Hello!
I'm trying to locate a relative, who I believe was a hawker. His name was Joseph Fitzpatrick (b:1860 Leeds to Mary McEvoy and Thomas Fitzpatrick). He was a coal miner in the 1871 census and a dyer in the 1881. I can't find him in the 1891 or 1901 census. In 1911, he's in Huddersfield in a lodging house as a hawker. He dies in Huddersfield in 1924.
Apart from trying to trace him during this period, I'm also trying to trace his wife and children and to identify the link between him and the Maguire family, who were hawkers. I believe he married an Annie and they had 3 children (Thomas, b:1889?, Hugh b:1892? Annie b:1895), but I cannot find a positive birth for the three children. I am following up a possible marriage, but according to my research, if the 1887 marriage is correct, the wife dies before the younger two children could be born. Annie, the youngest child, was brought up by Winifred Maguire, who was an oil cloth hawker in the West Yorkshire area. Winifred had a son, Philip Maguire and I believe he was very successful in the fairgrounds and lived in a caravan. From letters written by Hugh's son, his father and Thomas worked with their dad Joseph on the fairgrounds and Hugh would 'take all comers' as a boxer!
I'm wondering if there's a chance that one of the Maguires was the mother to Hugh and Annie (and therefore, they'd have a different surname at birth). I don't know where the children were born. I know Joseph Fitzpatrick is around the Yorkshire area, because he makes a number of court appearances for hawking without a licience and being drunk!
I hope this isn't too garbled. Any help would be much appreciated.
Thanks
