Frederick William Alletson’s connection with Fulwood was through his mother. She was Annie Marsden who was born and grew up on one of the farms on Crimicar Lane. By 1901, her parents had moved to a farm at Bakewell and Annie was living with her aunt in Walkley.
Frederick William’s father was Fred Alletson who was a native of Worksop. Aged 19 in 1891 (according to the census of that year) Fred was an apprentice wheelwright in the iron works where his father was the manager.
Fred and Annie were married in the Church at Hathersage in August 1894, and Frederick William was born a year later. The new parents took their first child to the Church for baptism in at Brightside in August 1895 when Fred informed the clerk that he was a wheelwright.
By 1901 the family was back in Worksop and living in a five roomed terraced house. Whether through an industrial disease or general ill health, Fred died in 1906 leaving Annie to provide for her son. Frederck William attended Ashley House School which was located on the outskirts of Worksop. Frederick was awarded a form prize in 1910, along with an elementary certificate in Shorthand.
John and Charlotte Marsden’s shop on Valley Road
In 1911 we find Annie working as a cook for the family of Alice Roberts and her adult children in their house on Kenwood Bank. Annie was a live-in servant. Meanwhile, Frederick William was living with Annie’s parents on Valley Road at Meersbrook. Grandfather John had moved off the land and, aged 70, had a grocery shop. Frederick William was a junior clerk in a firm of ‘machinery manufacturers’.
There is no record of Frederick William’s war service apart from his name on the tryptic in Fulwood Church
Frederick William married Rose Smith early in 1927 at Selby. He told the parish clerk that he lived in Fulwood. Although we can’t be certain, it is likely that he was lodging with one of his Marsden relatives at this time. Rose came from a large family of four daughters and two sons born to Alice and Thomas, a brickyard labourer. In 1921 Rose was a house maid in the household of Frederick and Maud Firth on Kenwood Road, not far from the house where Annie Alletson was the cook. So we have a scenario as to how Frederick William and Rose met.
The newlywed couple set up home on Cemetery Road Rose and Frederick’s only child, Dorothy, was born in the summer of 1927 but died when she was just four years old.
The next ‘sighting’ of Frederick William and Rose is in 1939 when they were staying with Mary Nidd in Grantham. Why Frederick William and Rose were there isn’t clear. Mary had married Arthur Nidd in 1930. Sadly, in 1939 Arthur was a resident of the Lawn Hospital in Lincoln – a hospital for people with mental illness – so perhaps Mary was letting out rooms to make ends meet. Frederick William was a clerk with the ministry of labour but where he worked is not recorded; this could be Grantham or it could be Leeds.
The last ‘sighting’ notes Frederick William’s death in Leeds in February 1956. His body was returned to Fulwood where it was buried in the same grave as that of his mother[1] and daughter. A month later probate of his will was given to Rose.
Extract from the Probate Calendar
According to the probate record, he had a third name.
Rose died in 1980 having remained in the house in Leeds where she and Frederick had lived.
- Annie died aged 58 in 1929. Since retiring, Annie had lived with her mother and sister on Redmires Road, near the Three Merry Lads public house ↑