of Tatop
Would have died young.
of Cowpe
Richard was a substantial landowner in Cowpe and had been marriedtwice before he married Elizabeth Ormerod.
He probably dabbled in the cloth trade since his great grandfather,Robert Ashworth of Brex, had left him a pair of 'looms warping woakesand a spool wheel' in his will of 1666/67.Richard seems to have been a slippery character for on 5 August 1682the Court Roll records that Elizabeth Ormerod of Newchurch, widow, bySamuel Mills of Cowpe (a neighbour of Richard's) surrendered land inGambleside of y.r. 6/8d, i.e. almost all her inheritance, to the useand behoof or Richard Ormerod of Cowpe his heirs and assigns inperpetuity. This was ten days before their marriage.
She was obviously besotted with him and the transaction was, in anycase, illegal.
A coheiress was not the outright owner of the land but only a lifetenant. The land had to go to her eldest son, George, if he survived,or her next eldest son by her first marriage if he did not.
However Richard and Elizabeth did succeed in selling all theGambleside land for £202 according to the Court Roll for Easter 1687.
Elizabeth could well have argued that she needed the money to bring upher growing family.
Peter, her first husband had still got four vigorous brothers tocontend such an action and it is inconceivable that they wouldcountenance it without a watertight guarantee that some of theproceeds of the sale would go to Elizabeth's eldest son, George, therightful heir to the property.Buried on 12 December 1696, according to Milton Ormerod.
On the burial notice for Richard in the Parish Register it states 'notcertified'.
This meant that the Parish officers could not verify that he had been'buried in no other shroud or winding sheet save one made of woollencloth'.
Buried on 10 March 1700/01.
Third daughter and coheiress of George (9J1) of Gambleside.
Brought a fifth of this George's land to her marriage with PeterOrmerod.Less than two years after Peter's death she married Richard Ormerod(7W1) of Cowpe.
Richard seems to have been a slippery character for on 5 August 1682the Court Roll records that Elizabeth Ormerod of Newchurch, widow, bySamuel Mills of Cowpe (a neighbour of Richard's) surrendered land inGambleside of y.r. 6/8d, i.e. almost all her inheritance, to the useand behoof or Richard Ormerod of Cowpe his heirs and assigns inperpetuity. This was ten days before their marriage.
According to Milton Ormerod in The Ormerods, she was obviouslybesotted with him and the transaction was, in any case, illegal.
A coheiress was not the outright owner of the land but only a lifetenant. The land had to go to her eldest son, George, if he survived,or her next eldest son by her first marriage if he did not.
However Richard and Elizabeth did succeed in selling all theGambleside land for £202 according to the Court Roll for Easter 1687.
Elizabeth could well have argued that she needed the money to bring upher growing family.
Peter, her first husband had still got four vigorous brothers tocontend such an action and it is inconceivable that they wouldcountenance it without a watertight guarantee that some of theproceeds of the sale would go to Elizabeth's eldest son, George, therightful heir to the property.
Baptised in 1682.
Baptised in 1683.
Baptised in 1688.
Richard is mentioned as 'my half-uncle' by John Ormerod (8E1) of HallCarr - second son of George (7L/E1) in the former's will of 1729.
This Richard was probably the 'Richard Ormerod, pauper of Newchurch'buried in 1746 whose wife, Mary, was buried in 1742.
There are no baptisms indicating that they had any children.Died in 1746.
Buried in 1689.
Died in infancy.
Baptised in 1693.
Baptised on 11 September 1739.
Died before his father.
Baptised on 30 May 1746.
Buried on 1 June 1766 in Newchurch.
Baptised on 30 April 1765.
Mentioned in the will of John (9Cp1) of 1788.
Like the rest of his brothers and sisters Richard was sent to workwhen he was seven.
When a vacancy arose for a pupil teacher at Waterbarn - which by thenhad a day school - his sisters persuaded his father to let Richardapply - although the wage would be less than in the mill - and he gotthe job at 14 or 15.
He had already earned money as a 'penny reader', i.e. a group of oldmen, who could not read, paid him a penny to read the newspaper tothem.In his youth Richard also taught at the school in Accrington run bythe Swedenborgian Church.
Richard met his wife Amelia at Waterbarn, where she was also teaching.
At the time of the 1881 Census, Richard is shown as an AssistantSchool Master, living with his parents at Bk Blackwood Rd, Spotland.
By 1884, when he married, Richard had passed his teaching examinationand was the headmaster of Waterbarn day school and superintendent ofthe Sunday School.
In 1904 the Western Board School was opened and the day schools of theBaptists and Wesleyans were closed.
The Wesleyan headteacher got the head's post at the new school, andRichard went to London to train to teach handicraft.Up until 1923 Richard held a semi-independent post as handicraftteacher at Western School for all the boys in Stacksteads.
After the death of his first wife, Amelia, Richard married a widow,also an ardent Baptist who had no children, a good income and a houseat Bare, near Morecambe.
Richard survived his second wife, died at Bare at the age of 84, andwas buried at Waterbarn with Amelia.
Father of one illegitimate son, and possible more, according to BillJackson.
Died at Royal Bank, Marton, Blackpool, the home of his youngerbrother, Thomas.