Samuel Waine was born on 27 August 1837, the second surviving son of Edward Waine of Marple.

He married Margaret Gresty and they had two sons William and Joseph and five daughters, May, Martha, Rhoda (Annie), Ada and Helen

Samuel and Margaret are pictured left (seated centre) with Ada (front), Joseph (top right) and Annie (second right, back row)

1837 Born in Marple

1849 Brother John died aged 19

1851 Samuel worked as a weaver in Marple

1852 Brother Charles died aged 24

1855 Brother George died aged 32

1861 Brother Edwin died aged 17

1865 Mother Betty died aged 65

1871 Samuel was station master at Cheadle Hulme

1877 Registered the death of father Edward Waine

1881 Samuel was a railway goods checker at Lane's end Cheadle

1891 and 1901 Samuel a coals agent at Station Rd, Cheadle Mosely

1916 Died in Cheadle aged 79. Buried in the grave of his daughter Helen who died aged 27

Samuels's son Joseph Edward was born in 1866 in Redditch, Lancashire.

He married Amy Garforth and they had five children in Cheshire, Adrian, Henry, William, Norman and Bessie (Norman and Bessie pictured right)

Adrian (left) and Harry are pictured left. Adrian was born in 1891 and married Ethel May Lea.

Adrian and Ethel had two children, Edna and Edward.

Edna born 1921

(Edna second right, back row at Church Rd infants, Cheadle)

All photographs on this page (and hundreds of others) were archived by Edna Waine and can be viewed at Manchester Archives records office.

These had previously belonged to her maternal grandfather Samuel Lea born Haslington 1864 A fascinating record of a family.

Thanks to Edna