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LANCASHIRE FAMILY HISTORY AND HERALDRY SOCIETY
Rossendale Branch Newsletter October 2002
Programme
Tonight - 2nd
October
Members’ Miscellany
6th November On
board HMS George V
A WW2 talk by Norma
Cowpe.
4th December
Christmas Celebration
Coming Events:
Saturday 12th
October
A Local History
Seminar will be held at the Rolls Royce Social Club, Skipton Road,
Barnoldswick.
10.00am - 4.30pm.
This event is
hosted by the Earby & District Local History Association. Speakers:
Eric Higham -
Migration of Dales families to the mill towns.
Susan Wrathmell -
Traditional architecture of the area. Then a choice of
Jean Ingham- A
Family History work-shop or A tour of Bancroft Mill Engine Museum.
Fee: £12.50
including lunch.
Further details
from Lynda Simmons 01282 816100 and from local libraries and tourist
information centres.
Sunday 27th
October -
This year the
annual Family History Fair hosted by the N.W. Group of 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.
Volunteers are need
to help run our stall at this event. Please contact Ron Chapman,
Chairman of the Exhibitions Sub Committee; 01257 453087
Did you miss....
The Other 1851 -
Rossendale Census
our talk by John
Dunleavy?
John is a
Haslingden man, who now lives in Abingdon, Oxfordshire. He has
lectured in Oxford, Melbourne, New York and Budapest.
The subject of his
talk was new to most of us. It seems that in 1851 the Home Office
decided to take a census of all the places of worship in the
country. This was to include every church, chapel and meeting house
of all denominations. The census information includes the address,
date of establishment and size of each congregation on the 30th
March 1851.
John was able to
check the original records at Kew but they are now on microfilm.
They are arranged by Poor Law Union. In our case this is
"Haslingden" an area which covered Accrington, and most of modern
day Rossendale. The returns are incomplete as some ministers did not
take part in the exercise. Out of 18 million people in England and
Wales only 7,250,000 attended a religious service on census Sunday
(some would have attended more than once) this was a surprise and a
disappointment to the authorities. No other ecclesiastical census
has ever been taken.
Originally, it had
been planned to ask people their religion on the census form. This
was considered too intrusive. Considering the number of people who
put "Jedi" on their 2001 census form, it is probably still
considered too intrusive but it would have been handy to know that
granddad was Baptist or Presbyterian.
John’s main
interest is the Roman Catholic Church at this time the only Catholic
church in the area was St. James the Less in Rawtenstall. He went on
to tell us about the early church buildings at Bacup, Rawtenstall
and Ramsbottom. He also traced the subsequent career of Father
Thomas Unsworth who went from Rawtenstall to the Crimea and later
became an army chaplain based at Aldershot.
If you are
interested in the Ecclesiastical Census you can obtain an
Information Leaflet from the PRO. The PRO Reference is HO129.
Quaker Records
Following my report
in the August edition of "Lancashire" on Julia Hoyle’s talk. I have
had several requests for more information on Quaker Records in the
valley. Go to our section on local Churches for
The Crawshawbooth Meeting
House
and follow the
links at the bottom of the page.
Rossendale
Ancestry:
HEYS/ KAY/ FIRTH
Vicky Barlow (the
LFHHS Membership Secretary)
6 Mowbreck Lane,
Wesham, Preston, PR4 3HA,
says she is looking
for information on her g.g. aunt Susy Heys.
"Have you ever
found a person in your family history research who sticks in your
mind until you become fascinated (obsessed by them?) To me Susy is
such a person.
She was born in
Crawshawbooth 5th Sept. 1821 and baptised at Rakefoot Wesleyan
Church. Her mother was Eve Heys, a milliner, her father unknown. Eve
married Thomas Kay at Newchurch 19 Sept. 1825. Eve and Thomas Kay
then had 9 children. Their youngest child was James Kay, my g.
grandfather.
1841 - Susy was
with the family at Bank Top, she was a Female Servant. c1846 she had
a daughter Eve Heys (father unknown), it must run in the family.
1851 - this child
was described as a niece of Thomas Kay. Susy was given as his
daughter.
1861 - she was
living alone with her daughter at Holme Terrace. By 1871 Susy’s
daughter Eve had married Francis Firth. They were all 3 at Holme
Terrace.
1881 - They are
living at Isle of Man Terrace, Higher Booths. Susy is given as
‘servant’ to Francis and Eve Firth.
1891 - They are at
Forest Holme, Lumb. Susy is back as ‘Head’ and Francis and Eve are
‘Lodgers’. By now aged 69, she has living with her, James Caleb Kay
(17), his sister Eve Kay (12), and his brother John Robinson Kay
(10). They had been orphaned when my g. grandfather James Kay died.
I have never been
able to trace Susy’s date of death.
Please does anyone
recognise Susy? I am also confused by the addresses on the census.
Are some of them the same? "
SCHOFIELD
June Thompson is
researching her grandfather’s family who were living at Waterfoot.
In 1881 Henry Schofield was aged 29, a seal skin and carpet printer.
By 1891, he had become a Dry Salter and Druggist living at Irwell
Terrace, Cloughfold. He was born at Newchurch. His family consisted
of wife Ellen, 46, born Burnley; children William, 17; Sarah Jane,
16; Edmund, 13; Arnold H., 11.
email:
june.g@btinternet.com
COWP/COOP/ PICCOP/
HARGREAVES
Jane Coop, from
West Yorkshire, says "I am interested in the name Cowp and have
recently discovered ancestors baptised at Newchurch in Rossendale. I
am wondering if anyone else is researching this surname." Jane is
interested in James Coop baptised 9th Feb. 1765 married Susanna
Hargreaves 24th April 1787 at St. Mary’s Bury. He is son of Richard
and Sarah Cowp of Newchurch. There is a marriage at Newchurch of
Richard Cowp to Sarah Piccop 24th May 1764 which seems to fit, but
the baptismal registers give a possible earlier child, 3rd Feb.
1761- Alice dau. of Richard and Sarah Cowp, of Shuttleworth. For
further details email:
jane.fiesta@talk21.com
CHRISTMAS SOCIAL
Tickets will be on
sale next month
price £2.00
We need some new,
bright, imaginative idea for the Christmas event - New Quizzes, New
Games.
Give your ideas to
Kathleen Ashburner at Our November meeting.
LFHHS HELPING
HANDS -
LOOKUP SERVICE
In the August
edition of "Lancashire" Tony Foster appealed for someone to
co-ordinate a lookup service. Fiona Hall of 6 Willowherb Close,
Prestbury, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, GL52 5LP, has agreed to
undertake this task.
The Society plans
to develop a database, listing the names of volunteers who have
offered to do limited research for fellow members of the Lancashire
FH & Heraldry Society. Requests for help must be accompanied by a
membership number. The service is to be run on an expenses only
basis and will not be an ongoing research facility. If any of you
have areas of expertise and would be willing to offer advice, or a
detailed knowledge of an occupation, military history or an ability
to decipher old handwriting or even a knowledge of Latin, please
contact Fiona. Email:
fiona.j.hall@btopenworld.com
As Branch
Secretary, I will of course continue to co-ordinate Rossendale
enquiries.
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