sydney mallandaine + mary maria ibbotson
Sydney was born on 6 February 1873 in Sandown on the Isle of Wight, to Isaac Mallandaine and Caroline Keane, and baptised in nearby Yaverland on 27 April. His father was serving in the Army Hospital Corps and the family was posted to Hampshire after returning from the Bahamas. Shortly after Sydney’s birth, his father was transferred to Kent and after he retired from the army in 1876, the family moved to Salford in Lancashire where Sydney lived for the rest of his life.
On 30 July 1892, Sydney married Mary Maria Ibbotson at Stowell Memorial Church in Salford with his step-father James Holden and sister Ellen acting as witnesses. Mary was the daughter of Charles Ibbotson, a Cabinet Maker, and Mary Ellen Sigley; she was born in Manchester in 1871 and baptised at St Matthew on 31 March. When they married, they were both living at 129 Tatton Street and Sydney was working as a Sheet Maker.
They moved to 16 Hartington Street by the time their first son, William, was born on 11 July 1893 and he was baptised at St Bartholomew on 2 August but died shortly after birth. In the summer of 1894, daughter Alice was born and baptised at St Clement in Ordsall on 5 September but she too died shortly after birth. Mary Isobel was born on 21 December 1896 and baptised at St Bartholomew on 14 February 1897. Charles Arthur was born in early 1899 but died before his second birthday.
In 1901, Sydney, his wife and four year old daughter Mary Isobel were still renting four rooms at 16 Hartington Street and he continued to work as an Oil Sheet Maker. Caroline Ellen was born on 26 April 1904 and baptised at St Clement in Ordsall on 2 May followed by Sidney Arthur on 24 June 1907; he was baptised at St Clement on 25 August.
Ten years later, the family was renting 5 rooms at 39 West Worsley Street in Salford and although Sydney was still working as an Oil Sheet Maker, the census form contained the additional information that he was employed by canal carriers. He likely made waterproof tarps for one of the companies that carried freight on canal boats. Sydney and Maria had been married for 18 years and of their six children, three had survived infancy. Mary Isobel worked as a Tailoress while Caroline attended school and 3 year old Sidney stayed at home with his mother.
Harold was born in the fall of 1911 but died several months later. Sydney appeared in Slater’s Manchester, Salford & Suburban Directory in 1911 at 17 Huddart Street as an Oil Sheet Maker but the family later moved to Weaste, west of the Trafford Road and their home in Ordsall.
Sadly, they lost another child when twenty year old Mary Isobel died in Weaste on 24 November 1916. One year later, the family placed a memorial notice in the Manchester Evening News:
In loving memory of Isabel Mallandaine of Weaste who died November 24, 1916.
On 9 June 1928, their daughter Caroline married William Kirkman at St Luke’s Church in Weaste with her father and brother Sidney acting as witnesses. William was born in Prestwich on 7 June 1898 to Thomas Kirkman, a Joiner, and Elizabeth Ann Jopson. When he married, he was working as an Electrical Engineer and living at 21 Alder Forest in Worsley, north west of the city of Salford while Caroline was living at 1 Smyrna Street in Weaste. In 1939, they were living at 1 Catherine Street in Swinton with their only daughter and William was working as an Electrician. Caroline was living at 15 Beech Lane in Guildford, Surrey when she died on 20 March 1988. William Kirkman died two years later in Whitehaven in Cumbria.
Son Sidney married Jean Hannah Stewart in Salford in 1934. Jean was born in Ayrshire, Scotland on 20 July 1911 and trained as a nurse at the Hope Hospital in Pendleton from 1930 to 1933. She joined the Royal College of Nursing on 24 November 1933 and continued to work as a nurse and a midwife after she married. Sidney and Jean had three children and by 1938, they had moved to 1 Shorland Street in Swinton on the outskirts of the city of Salford. In 1939, Jean was alone in the house with her two children and as Sidney has not been found elsewhere, he may have been serving in the army at the time. In 1956, Sidney and Jean divorced and she left their home on Shorland Street with their three children. Two years later, she appears in the Roll of Practising Midwives and her address was listed as 30 Moorway in Poulton le Fylde near Blackpool. Sidney remarried to Barbara Jean Longworth in 1962 and continued to live on Shorland Street until his death on 28 April 1993. Jean died in Blackpool on 6 October 1998 and Sidney’s second wife, Barbara, died in 2005.
In 1936, Mary Maria Ibbotson died at the family home in Swinton after a long illness. She was an invalid for many years and received nursing care from her daughter-in-law Jean Stewart. The following year 64 year old Sydney married Dorothy Brown, who was 25 years his junior, in Manchester. By 1939, they had moved to Worsley, west of Salford, and were living in a terraced house at 118 Mill Brow. He was unemployed at the time but noted that he was a full time Warden with the Air Raid Precautions.
Sydney died in January 1943, aged 69 years, and was buried at St Mark in Worsley on 26 January.