Robert Durno

  General Notes:

1854 - living in Knutton Heath, Engineman [marriage certificate]

1861 Census for Hanley - living at 136 Hope Street (28, Potter Slip Maker, B. Hanley) with wife Lucy (27, Hanley) and children William (5,scholar,b.Hanley) Edna (3,b.Hanley) and Samuel (10mnths,b.Hanley). Also lodgers Samuel Shenton (28,Miller,b.Wetley Rocks) and wife Harriet (26,b.Hanley). [rg9,pc1936,fo46,pg43,gsu roll 542890]

1881 Census for Hanley - living at Botteslow Mill (48,General Labourer,b.Hanley) with wife Lucy (47,b.Hanley) and children Samuel (20,Potter, b.Hanley), William R (17, Potter, b.Hanley), Harriet (12, Scholar, b.Hanley) and Lucy (4,b.Hanley). [rg11,pc2718,fo42,pg18,gsu roll 1341651]

See info on Botteslowmill and a map;
http://www.thepotteries.org/streets/hanley/trentmill_rd/index.htm
Today "Trentmill Road derives its name from the Upper Botteslow Mill, on the Trent, between at least 1759 and 1912, part of which (in 1960) was still standing at the end of Trentmill Road. Lower Botteslow Mill, a little way downstream was in use by 1792 and still in use in the early 1920's.
The trade directories often did not distinguish between the two Botteslow mills, one of which was a bone mill in 1834, but both were again flint mills by the 1860's "

Marriage Cert held [ courtesy Jean Jones : pjeanj@btinternet.com] - shows the signature of Robert and the mark of Lucy. Witnesses were Samuel Shenton (signed) and Edna Durno (marked)

  Noted events in his life were:

• Occupation: Flint miller/ Gen. Lab.

• Occupation: Potter Slip Maker, 1861.

Robert married Lucy Shenton, daughter of Unknown and Elizabeth Shenton, August 20th 1854 in Parish Church, Wolstanton, Staffordshire.⁶⁸ (Lucy Shenton was born about 1834 in Hanley, S-O-T, Staffs ⁶⁹ and died after 1891 ⁷¹.)