Barbara and Graham's Family Tree
Shacklock Page
Overview of the Shacklock Ancestors
This part of the web site is about grandmother Mary Shacklock and her ancestors.
Her part of the family tree has been split into two diagrams, one is her paternal branch (the Shacklocks) and one is her maternal branch (the Doves).
The Shacklock Branch | The Dove Branch
The Shacklocks and the Doves seem to have lived mainly in Sutton-in-Ashfield and Kirkby-in-Ashfield in Nottinghamshire.
The most common occupation of these two families is Framework
Knitter.
More about framework knitting
There is one unusual Christian name in the Dove family tree. In 1793, John Dove gets married and his wife's name is recorded as Holmwright Betts. In the 1841 census and on her death certificate she is called Olight Betts. I eventually traced her christening to find she was actually called Allnite Betts, I guess this was a reaction to a very long labour.
Below are photos of Mary's parents Fred and Sarah Jane Shacklock. She is said to have had wanderlust and moved houses very frequently - Sutton-in-Ashfield, Beeston, Trusthorpe and Breaston to name a few, finally moving to Mablethorpe in Lincolnshire. The story goes that her husband Fred once came home from work to find an empty house and he had to ask the neighbour where she had moved to. He was a bricklayer and some of the time he worked down the mine as a bricklayer.
Fred did have a jailbird in his family, but it wasn't very serious. In the 1851 census, the address of his maternal grandfather Joseph Wright is shown as the County House of Correction. His moment of fame gave him one line in the Nottingham Guardian, where it says he was convicted of assault, given a one moth jail sentence and fined two pounds costs.
