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Northowram Constables

This Foldout lists some of the people who have served as Police Officers in Northowram.

A newspaper notice on 21st March 1855, announced

NOTICE
Wanted a POLICEMAN or CONSTABLE for the township of Northowram.
Salary £60 per annum.
Will be required to devote his whole time to the duties of this office.
Apply to Samuel Howarth, Assistant Overseer, Ellen Royd, Halifax.
Personal attendance will be required on Wednesday the Fourth at the Stump Cross Inn, Northowram at 3 o'clock

1370: Henry Bates
1386: Thomas Sharpe
1394: William Johnson Malynson
1399: Thomas Oates
1403: Henry Del Holynes
1407: John Roper
1429: Wm. Ellyson
1434: John Northend
1470: John Aumbler
1471: Richard Northend
1495: John Shore
1667: Joseph Hall
1668: Gilbert Sturdy
1669: Joseph Crowther
1670: Joshua Bairstow
1671: Samuel Lister
1672: Abraham Hall
1672: Abraham Hall
1673: Daniel Gill
1674: Jeremiah Smith
1676: Jonathan Holoday
1677: Joseph Hall
1679: Michael Woodhead
1680: Edward Hodgson
1681: James Stansfield
1681: Isaac Waterhouse
1683: William Snowden
1684: Edward Hanson
1686: Thomas Kitson
1687: John Ambler
1688: Samuel Crowther
1689: John Crowther
1690: Robert Ramsden
1691: Timothy Holt
1692: Paul Greenwood
1693: John Rhodes
1694: John Ramsden
1695: James Naylor
1696: Joshua Kitson
1697: George Oldfield
1698: Joseph Hopkins
1699: Jeremiah Baxter
1701: Robert Mason
1703: Jonathan Rawson
1704: John Learoyd
1705: Robert Northend
1706: Robert Porter
1707: Joseph Holroyd
1708: Christopher Dade
1709: Isaac Wilson
1710: Robert Kitson
1712: Jonathan Oldfield
1713: James Milner
1714: Joshua Stott
1715: Michael Hanson
1716: John Wilman
1717: Joseph Crabtree
1718: John Bargh
1719: John Marks
1720: Richard Wood
1721: Jonathan Marks
1722: Timothy Netherwood
1723: Thomas Ramsden
1725: Joseph Wilkinson
1726: John Clay
1727: Jonathan Longbottom
1728: Benjamin Wilkinson
1729: John Turner
1732: Isaac Foster
1733: Isaiah Scholefield
1734: Stephen Ambler
1735: Abel Akeroyd
1736: Jonathan Benn
1738: Nathaniel Priestley
1739: David Edwards
1740: John Waterhouse
1741: Joseph Wood
1742: Timothy Bentley
1742: Jonathan Nicholls
1743: Samuel Appleyard
1744: John Edwards
1745: Benjamin Norminton
1746: Jonathan Nicholl
1749: John Woolmer
1751: John Magson
1753: William Mercer
1754: Richard Brown
1758: Jonathan Crowther
1759: Joseph Woodhead
1760: Benjamin Dickinson
1760: Mr Lister
1761: Nathaniel Priestley
1764: John Hoyle
1766: John Clark
1767: Thomas Clark
1768: Samuel, Wood
1770: Luke Farrar
1771: John Hammerton
1772: John Moore
1773: Samuel Appleyard
1776: James Pearson
1778: John Cockroft
1778: Jonathan Threapland
1780: James Stead
1782: Benjamin Irvin
1785: William Mitchell
1789: William Dickinson
1842: Richard Sutcliffe
1844: Edward Ekroyd
1844: James Beaumont
1848: Joseph Sutcliffe
1849: Robert Midgley
1851: Henry Sutcliffe
1859: Mark Mellor
1???: John Foster
1???: John Hartley
1???: Michael Stocks

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