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THE SCRIVENER

The Journal of Calderdale Family History Society Incorporating Halifax & District

Number 142 SPRING MARCH 2013 CALDERDALE FAMILY HISTORY SOCIETY Incorporating HALIFAX and DISTRICT

Calderdale Family History Society was founded on the 7th March 1985. We aim • To encourage interest in, and assist with, research relevant to the study of family history in Halifax and the Calder valley. Our area • Covers the modern Calderdale Council established in 1975, which broadly covers the same area as the Ancient Parish of Halifax, with the addition to the west of the township of Todmorden and Walsden. We do this by • Holding meetings, usually on the 4th Thursday of each month (except August) in Halifax. • Publishing The Scrivener, a quarterly journal, in paper form for full members and on our website for internet members. Contact the Editor. • Hosting a website www.cfhsweb.com/web/, and a members’ forum. Contact the Webmaster. • Running a Research Room at Brighouse Library two half days a week for personal research. Contact the Research Room co-ordinator. • Running projects to transcribe records relevant to members’ research. Contact the Projects Co-ordinator. • Publishing transcribed records. Contact the Publications Officer. • Providing an enquiry and search service from our records in the Research Room. Contact the Enquiry service Co-ordinator. • Maintaining a list of members’ interests by surname and dates of interest, which are available to members on the website. Each quarter new additions are published in The Scrivener. Contact the Members’ Interests Co-ordinator. • Maintaining an index of “Strays” (Calderdale people who appear in records else- where). Contact the Strays Co-ordinator. Membership • Is open to all family historians who have an interest in the area. Contact the Membership Secretary. • Annual subscriptions are £10.00 for UK individuals (£12.00 for family membership), £15/£17 for Overseas • Internet membership is £5.50/£7.50 which only provides information such as the journal on the Internet, but not on paper. • Subscriptions are due in April at the time of the AGM (cheques made payable to C.F.H.S.) and should be sent to the Treasurer. • Overseas payments must be made in sterling, drawn on a bank with a branch in the UK, by Sterling Money Order. • Credit Card payments for subscriptions and purchases of our publications may be made over the Internet via Genfair (www.genfair.co.uk). Contacting the Society • All correspondence requiring a reply must be accompanied by a S.A.E. or 2 recent I.R.C.’s [International Reply Coupons]. Contact the Secretary or appropriate officer. • The names, addresses and email contacts of the Society’s officers and co- ordinators appear inside the back cover of The Scrivener and on the Society’s website.

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CONTENTS

ARTICLES

COVER PICTURE 4 EDITORIAL 5 MY CROSSLEY ANCESTORS ~ part 1 12 JAMES BARKER 1772-1838 ~ part 1 38 CO-OPERATIVE HOLIDAYS ASSOCIATION 43

GENERAL INFORMATION ANCESTRAL FILE 41 USEFUL ADDRESSES, SOURCES ETC. 52 FAMILY HISTORY FAIRS 53 ANCIENT PARISH OF HALIFAX ~ chapelries & townships 56

CALDERDALE FAMILY HISTORY SOCIETY NEWS

ABOUT CFHS 2 FROM THE WEBMASTER ~ Members’ interests online 21 MEMBERS’ INTERESTS UPDATE 24 NEW MEMBERS & CHANGES OF ADDRESS/EMAILS 26 MEMBERSHIP RENEWAL AND AGM PAPERS 27 CALENDAR OF SUMMER CFHS MEETINGS 31 COMPUTER SOLUTION! 32 MEETING REPORTS October ~ The Harrying of the North 6 November ~ East Riddlesden Hall 15 December ~ 19th Century Boom & Bust 33 January ~ The Female of the Species 47 HELP WANTED ~ Ashworth 46 RESEARCH ROOM DETAILS 53 CFHS OFFICERS 54

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As part of this, those details are posted on our Members’ Only website, which, under certain circumstances, can be accessed by non-members. If you either do not want us to hold your details on our computer and/or you do not want your details made available to other members as described above, please contact our Membership Secretary by letter, or email at [email protected].

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COVER PICTURE

The cover picture shows Florence Crossley, also known as “Florrie”.

An Australian member, Peter Medlin, tells the story of his Crossley ancestors, who as far as is known were not connected to the Crossleys who were famous world-wide for manufacturing carpets in Halifax.

Some of them left England for Sydney in 1883, including Florrie.

Peter’s story appears on page 12.

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Editorial

We seem to have a full journal this quarter, partly because we have been catch- ing up on meeting reports, which are now up to date. As these talks are now recorded and then transcribed in full, they need proof-reading and reducing in length to give a flavour of the talks which local members come and listen to. If you would like to help edit some of the talks then let me, or one of the officers know; if there were several people prepared to help in this way it wouldn’t be too arduous. Of course it would be easier if you had heard the talk and could pick out the salient points of interest.

Our new website is taking shape and a significant number of our members are now registered to access the “Members Only” section. This holds copies of The Scrivener (some with colour) and from now on this is where you will access details of the surnames which other members are researching. Our webmaster, Keith Pitchforth describes the new system in detail on pages 21-23. He will also be giving a talk to introduce the website and the new online procedures for members’ interests after the society’s Annual General Meeting on Thursday 27th April.

The Agenda for the meeting, as well as details for renewing membership, appear in the centre pages (27-30). There is also the opportunity to put forward member(s) to serve on the committee (please ask them first!) and to nominate a society member, who you feel has made an outstanding contribution to the society over the past 12 months, for the Members’ Sutcliffe Award, which will be voted on by all those present at the AGM.

As editor, I shall be selecting an article published over the past year (and maybe one or two others to give the rest of the committee some choice) for the Margaret Walker Award for the best story to have appeared in The Scrivener. Keep your stories, pictures and articles coming, so that we have a difficult job to do each year.

If you are planning to get out and about visiting archives and libraries, now that Spring appears to be on its way, remember to check opening days and times, as well as the location of the records you want to see. There can be nothing worse than turning up to find the record you want is somewhere else, or it’s the wrong day. A friend recently discovered much too late that The National Ar- chives in Kew are closed on Mondays, and had to find something else to do to make his trip to London worthwhile! So go prepared!

Rosie Burgess [email protected]

Page 5 MEETING OCTOBER 25th 2012 WILLIAM THE CONQUEROR AND THE HARRYING OF THE NORTH ~ BY GILLIAN WATERS

The harrying of the North in 1069-70 was one of the more vicious acts of Wil- liam the Conqueror’s reign and the origins of it date way back to 1066 because William the Conqueror fought the Battle of Hastings and then conquered Eng- land.

But it wasn’t that simple. One battle does not a conquest make and it’s only after the harrying of the North in 1069-70 that William had really conquered England, and not only that, but conquered the troublesome North. We North- erners were always troublesome and especially troublesome to William the Conqueror. We all remember William and we all remember the Battle of Hast- ings because it became a significant turning point in history, but 1066 was the year of three invasions and three major battles, two of them in the north of Eng- land.

In 1066, Edward the Confessor, who had been king since 1042, a well-loved king, a saintly king who became Saint Edward the Confessor later on and men prayed at his tomb. He died on 5th January but the problem was he had no children. He is the last, bar one, Anglo Saxon king of England. He had no close heirs. After much debate, the Witan, a bit like a parliament, influenced by Edward the Confessor’s deathbed whispers elected Harold Godwinson, Edward the Confessor’s brother-in-law, King of England. Harold was crowned pretty soon after and there’s a lovely image in the Bayeux Tapestry showing Harold Godwinson being crowned. Harold knew that there would be problems, because in 1066 there were other people who claimed the throne, notably William Duke of Normandy who was a cousin of Edward the Confessor, Edgar Atheling who was nine at the time, but would maybe claim the throne later on.

Lots of different people outside England realised the very tenuous nature of Harold Godwinson’s claim on the throne, just elected by the Witan and his sister had been married to Edward the Confessor. Harold had a lot of work to do and, in particular, William of Normandy might be a big problem. Two years previously in 1064 Harold was shipwrecked on the coast of France and was cap- tured and taken to William of Normandy’s court. At his court, Harold he became very close to William and a section of the Bayeux Tapestry shows William giving Harold armour. Now this is quite significant because in Normandy, if you gave arms and armour to another man of equal status as yourself, that meant they became your man - they were paying homage to you.

The story of the Bayeux Tapestry is about the story of Harold the Oath Breaker and that is why, towards the end of the tapestry you do get an image of Harold being struck in the eye with an arrow, because the eye was a part of the soul and God was wreaking vengeance on Harold for his oath breaking. All the written Norman sources call Harold an oath Breaker. The story goes Harold had

Page 6 promised to help William get the throne of England when Edward the Confessor died so William felt really angry with Harold and he would launch and invasion which he did in September/October 1066.

In a map of the Norse and Danish settlements in the Kingdom of York you can see that we had a lot of association with the Norse and the Danish. The Norse, Arthur Canute who died in 1042, had agreed with the King of Norway that if either of them died without children, that the other one could inherit their King- dom, so not surprisingly Harald Hardrada thought that he had a right to rule England and he did bring 240 ships up the Humber and attacked York in 1066.

So Harold had quite a lot on his plate in 1066 and he was aware that William would invade and he stationed, during the summer, troops on the Isle of Wight and the navy to patrol the coast to stop William landing. However, the Norse invasion with probably 15,000 men up the Humber to attack York, took Harold by surprise and at the Battle of Fulford Gate on the 20th September, the Young Earls, Edwin and Morcar who were only in their early 20s, were overcome and overwhelmed by the Norse invaders. Joined by Tostig, Harold’s brother, they were defeated but Edwin and Morcar escaped. Harold gathered his forces and rushed to rescue York from the invasion where he met the Vikings at the Battle of Stamford Bridge which he won. The Battle of Stamford Bridge was on the 25th of September and Harold’s troops were weary, many of them wounded and on the 28th September Harold heard William had landed in the South of Eng- land.

When William arrived, he was not initially stopped. He was very cleaver, he waited in Pevensey, built a castle and then started to saunter to Hastings, ravaging the land as he went, because he knew that this was Harold Godwinson’s own land and Harold would be eager to prevent the lands of his tenants being ravaged too much.

So we left Harold having won the Battle of Stamford Bridge and three days later William landed at Hastings. He marches so quickly he leaves most of his foot soldiers behind as it’s only the cavalry that can travel fast enough. He stops in London to try and gather yet more army together before he marches down to Hastings. Unfortunately quite a lot of his best fighters had fallen at the Battle of Stamford Bridge and the Earls Edwin and Morcar had been left up in the north to bring the rest of the troops down as soon as they were able.

The Battle of Hastings – you probably know the story that Harold chose the best position on the top of Senlac Hill. William was in a very vulnerable situation which is why he stays and waits for Harold to come to him. Harold, you could say, is too eager to get to battle with William to stop him ravaging his homelands but they do meet at Hastings. This battle lasted all day. Had the Saxons maintained their shield wall at the top of the hill with very steep slopes, it would have been very difficult for William to win the battle, because however many times you send your foot soldiers or your cavalry up the hill, they are at a

Page 7 disadvantage. All Harold’s troops had to do was to keep ranks and throw mis- siles like heavy axes downhill or they could throw spears if they wished, down the hill at the Norman invaders. However, at one particular point in the battle, they were getting quite scared. They turned their cavalry and raced down the hill. Some of the Saxons on the top of the hill, thinking that they had won, broke ranks and started running down the hill after the Normans thinking that they could cut them down. Another section of William’s army saw what was happen- ing and raced in between the Saxons that were running down the hill and the rest of the Saxon shield wall and cut them off and slaughtered them. The deci- sive thing that ended the Battle of Hastings was, of course, the death of Harold.

Harold had married again shortly before the Battle of Hastings and he had a child, Harold, who survived. But William, having killed most of the nobility of England, then acts very strategically, goes first for Dover; he secures the ports and then on to Canterbury, the religious centre of England and then he also takes Winchester, the treasury of England. Then he tries to take London. Be- fore he gets to Newbury he does try to attack Southwark but he is beaten back and then takes a circuitous route round London. He doesn’t just march round London, he burns fields and intimidates the local population, so by the time he marches from Birkhampstead to London, London submits and he was crowned on the 25th December 1066.

There were many property disputes in England when William left for the continent. William had conquered England for the very, very first time and all land in England was his by right of conquest and he rewarded those who fought for him at Hastings with lands and honours in England. Usually the land was of those who had fallen at Hastings but sometimes these new Norman landlords took things a bit too far and certainly in 1067 whilst William was still away on the continent there were some revolts against Norman rule and Edric the Wild over on the Chester/Welsh border attacked Hereford because his land rights were being encroached on by greedy Norman Lords and in the summer, three illegiti- mate sons of Harold Godwinson attacked Somerset.

