Charles Ibbotson & Company
The newspaper obituary of Charles Ibbotson (c.1836-1927) was headlined: ‘Unbeaten by Early Handicaps’ (Sheffield Daily Independent, 14 April 1927). He had been born at Hathersage, the son of Mary Ann Ibbotson (1815-1873). Mary Ann’s father was George Ibbotson, a farmer; her mother was ‘Alathia’. In the Census (1841), Mary Ann was living with four-year-old Charles at the Ibbotson family home at Hathersage. However, no identifiable father was enumerated and Charles may have been ....
