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LANCASHIRE FAMILY HISTORY
AND HERALDRY SOCIETY
Rossendale Branch
Newsletter August 2001
TONIGHT
1st August - Research Workshop in Longholme Chapel. We
have several new project fiche for you to consult, including the long
awaited Newchurch monumental and memorial inscriptions.
Wilf Day has brought along his computer. He has a
number of records available, especially for the Goodshaw, Crawshawbooth
area.
Michael Hiluta can help with burials from Haslingden,
Rawtenstall and Newchurch.
Winifred Belcher can help you find information in our
library and Maureen Hodgkinson will help you to find the ideal book to
purchase.
The Amish
are a Protestant group who are located the US and in Ontario, Canada.
They are farmers who believe in personal simplicity. They do not accept
modern technology; they have no telephones and have no electricity. So no
computers, no Internet. Oh dear! How would we manage?
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3rd October - Rawtenstall Library. A
look at the resources of the library and help with your research.
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7th November - Uncle Fred, Mary
Davison and Jean Harrison will tell us about Fred Harrison.
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5th December- Christmas Social.
PROGRAMME 2002 (Provisional)
Coming
Events ....
27th
October The NW Group of Family History
Societies FHS Fair, at the Guild Hall, Preston. Details from F. Gullick,
4 Lawrence Avenue, Simonstone, Burnley
Did
you miss...
Our
Walk round Haslingden
Whatever
happened to the rain? We had a perfect evening for our stroll, in spite
of a forecast for torrential rain.
About 40
members were conducted on a tour round the town commencing at St. James’s
Church. We visited various other churches and graveyards. At Ebenezer
Baptist Church, Michael Hiluta produced a huge photo of the graveyard as
it had been in 1973, full of gravestones. He proclaimed it a “lost
opportunity”, which indeed it was but as the family history society only
commenced that year, we could hardly be blamed for the loss of the
stones. Let’s make sure no other opportunities are lost.
The walk
finished at 9.00 p.m. Haslingden Roots Research Group treated us to tea
and biscuits and our Chairman, John Dalton, won the raffle.
Maybe we
can walk round some other area next year. Or, would we be tempting our
luck, by trying to get such fine weather a second time?
Rossendale Ancestry
Workshop and Exhibition
The
exhibition will run from September 29th - October 13th at Rawtenstall
Library. A public workshop will be held in the exhibition room on
Saturday October 6th.
Please
consider your contribution NOW. If you
don’t have a local family, you can do displays on a specific locality,
historic maps, census returns, civil registration certificates, population
figures, distribution of surnames, etc. etc. You can provide your
expertise in graphic art, or in providing leaflets, publicity etc.
Volunteers will also be required to install the exhibition on September
29th and to help with the workshop on October 6th.
Rossendale Ancestry:
PALMER.
Ann McClean wrote to ask if the 1891 census could be checked for her
Palmer Family. This has been done. She already had the 1871 and 1881
censuses. This family had moved enmasse to
Lancashire, from Cambridgeshire to find work. She says “William, Henry &
Louis are brothers, their parents are William & Maria Palmer from
Burwell, brother and sister-in-law of my Gt. Gt. Grandfather Emmanuel
Palmer. Stephen is a cousin of William, Henry & Louis. They are all
grandsons of my 3 X Gt. Grandparents, Stephen Palmer of Burwell and Maria
da Silva of Portugal.” If you have any connections with this family, Her
email address is ann-mcclean@mid-wales.net
SNEDDLE
HOLME, EDGESIDE. In our July issue, Donald B. Hyde of Colorado Springs
wrote to ask the whereabouts of this place. He was thrilled to receive a
parcel from England enclosing several coloured
photographs of the buildings and a map of the district. He wishes to
thank Wilf Day for his help. Donald has been a member for a long time.
He is member number 43. So it is good to know we have been able to help
someone who has stuck with us for about 27 years.
HAMER.
Brenda Westwood (member 6660) of RR3, Wingham, Ontario NOG 2WO, Canada
sent me a photograph of a shop at 192 Blackburn Road, Haslingden. It
shows Geo. Henry Hamer “High Class Grocer” standing in the doorway of the
shop with his nephew Henry Hamer. Henry was Brenda’s grandfather, he was
born in 1889. He appears to be about 14 years old, which would date the
photograph to 1902.
Brenda
asked whether we had any records of Holden Hall cemetery. Michael Hiluta
was able to give me information from grave B1135, which showed that George
Henry died in 1936 aged 61, he was living at Morecambe. His wife Caroline
died in 1958, aged 84 at Ulverston. There was also a small child,
Ainsworth, who died aged 4, shortly after the cemetery was opened, in
1902.
I thought
I would check this family in 1881. I had considerable difficulty as they
had been mis-indexed as HAWER. I eventually found them at Sunnybank
Street in 1881 and 1891. Henry aged 1 was living at 2 Spring Street,
Haslingden in 1891. His parents were James Hamer and Betsy.
PICKUP/RAILWAY AT WATERFOOT Alex Pickup, 37 Woodhouse Lane, Biddulph,
Staffordshire Moorlands, ST8 7DR is trying to verify a family story, “that
when the E.L.R was routed from Rawtenstall to Waterfoot, a dispute
regarding the ownership of land was not resolved and was referred to
Chancery.” The dispute, c1848 involved Henry Pickup, a wool carder, who
died 1860, at Newchurch St. Nicholas.
DUNN/WALLWORK.
I had a request from Nigel Dunn who is researching his grandparents who
came from the Rawtenstall/Bacup/Stacksteads/Waterfoot area. His
grandfather was Thomas Dunn 1908 - 2000, his grandmother was Hannah
Wallwork 1903 - 1978. These two moved to Yorkshire, so he is trying to
find any information on their relatives. His grandfather’s brothers were
Harold, Ralph, Fred and Roland. He had a sister Alice.
His
grandmother, Alice was daughter of Joseph Wallwork born 1876. Her
brothers were Sam and George. She had two sisters Florence and Mary. If
you can help Nigel’s email is ngd@dunn.freeserve.co.uk
Gravestone of the Month
Michael
Hiluta, has suggested this, as a regular item. He has submitted this
inscription from Rawtenstall Cemetery.
In Loving
memory of/ John ASPIN/ of 1 Hope Street, Cloughfold/ who served in
the Indian/ Mutiny and was present at the/ relief of Lucknow/ died
December 30th 1907/ in his 68th year/ Also Elizabeth his wife/ died April
4th 1910/ aged 70 years.
If you
know of any interesting stones relating to the Rossendale area, please let
me have copies for future publication.
The
National Burial Index
The
Branch has received a copy of this CD. It contains over 5 million burial
records from 1538 to 2000. Only 29 registers are for Lancashire as the
LFHHS decide to continue with its own programme of publishing indexed
records on microfiche.
St.
John’s Church, Stonefold
This
church is due to close in the near future. At present it is part of the
United Benefice and Parish of Haslingden St. James and Grane St. Stephen.
It is situated on Blackburn Road, Rising Bridge, between Haslingden and
Accrington.
Sylvia
Craig has made a start on the monumental inscriptions. She would like
some help with this project. If you are interested please contact Sylvia
as soon as possible.
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