William Edward Green (1871 - 1946)
William Edward Green was the son of Edward Green and Maria (née Scott), born 1839 and baptised 28 Jul 1839 in St Botolph’s, Cambridge.
In the 1881 Census he was aged 9, a scholar, living with his parents. He had moved away from Cambridge before he was 19.
1891 Census
William had moved over 150 miles north and was living in lodgings in Bradford where he was working as a Railway Porter.
William married Edith Alice Elizabeth Chester in 1893 in Bradford. They had two children in Bradford and then (around 1896) moved 60 miles south to
Retford in Nottinghamshire.
Bradford is a city and metropolitan borough in West Yorkshire, England. It is located
approximately 8.6 miles (14 km) west of Leeds and lies in the eastern foothills of the
Pennines.
Historically part of the West Riding of Yorkshire, Bradford rose to prominence in the 19th
century as an international centre of textile manufacture, particularly wool. It was a boom
town of the Industrial Revolution, and amongst the earliest industrialised settlements,
rapidly becoming the "wool capital of the world".
The Leeds and Bradford Railway opened Forster Square railway station on 1 July 1846 with
a service via Shipley to Leeds. The station was
rebuilt in the early 1850s and again, in 1890 and
1990.
The Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway opened a
station at Drake Street on 9 May 1850, between
Manchester and Leeds. The Great Northern Railway
opened a third terminus at Adolphus Street in
1854, but the station was too far from the centre,
and the two companies built a joint station,
Bradford Exchange which opened in 1867.
