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LANCASHIRE FAMILY
HISTORY AND HERALDRY SOCIETY
Rossendale Branch Newsletter November 2001
TONIGHT
7th November.
Visiting Uncle Fred,
Mary Davison and
Jean Harrison will tell us about Fred Harrison.
5th December.
Christmas Social.
This year we are
having a Potato Pie supper.
Tickets priced
£2.00 are available, from Kathleen Ashburner.
PROGRAMME 2002
2nd January.
The Lancashire Parish Register Society. John Dalton.
7th February.
Research Workshop.
Gravestone of
the Month (1)
Skew Bridge
Cemetery - Gallipoli:
1435 Drummer Joseph
A. TOWNSEND
1/4 East Lancs.
Rgt. (42nd E. L. Division)
Killed in Action,
Gallipoli, 18.5.1915 aged 15 years.
The 1/4 and 1/5
East Lancs Battalions were territorials, recruited in Blackburn,
Accrington, Burnley and Rossendale.
The 42nd E. L.
Division was the first territorial unit to leave for overseas
service (Egypt) in the late summer of 1914. They landed on the
Gallipoli Peninsula on 9th May 1915 and were in continuous action
until evacuation in December 1915.
Drummer Townsend
lived in Accrington.
On another grave,
for a young man of 22 years is the inscription:
"Only a boy, but a
British boy, the son of a thousand years."
A fitting epitaph
for Drummer Townsend.
Submitted by Mary
Davison
Gravestone of
the Month (2)
(in the month of
Remembrance)
In loving memory of
our dear Nephews,
Pte. Robert
HITCHEN, Worcester Regiment, killed in action in France, July 3rd
1916 aged 18 years.
Pte. Harry HITCHEN,
Worcester Regiment, killed in action in France, Oct. 19th 1916 aged
21 years.
"Their duty well
done."
This inscription
was found on a small broken stone knocked flat, on its back, in St.
Nicholas Churchyard, Newchurch in Rossendale.
Submitted by
Michael Hiluta.
1901 Census
Online
The Census will be
available on the internet from 2nd January 2002. You will get a
direct link to the digital images of the 1901 census returns. Also
32 million names, 600,000 households and 53 counties of England and
Wales. You can view the images for a small fee.
You can pay by
voucher or credit card. See the website www.census.pro.gov.uk for a
list of places selling vouchers. Access it on the internet from
home, public library or record office, anywhere with internet
facilities.
Fuller details will
be provided in my next newsletter.
Did you
miss...... our Workshop and Exhibition ?
Wilf Day and
Michael Hiluta (in the foreground) were photographed examining
Wilf’s Pollard Family Tree.
We had a great
time. The exhibition was well attended and very successful, one of
our first visitors identified her grandmother on a family
photograph. We were able to link her to distant cousins from the
Axon North Family. They all spent an exciting day exchanging
certificates and information.
There were several
similar but less dramatic successes.
One visitor arrived
carrying a sheet of old wallpaper which began
"In 1660 the
Hargreaves Family came to Bacup from Clitheroe."
She had found the
handwritten scroll whilst clearing her mothers effects. She saw one
of our posters and dropped in to see us. There were few dates on the
sheets, but a quick check of the 1881 CD verified some of the facts.
(photo: Lancashire
Evening Telegraph)
St. Nicholas,
Newchurch -
Parish Magazine
1896.
submitted by Terry
Ladley.
Parish Magazine No
57,
Church of St.
Nicholas, Newchurch-in-Rossendale.
January 1896 (price
Twopence)
Clergy.{ The Rev.
HERBERT BURY, M.A. Rector.
{ The Rev.
T.B.EDDRUP, M.A. Assistant Curate.
Church wardens { Mr
JOHN KENYON, Mr T.E. JACKSON, Mr JAMES BOWNESS, Mr W. HANSON,
Mr J.ROTHERWELL, Mr
JAMES TAYLOR.
Organist { Mr
ALBERT HOLT, Cloughfold.
Choirmaster { Mr
H.WHITEHEAD, Rawtenstall.
Sexton { Mr JAMES
HALSTEAD, 62 Church Street,Newchurch.
Verger { Mr. JOHN
HALSTED, The Square, Newchurch.
The National
Schools.
Master { Mr. ROSS.
Infant Mistress {
Miss TATTERSALL.
Up to the present
the school Library has received gifts of books and money from the
following: Mr. COXHEAD, Mr. W. COPPIN, Mrs SLINGSBY, Mrs. E. LORD,
Mrs. WRIGHT, Miss MUNN, Misses STAFFORD, RUSHTON, SHEPHERD,
M.A.PICKUP, Mr. EDDRUP, and the Rector, and many others have
promised help. From the concert and subscriptions, there is about £7
in hand, for the erection of shelves and the purchasing of new
books.
The following were
highest in their respective classes at the last monthly examination.
Class 1. CLARA
HAWORTH, 47 marks.
Class 2. BEATRICE
HALSTEAD, 45 marks.
Class 3. JANE ALICE
LORD, 45 MARKS.
Class 4. ALICE
COXHILL, 48 marks.
Class 5. EWEN
CRANKSHAW, 36 marks.
The total number of
marks attainable was 48.
BAPTISMS.
Dec. 1st ( 1895 ?)
ARTHUR, son of Wm. and SARAH A. LUPTON, Wales.
Dec 1st WILLIAM,
son of ROBERT and E.J.BENTLY, Boothfold.
Dec 8th FRED, son
of RICHARD Wm. and ANNIE. E. PICKUP, Bacup.
Dec 27th ANNIE, dr.
of DAVID and ELLEN WOODHOUSE, Dale St.
MARRIAGES.
Dec. 14th JOHN
WILLIAM CRANKSHAW, Waterfoot, to SARAH ANN SPENCER, Newchurch.
Dec. 21st FRED
TRIPLOW, to ELIZABETH ANN GARDENER, both of Newchurch.
BURIALS.
Dec.5th PERCY
ATHERTON, Burnley. Aged 13 mo.
Dec.12th FRANCIS
REDDING, Waterfoot. Aged 23 mo.
Dec.19th WALTON
TAYLOR, Miller Barn. Aged 5 mo.s.
Dec 26th MAUD ANN
SCHOFIELD, Bridleway. Aged 15 years.
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