Baptised on 1 November 1738.
Baptised in May 1717.
Living at Boothfold in 1747.
Following the death of his first wife, Isabel, his cousin, in 1755,James married Mary Law, with whom he had a son, William and threedaughters.
Baptised on 30 March 1728.
Isabel died as a result of the birth of her second child, Elizabeth.
Died at birth.
Her mother, Isabel, also died as a result of this birth.
Baptised on 26 April 1732.
Buried on 2 October 1783.
of Whitewellbottom
Will proved in 1797.
Baptised on 30 June 1730.
of Edgeside
Baptised on 16 February 1700/01.
Buried on 4 April 1767.
Will proved in 1768.Indicated in his will that his son, Peter, and his daughters, Isabeland Ann, had predeceased him.
The firm of James Ormerod & Sons, founded by James, moved to WaterbarnMill by 1800.
Waterbarn Mill is on the south bank of the Irwell not long before itenters the Trutch Gorge.
There at the little Iron Bridge they dammed the Irwell with a 'cawl'and diverted the overflow through a 'goit' which could be opened andclosed to supply a lodge which fed a waterwheel and worked machinery.
Eventually they found a wheel so big that, when the water flowed overit, it was at a level too low to re-enter the river. They thenembarked on the slightly mad scheme of cutting a tunnel through therock to the lower side of the Trutch until a level was reached atwhich the water could flow back into the river.James probably built and lived in one of the old three storey housesin the corner above the top gates of what is now Edgeside Park andwhich once held Edgeside Hall built by George Henry Ormerod, James'great-great-grandson.
It is said that the work people from Waterbarn Mill had to climb thehill up 'Cat-Steps' to Fearns and then walk across to Edgeside, wherethey were paid their wage on Saturday dinner time for their week'swork at a side door, now blocked, of the original house.
Buried on 9 January 1787.
Baptised on 9 January 1724.
Buried on 24 June 1748.
Baptised in September 1736.
Baptised on 14 July 1741.
Baptised on 15 April 1746.
Buried in December 1746.
of Hallcar
Buried on 15 October 1729
Will proved in 1730.
Probably a Quaker.In his will John mentions his 'half uncle', Richard Ormerod, i.e. ason of his grandmother, Elizabeth, widow of Peter (6L1), by her secondhusband, Richard (7W1).
John's marriage has not been found, nor what happened to his son,John.
Baptised in 1717.
of Shawclough & Huttock End
Clothier.
Buried on 21 April 1752.
Will proved in 1752.At the death of his father John was his son and heir.
It is possible that John was born between his brothers Peter andLawrence. If John was the eldest son then he would his father, John(7L/Cf1), would have been only 15 or 16 when he married.
This is possible, and the most natural explanation for such an earlymarriage would have been the pregnancy of the bride.Married Alice, nee Mitchell, the widow of his cousin, George (8E1).
John then went to live on his uncle George's land at Shawclough.By 1752 John had acquired a house and land at Huttock End on theborder of Tunstead and Bacop Booth.
Possibly the John Ormerod baptised in Newchurch-in-Rossendale in1698/99: "John f. John Ormerod de Clough 26 Feb 1698".
Buried on 24 October 1760.
Will proved in 1761.