Alice Hulme (Haslam) (Eckersley)

ALICE HULME (HASLAM)(ECKERSLEY)

(complied by Derek Berge in Pioneer Pedigree )

born:       October 12, 1815 in Lancashire, England

parents:   George Hulme and Ann Barlow

bro/sis:    2nd of 8 children (5 brothers & 2 sisters)

chronology:

 Alice (age 19) married John Haslam (age unknown) in about 1834.  From this

          marriage, 3 children were born:  Sarah (born 1835), William (1837) and Henry  

          (1839).  Alice’s husband John Haslam died in the early 1840s.  Following his

          death, it appears that Alice and her 3 small children live with or near her parents.

 Alice’s father George Hulme was one of the early converts of the Church in the

          Lancashire area of England being baptized on November 15, 1840 in Manchester.

          He and his family were heavily ridiculed and persecuted because George had held

          two very prominent positions in the Primitive Methodist Church, as the

          Superintendent of the church’s Education Department and as a accomplished singer

 In March on 1842, the Whitefield Branch was organized in the Hulme home.  Alice’s

          father, George, was instrumental in the church’s early progress (George served as

          Branch President).

 During the years from May 1842 - September of 1849, George served diligently and

          was involved in several miraculous spiritual manifestations such as speaking in

          tongues, visions and Priesthood blessings.  Many of these experiences involved

          George’s close friend, Joseph Eckersley.

 Joseph (age 36) married George Hulme’s widowed daughter Alice Hulme Haslam

          (age 30) on November 23, 1845.  At the time of their marriage, Alice’s 3 children

          thru her previous marriage to John Haslam were:  Sarah (age 10), William (8)

 Joseph and Alice Hulme Haslam Eckersley had 7 more children to complete

          their family of 10 children (all of whom were born in Lancashire, England):

          Emma (born 1846), Sophia (1848), Mary Ann (1850), Martha (1852), Elizabeth

          (1854), George (1857) and Alice (1860).

 The Eckersley family were accomplished silk weavers by trade having worked in

          textile factories in England.  They most likely brought several weaving looms with

          them to America and were later well known for their weavings in Utah.

 Alice’s two boys thru her first husband William (age 16) and Henry (age 14)

          immigrated to America to earn money for the rest of the family to come later in

          1853 (9 years prior to the remainder of the family).  There were 9 ships which

          traveled from Liverpool to New Orleans in.  It is not known upon which ship they

          traveled. The remaining 10 family members continued working in England to earn

          their passage to America.

 On April 30, 1863, Joseph (age 54), Alice (age 48), Sara Haslam (age 28) and the 7

          Eckersley children:  Emma (age 17), Sophia (15), Mary Ann (13), Martha (11),

          Elizabeth (9), George (6) and Alice (2) left Liverpool on the ship John J. Boyd.

          The John J. Boyd was a large ship carrying 763 persons and was lead by William

X. Cluff.  The ocean journey took 4 weeks (the exact arrival date is unrecorded).

          Upon arrival in New York they were taken to Castle Garden for processing.

 The family of 10 then traveled westward by train from New York to St. Louis.  The

          train was so crowded and small that there was no room even to lie down.

 They then traveled by steamboat up the Missouri River for 3 days wherein they

          reached Winter Quarters, Nebraska in the summer of 1863.

 The Eckersleys waited until the ox-train teamsters from Utah arrived.  The

          Eckersley family quickly joined with the teamsters and began their journey west as

          part of the John R. Murdock (ox-team) Company I.  The company was made up of

          275 members.  The children (ages 17 to the youngest daughter Alice age 3) walked

          most all of the way.

 Upon safely arriving in Salt Lake City on August 26, 1863, they camped in a tent for

          a week while waiting for their older step-brother to meet them with an ox-team.

          The family of 10 and all their belongings reached Wellsville 2 days later.  The

          reunion was a happy one, with the entire blended family of 12 having all reached

          the saints without any loss of life.  There, in Wellsville, Cache County, Utah, they

          would make their home.

Alice Eckersly

Alice Eckersly  (GGGM, 1860 - 1950, as recorded from Grandmother Anderson, from Life History of Alice Anderson by Alice Griffin, from the personal history of her sister Emma Eckersly Stoddard and A Brief History of the Life of Hans Jacob (Michael Anderson) -

 

     Alice was born the youngest of 10 children on March 4, 1860 in Lark Hill, England to Joseph Eckersly and Alice Hulme.  Alice’s mother was previously married to John Haslem, by whom she had 3 children, one daughter and two sons - William and Henry.  Joseph and Alice had 6 daughters and one son all born in Lancashire, England.  

