#10-CULLWICK Family History

Charles Fox CULWICK - son of William Cullwick & Susannah Fox

5 Charles Fox CULWICK - bt 13 Nov 1803 SHIFNAL C048862 - 24 Nov 1847 - a yeoman and a Burgess of Bridgnorth (before the 1832 voting Reform Act). He was a master saddler and an employer - respectable but poor middle class saddler at SHIFNAL. JC
+ Martha OWEN - 1800-47 - Marriage: 24 Dec 1829 SHIFNAL - M048863
Martha was lady's maid to the wife of Rev John EYTON, Rector of Wellington before marriage in 1829 at St Andrews, Shifnal. Martha's parents (John and Anne OWEN) lived in the Red House at Tong (lovely house opposite the church). JC

6 James (Jim) CULLWICK - bt 14 Nov 1830 SHIFNAL - Batch #C048861
Wheelwright - still alive when MUNBY died in 1910.
+ Emily GRIFFITHS - (1856-1920). Bapt 27 Apr 1856 at Shifnal

7 Emily Griffiths CULLWICK - bt Shropshire 1857 - 1920
+ GIBBS - of BEARLEY, Warwickshire - Later Mrs GIBBS (husband was grandson of Hannah Bonehill GIBBS of Bearley near Stratford-on-Avon. Buried in YARDLEY cemetary in Birmingham with her daughter Ada PERKS (1882-1970). Emily had a second daughter, who lived in Birmingham (Mrs ROUSE?)
- 8 Ada CULLWICK - m PERKS of Bankes Road, SMALL HEATH
- 8 Mrs. ROUSE
7 William (Willie) CULLWICK - Died young, of measles in July, 1865
7 Arthur CULLWICK - Also died young of measles in Aug, 1865.
Mother Eliza died of a "decline" shortly afterwards

+ ELIZABETH (Lizzie) BEETLESTONE - nee CULLWICK - b 1825 approx - Daughter of John CULLWICK (1780-1854), first cousin of JAMES and widow of Henry BEETLESTONE (1822-55) of Shifnal. JIM b 1830 was living in Burying Lane, WOMBRIDGE with his second wife ELIZABETH nee CULLWICK (his cousin) and their 12 year old son GEORGE (an elder boy CHARLES had died the previous year).

7 CHARLES 1867-80

7 GEORGE HORACE CULLWICK 1869-1953
b 14 Oct 1869-1953 only nephew of HANNAH MUNBY - Marriage 1st Oct 1894 Parish of WOMBRIDGE, Salop by Banns in parish church, according to established church. George Horace CULLWICK, 24, bachelor, wheelwright, residing WOMBRIDGE, father James CULWICK (sic), wheelwright. Sarah Jane PARKER, 25, spinster, no occupation listed, residing WOMBRIDGE, father John PARKER, collier. Both signed. Witnesses James PARKER and Emma PARKER, both signed - this is the marriage of GEORGE of the Coffee House, SHERIFFHALES - the only surviving nephew of HANNAH MUNBY. d 26 April 1953 at the Coffee House, SHERIFFHALES Shropshire.
+ SARAH PARKER - (died 1919) - married 1894 at WELLINGTON

8 JAMES HORACE CULLWICK - (HORACE) b 3 July 1895 (went to CANADA)
8 CHARLES FOX CULLWICK - (CHARLES) b 25 Mar 1897 lived in Sherriffhales. One daughter.
8 ESTHER ELIZABETH CULLWICK - b 2 Apr 1899
Married an Ipswich vicar. Esther (Hetty) went to IPSWICH when she was 9 and was looked after by her aunt Polly (Mary Ann, youngest sister of Hannah Munby). Polly (1844-1924) had a large haberdashery shop on the Buttermarket. The premises now contain the shops of Rymans and Contessa in Ipswich.
Hetty took over the business after Polly's death, and married Rev HAROLD GREEN of Ipswich in 1938 and they had one daughter Judith Green. Judy is married to David MELDRUM. One daughter
8 GEORGE CULLWICK - (1901-1918)
8 GEORGE JOHN CULLWICK - b 1903
8 MARY ANN CULLWICK - (Mary) b 13 Jan 1905 - unmarried
lived with father in Sherriffhales)
8 WILLIAM HADDON CULLWICK - b 2 Aug 1907
emigrated to Ontario Canada, joined eldest brother Horace in Nova Scotia - 2 daughters
8 WALTER CULLWICK - 1910-1983
rests at SHERIFFHALES church yard

Sheriffhales parish in Shropshire
north of Shifnal was found resting in the church yard
- CULLWICK & PACE ancestors -
As John & I were strolling through the churchyard, looking for mutual ancestors graves, John found the following grave site
8 Walter CULLWICK (1910-1983)
was a bachelor and lived with his father George Hoarce CULLWICK (1869-1953) and unmarried sister Mary (b 1905) in the Coffee House in Sheriffhales. GEORGE was a son of James CULLWICK 1830-1910 Apparently, George was a wheelwright and carpenter for the Duke of Sutherland on his Lilleshall estate. At some point, the Duke leased a large property to him that was called The Coffee House. In about 1921, the Sutherlands sold their Lilleshall property, and the houses in Sherriffhales were sold to the County Council. So George and Walter then became council tenants.
The significance is that GEORGE was the only nephew of Hannah MUNBY, so these are her closest relatives. The only niece of Hannah Munby was Emily GIBBS (1857-1920). When the boxes of Munby were opened in Cambridge in 1950, a lady called Ada PERKS was present. She was a daughter of Emily.