We have an attack on Dover Castle and in the north and in Northumbria, which had already been a problem in 1065 when we got rid of Tostig and we didn’t want Tostig Godwinson as our Earl, we would rather have Morcar. Well in 1067, William made a fellow called Copsey Earl of Northumbria and again Oswald who had a claim to the Earldom rebelled and killed him. He actually burnt him in a conflagration in Durham. Again in 1068, yet more risings against William and Harold’s sons were still attacking Devon and Cornwall. We’ve got a rebellion in February led by Harold’s mother Gytha in Exeter and Edric the Wild attacking a brand new castle that the Montgomery’s had built in Shrews- bury. Hereward the Wake down in East Anglia had returned to England after many years abroad to find that his mother and his father had been disinherited of their lands - he is fighting for his lands. So the redistribution of lands after 1066 that William made to reward his followers, caused great aggravation amongst the Anglo Saxon nobility that still lived.

Page 8 William, in order to control the country, starts to build castles. Castles in 1066 were not static, they are offensive weapons. The very first act that William does at Pevensey is to build a castle and then he marches a few miles to Hastings on the southern coast and builds another castle and systematically subdues the land in between and the peasant population. You can see from the Bayeux Tapestry, the building of Hastings Castle and it’s quite easy to get some Anglo Saxons to build you a mound of earth and then on top your wooden castle. Castles spring up everywhere, usually about ten miles apart and the way that castles were built is you build two castles ten miles apart and another one ten miles apart from the other two so you have almost a triangle of castles - subdue the land in between and then move on to build more castles. They are not de- fensive because you could easily set light to a castle. But it is one of the means by which William conquered England. It was about the 1080s that castles started to be planted in the north of England apart from York. York had two castles by the end of 1069. And then his son William Rufus continues to build castles up to Carlisle, so the consolidation of the conquest does take a very long time.

And then comes the year 1069. We have seen year after year of rebellion that William has been able to put down here and there but in 1069 the north rises. Robert Carmines who is a Norman knight who was put as Earl of Northumbria by William is killed and all his 900 retainers are also killed in York in 1069, so William marches north. He enters the City of York and builds two castles to subdue the populous. At that time Yorkshire really was the northern boundary.

Harrying is a technique used by the Normans to conqueror. They used it in the south of England between Pevensey and Hastings. They use it when they are building castles to subdue and quell the local populous, but this harrying of the north was extreme as we can see. Never did William show such cruelty. He did not trouble to restrain his resentment, striking innocent and guilty alike with an equal fury. In this manner all the sources of life north of the Humber were destroyed. In his anger at the English Barons, William commanded that all crops and herds, chattels and food should be burned to ashes, so the whole of the north was to be stripped of all means of survival. A terrible famine fell upon the people so that more than 100,000 young and old starved to death. “My writings have often praised William, but for this act I can only condemn him.” writes Odric Catalis, a chronicler at the time. Semira Durham says, “There was such hunger that men ate the flesh of their own kind, of horses and dogs and cats. Others sold themselves into perpetual slavery so that they might be able to sustain their miserable lives. It was horrible to look into the ruined farmyards and houses and see the human corpses dissolved into corruption, for there were none to bury them. For all were gone either in flight or cut down by the sword and famine. None dwelt there and travellers passed in great fear of wild beasts and savage robbers”.

It is said that for at least 10 to 17 years after the harrying of the north that there wasn’t a habitable village between York and Durham, and certainly in Yorkshire

Page 9 it is said that only about 25% of the population were left after the harrying of the north. Historians are debating whether it was William’s actions that caused great devastation or whether there were any other causes too. But if we look at the primary sources, they are pretty clear about the consequences of William’s actions in the harrying of the north of England. After 1069/70, the winter in which this harrying was done, where they even burnt the seed corn so that no harvest could be planted for the next year, William felt pretty confident that he had finally conquered England. There were a few more rebellions after that but he’d got it sewn up.

In 1086 William commissioned the Domesday Book to see what land he actually had and it’s quite significant that the Domesday Book compares costs and manors in 1066 in the time of Edward the Confessor, and in 1086 in the time of William. He misses Harold Godwinson out completely and the Domesday Book, as well as being a tax record, is also an assertion of William’s right to rule and his direct succession from Edward to him, not Harold. Harold doesn’t get a look in.

If we look at the Domesday Book you can actually see what the effect of the harrying of the north really was. In this area, with the carving up of the states and, as you probably know, there are two great medieval families ruling this area. You have the de Laceys, with the rampant lion of the Honour of Pon- tefract; some areas just to the east of Halifax were in the Honour of Pontefract., and the Warrens.

Ilbert de Lacy did fight at the Battle of Hastings and he was given the Honour of Pontefract in 1067 and after the rebellions of 1069, Ilbert de Lacy was asked by William to harry the north of England. So when we look at some of the Domes- day records of Ilbert de Lacy’s estates in this area, it will be no surprise that they are waste – some of them are waste. The Honour of Wakefield was given to the Warren family around about 1087, so they don’t actually appear in the Domesday Book. The Honour of Wakefield until 1087 was actually held by William the Conqueror. Ilbert de Lacy fought at the Battle of Hastings and he also had the Manor of Blackburnshire which involved Clitheroe as well. There is a debate whether it was 150, 170 or 200 Manors in Yorkshire, but he was a great land owner in West Yorkshire. His lands were previously owned by Eshel Armbjorn of Worsbrough, Godwin and Gamel son of Bath.

It’s quite interesting when you look at the estates round here at the time of the Domesday Book that those that were held by Ilbert de Lacey that we have records of, it says they are waste. Alske son of Carski who had lost quite a lot of his men was an Anglo Saxon Lord had held 35 in1066 and only eight in 1086, but he did still hold some land. He was a tenant of Ilbert de Lacey and by 1086 had gained Armbjorn of Worsbrough’s land.

The Manor of Wakefield had nine berewicks and was held by the King in1066 (Edward the Confessor) and also held by William in 1086, soon to be trans-

Page 10 ferred to William de Warren. There are now in the King’s hand four villeins, three priests and two churches. The churches themselves are quite important because they helped the Normans impose their rule. That was the only place everybody went on a Sunday so you could communicate to your people. Seven sokemen and sixteen bordars Quite good descriptions of the different kinds of peasants that you have. Villains are those that are bound to their Lord – very few freedoms. Sokemen have freedoms. Bordars are like cottars they lease their land on different kinds of leases. So even though the land is not described as waste it does say at the bottom value at the time of King Edward £60 – at present £50, so 15% of the value of the land knocked off in twenty years. I think there has been some harrying in that area.

William the Conqueror died in 1087 . He was riding his horse and in those days because medieval horsemen rode their horses with their legs straight and stood in the stirrup so they had more control and could withstand the pressure of a lance coming back into them if it hit someone else, they had high saddles with high pommels at the front and the back. The story goes that William for some reason had twisted about in his saddle in Normandy and the pommel of his saddle had cut into his stomach and given him a nasty injury and after a few days of being in great pain he died in Normandy and was buried in Caen.

Apparently on his deathbed, Odric Petalus would have us believe that he said this and he apologised to the folk of the north for what he had done.

“May God forgive me, for I have taken that which was not mine to take. I have persecuted the English beyond all reason whether gentle or simple, I have cru- elly oppressed them. Many I have disinherited, innumerable multitudes perished through me by famine or the sword. I fell upon the English of the North- ern Shires like a ravening lion. Their houses and corn with all their implements and shackles burnt and great herds of cattle and beasts of burden, butchered wherever they were bound. In this way I took revenge by subjecting them to a cruel famine and so became the barbarous murderer of many thousands both young and old of that fine race of people. Having gained the throne of that King- dom by so many crimes, I dare not leave it to anyone but God”.

I don’t know whether those were William’s words or Odric Petalus’s words, but it’s nice that he thought to say, “sorry, for the harrying of the North”.

Page 11 MY CROSSLEY FAMILY FROM HALIFAX ~ part 1

Mention Crossley and Halifax and many think of carpets. At this time, I don’t know if my Crossley family are connected to the Crossley magnates. The Crossley’s are on my maternal side of the family with the first known, John CROSSLEY, being born at an unknown date in the late 1700s or early 1800s. All I know about John is that he was the father of William – nothing else.

William is my great-great-grandfather – born on 22nd August 1826 or 1827. On 27/ 9/1846 he married Harriet KELLEY. The marriage produced 9 known children – Eliza Jane (b.31/ 8/1847), Elizabeth “Lizzie” (b.23/ 4/1850), John William (b.12/ 7/1852), Lily Dale (b.16/ 8/1856), Harriet “Hetty” (b.11/ 2/1859), Mary Ann “Polly” (b. 8/ 8/1861), Harry (b.25/ 9/1864), Ellen “Nellie” (b.13/10/1866) and Florence “Florrie” (b.25/ 4/1869). The family moved to various locations in the Halifax area between 1847 and 1869 - Green Terrace, Skircoat; Trinity Road; Freedom Street; Bull Green; West Brook Terrace; Lower Hope Street; Raglan Street and Waterhouse Street. William is recorded between 1846 and 1876 as being a Carpet Weaver; as I mentioned no family connection with the carpet magnates is currently known. By 1876 he is listed as a farmer, which could mean by the age of 50 his hands were probably arthritic and he was beyond weaving. Nothing further is known of William past 1876, and beyond this he is regarded as missing.

Williams wife, Harriet, was christened on 20th February 1828 in Horton, Brad- ford, to parents Elimas KELLEY and Mary (nee BEANLAND). Elimas is listed as being a brewery man. Harriet was to go on and play an important part in the family’s future, which we will look at later on.

Little is known about first born Eliza Jane, she married Charles Walter MILLER on 7/ 2/1876, and is currently another one of the missing.

The next born, “Lizzie” had a daughter Amy (b. 8/ 3/1872) out of wedlock. Amy, who also used the surname GREEN- WOOD, listed William GREENWOOD as her father on her marriage certificate, while Amy’s birth certificate showed no father. Lizzie is last known in the 1881 census, and is another of the missing, though on her mother’s death certificate in 1902, she is still shown as living. Amy will be discussed later.

Harriet Crossley nee Kelley

Page 12 John William, appears to have learnt a lot from his maternal grandfather, Eli- mas, and is listed aged 28 as a beer house keeper. By 1894 he is listed as being the licensee of the Black Lion in Silver Street. He is believed to have come to Australia in 1885, but appears to have returned to Halifax soon after. On 2/10/1888, at the age of 36, he married his 24-year old barmaid Mar- tha Hannah OATES and had two children Harry (b.7/ 8/1889?) and Beatrice (b.25/ 5/1891). John William died at the young age of 54 on 28/10/1906. Mar- tha appears to have survived until mid 1933 (yet to be confirmed). Harry married Nellie Shaw WHITAKER in 1907 and had at least one child - John. John appears to have had a son, also John, in the mid 1930s, who then had three Ellen “Nellie” Crossley children, the last being born in Amer- ica.

Searching for John William a couple of years ago, I came across a search on the internet in 2010 along the same lineage. This John (I believe born c.1938) was living in London before being awarded a research fellowship to Boston America. He liked the place so much he decided to stay, later moving to Red- ding, California. I was last in contact with John in January 2011, when he ad- vised he had not been well and though I have made follow ups, there has been no reply. Unfortunately from our brief correspondence, I have little information to track the rest of the family down. Beatrice was to marry John Thomas EV- ANS in Bradford on 12/ 4/1916. A Beatrice Evans is listed as coming to West- ern Australia in 1929, but it has not been confirmed if it is the same one. If it is, she appears to have returned to England. She is mentioned as living in Cross Gates, Leeds in Hetty Crossley’s will dated 1940, but nothing beyond this is currently known.

In 1883 Harriet (nee Kelley) packed up and took some of her family (Lily Dale, Harriet “Hetty”, Mary Ann “Polly”, Harry, Ellen “Nellie” and Florence “Florrie”) to Sydney Australia aboard the ship North. Before departing Lily Dale is listed in 1881 as a glove and feather dyer, and Hetty and “Polly” were laundresses. Also on board was Lizzie’s daughter Amy, who fitted into the Crossley family being only 3 years younger than Harriet’s youngest - Florrie. Amy’s mother, Lizzie, didn’t come. Why she gave up her daughter is not currently known.

Little is known of the early period in settling in Australia. In September 1888,

Page 13 Harriet’s sister Jane KELLEY (b.24/ 2/1840) arrived in Melbourne aboard the ship Hohenstaufen with her son Thomas Sutcliffe KELLEY (b. 4/ 5/1861) and daughter Lillian GREENWOOD (b. 17/ 4/1877). Thomas also brought his wife Edith (nee GREEN) (b.28/ 8/1860) and their three daughters Ethel (b.24/ 8/1883), Florence (b.12/ 7/1887) and Gertrude (b. c.1885?). Jane had married Sidney GREENWOOD (not known if related to Amy’s reputed father William) in 1873, but the marriage appears to have turned sour, with Sidney remaining in the UK until his death in 1912. Jane’s life in the new colony only lasted until 3/ 8/1892 when she died from breast cancer. Maybe she was sick before departing England and came out for the warmer climate. 1892 was a bad year for son Thomas, as the first child of the clan to be born on Australian soil, Percy Henry SUTCLIFFE (b.4/ 3/1892) died one month later on 7/ 4/1892.

