of Cloughfold
Baptised on 23 April 1721.
The following is taken from The Ormerods (pp.141-142):
The oldest public library in the country is the one founded inManchester in the 1650's by Humphrey Chetham. In it repose 36 volumesof the Raines MS. These were the miscellaneous gleanings of a CanonRaines in the middle of the nineteenth century mainly from the mustybundles of forgotten lawsuits in solicitors' offices. One of theserecounts the following tale:-
About 1745 a young man named John Ormerod left his native Rossendalein East Lancashire and made his way to Bristol where he enlisted as avolunteer on a man of war. The vessel took a prize in what was laterknown as 'the war of Jenkins's ear' since it was provoked by theSpaniards having captured the ship of a Captain Jenkins and cut offhis ear - which he afterwards exhibited to parliament in a bottle. Theprize was brought into Bristol. There were evidently some sharks onthe quay who induced our hero to part with his future share of theprize for £173-5-00. When the prize was eventually sold he found thathe would have been entitled to £420! So he repudiated the bill of saleclaiming that he was under 21 at the time he made it - although he hadmade an oath that he was 24, and sued the purchasers of his share for£500.
The attorney for these characters - J. Addersley et al. - turned up inNewchurch-in-Rossendale where they thought John Ormerod had beenbaptised to ascertain his true age and found their way to an inn inthe adjacent hamlet of Boothfold.
Here they met one John Piccop, who fulfilled the duty of Parish Clerk.From him they extracted the following information:-
John Ormerod was the son of George Ormerod of Meadowhead and Sarah hiswife and was born in the parish (a misnomer - it was only a chapelry)of Newchurch in 1722. His name did not appear in the register because,when his father brought him to Newchurch he could not find the curate,Mr Lee, at the church but found him at the alehouse of the said J.Piccop where George treated his friends and had his son, John,baptised in the alehouse. George and Sarah were married on the 19th ofApril 1720. They had a daughter, Ann, baptised 21st April 1721 (not inthe parish register) and a son Lawrence baptised on 25 February 1723,who was still living and a younger brother of the said John.
Presumably, armed with this tale the attorney went back to Bristol andJohn Ormerod lost his case. Actually the John Piccop who imparted thisinformation in 1745 was both Parish Clerk and schoolmaster, but he wasnot the John Piccop who was clerk and innkeeper in 1722 althoughprobably a relation since the former John Piccop had died in 1732 whenthe parish register revealed his nickname was "Swiggers".Will proved in York in 1782.
By the end of his life John had become very prosperous and hislegacies totalled £1450.
No baptism found.
Baptised on 19 April 1767.
Baptised on 3 August 1768.
Oliver appears to have had land outside Rossendale, e.g. in Chorley.
He purchased 90 Lancashire acres of good land in Tunstead from oneGilbert Kershaw, a clothier from Wakefield, who had held the land inTunstead since the disafforestation.
The land was purchased for £450 - a vast sum for a Rossendale man ofthe time, and a purchase made without apparently having to sell anyother land.
Following this purchase Oliver is thereafter described as "ofTunstead".Buried on 19 August 1633.
His will was proved in the same year.
In his will he surrendered his estate to feoffees Nicholas Cuncliffeof Wycoller, gent. and George Hargreaves of Goodshaw to be seized tothe use of his son, Richard, providing he paid unto each of hissisters £120 as the accomplish the age of 24 years.
If Richard died without heirs lawfully begotten, the feoffees standfined and seized successively to the use of Oliver's brothers, John,Richard and Lawrence or their lawful heirs, provided they honour thelegacies to Oliver's daughters.
Buried in July 1624.
of Cowclough
At his father's death in 1633 Richard was stated to be 18.
At his grandfather's death in 1638 he inherited most of the latter'sestates.Richard went to Cowclough where he lived with his aunt, AliceShepherd.
He remained here for the rest of his life, and did not marry.According to Richard (7Cp1) of Chamber in Wolfenden, the son of George(6L/Cp1) who was first cousin to Richard, "Richard was lost whilehunting in the snow aged about 37".
Richard made a will dated 8 February 1650/51, which was not proved inLondon until 1655.
Apart from legacies to his sister, Alice, and her children and to thechildren of his brother John, deceased, in contravention to hisfather's will he bequeathed his estates to three of his four sisters,i.e. Elizabeth, Ann and Alice, making their husbands his executors,but omitting his sister, Lettice, who had married the Rev. RichardSmethurst.
