Martha's parents were Peter McNiff and Rachel (nee Bulmer). Peter was born in Ireland about 1843 and Rachel Bulmer was born in Stanley in 1844. They married on the 4th of February 1867 at St. Austin's Chapel in Wakefield with Peter's name entered as McKniff.
The information in the 1881 Census contains the following information about Martha McNiff. She was living at New Street, Wakefield, Yorkshire aged 8, with her father Peter McNiff, her mother Rachel and her two sisters Ellen and Mary. Peter McNiff was employed as a Cart Driver. All 3 daughters were born in Wakefield, Ellen in 1870, Martha in 1873 and Mary in 1875. In 1895 Mary McNiff married Edward Conway and in 1901 they were living at 43 Ark Street in Leeds.
In the 1891 Census the McNiff's were still living in New Street, Wakefield where a Peter McNiff aged 6 had appeared, his relation to the head of the house was grandson, I believe Peter died in the first World War in 1916 and is buried in Burmantofts Cemetery. It appears he was injured on the battlefield, evacuated to St. James hospital in Leeds where he later died. Both Peter and Rachel McNiff died within 6 month's of each other in 1897.
David Hodgson married Elizabeth Harrison in Naburn, Yorkshire on the 14th of February 1805. In the same year a son was born and was named Henry Hodgson. On the 24th of November 1829 Henry married Elizabeth Waites also in Naburn. In 1838 they had a son and named him Henry after his father. We now continue with the son Henry who, on the 21st of October 1861 married Frances Gresham at York Register Office.
Henry was a Joiner by trade and in 1881 had 3 sons and 3 daughters and was still living in Naburn with his wife Frances. By 1891 the family had moved to Selby, Frances was now a widow (Henry died in 1888) and her first daughter Elizabeth had married Gallsworthy Shaw on the 10th of April 1889 in Selby. On the 17th of October 1890 Gallsworthy and Elizabeth Shaw nee Hodgson had a daughter called Emily Annie Shaw who was born at 8, Addinall's Yard, Selby. Other Children of the Hodgson family from Naburn in 1881 were, Richard, Edward, Harry, Annie and Frances, all were born in Naburn.
Gallsworthy's family in 1881 consisted of his parents Henry and Jane Shaw, 3 brothers Charles, Tom and Frank and a daughter Elizabeth. Henry Shaw was a butcher by trade and the family lived at 25 Ousegate, Selby.
One puzzle yet to be solved is that Gallsworthy Shaw seems to have either divorced or left Elizabeth between 1891 and 1901 because in the 1901 Census he is living with another family in Middlesbrough who all have his surname of Shaw and is working as a Painter (Arts).
