Farmer at Belvedere Farm.
Living at 103 Brunshaw Rd, Burnley, at the time of the 1891 Census.
The Burnley Roll of Honour for the Burnley Men Who Served in, andSurvived, the Great War by Andrew Gill and Alan Mackay(http://burnleyinthegreatwar.info/burnleyservedindex.htm), recordsthat a William Ormerod, of 101 Brunshaw Road, served with the RoyalWelsh Fusiliers during the First World War.
Baptised in 1672 in Eccles.
Ancestor of the Ormerods of Eccles Parish.
Ancestor of George Ormerod of Bury, grandfather of George Ormerod, theHistorian of Cheshire, according to Whitaker's pedigree.
From research of Dr John Orme (see The Ancestry of George Ormerod(1785-1873) Historian of Cheshire) this would appear to be incorrect.Had five sons and a daughter as is obvious from land settlements madein their father and their mother's wills.
Oliver had holdings at Worsley and Swinton - both in Eccles parish.
He died at Swinton in 1728 and his widow died there in 1760 leaving awill.
of Rochdale
of Burnley
Left ten shillings in the will of her grandfather, Peter Ormerod(5O1).
of Monton, Eccles
Gentleman Merchant of Bury.
Founder of the line of Ormerods of Tyldesley and Sedbury Park?Co-executor of his father's will 1656.
Inherited his father's estate at Monton.Believed by George Ormerod, The Historian of Cheshire, to have beenthe father of his great-grandfather, Oliver.
This pedigree is the one given in Burke's Landed Gentry.
This is doubted by Milton Ormerod, who discusses the problem of GeorgeOrmerod's pedigree in The Ormerods, pp.224-229.According to Leslie Chapples, in From Ormerod to Thursby, Georgemarried Anne Pilling, of Burnley, and moved to Eccles, where hisfamily settled.
Whitaker's History of Whalley also shows George Ormerod as havingmarried Anne Pilling (on 3 November 1669 in Burnley).
No known issue.
Became involved with the Presbyterians in Monton, whose records havenot survived.
No known issue.
No known issue.
Baptised on 7 March 1601/02.
Graduated from Trinity College, Cambridge, in 1622-23 and was licensedto teach at Rochdale Grammar School in 1629, becoming headmaster therein 1638.
He married Alice Sagar in 1627
He had a daughter Alice, baptised at Burnley in 1627, and anotherMary, baptised in 1629, but buried at Burnley in 1635, besides twosons, Lawrence and Richard, baptised at Rochdale in 1630 and 1632.
His first wife, Alice, must have died because he married Frances,daughter of Joseph Radcliffe, DD., principal of Brazenose College,Oxford in 1634.
By her he had three daughters, Mary, Isabel and Ann, and two sons,Peter and Oliver.
Despite being the headmaster of Rochdale Grammar School in 1638,Lawrence by 1633, was a copyholder in Little Marsden, i.e. the areanow known as Nelson.
All the children of his second marriage were baptised at Colne, exceptfor Oliver, who was baptised at Burnley.
By 1662 Lawrence was a copyholder in the manor of Colne itself, and hewas buried at Burnley in 1674 aged 72.
It is not known whether either of his elder sons, Lawrence andRichard, survived him and had issue.
of Catlow
Baptised in 1632 in Rochdale.
Stationed with the 29th Regiment at Windsor in 1802.
29th = (The Worcestershire) Regiment of Foot.
Buried in St George's Chapel, Windsor.
of Ormerod
By Oliver (7W1)'s will Lawrence and his wife, Alice, inherited a lotof land in Rossendale which eventually passed to their son and heir,Peter (10O1).
of Tunstead
Whitaker failed to identify Oliver Ormerod (7W1) of Lumb in Rossendaleas the father of the wife of Lawrence (9O1) of Ormerod and got hername wrong - she was actually called Alice.
No known issue.
of Trawden