Thomas George Sainsbury 21 April, 1851 and Mary Barret 13 March, 1859 lived in a village near Manchester, England when George Thomas Sainsbury was born October 22, 1878 at the village named Audenshaw. The third of their nine children was born. The family would later have 6 boys and 3 girls in all. George Thomas started school at the age of five at a place called Denshaw. He walked two and half miles to school each day. He went to school there until he was about 10 years old. He then started taking odd jobs and going to school part time. The family later moved to a small town called Shaw and went to work in a coal mine. It was in the saloon his family owned and lived in he first saw the Mormon missionaries. His name was Dugdale; he was from Provo. I didn't know it at the time but they were sent to find us by my grandmother Pheobe Barrett. Grandmother was living in Provo at the time. The Elders (missionaries) came to see the family regularly. The family stared to go to church to a town called Oldham. It was here at this time that 3 Mormon families moved into the area and they began to have Sunday School in the Sainsbury home together. Mother was baptized first, not long after that Ed, Emily and I were baptized into the church. About that time a strike at the mine put most of the family out of work. He wrote: "We sure were up against it" The strike lasted 21 weeks, his mother had to sell everything in the house so we could live on pork fat and bread. But, spring came and times began to brighten up a little but it took time for us to get on our feet. Every Saturday morning I had to go down to the mine (about 3/4 mile from the house) with a wheel barrow to get a schilling's (24 cents) worth of coal- enough to last a week. While he was working at the mine he was nearly killed in an accident and he quit the mines. He said "I was cut up pretty bad." Later they moved to a town called Heywood. There were 4 or 5 families in the area and they didn't have to walk far to church. He said "The Lord was on our side, for it looked like work was opening up all around us." He and his father traveled back and forth by train to work at Casleton, building a boundary wall around the sewer filter bed. It was a long way around but we work there quite a while. They got on the train at 4:30am to be to work by 7am and would get home by train around 6:30. They later got a job working on the manchester ship Canal. It was built so that ships could unload up in Manchester instead of down in Liverpool and then shipping them by train. He notes that he saw Queen Victoria herself at the grand opening of the Canal. (he also was later baptized in America on Jan 4, 1910)

Ann Maria Easter Bailey Sharp Evans l Ann Evans Sainsbury l Mary Sainsbury Visser l Steven Mathew Visser l Me Ann Maria Easter Bailey Sharp Evans Was called to be the secretary of the Young Women's Improvement Association of the Union Ward on September 11, 1884-1889. She held this position until after she and Charles were married in 1889. She was asked to write many essays. She also wrote articles for the "Ladies Well Wisher" a publication that the LDS sisters could submit interesting and instructional information to. These items are available in the church history library. She often wrote that she "desired to do her duty to the best she could and asked the Lord to bless her in all her doing" She was married on Valentines Day 1889. October 27th, 1885 Dear Sisters, I will endeavor to respond to the call. We are living in a peculiar time, a time when the whole world is arising against the Saints of God and are trying with all their power to punish and persecute them for living in obedience to his laws. It therefore behooves us as Latter-day Saints to be up and alive t our duty for I realize we have no time to spend in idleness. If we read and study the scriptures we can see for ourselves that we need to spend all the time we have in usefulness. For Jesus said that before his coming we should hear of wars and rumors of wars nation shall rise against nation there should be famines and pestilences and Earthquakes in different places, and do we not hear of these things now at the present time? I think we do. There are other things we will find by reading scriptures that Jesus has said would be as signs of his coming. And he has said by these signs ye shall know that the coming of the Son of man is near at your doors, but no man knoweth in what hour he may come. But blessed are those servants whom the Lord when he come th shall find watching. Now if there is any of us that are in habit of going to places for enjoyment where it is not right for us to go or if we have any habits of doing or saying anything that is evil, let us repent of it but let it be true repentance do not say we are sorry we have done such and such things and we know it was wrong and we are sorry we have done so and will try and do no more, when in our hearts we do not feel sorry for what we have done and will go and do the same things over again. This I do not call true repentance. I realize that there is not any of us so good, but what, there is plenty of room for us to improve. We all have our faults and failings but as an improvement association we should try and do away with our evil ways and strive to improve so as we can always have the Spirit of the Lord to be with us to lead and guide us in the ways of truth. I feel proud of our association and think we have done well since we have been organized. I pray that we may continue in well doing. For it is they that endureth to the end that shall be saved. Ann M. E. B. Sharp