John Eachus  ‎(I677)‎
Name:
John Eachus

Gender: MaleMale
      

Birth: 4 July 1842 22 23 Sandbach, Cheshire, England
Death: June 1919 ‎(Age 76)‎ 1 Mosley Rd, Levenshulme
Personal Facts and Details
Birth 4 July 1842 22 23 Sandbach, Cheshire, England

Baptism 8 July 1842 ‎(Age 4 days)‎ Sandbach

Marriage Mary Whittingham - 5 March 1867 ‎(Age 24)‎ Sandbach


Source: S1


Show Details Note: Marriage: 5th March, 1867, St Mary's Parish Church, Sandbach, Cheshire.
John Eachus, full age, Bachelor & Clicker of Sandbach
Mary Whittingham, age 19, Spinster of Sandbach
Were married by banns
witness: William Swain; Mary ........
Grooms Father: Edward Eachus, Clicker
Brides Father: Charles Whittingham, Publican
‎[Archive Copy - Parish 6]‎

Marriage Eliza Johnson - 31 March 1869 ‎(Age 26)‎ Sandbach


Source: S1


Show Details Note: Marriage: 31st March 1869, St Mary's Parish Church, Sandbach, Cheshire.
John Eachus, full age, Widower & Shoemaker of Sandbach
Eliza Johnson, full age, Spinster of Sandbach
Were married by banns
witness: Ann Johnson; Henry Johnson
Grooms Father: Edward Eachus, Clicker
Brides Father: Samuel Johnson, Shoemaker
‎[Archive Copy - Parish 6]‎

Occupation Master Bootmaker


Source: S39

Death June 1919 ‎(Age 76)‎ 1 Mosley Rd, Levenshulme

Burial 2 July 1919 ‎(31 days after death)‎ Phillips Park Cemetery, F447 ‎(no stone)‎

Reference Number S05006
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Parents Family  (F366)
Edward Tench Eachus
1820 - 1899
Ann Grindley
1819 - 1861
John Eachus
1842 - 1919
Jane Eachus
1845 - 1872
Edward Eachus
1850 - 1936

Step-Parent Family  (F367)
Edward Tench Eachus
1820 - 1899
Maria Harriet Godfrey
1821 - 1915
Harry Eachus
1866 - 1936

Immediate Family  (F388)
Mary Whittingham
1847 - 1867
Edward Charles Eachus
1867 - 1867

Immediate Family  (F389)
Eliza Johnson
1841 - 1914
Alice Eachus
1863 - 1955
Jane Eachus
1872 - 1900
Kate Eachus
1874 - 1950


Notes

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Census Listings:
1851 Chapel St, Sandbach. Son age 8. Scholar.‎(51-551)‎ & ‎(51-420)‎
1861 Bradwall Street, Sandbach son. age 18. Clicker. ‎(61-10)‎
1881 3 Hayden St, Manchester. Head ‎(m)‎. age 38. Bootmaker. ‎(3)‎
1891 3 Hayden St, Harpurhey. Head ‎(m)‎. age 48. Bootmaker ‎(107)‎
1901 3 Haydon St, Harpurhey ‎(age58)‎ ‎(ref 01-27)‎
1911 3 Haydon St, Queens Road, Manchester. Head ‎(m)‎. age 68. Boot Maker. own acc. ‎(11-23)‎

Directory;
1895 3 Hayden Street/Queens Road. Bootmaker. ‎(Kelly's Directory of Manchester)‎

