Moses Whittle (1854-1908)

Moses Whittle (1854 - 1908) was a Lancashire overlooker; and was the grandfather of Frank Whittle, the well-known engineer officer.

Biography
Moses Whittle was christened on 11 June 1854 at Brindle, Lancashire. His parents were Thomas and Margaret (Holden) Whittle. He had a brother Edward in 1852. His parents had been married in 1851 in Bolton, Lancashire.

At twenty-one years old, in 1875 in Bolton, Moses married Catherine ('Kate') Duckworth of the same age. The couple had the following children: Moses worked as a cotton overlooker.
 * Joseph Whittle (1875)
 * Edward Whittle (1876)
 * Anne E. Whittle (1878)
 * Margaret Whittle (1880)
 * Jane Whitte (1881)
 * Moses Whittle (1882)
 * Thomas Herbert Whittle (1883)

Moses Whittle died in 1908 in Bolton, Lancashire aged fifty-four.