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Halifax R. E. S. Gymnasium Cycling Club and
John Henry Whitley
He was a greengrocer at 26/27 Swine Market, Halifax.
He married Catherine [1824-1877].
Patrick John died 22nd November 1862.
Catherine died 3rd August 1877.
He was buried at Lister Lane Cemetery [Plot Number 4082]
During World War II,
he served as a Pilot Officer
with 353 Squadron
Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve.
He died 29th March 1946 (aged 29).
He is remembered on the Singapore Memorial [459],
and in the Todmorden Garden of Remembrance
He worked as a beamer piecer.
On 19th December 1882, he won a walking match – pedestrianism – at
Lillie Bridge Grounds, West Brompton, beating W. Franks of
Marylebone by 95 yards, after walking 8 miles in 59 mins 18 secs.
On 16th July 1883, he won a match at Bow Running Grounds,
beating Arthur Hancock of Bethnal Green.
On 25th July 1900, he won a 25 mile walking race at Fulham Cross
Grounds.
His time was 3 hrs 53 mins 33¼ secs.
He won the Championship, and the challenge cup – valued at
100 guineas – became his property
In January 1898, he was one of the people to endorse Velcot Coco.
In 1878, he married Hannah Maria McDermott [b 1859] from
Halifax, in Halifax.
Children:
The family lived at Rastrick [1890s]
He was
a member of St Matthew's Church, Northowram /
a drawing overlooker at Albert Mills, Hanson lane, Halifax.
During World War I,
he enlisted [October 1914], and
served as a Lance Corporal
with the 9th Battalion
Duke of Wellington's (West Riding Regiment).
He was killed in action on the Somme [7th July 1916] (aged 20).
He is remembered on the Halifax Town Hall Books of Remembrance,
and on the Memorial at Saint Matthew's Church, Northowram
During World War I,
he enlisted in Halifax, and
served as a Private
with the 55th Battalion
Machine Gun Corps (Infantry).
He was killed in action [9th April 1918].
He is remembered on the Loos Memorial, France [36],
and in the Todmorden Garden of Remembrance
Born in Elland.
He was a labourer in the iron trade [1901].
In 1899, he married Nellie, daughter of Stuart Black, in
Halifax.
Children:
They lived at
He was a cloth weaver [1911].
In 1879, he married Hannah [1856-19??].
Children:
The family lived at 18 Cherry Street, Halifax [1911].
Living with them [in 1911] were daughter Elizabeth & her
husband Harry
The individuals listed there are not necessarily related to each other.
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Arthur Whitbread
He was acquitted
They held the Manor of Hartshead and lived at Hartshead Hall.
In 1200, William de Radclyffe gave to his son, Hugh
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Richard Radclyffe and
Robert de Radclyffe
He married Unknown.
Children:
During World War I,
he served as a Sergeant
with the Royal Fusiliers.
He died in the conflict.
He is remembered on the Halifax Town Hall Books of Remembrance
Question:
Does anyone know what he did to become known as a Radical?
He was also a cornet player with the Southowram Brass Band and
taught the cornet.
He is said to have given horn lessons to Willie, a member of
the Firth family in Brighouse.
In 1897, he married Hetty, daughter of George Wood.
They lived at Cain Lane, Southowram.
On 13th March 1914, the family sailed from Liverpool to the USA on
the SS Alaunia and settled in upstate New York, and then
Auburn NY.
Some members of the family worked in the carpet factory at
Firthcliffe.
He died in Auburn.
He was buried at Fort Hill Cemetery, Auburn
In 1840, the side gates and chairs at the toll gate were advertised
to let by auction at the George, Brighouse
She appears to have been dismissed.
On 27th August 1306, the Archbishop of York sent a letter to the
Prioress of Kirklees seeking readmission of
She was again accused in 1315
A branch of the Halifax Cocoa House Company at the junction of
Horton Street and Church Street.
In 1891, they could accommodate 300 customers.
Recorded in 1893.
By the 1920s, it was occupied by Ramsden's leather factory
Recorded in 1887, when
Mayor Richard Horsfall and the Mayoress entertained
Corporation staff here
Until the website is published, you can direct any enquiries to
She was illegitimate [?], born and brought up in Madras and was of
Anglo-Indian parentage.
Her mother was Indian.
In 1800, when her father died, she and her sister came to England to
be educated at Mr Lumley's Boarding School for Ladies.
Being of a foreign appearance, she was sent to the attic at the
school.
