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LANCASHIRE FAMILY HISTORY AND HERALDRY SOCIETY
Rossendale Branch Newsletter August 2002
Programme 2002
Tonight - Research
Evening
4th September
The other 1851 - Rossendale Census.
John Dunleavy will
talk about the Ecclesiastical Census of 1851.
2nd October
Members’ Miscellany.
Members are invited
to talk for for about 10 minutes on a subject of their choice. Have
you undertaken an interesting piece of research? Have you found an
unusual source? Or maybe, you would like to tell us what prompted
you to start researching your family in the first place.
Coming Events
Friday 4th
October -
LFHHS Annual Dinner
hosted by Pendle and Burnley Group, at the Bay Horse Inn, Blacko Bar
Road, Roughlee. £17.00 per head. Please book early. There are
limited places available. Full details are in the August magazine.
Sunday 27th
October -
This year the
annual Family History Fair hosted by the N.W. Group of Family
History Societies will be held at Manchester Town Hall, Albert
Square, Manchester. 10.30am - 4.30pm
There will be the
usual variety of stalls.
Also Refreshments
and Free street parking. Admission £2 - children free.
Did you miss....
our visit to Rochdale Town Hall?
The weather was
dreadful when we made our visit to Rochdale but it was worth the
journey. If you didn’t come, you missed a treat. Rochdale Town Hall
is worthy of its designation as a Grade 1 listed building.
The foundation
stone was laid by John Bright in 1866. The finished building was
opened by the mayor George Leach Ashworth in 1871. It cost more than
eight times the original estimate of £20,000. Councillor Ashworth
was responsible for obtaining the funding. He said "We can not have
beauty without paying for it."
It is an
outstanding example of a Victorian Gothic building. The hand painted
stained glass windows alone, are insured for £2 million pounds. In
the entrance hall the heraldic tiles are valued at £2,000 per coat
of arms. It is a heraldist’s dream palace.
The Grand Staircase
has a wealth of heraldic stained glass. The side windows contain the
arms of the major textile manufacturing towns of Lancahire and
Yorkshire. The top lights of the east and west windows represent the
technological developments of the day which made possible the trade
and development of Victorian Rochdale.
Arguably the most
memorable room is the Great Hall which dipicts in its windows the
Kings and Queens of England. At one end is a mural of King John
signing the Magna Carta at the other end is the superb Binns organ.
The roof is painted with heraldic devices. Its most splendid feature
is is the series of angels which terminate the hammer beams and
which originally held chandeliers from their hands.
This is very much a
working building but if you missed our visit. You can join one of
the guided tours which take place every Friday at 2.15pm.
1901 Census
The PRO is still
unable to give a firm date for the 1901 census being accessible
online. A move to test the online service by public users is
planned. Details will be available shortly. Check:
www.pro.gov.uk/census/online.htm
Civil Registration
Indexes
Bury Reference
Library has now acquired the Civil Registration Indexes - Births,
Deaths and Marriages.
These are available
from 1837 - 1865 on microfiche and 1865 - 1900 is available on
microfilm.
Remember to book
the appropriate micro-reader before visiting the library. Tel. 0161
253 5857
Rossendale
Ancestry:
HENRY RAMSBOTTOM
Tom Wood of
Pittsburgh, PA USA writes:
I am presently
having difficulty tracking down the family of my 2xG.Grandfather
Henry Ramsbottom.
He married at
Blackburn on 22 May 1847. His father was given as John Ramsbottom,
labourer. On later census returns he gives his place of birth
variously as Haslingden, Rossendale and Crawshawbooth. He was born
about 1823. I have tried to find a christening for Henry in the
local churches. I have also had checked the 1841 census for Higher
and Lower Booths, Haslingden and Blackburn without any success. Any
help in finding Henry would be much appreciated. email:
ttwood49@hotmail.com
GREEN/ INGHAM/ LUTY
Don Green writing
from Yorkshire says:
"Sorry to report
there has been no response to my offer to return the ribbon
recording the death of Tom INGHAM of the East Lancs Regiment".
