William SCHOFIELD – market gardener.

• Born – 6 May 1804
• Died – 22 August 1873
• Married – Mary UTTLEY on 16 July 1828 in Leeds Parish Church (St Peter’s).

Mary UTTLEY – lived at Lower Smithy Farm, Heptonstall

• Born – 26 May 1802.
• Died – 1 September 1868

William & Mary Schofield lived at Park Cottage, Kirkstall in Leeds, West Yorkshire. Park Cottage was a few doors away from St Stephen’s Church.

 

“horses, cattle….waggons, carts….cucumber pits and frames, garden stock and working implements” William Schofield’s ‘tools of the trade’ listed in his will.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The family comprised 4 daughters and 3 sons. Eldest son William became a market gardener like his father, but some of the other children branched out.

Of the 4 daughters, Charlotte Elizabeth took up teaching; Sarah Ann married William Goodson, a moulder and later they owned an inn at Brotherton; Isabella married Jasper John Boswell, a wine merchant; and  Mary Uttley married William Patchett Barker a tea dealer and later tin miner.

It must have been a close-knit family, as another son Jabez Charles, went into business with his brother-in-law, Jasper John Boswell.

In the 1870s their youngest son Walter Uttley and daughter Mary Uttley’s family (Barker) decided to try their luck in Australia. They embarked on the long and hazardous voyage to Queensland, settling in Brisbane and at Paddock Swamp in the new boom area of Stanthorpe. Here, tragic events unfolded which have kept subsequent  generations  guessing as to what really happened.