of Lee Top, Bury Parish
Buried on 8 December 1749 at Newchurch.
His two eldest sons predeceased him and are also buried at Newchurch.
Buried on 3 October 1728.
of Lee Top, Bury Parish
Buried on 1 March 1740 at Newchurch.
No surviving issue.
of Scoutfold
Buried on 7 December 1736 at Newchurch.
No surviving issue.
of Tottington
Schoolmaster.
Unsuccessful claimant to the estate of John (7L1) of Tunstead.
Inherited Gambleside as a minor and only lived until about 1810.
He apparently never married, but managed to beget one illegitimateson, John, by a Betty Farrer, and two other sons, William Lord of Heynear Gambleside, and John Lord @ Ormerod, who became a butcher inBacup, together with three daughters, Ann, Mary and Nancy by anothermistress, Jane Lord.
A written account of John's descendants ends "Much of the estate ofJohn Ormerod, junior, and John Ormerod Lord, his natural son, waswasted in legal costs and wild living."
It looks as though John tried to pass on Gambleside to hisillegitimate son, but that he failed through improvidence and theweight of debt on the property.
Milton Ormerod writes "John was obviously a weak character, tainted byinbreeding and brought up mainly by women, who probably underestimatedthe legal difficulties he faced, but part of the failure must also belaid at the door of his father. The latter should have known that theburden of legacies of £2,500 was to great for a property likeGambleside to bear, even augmented by the land he inherited from hisfather-in-law, but with which there were legal problems.
John (10G1) had evidently abandoned trade, adopted the role ofgentleman and his son had been brought up to do the same, but with thelanded wealth at their disposal, this role could not be sustained. Theson also succeeded to the estate as a minor without the guidance ofresponsible paternal uncles and probably with a misguided idea of thereal extent of his wealth.The house at Gambleside disappeared with the building of Clowbridgereservoir in 1890.
Butcher of Bacop
Will proved in 1874.
Died without issue.
of Cragg Hole, Cowpe
The farm of Cragg Hole, on virtually the same contour as Puss Height,has now disappeared under the high level reservoir constructed byBacup Corporation in the early 1900's.
There was also a quarry there, and Edmund and some of his sons wereprobably quarrymen.
Baptised on 28 July 1799.
Baptised on 4 August 1803.
Baptised on 5 April 1822.
Died on 17 December 1837.
Baptised on 13 August 1810.
Baptised on 4 February 1813.
Baptised on 31 December 1815.
Baptised in 1819.
Died on 28 May 1862.
Remembered on a gravestone at Newchurch.
of Puss Height, Cowpe
The ruin of Puss Height Farm lies about the 400m contour line on thesouth, i.e. north facing, side of the Cowpe valley.
"Puss" is probably a euphemism for "Piss" since it lies not far from adeclivity known as "Piss Clough" and near a place called "Piss Yate".
The name probably came from the colour of the water, discoloured bythe moorland peat, which ran down the clough.When "Little Lol" lived at Puss Height he supported himself and hisfamily by sheep farming.
Buried on 17 January 1831, aged 44.
Buried in 1822, at the age of 47, 20 days after the christening of herson, Richard.
Baptised on 5 April 1822.
Buried in 1837.Richard died when he was fifteen - probably alone at Puss Heightbecause there was an inquest, whose verdict has not survived.
All the remains of the inquest record is the date and the coroner'sexpenses. In this case he paid 1/- each to John and Ann Ormerod aswitnesses expenses.Richard left a will, executed by his half brother, George, but hismeagre effects were all in pledge to a pawnbroker in Rochdale.
Grandfather of Dot Hall, who supplied the information regarding hisparentage.
Witnessed her father's death in Stubbins at Ramsbottom in 1925.
of Cloughfold
of Cloughfold
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 Holmhurst, Christchurch, Hampshire, at the time of the 1881Census.
Had five daughters and a son, Walter.
They were all brought up in Stacksteads but now live in the Gisburnarea.