Other Events:

• Occupation: Boatman
• Baptism: 19 Apr 1835, St Cuthbert, Halsall

Notes:

A report in the Cheshire Observer, 18.7.1857 (a Saturday) reads:-
"FATAL FIGHT. On Saturday afternoon, Henry Ashton, a youth 19 years of age, employed as a boatman on the Leeds and Liverpool Canal, was killed by Henry Webster, another boatman, at Shevington, near Chorley. For some time past a grievance had existed between the men, who were cousins, and on Saturday afternoon they met at Shevington and agreed to settle the difference by a stand-up fight. In the third round, Webster struck Ashton a blow in the region of the heart. Ashton fell from the effect of the blow, but rose again, and died immediately. Webster has given himself up to the police authorities."
The fight is assumed to have been on the preceding Saturday, July 11. Henry Webster was sentenced to one month's imprisonment for manslaughter on August 5,1857, a t Lancaster Assizes.

Henry married Ann Sharrock on 17 Dec 1856 in St Matthias, Liverpool. Ann (daughter of Hugh Sharrock and Maria Wareing) was born in 1837 in Halsall/Standish; died before 1891. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]