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LANCASHIRE FAMILY HISTORY AND HERALDRY SOCIETY
Rossendale Branch Newsletter March 2001
Our Programme
for 2001
Postponed from last
month,
David Fitzpatrick
will tell us tonight, the History of Calderstones Hospital and
Graveyard.
April 4th - AGM and
Photographs from your family albums.
Please bring along
photographs of your ancestors, places where they lived etc. and be
prepared to tell us your stories and memories of the people
portrayed.
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May 2nd -
Violet’s story, part 2. by Denise North.
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June 6th - Who
was my uncle Bilsborrow? by Tony Foster (Society Chairman)
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July 4th Our
Out Visit. A visit to St. James Church and (weather permitting)
a walk round Haslingden.
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11th August -
Research Workshop in Longholme Chapel.
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5th September -
The Amish Story. by Mrs. Lewis.
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3rd October -
Rawtenstall Library. A look at the resources of the library and
help with your research.
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7th November.
Uncle Fred, Mary Davison and Jean Harrison will tell us about
Fred Harrison.
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5th December.
Christmas Social.
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Did you miss...
February’s talk "Passing Trade"
Raymond
Wolstenholme stood in at short notice to give his talk, originally
scheduled for tonight. He told us his experiences as a Funeral
Undertaker in Accrington.
Mr Wolstenholme
told us that he went to work for his father, fifty years ago, when
he was 15. At that time there were 27 funeral directors in Hyndburn.
They were principally joiners, wheelwrights and wood workers. Few
had their own vehicles, these were hired for the occasion from a
carriage proprietor. He described how circumstances had changed over
the years, Funeral directors now have their own premises and
transport.
At one point he
passed round samples of the wood used in coffins and even some
handles for us to examine. This unusual talk prompted many questions
from the group.
Group AGM 4th
April.
Would anyone
wishing to stand for any office on the Committee, please give their
names to our Chairman John Dalton.
Haslingden
Library
On the evening of
Sunday, January 14th, Haslingden Library was damaged in an arson
attack. The library is now offering a limited service but all the
microfilms have been temporarily transferred to Rawtenstall library.
For further information telephone Rawtenstall Reference Library
01706 227911.
Rochdale Local
Studies Library
The local studies
library has been relocated at Champness Hall, The Esplanade. For
opening times etc. telephone 01706 864921.
LFH&HS Vacant
Posts
There are vacancies
for a Minute Secretary, a Project Co-ordinator and a Librarian
Interested? Contact Tony Foster 0161-764-7642821
Rossendale
Surnames
A synopsis of a
talk given at Rawtenstall library, 10 September 1975.
By Alan Hitch FLA
continued from our
February Newsletter
Extracted from
"Lancashire" October 1975.
....The period 1850
1900 saw the greatest influx of people into the Valley. Hundreds
came from all over England, particularly Yorkshire, Cheshire, East
Anglia and of course from Ireland and Scotland.
Some of the names
from East Anglia and the Isle of Ely include Maskell, Collen, Bacon,
Horsley, Hitch, Collings and Nicholls.
Good sources for
this period are local newspapers, death columns and church
histories.
Some information on
display at the above talk
FROM THE CLITHEROE
COURT ROLLS:-
ROSSENDALE NAMES IN
1527 AND THEIR LOCATIONS.
New Hall Hey:
Nuttall, Ramsbottom, Crawshaw - Over Lench and Hall Carr: Townley,
Nuttall - Rawtenstall: Pickup, Shepherd, Heap - Constabelee:
Priestley, Haworth, Ingham, Schofield - Gambleside: Ormerod -
Oakenhead: Ramsbottom, Hey, Haworth - Bacup: Lord, Whittaker,
Bridge, Tattersall - Dedwin Clough: Pickup, Bridge, Crawshaw, Holt,
Nuttall,- Whitworth, - Tunstead: Duerden, Law, Pilling,
Tattersall
Rossendale
Ancestry:
1. PICKUP/
CHADWICK/GREENHALGH
Mrs. E.M. Paul 11
Beechwood Park, Leatherhead, Surrey KT22 SN is tracing the above
names in the Edenfield area. James PICKUP bn c 1828 at (1891-1861)
Spotland, Shuttleworth, Walmersley, Bury- respectively married c1850
Harriet bn c1830 (1891 - 1861) Birtle, Ashworth, Ashworth,
Heap-respectively. She needs to find their marriage
James and Harriet
had a son John c1860 bn (1891- 1871) Tottington Higher End, (1861)
born Bolton. The family were living at T-H-E in all the censuses.
John PICKUP married
Mary Ellen.... at Stubbins Congregational Church 11 November 1891.
Mary Ellen has always been assumed to be the daughter of Edmund and
Eliza Chadwick, of Edenfield. She is given as their daughter on the
1871, 1881 and 1891 censuses.
However on her
marriage certificate she is given as Mary Ellen Greenhalgh, no
father listed. On her son’s birth certificate, she gives her maiden
name as "Greenhalgh". The Chadwicks are on all censuses from 1851 -
1891 at Edenfield but Mary Ellen is given as "born Swinton." Can
anyone help with this knotty problem? Mrs Paul can not trace a birth
certificate for Mary Ellen Greenhalgh. I am assuming that she was
adopted but given that the Chadwicks already had a large family, we
need a Greenhalgh connection.
Coming Events
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"We seek them here,
we seek them there"
A Family History
Day -hosted by The Family History Society of Cheshire for the North
West Group of the Federation of Family History Societies. It will be
held at the Manchester Metropolitan University Crewe + Alsager
Faculty on the Alsager Campus. . I have a few application forms and
leaflets.
"The Cup of Love" -
the Spring Conference of the Federation of FHS will be held at
Leicester University, Oadby. The theme of the conference will be to
explore some of the more extraordinary goings-on of our ancestors
you can contact Mrs. Y J Bunting, Federation Conference, Firgrove,
Horseshoe Lane, Ash Vale, Aldershot, Hampshire GU12 5LL Please
enclose a stamped A5 envelope.
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5th - 6th May
London, SOG FH Fair.
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12 th May at
Preston, University of Central Lancs.LFHHS Conference and AGM
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25th June York
FH Fair
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27th October
FFHS Fair, Preston Guild Hall
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