Descendants of Thomas Dexter and Ann Davis
Susannah Dexter, daughter of Thomas Dexter and Ann Davis, was born on 11th April 1818 at Codnor Park in Derbyshire. On 2nd February 1835 she married Benjamin Waller and had two sons: Thomas Waller, born in 1838, and William Waller, born in 1840. At the 1841 census she was aged 20, and living at Waterloo, Ashton-under-Lyne together with Benjamin and sons Thomas (5) and William (1). So far there is no record of what happened to her first marriage, but son Thomas Waller later married and had children, while son William had taken the name Quarmby by the time of his death in 1858.

She later married John Quarmby on 12th March 1854. Together they had nine children. Between 1854 and 1856 they appeared to be living at Hindley, Wigan, but by the time of the 1861 census were living at 18 Lees Square, Knott Lanes, Ashton-under-Lyne, together with Anne (17, cotton weaver), Betty (15, cotton weaver), John (13, coal miner), Amos (10, coal miner), James (8), Joseph (5), and Emma (1). By 1871 John and Susannah were living at 48 Limehurst, Bardsley, Oldham, together with Anne Quarmby (daughter, 27, unmarried, coal miner), John Quarmby (son, 23, unmarried, coal miner), Amos Quarmby (son, 20, unmarried, coal miner), James Quarmby, (18, unmarried, coal miner), Joseph Henry Quarmby, (son, 15, coal miner). Emma Quarmby (daughter, 11, scholar), Edward Albert Quarmby (son, 9, scholar), Fanny Sarah Quarmby (?Granddaughter, 6, scholar), William Whittaker (grandson, 3, scholar), Richard Holden (lodger, 26, unmarried, coal miner).

However, within a year or two the family had moved to Bridgewater Street, Hindley, Wigan, where John died in 1873. The family then moved to Tyldesley. At the 1881 census Susannah was described as a miner's widow, living at 80 Shuttle Street together with Fanny Quarmby (daughter, 16, unmarried, Reeler in cotton factory), Edward Quarmby (son, 19, unmarried, checkweighman in colliery), Emma Hoskins (daughter, 21, married, comber tenter in cotton factory), Thomas Hoskins (son-in-law, 21, married, coal miner, born in Derby), Elizabeth Hoskins, (granddaughter, 1, born in Tyldesley), and Elizabeth Walters (lodger, 8, born in Pembroke, Wales).

Susannah died on September 7th 1891 at 34 High Street, Tyldesley. Her children were:

  1. Thomas Waller, b. 1838 in Nuneaton, d. 23/2/1912
  2. William Waller (Quarmby), b. 1840, killed on 2/2/1858 in an explosion at Bardsley Colliery.
  3. Anne Quarmby, b. 1844 in Ashton-under-Lyne.
  4. Betty Quarmby, b. 1846 in Ashton-under-Lyne.
  5. John Quarmby, b. 1848 in Bardsley.
  6. Amos Quarmby, b. 1851 in Bardsley.
  7. James Quarmby, b. 1853 in Ashton-under-Lyne.
  8. Susannah Quarmby, b. 1854 in Hindley, d. 1854.
  9. Joseph Henry Quarmby, b. 1856 in Hindley.
  10. Emma Garlick Quarmby, b. 1860 in Bardsley.
  11. Edward Albert Quarmby, b. 1862 in Bardsley.
According to Andrew Quarmby, James and Edward Quarmby emigrated to Bristol, Massachusetts, USA between 1891 and 1901 - where their sister Betty had moved before 1880.