The end of the year showed some hope when Amy Crossley married Alfred GALBRAITH in Melbourne on 16/12/1892. From this union, three children were born Lillian Georgina (b.1894), Alfred George Finlay (b.1895) and Isabella Bax- ter (b.1896). Lillian and Isabella, both went on to marry, but produced no children. Alfred George Finlay elected to go and fight in World War I, against his father’s wishes. Unfortunately he was killed on 15/ 7/1916 when a bomb ex- ploded above him on a beach in France laying cable at the young age of 21, a couple of days before the battle at Fromelle. He is buried with many others in Sailly-Sur-LaLys Canadian cemetery in France. Amy was spared the heartache of her son dying. She had been helping doctors and nurses treat patients that had caught a gastric fever, when she caught the disease herself, succumbing to it on 16/ 4/1898 leaving three small children. Husband Alfred was later to re- marry their house-keeper and produce two further children. Alfred was never to get over the loss of his son, Alfred, and died in 1961 aged 93.

Lillian GREENWOOD appears to have stayed in Melbourne, possibly with the GALBRAITH family – though she did make a few trips to Western Australia to visit her cousins. Unlike her mother, Jane, she lived until the age of 85, dying in Melbourne on 25/ 3/1962, without marrying or having any children.

Her step brother Thomas SUTCLIFFE (nee Kelley) and his family moved to Western Australia about the same time as the Crossleys (c.1896), and made a life for himself as a house painter. Thomas Sutcliffe died on 17/ 6/1935, his wife Edith (nee GREEN) preceding him on 10/ 2/1934. Of their children Ethel survived to age 85 on 21/ 2/1969. Florence SUTCLIFFE survived to age 102 on 6/11/1989. Son Percy was mentioned previously. Of the three girls only Gertrude May was to marry. She survived until 5/12/1955 and produced two children. Only one of these two children was to marry, but no descendants were produced. The last of this line died on 9/ 5/1990.

Peter Medlin (3420). [email protected]

To be concluded in the Summer 2013 Scrivener

Page 14 MEETING NOVEMBER 22ND 2012 THE HISTORY OF EAST RIDDLESDEN HALL ~ BY TREVOR MOODY

Trevor is a National Trust Volunteer Speaker

This is a new talk I have put together. I have been asked by the National Trust in York if I could prepare one. I should explain that as a National Trust Volun- teer Speaker we are not experts at any of the things we talk about but we research them and pick up information and put over what we think is interesting. I say this because at the end people want to have questions answered and quite often I can’t answer them unlike people who specialise in a particular subject and know it backwards.

East Riddlesden Hall from the back. (National Trust website)

East Riddlesden Hall was donated to the National Trust by the Brigg brothers of Keighley in 1934. They had actually saved the hall from being stripped out of all the panelling and the plasterwork way back about 1909. Because it had been standing empty for a long, long time the owners weren’t looking after it and it had had tenants in and was in danger of being stripped out because it’s one of the only the early houses, Jacobean houses in fact, that had been left virtually untouched over 100. Finally in 1933 a builder who owned the property was all set to knock it down and put up some new buildings when the Brigg brothers stepped in and bought it because it was part of Keighley’s heritage and a year later they donated it to the National Trust.

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Then it was absolutely empty apart from one large storage box. So what you see now is not a house with its original contents, it’s a house with the original outside but put together, with furniture and furnishings of the period. Luckily a lot of these properties do have inventories, deeds and records which give some idea of what it was like and one or two bits of information being handed down over the years which let us know what sort of furniture was in the room and they certainly know the period which it was so they have collected together a lot of furnishings to give an idea of what the house was like. Even so there have been many changes made and the chap who has been there 25 years now is still trying to work out exactly what the layout of the original house was.

East Riddlesden Hall lies upon the path of a Roman road. Of course it’s quite curious this one because most Roman roads, if you look at a map they are absolutely dead straight but this road came up the Aire Valley which twists and turns, so they weren’t able to make it straight and that’s the best they could do. A thousand years before there were people living in this area - living off the land and right up to the 1700s and the industrial revolution the people in the area relied on agriculture and wool to make a living and that’s where the crossing is.

One piece of furniture was an ark or a kist. When you get along the Bradford Road and you turn in through the gates, it is the first thing you see, looking across the fish pond coming from Bradford Road and then as you go round to the left, the next thing that you see is a great barn. It is 383 years old. Inside it’s got the original woodwork from 1629, and at 120 ft x 40 ft, probably the big- gest in the North of England and certainly one of the best preserved. The information shows that there was room for 24 cows and enormous amounts of hay because it was owned by a farmer.

The main entrance to East Riddelsden Hall has a rose window and a bothy on the left. The bothy when it first started out didn’t have castellation on it, it was just a small building used as a stable and over the years when various people owned it, it has been used for other things as well. When the Murgatroyds bought it, they put the castellation on the top and there are two very crude carv- ings and underneath is an inscription which says Vive le Roi which means God Save the King. He was a staunch royalist and at the time in 1642 when he was there that was quite a brave thing to do because 1642 was when the Civil War started and Keighley was a parliamentary town with a garrison there. The bothy today has the reception desk and then there’s a shop and a new staircase has been put in with a quite delightful café on the first floor. It’s all timbered up there and it’s a very pleasant place to go.

James Murgatroyd bought the house from the Rishworth family in 1642 and what we see now is what he built. It’s never been traced precisely where the original buildings were. They have excavated over the years but have not found them, mainly because of other buildings having been built on top of it.

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Now Murgatroyd was a very wealthy clothier. He had an interest in the local coal mining where the seams were not very thick but they came very close to the surface, so a lot of coal mining went on. It is suggested that between the1600s up to 1653 when he died, he was earning about £2,000 a year and it’s calculated that that today would be something like £2,000,000 or even more than that, so he really was a very wealthy man and he was able to buy property. He acquired several houses, I think there were three or four that he built for members of his family and one of them is Kershaw House which is now a Hotel with a distinct similarity to East Riddlesden. This design was actually very much the West Riding style, particularly the wheel window or the rose window which one of the Murgatroyds added in this case.

Now going back to the house, from the front porch there is what you might call a cross passage which goes from one side to the other and from the front to the back. The front of the house faces North, and on the South side you have a very similar porch and another rose window. This is all fairly typical of the West Riding yeoman farmers as particularly around Calderdale there are a lot of young farm buildings that have this style of stonework with finials and embel- lishments on the top. One thing you can’t help noticing is this beautiful York- shire stone is black and it’s never been cleaned, it’s just been left, indicating the damage that was done by the industrial revolution, because Keighley was at the centre of this area of manufacturing and all the smoke and grime has collected there.

In the Great Hall a staircase was added in 1974 because the previous one was just a rather crude type of single staircase and this is what the Trust has to do, they have either to beg, borrow – they don’t steal – bits of furniture etc to put in the house and we were very lucky that when the Grammar School were getting rid of their staircase, it came here. This great hall actually was only semi- permanent because James Murgatroyd, towards the end of his life, he was con- stantly making alterations and there’s an opening that was going to be a fireplace on a floor over the top of this one, but it was never built. So it was all very temporary and on the fireplace there’s one or two carving – faces carved onto the mantelpiece – and that was typical of the period of when they wanted to frighten evil spirits.

The kitchen is on the opposite side and there we have the grain ark, the only piece of furniture left in the building and it’s also called a kist. Why it was the only bit left, I don’t know, but it was well worth having. Unfortunately the range was actually taken out. It was to have been left as it was part of the original building. The kitchen itself hasn’t always been a kitchen and this is one of the difficulties when you visit a house like this. You really need someone to go round, as they do from time to time, with a guide explaining all the little differ- ences in the way that the rooms are laid out and what they were before, indica- tions of where a window was, but this is the latest layout of the kitchen.

Page 17 The dining room and the parlour. Here is a good example of some of the original panelling which was saved and also the plasterwork on the ceiling which apparently was done by a local plasterer, a very skilled man and it is thought that the plasterers had their own patterns and designs. Particularly in West Yorkshire, they didn’t travel all over the country; they didn’t necessarily go to the big houses. They would work with the wealthy yeoman farmers who wanted to make an impression on their neighbours or friends.

The drawing room has the inscription over the fireplace, “1648 THEY MAIDES OF COIHN INA ”. There are lots of theories as to what it is. One of them is that it is part of Psalm 144 saying our daughters may become as corner stones. (In this case, of the farm house). Coin [coign or quoin] means corner stone, so I think you might find a lot more on the internet about the theory behind that.

The green chamber has been called the rose room, the buttery chamber and Mrs Starkey’s chamber. At one time all rooms across this area were one big one and the Murgatroyds and the Starkeys later on split it up, but in fact the National Trust decided in the end to call it the green chamber and the bed – it didn’t have a bed – so what they did they consulted the plans of an 18th century design and had it specially made. They then filled it with typical carpet and furniture.

Now the great ladies chamber used to be called the grey lady’s chamber, but it was decided to call it the great ladies chamber because there are several ghost stores associated with this house and the grey lady, I’m not quite sure of her identity but she was caught with her lover in her bedroom and the husband managed to lock up his wife in the room. He also managed to overpower the lover and bunged him into a hole in the wall and to seal it up so both of them died of starvation. The ghost story is that people say they have seen this lady wandering about that room and they felt a distinct cool atmosphere when they walked in. That was one of the ghost stories which were investigated by the Ghost Myths in 1997 by Yorkshire Television.

Here they have imported a superb bed because in the days before we had man-made products, the best thing to use was local wood or to import mahog- any etc and have it all made like this which again indicated wealth. This is the bed head. In the house they found various cots. This is a fairly simple one, a bit hard on the children if they get in and out of it, but that’s typical of the sort of cots they used. And in that room, the great chamber, there’s a very good example of a brass lantern clock which is dated 1665 to 60.

In the yellow chamber is a very small room which sits over the porch and has the big window in it and it is thought that it referred to the fact that it was yellow because the sun was always shining through it, which seems to indicate in those days they had much better summers than we do today. In the early 1900s before it could be saved the panelling was removed exposing the bare wall. The window sitting over the cross passage is a plain glass but made up of

Page 18 small pieces. At the other side is the red porch chamber or the rose or red room. That’s at the opposite side and there we have the other wheel window or rose window. In the red porch chamber is a fireplace which it tucked away in the corner. The Murgatroyds were staunch Catholics. They managed to organ- ise the Catholic priest to come into the area to preach and they had this priest hole built which is at the back of this very small fire entrance. It makes you think what big a space did they have and where did the smoke go because when they were in there they lit the fire so that concealed them.

The kitchen chamber sits over the top of the kitchen and again they have bought a wonderful four poster bed which is very ornately carved and there is another more ornate cradle or cot at the bottom. The panelling has been painted. Quite often in those days, as fashions changed they wanted lighter rooms and they often painted over the beautiful panelling with white or coloured paint – green or blue, whatever. Quite often when the National Trust got hold of the properties they have actually gone through the painstaking process of getting rid of the paint and restoring the panelling.

There is a picture on the wall there which has been lent to the Trust. There are quite a lot of these dotted around covering roughly the period 1700 to 1900. This is 1840. You can see the great barn which is on the left hand side and in the distance in the valley there you can just see the curve of the river Aire. When we look at the background and that is quite extraordinary because I don’t think it’s anything like that. That looks more like Cumberland or somewhere with these peaks. In fact one of them on the right hand side looks a volcano puffing smoke out. It’s an interesting one to have and it gives you some idea of the right hand building when it was all roofed. A more contemporary painting, 1920, shows the gates which you go through from Bradford Road and the first thing you see is the pond and the house in the distance. Also is a painting of the Airedale heifer, a very famous animal. There are quite a lot of pubs dotted around called the Airedale Heifer. Apparently this was bred in East Riddlesden on the farm way back in 1950 and if the measurements and the weights are absolutely true, 41 stones and 8 ft long from nose to its tail stump, and some- how presumably it was killed and butchered and they discovered it had eleven inches of fat on the ribs.

One painting shows the Leeds Liverpool canal which started in 1770, which was within the period of the Starkeys who bought the house from the Murga- troyds in 1692. In the 1770s they were still living there and I think they had to buy or negotiate land from the Starkeys in order to build the canal, which is less than half a mile away. It was quite quick; they got from Leeds to Skipton in three years which is remarkably fast for canal building in those days.

Now the Starkey wing – the house came into the possession of the Starkeys because the Murgatroyds died and one of the daughters, Mary, married Nicho- las Starkey and of course he then inherited the house. So from 1692 they think that he must have had an interest in it because there are things he actually built

Page 19 before he actually got full possession of it. He built the Starkey wing with his initials on the wall. They were there well into the early 1800s but when Nicho- las died, all the heirs moved south to Suffolk and the house was then unat- tended for 127 years. In 1930 it was in a pretty bad state and it was demol- ished apart from the wall that is still standing. Shortly after that was when the Briggs brothers bought it. So we have this very peculiar situation of having a house and this relic which is quite atmospheric when the moon is out and the sun is going down.

