Our Out Visit-extra
on Sunday 19th September. Our trip round Grane was combined with a
tour of the Water Treatment Centre. In addition "Haslingden Roots"
had put on a display depicting the history of Grane and were on hand
to answer enquiries from a range of records covering the Haslingden
area. The walk started off well. We were half way round when the
rains came. We were absolutely drenched. Kathleen Ashburner is
thinking of hiring out the Group to do rain dancing next time we
have a drought!
The Poor Law
Migrants.
I have had several
enquiries regarding the migration scheme 1835 - 1837. Ken Inman has
left some notes containing brief biographies of families who moved
to Rossendale. I have given a copy of this to Winifred Belcher to
put into the library.
Information from a
Bible
I have had a letter
from a lady in Suffolk who spotted a Bible in a charity shop window.
Inside the front cover was a Church order of service dated 6th May
1877 for St. Mary’s Rawtenstall. As the Bible was priced at £50 she
was only able to make a note of the names inside. These were as
follows:
Laurence Eastwood
17.3.1829 Sarah Ann Eastwood 18.7.1861
Margaret Eastwood
26.2.1829 Mary Ann Eastwood 15.1.1867
John Thomas
Eastwood 8.4.1854 Joseph Eastwood 22.7.1849 d.1850
Eliza Eastwood
18.4.1857 Sagar Eastwood My 1853 d. 1853
Harriet Eastwood
14.6.1859
Eric John Percy
Crawford Lombard Knight 27.8.1917 d. 23.4.1987
Anthony Charles
Eric Lombard Knight 25.8. 1951
Diana Lombard
Knight 16.5.1950
D. Elizabeth
Lombard Knight d. 16.5.1999
The Eastwood family
originated in Ramsbottom. They were living at Newhall Hey, Cowpe
Lenches in 1881. The Lombard Knight family seem to be an interesting
lot. I couldn’t find them in 1881 in Lancashire or Suffolk. There
seems to be a missing link. It was probably Diana who married into
that family The nearest I could find in the Suffolk 1881 census was
a C. Percy Lombard aged 9 living at The Hall, Assington, Suffolk
aged 9, He was half brother to Philip Gurdon Esq. J.P. aged 23,
Head. His father was Francis Lombard J.P. aged 50, and his mother
was Sophie aged 44. If this is correct it is a big jump for a Beer
dealers family.
Coming Events.
Talks, Conferences, Exhibitions.
Friday 15 October.
The LFH&HS’s annual dinner will this year be hosted by the Lancaster
and Morecambe Group. A special evening of "Lancashire fare" will be
held at the Clarendon Hotel, Marine Road West, Morecambe.
The after dinner
speaker will be Ian Dewhurst. This event costs only £10. It is worth
that amount alone just to hear Ian Dewhurst speak! I am told that on
this particular evening "clogs, shawls, waistcoats and flat caps
will certainly not be out of place."
Saturday 30 October
1999 NW Group Family History Fair (previously known as the Stockport
Fair) will this year be held at the Guild Hall, Preston.
There is an on site
car park, refreshments & licensed bar available. Admission is £1.50.
Children free if accompanied. There will be a large variety of
stalls including many out of county FHS, book stalls, computer
studies, photo restorers and representatives from various record
offices. The Federation of Family History Societies will have an
information desk. So there should be someone to answer your
enquiries.
Saturday 13
November 1999 Local and Family History Day, Thorne’s Park Centre,
Wakefield. Activities, stalls, exhibitions, family trees etc. Open
10.30am - 4.00pm. Adults £1.50, Concessions 50p. Contact Sherrie
Horrock
Bury Branch
Programme change
13 October Bury in
moving pictures. Bury Cine Society
10 November
Transportation to Australia. Fred Holcroft
8 December
Christmas Festivities at Rochdale
12 January
Gallipoli. Mary Davison
The 1881 Census on
CD-ROM and Vital Records Index
Wilf Day has agreed
to keep charge of these CDs. If you would like to have an item
checked, please contact Wilf Tel. 01706 216734. Call before 8.00pm.
Try to limit your enquiry to one name. A small donation to the
society would be welcome.
New Books
There are some new
books for you to look at. Anyone interested in purchasing a copy
should speak to Maureen Hodgkinson our Treasurer and Publications
Officer.
Basic Facts
about...
Using record
Offices 2nd edition. Tom Wood 2.00
Using education
records. Colin R. Chapman 2.00
An introduction
to... Occupations. 2nd edition Joyce Culling. 2.95
Second stages in
researching Welsh ancestry. John & Sheila Rowlands 15.55
Lists of Londoners.
3rd edition. Jeremy Gibson and Heather Creaton 2.95
Current
Publications by Member Societies. 10th edition. Elizabeth Hampson.
6.50
Rossendale
Ancestry.
Karin Abbott, 3
Clarence Street, Egham, Surrey TW20 9RW.
is interested in
the following names in the Rossendale and Rochdale area: Abbott
- descendants of Thomas (mid 1800s onwards) Cartwright, Twigger,
Han(d)cock pre 1850s
