Mary
Adamthwaite |
Mary had
two sisters, Fanny (born 1849) and Lucy (born 1852), both born in
Salford. She also had three brothers, William Lupton - known as
Lupton (born 1856), John (born 1858) and Charles Edmund (born
1860). Around 1854, the family moved to Oak Hill, Tean, Checkley in
the county of Stafford where the three brothers were born. To her
family, Mary’s pet name was Poll and her brother Charles always
called her by that name.
Her
father, John, was born in 1810 in Salford and was part owner of
Lupton & Adamthwaites Brewery founded by his father John, and
William Lupton. John Senior was born in Ravenstonedale in 1780,
the illegitimate son of Elizabeth Adamthwaite. Before founding the
brewery he and William Lupton ran a coal merchants business in
Salford. In 1807, he married Mary Garlick and apart from John, they
had 5 other children - Edmund, Elizabeth, Thomas, William and
Martha. In 1844, John died and the brewery was taken over by his
son John.
John (the
son) married Maria Jane Worrall in 1845 and Mary was born in 1847.
In 1845 John played first class cricket for England and he also
played for the Manchester team. He was later a J.P. for the county
of Staffordshire.
The
family were well off and all the girls were sent to finishing school
in Paris. Mary was in Paris during the Siege of Paris in 1870/71.
My mother used to tell us – when we wouldn’t eat our dinner – that
when Granny Shore was in Paris during the Siege, there was nothing
to eat, so they had to eat rats. I have read that during the Siege,
the Parisians considered rats quite a delicacy because they only ate
cheese and grain and therefore were quite expensive to buy! When
all other kinds of meat ran out, the zoo animals were killed for
meat – except the lions and tigers which escaped because they were
too ferocious to approach.
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