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Emily Bellamy and son Thomas L Bellamy


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I am trying to trace any family member or anyone who may have known the above to assist with my family tree.

Emily Bellamy (nee Ellis) was born in 1883 and died at the ripe old age of 95 in 1978.

She was married to George Albert Bellamy and they lived in Sheffield.  (Wentworth Street, Upperthorpe in 1939)

She and George had a son called Thomas Bellamy who was born in 1922 and died in 2011 aged 89. He married Betty Sambrook in 1947 and they also lived in Sheffield. 

Any replies would be gratefully received.

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George joined the Yorks and Lancaster Regiment as a 19 year old in January 1899. It couldn't have suited him as he'd bought himself out by June.

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George and Emily gave their address when they married as Quality Road (Row) Wadsley Bridge:

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Emily must have been pregant at the wedding in October 1901, as their first son George was baptised at Owlerton on New Years Day 1902.

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Unfortunately the 4 week old George died and was buried at St Philips.

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Doubt was cast on his death and an inquest was held.

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But in the end it appeared that the death was due to natural causes.

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In July 1883 George Albert had been taken on a family outing to see the Band of Hope Gala Procession which made its way from the town centre to the Botanical Gardens.  The family decided to watch from a point near Gell Street. Due to the good weather the crowd was vast. A Midland Railway Company dray had been making deliveries but found its path blocked by the crowd, who proceeded to climb onto it to get a better view. Trapped in the crowd, the mare became frightened and kicked out, pulling the chained dray several yards. A panic ensued, with two children and 21 other people killed immediately.

From the Independent:  "Mary Ann Bellamy [George's mother], wife of Joseph Bellamy, filecutter, 89 Martin street, was also at the corner of Gell street.  She had her little son Joseph, who is nine months old, with her in a perambulator. She was standing near the dray when the horse took fright, and was knocked down by the animal as it broke loose.  As she attempted to raise, she was again trampled down and the result of the accident, so far as she was concerned, was a somewhat severe injury to her right thigh.  The infant had a miraculous escape, for although the perambulator was smashed to atoms, he was only slightly hurt about the head.  Alice Martin, a sister of Mrs.Bellamy's, who also lives in Martin street, was one of the party, and was standing in close proximity to the dray at the time of the lamentable occurrence.  Some men observing her dangerous position took her up bodily and threw her some little distance into a place of safety.  Mr.Bellamy, who had with him a little boy [George Albert] escaped unhurt.

The escape of Mrs.Bellamy and her child appears to have been marvellous, for it is stated that the horse leaped upon the perambulator of which Mrs.Bellamy had charge, and smashed it to pieces.

Mrs.Bellamy, who is mentioned above, was removed to her home in Martin street during the afternoon, and subsequently her child Joseph was conveyed there from the Hospital. The poor woman is more seriously hurt than was at first supposed. She relapsed and became delirious during the evening, and Dr.Spawart was sent for. The child, too, lies in a very serious condition."

"Joseph Bellamy, of No.89 Martin street, a file cutter, says he and his wife with two children, one in a perambulator, had gone down Gell street to see the procession pass. His wife was standing beside him with the perambulator in front of her, containing the youngest child, and he had charge of his boy Joseph, who was standing in front [incorrect, this was George]. While looking at the children going by, he heard a scream and a crash, and looking to his right he saw the dray horse prancing about, and the people swaying backwards and forwards. He immediately seized his eldest boy in his arms and ran away with him to a place of safety. He put the child down and returned to his wife, who he found had been injured as well as his other child. There was a great deal of shouting and crying and struggling amongst the crowd in trying to get out of the way of the horse; in fact the people seemed to have “lost their heads.” If they had shown more presence of mind he believed there would not have been so many hurt.

John Howe, of No.12 Norwich street, says he was standing at the bottom of Gell street, near to Bellamy, when he heard a shriek, and on turning round saw that a horse had taken fright amongst the crowd of women and children gathered there. The horse was attached to a Midland Railway dray, and was not near the procession, but amongst the spectators. Seeing that several children were in danger from the horse’s hooves, he rushed close up to the animal and got two of them away. He then saw Mrs. Bellamy standing with the perambulator close to the excited animal, and unable, through the pressure of the crowd from all sides, to get away. Two or three people were trying to unfasten the belt which went across the front of the perambulator, to prevent the child falling out, but as the horse had dragged the dray close up to the perambulator he seized the infant, pulled it violently out, and got it in his arms. A moment later the wheel of the dray had passed over the perambulator, crumbling it to pieces. The child was hurt a little, and was taken to the Hospital, but the parents were permitted to remove it home an hour or two later."

Little Joseph, who had been baptised at St George's on 3rd October the previous year, was buried aged 13 months on 31st October 1883 at St Philip's.

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