Attained the rank of Lieut-Colonel in the Coldstream Guards.
Died at Melbury Lodge, Winchester, Hampshire.
Gentleman Commoner of Brazenose College, Oxford.
The last Ormerod of Ormerod.Married at St James', London.
Margaret Ormerod's will of 1785 revealed that 'according to articleswritten by John Hargreaves of Newchurch, gent., her sons Tille, Johnand Henry had to be paid £3000 by their eldest brother Lawrence'.
John Hargreaves was the attorney who had been used by Peter (10O1) inthe sale of his Rossendale land.Died on 22 March 1793 at the age of 39.
Sole sister and heiress of Peter Legh of Lyme, and daughter of theRev. Ashburnham Legh, Rector of Davenham, and Charlotte ElizabethEgerton Bart of Lyme.
Living at Ormerod in 1819.
of Manchester (1812)
Inherited the family estates, including property belonging to LadyScarlett, who died in 1888.
Educated at Eton.
Served for seven years with the 90th Light Infantry, and then with the1st Royal Militia, who were stationed at Lancaster.
Later he became a Major in the 7th Lancashire Rifles.According to family tradition John met Clara in a railway carriage in1859. Although they were immediately attracted to one another, therules of good behaviour in the early Victorian days forbadeconversation without a formal introduction.
It seems however that the ice was broken when the pair not onlyalighted at the same railway station, but found that they were stayingat the same house.In 1878, on the death of Colonel John Towneley, he accepted the Hon.Colonelcy of the 5th Lancashire Militia.
For many years this battalion had training facilities at Bank HallMeadow - now Thompson Park - which was part of the Thursby estates.Living at Holmhurst, Christchurch, Hampshire, at the time of the 1881Census, employing the following servants:
Elizabeth Maud (Governess); and
Jane Lawes, Sarah Jane Sharp, Sarah Jane Edwards, Edith Beauchamp,Edith Wiltshire, Sarah Harris, William Henry Prilly, and WilliamKerley (Domestic servants).The Thursbys also has a property at 37 Ennismore Gardens, London, andthey rented a property - Panmure House, Forfar, Scotland, for theshooting.
Ormerod was normally occupied during the months of July, August andSeptember.On 24 May 1884, John laid the foundation stone for the VictoriaHospital in Burnley.
In 1886 Prince Albert visited Burnley to open the completed hospital.He stayed with the Thursbys at Ormerod House.
In 1887 John was serving as High Sheriff of Lancashire, and was alsoelevated to the baronetcy.
In 1888 he donated land for a public park at the top of Ormerod Road.This is now Queen's Park.
Sir John was an ardent Conservative, and a member of the Carlton Club,London, where he served for many years on the committee.
Described as Colonel Sir John Hardy Thursby on his gravestone.
Living at Holmhurst, Christchurch, Hampshire, at the time of the 1881Census.
Buried with her husband John, in the churchyard of St John's, HolmeChapel.
A photograph of the grave is contained in the scrapbook for JohnThursby.
of Cowpe
Baptised on 26 November 1813.
In the census of 1841 Edmund is listed as a woollen spinner, and hiswife, Alice, was a woollen weaver.
By the 1851 census, taken on 30 March 1851, they had moved to GlenTop, at the very western edge of Stacksteads.
This was possibly because Edmund was now working at Waterbarn Mill runby his very distant and far richer relatives, James Ormerod and sons.
They also had living with them John Ashworth, Edmund's father-in-law,a handloom weaver, aged 59, a widower.By 1858 they had moved again to a house which has now disappeared on alane behind the 'Hare and Hounds' connecting Four Lane Ends Lane andRook Hill Road.
It is possible that at this time Edmund was working at Tunstead Millbehind the house.Later lived in a house at the top of Blackwood Road.
Edmund was known as "T'sheer (share) mon" because, although he couldhardly read and write, people came to consult him about the wisdom ofbuying and selling shares in various local companies.
Edmund ended up owning four back to back houses in Blackwood andseveral others in Stacksteads and a fine grandfather clock.
Edmund's daughter, Dinah, described how one night after work Edmundhad walked to Loveclough - over six miles - to a union or friendlysociety meeting and then walked back again, by which time he was sotired that they had to pull his boots off for him.
Died on 28 March 1888.
Baptised on 16 August 1815.
Died on 12 April 1890.A woollen weaver according to the 1841 census.
Died in Cowpe, aged six, of typhoid fever.
He was a bright and bonny lad, and his parents always bitterlyregretted his death.
Edmund had no family.
He worked in a stone quarry as a young man where he suffered someinjury to his head, after which he became rather wild.Eventually he went to live at Wiswell, near Whalley, to help hisnephew, Walter Crowther, to run a public house.
He married there late in life but had no children.Living with his parents at Bk Blackwood Rd, Spotland, at the time ofthe 1881 Census.
Referred to as Arthur Harvey Thursby in the original pedigree producedby Ian Ormerod.
Living at Wormleighton, Warwickshire, at the time of the 1881 Census.
Employed the following servants at that time:
Mary Adelaide Mantle (Cook);
Alice Steerman (House maid);
Fanny Molds (Kitchen maid);
Alfred Nayles (Footman);
Sarah Talbot (Lady's maid).Arthur held a commissioned rank in the Warwickshire Yeomanry.
Also lived at Culverlands, near Reading, where Arthur held acommission for the peace and was High Sheriff of Berkshire.
of Northampton and later Ormerod
William was educated at Harrow and Oriel College, Oxford.
He was ordained deacon in 1819.Became one of the Duke of Cambridge's chaplains shortly after hismarriage.
Moved to Ormerod House in 1834.
Served as vicar of Worsthorne, Burnley.
Also served as vicar of All Saints', Northampton, according to Burke'sLanded Gentry.Later lived at 6 Brunswick Terrace, Brighton, and was living here atthe time of the 1881 Census.
The following servants were employed at 6 Brunswick Terrace at thetime of the 1881 Census:
Ellen Phillips (Housekeeper);
Mary Ann Barber (Lady's maid);
Ellen Cook (Lady's maid);
Mary Ann Tulitt (Housemaid);
Mary Ann Harley (Kitchen maid);
Fanny Foyer (Scullery maid);
John Parnham (Butler);
Thomas Allen (Footman);
Henry Lloyd (Coachman);
Charles Hiddup (Groom); and
Mary Dunkall (Housemaid).
Birth originally noted by Ian Ormerod as 9 February 1809, which isafter the mother's death date.
Unmarried.
Lived with her parents in Brighton.
Died at Montpelier Hall in June 1925. (From Ormerod to Thursby, LeslieChapples)
Baptised in 1720.
Buried in 1806.Had issue.