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Thomas Staniforth & Co. Sickle works at Hackenthorpe.
William Staniforth, Sheffield Surgeon
Although the Staniforth surname largely exists in Yorkshire, it is always interesting to see how far afield it has spread. One line in particular can still be found today in Texas, USA.
We have already published an article on William Staniforth, one of the first surgeons at the Sheffield Infirmary which can be read here, but it is his descendants that emigrated to both Australia and the United States.
William and his wife Ann Cam had a son named William, born in 1788 he took after his father and was a surgeon. William married Amy Susan Lowley at Sheffield St. Peter & St. Pauls on May 25th 1814. The two of them had a number of children including:
William Staniforth died on June 28th 1835 and his wife Susannah emigrated to Australia, passing away on July 11th 1868
It is William Lowley Staniforth that we will now focus on, his wife was Isabel Alice Gaze, they emigrated in 1877 and had a son named Montague William Staniforth, his birth is registered as being at Sea in Australia in September 1860. They also had a second son Sydney Mansfield Texas in Sydney, he was born July 9, 1862, he only had a short life, as after emigrating to Texas he was shot dead in San Antonio in 1885 whilst working as a lawyer.
By the time of the 1910 US Census, the family are living in Gainesville, Cooke County, Texas, by this stage William is 84 and his wife Isabelle is 79, they are living with their son Montague, who’s birthplace again simply states ‘At Sea’ and his wife ‘Belle Staniforth’. With them are the following children:
William Murphy Staniforth, 1918-1999
Other children included William Murphy Staniforth, born 1887, he married Getrude King and had a son named William Murphy Staniforth in 1918, he married Frances Eulla Field and had a son also named William Murphy Staniforth, this son married Susan Lynn Hasslocher and had two children, Sarah Katharine Staniforth born July 10th 1974 and Stephen Graham Staniforth born July 19th 1980, Stephen also had a son named Ethan Staniforth in November 2016 in Austin, Texas.
William Lowley Staniforth passed away on November 12th, 1910 in Austin, Texas, his son Montague William Staniforth passed away on November 4th 1939.
Montague also had a son named Montague Staniforth II, he was born 7th August 1884 in Austin. He married Margaret Alice Lysagaht from Weatherford, Texas and they had three children:
When researching this line of Staniforth’s it was interesting to note that the current living descendants were not aware of William Staniforth, the famous Sheffield surgeon, and although they were aware the surname had English origins, they were bit aware of their ancestors lives in the city of Sheffield.