The husbands of his sisters, once they had proved his will, used it inthe Halmot Court to get possession of Richard's lands.John (5L1)'s untimely death was in these circumstances particularlytragic and also suspicious in the view of Milton Ormerod in TheOrmerods.
Baptised on 20 February 1731/32.
Lived at Huttock Top.
of Huttock End
Baptised on 25 March 1730.
Peter's mother, Alice, bequeathed money to John Taylor in her will of1760 - she 'gives and bequeaths unto John Taylor a poor childunlawfully begotten on the body of Alice Taylor late servant withPeter Ormerod my son the sum of five pounds of like lawful money.'
Alice was a servant of Peter Ormerod's.
Peter's mother, Alice, bequeathed money to John Taylor in her will of1760 - she 'gives and bequeaths unto John Taylor a poor childunlawfully begotten on the body of Alice Taylor late servant withPeter Ormerod my son the sum of five pounds of like lawful money.'
Illegitimate son of Peter Ormerod (9Cf1) and Alice Taylor.
Peter's mother, Alice, bequeathed money to John Taylor in her will of1760 - she 'gives and bequeaths unto John Taylor a poor childunlawfully begotten on the body of Alice Taylor late servant withPeter Ormerod my son the sum of five pounds of like lawful money.'
of Rawtenstall
Baptised on 17 April 1726.
Buried on 9 May 1752.John had two sons who died in infancy - the second posthumously - asJohn himself had died less than a month after his own father, John(8Cf1).
Died in infancy.
Died in infancy.
Baptised on 22 June 1723.
Had issue.
of Newchurch
Baptised on 22 April 1701.
Baptised in 1725.
Baptised in 1727.
Baptised in 1729.
Baptised in 1733.
Baptised in 1736.
Baptised in 1738.
Died in infancy.
Died in infancy.
Twin of Alice.
Baptised in 1749.
Twin of James.
Baptised in 1749.
Baptised on 20 March 1697/98.
George and Sarah are believed to have had a daughter called Ann whowas their first child.
There is no record in the Parish Registers of Ann.Buried in 1766.
George and Sarah are believed to have had a daughter called Ann whowas their first child.
There is no record in the Parish Registers of Ann.
George and Sarah Ormerod are believed to have had a daughter calledAnn who was their first child.
There is no record in the Parish Registers of Ann.
Baptised on 25 February 1723/24.
Baptised on 14 July 1725.
Baptised on 16 January 1726/27.
Baptised on 6 August 1728.
Baptised on 10 February 1729/30.
Daughter and coheiress of George Haworth of Oakenheadwood.
Buried on 28 May 1638.In 1638 the jury of the Halmot Court reported that "Alice wife ofOliver Ormerod of Gambleside died seized of and in one quarter of amessuage in Oakenheadwood of yearly rent 5/5d and that John Ormerodwas her son and next heir of full age and should be admitted."
Dead by 1649.
In 1638 the jury of the Halmot Court reported that "Alice wife ofOliver Ormerod of Gambleside died seized of and in one quarter of amessuage in Oakenheadwood of yearly rent 5/5d and that John Ormerodwas her son and next heir of full age and should be admitted."
In 1642 John made over this land to his brothers and sister: Oliver,Lawrence, Richard and Ann - although it is noted that Ann is alreadydead by the time the transaction was recorded in the Court Roll.
At some time between 1649 and 1661 both John and his father, Oliver,appear to have died, and the land at Gambleside of yearly rent 35/-passed to John's brother, George (9J1).
Inherited mother's Oakenheadwood land.
Possibly the Robert Ormerod who was baptised at Burnley in November1620:
"Anno dom'i: 1620: Anno R. R'is. Jacobi: 18o.
Robert son of Oliver Ormeroid of Rosnedall 02 Nov 1620".
Inherited mother's Oakenheadwood land.
Inherited mother's Oakenheadwood land.
In 1642 John made over this land to his brothers and sister: Oliver,Lawrence, Richard and Ann - although it is noted that Ann is alreadydead by the time the transaction was recorded in the Court Roll.
of Dunnockshaw
All the Oakenheadwood land that had been the inheritance of hismother, passed to Richard, who was the only brother, mentioned in thewill of George (9J1) made in January 1664/65.
Richard does not appear to have had children.