Person: BAMFORTH, Mrs Martha (1843-1894)

Person summary

Biographical summary of this person

Full name

Mrs Martha Ann BAMFORTH

Gender

female

Relevance of this person

model appearing in slide sets

Main period of activity

1880s-90s

Relationships to other people

married to BAMFORTH, James (1842-1911)

mother of BAMFORTH, Harry (1867-1930)

mother of BAMFORTH, Walter (1869- ? )

mother of BAMFORTH, Fred (1871- ? )

mother of BAMFORTH, Frank (1872-1947)

mother of BAMFORTH, Lizzie (1875-1956)

mother of BAMFORTH, Edwin (1877-1939)

mother of BAMFORTH, Jane (1878-1963)

Chronology

Date

Age

Event/activity

28 September 1843

born at

Austonley, Yorkshire (West Riding), England

1871-1894

resident

Hey Gap, Holmfirth, Yorkshire (West Riding), England

1894

~50

died at

Holmfirth, Yorkshire (West Riding), England

Slides showing image of this person

slide image -- She seized the picture eagerly and held it before her with evident delight

slide image -- And when she tried to comfort her, her mother only wept the more

slide image -- 'Do you hear me?' said her father, 'stop crying, at once'

slide image -- The poor woman raised herself in bed and arranged her little girl's curly tresses

slide image -- She fell asleep, her weary head resting on her mother's pillow

slide image -- There was a little cottage near where the caravan was drawn up

slide image -- 'Rosalie,' said her mother, 'would you like to hear, &c.'

slide image -- 'Glad to see you so much better, madam'

slide image -- It was a very pale, sorrowful face, which the looking glass reflected

slide image -- 'I'm not going to lose a pretty child, like her, from the stage'

slide image -- 'You mustn't cry for me, darling,' said her mother

slide image -- Her father lifted her from the bed

slide image -- Rosalie was too full of feeling for any words

slide image -- Rosalie sat on a stool at her aunt's feet

slide image -- When suddenly starting, poor Nelly awoke

slide image -- 'Ah, Nelly, my blessing,' the sick woman said

slide image -- And Nelly's poor mother is sick and alone

slide image -- And now let us look in that poor upper room

slide image -- Mother must not grieve, thought Nelly

slide image -- When, through the hand of Providence, there came the timely aid

slide image -- Dear William! love me once again

slide image -- Oh, when was Sabbath eve like this?

slide image -- But in a corner, dark and chill

slide image -- But then began to tell her tale

slide image -- Our house stood in a bed of flowers

slide image -- Again, the woman heaved a groan

slide image -- The Count and Countess were Sitting together on the Terrace

slide image -- 'What were you going to say?' asked the Mission Lady

slide image -- 'Hark! that's my poor Dickey coughing'

slide image -- The room was quite empty except for the poor boy, who lay there in sore need of aid

slide image -- She soaked a morsel in the broth and put it into Dickey's mouth

slide image -- 'I can't leave him,' she said, 'he's such a little fellow, it would never do for him to be left'

slide image -- He was very weak, poor little fellow, and glad of Neddie's help in raising the tea cup to his lips

slide image -- She poured a heap of pennies into her lap

slide image -- 'I'm Dickey's relation, Miss Gray, I'm going to see him. Do I look like a relation?'

slide image -- Hymn: 'The roseate hues of early dawn' (with vignette Neddie singing over Dickey's bed)

slide image -- For a few minutes after Neddie stopped singing, no one spoke

slide image -- 'I never saw anything like it before,' said Dickey

slide image -- Two men carried her in apparently dead

slide image -- 'Have I been ill, Miss Bell?' said Neddie

slide image -- Hymn: 'I heard the voice of Jesus' (with vignette)

slide image -- It became necessary, on Dickey's repeated enquiries, to break the news to him

slide image -- 'Oh! do take me to see my poor Dickey'

slide image -- Neddie put out one tiny hand toward them and said, 'Poor little Dickey, it doesn't hurt, dear'

slide image -- She swung herself round on the music-stool, and said, etc.

slide image -- He glanced at it rather longingly as he paid down his money

slide image -- The girl played with the broken chair

slide image -- 'Mother, who is the blessed Lord?'

slide image -- Come, let us kneel and say the words

slide image -- 'Suzie, my child, wake up, wake up'

slide image -- Through many a mile of street they wind

slide image -- And cottage gardens full of flowers

slide image -- 'We never give to strolling tramps'

slide image -- At last they came upon a wood

slide image -- And looked around -- but all in vain

slide image -- With curious steps she ventured near

slide image -- 'And that must be the Lord again'

slide image -- Upon their unknown road again

slide image -- They knelt upon the bare roadside

slide image -- Into a kitchen large and clean

slide image -- 'And did you never go to school?'

slide image -- He read about the Prodigal

slide image -- She looked up at the kindly face

slide image -- How pleasant was that cheerful toil

slide image -- The master sat with open book

slide image -- 'Might they nurse Madge? they'd be so glad'

slide image -- 'But, Madge, I love you dearly now'

slide image -- Her spirit went forth in the night

slide image -- 'And they have neither home nor friends'

slide image -- Out on the door-step, wet and cold

slide image -- On, on, he strode with rapid step

slide image -- I let her stand out in the street

slide image -- Out on the door-step stood my wife

slide image -- The touch of its small icy feet

slide image -- My child, thank God, is rosy now

slide image -- It is Christmas Day in the Workhouse, and the cold bare walls are bright

slide image -- 'Great God!' he cries; 'but it chokes me! for this is the day she died'

slide image -- He looked at the guardians' ladies, then, eyeing their lords, he said:

slide image -- 'Keep your hands off me, curse you! hear me right out ot the end'

slide image -- 'You, who would feast us paupers, what of my murdered wife?'