     Her father, Joseph, was a weaver by trade and so were most of the children who worked in the factories to support the family.  The family lived in the poorest of conditions.  Most of the children had no opportunity for education.  Alice’s oldest sister never attended her first day of school.  At the age of 8 most of the children began working full time.  Alice’s eldest sister, Emma took employment nursing small children from the time she was eight until she was twelve.  The family weaved cloth in their home for extra income and most of the children eventually worked in a local silk factory. 

     Alice’s parents and the 3 children from her mother’s previous marriage all joined the LDS Church in England before the birth of their 7 children.  Alice’s father, Joseph, was very involved in the administrative duties (serving as a clerk) in the Middleton Branch of the LDS Church.  The family soon decided to emigrate to America to be with the saints.  Her two oldest brothers went to America nine years before the rest of he family to earn money to help pay for the rest of the family to come to Utah.  The brothers in Utah worked hard as farmers and sent most all their money to the rest of the family in England. 

     Alice was 2 years old when her family left Liverpool (in May of 1863) bound for New York City on the ship SS John J. Bye.  The trip by ship took 4 weeks.  Her family then travelled by train for 2 weeks.  In order to afford the train trip, they booked the least expensive passage which consisted of riding in a car so filled with people that she couldn't lay down but had to rest on benches for the entire 2 week ride to St. Joseph, Misssouri.  Her older sister Emma recalls seeing a camp of Indians for the first time.   Next her family went up the Mississippi River by steamboat.  During their trip they picked berries along the river bank for food.  They eventually reached Florence, Nebraska (later known as Winter Quarters).  Soon the teamsters came from Utah with their oxen teams.  It then took 9 weeks traveling by oxen team to reach Salt Lake City in 1863.  The older children walked most of the way.  They camped in tents for a week until one of her older brothers (William) came from Wellsville with a horse team and conveyed them to Wellsville.  It had been 9 years since they had seen him.  Ironically, the team and wagon belonged to Alice’s older sister Emma’s future husband 

     They then traveled with all their belongings 90 miles to the town of Wellsville, camping by roadside at night.  The 9 year separation made for a thrilling reunion.  The younger brother Henry was soo poorly dressed it made their mother cry.  Both brothers were tired and nearly destitute owning no more clothing than what they had on.  Her family had exausted all their life savings but had accomplished their task without the loss of a single member of their family.  The now reunited family of 12 settled in Wellsville.  They children all were put to work farming (mostly picking potatoes) and building a home.  They gathered enough supplies to weather the first winter in Wellsville. Alice’s older brother played the cornet for dances and earned enough money to buy a winter’s supply of flour.  Alice’s father built a loom and they began weaving cloth and rugs made from wool.  They were hard working souls and attended school as much as time would allow.  Living conditions were very bad and the winters were very cold.  Alice remembers snow drifts as high as the their windows.  The entire family lived in a one log room until most of the girls had married.

     Some 6 years later her father would die leaving the family destitute.  She recalls being so poor that most of the children's shoes had no soles on them.  Her feet were so cold they nearly frozen during the winters.  She recalls that almost as soon as you were old enough to “work out” you were expected to earn their own living.  At the age of 25, she and her Aunt Sarah Stoddard traveled to Evanston, Wyoming where the two of them began working as cooks for the railroad crews.  There she met a man who was the section or “gang boss” for the railroad.  A short time after they met he began getting serious, but although she had taken a liking to him from their first meeting, she did not encourage him because he did not belong to the LDS Church.  There was a large room where they danced and Michael loved to dance.  They would start dancing early in the evening and dance until one o’clock as hard as they could dance.  The dances he liked the most were the Waltz, Danish Tucker, French Four, Finger Polka, Sextour and the Virginia Reel.  He promised her that he would join the church if she would marry him and 11 months after they met, they were married.  The were married on Christmas Eve December 24, 1887  in Aspin, Wyoming.  He was 29 years of age and she was 25. 

     The family that Alice was now working for were LDS and threw a big dance for them the night before they left for Salt Lake City, Utah on their honeymoon.  They stayed at a hotel called “Cliff” for 3 days.  Then they came to Wellsville and spent the rest of the holidays with her family.  They danced nearly every night.  Alice, his new bride, recalls having to sit out some of the dances because she couldn’t keep up with him. 

