of Chamber in Wolfenden
At the age of 92 Richard was taken to Preston in a cart to testify onbehalf of Peter Ormerod of Tottington, schoolmaster, the grandson ofRichard's uncle, Richard (6L3) of Heyslacks in Peter's vain effort toassert his right to the Tunstead estate of John (7L1) in the case ofthe 'Ormerod Entail' created by the will of Oliver (5L1) of Lench.
Richard lived to be 94, and was survived by his wife, Elizabeth, whomust have been nearly as old.
Most of Richard's family were born whilst he lived at Edgeside,probably as a weaver.
Richard's eldest son, George, who died just before his father, was aweaver at Chamber.Richard left a short will in which he mentions Richard, the son of histhird son, Lawrence, who may also have had other issue.
Baptised on 20 November 1670.
Buried on 14 September 1765, aged 94.
Will proved in 1765.
Died in infancy.
Baptised on 22 June 1701.
Baptised on 20 June 1708.
Buried in 1738.
of Shawclough & Edgeside
Baptised on 21 January 1671.
The Court Roll reveals that on 1 February 1690/91 George took a 70year lease of a messuage and land at Shawclough of yearly rent 5/-(=15 Lancashire acres) at a rent of £8-10-0 per annum. George was only19 at this time.
By 1707 he was leasing two further messuages and land in Shawclough ofyearly rent 7/1d for 40 years, and in 1708 he bought outright fourmessuages and land of yearly rent 4/4d in Edgeside inWolfendenboothedgeside for £254 adding more land there, of yearly rent2/10 for £70 in 1710.
With these purchases he moved to Edgeside leaving his eldest son,George, and his nephew, John (8Cf1) at Shawclough.
Buried on 29 April 1729.
Will proved in 1730.In his will of 1730 George of Edgeside appoints his brother John ofCloughfold as his feoffee in fiducia for the disposal of his lands inthe Halmot Court.
The inventory of George's goods survived with his will.
Apart from household goods and three beasts and a horse 'in the leath'(i.e. the barn), he had 3 wheels, 2 pairs of combs, warping wogs,tings and two pairs of looms, 50lb of Jersey (£4-16-0), 182lb combedwool (£6-10-0), 52lb of butter (probably to dress wool) (£1-12-1),skin wool and fleece wool spun & weaved (£37-15-0), broad looms andgears (£1-15-0) and in debts owed to him (£193-5-2).
Besides this he had already set up his four eldest sons in estates oftheir own.
Left a probate but no extant will.
Buried in 1736.
Will proved in 1736.
Baptised on 29 May 1678.
Buried on 26 April 1699.
of Gouker, Yorkshire
Baptised on 16 June 1684.
Issue inherited proceeds of the Tunstead estate.
Gentleman of Tunstead
The last of the line, and the only surviving son of Richard (6L2).
Baptised on 26 March 1682.
His father made over the Tunstead land to John in 1710, following hismarriage to Mary Ormerod.
Mary was one of the coheiresses of Oliver (7W1) of Lumb in Wolfenden.This Oliver was the senior great-grandson and heir of George (4W1) ofWolfenden and Margaret Ormerod his wife. As such he was probably therichest Ormerod in Rossendale at this time.Buried on June 14 1757 at Newchurch.
Will proved in 1757.In John's will John Hardman, son of his eldest sister, Alice, got 2/-a week and he directed that the estates should be sold and, afterprovision for his wife, the proceeds should be divided among theRamsdens and the Ashworths the children of his sisters, Ann andDorothy.
This flouted the entail set up by his great uncle Oliver (5L1), as didthe actions of John's father's cousin, Richard (6L1) of Cowclough.The executors of John's will were his second wife, Mary, and PeterOrmerod (10O1) of Ormerod, the nephew of his first wife.
They sold the Tunstead estate by auction in three lots for £2,500 butthe purchasers withheld the purchase money pending the case brought byPeter Ormerod of Tottington (the would-be heir according to theentail).The Tunstead estate was probably centred on what is now known asNewbarn Farm, Stacksteads. In the barn of that farm there is still acoping stone with the inscription 'I.O. 1739'. This was recorded byJohn B. Taylor (1988). The 'I.O.' is 'John Ormerod' and the datecoincides with the ownership of John from 1732 to 1757.
of Tunstead
Baptised on 2 May 1689.
Issue inherited proceeds of the Tunstead estate.
of Bury
Possibly the same Robert Kay who in October 1682 marries Mary,Elizabeth's younger sister.
Baptised on 3 September 1643.
of Woodroade & Tunstead
Woodroade is in Tottington, just across the River Irwell from BentleyClough.Baptised on 29 March 1640.
By 1673 the daughters of Oliver (5L1) or their husbands had to appearat the Halmot Court "in obedience to an order decreed in thehonourable Duchy of Lancaster in the Hillary Court at Westminster" andsurrender the estate at Tunstead of yearly rent 29/8d to Richard.
It appears that Richard did not move to his Tunstead land until the1690's, as his children were all baptised in Bury.
Richard kept on good terms with his only surviving Ormerod uncle,Lawrence (5L1) of Slack in Wolfenden.
Lawrence acted as a customary tenant for Richard in proceedings in theHalmot Court regarding the land of his father, John (5L1), whichRichard acquired when his brother, Oliver (6L1), died circa 1670.When Richard came into his own in 1673 he made over some of thehighest land in Tunstead, of yearly rent 7/-, to Lawrence.
This land was partly sold, but part of it, of yearly rent 5/1d went toone of Lawrence's sons, Oliver (6L2), who with his youngest brother,Henry (6L1), mined coal on it.Richard was succeeded at Tunstead by his eldest son, John.
Buried on 30 July 1731 in Newchurch.
Will proved in 1732.
Baptised on 27 December 1676.
Buried in 1693.
Died in infancy.
Baptised on 20 February 1679.
Baptised on 12 March 1686.
Buried on 17 October 1709.