Individual:
CHRISTENING: Christening records; 1818-1826; Ecclesfield Parish Register, Ecclesfield, York
, England; FHL Bishop's Transcripts film #919212 & 919293 ; MARY chr 5 Mar 1820 father JOHN and MARTHA MUSCROFT of Hirst

1820 BIRTH-DEATH-ORDINANCES: TIB index card Salt Lake Temple records; ; LDS Church Salt Lak e City; ; Copy in possession of Backus Family Organization, Mesa Az. ABSTRACT: Mary Muscroft born 1 Feb 1820 Grenoside, Eng. died 1892 md to John Adams instance of William Adams g. son B.31 May 1920 E 3 June 1920.

1851 CENSUS: England Census,Eckington Derby;1851;FHC #087,781; In poss of Backus Family Organ ization 1152 N Forest Mesa, Az 85203; ABSTRACT: John Adams, head, age 34, Coal Miner born in Chesterfield,Derby; Mary wife age 31 born in Ecclesfield, York; Charles 11, scholar, born Sheffield, Yorks; Lucy 8, scholar, born Sheffield; John 6, scholar, born in Eckington Derby; James 4 born in Eckington, Derby; Mary Ann 9 months born in Eckington, Derby. Residence: Mosbro Moor, Derby.

1861 Census Eckington, Derby; 1861; FHL 542985; Obj: Adams & Muscroft; Comment: Martha Muscro ft

1892 DEATH: Letters from Arthur Marsden 31 Skepton Road Sheffield, England in 1954;

Universal Genealogy Research: 22 Oct 1990;
Marriage Records, Rotherham, Yorks; FHL misc's; 1806+; Obj: Muscroft Clues; comment: John a w idower in 1812? likely non-acestral.

IGI 1988 York; Obj: Muscroft Clues Comment: John 1795 s Robert; Robert md Martha Glossop.

John Adams (Husband) b. 22 Sep 1816 in Chesterfield,Derby,England
Marriage: 3 OCT 1838 in Parish Church,Chesterfield,Derby,England
Children:
Charles Adams b. 23 May 1840 in Elm Tree Hill,Sheffield,York,England
Lucy Adams b. 21 Aug 1842 in Elm Tree Hill,Sheffield,York,England
John Adams b. 20 Oct 1844 in Moorhole,Eckington,Derby,England
James Adams b. 13 Jan 1847 in Mosbro Moor,Eckington,Derby,England
Mary Ann Adams b. 28 Jun 1850 in Mosbro Moor,Eckington,Derby,England
Sophia Adams b. 3 Aug 1853 in Mosbro,Eckington,Derby,England
Jane Adams b. 19 Jul 1855 in Mosbro,Eckington,Derby,England

Married John Adams
3 Oct 1838
Parish Church, Chesterfield, Derbyshire, England

John Adams
John Adams was born in 1817 in England, the son of James and Rebecca Adams. He married M ary Muscroft, who was born March 5, 1820 daughter of John Muscroft and Martha Royals. He was a clerk and a Laye preacher in the Methodist Church and very strict. He played a violin and was very musical. He studied his Bible and taught it to his children so they knew it from cover to cover.

Mary ran a boarding house to help make ends meet. One night when John
came home from work his wife was sitting in the dining room where the roomers were eating. Sh e was nursing her baby. He abused her because he didn't think it proper. She left him and left the seven children with him, the baby just being very small. She came to America and lived the rest of her life in Philadelphia. My grandfather, James Adams, was the second child, and when he joined the Church and came to America he found her but he never told us much of her.

John Adams, with his brother Henry, started the Refuge Insurance Company. John was the B ranch Manager in Shefield. This Company is now one of the largest insurance companies in England.

When James, his son and family joined the Mormon Chruch, John disowned them. He never s poke to my grandfather again, altho he was very good to Martha and children when James left them to come to America to find work and a home.

John died at the home of his daughter Jane Marsden February 2,1899 and was buried Februa ry 4, 1899 at City Road Cemetery, Shefield, England.
As told by Lula May Adams Backus

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I Karen Backus Kleinman ,was preparing to teach a genealogy class on English Research. I decided to use my great grandfather James Adams, who was a Englishman and came to the United States in the 1870's as an example. Having been cut from all his family because of his faith in the LDS Church, he and his wife and 2 children came to Pennsylvania. Here my grandfather, George John Adams was born 23 Apr 1874. James said he found his mother there in Pennsylvania. A tradition my mother passed on to me about James Adams was that his mother Mary Muscroft had left the family when the youngest daughter Jane was just a baby. She left the family because as she was nursing Jane in the same room that one of their borders was in, her husband John Adams, was upset and abused her.
We had found John and all the children in the 1861 Census so I decided to look in the same Census for Mary. I found Mary living with a man named Clement Gregory. I remembered that name Clement Gregory and discovered he was a visitor in the home of John's parents, James and Rebecca Adams in the 1851 Census. Then I could not find her again in the 1871 census, but remembering the story of James my mother told me, I decided to check the Pennslyvania census. I found Clement Gregory with his wife Mary in Schuylkill, Pennsylvania, which is where my grandfather was born. The couple was also found in the 1880 Census.


Her parents
John Muscroft
1795-1860 KLXJ-JRW
Martha Artram
1790-1876 KLXJ-VSL
Married
01 SEP 1812
Rotherham,Yorkshire,England


John Adams
1816-1899 L87B-QKC
Mary Muscroft
1820-1892 L87C-T74
Married
3 Oct 1838
Parish Church, Chesterfield, Derbyshire, England
PREFERRED EDIT COUPLE
Children(8)
William Harvey Adams
1842-Deceased LZL9-4MP
Charles Adams
1841-1918 L7JY-5S8
Lucy Adams
1842-Deceased K64Y-WC5
John Adams
1844-1924 K2SB-Q73
James Adams
1847-1918 KWJH-2X7
Mary Ann Adams
1849-1898 LCVW-23J
Sophia Adams
1853-1938 K4XZ-8VP
Jane Adams
1855-1932



Clement Gregory
1818-1876 KNCR-W7F
Mary Muscroft
1820-1892 L87C-T74