Joseph Tickle and Annie Tickle nee Horton,
together with Herbert Stanley Tickle and Gladys Kate Tickle
and Kate Horton
The Tickles and the Hortons were prominent Cheshire farming families.
Annie Horton, the second daughter of John and Hannah Horton was born on 2 April 1873 at Little Leigh in Cheshire. She was baptised there on 11 April. John had previously been married to Jane Taylor who had borne him four children before her death in 1869. He then remarried in 1870 and his wife Hannah bore four children. Many of the children took on farms of their own.
Annie married Joseph Tickle at Little Leigh on 9 June 1904 and came to live with him at Waverley Farm, Stoneleigh. They would have two children, both of whom are buried with their parents here. Annie herself died on 3 March 1952.
Joseph Tickle's father had farmed at New Manor Farm in Preston-on-the-Hill, Cheshire. Joseph was the oldest child of Peter Tickle and Mary Turner Tickle nee Whitlow, who had eight children altogether; he was born on 17 March 1866 and was baptised on 29 April at Aston-by-Sutton. When he married Annie Horton at Little Leigh in Cheshire, on 9 June 1904, he was already farming at Stoneleigh, at Waverley Farm. The Leigh family were evidently the connection between Cheshire and Warwickshire: when Joseph's sister-in-law Ellen Horton died in 1943 it was reported that her father John (that is, Joseph's father-in-law) had been the oldest tenant on Lord Leigh's Cheshire estate.
Joseph was a prominent breeder of fat cattle and farmed at Waverley Farm for more than 30 years before retiring to live at Wayside Farm, Ansty. He was chairman of the Warwick branch of the NFU among many other positions held; he also represented Stoneleigh parish on the Warwick Board of Guardians. He died on 28 April 1956 and was buried at Stoneleigh on 1 May.
Their son
Herbert Stanley Tickle was born on 5 July 1906 in Stoneleigh, and baptised on 5 August. He was a dairy farmer at Wayside Farm, Ansty when recorded in the 1939 register; his sister Gladys was assisting in the work and his parents lived there too. He died unmarried on 17 October 1987, residing at Leicester Lane in Stoneleigh.
Gladys Kate Tickle was born on 20 February 1908 and baptised at Stoneleigh on 15 March. She continued to live with her parents and remained unmarried, dying on 15 November 1997 and being buried on 26 November with her brother and parents.
Kate Horton was Annie Tickle nee Horton's sister by their father's second marriage. She was born on 14 April 1878 at Little Leigh and baptised there on 4 June. At the age of 32, in 1911, she was still living with her parents, and is next noted on the 1939 register living alone, on private means, at 9 Clarendon Square, Leamington, but for a hospital nurse. Sadly, her probate documents record that she was last seen alive on 22 January 1956, and her body not found until 5 February. It is comforting to realise that she is buried with her sister and family.