Walter Cullwick - 1910-1983 - rests at SHERIFFHALES church yard

6 HANNAH CULLWICK - bt 23 Jun 1833 SHIFNAL C048861- m - 1873 - d 1909
+ ARTHUR MUNBY - son of Joseph and Caroline (nee FORTH) MUNBY of Clifton Holme, near YORK.

click here - TRINITY COLLEGE Library description - married 1873 clandestinely (secretly) in CLERKENWELL (London)

ARTHUR MUNBY, a famous poet and barrister, was interested in working women, and was a founder of the Workers Educational Association. He persuaded Hannah to write down everything - what she did, what she thought. Most is very tedious, but some of it isn't!

Hannah moved back to Shropshire (Hadley) in 1890's and finally moved to Shifnal to a little cottage just off the High St. Her brother Jim Cullwick was a wheelwright and carpenter and her nephew George Cullwick (1869-1953) lived in the Coffee House in Sheriffhales.
She wrote about her visits to Shropshire and her relatives. Apart from the names above, these relations included SHERRATT, PHILLIPS, YATES, BALL, OWEN, MORRIS, BEATLESTONE.
In the 1901 census, Hannah was living in Trench Road, Hadley with Arthur MUNBY. Nephew George CULLWICK was living at Beveley, Wellington - married to Sarah J PARKER, 32, born Wellington. Brother Jim CULLWICK was living in Wombridge (Burying Lane, I believe, in a cottage he built himself) and was a wheelwright aged 70.
Hannah really was a fascinating person - full of independence and determination. Hope this new book does her some justice.
John Cullwick
click here - NOTES - HANNAH MUNBY

6 RICHARD CULWICK
- bt 22 May 1836 SHIFNAL C048861 was a saddler living at 13 White Cross Place in LONDON.
The head was John Fetter, 54, German, married, fur skin dyer. Richard died in 1883 aged 46
6 MARTHA ELLEN CULLWICK
- (Ellen) b 5 May 1839 SHIFNAL d 4 Aug 1919
+ WILLIAM COOK - East London Registrar. No children.
6 MARY ANN CULWICK
- bt 18 May 1843 SHIFNAL Batch Number: C048861 - a shop assistant in Ipswich aged 36. She is living with Sarah MASH, 69, b COLCHESTER, widow, haberdasher. They are living at the Old Butter Market, IPSWICH (St Mary atte Tower). Polly died in 1929 and presumably she was a haberdasher in IPSWICH until she died.

Hannah Munby

"Love and Dirt: The Marriage
of Arthur Munby and Hannah Cullwick"

by Diane Atkinson

a new book about Hannah Munby, from Shifnal

Hardback, 250pp; Pan; ISBN:033378071X. List Price £18.99.
Launch date 24th January 2003

Fuller details are on amazon.co.uk

An ancestor of mine is Hannah MUNBY ( Hannah CULLWICK was her maiden name ) and she was from Shifnal in Shropshire and has had books written about her.

In "The Diaries of Hannah Cullwick, Victorian Maidservant" by Liz Stanley, the author quotes from Hannah's 1882 diary that Hannah (1833-1909) stayed with her Granny GIBBS at BEARLEY, near Stratford. "She was her mother's mother"

As her mother's mother died about 1840, is buried in TONG churchyard in Shropshire and was Mrs OWEN, this must be incorrect, but who is Granny Gibbs? and what sort of place is Bearley?

So many people have ridiculed the diary of Arthur MUNBY, QC when he stated that his lowly born wife Hannah CULLWICK of Shifnal was a distant relation of Lords Truro and Penzance.

On the 1881 census
there is the following family listed which appears to be the right one.

Hannah B Gibbs head widow 76 b Shottery
John B Gibbs son unmd 46 agric labourer
Edward B Gibbs son unmd 41 agric labourer

Hannah refers often to NED in BEARLEY, which must be EDWARD. It also appears that Granny GIBBS had a daughter called JANE (described as Hannah's young cousin). Jane Gibbs was in service at HARBORNE in 1885. By 1887, Jane was "a parlourmaid at Pinley House, by Coventry".

It may be just a coincidence but Hannah left her not inconsiderable estate (about £25,000) to her neice EMILY GIBBS in 1909. She did have one neice born Emily Cullwick in 1857 - so did niece Emily marry one of the Gibbs in Bearley?

I just cannot see the connection between Hannah Munby nee Cullwick (aged 48 in 1881) and Hannah B Gibbs (aged 76). One lived all her life in the Shifnal/Telford area and the older lady seems to have lived all her life in the Shottery/Bearley area near Stratford.

Hannah Munby (nee C

Charles Fox CULWICK - son of William Cullwick & Susannah Fox

Sheriffhales parish in Shropshire

click here - NOTES - HANNAH MUNBY

Hannah Munby

"Love and Dirt: The Marriageof Arthur Munby and Hannah Cullwick"

"Love and Dirt: The Marriage
of Arthur Munby and Hannah Cullwick"