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LANCASHIRE FAMILY HISTORY AND HERALDRY SOCIETY
Rossendale Branch
Newsletter May 2005
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Wednesday 4th May
Where there’s a will ....
Mr. L. R. Norris will talk
about some aspects of making a will.
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Wednesday 1st June
Alice in Downunderland
Barbara Riding
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Wednesday 6th July
Out Visit to Fulwood Barracks, Preston
Contact the Secretary for further details |
Wednesday 3rd
August
Research and Enquires
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Coming Events
7th October 2005 LFHHS Annual Dinner
The annual dinner 2005 is to be held by the Bury Group
at the Masonic Hall, Bury. It will be a standard meal with options costing
£17. Parking is free. The speaker is Peter Watson. Full details will
appear in the next "Lancashire" magazine.
Local History Fairs:
The Society proposes to have stalls at the following
Family History Fairs -
Sunday, 23rd May, at Buxton.
Saturday, 25th June, at York.
Saturday. 3rd September at Llandudno
Saturday, 10th September at Gateshead
Sunday, 11th September at Aintree
Sunday, 2nd October at Manchester
Anyone able to assist at any of these Fairs should
contact Stephen Ward the Society’s Exhibition Officer. Tel. 01204 650348
Rossendale Ancestry
MITCHELL/ BILLINGTON/
Marilyn Skelton 11 Catherine Love Drive, Easingwold,
York YO61 3GE writes:
Chess Wheel Anyone?
I am researching my father's family, Mitchells from the
Newchurch area, and on the 1853 birth certificate of Samuel Mitchell, my
grandfather's brother, it gives place of birth as Chess Wheel, Bacup.
At first I thought it might have been the name of a
pub, working on the theory that my father liked the odd drink or three
when he was alive and I'm partial to a glass or two of wine myself, so
perhaps the alcoholic genes were passed down from the Chess Wheel alehouse
in the 1800s. However, I'm sure that's not the true story, so I'd like to
know if anyone has some information.
It must have been in the Lee Mill area as the family
were living there at the time of the 1851 census. My great-great
grandfather's name was James Mitchell, labourer, and his wife was Esther,
nee Standring or Standering. My great-grandfather was David Mitchell, bom
about 1839, but I haven't tracked his birth or marriage certificates down
yet, though I know he died in Stacksteads in 1896.
My grandfather, Frank Mitchell, came over to Yorkshire
to work in the Royston (Barnsley) coalmines in the late 1890s.
Bacup Slipper Baths
I'd also be interested in finding out more about what I
guess might have been slipper baths in Bacup around 1900 as my
great-aunt's (Esther Mitchell before she married Edward Billington)
occupation was recorded in the 1901 census as Baths Matron and her husband
was Baths Superintendent. They were living at 35 Rochdale Road, Bacup at
that time.
I'm enjoying being a bit of a detective, tracking down
ancestors that I never knew existed from over the Pennines, so hope
someone will be able to follow up the clues and let me know more about
Chess Wheel and Bacup Baths.
Email: marilvn@marilvnskelton.wanadoo.co.uk
Do you have Rossendale ancestors? Are you a member of
the Society? If so, please let us have your story, for this section of the
newsletter .
EMMETT of Bacup
Ted Jones writes from Canterbury, member 6545
email
ted.jones@quickmail.me.uk
He has hit a brick wall with his Emmett family. John Emmett married Mary
Ashworth 24th December 1863. John’s father was George Emmett 1796, he and
his brothers James (1789) and Isaac (1798) were all baptised at Bacup
Ebenezer Baptist Church, Their parents were Edmund and Sarah.
There is evidence of a John Emmitt who married Sarah
Dugdale at Newchurch 23 Oct. 1802. He had a son Edmund in 1810 and a son
James in 1820. John was not baptised at Ebenezer so if anyone can locate
his baptism, it might help in tracing Edmund and Sarah Emmitt.
EMMETT/ MORRIS/ HAMER of Crawshawbooth, Holden Wood
and Edenfield
I have had another enquiry regarding the Emmetts passed
to me by our Pendle and Burnley Group. For several years Bonnie Headley
has been searching for information on Richard Emmett born c.1828. He
married Elizabeth Hamer on 14th August 1847 at Blackburn St. Mary’s.
Richard’s father was not given on his marriage certificate. Their daughter
Susannah was born at Musbury in 1858.
We have managed to find the family established at
Holden Wood in Musbury. Richard’s mother appears to be Ann Emmett born c
1808. She is shown on the 1841 census (at Edenfield) living with her
brother? Abraham, as Ann Morris. In 1851 she is at Holden Wood, a widow,
born in Crawshawbooth. She had a son James Morris born c1836/7 and a son
Daniel Morris born c 1840. Her son Richard Emmett is living with his
grandparents at Holden wood in 1841 and with his wife Elizabeth at Holden
Wood in 1851.
Elizabeth Hamer’s family are also living at Holden Wood
in 1841 and 1851.
Bonnie would like details of Ann’s marriage to Morris,
her baptism and the baptism of her son Richard.
Email: lass2001@msn.com
HAWORTH or HOWARTH or even HOWORTH?
One of our members recently told me that his mother was
Howarth on her maternal side and Haworth on her paternal side.
Another member has found that Sarah Heap married
Jeremiah Howorth in 1857; in 1861 as a young widow she was entered in the
census as Howarth. After her remarriage, the birth certificate of one of
her children said "formerly Haworth".
This reminded me of an article published in the
Society’s magazine "Lancashire" in January 1979.
Frederick Haworth had written
"Wherever I have lived, from the South Coast of England
to Glasgow and back to Yorkshire, I have always had trouble with the
spelling of my name. When I started looking at Parish registers in Bury, I
was struck by the large number of Howarths. I have always
believed that the name was connected to the village of Haworth in
Yorkshire - there was a John de Haworth in that village in the 13th
century, but the Haworths disappeared from Haworth soon after this and
appeared later in Lancashire - they seemed to have reached Ramsbottom and
stopped there.
My theory is that the original spelling was Haworth and
that literate bearers of the name who remained in their local area
maintained this spelling. The other spelling crept in when bearers of the
name could not write and relied on others to spell their name; and when
bearers of the name left the district and found that strangers in other
parts could not imagine that Haworth could be pronounced the way it is!
When I joined the society, I mentioned my ideas to
George Pelling. He told me that Guppy in his ‘Homes of Family names in
Great Britain’ stated that the incidence of the incidence of the two
spellings per 10,000 (in 1890) was Haworth 50 / Howarth 40. This surprised
me, in view of the small number of Haworths I had noticed in the Bury
records. I felt that the local situation was different from the Great
Britain picture.
A quick look at telephone directories showed some interesting figures
(approximate):-
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HAWORTH |
HOWORTH |
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| Blackburn area |
800 |
400 |
| Manchester NE |
120 |
600 |
| London Postal Area |
40 |
80 |
These figures showed how common the name was in the
Blackburn area telephone directory (which includes Ramsbottom) compared
with London, and the Manchester NE directory.
The Howarths take over as we get away from the centre
of the Haworth country. I am not as sure as I was before, but I still
think Haworth is the correct spelling".
Editor’s Footnote.
For some reason Mr Haworth didn’t give the figures for
Manchester NW which included Bury.
Henry Fishwick in his "History of the Parish of
Rochdale" 1889, devotes several pages to the history of the Howorth family
of Howorth in Hundersfield, Rochdale. He traces the family back to William
Howarth of Howarth living in the time of Henry IV.
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