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THE SCRIVENER The Journal of Calderdale Family History Society Incorporating Halifax & District Number 150 Spring March 2015 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 4 th 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 on the 1st of the month, on the anniversary of joining the Society (cheques made payable to CFHS.) 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. • Membership subscriptions may be paid annually by Standing 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 appropri- ate 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. Page 2 CONTENTS ARTICLES COVER PICTURE 4 EDITORIAL 5 OCTOBER TALK—MURDER MOST FOUL 6 ANNUAL TRIP to EYAM & BAKEWELL 11 UNWANTED CERTIFICATES 13 EDWARD LEE—THE BLACK SHEEP Part 2 14 HELP WANTED 26 HALIFAX ARCHITECT JOHN OATES 31 HALIFAX DESCENT of JOHN LAPRAIK 38 PILGRIMAGE to LIBYA Part 2 42 GENERAL INFORMATION BIRTH, MARRIAGE & DEATH CERTIFICATES 48 USEFUL CONTACTS 52 FAMILY HISTORY FAIRS, etc 53 ANCIENT PARISH OF HALIFAX ~ chapelries & townships 56 CALDERDALE FAMILY HISTORY SOCIETY NEWS ABOUT CFHS 2 CONSTITUTION CHANGES—Your Vote 5 PROJECTS PROGRESS REPORT 12 MEMBERS INTERESTS—Are you using them enough? 24 NEW MEMBERS’ INTERESTS 26 MEMBERSIP RENEWAL FORM 27 AGM AGENDA 28 NOMINATION PAPERS for SUTCLIFFE AWARD & COMMITTEE MEMBERS 28 MEMBERSHIP RENEWALS 37 NEW SEARCH FACILITIES for MEMBERS 49 SPRING/SUMMER MEETINGS 51 RESEARCH ROOM DETAILS 53 CFHS OFFICERS 54 PUBLICATION & SERVICES SUPPLEMENT P1- P4 Page 3 THE SCRIVENER Publication Dates Deadline Dates for Copy SPRING 2015 (March) FEBRUARY 16th SUMMER 2015 (June) APRIL 20th AUTUMN 2015 (September) AUGUST 17th WINTER 2015 (December) NOVEMBER 9th Please note that, due my other commitments, the copy date for the Sum- mer issue is earlier than previously. Editor. Data Protection Act As a “not for profit” organisation, we are not required to notify the Data Protec- tion 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 email at [email protected]. Insurance Exclusions The insurance which we hold for certain activities undertaken by members is limited to cover for members under 75 years of age. Consequently, any member over 75 who is concerned about taking part in specific Society activities should contact the Secretary for clarification. FRONT COVER St Paul’s, Stone Cross, Stainland, taken from the article on John Oates by Alice Kingma Lee. One of the now redundant Anglican churches built after Parliament introduced the Church Building Act of 1818 to allocate money for the building of C of E churches in the new industrial centres, to cater for the spiritual needs of the new industrial masses. Page 4 EDITORIAL Hello! I’m your new editor. I first came to the family history scene when my husband was helping a hitherto unknown cousin with her (and hence his) family tree. I went along to the Family Records Centre in Islington, to see what it was all about. I thought I would see how far back I could get with my father's direct line. It was relatively easy back to the 1840s, using the official records of births, marriages and deaths, and the census records, which took me back to ggg grandparents John and Sarah Hol- royd. Before that, one has to rely on parish records and monumental inscrip- tions. I was able to trace John's parents, William and Sarah back to the 1750's, but what with 10% of the population of Stainland being called Holroyd, and all naming their sons John and William, and their daughters Sarah and Elizabeth, and ministers not seeing any need for mothers' names on baptismal records, I came to a full stop. However, I did find some fourth cousins, which was nice. I hope you all enjoy this issue of the Scrivener and please keep sending in your articles and especially pictures, with a few words about them. I don’t live locally, so I can’t just go out snapping local scenes. On a techy note, forgive me if I’ve mucked up your carefully formatted article; I have to fit it on A5 pages, and if I scale down A4 pages, they are unreadable!! If you set up your Word document as A5 pages (File — Page Setup — Paper tab — Paper size—A5) you can see how it will look in Scrivener, and save the editor a lot of work! Oh, and if you email me, please be sure to give me a clue in the title, such as "Article for Scrivener" or I might mistake it for SPAM and delete it unopened! Frances Stubbs ([email protected]) Exercising Your Right to Vote Have you cast your vote? Your committee would like to amend the Constitution at the forthcoming AGM (details published in September & December 2014 Scrivener and on the CFHS web site) and needs to know your feelings about this. Remember the Society belongs to you, its members. Please vote ASAP either by returning the earlier published voting slip (September 2014 Scrivener) by post, or on-line at http:// www. cfhsweb.com. Margaret Smith (Secretary ) Page 5 October Talk — Murder Most Foul - by Reg Le Plan It’s a subject that interests me, having been a practicing solicitor for 58 years, because this talk is about the only English solicitor who was ever indicted for the murder of another solicitor. I can’t help thinking that many of us have wanted to do that in the past but we have never actually succumbed. This series of events took place in 1921 in Hay-on-Wye which, you will know, is now known as the biggest bookshop in the world. These events occurred in a part of Hay-on-Wye which is a bit like the Shambles in York, where as you know, if you lean out of a window, you can almost shake hands with the per- son leaning out of the window opposite. One firm of solicitors had a practice on one side and the other firm had a practice on the other. The solicitor I am go- ing to talk about is Herbert Rowse Armstrong and apart from war service he had lived all his life in Hay-on-Wye. There’s another solicitor called Oswald Martin and he was the intended victim. Let me tell, in a sense, the end of the story first. On a crisp Saturday morning the 31 st December 1921, Major Herbert Rowse Armstrong was walking from the little hamlet of Cusop into Hay-on-Wye as he did every Saturday to spend an hour or two at his office. He was an austere man, he attracted great respect but not much love, but in that last year, 1921, he had attracted a great deal of love and help and support because his wife Kathleen had died in the February of psychotic melancholia and she was buried in the local churchyard.

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