Here, she met Anne Lister who had also been sent to the attic
because of her disruptive behaviour in the school
In 1805, when they were both young girls, aged 13, she met Anne Lister and they became lovers – Anne's first.
They agreed to become man and wife and exchanged wedding rings and
took vows.
When teachers found Anne and Eliza passing
love-letters, Anne was expelled and returned to Halifax.
Eliza spent holidays with Anne at Skelfler and at
Shibden Hall.
They both kept diaries and developed a writing code for these and
to exchange love letters.
Distanced from Anne, Eliza became lonely and
melancholic.
She suffered from a mental illness, and in 1814, she was declared
insane.
In 1816, she was committed to a lunatic asylum at Clifton, York,
where she spent the rest of her life.
In 1817, she was in the care of Dr Henry Stephen Belcombe at
Clifton, York.
She was buried at St Thomas's Church, Osbaldwick, York
He married an unidentified Indian woman.
Children:
He died on the voyage back to England.
After his death, Dr William Duffin became guardian of his daughters
and brought them back to England in 1803
During World War I,
he served as a Driver
with D Battery
38th Brigade
with the Royal Field Artillery.
He was killed in action [16th October 1918].
He was buried at Hooge Crater Cemetery, Belgium [XVII H 2].
He is remembered on the Memorial at Halifax Town Hall Books of Remembrance,
on the Memorial at Halifax Bowling Club,
on the Memorial at Crossley's Carpets,
and on the Memorial at Trinity Road Baptist Church, Halifax
It appears to have been extended twice to add a barn and a cottage,
probably in the 18th century.
It stood alongside the Long Causeway.
It is now a ruin
During the Troubles in Northern Ireland, he was shot and
killed in the Creggan area of Londonderry [11th June 1972].
He was buried at Illingworth Moor Wesleyan Chapel.
He is remembered on Bradshaw War Memorial
In 1917, he married Phyllis Fossey in Halifax.
Children:
He married Dorothy daughter of Mr Rhodes, and sister
of John Rhodes.
Children:
There was a memorial to him in Northgate End Chapel
Son of Rev John Ralph.
He was
JP for the West Riding [1851] /
landed proprietor [1851] /
railway shareholder [1861].
On 17th February 1820, he married Agnes Bickerstaff Ramsden in Halifax.
Children:
The family lived at
He died at Furnival's Inn, London.
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Railway companies and
West Yorkshire Railway Company
He was buried at St Wilfrid's Church, Calverley
He also had an iron foundry and workers producing cotton machinery
for a Manchester company of which he was a partner or owner.
He married Unknown.
Children:
In 1832, he built Robinwood Mill, Todmorden.
He owned much property in and around Todmorden.
He bought Platts House and Carr Barn from Joshua Fielden [1820s].
In 1826-1828, he built Centre Vale House.
He diverted the river in order to get a wider sweep of land for the
house.
Abraham Stansfield worked as a gardener at the house.
A memorial was erected to him opposite his pew in Christ Church.
She married Edward Brooke.
For about 35 years after the death of Mr Gott, husband of
her daughter Mary Ann,
the two widowed sisters reigned over Pellon and Wheatley.
In 1853, the two sisters gave £400 and the land for building
Pellon Church and Parsonage.
On Mary's death, Elizabeth inherited the estates.
In her will, she left the estates to her daughter, Mary Ann,
for life, with the remainder in tail to her children.
Elizabeth survived her husband.
The epitaph on the memorial for Elizabeth and other members of her family
in Halifax Parish Church is recorded in
the book Monumental & Other Inscriptions
On 6th June 1670, he married Agnes Threapland in Bradford.
Children:
He married Martha [17??-1773].
Children:
The epitaph on the family memorial
in Halifax Parish Church is recorded in
the book Monumental & Other Inscriptions
Born in Todmorden.
He did much work on the use of steam-power in the family's cotton
business.
He made many inventions for the new railway industry, including a
water trough and pick-up system, and the split piston ring which is
still in use on petrol and diesel engines.
He was President of the Institute of Mechanical Engineers.
In July 2004, a plaque at Todmorden Railway Station was unveiled in
his memory
She married James Lancashire.
They had no children.
For many years, the two widowed sisters reigned over Pellon and
Wheatley.
In 1853, they gave £400 and the land for building Pellon Church and Parsonage.
On Mary's death, Elizabeth inherited the estates.
Mary survived her husband.
