Mary Arrowsmith (Confectioner) & Samuel Morris (Plumber & Gas Fitter), Manchester Rd, Denton
Both premises were situated next door to each other in a row of terraced cottages to the right of the Ashworth St corner. The hat factory of Higginbottom & Oldham (later T & W Walker) was to the left of the corner.
By 1901 Mary Arrowsmith had moved further down Manchester Rd and the shop was replaced by 1903 with a Manchester Corporation Tram Office but Samuel Morris was still resident there in 1911.
Tram offices were used to receive parcels carried to them by trams and then delivered locally from them by boys with barrows.
Mary Arrowsmith
Mary Arrowsmith née Lord was born at Newcastle-under-Lyme, Staffordshire, in 1839 and she married Henry Arrowsmith at St Mary’s in the Marketplace, Stockport, in 1859.
Henry was born at Denton in 1830/31. The couple were survived by three children, all born at Denton, Fred (aka Frederick, b.1861), Harry (aka Henry, b.1868) and Sarah (b.1878).
Henry Sr died at Denton in 1910, aged 79 years, and his wife, Mary, died at Denton in 1915, aged 76 years.
Prior to joining his wife’s confectionery business, Henry Arrowsmith was employed as a hatter and then as a coal miner. By 1901 the family had moved to a shop next door to the Queen’s Hotel on Manchester Rd.
Samuel Morris
Samuel Morris was born at Hyde in 1852/53 and he married Ann Needham at St Thomas’s Church, Norbury (Hazel Grove), in 1875.
Ann was born at Furness Vale, Cheshire (now Derbyshire), in 1851. The couple were survived by three children, Marian (b.Hyde, 1876), Joseph Needham (b.Reddish, 1878) and Florence (b.Denton, 1882).
