Let's Start Again, Mary Ellen Shepherd b1840, Sheffield.

[Goughy]

If this is your ancestor, what a coincidence! FindMyPast has started to upload the Yorkshire Parish records, and has some of the Bishop's Transcripts for Sheffield. 

There's also a NB1 burial for a Samuel Holden 7 Dec 1818 aged 43 at Sheffield St Peter St Paul. 

[Tim Brayshaw]

If this is your ancestor, what a coincidence! FindMyPast has started to upload the Yorkshire Parish records, and has some of the Bishop's Transcripts for Sheffield. 

There's also a NB1 burial for a Samuel Holden 7 Dec 1818 aged 43 at Sheffield St Peter St Paul.

I've just found that one as well, but I'm not sure what to think about it. I haven't got any hard evidence about his time of birth or anything. Whereas i knew Mary Holden was born 1811 in Sheffield, her record is more than likely.

I guess with the time this is at, i can't get any more details.

If this is Mary's father's death, then her mother Elizabeth would have married again between 1818-1841 where she turns up as an Allott. Haven't found that record just yet however.

Would Samuel Holden the Optician be in any Trade Directory with an occupation like that?

[Goughy]

His birth would be circa 1775 and Elizabeth 1777 so "a potential".  Would be good to find an Elizabeth Holden marrying a George Allot though.

Worth searching the Directory databases on Sheffield Indexers and Sheffield Records Online.

[Tuppie]

This is the extra information given in the burial register.

HOLDEN   Samuel 7 Dec 1818 aged 43 of Sheffield,Bailey Lane, Occupation:brass turner. SS Peter & Paul (Cathedral)         

Angela

[Tim Brayshaw]

This is the extra information given in the burial register.

HOLDEN   Samuel 7 Dec 1818 aged 43 of Sheffield,Bailey Lane, Occupation:brass turner. SS Peter & Paul (Cathedral)         

Angela

Probably not the same man then. Going from an Optician to a Brass Turner, is a bit of a leap.

[Goughy]

I wouldn't dismiss totally.  I have an ancestor in Sheffield and their occupation on census returns changed from "optician" to "glass grinder" and vice versa throughout all the census returns.  I assumed he was an optical instrument maker.  On this basis, Samuel Holden could have been a brass turner making optical instruments.