Mentioned in the will of John (8Cp1) of Edgeside.
Mary, the daughter of his youngest sister, Mary, was to get £75, inaccordance with a marriage settlement made by John, the testator, andher son William Alcock was to get a further £75.
If, however, Mary or her husband challenged this disposition theestate was to go to Lawrence, the eldest son of George's brother,George, and to John, the eldest son of John's brother, Lawrence.
Mentioned in the will of John (8Cp1) of Edgeside.
Mary, the daughter of his youngest sister, Mary, was to get £75, inaccordance with a marriage settlement made by John, the testator, andher son William Alcock was to get a further £75.
If, however, Mary or her husband challenged this disposition theestate was to go to Lawrence, the eldest son of George's brother,George, and to John, the eldest son of John's brother, Lawrence.
of Banktop
Mentioned in the will of John (8Cp1) of Edgeside.
On their mother's death the Court Roll reported that the heirs to theproperty in Boothfold were her daughters, Mary, aged 19, andElizabeth, aged 12.
These two girls then elected their uncles George Ashworth of Lench andJohn Ormerod of Edgeside to take care of their bodies and copyholdestate until they were 21.
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 4 October 1680.
Probably the daughter of John Hoyle of Fairwell, who in his will of1699 left £100 to his grandson, George Ormerod 'when he attained theage of 21'.
Baptised on 18 September 1746.
Married by bishop's licence in 1770.
of Edgeside
Will proved in 1774.
In his will he left legacies to his two Lord nieces, £5 apiece toGeorge "the son of my brother George" and "George and Richard the sonsof my brother Lawrence".
He left yearly annuities of £1 10s to his brothers George and Lawrencefor life.
Mary, the daughter of his youngest sister, Mary, was to get £75, inaccordance with a marriage settlement made by John, the testator, andher son William Alcock was to get a further £75.
If, however, Mary or her husband challenged this disposition theestate was to go to Lawrence, the eldest son of George's brother,George, and to John, the eldest son of John's brother, Lawrence.No issue.
of Huttock
Baptised on 17 July 1715.
By May 1739 John was able to take a lease for 21 years of twocottages, a barn and six and a half acres of land on the north bank ofthe Irwell at Waterbarn, which lies below the steep slope from Fearns.
All John and Alice's children were born there, except for theyoungest, Betty, who was baptised when they had moved to Newchurch in1750.
In that year John was in a position to advance £180 on a mortgage toGeorge Law of Stacksteads - a clothier, who later went bankrupt.By the 1760's John had moved to Cowpe.
A Court Roll entry of 1772 revealed that John had been occupying andprobably partly subletting land in Cowpe of yearly rent 10/7d - i.e.almost 32 acres.
This land was actually the inheritance of a George Nuttall of Carlowin Ireland who was due to inherit it as the estate of a CharlesNuttall of Holcome, innkeeper, who had surrendered it to trustees in1680.
The descendents of these trustees had only just surrendered this landto George Nuttall, and he had to pay John Ormerod £42 to vacate theland.In 1768 John paid off the debt of £300 of John Houlker "pursuant tothe directions of the Insolvent Debtors Act", and thereby got absolutepossession of Houlker's estate at Lowerhouse in Old Accrington ofyearly rent 6/8d (20 acres).
Houlker had been imprisoned in the gaol at Lancaster Castle as aninsolvent debtor.
John then went to live at Lowerhouse with most of his family.Buried on 1 June 1791.
Will not proved until 1795, when his estate was sworn at between £300and £600. Beside the Lowerhouse estate he had a leasehold estate atLittle London in Cowpe.
Baptised on 29 August 1714.
Buried on 25 August 1786.Mentioned in the will of Lawrence Ashworth of Scout.
Baptised at Fearns on 25 October 1737.
Buried on 31 March 1745.
Baptised on 24 August 1747.
Buried on 14 March 1778 in Lowerhouse.
Shopkeeper.
Baptised on 5 March 1750 at Newchurch.
Buried on 14 June 1797.
Will proved in 1797.
Left money to the daughters of her sister, Alice, and to her brother,Lawrence, and his children.
of Newhallhey
Mentioned in the will of John (8Cp1) of Edgeside.
He described himself as 'of Cowpe' in 1735 on the administration bondafter the death of his brother-in-law, James Lord.
Buried on 27 September 1776.
Responsible for all the entries in the family bible down to his deathin 1776. This bible was given to George by his mother, Mary.
All the births recorded in this bible note not only the date but thehour of birth, and it would appear that this was connected withastrology. The practice stops following the death of George.
This family bible is now owned by Trevor Crossley, of Whitworth.
Milton Ormerod suggests that George (8Cp1)'s first wife may have beencalled Alice, as his son, John, goes on to call his first daughterAlice.
Baptised on 22 September 1717 at Boarsgreave.
No baptism found.
of Clayroads
Clothier.
Died without making a will.
On his death Alice, his widow, had to take out a bond for theinventory of his goods (valued at £133 5s 2d) together with herbrothers, George Ormerod of Cowpe, clothier, and John Ormerod ofEdgeside, clothier.
The inventory shows James to have had 5 packs of skin wool and 4 oflong wool (£50 6s), 8 firkins of butter and 4 of soap (for dressingand cleaning wool preparatory to spinning it), charcoal (used incarding), 7 sheets of woollen cloth, wheels and looms, 20 stones ofwool and spun jersey (£25 10s) besides beasts, a horse and gear, hayand corn and debts owed to the deceased of £80.
In 1737 Alice bought two messuages and a garden in Boothfold "for theuse and behoof of the (unspecified) heirs of James Lord her deceasedhusband".
On Alice's death the Court Roll reported that the heirs to theproperty in Boothfold were her daughters, Mary, aged 19, andElizabeth, aged 12.
These two girls then elected their uncles George Ashworth of Lench andJohn Ormerod of Edgeside to take care of their bodies and copyholdestate until they were 21.
Died in infancy.