     After their honeymoon, they reurned to Aspen, where they made their home.  Their nearest neighbors were 25 miles away.  They travelled by foot and train because Michael didn’t own a horse and buggy until after they moved to Utah.  Shortly after their marriage, Alice became very ill with “arisipilis” and nearly died due to their remoteness from medical care.  She recovered, but while in a very weak physical condition, she contracted typhoid fever and was again very ill and near death for several weeks.  Michael decided  he wanted to do something other than being a boss of a railroad crew, so  they decided to move to Wellsville, Utah where Alice could be closer to her family.   

George Hulme & Ann Barlow

Ann Barlow Hulme was born September 03, 1793 in Unsworth, Lancashire England, the daughter of John Barlow and Alice Spencer and died 11 February 1853, also in Unsworth Lancashire England. She and George were married c1812.

 

Lancashire England

George Hulmes was born 05 January 1794 in Unsworth, Lancashire England to Phillip Hulme and Elizabeth Dawson, and died 27 October 1865 in Platte River Nebraska.

 
The children of Ann Barlow and George Hulme:
+Betty Hulme, born July 13, 1813 in Little Heaton Lancashire England; died February 1888 - married: Richard Yates
+Alice Hulme, born 12 October 1815 in Unsworth Lancashire England; died 08 December 1893
married: 1. John Haslam; married 2. Joseph Eckersley November 23, 1845
+Uri Hulme, born 08 November 1818 in Unsworth Lancashire England; died May 1863
+William Hulme, born 06 December 1820 in Unsworth Lancashire England; died 24 September 1889
+George Hulme, born 19 April 1823 in Unsworth Lancashire England; died 7 April 1863
+Ann Hulme, born 03 May 1826 in Little Heaton, Lancashire England; died 19 August 1861
married: Thomas BARLOW 05 November 1848  (see above)
(Thomas Barlow married Ann Hulme on November 05, 1848, at Oldham, England. She was born on May 03, 1826, at Little Heaton, Lancashire, England, and was a daughter of George Hulme (1794-1865) and Ann Barlow (1793-1853, a sister of Edward Barlow). She died on August 19, 1861, while traveling with the family from Nebraska to Utah and was buried near Deer Creek, Wyoming.

Additonal information added January 2005, by Susan Barlow Holmes from Treasure of Pioneer History, The Price of Pioneering, Four Lonely Children, pg 444

Ann Hulme Barlow, daughter of George and Ann Barlow Hulme was born May 03, 1826 in Little Heaton, Lancashire, England. She was baptized into the Latter-day Saint Church in March, 1842. She was a hand weaver in one of the silk mills near Manchester. Ann married her cousin Thomas Barlow. Two children, Edward and Walker were born in England. Thomas and Ann with their sons left Liverpool on the ship Siddons February 27, 1855. When they arrived at Pittsburg, Thomas and Ann stopped to visit two brothers, George and Uri Hulme.

Thomas found employment in a confectionery and bakery and the family resided there six years during which time three more children were born to Ann, Elizabeth Ann, George Thomas and Abraham. When the baby was a few days old they started on their journey to Utah. The hardships of the journey were too much for Ann and she soon became ill. The baby died the 3rd of August 1861 and was buried by the wayside. Ann died sixteen days later and was buried on the left hand side of the road ten miles west of Deer Creek Station in Wyoming.

Thomas and their four children continued the journey and arrived in Salt Lake City the 13th of September, 1861 in the Joseph Horne company.
—Harriet Ann Barlow Leste)


+David Hulme, born 12 July 1828 in Unsworth Lancashire England; died 24 January 1841
+Walker Hulme, born 02 March 1830 in Unsworth Lancashire England; died 10 July 1846

source: http://www.barlowgenealogy.com/Families/MormonFamilies/Barlow-Hulme.html

More Information on George Hulme
George Hulme was first baptized in Manchester, England by Ralph Staford on 15 Nov 1840. He was cut off from the Church on 5 Sep 1852. Rebaptized at Middleton by Wm. Booth on 13 Aug 1853. He emigrated on the ship "Columbia" which sailed from Liverpool, Tues.18 Nov 1856. The agent was Orson Pratt.
He died on the plains coming to Utah. He was rebaptized again after death, 22 Dec 1891.

source: Niddleton Record Book #514 at Church Historians Office, Salt Lake City; Barlow Family Records compiled by Mae Barlow Watkins, now deceased; records in poss of Janet Marie Barlow Schetselaar, Lakeside, CA. 1996. 

Hans Michael Anderson & Alice Eckersley Anderson

Hans Michael Anderson's birth name was Hans Jacob Anderson. After arriving in America he changed his name to Hans Michael Anderson, he always went by Michael. He was born March 9, 1858 in Denmark.

Alice Eckersley was born March 4, 1860 in Lancashire England and came to America on the ship "John J. Boyd" in 1863.