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Satterthwaites make fine bread, cakes and pastries in Crosby, Lancashire
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On 10th August 1860, Mary Elizabeth Bates was born at 23 Essex Street, Toxteth. Her father, Joseph, worked in a forge. When her mother Sarah registered the birth a month later she made her mark rather than signing the register, which implies that Sarah could not write even her own name.
Some 20 years later Mary was working as a servant in the house of Harold and Mary Brocklebank in Hailwood, and there she met and married Edward Mills. In the next fifteen years they had eight children. The second of these, a daughter named Miriam Gertrude Mills, was to be one of the founders of Satterthwaites.
It came about quite by chance. Mary died tragically in childbirth in 1897, when the family were living in Leeds. Sadly, her husband died a year or so later. The young family, as was the custom of the time, was shared among uncles and aunts. Miriam went to live with her aunt Sarah back in Liverpool. After a couple of years the time came to apprentice Miriam to a trade. Millenary (hat making) was selected, but on the way to the milliner's shop they passed a baker's shop and saw from a sign that apprentices were wanted there. They stood and decided on the spot, and by the turn of the 19th century young Miriam was learning the trade of a pastrycook and confectioner at Dewhurst's, bakery and shop at 101 Stanley Road, Bootle.
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