Wrote a "History of the Village of Cowpe" circa 1913.
Became a prosperous shoe and slipper manufacturer.
Baptised on 14 February 1816.
Died on 5 May 1877.Lawrence and Mary had two sets of twins. The first set died ininfancy.
The two pairs of twins were said to have been born after his wife wasfifty.Lawrence did not leave Cowpe until after all his family had been bornin the 1860's.
Lawrence and Mary had two sets of twins. The first set died ininfancy.
The two pairs of twins were said to have been born after Mary wasfifty.Lawrence did not leave Cowpe until after all his family had been bornin the 1860's.
It was said that when Mary & Lawrence 'flitted' (i.e. moved house)from Cowpe to Blackwood Mary walked behind the cart carrying theyounger pair of twins in her 'brat' (i.e. apron) whilst the olderpair toddled by her side and the women stood in their doorways andwept for her as she passed.
Living at The Grange, Tottington Higher End, at the time of the 1881Census.
James is shown as being a woollen manufacturer employing 60 hands.
Sarah only married James Rostron, who had been her girlhoodsweetheart, late in life and they had no children.
They were living at The Grange, Tottington Higher End, at the time ofthe 1881 Census.
of Rakehead
Started his working life in Cowpe but moved to Rakehead.
James was somewhat hunchbacked and a carter.
Baptised on 29 April 1812.
Died on 19 September 1889.At the time of the 1881 Census he was living at Rakehead, Spotland,with his wife, Mary, and daughter, Mary Ann.
of Stackstead, near Manchester
Interred at Keighley Cemetery on 15 September 1885.
Had issue.
Died unmarried.
Close friend of her cousin, Mary, the daughter of Edmund (12Cp1). Theylived together in old age.
At the time of the Census in 1881 she was living with her parents atRakehead.
No issue. Survived by an adopted daughter.
Became a mill owner in Accrington.
Died in infancy.
of Roughlee
Baptised on 1 October 1809.
John may have had another son who died in infancy.
Baptised on 4 August 1793.
of Farnhill
Baptised on 4 October 1801.
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.
Buried on 31 January 1761.
Twin brother of Samuel.
Baptised on 4 April 1756.
Buried in March 1757.
Baptised on 28 February 1758.
Baptised on 27 December 1760.
Buried in March 1762.
From the will of her father it appears that Alice had at least oneson.
of Chamber
Clothier.
Left a will from which it is evident that he was only survived by hisdaughter Alice.
Baptised on 15 November 1696.
Buried on 28 March 1765.
Will proved in 1765.