Mary LUTY was a
friend of Don’s aunt Sarah HEYS. She travelled around the world
between the wars and published an account of her travels in a book
entitled "A Penniless Globe Trotter". I has an original of that book
with a dedication inside and would consider passing it on to any
descendants of Mary Luty if they do not already have a copy.
Don is also
researching his own GREEN family. Edward Green, a railway porter,
and his wife Ellen came to Rawtenstall about 1876. The family had
lived at Snailwell, Cambridge and Exning, Suffolk.
email.
dando.green@virgin.net
Don is planning to
be at our August Meeting so please make him welcome and give him
what help and information you can.
ASHWORTH/ BAILEY
Helen Ashworth is
interested in the family of Christopher George Rothwell Ashworth, a
member of the New Jerusalem Church in Haslingden. His son Alfred
married Margaret Ann Bailey (born 1861), daughter of Robert Bailey,
waste merchant of Haslingden c1888. His daughter Emily Ashworth
(born 1870) married Albert Bailey son of Robert Bailey. The Baileys
were members of Ebenezer Baptist Chapel, Haslingden. The Ashworths
originated in Bacup, C.R.G. Ashworth was son of Miles Ashworth, corn
dealer and his wife Elizabeth. He was baptised 27th June 1837. Miles
married Elizabeth Rothwell at Rochdale 29 July 1830.
Email
lorainehelen@ntlworld.com
WHALLEY/ PARKINSON/
DAVIES/ GILL
Richard Gill was
pleased to find his great grand- parents’ grave featuring in our
gravestone of the month in October 2001. They were Mary Elizabeth
nee Parkinson 1864 -1946 (sister of H.W.W. Parkinson, editor of the
Rossendale Free Press) and James Whalley, Town Clerk of Rawtenstall.
He is a descendant via the female lines. The couple had three
daughters, including his grandmother Edith Margaret Davies. Her
daughter is Richard’s mother Eluned M. Gill. email
Richard.Gill@jet.uk
Book Review
The Laws of
Rossendale and the Upper Calder Valley, 1500 - 1750/1800,
by Milton Ormerod,
and Frank T. Haylett.
Published by the
L.F.H.H.S. December 2001
This book is
similar in format to Milton Ormerod’s earlier book which dealt with
the Ormerod Family and its growth within the Rossendale Valley.
The book has two
preliminary sections
1. Background to
the Account of Rossendale Families: Historical, Geographical and
Social.
2. Sources of
genealogical information in the Honor of Clitheroe. Several 16th and
17th century sources have been evaluated:
Rentals,
1507,1527,1539,1608.1662; Court Rolls from 1504; the Act book of
Whalley Abbey 1510 -1538; Wills from 1570; Parish Registers,
earliest Whalley 1538, latest Newchurch in Rossendale 1653; legal
records, taxation lists.
The bulk of the
book deals with the genealogy of the Law family of Rossendale. They
were not among the original settlers in the valley but it is known
that a John Law acquired land at Wolfenden in 1514. Milton Ormerod
judges this man to be the ancestor of the majority of Laws in this
area. He and Frank Haylett have endeavoured to trace the descendants
of John Law’s family down to 1750. They have taken the better
documented lines as far as 1800.
If you do have Law
ancestors then the book may serve as a guide for your own
researches. There is a very useful bibliography and several maps and
drawings.
The pedigree charts
cover:
The Laws of
Tunstead; The descendants of Gilbert Law of Bury; The Law Ancestry
of the Ormerods of Cowpe; The earliest Laws of Wolfenden; The Family
of James Law of Heald; The Family of George Law of Constable Lee;
The Family of John Law of Holmes in Bacup; The early Laws of the
Upper Calder Valley.
Copies may be
purchased from the LFHHS Publications Officer, Terry Walsh,
"Strathmore" 57 Bury New Road, Ramsbottom, Lancs. BL0 0BZ
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