They also built in the garden a rather peculiar set of holes in the wall and there are lots of theories about them. One book calls them peacock holes but others say they weren’t for peacocks, they were for falcons. Because in hunting shooting and fishing, falcons were used to catch game birds, dogs were used for hunting and retrieving sometimes, and it is thought they were places to place falcons but others believed that it wasn’t that at all, it was put there for beehives and there were other theories that little fires were put underneath it to keep the bees warm. So it has never been defined exactly what it is, although maybe somebody here knows.

Now the garden was virtually a wilderness for many years and way back in 1972 they got some money and lots of volunteers and they started to restore it. The volunteers then developed into a group called the Friends of East Riddles- den Hall. They have a website which you can find quite easily and they are just a group of people who enjoy volunteering to speak in the rooms or they help with different events that go on through the year. In the trust there are 22,000 volunteers and I am just one of them doing what I like doing and all the rest they certainly enjoy building walls, gardening, working in the houses, looking after the books or the furniture.

The garden is split into three sections. There’s the large lawn in front of the south side of the house and there you can see small fruit trees including pear trees and as you come out of the porch and you look right across the garden to the herbaceous border there’s a little patio with a small boxed hedge, a flower bed and the seat. The Starkey wing has very little garden in it but a lawn in front of it and on the wall there is quite an old sun dial. This garden way back in around the late 1900s was completely overgrown and it was decided that it would be rather nice to have a natural garden More recently in the last few years they have developed a nature garden. This is an unused corner behind the natural garden and it’s educational. A hut has lots of bits and pieces inside to interest children and to question them and ask them to find things out and go round the garden; pinned on the wall are the different results that the children have found.

So back to the beginning - East Riddlesden Hall at Keighley. If you want more information you can go on the National Trust’s own website :- < www.nationaltrust.org.uk>

Page 20 MEMBERS’ INTERESTS – THEY ARE GOING ON-LINE !!

Many of you will be familiar with the Members’ Interests list that we maintain, like many other Family History Societies, that allows you to know about research that other members have done on names of interest to you. You send our MI Coordinator, Mike Hardcastle, details of the names that are of interest to you and gathers them together and he updates the list on a monthly basis, The list is available on the ‘members’ only’ section of the website. Any additions or changes are printed in the Scrivener which comes out every three months. Fi- nally, we re-issue all Interests every two years, in a booklet sent to every member.

The committee has been reviewing how it all works and have come to the conclusion that the present system is a bit unwieldy, quite costly (mainly the bi- annual booklet) and doesn’t deliver new and changing information very quickly. As a result, we are pleased to announce that our Web manager, Keith Pitch- forth, has developed a method by which every member can :-

• Enter all new and changing details their interests through the Members’ Only part of the Society’s website.

• Search the list for names that interest them.

• Save the paper and postage you currently use sending the MI Co- ordinator details of your needs.

This new system will be available to coincide with the publication of this Scriv- ener (March 2013 edition). You can maintain your Members’ Interests names by clicking on the item “Members’ Area” on the main menu bar (last but one item on the right) and select :-

• Search Interests

• Edit Your Interests

Search Interests: to find out if another member has entered the name you want. The search is for either an exact match or for variations. Variants are selected based on the soundex code (see en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soundex for details).

When searching Interests for a name, those found will be displayed along with E-mail addresses of the members who have listed them. All you need to do is to click on that E-Mail address and your system will display an empty E-Mail addressed to the member concerned. Complete your request for information and send off the E-Mail!

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Edit Your Interests:this displays all the names that you have entered previously yourself and allows you to add, delete or amend your list of names. A summary of changes is displayed to you whenever you complete any amend- ments. When making an entry you will need to give this information:-

• The surname

• The place where the people lived and the county of the place (this is the ‘Chapman code’ - see en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chapman_code for a full list)

• The period you know about (this is for other users to ask you for information)

• The period that you are looking for information about (for others to help you)

The periods are described by two dates: From and To. If you know the period, you enter the beginning year and the end year, If you are not sure, you enter the word Start as the ‘From’ date and Now as the ‘To’ date

For example: You are interested in the Tyzack family in Halifax and you know about them from 1900 to the present. You would like information for the period from 1750 to 1900.

Name Place County Known Wanted

From To From To

TYZACK HALIFAX WRY 1900 Now 1750 1900

TYZACK Huddersfield WRY 1900 Now Start 1900

We appreciate that this system may not suit the few (about 12) members of the Society who do not have access to a computer, but our MI co-ordinator will or- ganise for those people to have their interests listed. It is possible to access the site from a library computer, if you don’t have one. Changes and amend- ments made in any 3 month period will still be listed in the quarterly Scrivener, so changes that have been made will be available to all members.

We hope that you will all find these changes an improvement in the service that we offer to you as members. If you have any difficulty with the system, please contact our Web manager, Keith Pitchforth [email protected] or Pe- ter Lord at [email protected]

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Finally,… we would like to thank Mike Hardcastle, our Members’ Interests Coordinator, for all the efforts that he has put in over the last few years, maintaining the existing list. Although Mike will continue to be involved in the online list, these changes will take a good deal of work from his shoulders.

To register go to the Society website, www.cfhsweb.com

Click on the link “Register” (half way down the right-hand side of the screen.) You will be asked for the following:-

• User Name – choose one up that fits you !

• Your E-Mail Address

• Your first name and surname

• Your membership number. (If you are unsure of this, send an e- mail to the Membership Secretary [email protected] who will send it to you.)

After you have pressed the ‘Register’ button, you will receive a password by email, normally within 48 hours,

Page 23 MEMBERS’ INTERESTS UPDATE received by 11th February 2013 You can now update your interests online (see pages 19-21)

Contact Mike Hardcastle (address on back page) if you can’t get online.

Surname Location County Period k Period w Code ASHWORTH Stansfield/ Heptonstall WRY pre 1890 3547 BENSON Luddenden Foot WRY 1904 pre/ post 3516 COCKCROFT Todmorden, Hebden Br, Hep WRY all 3559 CROSSLEY Elland WRY pre 1841 3546 FINNEGAN Luddenden Foot WRY 1901 pre/ post 3516 GARRITY Luddenden Foot WRY 1901 pre/ post 3516 HALLAS Halifax town WRY 1804-1930 All 2580 HARDYMAN Halifax / Southowram WRY 1700-1930 All 2580 HODGE 3561 HOLT Todmorden, Hebden Br, Hept WRY all 3559 HOYLE Halifax WRY 1840+ pre 1840 3550 JAGGER Batley WRY 1842-1930 All 2580 JAGGER Halifax / Southowram WRY 1759-1930 All 2580 KENION Halifax / Southowram WRY 1751-1753 All 2580 LORD Halifax WRY 1750-1900 3554 LYONS Halifax WRY 1901-1923 pre/ post 3516 MITCHELL Halifax WRY 1750-1900 3554 OLDFIELD Clough Clifton WRY 1814 1852 3209 O'ROURKE 3561 PARKER Halifax WRY 1750-1900 3554 PEACOCK Luddenden Foot WRY 1901 pre/ post 3516 QUARMBY 3561 RHODES Halifax /Southowram WRY 1753-1769 All 2580 SLADDIN Skircoat WRY 1840+ pre 1840 3550 SPEAK Stansfield,Elland(W.Vale) WRY 1820 onwds pre 1820 3553 SPEAKE Todmorden, Hebden Br, Hep WRY all 3559 SUTCLIFFE Todmorden, Hebden Br, Hep WRY all 3559 THOMSON Halifax WRY 1820 + any 3486 THROP Skircoat, Halifax WRY 1840+ pre 1840 3550 WADE Halifax / Southowram WRY 1765-1794 All 2580 WILKINSON Halifax / Southowram WRY 1768-1804 All 2580

Page 24 CONTACTS FOR NEW MEMBERS’ INTERESTS 2580, Dr.G.L. Muffley, 109,Lovers Loop Road, Asheville, North Carolina, 28803, U.S.A. [email protected] 3209, Mr.V. Denham, 92,Swallow Road, Larkfield, Kent, ME20 6PZ, [email protected] 3516, Mrs K. Wood, 333, Padgate Lane, Warrington, Cheshire, WA1 3DX, [email protected] 3546, Mr J. Dixon, 6 Ashwood Crescent, Walkerville, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE6 4PL, [email protected] 3547, Mrs T. Baker, 18 Meadowside, Launceston, Cornwall, PL15 7DJ, [email protected] 3550, Mrs J. Lee, 30 Caulfield Drive, Greasby, Wirral, Merseyside, CH49 1SN, [email protected] 3553, Mr P. R. Wood, Touchwood, Bryr-Ny-Harrey, Andreans, Isle of Man, IM7 2EL, [email protected] 3554, Ms A. Lord, Rose Cottage, Lyonshall, Kington, HR5 3JD, [email protected] 3559, Mrs S. Hinchliffe, 19 Fieldhouse Street, Wakefield, West Yorkshire, WF1 5BQ, [email protected] 3561, Miss M. Nelson, 48, Clifton Street, Sowerby Bridge, West Yorkshire, HX6 2DQ, [email protected] 3563, Mr J. Worsnop, 299 Highfield Road North, Chorley, Lancashire, PR7 1PH, [email protected]

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3550 Mrs J Lee 30 Caulfield Drive Greasby Wirral Merseyside CH49 1SN [email protected] 3551Mrs M Sayer Schmittenstrasse 21 Roggwil BE4914 Switzerland [email protected] 3552 Mr P Strong Hazel Bank Stainmore Brough Cumbria CA17 4EA [email protected] 3553 Mr P R Wood Touchwood Bryr-Ny-Harrey Andreans Isle of Man IM7 2EL [email protected] 3554 Ms A Lord Rose Cottage Lyonshall Kington HR5 3JD [email protected] 3555 Mrs S Thornton 5 Blackbird Way Crossgates Scarborough North Yorkshire YO12 4TY [email protected] 3556 Mrs M Garrod 54 Potters Lane New Barnet Herts EN5 5BQ [email protected] 3557 Mrs B Garrad 26 Broughton Road Stourbridge West Midlands DY9 0XP [email protected] 3558 Ms E Cargill 4 Railway Cotts Brancepeth Village Durham Co. Durham DH7 8DL [email protected] 3559 Mrs S Hinchliffe 19 Fieldhouse Street Wakefield West Yorkshire WF1 5BQ [email protected] 3560 Mr M Green 9 Greencroft Avenue Northowram Halifax West Yorkshire HX3 7EP [email protected] 3561Miss M Nelson 48 Clifton Street Sowerby Bridge West Yorkshire HX6 2DQ [email protected] 3562 Mrs A Taylor Springfield Cottages Bank Hey Bottom Lane Ripponden Sowerby Bridge HX6 4HG [email protected] 3563 Mr J Worsnop 299 Highfield Road North Chorley Lancashire PR7 1PH [email protected] 3564 Mr I Hill 23 Close Lea Rastrick Brighouse HD6 3AR [email protected] 3565 Mr N Clay Jim Crow Corner Norchard Lane Peopleton Worcestershire WR10 2ED [email protected] 3566 Dr F Fawthrop Corncrake House Southwell Road Kirklington Nottinghamshire NG22 8NQ [email protected]

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Change of Address 2535, Mrs. Y.T. Sykes, 38, Hullen Edge Lane, Elland, West Yorkshire, HX5 0QS, [email protected]

Page 26 CALDERDALE FAMILY HISTORY SOCIETY Incorporating Halifax and District

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Application can be made in either two ways: Over the Internet from the site www.genfair.com By completing the form below and posting to the Treasurer

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Page 27 Date Protection Act As a “Not for Profit” organization, we are not required to “notify” the Data Pro- tection Authorities in the UK regarding the holding of personal data. However, you should know that we hold on the Society’s computer the personal data that you provide us. Furthermore, we make this information available to other members for the purposes of following up “Members Interests”. As part of this, those details are posted on our “Members Only” website, which, under certain circumstances, can be accessed by non members. If you either do not want us to hold your details on our computer and/or you do not want your details made available to other members as described above, please contact our Membership Secretary by letter or by e-mail at [email protected]

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Calderdale FHS Annual General Meeting - Thursday 25th. April 2013 at 7.30 pm at the North Bridge Leisure Centre, Halifax.

Agenda & Notes

Announcement of Nominations and Citations & distribution of voting papers for the Members' Sutcliffe Award

2. Secretary's Report

3. Treasurer's Report

4. Collection of voting papers for the Members' Sutcliffe Award

5. Election of Officers & Committee

6. Election of Auditors

7. Presentation of the Sutcliffe Award

8. Presentation / Announcement of Margaret Walker Award

9. Any Other AGM Business

Please bring this Agenda to the AGM

Following the AGM our webmaster, Keith Pitchforth, will give a short presentation on our new website and the online organization of members’ interests.

