1836 JOHN SPIER HERON
John Spier Heron was born c. 1806. His parents were John Holt Heron and Elizabeth Heron.
On 4 September 1828 he married Sarah Clay at the church of St John, Manchester.
He was elected mayor in 1836. During his mayoral year, records show [CB.Wi a1/3 – council minute books 1835-1841] that in January the council decided to bring more order to the corporation’s written records and its civic paraphernalia:
It was further ordered that all goods securities books papers charters deeds and records belonging to or concerning the Corporation, together with the chest, wherever they be, be immediately brought hither and henceforth kept in the town hall for the use and inspection of the council and their respective committees and that the town clerk be instructed to make out a catalogue of the above and all that property of the corporation in a book to be called a catalogue of the corporation property.
(Whether this happened is a matter for further research!)
According to the 1836 Poll book the family lived in Wigan, but the mayor owned properties in Patricroft.
In the 1841 census he is recorded as a cotton spinner, aged 35, Sarah is the same age, and they have 3 daughters: Lily (9); Edith (7); Mary (10mo). Their address is Sovereign Cottage, Warrington Lane.
John Spier Heron died on 25 January 1851 in Over Darwen; the probate record shows his estate had a value of £600.
Sarah died on 27 December 1870, and husband and wife are both interred at Rusholme.