What a beautiful photo of this lovely young woman, bought from one of my favourite sellers on eBay, and it’s got a name and a date, what more could you want!

Ida Alice Sleight was born on 31 March 1883 in Hull, Yorkshire, her father was Thomas Scott Sleight 1856-1933, and her mother was Alice (Leighton) 1852-1920. Ida was one of six children born to Thomas and Alice.

In the 1901 census, Ida is 18 years old and a Dressmaker, living at home with her family at 1 Ellens Terrace, Wellington Lane, Hull. Father Thomas is a general labourer, Ida’s brother is a flour packer and her younger sister Ruth is a mothers help.

The eldest brother Reginald married Emily Rachel Pickering in 1904, and they had two sons, George Herbert in 1908 and Harry Leighton in 1910, Harry became a Registrar of Births, Marriages and Deaths.

On 2 April 1911, the family are still living at Ellens Terrace, father Thomas is a Millers Rulleyman, I’d never heard of this so I looked it up ‘A Rulley was a cart for moving heavy loads, often pulled by a horse, a Rulleyman operated this, often looking after the horses‘. Ida, Ruth and Frederick, the youngest, are still living at home. Ida a dressmaker and Frederick a librarian’s assistant.

On 17 April 1911 Ida’s sister Ruth (1886-1977) married Henry Buckland Bond (1886-1964), I wonder if Ida made her dress? The couple had two daughters and a son, Ruth Alice in 1913, Henry Thomas in 1913, who became a Lorry Driver and Olive Frances in 1915. Olive trained to be a Nurse and married a chap called Robert Parsons Stoate in 1946. Then in 1951, the couple emigrated to Canada, Robert had been born there in 1913. Olive’s parents visited the couple in Canada in 1957, Olive had previously visited them the year before. Ruth outlived both her daughters, living to 90 years of age.

Ida‘s elder sister Frances Amelia at age 20 in 1901 was a Nurse living with a family in Sculcoates not far from home, and in 1911 she was living at the home of her brother Reginald and his wife and young family as a domestic. In 1939 she was living at the home of a Widower as his Housekeeper, then on 6 December 1946 when she was 65 years old, she married a chap called Samuel Brown.

In 1921 it looks like Ida was still at home living with her father. Her mother Alice died in the April quarter of 1920.

On the 1939 register above Ida is living with her sister Ruth and family at Holderness Road, Hull, Yorkshire, not far from where the family all grew up. Ruth‘s husband Henry Buckland‘s occupation is a shopkeeper, dog and animals.

Ida never married nor had any children, she died in July 1959 in Hull, Yorkshire at the age of 76.

Here’s the direct link to the small public family tree I’ve compiled on Ancestry for the family: Ida Alice Sleight Family Tree

Parents

Ida’s father Thomas Scott Sleight was born in 1856 in Bonby, Lincolnshire, his mother, Sarah, was 32 and unmarried. His mother Sarah Slight/Sleight was born in 1824 in Kirton, Lincolnshire. She also had a daughter, ten years older than Thomas, while unmarried, Frances Amelia Sleight, born in December 1849 in Bonby, Lincolnshire, she died on 8 January 1867 aged just 17 years old. Her cause of death was Meningitis. 2 weeks. A Domestic Servant. Her mother Sarah was present at her death.

Five weeks later on 13 February 1867, Sarah married Francis Quickfall, a widower with several children.

Thomas Scott Sleight married Alice Leighton in 1878 in Hull, Yorkshire. Alice Leighton was born in July 1852 in South Cave, Yorkshire, her father was Samuel and her mother, was Ruth Watson.

While researching this family I came across a lovely old photo of Henry Buckland Bond and his shop which has now become a Motorcycle and Sidecar business. Is that his son Henry standing proudly beside him.

Till next time then…….