Genealogy
Whiston Families
Appleyard of Canklow Corn Mill, Whiston
George Appleyard was born about 1837.
In 1861 he was a corn miller living at Treeton and in 1862 he bought the cornmill, starch house and British gum manufactory, near the Corn and Butter Market in Market Place, Rotherham. (Until 1870 the building was a steam corn mill. The title was later changed about 1885 to Rother Brewery when it was bought by Thomas Marrian.)
He sold these premises in about 1867 and came to Canklow where in the 1869 directory he was recorded as of Canklow Mill, a Corn Miller and Farmer.
He came to Rotherham from Flocton, Yorkshire and by 1881 was farming 845 acres of land, and at the mill, he employed 8 men and one boy.
His wife Emily came from Leeds. They had 7 children:
- Mary L. was born in Treeton about 1862.
- Florence was born in Rotherham about 1864
- Arthur was also born in Rotherham about 1866
- Jane, age 9 and
- Henry age 7 were both born at Canklow
- Edith age 5 was born at Brinsworth
They employed a servant, Charlotte Green aged 18 from Huntingdon
In 1900 George and Emily were at Ixworth near Bury St Edmund, Suffolk.
At this time the Foreman at the Corn Mill was John Thos. Gilbert.
A Thomas Appleyard, born 1897 married Florence Gregory, daughter of Ernest and Annie (Nee Hardwick).
In June 1886, the Duke of Norfolk leased the land with Canklow Mill, an Old Drying Kiln, 5 messuages, cottages, smith's shop etc. for 62 years, to Charles Garfit of Dunlee, co. Cork.
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