England Select Births and Christenings
William Grainger, baptism February 24 1856, father John Grainger, mother Charlotte Louisa Grainger, Bardsey, Yorkshire

In the 1861 census Bardsey Cum Rigton civil parish, Wetherby district.
John Grainger, head, married, age 33, Ag. Lab. born Ulleskelf, Yorkshire.
Wife Louisa Grainger, age 37, born Horsforth.
Daughter Sarah Grainger, age 7, born East Rigton.
Son William Grainger, age 5, born East Rigton.

In the 1871 census, Bardsey and Rigton civil parish, East Rigton, Whetherby district, Boston sub district, Rigton Bank.
John Grainger, head, married, age 43, farmer of 75 acres, employing 1 boy, born East Rigton. [this must be a mistake]
Wife Louisa Grainger, age 46, born Horsforth.
Daughter Sarah Grainger, age 17, born East Rigton.
Son William Grainger, age 15, born East Rigton.
Daughter Mary Grainger, age 3, born East Rigton.

In the 1881 census Wetherby registration district, Boston sub district, civil parish Bardsey Cum Rigton, Yorkshire.
John Grainger, head, married, age 53, Farmer of 68 acres, born Ulleskelf, Yorkshire.
Wife Charlotte L. Grainger, age 57, Farmer’s Wife, born Horsforth.
Son William Grainger, unmarried, age 25, Farmer’s son, born E. Rigton.
son Richard Grainger, age 17, farmer’s son born E. Rigton.
Daughter Mary Grainger age 13, born E. Rigton.
Daughter Annie L. Grainger, age 8 born Rigton.
Albert E. Lowe, nephew, unmarried, age 20, clerk (Disengaged), born East Keswick, Yorkshire. [Thus it would seem Charlotte is Albert’s mother’s sister]

Parish Records All Hallows, Bardsey, Yorkshire
July 26, 1886 William Grainger, age 30, bachelor, farmer, residence East Rigton, father John Grainger, farmer and Sarah Ellen Mitchell, age 25, spinster, residence Stamford, father William Mitchell, engineer. In the presence of Thomas Thiel? and Elizabeth Scott her mark.

In the 1891 census 4 Forres? Street, Northwest Leeds, Leeds, Yorkshire.
Head William Grainger, age 35, dyer’s carrier, born East Rigton, Yorkshire. Wife Sarah E. Grainger, age 30, born Stamford, Lincolnshire.
Son George H. Grainger, age 4, born Leeds.
Daughter Fanny B. Grainger, age 2, born Leeds.
Daughter Ethel M. Grainger, age 2 months, born Leeds.

In the 1901 census 13 Heddon St., Headingley cum Burley, Yorkshire.
Head William Granger, married, age 44, [can’t decipher the occupation], worker, born Rigton, Yorkshire.
Wife Nellie Grainger, age 39, born Stamford, Lincolnshire.
Son Harold Grainger, age 14, cloth? warehouse, born Leeds.
Daughter Beatrice Grainger, age 12, born Leeds.
Son Reginald Grainger, age 7, born Leeds.

There is a William Granger listed in the October to December 1908 death index, age 53, Leeds district Yorkshire West Riding, volume 9b, page 337

In the 1911 census 20 Clarence Street, Chapeltown Road, Leeds, Yorkshire
Head Sarah Ellen Belt, age 51, widow, married 26 years, 4 children born alive 3 still living, born Stamford, Lincolnshire
Son George Harold Belt, age 24, single, soldier, born Leeds, Yorkshire.
Daughter Fanny Beatrice Belt, age 22, single, draper’s assistant, worker, born Leeds
Son Edward Reginald Belt, age 17, single, pork butcher, born Leeds.
The house has 4 rooms.
Signed S. E. Belt
[The last name on this is not expected. All the other information seems to match the Graingers. Interestingly Fanny will marry a Belt 1 year later. Sarah is unlikely to have remarried as her husband died less than 3 years before. She would have had to remarry and become a widow for a second time. In her son’s military records they list their mother as Sarah Grainger.]

IWest Yorkshire Electoral Registers 1937
15 Charles Street, Township of Horsforth, Pudsey and Otley
Fanny Beatrice Belt
Sarah Ellen Grainger
Nellie Belt
Charles Belt

In the 1939 England and Wales Register
St. Mary’s Infirmary, 3 Greenhill Road, Armley, West Yorkshire
Sarah E. Grainger, patient, born March 14, 1860, widow, incapacitated