HIGHFIELD

Alfred Highfield, Sr. was born 3 Sept 1879 at 112 New Thomas Steet (nowDenby Street), Highfield, Sheffield, Yorkshire, England, the son of William Highfield and Mary Elizabeth 'Lizzie' Clarke.   

He married Maria Moore 3 June 1900 in Heeley Parish Church, Heeley, Sheffield.  Maria was born 2 Dec 1881 at 68 Attercliffe Common, Attercliffe, Sheffield, Yorkshire, England, the daughter of Charles Moore and Sarah Ann Senior.

They are my grandparents.

Grampa in Sheffield in 1899, age 21.

Gramma in Sheffield in 1915 and in Manitoba in 1921

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The oldest generations

Birth certificate for William Highfield, my great-grandfather, and Grampa's father,.  Born 30 December 1843 in Worksop, Nottinghamshire, England. 

Great-grampa's father, also William Highfield, was a shoemaker in Worksop.  He died 6 Sept 1846 of Typhoid Fever and his widow, Betty Lambert, married Joseph Bradley eight months later, 24 May 1847.  Betty died just three months after this marriage, 22 August 1847, of consumption, at age 36.  Her children were only age 6 and 3 and, in 1851, and on later census returns, these children, William, above, and Elizabeth, are living with their stepfather, Joseph Bradley, and his second wife, Ann Cocking, in Worksop.  You will see them as witnesses at Elizabeth's marriage on the certificate below. 

NoNotice that Betty Lambert Highfield has signed the above certificate with an 'X'.  She is illiterate, which is not uncommon for this time period.

  Both William and Betty are buried in Worksop Priory Cemetery, Worksop, Notts.

This is the marriage certificate of the sister, Elizabeth, who married.....William Highfield!  They moved to Sheffield and lived on Watery Street, Netherthorpe, and 103 Green Lane in Attercliffe, close to the home of her brother.   Elizabeth had two sons, William and Frank, and died in 1891 in Sheffield.

William and Betty Lambert Highfield's son, William, is my great-grandfather.  He apprenticed as a painter in Worksop and is listed in Trades Dirctories in Sheffield as a master painter and decorator, as was Grampa, who apprenticed under him.

William married Mary Elizabeth 'Lizzie' Clark on 27 August 1865 in Sheffield Parish Church.  She was born in 1843/4 in Lambeth, London, with parents Henry Clark, a Lithographer, and Mary Jackson. 

My great-grandmother, Mary Elizabeth Highfield, nee Clark, in Sheffield in the 1890s.  We have no photo of William.

Photo courtesy of Joyce Smith and Norman Highfield.

William and Lizzie lived in Worksop until 1870 when they moved to Sheffield, Yorkshire.  They lived at 112 New Thomas Street, later named Denby Street.

The Shelton Public House on the corner of Hill and Denby Street, Sheffield.  Grampa Highfield was born right next to it, at 112 New Thomas Street, in a terraced house in that empty lot where the cars are.  The pub would have been Great-grampa, William Highfield's local.  It is still there in 1999.

Photo courtesy of Gordon Campbell.

Death certificate for William Highfield, 14 May 1916 in the Union Workhouse.  Present at his death is his second wife, Polly South.  whom he married about 1913.  A daughter, Mary, was born to them the following year, when William was age 71.  William died at 117 Denby Street, Sheffield, just across the street and down a bit from the home at 112 Denby Street. 

The Union Workhouse was the hospital for the poor.  William must have earned a good living as a Master House Painter, but I expect he was just old and hadn't been able to work for some years. 

gaCity Road Cemetery, Sheffield, Yorkshire, England.

The grave in the centre, behind the small stone, is that of my great-grandparents, William and Elizabeth Highfield, and their daughter, Kate, b 6 September 1883 and  buried 15 September 1883.  They are all buried in the one grave.

Grave #7242, Section V, City Road Cemetery, Sheffield.

Photo courtesy of Richard Stork in Sheffield.

The gravestone reads:

In Loving Memory

Mary Elizabeth

(Lizzie)

The Beloved Wife of

William Highfield

who fell asleep February 12th, 1903

Aged 59 years.

Photo courtesy of Richard Stork in Sheffield.

Grampa's brothers and sisters

Grampa's sister Edith Annie, born 1876, at 112 New Thomas (Denby) Street, Sheffield, Yorkshire, England.  With her husband Ernest White and granddaughter Margaret White.  Taken 1937, Pendeen Road, Nether Edge, Sheffield.

Edith Annie Highfield White about 1939.

Photos courtesy of Margaret Wildsmith.

Grampa's youngest brother Frank Highfield, b 28 July 1887 in Sheffield.  With his wife, Emily Fisher.

gaFrank and Emily, on their farm at Grandview, Manitoba and on their 50th Wedding Anniversary in 1962.

Photos courtesy of Joan Highfield Forbes.

Grampa's brother Percy Highfield, b19 Jan 1882 in Sheffield.  With his wife, Polly Barber in Pilot Mound, MB, 1943.

Photo courtesy of Eileen Highfield Young.

Percy and Polly, Winnipeg 1944.

Photo courtesy of Eileen Highfield Young.

I don't have photos of the others.

Copy of Gramma and Grampa's marriage certificate.

 3 June 1900 in Heeley Parish Church, Sheffield, Yorkshire, England. 

Witnesses are Gramma's brother, Tom Moore, and his future wife, Florence Brown.

Heeley Parish Church.  In 1967, I found the christening records  for all my aunts and uncles who were born in Sheffield here, except for Dad's.  The record books were kept in a trunk.

Photo courtesy of Eric Youle.

Alfred and Maria Highfield's children in Sheffield

15 Gregory Road, Heeley, Sheffield in 1911.

The eldest children of Alfred, Sr. and Maria:

Charlie, Lizzie, Maggie holding Doris, Emma and Alf, my dad.  He is age 3.

15 Gregory Road, Heeley, Sheffield in 1911.

Maggie, Alf, Jr, Emma and Lizzie.  

Compare the backs of the houses with the picture of the gardens of Gregory Road, later.

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