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LANCASHIRE FAMILY HISTORY
AND HERALDRY SOCIETY
Rossendale
Branch Newsletter July 2002
Programme 2002
Next Month - 7th August
Research Evening.
4th September The other 1851 - Rossendale Census.
John Dunleavy will talk about the Ecclesiastical Census
of 1851.
2nd October Members’ Miscellany.
Members are invited to talk for for about
10 minutes on a subject of their choice.
Have you undertaken an interesting piece of research?
Have you found an unusual source? Or maybe, you would like to tell us what
prompted you to start researching your family in the first place.
6th November On board HMS George V
Events from WWII. Norma Cowpe.
4th December Christmas Celebration
Did you miss....
Quakers in Rossendale, our talk by
Julia Hoyle?
Julia told us how the Society of Friends (Quakers) had
been formed in 1656 during a time of religious, social and political
turmoil. They seek an inner religious experience and simple truthful,
ethical, and peaceful living. The first meeting place in the valley was at
the home of Richard Radcliffe of Chapel Hill. Meetings commenced there in
1658. There are some simple gravestones at the Meeting House at Crawshaw
Booth. This was opened in 1716. The MIs are at Rawtenstall Library.
Why not visit the website for Quakers in the North West
of England. www.north-west-quakers.org.uk
Book Review
Rossendale: The Second Selection, by Ken Bowden.
(Images of England Series) Tempus Publishing Ltd.
The Mill, Brimscote Port, Stroud, Gloucester GL5 2QG
Tel 01453 883300 Fax. 01453 883233 E-mail tempusuk@tempus-publishing.com
If you have Rossendale Ancestry, especially if you live
outside the area, you will have wondered about the places where your
ancestors lived. Ken Bowden is a noted historian who for many years was
Librarian at Bacup Public Library. In this second selection of pictures
representing Rossendale, he has endeavoured to include photographs of
every town, village and hamlet, which together make up the present Borough
of Rossendale. With just a few exceptions Mr. Bowden has chosen
photographs which have never been reproduced in published books. All the
photographs have been fully annotated. Where appropriate sketch maps have
also been included. The selection commences at Whitworth and moves
geographically through Bacup, Stacksteads, Waterfoot, Cowpe, Rawtenstall
(and points north), Edenfield and Rossendale West (including Grane and
Haslingden). The author states that he has tried to highlight some of the
areas which often seem to be overlooked - amongst them Shawforth, Scout,
Strongstry and Stonefold.
The book is available for £10.99 contact Tempus
Publishing, by letter or phone. Postage and packaging is free (in the uk)
if you quote this newsletter as your source of information. Copies are
also available in local bookshops and post offices. Tempus does have
facilities for people ordering from abroad to pay by credit card.
LFHHS Website
Following an appeal for help at the AGM, Fred
Moor has taken responsibility for the website, and will be updating and
developing it, in conjunction with the Publications Committee. They would
like to clearly define purpose, audience and image of the website. Please
send your comments by email to info@fredmoor.com or write to
Fred Moor, 18 Sandyhurst Avenue, Lytham St. Annes,
Lancs. FY6 2DA
Family Names in Rossendale
1400 - 1800
Surnames began to be introduced around A.D. 1350 in the
South Country, spreading northwards slowly, until the process was
completed around A.D. 1400. Obviously, at first, there would be strong
resistance to the change imposed from London, and a perusal of the Poll
Tax of 1379 for the village of Gisburn, between Clitheroe and Skipton,
illustrates this quite clearly, for, of sixty-two entries, twenty four
doggedly insist on using the name by which they have always been known
e.g. "Henry, servant of John of Altaham", or "Alice Robyn-doghter", or
again, "Thomas of Westby". Those who comply with the law are instantly
recognisable:
Katherine Bullock, John Wilkynson, William Bakster etc.
Eventually all will adopt the new mode however
grudgingly, for few people are willing to swim long against the tide.
When the first records for Rossendale appear this
process of change is complete.
A.D. 1427: The Duchy of Lancaster Rental List shows
the names BOOTH and GREENHALGH.
A.D. 1507: The Duchy of Lancaster list indicates
the following leaseholders - ASHWORTH, CRAWSHAW, DEARDEN/ DUERDEN,
HARGREAVES, HOWORTH/ HAWORTH, HEAP, HEY(S), HOLT, INGHAM, LORD, ORMEROD,
PICKUP, PILLING, RAMSBOTTOM, TATTERSALL, WHITTAKER.
A.D. 1527: The Duchy’s List adds to the earlier
names LAW, NUTTALL, PRIESTLEY and WHITWORTH.
A.D. 1539: Only one new name on the List viz.,
HOLDEN
Names in Parish Registers
Although Thomas Cromwell compelled the introduction of
registers of baptisms, marriages and burials in every parish in the land
from 1538, those of St. Nicholas, Newchurch in Rossendale, begin only in
1606 (it is assumed that earlier registers have been lost). There are then
some gaps (sometimes spanning years) until 1753, when the entries are kept
in separate volumes and are complete down to the present day. So, perusal
of these registers and those of St. James, Haslingden, (which are
similarly defective in the early years) yield the names of new families,
e.g.:
BARLOW, BARNES, BARON, BELL, BENTLEY, BIRTWISTLE,
BRACEWELL, BRIDGE, BUTTERWORTH, CHADWICK, CHEW, CLEGG, COATES, COLLINGE,
COWPE/ COPE, CRABTREE, CROPPER, CUNLIFFE, DAWSON, DUCKWORTH, EASTWOOD,
EARNSHAW, ENTWISTLE, FIELDING, FLETCHER, GREAVES, GREEN, GREENWOOD,
GREGORY, HALLOWS/ HOLLOWS, HARDMAN, HARRISON, HEAP, HEYWORTH, HINDLE,
HOYLE, JACKSON, KAY, KERSHAW, KNOWLES, LONGBOTTOM, MADEN, MILLS, MITCHELL,
OGDEN, PILKINGTON, RATCLIFFE, RILEY, ROBERTS, ROTHWELL, RAWSTHORNE/
RAWSTRON/ ROSTRON, SCHO(L)FIELD, SEDDON, SHEPHERD, SMITH, SPENCER,
STANSFIELD, STOTT, SUTCLIFFE, TRICKETT, TURNER, WALMSLEY, WALSH,
WARBURTON, WHITEHEAD, WHITTLE, WILKINSON, WOOD(S).
Many of these names indicate the movement of families
over the Pennines from West Yorkshire (particularly from the
Todmorden-Hebden Bridge- Sowerby Bridge- Halifax areas) where they had
been established since c1400. Many more were to follow them once the
Industrial Revolution really got under way, but by that time people were
flocking into Rossendale from the poorer agricultural counties as well as
from Ireland.
Submitted by P.I. Chattle Member No. 5985
Coming Events
Friday 4th October -
LFHHS Annual Dinner hosted by Pendle and Burnley
Group, at the Bay Horse Inn, Blacko Bar Road, Roughlee. £17.00 per head. Please book early. There are limited places available. Full details
are in the August magazine.
Sunday 27th October - This year the annual
Family History Fair hosted by the N.W. Group pf Family History
Societies will be held at Manchester Town Hall, Albert Square,
Manchester. 10.30am - 4.30pm
There will be the usual variety of stalls.
Also Refreshments and Free street parking. Admission £2
- children free.
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