slide image -- He heard a voice which woke strange memories

slide image -- The mission was inaugurated by a tea -- followed by a meeting

slide image -- Biddy went to church every Sabbath, and generally fell asleep

slide image -- A sermon she heard one Sabbath was the means of confirming her faith

slide image -- Biddy joined with all her heart in the concluding hymn

slide image -- A lady came with her children to visit the grave. Katie had recovered

slide image -- An encampment of gipsies was pitched on the outskirts

slide image -- He arranged with the man to steal the child and bring him the money

slide image -- When Rhoda's mother reached the tent, all were eager

slide image -- Mr Joyce was soon with his idolised boy

slide image -- Miss Joyce took good care of the child

slide image -- He looked up gladly as his father came in

slide image -- His father lifted him gently on to his knee and pressed him close

slide image -- Miss Joyce met him at the gate. 'Do find him for us, Davie,' she said

slide image -- The two doctors stood beside little Willie's bed

slide image -- 'Don't cry, papa,' and the little hands felt for his face

slide image -- When he regained his senses he was weak as a child

slide image -- Guide Thou our footsteps, send the morning light

slide image -- Attend the sacred house of God with Holy Book in hand

slide image -- A worn-out woman, ghastly pale

slide image -- And made a bed as best they could

slide image -- Little Mabel and her mother were coming down the steps when Christie arrived

slide image -- The lady sat down beside Treffy, and they talked together of Jesus

slide image -- And it makes his heart rejoice

slide image -- Effect. It sounds to him like her mother's voice singing in Paradise!

slide image -- Effect. He needs must think of her once more how in the grave she lies

slide image -- And picked up a brass-bound hymn-book and aimed at our chaplain's face

slide image -- She bit and she tore and scratched us, and kicked like a beast at bay

slide image -- 'Poor lass, may the Lord forgive her as I forgive her too!'

slide image -- And there are feeble women, who work the live-long day, / And far into the hours of night, sewing their souls away

slide image -- Then forward, gentle somen, of helpful hand and true, / Go, join with the explorers and show what you can do

slide image -- She weaves thro' each night a ladder of light

slide image -- Hours went by, but no father came

slide image -- She began, with a trembling voice, to sing

slide image -- It was God's doing, Bessie

slide image -- He went with unsteady steps to the bedside

slide image -- For days Brian sat in heavy, silent grief

slide image -- Once more they had their tidy rooms

slide image -- 'But I want to make myself clean,' said poor Jack

slide image -- 'Susie, my child, wake up, wake up'

Slide set references

image appears in: Biddy (service of song: Bamforth & Co., 39 slides, 1894)

image appears in: Catterina: a pathetic story (story: Bamforth & Co., 49 slides, 1893)

image appears in: Christie's old organ: home, sweet home (service of song: Bamforth & Co., 47-60 slides, 1892)

image appears in: Christmas in Paradise (story: Bamforth & Co., 26 slides, 1893)

image appears in: Her Benny (story: Bamforth & Co., 42 slides, 1889)

image appears in: In darkest London (recitation: Bamforth & Co., 5 slides, 1892)

image appears in: In the workhouse (recitation: Bamforth & Co., 9 slides, 1890)

image appears in: Jack the conqueror: new series (story: Bamforth & Co., 41 slides, 1893)

image appears in: Mother's last words (recitation: Bamforth & Co., 19 slides, 1880s)

image appears in: Neddie's care: or, suffer the little children (story: Bamforth & Co., 25 slides, 1887)

image appears in: Our Father's care (recitation: Bamforth & Co., 14 slides, 1880s)

image appears in: Queen of the earth (song: Bamforth & Co., 12 slides, 1902)

image appears in: Rhoda: or, the gipsy girl's mission of love (service of song: Bamforth & Co., 40-46 slides, 1894)

image appears in: Shepherd of souls (song: Bamforth & Co., 8 slides, 1898)

image appears in: Stumps: a sequel to Nelly's champion (story: Bamforth & Co., 21 slides, 1889)

image appears in: There's help at hand (recitation: Bamforth & Co., 28 slides, 1880s)

image appears in: There's help at hand (service of song: Bamforth & Co., 28 slides, 1896)

image appears in: Won by a child (service of song: Bamforth & Co., 41-46 slides, 1894)

image appears in: The ballad singer (recitation: Bamforth & Co., 6 slides, 1883-1888)

image appears in: The drunkard's wife (recitation: Bamforth & Co., 6 slides, 1880s)

image appears in: The drunkards (recitation: Bamforth & Co., 12 slides, 1880s)

image appears in: The gipsy's revenge (story: Bamforth & Co., 34 slides, 1886)

image appears in: The idol of Britain (recitation: Bamforth & Co., 7 slides, 1899)

image appears in: The little shoes (recitation: Bamforth & Co., 6 slides, 1880s)

image appears in: The matron's story (recitation: Bamforth & Co., 12 slides, 1890)

image appears in: A peep behind the scenes (story: Bamforth & Co., 36 slides, 1880s)

image appears in: The village blacksmith (recitation: Bamforth & Co., 12 slides, 1891)

Notes

Name at birth was Martha Ann Beaumont; married James Bamforth 22 June 1865.

It's not certain that the person identified as a model in several Bamforth slide sets is Mrs Bamforth, but this seems very likely (she seems to stop appearing after 1894).

Lucerna ID 6002375

Record created by Richard Crangle. Last updated 10 July 2019

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