Randle Bagnall (1805-1891)

Randle Bagnall

Born:       Date Unknown

Christened/Baptised: 3 March 1805, Penkridge, Staffordshire, UK

Died:      4 January 1891, Penkridge Staffordshire, UK (buried 8 January 1891)

Father:     William Bagnall

Mother:   Ann Jackson

Brothers: Thomas (bapt. 10 Dec 1809)
Joseph (b.1801)
William (b. 29 Nov 1809 - bapt. 10 Dec 1809)

Sister:   Sarah (b. 18 March 1808, bapt. 14 Apr 1808 d. 4 Jan 1801)

Married:  Sophia Shirley (b. abt 1798, Breweood, bur.11 Mar 1856)

Children: George (d. 16 Nov 1872)

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Randle Bagnall was born in Penkridge in 1805 and died there only two months short of his 87th birthday in the same house as his sister, just a few hours after her on 4 January 1891.

A simple statement of fact until you read the entry published in the Staffordshire Advertiser on 10 January 1891 (see below) and gain an insight into Randle's hard but simple dedicated life, and the respect in which he was held.

His headstone still stands in Penkridge churchyard, next to that of his only son George who came to an untimely end when as the stationmaster of Saddleworth railway station, Yorkshire he was run down by a train.

To see pictures of Mill End, Penkridge, the house in which Randle and his sister Sarah spent at least the last years of their lives together (they are listed there in the 1881 census).