charles albert mallandaine + may bradshaw
Charles was the youngest son of Isaac Mallandaine and Caroline Keane. He was born on 15 October 1880 at the family home on Bigland Street in Salford and baptised at St Bartholomew on 2 January 1881. His father died when he was just four years old and when he was twelve, his mother remarried to ex-army musician James Holden.
On 22 January 1900, Albert enlisted in the Lancashire Fusiliers at Bury in response to the Second Boer War in South Africa. He was posted to South Africa from 16 March until his return home on 23 May 1901 and he received the South Africa Medal with clasps for service in the Cape Colony, the Orange Free State and Transvaal. His attestation papers record that he was 5’4” tall, 121 lbs with dark brown hair and brown eyes.
Albert married May Bradshaw at the Salford Registry Office in 1907. May was born on 4 August 1880 in Crewe, Cheshire to John Bradshaw and Elizabeth Davies. May was pregnant with their first child when they married and on 8 August 1907, she gave birth to Charles William, known as Bill, at 25 Lord Byron Street in Weaste. By the time Bill was baptised at the Stowell Memorial Church on 16 October, the family had moved to 3 Tram Street in Seedley. At some point in the next few years, they left Salford and moved to Cheshire, settling in Sale where daughter Stella was born on 1 January 1910.
Charles appears in the Slater’s Directory from 1911 as a householder at 41 Dudley Road in Sale but by February, they were back in Salford where Albert was born at 273 West Park Street on 26 February. He was baptised at St Clement on 11 October. They were still there, and renting four rooms, when the census was taken on 1 April and Charles was working as a Dock Labourer.
Daughter Alice was born on 8 March 1913 and baptised on 16 April at the Stowell Memorial Church.
In the fall of 1934, they celebrated two weddings when both of their daughters married. Stella married James Clemans and they went on to have three children. He was born at 13 Ridsdale Street in the Charlestown area of Salford on 8 October 1912 to Ernest Clemans and Mary Roberts. Stella and James were living in James’ childhood home at 13 Ridsdale Street in 1939; he was working as a Dairyman, pasteurising and sterilising milk, while Stella worked as a Chair Material Weaver. Her son, Ernest Albert, was just four years old so she was likely working from home. The following year daughter Stella was born and seven years later they had a second daughter. James died in Salford in 1975 and Stella in 1989.
Alice married Joseph Maycox and they had one son. Joseph was born in Salford on 3 April 1913 to Thomas Maycox and Betsey Swindells. In 1939, they were living with the Holden family at 15 Venwood Road in Prestwich and at the time, Joseph was working as a Brass Fitter while Alice was working as a Gibbin Machinist making boots. The entry also notes that she was working for the government and she may have been making army boots for the war effort. Their son married his first cousin, Stella Clemans, in 1959 and they had three children. Alice and Joseph later divorced and she married a second time, to Francis Walker, in Salford in 1952. Alice died in Salford in 1987 and her first husband Joseph in Bolton in 1996.
On 29 June 1935, their eldest son Bill married Edith Ellerby at St Ambrose in Pendleton but they did not have any children. Edith, known as Edie, was born in Manchester on 7 February 1911 to Henry Ellerby and his wife Mary Jean Milne. Four years after their wedding, Bill and Edie were living at 6 Royle Street in Salford where Bill worked as a Cloth Porter and Edie as an Oilskin Boot Machinist. During the Second World War, Bill served in the Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve on full-time service from 2 May 1941 to 28 October 1945 as an Armourer/Assistant. His discharge book notes: ‘this airman is a diligent and hard worker of good character.’ Bill died of a heart attack at their home on 41 Kingsley Avenue in Salford on 30 July 1980 and Edie on 29 July 1991.
In 1939, Charles and May were still living on West Park Street and Charles was working as a Dock Labourer and May as an Office Cleaner. Their 29 year old son Albert was also living with them and working as a Timber Carrier.
Charles died in Salford in 1957 and his wife May died twenty years later. Their son Albert never married and died in Salford in 1978.