Birth place - Preston 8e 671
Death place - Fylde 8e 856Married at Chorlton Register Office.
In his will, left to Gladys May Ormerod (widow) the sum of £986 1s6d.
Identified through probate records.
Married at Chorlton Register Office.
Living at Village, Marton, at the time of the 1881 Census.
Living at Village, Marton, at the time of the 1881 Census.
Living at Village, Marton, at the time of the 1881 Census.
Living at Village, Marton, at the time of the 1881 Census.
Living at Village, Marton, at the time of the 1881 Census.
of Westow Croft, Kirkham Abbey, Yorkshire
Joined the Royal Marines in 1879.
Left the army in 1901, and went to live at Westow Croft, near Malton,where Sir John Ormerod Scarlett Thursby had built a stud.
In 1905 he became manager of Sir John's racing stables.
Living at Graigle, Llandudno, Caernarvon, Wales, at the time of the1881 Census.
Second Lieutenant
2nd Bn, The Queen's (Royal West Surrey Regt)Died of wounds sustained at the Battle of the Somme.
Buried at Netley Military Cemetery, Hampshire. Grave Reference:Officers'. 1818.In July 1916 2nd Bn, The Queen's (Royal West Surrey Regt) formed partof the 91st Brigade of the 7th Division.
Between 1-13 July 1916 the division was involved in the Battle ofAlbert, including the capture of Montauban, Mametz, Fricourt,Contalmaison and La Boisselle.
Between 14-17 July it was involved in the Battle of Bazentin,including the capture of Longueval, Trones Wood and Ovillers.
Lived in Westow, before moving to Hove.
Like the rest of his brothers and sisters Richard was sent to workwhen he was seven.
When a vacancy arose for a pupil teacher at Waterbarn - which by thenhad a day school - his sisters persuaded his father to let Richardapply - although the wage would be less than in the mill - and he gotthe job at 14 or 15.
He had already earned money as a 'penny reader', i.e. a group of oldmen, who could not read, paid him a penny to read the newspaper tothem.In his youth Richard also taught at the school in Accrington run bythe Swedenborgian Church.
Richard met his wife Amelia at Waterbarn, where she was also teaching.
At the time of the 1881 Census, Richard is shown as an AssistantSchool Master, living with his parents at Bk Blackwood Rd, Spotland.
By 1884, when he married, Richard had passed his teaching examinationand was the headmaster of Waterbarn day school and superintendent ofthe Sunday School.
In 1904 the Western Board School was opened and the day schools of theBaptists and Wesleyans were closed.
The Wesleyan headteacher got the head's post at the new school, andRichard went to London to train to teach handicraft.Up until 1923 Richard held a semi-independent post as handicraftteacher at Western School for all the boys in Stacksteads.
After the death of his first wife, Amelia, Richard married a widow,also an ardent Baptist who had no children, a good income and a houseat Bare, near Morecambe.
Richard survived his second wife, died at Bare at the age of 84, andwas buried at Waterbarn with Amelia.
Living at 13 Waterbarn, Newchurch, at the time of the 1881 Census.
In the 1880's Amelia went to teach in London for a couple of years ata school in the East End for the children of policemen.
Prior to this she had taught at the school in Waterbarn.After a few years Amelia saw a post advertised at a school in Bacup,applied and got it, and in 1884 she and Richard were married.
Amelia's sisters ran a private school for the daughters ofmanufacturers.
Died suddenly in 1926 having been an invalid in a bath chair for sometime.
of Langroyd
Coheiress of George Ormerod late of Knotts in Hapton.