The epitaph on the memorial for Mary and other members of her family
in Halifax Parish Church is recorded in
the book Monumental & Other Inscriptions
He married Mary [1732-1822].
Children:
The epitaph on the family memorial
in Halifax Parish Church is recorded in
the book Monumental & Other Inscriptions
He lived at Birks Hall, Ovenden.
On Tuesday, March 12th 1822, he was killed in the quarry in
Brackenbed Lane where he was taking shelter under a large mass of
projecting stone; the stone fell and crushed him to death.
Other reports of his death say that
He was the last male Ramsbottom, and Birks Hall passed to his
sisters, Mary and Elizabeth.
The epitaph on the family memorial
in Halifax Parish Church is recorded in
the book Monumental & Other Inscriptions
He married Hannah Leah.
He is mentioned in the List of Local Wills: 1892
He inherited Birks Hall, Ovenden and owned it for 1 year.
He married Mary Farrer.
Children:
Son of Francis Ramsbottom.
In 1707, he inherited Birks Hall.
He was a maltster.
The kilns at Birks were worked for about 150 years afterwards.
Remains of the vats are still to be found in the outbuildings.
On 4th June 1708, he married Sarah, daughter of John King.
Children:
The individuals listed there are not necessarily related to each other.
In 1856, the partnership was declared bankrupt.
Both partners were independently declared bankrupt at the same time.
At Leeds Bankruptcy Court, the court was not happy with the answers
given about the firm's finances, and the case was postponed sine
die.
The protracted bankruptcy hearing – during which the court suspected
them of concealing assets – occupied much of the local papers at the
time
Recorded in May 1861, when
when The Black Bull in Bingley was advertised to let
In 1894, Ramsden offered the baths to the Corporation, but the
Council resolved
Water was obtained from drainage from the hillside.
When a council tip was built higher up the valley, the water became
polluted and the enterprise closed in 1903.
In 1910, the property was bought by Falcon Laundry.
Bath Place still stands
Established at Robin Hood Mill, Clifton Road [1840].
They were still at the mill [1874].
They employed about 300 workers [1895].
The business moved to Leopold Works, Brighouse.
They did much work for the international market in Europe, America
and the East.
Around 1960, they were taken over by Spencers of Wakefield.
See
Ramsden Clough
Traces of mediæval iron-working have been found here
See
Furniss Farm,
Ragby Bridge, Walsden and
Ramsden Wood Mill, Walsden
They occupied what had been the Railway Cocoa House, Halifax [1920s]
Partners included
Colonel Thomas Ramsden of Heath Hall, Halifax
Now 2 dwellings.
Owners and tenants have included
In 1881, they acquired the town centre brewery of Lupton & Charnock, then Brear & Brown, and then John Naylor's
Halifax Brewery.
On 27th January 1894, the firm became Ramsden's Stone Trough Brewery at
Commercial Street, Halifax / Ward's End, Halifax.
Director were:
In 1919, they acquired the business and houses of James Alderson & Company Limited.
During the 1930s, their bottles were made by Lax & Shaw, Leeds.
In 1964, the company joined Joshua Tetley & Son Limited, a
subsidiary of Allied Breweries Limited.
It has been said that the business closed because they needed to
expand, but that it was not possible to extend their town-centre site.
The Brewery is discussed in the book
Halifax Pubs
On 27th September 1867, a large bird – said to be a Gannet
or Solan Goose – was captured in Ramsden Wood.
It had fallen to the ground in an exhausted state.
It had a 6 ft wing span and was about 2 ft in length
Owners and tenants have included
The storage reservoir was built by J. F. Bateman as a part of the
route from Widdop Reservoir to the Thrum Hall treatment works for
distribution to Halifax.
It has a capacity of 11,295,000 gallons.
There is a ventilation shaft on Moor End Road
Hannah was born in Halifax
... all [Hartshead], to wit, two carucates of land with the
appurtenances, to hold of himself and his heirs in fee and
inheritance paying yearly one pound of pepper for services except the
[foreign] service
Alice Ragged, your fellow nun [who being] often deceived by the
allurements of frail flesh, in levity of mind, hath gone from her
house into the world, and hath wandered in great peril, having long
put off her religious habit
a bilious yellow hue
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Killed in the Service of his Country
Phyllis was the daughter of Ernest George Fossey
Agnes was the daughter of Rowland Ramsden
he was assisting one of his labourers
that the offer be not entertained