Page 28 Nomination Paper for the Members' Sutcliffe Award 2013

Every year, the Society makes a presentation of 2 annual awards to Members who have made an outstanding contribution to the Society over the previous 12 months. These are entitled The Sutcliffe Awards, in recognition of the work carried out by John & Joyce Sutcliffe over many years.

The Committee Sutcliffe Award is awarded by the Committee to the Away Member who they feel has made such a contribution during the year.

The Members' Sutcliffe Award is awarded to any Society Member, nominated by any other member, and voted on at the AGM by all members present.

This nomination paper may be completed, signed by the submitting member & returned to The Secretary by 7.30pm. Thursday 25th. April 2013. Please note that only one nomination may be made by any one member.

* * * * * * * *

I nominate ...... to be considered for the award of the 2013 Members' Sutcliffe Award, for the following reasons:

......

Signed: ...... Date :......

(Please print your name here)......

Please return this nomination form to Margaret Smith, 4,Rawson Avenue, Hali- fax. HX3 0JP to arrive before Thursday 25th. April 2013

Form for nominations for Committee Member(s) is overleaf.

Page 29 CFHS - 2013/2014 Committee Nomination Please print the name of the nominee in the space provided. Please return this nomination form to Margaret Smith, 4,Rawson Avenue, Halifax. HX3 0JP to arrive before Thursday 25th. April 2013

I nominate ...... for election to the CFHS Committee for the year 2013/2014.

Signed ......

Members’ Name ......

Date ......

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AN APOLOGY TO DECEMBER’S NEW MEMBERS

Gremlins have been at work at The Scrivener and (with the added complications of moving from the safety of Office 2003 to the uncharted waters of Office 2010) the email addresses of our new members were missing in the Winter issue. So here they are:-

1323 D and M McCallum [email protected] 3538 Dr R Shaw [email protected] 3539 Ms L Butler [email protected] 3540 Mr D Lakey [email protected] 3541 Mrs J Dowling [email protected] 3543 Mrs S Barrow [email protected] 3544 Mr R Binns [email protected] 3545 Lady R Scott [email protected] 3546 Mr J Dixon [email protected]

3542 Mr C Chalker hasn’t got an email address

Apologies to all concerned.

Susan Clarke [email protected]

CALDERDALE FAMILY HISTORY SOCIETY

2013 SUMMER MEETINGS ~ Thursdays 7:30p.m.

At The Shibden Room, North Bridge Leisure Centre (except where otherwise shown )

25th April Annual General Meeting

23rd May Diana Priestley ~ “Built for a Hero—The Churchill family”

27th June Kathy Fishwick ~ “Working Class Housing”

25th July Julie Robertson ~ “Quakers”

Page 31 COMPUTER HELP – THE SOLUTION !

Following our appeal in the December Scrivener for help to cover the mainte- nance of computer systems for the Society, I am delighted to be able to tell you that 2 of our members stepped forward & are now actively supporting the Soci- ety’s systems.

The tasks have been split into 2 – those activities that can be done easily re- motely & those that are best covered by someone local to Halifax.

Firstly, Neville Broadbent, e-Mail [email protected] , has taken over the management of our major projects, starting with the new project to transcribe the Parish Registers for St Bartholomew, Ripponden. Neville lives in Suffolk & has a lifetime of experience in the IT industry. As a result, you can be assured that the next few projects that we run will be in safe hands !! If any member wants to participate in our transcription projects, please contact Neville on the E-Mail given above & he will be happy to put you on to his team.

Secondly, Ann Wilkinson, E-Mail [email protected], has volunteered to offer support on local systems. Ann lives in Siddal, just outside Halifax, & has ex- tensive experience in a number of computer applications. She will be supporting systems that sometimes need personal contact with the Society officers that run them – typically the Asset Register System, Financial Accounts, the Mem- bership database and, of course, the computer network at the Research Room in Brighouse.

Both Ann & Neville are ensuring that there will be adequate cover for our main systems, so that at least 3 of us can be made available for any support that may be needed. I know that you will all help both of them if and when it is necessary to ask for their support, as they get into their new roles.

Peter Lord – Project Coordinator

This picture from Dorothy Hunt says simply on the reverse

“Rev A Leach 1898”.

The photographer was Jno E Shaw & Son, of Kensington House, Glossop Road, SHEFFIELD.

Page 32 MEETING DECEMBER 13TH 2012 19TH CENTURY BOOM AND BUST – BY JACKIE DEPELLE

Exploring business and family fortunes pull together a lot of things I have found out about my own family who were in business in Leeds. I will explain as I go along. I have brought a few books which you might like to look at, at the end and are a few surprise props as we go through it.

We start with the Pateley Bridge Parish Register. William Kettlewell, gentle- man, marries Elizabeth Kaybury, spinster, married in this church by Licence 11th December 1796. The key thing in there is the fact that they are marrying by Licence for speed and for status -because you can afford it and also maybe you don’t want to be in church for your banns being read. An earlier marriage is clandestine so they are not obeying the rules and regulations and despite being buried right outside the parish church doorway in a nice little tomb there they are Methodist trustees etc. So don’t let that put you off and you think that they are Anglican. If someone is married by Licence you have the opportunity to try and follow that up bonds and allegations. There is one for William Kettlewell of Pateley Bridge in the Parish of Ripon and it tells me that he’s a linen weaver. So William is a linen weaver and Elizabeth Kaybury of the same place and they are 21 years and upwards so again quite useful because you are getting an idea of how old they are which the Parish Register marriage does not say. And you have signatures which may be useful for comparison purposes in other documentation. The other half of the bond and allegation they are saying they’ll tell the truth the whole truth and nothing but the truth, his friend is Miles Shep- herd an inkeeper and again there are signatures for you to compare.

William’s will in 1835 is in Ecclesiastical Wills at the Borthwick and he owned quite a lot of Pateley Bridge and he’s giving properties to his sons and he is also telling you the tenants of those properties. So we are visiting the Borthwick Institute for the licence and for the will because it’s ecclesiastical and you’ll know it’s part of York University now funded by them and Will Indexes, marriages, banns and licences are on Origins.net. This is it’s speciality, the Na- tional Will Index. It’s quite an economical website to use, you can just pay for 72 hours very inexpensively and a lot of these wills you will not find on other websites at the moment, so we’ve got York Medieval Probate 1257 to 1700 and 1383 to 1883. And because a lot of business people would leave wills but con- versely they wouldn’t because they would disperse all their property and business rather than it falling into the hands of solicitors and things like that so sometimes you do find that people in business don’t actually leave a will when you might have expected that they would.

Trade directories and commercial directories of 1855 are ideal for businesses. Gentry and Clergy here. We’ve got Mr Thomas Kettlewell, Mrs W Kettlewell and in the miscellaneous we’ve got William Kaybury, chemist and druggist and Thomas who is the secretary of the Mechanic’s Institute and Library in Pateley Bridge. They, I think, are different Thomases. There are four Thomas Kettle-

Page 33 wells alive in Pateley Bridge at one time, so it takes a little bit of unravelling. So trade directories are going to be ideal, and read the front as well as looking for your names because there’s plenty in this that will tell you about the industry that your ancestors may have worked in.

The London Gazette which is freely available online goes back to the time of Charles II. It’s the official notification of the Government. As far as businesses are concerned, you are going to get things like dividends and share distribu- tions and bankruptcies.In June 1803 we find a bankruptcy of a John Sawyer and John Kettlewell now or late of Leeds and their merchant dealers Chapman & Co Partners etc and this is the earliest Kettlewell I have found in Leeds. We have the digital newspapers so we will forward in this case to the 10th March 1880 and another William’s son telling us it’s his 81st birthday party It tells us that for between 50 and 60 years he has carried on business in the same premises in Briggate. So that is allowing us to work out when he came into the town and set up his business, so somebody’s birthday celebration or an obituary for someone who has been in business will be a useful resource also.

So as William and his brothers start to come in we can see what’s going to happen to the population of Leeds and if they are in business as Pateley is declin- ing, Leeds is going to go up and they are hopefully going to make money. No doubt that’s what they thought anyway. He’s coming about 1820-21. Leeds is made a parliamentary borough. There’s gas lighting somewhere being intro- duced into Leeds just before they come, so you get a real feel of the town that your family are moving into and what life is going to be like in the future, whether they prosper or otherwise.

Fowlers map of Leeds in 1821 shows the spread of the city coming in. You can get a feel of the size of it, the density, the housing, life quality, water quality and they are coming right in the middle of it just off Briggate. We have the diary of Mrs Sarah Ellis, July 1835 and she’s tell us about coming to Leeds. “We got safe to Leeds, took an omnibus which carried us to an inn etc. In the evening went with Mrs S and Miss E to see a bazaar. It was like going into a hall filled with shops, some for toys, some with caps and collars and some with jewellery and various things besides”. And she’s going on to say “One person had a very long shop. I thought she must look sharp when she was at one end that she was not robbed at the other”. She’s buying a pair of chamber bellows or per- haps something like that. So I think she is shopping in my ancestor’s shop per- haps, but certainly a nice indication of the trading conditions. It’s not far away from the time when they are petitioning to stop the shops being shut at ten o’clock – they don’t want this at this time. The Kettlewell boys are all involved with the West Riding Trade Protection Association which records are all in the West Riding West Yorkshire Archive Service and you get all the names of the shop holders who are all petitioning to keep longer trading hours.

1834 then another trade directory – Piggot’s this time and we have still only got one Kettlewell in 1934 but this is now mine – William Thomas Drapers. If you

Page 34 get a series of trade directories, look at the people coming in and out. Some- times you get the resident’s address, sometimes you get a warehouse address etc, and then you can maybe follow it forward.

One of the things you may be able to follow in is, of course, the Deeds Regis- tries that we are so lucky to have in Yorkshire, the three Ridings and Middlesex and it is through a deed that I have found that the draper Kettlewells knew the Sawyer Kettlewells , because a lady is leaving a will, leaving her property and the Sawyer Kettlewells are ministers of the Church of England. It says William Kettlewell, clerk (clerk of the Church of England) and William Kettlewell, draper. So I have proof through a Deed that these two business concerns knew each other, so don’t forget to use the Deeds Registries for churches, factories as well as house history.

You may also find ancestors then in indentures and apprenticeships. Quite a few apprenticeships have gone on Ancestry. They are London indentures, but of course the people are coming from all over the country. We are going back to the London Gazette with Kaybury Kettlewell the son of William Kettlewell and Elizabeth Kaybury. In the London Gazette there are just nine. This is all free to view and you can then just view the PDF and see what it says.

So poor old Kaybury goes bust. In the digital newspapers we learn all his material, all the contents of his house is for sale in two big sales at the house at Grosvenor Terrace, Headingley Lane. So you have got every single item of his house so I think he was living over his means because somewhere it says there is a small cellar of port and sherry wines and marble chimney pieces etc. And the other piece that matches this, the other sale, actually sells his milk cow. So this is Headingley about 1847 in which you are getting an idea of the lifestyle that he mighty be aspiring to and the fact that he has his own milk cow at home which is quite fascinating and if you are lucky enough that they have gone bankrupt maybe you will find that too.

Kaybury’s brother, Thomas, is my direct antecedent, I have a marriage certificate here in Lady Lane Wesleyan Methodist chapel. We have the fact that he is an upholstery draper in Briggate and his father was a grocer and spirit merchant, to that’s taking us back with a little bit more detail.

By 1853 there’s a White’s Directory of Clothing Districts of Yorkshire and you will find Halifax in here. It’s all the clothing districts. We now find that there are lots of Kettlewells in Leeds. So where have they come from? Do I know all about them? Are they all in business? Is it the same business? Why have they come? Half of them are William and Elizabeth’s children. The other half are the millionaires, the Sayers lot and I’m trying to find out whether they are mine or not. Then we have Peter a tobacconist trading at 3 Wellington Street and his house is in Headingley and if you have got that extra bit of information, William and Thomas – you’ve got their two business premises 100 and 114, but

Page 35 William lives at 3 Grove Terrace. But because they are in the trade directory you have the opportunity to find two addresses for these people who are likely to appear in early Poll Tax returns, but we have the Electoral Rolls by this time so as business people they are more than likely going to appear in those.

When we go back to the London Gazette in 1860, there we find that Kaybury Kettlewell late of Headingley Lane is in the goal at York, so the poor chap is in the debtors’ prison at York and when I think about the number of times I have walked around there as a child, bored to tears I feel a bit sad about that now and if you use the York Castle Prison website you can search that and they have pulled a lot of material from the London Gazette and from other archives, so you might have a little look in that if you have people in business that might set you off on another trail.

There are various books on the industries of Yorkshire, so it could be the industry your ancestors are ordinary workers in or maybe the boss and this is William and Son and it tells you all about them. This is Yorkshire Industries 1874 and I’ve just put on the table one of the books I have which is A Century’s Progress which is 1893 again for Yorkshire. In the index you will see that there’s no Ket- tlewells but there are Kayburys and what you’ve got there is a nice etching of the shop front and often you will get an etching off the letterhead which may be the only way you can see what your ancestor’s shop front actually looked like.

