Matilda South

b. 1808

Born 1808, England

Children include Martha

Matilda South married Benjamin Holmes on 15 August 1826 in the parish church of Saint Peter and Saint Paul at Sheffield, now Sheffield Cathedral. She was of Sheffield parish and a spinster. Joseph Corker and Joseph Hudson witnessed it.

She was about eighteen. The 1850 census gives her age as forty two, which puts her birth about 1808. South was a common Sheffield name, and the same church baptised Souths in almost every year of her childhood. Where she herself was baptised is not known.

Her son Alfred was born in England about 1831. By June 1835 she was in Pennsylvania, where her daughter Sarah was born, and by about 1836 in Ohio. Martha was born at Cincinnati in 1838, and four more children followed there: Benjamin, William, Matilda and George, the last about 1849. In 1850 she was keeping a house of nine in Ward Ten, with an English couple and their baby lodging under the same roof.

Ohio's death certificates had a printed line for the mother's maiden name, and that line is why her surname survives. Two of her daughters' certificates fill it the same way. Martha Hille's, filed at Cincinnati in February 1914, reads Matilda South, England. Sarah Mahl's, filed there after her death on 31 December 1915, reads Matilda South, England. The Sheffield marriage of 1826 joins the two names a third time.

Her death is not known.

Children

Martha Holmes 1838-1914

Sources

Ohio, Bureau of Vital Statistics, Certificate of Death, file no. 9049, registered no. 1005, Hamilton County, Cincinnati, Martha Hille, died 15 February 1914, filed 18 February 1914 · United States Census, 1880, Cincinnati, Hamilton County, Ohio

United States Census 1850, Cincinnati ward 10, Hamilton County, Ohio, house 1092, household 2575, schedule 1 population, NARA microfilm M432. FamilySearch 1:1:MXQC-XFW.

Sheffield, St Peter and St Paul, marriages 1826, page 209 (Sheffield Archives PR 138/3/22; FamilySearch 1:1:665V-RXX3; FreeREG); US census 1850, Cincinnati ward 10, house 1092; Ohio certificates of death for Martha Hille, 18 February 1914, and Sarah Mahl, 31 December 1915 (FamilySearch 1:1:X8FJ-K9Y); US census 1880, Cincinnati

Sheffield, St Peter and St Paul (now the Cathedral), register of marriages, page 209, 15 August 1826, Sheffield Archives PR 138/3/22; England, Yorkshire, Parish Registers, 1538-2016, FamilySearch 1:1:665V-RXX3; FreeREG transcription by John Hissett, Sheffield Archives

State of Ohio, certificate of death, Cincinnati, Hamilton County, 31 December 1915, state file number 66954; Ohio, Deaths, 1908-1953, FamilySearch 1:1:X8FJ-K9Y, image 3:1:33S7-9PKP-TZ1

Sheffield, St Peter and St Paul, register of burials, 1 December 1830 (image 47, line 1168) and 25 December 1832 (image 33, line 641), Sheffield Archives; FreeREG transcription by John Hissett

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Cite: Heirology, "Matilda South (b. 1808)", https://heirology.com/ancestors/matilda-south-1808-f833f2.