calico printer and a Drysalter) and a servant . She remarried the next year
and Mary married Josephus Boughey in Cheshire in 1863. Her daughter Mary Fernie Boughey was born on
7th July 1866 , just a few weeks after Mary had signed the Womens’ Suffrage
Petition. In the 1871 census her husband
was a Bolter Down in a forge (A bolter (belter) down was the first man to receive
the hot billet from the furnace he would then shove it into a pair of steel
rolls with his hand tongs .When it went through
the rolls it was made smaller in diameter by stretching, i.e. a hot 3" bar
going into a cold 2/12" square hole stretched it and reduced the diameter.
When it went through the rolls a man at the back(cog backer) would catch it
with his tongs and shove it through a smaller hole in the rolls. Each time the
billet would get smaller in diameter and longer in length until the required
size was reached then the long bar would then be passed to the next set of
rolls until the require size was reached.)
On 24 Sept 1872 the business partnership of
Josephus Boughey in Boughey Burgess and Co was dissolved. In 1879 Josephus Boughey appears in Slaters Directory of Manchester and
Salford on page 42 as a householder at Victoria Terrace 201 West High Street,
Cross Lane Pendleton. In 1881 the couple had moved back to Cheshire and he
was an Agent for Gas Apparatus. When Mary
died in Altricham in 1917 she left £135..9s
1861 census Mary
McMichael Registration District:
Chorlton Sub-registration District:
Chorlton upon Medlock ED, institution,
or vessel: 18 Household Schedule
Number: 30 Piece: 2880 Folio: 6 Page Number: 6
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