The Manchester City News, Saturday September 14th 1907.
BELLS AND BELL RINGING

The Chief Ringer.
Mr John Eachus, a veteran in the tunefull art, has in his time rung on most of the church peals throughout the length and breadth of the land. Here in the north no man is better known or more highly esteemed than he among the genial brotherhood. Of spare build and medium height, he is a Cheshire man, having been born at Sandbach sixty-five years ago. He performed his first "peal" - a "peal" on the bells comprizes over five thousand distinct changes - at the age of eighteen, and in 1870 he came to Manchester Cathedral, where he has been in active service ever since. Seven years later the Town Hall in Albert Square was opened, and on the occasion of the inauguration of the new municipal peal, one of the finest in the country, Mr Eachus made one of the party which rang out the first cheery message to the city. For several years he discharged the duties of branch secretary of the Lancashire Association of Change Ringers, and for a time held office as vice-president. Up to date he has to his credit some two hundred "peals" not to speak of innumerable "touches" and "flourishes", as the ringing of anything fewer than five thousand changes are called. You can see almost at a glance that he deeply loves the art. To see him stepping on the narrow oake beams in the steeple from which the Cathedral bells hang, what time he chats informingly about them if you are in the humour to listen to him, comes as a refreshing experience. In theory as well as practice he is an adept, the works of the master minds, those who have written upon or composed "methods" for the brazen orchestra, having been studied by him.
For a livelihood Mr Eachus plies the gentle contemplative craft of bootmaking, one of the old school in that line and I warrent as he bends over his work its tedium is relieved by memories of ringing exploits and thoughts of the beauties and infinate possibilities of the art, and the achievements of its proffessors. Of one of those achievements a signal instance is recorded. An enthusiastic band attached to a church in the south desired two bells to be added to the peal of eight. The request was made to the vicar, who replied that when all the changes possible on the eight had been rung at a sitting the additional bells would be forthcoming This ment no fewer than 40,320 changes, the time necessary for which is one day four hours. Several bands were therupon got together, and by relays they successfully carried through what seemed an impractical feet, and the promise was fulfilled.

Manchester Cathedral Peal.
It is practice night with the ringers at the Manchester Catherdral, and I join them in the steeple chamber just beneath the clock, where the bell ropes, arranged in a circle, hang loosely down from the ceiling. To reach that secluded nook you enter a door from Victoria Street, and walk along a stone passage into a dimly lit cavern below the new main entrance. In the far corner is a low portal which, by a narrow, dark, corkscrew staircase, takes you into the lofty square chamber. Here are Mr John Eachus leader of the Cathedral band, and his devoted pupils. Coats off, they stand in a ring, each by his rope, several of them slightly elevated from the floor on boxes, and one after the other the peal of ten is made ready for work. At a given signal a preparatory round is sounded from the high treble to the deep tenor. Then there are a few "changes" the bells alternately leading or following each other, the time being quickened or retarded in working out the "method" in hand. Each man watches his fellows intently, whilst their leader, keeping his eye in the whole band, now and again utters a staccato word of admonition for the behoof of the novice. After a time a halt for breathing is called, and one of the perspiring ringers jokingly asks how many thousand "changes" had been accomplished. "About three houndred," is the reply of the leader. Then to it again, Mr Eachus this time taking a hand at the great tenor, and so the practice proceeds to the finish towards ten o'clock.

Archive Notes;
Manchester City News Saturday September 14th 1907 ‎[A4/6]‎
Letters betwixt John , William and Elizabeth ‎[A4/6]‎
Marriage Marriage: 5th March, 1867, St Mary's Parish Church, Sandbach, Cheshire.
John Eachus, full age, Bachelor & Clicker of Sandbach
Mary Whittingham, age 19, Spinster of Sandbach
Were married by banns
witness: William Swain; Mary ........
Grooms Father: Edward Eachus, Clicker
Brides Father: Charles Whittingham, Publican
‎[Archive Copy - Parish 6]‎
Marriage Marriage: 5th March, 1867, St Mary's Parish Church, Sandbach, Cheshire.
John Eachus, full age, Bachelor & Clicker of Sandbach
Mary Whittingham, age 19, Spinster of Sandbach
Were married by banns
witness: William Swain; Mary ........
Grooms Father: Edward Eachus, Clicker
Brides Father: Charles Whittingham, Publican
‎[Archive Copy - Parish 6]‎
Marriage Marriage: 31st March 1869, St Mary's Parish Church, Sandbach, Cheshire.
John Eachus, full age, Widower & Shoemaker of Sandbach
Eliza Johnson, full age, Spinster of Sandbach
Were married by banns
witness: Ann Johnson; Henry Johnson
Grooms Father: Edward Eachus, Clicker
Brides Father: Samuel Johnson, Shoemaker
‎[Archive Copy - Parish 6]‎
Marriage Marriage: 31st March 1869, St Mary's Parish Church, Sandbach, Cheshire.
John Eachus, full age, Widower & Shoemaker of Sandbach
Eliza Johnson, full age, Spinster of Sandbach
Were married by banns
witness: Ann Johnson; Henry Johnson
Grooms Father: Edward Eachus, Clicker
Brides Father: Samuel Johnson, Shoemaker
‎[Archive Copy - Parish 6]‎
Burial of spouse Buried with her husband John F Consigrated grave 447

