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LANCASHIRE FAMILY HISTORY
AND HERALDRY SOCIETY
Rossendale
Branch Newsletter February 2001
Coming Events ....
Saturday 24th March 2001
"We seek them here, we seek them there"
A Family History Day -hosted by The
Family History Society of Cheshire for the North West Group of the
Federation of Family History Societies. It will be held at the Manchester
Metropolitan University Crewe + Alsager Faculty on the Alsager Campus. . I
have a few application forms and leaflets.
Friday 20th - Sunday 22nd April
"The Cup of Love" - the Spring
Conference of the Federation of FHS will be held at Leicester University,
Oadby. The theme of the conference will be to explore some of the more
extraordinary goings-on of our ancestors you can contact Mrs. Y J Bunting,
Federation Conference, Firgrove, Horseshoe Lane, Ash Vale, Aldershot,
Hampshire GU12 5LL Please enclose a stamped A5 envelope.
Rossendale Ancestry:
1. Constance Ashworth tells me she is
"at the end of her rope" regarding her Ashworth Family.
Her ancestor Edmund Ashworth was
baptised at Newchurch13 Nov. 1842. He was the son of Edmund and Alice
Ashworth of Newchurch, Mason. Edmund Ashworth junior emigrated to
Clearwater County PA in September 1870. He had two young sons Andrew and
John. John was born in September 1867, Andrew was a few years older.
Accompanying Edmund was his wife Mary Ann (Taylor) and her mother Susan
Trickett. I have tried to find Edmund aged 19 in the 1861 census. I have
also tried to find his parents marriage at Newchurch.
If you would like to contact Constance
her email address is conniea@erols.com
2. I have two coincidental enquiries
regarding the Heyworth Family of Brex. Both enquiries also tie in with
Holt Mill. Brex is within the Tunstead area. In the 1840s it seems to have
been 3 remote farmhouses. Holt Mill is just a row of terraced houses near
the mill and it is in the Lench area, south of the road to Bacup.
*** Stuart Heyworth is researching James
Heyworth, a tenter of Holt Mill. He married Mary Jane Ashworth, a weaver
of Newchurch in 1842. They had 5 children John 1842, Mary 1845, Sarah
1847, William Wilcock 1849, and Joshua 1857. On his marriage certificate
James gave his father as "John Heyworth, farmer" Both James and his wife
were given as "minor" at the time of their marriage.
I found this James at Holt Mill in 1841.
He was given as age 15. Living with him were Mary Heyworth aged 60, and
John Haworth aged 20, Betty Haworth aged 20 and John Haworth aged two. I
subsequently found two marriages 9 Jan. 1837 of John Haworth of Holt Mill
to Elizabeth Heyworth of Brex; 11 Jan. 1836 John Taylor of Holt Mill to
Susan Heyworth of Brex.
*** David Walker is also investigating
this Heyworth family. James Rothwell married Deborah Ashworth nee Heyworth
13 Oct. 1844 at Bury. Her 1st marriage was to Richard Ashworth son of
Richard. Her father was John Heyworth, Farmer of Brex. She was also living
at Holt Mill before she married to John Rothwell. emails: Stuart: agent.s@lineone.net
David: Wa1kerClan@aol.com
ROSSENDALE SURNAMES
A synopsis of a talk given at
Rawtenstall library, 10 September 1975. By Alan Hitch FLA
The original Rossendalians settled in
the valley from 1200 to 1450. Their names often give their place of
origin. In 1304 we have William de Dynley, Richard of Dunnockshaw, Henry
of the stocks, Robert of Couhope, John de Hargrave.
By 1420 some modern surnames had
appeared e.g. Roger Rothwell, Henry Carter, Christopher Holden, John
Wilson etc.
The most crucial step in Rossendale’s
history occurred when land was deforested in 1507 and let out to tenants.
The former vaccaries became split up into farms, for example Constable Lee
vaccary was given to five people, Robert Priestley, Richard Schofield,
Reginald Ingham, Ottowell Haworth and Charles Haworth. It is from this
period that the traditional valley families can be traced and located. The
Clitheroe Court Rolls give many details of places and land disputes. Some
families whose history can be traced from the 1500s to the 1800s are those
of, HOYLE of Fairwell Farm, Bacup; HAWORTH of Constable Lee and HOLDEN of
Holden Hall in Haslingden.
Surnames in this period include:
Ashworth, Aspden, Barnes, Birtwistle,
Booth, Bridge, Clegg, Collinge, Cunliffe, Duckworth, Grime, Hamer,
Hardman, Hargreaves, Haworth, Heap, Heyworth, Holt, Hoyle, Law, Lord,
Maden, Nuttall, Ormerod, Pickup, Pilling, Ramsbottom, Riley, Schofield,
Tattersall, Taylor, Warburton, Whittaker.
For information about these families
during the 18th century the most valuable sources are the indexes to Wills
at Chester published by the Lancashire and Cheshire Record Society (the
original wills are at the Lancashire Record Office) and the Newchurch
Parish Registers, 1653 - 1723. Published by the Lancashire Parish Register
Society. Vol. 45
Extracted from "Lancashire" October 1975.
To be continued.
MORE MARRIAGES DISCOVERED
By Michael Hiluta
Whilst enjoying a relaxing week off
work, I decided to search for more marriages to complete my "Newchurch
database." The Vicar of Holy Trinity, Tunstead, gave me the phone number
of Bill Ingham who was in charge of the registers. Bill was very helpful
and informed me that the marriages along with the baptisms had been sent
to the Central Library, St. Peter’s Square, Manchester. They are now on
microfilm. Here are the reference details. Baptisms are from 1840 - 1905
and are in a filing cabinet marked MFPR 1637. The marriages are on two
reels MFPR 1638 and 1639:
L143/1/2/1 1858 to 1883
L143/1/2/2 1883 to 1905
L143/1/2/3 1905 to 1918
L143/1/2/4 1928 10 1931
L143/1/2/5 1932 to 1949
That is a lot of records waiting to be transcribed. For
those unfamiliar with the area Tunstead and Wolfenden Booths lay to the
east of Newchurch and to the west of Bacup. It includes Stacksteads.
Mount Zion Baptist Church, Edgeside
Dennis Nuttall has transcribed the marriages for Mount
Zion Church. He has presented a copy to Rawtenstall library and will give
a copy to the Society library in the near future.
The names are in alphabetical order, in 2 volumes, one
for the grooms and one for brides. 29 May 1909 to 26 June 1999.
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