There are also specialist trade magazines – a lot of those have gone to the wall these days. The Warehouseman and Drapers’ Trade Journal is now down at Colindale, shortly coming up to Boston Spa and it tells us again about William and how he was entertained on his 75th birthday. There’s the Chemist and Druggists’ Trade Magazine, so there will have been specialist magazines for your industry. And this is February 1874.

If they were in business it could well be that they leave a will. After 1858 we have got the National Probate Calendars. The Will of John Kettlewell tells us that he has been a watchmaker and silversmith, and was proved by Charles Buck Kettlewell and John Kettlewell, bookkeepers. Charles Buck is an insurance agent, John Kettlewell is a bookkeeper and they sign as two of the execu- tors. So we have even picked up that sons are in business and maybe you can find out what insurance company they worked for and look for employment records too. These Probate Calendars are now on Ancestry.

If you are in business you are probably going to get a telephone early. From telephone books on Ancestry, William Kettlewell and Son, 100 and 114 Brig- gate, so definitely mine, have a telephone in 1888. Telephone No 359.

Google Books – you may go through that for your ancestors that were in trade. If there’s doubt on the copyright then Google Books will be in preview but if you take the last sentence of one preview and put it back in you will get the next bit. They didn’t just scan odd pages. They scanned the book but they only show

Page 36 you a snippet at a time. You can get the whole article and I found a Henry Ket- tlewell who is going to court in 1891 and he’s going to Leeds County Court and Henry is a stationer in Manchester now and he is suing Taylor’s Drug Company for £8. 8s damages alleged to have been sustained by wrongful dismissal.

Fire Insurance is something else that your ancestors in business more than likely have been involved with. There’s a nice book on fire insurance records. Goulds insurance plans should be in your local library. There are maps that go with the insurance records. They are quite challenging to find. I haven’t done very well for the Kettlewells with that sadly. They were at the Guildhall Library in London. London Routes Research tells you all about them. The Sun and Royal Exchange for which thousands of records survive are at the London Met- ropolitan Archives and very slowly they are being indexed. So if you go on to the National Archives website, I have just done this tonight and searched for Halifax, put in the Sun because this is the Sun Fire Insurance and put that the repository is the London Metropolitan Archives, I actually got sixteen results at the index. Then you have got to go down to the LMA to get them copied.

Building plans are something else you might choose to use. This is Leeds Es- tate Company and they are selling off County Arcade and this is all coloured into the owners, so pink are all the premises owned by the Kettlewells and this is worth £20,000 and, yes, it was almost left to a cats’ home.Another resource you might use is Companies House and if you go in there you may find lists of businesses that are obviously still continuing today or historically. It takes a bit of fiddling but you could make contact for them.

You could try the Charities Commission. An old result for the Kettlewells was some alms houses which were set up by the millionaire lot, the Rev S Kettlewell and it’s talking about a will proved in 1893 and this charity is still ongoing but under a different name.

So there’s always a bit of your ancestor’s business that you might actually get to handle as well.

Another photo from Dorothy Hunt; this shows a Thomas Smith, taken by J Illingworth, late with J Eastman Gibbet Street Halifax The revesre says Thomas Smith? born 1911 Grace Ann Radcliffe’s father, Grampa, L R Radcliffe

Page 37 THE LIFE OF JAMES BARKER 1772-1838 ~ PART 1

Stripped to the waist for action, James Barker’s torso glistened in the dim light of the battle lanterns on the gun deck. The dusty air was thick with smoke and as the cannons were fired, the temperature became unbearable. Like most of the gunner’s mates, James had wrapped cloth around his head to try to protect his ears from the thunderous roar of the broadsides. He covered his nose and mouth to stop the smoke getting into his lungs. Sand strewn on the wooden decks made his movements more difficult but it was there as a fire precaution. It would also soak up the blood of anyone unlucky enough to get in the way of an enemy cannonball.

He wheeled the smoking cannon out of the gun port back into the ship for re- loading. He closed the air vent to stifle the sparks then cleaned out any hot remains with a damp sponge rod. The powder bag was emptied into the barrel and pushed to the bottom with a ram rod. This time it was a 32 pounder - the heaviest on board. He wheeled the cannon back to the gun port, reopened the air vent and inserted the fuse. The gunner aimed the cannon taking into account trajectory, distance and wind speed. The fuse was lit and the shot was fired. James was so well drilled that the cannon was ready for firing again within about a minute. The Royal Navy achieved a much higher firing rate than the French or the Spanish vessels.

What made James Barker swap his life in Stansfield, Heptonstall near Halifax for a precarious career in the Royal Navy of his own free will?

1725 – 1797

It was quite a daunting task to find the ancestors of James Barker. In general, records dating from this period are in poor condition, difficult to read and provide very little information. In particular, the Heptonstall birth, marriage and death registers had very few cross-references. Fortunately, the registers of Cross Stones gave extra information such as addresses to entries in Hepton- stall. This was because Cross Stones was in Stansfield Parish and parts of Stansfield were in Heptonstall. For these reasons, the professional help of Ruth Simpson was enlisted.

James Barker’s grandparents were William and Mary Barker of Royd, Stans- field who were probably married in about 1746 and had the following children;

12 Jul 1747 William 14 Oct 1750 Abraham 28 Dec 1751 Susan 1 Apr 1753 Patience

The Barker family then probably moved to Broad Ing Top and had the following children:

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3 Aug 1755 Robert & Mally (twins son and daughter) 14 Mar 1760 James 4 May 1763 John 25 Apr 1765 Hannah 26 Feb 1770 Ann

William Barker, born 1747, son of William and Mary Barker, became a cord- wainer (shoe maker) and married Sarah in 1768. They had the following four children:

1769 Mary, Wm & Sarah of Royd, Kitchen St 1772 James, Wm & Sarah Barker of Carrhousefold, St. Was christened at St Thomas Heptonstall on March 1st. (Christ Church). 1775 Betty, Wm & Sarah of Cross Stone, St 1778 Jno, Wm & Sarah of Stansfield Hall Cottage.

Unfortunately, Sarah Barker then died, probably due to complications with the birth of her son and was buried in Heptonstall.

William, a widower with 4 young children, decided to take another wife two years later. One of the witnesses at this wedding was William (Bararker), which was more than likely his father William Barker.

James Barker, William’s first son, was born in 1772 and he lost his mother at the young age of six. Two years after that, he had to share his life with his step- mother Betty. Then in 1797 when he was 27 years old, he lost his father. Ar- guably these events became the turning point in James Barker’s life. In line with tradition, he would become a shoe maker like his father but he was good with his hands and fascinated by mechanical things. His ambition was to become a watch maker and wanted to escape from his shoe making. He decided to join the Royal Navy and to leave Yorkshire for good.

1803 – 1807

At the age of 31 years, James Barker joined the crew of His Majesty’s ship the Hero, a 74 gun Royal Naval warship, soon after its launch at Blackwall on the river Thames on 18th August, 1803. The date he joined this ship was taken from the muster table of this vessel from between the 1st January and 30th June 1807. At that time, it had a compliment of about 590 men. As a gunner’s mate, he was very familiar with the 28 x 32-pounder cannons on the gun deck.

In 1805 France was at war again with Britain and Napoleon had an army of some 150,000 men encamped at Boulogne who were ready to invade if only they could get across the channel. The plan was for the French Navy to escape the British blockades at Toulon and Brest, to draw the British fleet away from their defence positions by attacking the West Indies, to double back to Ireland,

Page 39 where French troops would help start a rebellion and then to quash the weak- ened naval defences so that the army could be landed.

The 3rd Battle of Cape Finisterre took place off the coast of Galicia, Spain on 22nd July 1805. Vice Admiral Robert Calder had 15 ships of the line (warships) including James Barker’s ship HMS Hero and HMS Dragon, whilst the com- bined Franco-Spanish fleet had 20 ships of the line. HMS Hero (and arguably James Barker) started the battle late afternoon and patchy fog made for much confusion. Both Calder and Pierre Charles Silvestre de Villeneuve claimed victory but it was an indecisive battle.

Robert Calder was court-martialled for failing to engage with the enemy on the second day and thereby missing the opportunity to severely weaken the opposi- tion. He never went to sea again. In hindsight, this judgement was very harsh indeed. Villeneuve was obviously so rattled by the engagement that he went to Cadiz in southern Spain instead of obeying Napoleon’s orders to return to Brest and Boulogne. This completely ruined any hopes of an invasion, as General Napoleon Bonaparte was forced to admit, as quoted in The London literary gazette and journal of belles lettres, arts, sciences on September 8th 1815 “If Ad- miral Villeneuve, instead of entering Ferrol,(a port in Galacia) had contented himself with rallying at the Spanish squadron, and had sailed for Brest to join Admiral Gantheaume, my army would have landed; it would have been all over with England."

On July 6th, 1807, James was transferred to his Majesty’s ship the Dragon, which was larger and had a compliment of about 840 men and which had also seen action at the Battle of Cape Finisterre. There is a note that he would receive monthly pay from the end of June 1807 onwards. He was found on the muster table of this vessel from between the 1st December 1807 and 31st January 1808.

Whilst on shore leave, James Barker met a Londoner named Ann Lilley. Her maiden name was Ann Burt and she was born to John and Ann Burt on the 12th September and baptised at St Mary-le-bone on the 23rd of the same month. In her early twenties, she had gone to find work in Devonport and found romance instead. She married Alexander Lilley on May 19th, 1794 and their son James Lilley was born in February 1797.

Unfortunately Alexander Lilley died tragically young at the age of 32 years leaving Ann as a single mother with a six year old child. James had empathy for the situation of this widow and her son since he had also lost a parent at the age of six. Nothing is known about what happened to James Lilley.

The original entry for the wedding in the ancient church of Stoke Damerel, Devon read as follows: James Barker, Gunners Mate, of her Majesty’s ship Hero, a bachelor & Ann Lilley of this parish, widow were married in this church by licence this fifth day of May in the Year One Thousand Eight hundred and

Page 40 seven by me, John Hawker, Curate. James would need to have the wedding by licence as his leave would not have allowed him the traditional banns. This Evangelical Curate John Hawker was criticised by the Church authorities but hugely popular with the parishioners, who helped him set up the Church of St Peters when he was removed from Stoke Damerel by the bishop.

1808

In 1808, the happy couple were expecting their first child together. James Barker always intended to start a watchmaker’s business, which might explain why he rented a shop rather than a house in Chipping Sodbury. For a brief period, probably not more than three months, the Barker family were resident in Chipping Sodbury. In the Parish Council poor relief record of October 4th 1808, a shop owned by Richard Rodway was empty. The next report dated 28th No- vember 1808 found that the shop had been leased to Mr Barker. This ties in with the baptism of William Barker on November 13th 1808 from the original record MF 605 in the Gloucester City Library – (Bishops transcripts - Church of England - Parish Church of Sodbury-Chipping). However the next Parish Coun- cil report dated 21st February 1809 noted that the Barker family had moved on because the shop was then occupied by Stephen Sallis. This was taken from original research by Margaret Bray on April 21st 2007.

Ken Barker (3485) [email protected] Notes on next page

To be continued in the Summer 2013 Scrivener

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Notes

1 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Dragon_(1798)(last accessed 12 01 2013); ; http://wiki.answers.com/Q/How_do_you_load_and_fire_a_cannon (last accessed 13/04/2012); ;;http://conservapedia.com/Naval_guns accessed 19 04 2012; Naval Gunnery in Nelson's Navy: Cannons and Gunnery during the Age of Fighting Sail | Suite101.com http://grant-sebastian-nell.suite101.com/naval- gunnery-in-nelsons-navy-a85553#ixzz1sWThMlEi (last accessed 19 04 2012); Naval Gunnery in Nelson's Navy: Cannons and Gunnery during the Age of Fighting Sail | Suite101.com http://grant-sebastian-nell.suite101.com/naval- gunnery-in-nelsons-navy-a85553#ixzz1sWThMlEi (last accessed 19 04 2012) 2 There was no sign in “ADM36/16466 - Ship’s Muster “Hero” Mar-Oct 1806 in the National Archives that he was press ganged. 3 (Cross Stone registers, Stansfield, nr Heptonstall) 4 West Yorkshire Archive Service, Wakefield, Yorkshire, England; Yorkshire Parish Records; Old Reference Number: D46/15; New Reference Number: WDP46/15. www.ancestry.co.uk (Last accessed 8/1/2013) 5 (Heptonstall Burials 1778-1812 Entry 20 Nov 1778 Sarah wife of William Barker,Crosstone, Stansfield.) 6 (Heptonstall Marriages 1780 Page 162, No. 485 William Barker of this parish, Shoemaker & Betty Lord of this parish, Spinster were married in this chapel by Banns 28 Mar 1780 by me T.Sutcliffe. Curate. William signed name; Betty made mark X. In the presence of W.Shackleton & John Shackleton.) 7 West Yorkshire Archive Service, Wakefield, Yorkshire, England; Yorkshire Parish Records; Old Reference Number: D46/15; New Reference Number: WDP46/15. www.ancestry.co.uk (Last accessed 8/1/2013) 8 Heptonstall Burials 1778-1812 21 July 1797 William Barker, Crosstone, Stansfield.) 9Original research by Patricia O’Neill in the National Archives 28/5/2008; http:// en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Cape_Finisterre_(1805) (last accessed 20/01/2013); http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Napoleonic_Wars (last accessed 20/01/2013); http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Hero_(1803) (last accessed 20/01/2013); http://militaryhistory.about.com/od/navalbattles1800s/p/ capefinisterre.htm (last accessed 20/01/2013) 10 Original research by Patricia O’Neill in the National Archives 28/5/2008 11 London Metropolitan Archives, Saint Marylebone, Day book of baptisms, Jan 1779 - Nov 1786, P89/MRY1, Item 080. www.ancestry.com last accessed 13 01 2013) 12 ("England, Plymouth and West Devon, Parish Registers, 1538-1912," index and images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/KC9Q-6RS : accessed 03 Jan 2013 Lilly and Ann Burt, 1794.) 13 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Hawker (last accessed 21-01-2013)

Page 42 CO-OPERATIVE HOLIDAYS ASSOCIATION

Brighouse and Frankfurt on the eve of WWI...

