The Hadwen Family of Lancashire

1861 census Crosthwaite Green, Crosthwaite and Lyth, Westmorland

John PEARSON Head M 37 Male Carpenter Hutton, Westmorland
Jane PEARSON Wife M 35 Female Dress Maker Crosthwaite, Westmorland
Mary Jane PEARSON Daur 13 Female Scholar Crosthwaite, Westmorland
Elizabeth PEARSON Daur 10 Female Scholar Crosthwaite, Westmorland
Agnes PEARSON Daur 9 Female Scholar Crosthwaite, Westmorland
Thomas PEARSON Son 6 Male Scholar Crosthwaite, Westmorland
William PEARSON Son 4 Male Scholar Crosthwaite, Westmorland
Isaac PEARSON Son 2 Male Crosthwaite, Westmorland
Mary PEARSON Lodger 8 mnths Female Crosthwaite, Westmorland
Dan HOGGARTH Lodger Widower 77 Male Ag. Lab. Lyth, Westmorland
John JOHNSON Servant 22 Male Carpenter Crosthwaite, Westmorland

1871 census 15 Far Bank, Kendal, Westmorland

Agnes PEARSON Head U 19 Female Dress Maker Kendal, Westmorland
Annie PEARSON Sister U 7 Female House Girl Kendal, Westmorland
Jane Agnes PEARSON Daur 7 weeks Female Kendal, Westmorland

1881 census Barley Bridge, Over Staveley, Westmorland

William BOWNAS Head M 33 Male Mechanic Witherslack, Westmorland
Agnes BOWNAS Wife M 30 Female Crosthwaite, Westmorland
Jane A BOWNAS Daur 10 Female Scholar Kendal, Westmorland
Bertha BOWNAS Daur 6 Female Scholar Crosthwaite, Westmorland
Edith BOWNAS Daur 5 Female Scholar Ulverston, Lancashire
Elizabeth BOWNAS Daur 3 Female Crosthwaite, Westmorland
Annie BOWNAS Daur 1 Female Staveley, Westmorland
Thomas P BOWNAS Son 3 mnths Male Staveley, Westmorland

1891 census 7 Marsh Street, Barrow in Furness, Lancashire

William BOWNAS Head M 42 Male Corn Miller Beetham, Westmorland
Agnes BOWNAS Wife M 39 Female Heversham, Westmorland
Elizabeth BOWNAS Daur 12 Female Scholar Heversham, Westmorland
Annie BOWNAS Daur 10 Female Scholar Staveley, Westmorland
Thomas BOWNAS Son 8 Male Scholar Staveley, Westmorland
Herbert BOWNAS Son 6 Male Scholar Whicham, Cumberland
John W BOWNAS Son 5 Male Scholar Whicham, Cumberland
Robert BOWNAS Son 2 Male Barrow, Lancashire
Bessie BOWNAS Daur Un 1 mnth Female Barrow, Lancashire

1901 census 8 Marsh Street, Barrow in Furness, Lancashire

William BOWNAS Head M 52 Male Corn Miller Beetham, Westmorland
Agnes BOWNAS Wife M 49 Female Crosthwaite, Westmorland
Thomas P BOWNAS Son S 20 Male Iron Works Labourer Staveley, Westmorland
Herbert BOWNAS Son S 16 Male Apprentice Iron Caulker Whicham, Cumberland
John W BOWNAS Son 15 Male Apprentice Iron Turner Whicham, Cumberland
Robert BOWNAS Son 12 Male Barrow, Lancashire
Bessie BOWNAS Daur 10 Female Barrow, Lancashire
Eva BOWNAS Daur 5 Female Barrow, Lancashire
Thomas PEARSON Boarder S 46 Male Ship Joiner Crosthwaite, Westmorland

1911 census 41 Foundry Street, Barrow in Furness, Lancashire 5 rooms

William BOWNAS Head M 62 Male Corn Miller Beetham, Westmorland
Agnes BOWNAS Wife M 59 Female 36 years 13 11 2 Kendal, Westmorland
Eva BOWNAS Daur S 15 Female Barrow in Furness, Lancashire

Probate Agnes Bownas of Hill Cottage, Hubbersty Head, Crosthwaite, Westmorland widow died 7 January 1939. Probate Carlisle 23 February toLewis Gardner Thomson Solicitor. Effects £829 13s 5d.

"Agnes Pearson (13 Jan 1791 - 24 May 1876) in her later years was also known as Auld Aunt Aggie. Her brother, Joseph Pearson (b. 1799), had an unmarried granddaughter, Agnes Pearson (b. 1851), who at the age of 20 had given birth to a baby girl in 1871. Her Great Aunt Agnes Pearson, age 81, helped the disgraced young woman by agreeing to take in and raise the baby on condition that the child be named Agnes Pearson and that she would become the heir of Great Aunt Agnes (Auld Aunt Aggie). This was agreed to and Aunt Aggie raised the child for 5 years before dying in 1876. The child, Jane Agnes Pearson, inherited Great Aunt Aggie’s estate and it was put under the control of a Trustee/Solicitor until Jane Agnes became of age. Sometime after Jane Agnes was born in 1871, Great Aunt Aggie, it is thought, started making arrangements for a young local man, William Fletcher Bownas, to marry the child’s mother for a sum of money. The child’s mother, Agnes Pearson, married William F. Bownas on August 8, 1874 and they started their own family while Great Aunt Aggie was still raising and caring for young Jane Agnes Pearson. After Great Aunt Aggie’s death in 1876, Jane Agnes came to live her natural mother, Agnes Pearson Bownas, and her husband, William Fletcher Bownas. She attended school and was a bright student. Around the age of 12 she decided to leave school and go to work (in service) for the Francis Martindale family. Later, she moved to Damson Fold to work for the Dickensons. Not long after this her step-father, William Fletcher Bownas, came looking for her and dragged her back to Whicham with a gold guinea stitched into her stays. There is no doubt that every time there was a baby expected in the Bownas family she was ‘required back at home’ whether it be Whicham Mill, Crop-a-Bank, or Stavely. When Jane was 16 the Trustees of her inheritance and her mother insisted that she take up an apprenticeship. So, in 1887 she was apprenticed as a tailor to Park and Heads in Kendal and found lodging in the Lound, where she was born 16 years earlier. She came back to her grandmother at the Yews for weekends. Jane Agnes joined her mother in Barrow at her mother’s request in 1889. Jane Agnes married Robert Hogarth Dodgson of Preston and Barrow on April 12, 1892, in Barrow.”