Death of Mr Daniel Lingard
Obituary from "The Pottery Gazette" 1st February 1913

We regret to announce the death of Mr Daniel Lingard which took place on Jan 12th at his residence, Clowes Villa, Alsager, Tunstall.
The late Mr Lingard was the senior member of the firm of Lingard, Webster and Jones of Swan bank Pottery, Tunstall manufacturers of teapots, hot water jugs, &c., in Rockingham, Samian and jet, a house well known in the trade. Mr Lingard was 68 years of age, and devoted the greater part of his life to the development of the business.

For upwards of three years he had suffered from a painful illness which he endured with resignation.

He did much active work amongst the Primitive Methodists, by whom he was greatly respected. For several years he was steward of the Alsager circuit, and was also treasurer of the local orphanage fund. He was superintendent of the Sunday School and officiated as organist and choirmaster in the early years of the Methodist Church in Alsager. He represented the district on the Synod and Annual Conference.

The funeral took place at Christ Church, Alsager on Jan 15, after a service held in the Methodist Church, Alsager, where he had been in the habit of worshipping. In addition to the relatives a large assembly of members of the trade and local residents attended to show their respect for the deceased.   

A recipe for Happiness ?
 David N Barker, FHS of Cheshire Member Number 2574

Take three wives... There is nothing unusual in a person marrying three times!!  Daniel Lingard, who was born in Kidsgrove in 1845 the son of a miner, married my great Aunt Kate Barker at Alsager on the 27th October 1868. The marriage took place in the Parish Church, Alsager by license.  At the time of the marriage he was a grocer at Chapel Terrace in Alsager.  Kate was the third daughter of James and Julia Barker and she  died on the 8th April 1885.  They  had no children.  There seemed nothing unusual about this marriage and indeed it was uncomplicated!! 

In the past year I have ‘found’ another branch of my large family and a lady from that branch asked if I had found the three sisters that Daniel Lingard had married.   

We knew that a Daniel Lingard married another of my great Aunts,  Annie Barker.  This was from a newspaper article about her in 1955 when she was 95 and in a home in Congleton.  A little research showed she was a cousin of the late Kate Barker.   Annie and Daniel married at the Primitive Methodist Chapel in Rocester in Staffordshire in February 1897.  Again this marriage produced no issue.  Daniel died in 1913 and his obituary in a Pottery trade paper revealed that he was a partner in the Pottery business of Lingard and Webster of  Swan Bank Pottery in Tunstall, Stoke on Trent.  Other than a similarity of names we had not suspected that they were the one and same person. 

Kate, his first wife had a number of sisters including a Julia and an Annie.  Julia had married a Thomas Colclough earlier and was a widow living in Bechton.   A search found that a Julia Colclough, a widow, married a Daniel Lingard, a widower, in 1886 at the Primitive  Methodist Chapel in Sandbach again by license. There is no record of any children of this marriage.   Julia died in 1894 and is buried in Alsager.   The other sister Annie had died at the age of 22 years in 1848.  So the 3 sisters story was flawed.   However his third wife was a cousin, Annie, the daughter of the first and second wives  fathers brother. 

Daniel was a prominent member of the Alsager Primitive Methodist movement.  He was the Superintendent of the Sunday School and officiated as organist and choirmaster as well as being the district representative on the Synod and Annual Conference.

It  must be unusual for a man to have married two sisters and a cousin from the same family.