Teachers Without Borders... Conflict Resolution... Peace Education... Before the first World War ? In Calderdale ?

On March 18th, 1912, Miss B L Crowther, Head Mistress of St Andrew’s Girls’ School, submitted a letter to the Borough of Brighouse Education Committee. Miss Crowther enclosed a letter from the teachers of Brighouse to the teachers of ‘Frankfort-on Main’, ‘conveying to them and to all the people of the German empire an expression of sincere regard and goodwill.’

Extract from Brighouse Council Minutes

Months after Britain and Germany had been within hours of declaring war over the Morocco crisis, this letter was signed by every teacher in Brighouse and the surrounding district. Miss Crowther asked that the letter be endorsed by the members of the Education Committee. All those present signed. So did the Mayor, Alderman Robert Thornton. (1) Frankfurt’s response is reported in both the Yorkshire Observer and in Com- radeship, the journal of the Co-operative Holidays Association, of which Miss Crowther was a member. (2) Through school exchanges and holiday centres, open to all, whatever their gen- der, income, politics or faith, the CHA and like minded organisations in Ger- many, including Frankfurt’s ‘ Ferienheimgesellschaft ‘ were bringing young people together, enjoying shared experiences on the Yorkshire moors, in Snowdonia and in the Scottish Highlands. Yorkshire academics taught at summer centres in Germany, German teachers came here, especially to the CHA centres in Hebden and Whitby.

In 1912, half a dozen of Frankfurt’s leading schools sent letters to Brighouse. The Yorkshire Observer offers one example :

Page 43 ‘ We fervently wish that the two nations so nearly allied by derivation and quali- ties of character may ever enter into closer relationship, and ever less succumb to the danger of misunderstanding each other. Since the politicians are fond of asserting that it is the people and not they who make wars, it is well that the people should give the politician a hand in establishing peace. In January, 1912, hundreds of CHA members attended the CHA annual meeting, the third to be held in Bradford. Delegates from Frankfurt attended. In 1910 and 1911, they’d attended meetings in Liverpool and Manchester. A Frankfurt

German party at Hayfield, Derbyshire (near Kinder Scout), July 1910 proposal was approved, urging better access to the countryside for British people. Frankfurt delegates donated funding for this. In 1905 - the year Keighley pioneered town twinning - secondary school teachers from Germany visited Oxford, Cambridge and London, urging a new approach to modern languages. (3) Pupils should be encouraged to meet, take part in school and university exchanges, learning about each other’s cultures, not just the mechanics of a language. In 1906, the CHA launched its first study holidays in France and Germany. As the Dreadnought race intensified, CHA visits to Germany focused on the promotion of peace through education. The first CHA group to visit Frankfurt was welcomed by OberBurgermeister Franz Adickes. The Brighouse minutes document the town’s commitment to peace through education. Pre WWI photos in the Manchester archives include many taken in Kelkheim, near Frankfurt and in the surrounding countryside.

Notes: (1) WYAS /KMT18/12/1/23/2 (2) GMCRO/CHA/PUB/13/1 (3) King’s, Cambridge, OB/1//208/C

The background - Found in a Cumbrian junkshop, a 1912 ‘desktop’ book records the adventures of six young friends, as they trek across what would become the D-Day battle- grounds. Determined to speak French, they can ask the way and understand the reply, arrange their accommodation ad hoc, use French public transport with confidence, eat and drink anything on offer.

Page 44 On a tight budget [incomes confirmed, HSBC, teaching and industry records] the friends shared one camera, developing even a broken glass plate. One backpacker admires poppies ‘bright and gay’ in the Normandy cornfields. The final chapter ends with a toast to ‘friendship, long life and happy days.’ In 1912 ?

A Cumbrian archivist knew exactly what I’d found. The bound typescript was, of course, ‘a letter from the lost generation’.

German advertisement for the Co-operative Holidays Association

Historian Dr Jacques Gury of Rennes disagreed. Backpacking across Nor- mandy and Brittany, the friends aren’t lost. Their story is ‘a glimpse of the twentieth century as it might have been.’ Reading their 1912 text, it’s clear that their friendships are international. Liverpool Protestants, they respect the faith of catholic Normandy & Brittany. (eventually)

Traced to Whitechapel, Tottenham and West Derby, Liverpool, the backpackers aren’t connected to Calderdale or any other part of Yorkshire. Researching the organisation of which all were members led immediately to Yorkshire. The earliest record I know of German participation is a 1902 Dresden account of a CHA holiday in Whitby - recommending an ideal way of learning a language and making new friends. ( Caedmon, coals to Newcastle, Synod of Whitby, field studies, cleaning each other’s boots. No Dracula.)

Page 45 Founded by Arthur Leonard, the Cooperative Holidays Association was very strongly supported in Yorkshire. Already moved on from Barrow in Furness, Leonard’s radical policies led to accusations that he was using the church to preach Socialism and Labour Church doctrine. Turning thirty, Leonard resigned from ministry to concentrate on educational holidays – target age group roughly 18 – 30.

Leonard insisted on shared experiences regardless of political allegiance. His own lifelong friendships included future Tory chairman Lord Woolton, as well as Rowntrees and Trevelyans, and, documented in Leonard’s own papers, Philip Snowden & Macdonald – especially Snowden.

The original ms of Leonard’s account of the pre WWI Internationalism and peace education is in the Manchester record office - peppered with blanks. Writing in 1929, he did, of course, know the names of the current PM. Chancel- lor, Minister of Education etc, all of whom had supported the pre-WWI educational dialogue with Germany.

Even 1912 CHA summer programmes have been mutilated – names actually cut from the text.

Rosamund Ridley

HELP WANTED

ASHWORTH and others

My great grandparents were William Edwin ASHWORTH of York- shire and Charlotte Elizabeth WALKLATE. William's father was Richard Benja- min Ashworth who was born in Paisley, Scotland but I have not found a record of his birth/baptism or his parents. He returned to West Yorkshire and was living at Linthwaite when he married Mary BLACKBURN nee WALKER at Al- mondbury in June 1836. One of the witnesses was W. Ashworth. Their first 3 children, William Edwin, John Kennedy and Sarah Kennedy were born in Hush- waite but baptised in Slaithwaite and Linthwaite. Benjamin and Mary moved to Liverpool and then Stoke-on-Trent but after Mary died, Richard was living in Hebden Bridge with his sister, Grace, in 1871. At the time of the 1841 census William was not with his parents but could have been the 3-year old William living at Hebden Bridge with John and Hannah Ashworth.

I would be very grateful for any help in finding Richard's parents.

Tessa Baker (3547) [email protected]

Page 46 MEETING: THURSDAY JANUARY 24TH 2013 DR PHIL JUDKINS - THE FEMALE OF THE SPECIES

As family historians have you ever sat back from looking at your research papers or from the telly and said it was impossible? Many people chasing their family history come to me in sheer disbelief about the jobs undertaken by women in wartime, saying this just can’t be right – that lady can’t have done that. This talk is the antidote. The quote of course, “the female of the species is more deadly than the male”, is from Rudyard Kipling. He wrote the poem from which the quote comes just three years before the First World War. I’ll show you examples of the roles played by women in both world wars. They would challenge a lot of stereotypes.

Now when war was first declared the first thought of young men was to rush to the front before it was all over by Christmas. The response of women in all ages and groups in society in Britain was to encourage this war in defence of civilisation. But at the front in all nations, the reality brought a sharp shock and to none more immediately than those in the caring professions, particularly in nursing.

I was asked “I have heard a nurse was executed by firing squad – surely nurses can’t be executed?” Nurses are, alas, victims of war atrocities wherever wars are fought. The nurse was Edith Cavell and she was executed by a German firing squad for helping allied prisoners of war to escape. A factor that’s very hard for us to take in is by that helping escapees she put herself outside the legal protection given by the Geneva Convention to medical services and instead put her self under Marshall Law. As a result, the British Government did not plead for her life. It was left to the American Government to do so. Their pleas failed.

Munitions work in the First World War and indeed in the Second was performed under conditions that would have given today’s health and safety a fit. Given the pressure to produce armaments for the front line, all too often there was the temptation to cut corners, to use steel tools that could strike a spark, to neglect to keep areas scrupulously clean. The lack of separation of the vats meant that one spark could set off all the others in a chain reaction. I am sure you’ve heard of the Barnbow Lasses who you might very well have had a talk about and if so, you know that the two munitions work explosions nearby were at Barnbow and at Low Moor just up the road. In Low Moor on 21st August 1916, the explosions went on for two days, killing 38 people, demolishing 50 homes and damaging 2,000. While just a 100 days later the Barnbow blast killed 38 out of the workforce. The Barnbow Works record merely states briefly that pro- duction was stopped only briefly. Within hours, other girls volunteered to clear up the area.

I was asked if I had heard of a secretary who was killed doing bomb disposal. The secretary’s name was Eileen Morden. She was employed by the Ministry

Page 47 of Supply as a secretary to Charles Howard, the Ministry’s Chief Research Offi- cer, an expert in explosives and also, if I give him his proper title, Charles How- ard, Earl of Suffolk. The Earl took up bomb disposal in his spare time, after hours. Each time the Earl took the longest walk, (the one towards the bomb you are about to defuse) Eileen went with him to take shorthand dictation as he was dismantling the bombs so that instruction books could be written for future bomb disposal operatives. Thirty-four disposals went well, the thirty-fifth at Erith Marshes did not, and they were both killed.

As the war developed the anti-aircraft guns of Britain were increasingly operated by women as indeed the radars and the sound locators that guided the guns were. The theory was that the women did everything but actually fire the guns, but in practice, of course, no one took any notice of it. For those who would argue that that was not in the face of the enemy, it’s as well to remember 18-year-old private Norah Caveney who carried on firing 505 battery’s heavy anti-aircraft gun in defence of Portsmouth though mortally wounded by a bomb splinter, until another woman took her place and took up the barrage. She was a West Riding lady, the daughter of John and Hannah Caveney of Walsden near Todmorden.

Women did in fact make better [radar] operators than the men. One officer who I asked if this was so, said quite simply was that they watched the screen. In a mixed group what do the men watch? Well there was concern that the WAAF wouldn’t perform as well under fire. That was answered magnificently during the heavy attacks of the Battle of Britain where there were many cases of the ladies heroically sticking to their posts and that was observed and duly rewarded. Here corporal Avis Parsons celebrates being awarded the Military Medal. She was on duty on the 18th August when the radar station at Poling were attacked by 30 Stuka dive bombers, the same ones so feared at Dunkirk. The next radar station along the post called them up to say that last plot of hos- tiles is right on top of you, to which Avis replied that she knew because the bombs were coming down on top of her head and carried on passing the radar plots through to headquarters.

Women flew Spitfires as well as Hurricanes, Lancasters and every other type of aircraft operated by the RAF. The Air Transport Auxiliary had women pilots re- sponsible for delivering aircraft from the manufacturers to the squadrons. They flew the large four-engine Lancasters, Halifaxes and Stirlings on their own, quite alone, where a crew of seven men was usually needed. Dorothy Robson BSc was a bomb site specialist serving with 76 Squadron. She flew with the crew on an air test and the plane crashed killing everyone on board. She is recorded, quite properly, on the 76 Squadron Role of Honour, but more than that the 76 flew until recently from Linton on Ouse and named one of their aircraft after her, so a Tuscano NPD for Dorothy carries her name on.