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Family with Parents
Father
Edward Tench Eachus ‎(I653)‎
Birth 1820 29 28 Middlewich
Death 22 March 1899 ‎(Age 79)‎ Congleton R D
-9 months
Mother
 
Ann Grindley ‎(I676)‎
Birth 17 April 1819 29 28 Sandbach. Cheshire. England
Death 2 September 1861 ‎(Age 42)‎ Sandbach

Marriage: 27 March 1842 -- Sandbach by licence
3 months
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John Eachus ‎(I677)‎
Birth 4 July 1842 22 23 Sandbach, Cheshire, England
Death June 1919 ‎(Age 76)‎ 1 Mosley Rd, Levenshulme
3 years
#2
Sister
Jane Eachus ‎(I678)‎
Birth 6 January 1845 25 25 Sandbach, Cheshire, England
Death 26 November 1872 ‎(Age 27)‎ Sandbach
5 years
#3
Brother
Edward Eachus ‎(I679)‎
Birth 1850 30 30 Sandbach
Death 1936 ‎(Age 86)‎ The Homestead, Hope Hospital, Salford
Father's Family with Maria Harriet Godfrey
Father
Edward Tench Eachus ‎(I653)‎
Birth 1820 29 28 Middlewich
Death 22 March 1899 ‎(Age 79)‎ Congleton R D
19 months
Step-Mother
 
Maria Harriet Godfrey ‎(I680)‎
Birth 11 August 1821 21 23 Tamworth, Staffordshire, England
Death 14 August 1915 ‎(Age 94)‎ Stafford R D

Marriage: 25 February 1866 -- Elworth Chapel, Sandbach
4 months
#1
Half-Brother
Harry Eachus ‎(I681)‎
Birth 19 June 1866 46 44 Sandbach
Death 1936 ‎(Age 69)‎ 87 Marston Rd, Stafford
Family with Mary Whittingham
John Eachus ‎(I677)‎
Birth 4 July 1842 22 23 Sandbach, Cheshire, England
Death June 1919 ‎(Age 76)‎ 1 Mosley Rd, Levenshulme
5 years
Wife
 
Mary Whittingham ‎(I699)‎
Birth 1847 43 36 Sandbach, Cheshire, England
Death 1867 ‎(Age 20)‎ Sandbach

Marriage: 5 March 1867 -- Sandbach
-2 months
#1
Son
Edward Charles Eachus ‎(I703)‎
Birth 1867 24 20 Sandbach, Cheshire, England
Death 1867 Sandbach
Family with Eliza Johnson
John Eachus ‎(I677)‎
Birth 4 July 1842 22 23 Sandbach, Cheshire, England
Death June 1919 ‎(Age 76)‎ 1 Mosley Rd, Levenshulme
-13 months
Wife
 
Eliza Johnson ‎(I704)‎
Birth 2 June 1841 27 31 Sandbach
Death May 1914 ‎(Age 72)‎ 3 Hayden St, Manchester

Marriage: 31 March 1869 -- Sandbach
-6 years
#1
Daughter
Alice Eachus ‎(I700)‎
Birth 1863 20 21 Sandbach, Cheshire, England
Death 24 March 1955 ‎(Age 92)‎ Moston, Manchester
9 years
#2
Daughter
Jane Eachus ‎(I701)‎
Birth 19 May 1872 29 30 Manchester, Lancashire, England
Death 17 March 1900 ‎(Age 27)‎ Manchester RD
2 years
#3
Daughter
Kate Eachus ‎(I702)‎
Birth 30 July 1874 32 33 Manchester, Lancashire, England
Death 24 March 1950 ‎(Age 75)‎ Moston, Manchester