HMS Fidelity was a merchant ship specially adapted to carry heavy guns, landing craft and camouflage to be able to carry out her role of landing troops and

Page 48 agents on hostile shores while disguised as a neutral merchant ship. The Gun- nery Officer was a woman and her name was Madeline Guesclin. Known in war as First Officer Barclay of the WRENS, she had escaped the fall of France in this British built ship Le Rhone with its captain the Corsican Claude Andre Michel Costa and the secret of plastic explosive, a French invention. Costa offered his ship to the British and it was fitted out as a special services ship carrying out covert landings on the Mediterranean coast. But alas, the Fidelity (previously called Le Rhone) and First Officer Barclay perished in December 1942 as part of the escort to convoy ONS154 falling victim to a U-boat attack.

The Navy, of course, sometimes operated well away from the sea and you can’t get further away from the sea than Bletchley, now part of Milton Keynes. But as the engine drivers on the LMS observed, all the WRENS get out at Bletchley. The reason was simple, as we now know of course they were not made public until 1973. They were part of the huge code breaking operation of Bletchley Park. The youngest lady to work at Bletchley was a lady who is still alive today called Mimi Gallilee. When she started she was just 14 years old. The world of computing began at Bletchley, but it also involved a lady destined to become an Admiral in the United States Navy and have a ship named after her. Grace Hooper was one of the very earliest specialists in what we now call information technology, during the Second World War. She would move on later to develop the languages that we call compilers nowadays which allow computer languages to run on any type of computer and she was one of the first developers of language called COBOL. She was actually the lady who named computer faults bugs, after an unfortunate moth had electrocuted itself inside the computer one day and shorted out a couple of circuits.

I reserve a special place for the women who came into closest contact with the enemy who were, of course, the secret agents dropped by aircraft, in particular to France and often to act as radio operators. Noor Inayat Khan was a Sufi Muslim originally born in Moscow, raised in London and then Paris where she studied child psychology and music, becoming an author of children’s books. She fled to London on the fall of France and though as a Sufi she was a paci- fist, she decided to fight to overthrow Nazism. She joined the WAAF and transferred to the Special Operations Executive as a trainee agent radio operator. She landed in France in June 1943 but was betrayed in October. She was cap- tured and refused to give any information on interrogation, attempted escape, was transferred to Pforzheim in Germany from where in September 1944 she was taken to Dachau, shot and cremated. In the strange way that the honours are allocated, she was awarded the George Cross which is Britain’s finest honour for bravery not in the face of the enemy. I think it’s very difficult to argue that she was not involved in combat.

Hopefully I have tried to give you the facts that many women did indeed serve in a huge variety of roles and that death was at hand in many of them.

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Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936)

The Female of the Species

WHEN the Himalayan peasant meets the he-bear in his pride, He shouts to scare the monster, who will often turn aside. But the she-bear thus accosted rends the peasant tooth and nail. For the female of the species is more deadly than the male.

When Nag the basking cobra hears the careless foot of man, He will sometimes wriggle sideways and avoid it if he can. But his mate makes no such motion where she camps beside the trail. For the female of the species is more deadly than the male.

When the early Jesuit fathers preached to Hurons and Choctaws, They prayed to be delivered from the vengeance of the squaws. 'Twas the women, not the warriors, turned those stark enthusiasts pale. For the female of the species is more deadly than the male.

Man's timid heart is bursting with the things he must not say, For the Woman that God gave him isn't his to give away; But when hunter meets with husbands, each confirms the other's tale— The female of the species is more deadly than the male.

Man, a bear in most relations—worm and savage otherwise,— Man propounds negotiations, Man accepts the compromise. Very rarely will he squarely push the logic of a fact To its ultimate conclusion in unmitigated act.

Fear, or foolishness, impels him, ere he lay the wicked low, To concede some form of trial even to his fiercest foe. Mirth obscene diverts his anger—Doubt and Pity oft perplex Him in dealing with an issue—to the scandal of The Sex!

But the Woman that God gave him, every fibre of her frame Proves her launched for one sole issue, armed and engined for the same; And to serve that single issue, lest the generations fail, The female of the species must be deadlier than the male.

Page 50 She who faces Death by torture for each life beneath her breast May not deal in doubt or pity—must not swerve for fact or jest. These be purely male diversions—not in these her honour dwells— She the Other Law we live by, is that Law and nothing else.

She can bring no more to living than the powers that make her great As the Mother of the Infant and the Mistress of the Mate. And when Babe and Man are lacking and she strides unclaimed to claim Her right as femme (and baron), her equipment is the same.

She is wedded to convictions—in default of grosser ties; Her contentions are her children, Heaven help him who denies!— He will meet no suave discussion, but the instant, white-hot, wild, Wakened female of the species warring as for spouse and child.

Unprovoked and awful charges—even so the she-bear fights, Speech that drips, corrodes, and poisons—even so the cobra bites, Scientific vivisection of one nerve till it is raw And the victim writhes in anguish—like the Jesuit with the squaw!

So it comes that Man, the coward, when he gathers to confer With his fellow-braves in council, dare not leave a place for her Where, at war with Life and Conscience, he uplifts his erring hands To some God of Abstract Justice—which no woman understands.

And Man knows it! Knows, moreover, that the Woman that God gave him Must command but may not govern—shall enthral but not enslave him. And She knows, because She warns him, and Her instincts never fail, That the Female of Her Species is more deadly than the Male.

This poem can be found, for example, in:

Kipling, Rudyard. Rudyard Kipling's Verse: Inclusive Edition,

1885-1918. London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1919.

Page 51 USEFUL CONTACTS AND SOURCES FOR RESEARCHING WEST YORKSHIRE ANCESTORS

West Yorkshire Archive Service ~ www.archives.wyjs.org.uk (This can be a good place to start to access the West Yorkshire Archive Catalogue)

Calderdale District Archives, (Registers, BTs, Census, etc. etc.) Calderdale Central Library, Northgate House, Northgate, Hailfax HXI IUN Tel: +44 (0) 1422 392636 e-mail [email protected]

WYAS Headquarters, Newstead Road, Wakefield WFI 2DE (Registers, WRiding Regis- try of Deeds, Manorial Records etc.) Tel: +44 (0) 1924 305980 email : [email protected]

The Borthwick Institute ~ www.york.ac.uk/inst/bihr/ (Peculiar + PCY wills, BT's etc.) University of York, Heslington, YORK YO10 5DD Tel: +44 (0) 1904 321166 email ~ link on website

Calderdale Central Reference Library (address as above) Tel: +44 (0) 1422 392631 e- mail [email protected] (local studies collection, newspapers, maps, trade directories, IGI, GRO indexes, census and parish register fiche, on-line Familysearch and Ancestry; research service offered).

Weaver to Web ~ www.calderdale.gov.uk/wtw/ The council maintains a website with a miscellany of information from the archives (a wide range of photos, maps, census returns, parish registers, poll books, wills , etc., have been digitised to view online).

Malcolm Bull’s Calderdale Companion ~ http://www.calderdalecompanion.co.uk (Large collection of trivia, miscellaneous facts of people and places and other bits of local history about Halifax and Calderdale).

All the Parish records transcribed by the Society are available to search (for a fee) on FindMyPast.co.uk (In addition there are many other records available to search)

West Yorkshire Parish Registers have been put online (for a fee) by the West Yorkshire Archives Service which can be accessed on Ancestry.co.uk. (Again, many other useful records, for a fee) www.familysearch.org (Thousands of records for free including the IGI and some census data). LDS Family History Centres are invaluable for 'distance research'. Check local telephone directories.

The National Archives ~ www.nationalarchives.gov.uk (a wealth of data arising from public records, including BMD’s, census and much much more). Kew, Richmond, Surrey, TW9 4DU Tel: +44 (0) 20 8876 www.direct.gov.uk/gro is the website of the general register office for everything con- cerning civil registration and to order certificates.

Consider subscribing to a periodical such as Family Tree Magazine or BBC’s Who Do You Think You Are? Magazine. Online sites such as GenesReunited and LostCousins may help you find relatives researching the same family.

Page 52 LOCAL FAMILY HISTORY FAIRS

CFHS will have a stand at these fairs in 2013:-

April 27th 2013 10am—4:30 pm Pudsey Family History Day Pudsey Civic Hall, Dawson’s Corner, Pudsey, LS28 5TA

29th June 2012: 10 am—4.30 pm Yorkshire Family History Fair Knavesmire Exhibition Centre, York Racecourse

There is a useful list of family history fairs around the country at:-

http://www.familytreefolk.co.uk/page_10898.html

View our website at www.cfhsweb.com

and visit

Calderdale Family History Society’s

RESEARCH ROOM

Brighouse Library Rydings Park, Brighouse

Tuesdays 1:30pm to 4:30pm & Thursdays 10:00am to 1:00pm

Open to both Members & Non-Members

Facilities include :- • Searchable information on 4 computers. • Fiches for all Calderdale C of E churches. • 4 Internet terminals, with access to Ancestry.com • Wide range of books, journals, cuttings, etc.

For more information and bookings ring 07952-211986 during the hours given above.

Page 53 Calderdale Family History Society Incorporating Halifax and District

Officers and Co-ordinators of the Society

Officer and Name, Address and E-mail Tel. No.

President Mr. Barrie Crossley, 9, Victoria Terr., Delph Hill Road, Halifax, HX2 7ED e-mail - [email protected] 01422-366931

Chairman Mr. Clifford Drake, 22, Well Grove, Hove Edge, Brighouse, HD6 2LT e-mail - [email protected] 01484-714311

Secretary Mrs. Margaret Smith, 4 Rawson Avenue, Halifax, HX3 0JP e-mail - [email protected] Treasurer Mr. Dennis Fryer, 74 Ford, Ambler Thorn, Queensbury, Bradford, BD13 2BJ e-mail - [email protected] 01274-880471

Membership Secretary Mrs. Susan Clarke, 33, Cumberland Ave., Fixby, Huddersfield, HD2 2JJ e-mail - [email protected] 01484–304426

Publications Officer (sales of books, CDs, etc.) Mrs. Joan Drake, 22, Well Grove, Hove Edge, Brighouse, HD6 2LT e-mail - [email protected] 01484-714311

Editor ~ Scrivener (for submission of articles, letters, etc.) Mrs. Rosie Burgess, 65, Ham Close, Holt, Trowbridge, Wiltshire, BA14 6PY email - [email protected] 01225-782146

Enquiry Service Co-ordinator (for research queries and search requests) Mrs. Susan Lord 288 Halifax Road, Hove Edge, Brighouse, HD6 2PB e-mail - [email protected] 01484 718576

Research Room Co-ordinator (for information about room at The Rydings) Vacant e-mail [email protected]

[RR Bookings and Information Tues pm/Thurs am 07952-211986]

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Officer and Name, Address and E-mail Tel. No.

Projects Co-ordinator Mr. Peter Lord, 288 Halifax Road, Hove Edge, Brighouse, HD6 2PB e-mail - [email protected] 01484 718576

Webmaster Mr. Keith Pitchforth, 10 Hallam Grange Road, Sheffield, S Yorks, S10 4BJ e-mail - [email protected] 0114-2307685

Strays Co-ordinator Mrs. Dorothy Hunt, Springfield House, Whitehall Green, Halifax, HX2 9UQ e-mail - [email protected]

Librarian Mrs. Anne Kirker, 356, Oldham Rd. Sowerby Bridge, Halifax HX6 4QU e-mail - [email protected] 01422 - 823966

Members’ Interests Co-ordinator Mr. Mike Hardcastle, Cedarwood, The Grange, Huddersfield Road, Brighouse, HD6 3RH e-mail - [email protected] 01484 715493

The Society's Home Web Page on the Internet is http://www.cfhsweb.com

Page 55 CHAPELRIES AND TOWNSHIPS OF THE ANCIENT PARISH OF HALIFAX

CHURCH/CHAPEL Registers begin BAP. MAR.** BUR. 1. COLEY St. John 1735 1745 1734 2. CROSS STONE St. Paul 1678 1837 1678 3. ELLAND St. Mary** 1559 1559 1559 4. HALIFAX St. James (inc St Mary Rhodes St 1953) 1832 1837 nk 5. HALIFAX St. John** 1538 1538 1538 6. HARTSHEAD St. Peter 1612 1612 1612 7. HEPTONSTALL St. Thomas** 1599 1593 1599 8. ILLINGWORTH St. Mary 1695 1697 1695 9. LIGHTCLIFFE St. Matthew 1703 1704 1704 10. LUDDENDEN St. Mary 1653 1661 1653 11. RASTRICK St. Matthew 1719 1839 1798 12. RIPPONDEN St. Bartholomew 1684 1686 1684 13. SCAMMONDEN WITH MILLHEAD St. Bartholomew 1746 1886 1746 14. SOUTHOWRAM St. Anne 1813 1838 1818 15. SOWERBY St. Peter 1668 1711 1643 16. SOWERBY BRIDGE Christ Church 1709 1730 1821 17. STAINLAND St. Andrew 1782 1844 1783 18. TODMORDEN St. Mary/Christ Church 1678 1669 1666 **Following Hardwicke’s Marriages Act of 1754, Banns and Marriages will only be found in the registers of these churches. After 1837 they lost their monopoly of marriages.

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