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History
This family was a surprise addition! They 'turned up' quite unexpectedly and first appeared whilst I was searching for 2xgt. grandparents George and Ann Lord. Who, along with Ann Lord, was the 85 year old Mary Cropper in grave B61, interred in Bacup cemetery on 29th. July 1865 ? Once again the St.Nicholas' Parish church registers came to the rescue.
Our 3xgt. grandparents, Joshua Cropper and Mary Lord, were maried at St.Nicholas' Parish church on 27th January 1799. Of their four sons and four daughters, just Ann and her sister Alice were involved with our family.- Ann you will recall had married George Lord on 27th. Oct., 1828 (a Cropper/Lord reversal). The 1861 census revealed that Mary Cropper was living with her widowed daughter, Alice Mills, at Higher Change; she was already at the remarkable age, for those days, of 82 years. However, she probably became a 'handful' and was put in the care of the workhouse at Mitchell Field Nook (Tunstead area); she lived for another 3 years.
On a visit to cousin Edna at Cleveleys during November 1999, she mentioned that, when her mother and father (aunt Ethel and uncle John L. Stott) retired to live at Thornton-Cleveleys in 1954, there was a chemist's shop by the name of 'Cropper' and her mother told her that they were 'related to us'.
Census Returns
Address: Higher Change, Bacup, Lancs.Census: 1841 PRO Reference: HO107 Piece: 509 Folio: 11 Page:
Name Rel Mar Age Occupation Birthplace Joshua Cropper - 65 Coal Miner Lancashire Mary Cropper - 60 Lancashire James Cropper - 15 (poss. Gson - son of James) Lancashire Address: Change, Bacup, Lancs.
Census: 1851 PRO Reference: HO107 Piece: 2248 Folio: 348 Page: ??
Name Rel Mar Age Occupation Birthplace Joshua Cropper Head M 79 Retired Coal Miner Whalley, Lan Mary Cropper Wife M 72 Whalley, Lan John Lord GSon 19 Weaver Whalley, Lan Address: Higher Change, Bacup, Lancs.
Census: 1861 PRO Reference: RG9 Piece: 3052 Folio: 5 Page: ??
Name Rel Mar Age Occupation Birthplace Alice Mills Head W 39 Winder Bacup, Lancs. John Mills Son - 12 Bacup, Lancs. James Mills Son - 4 Bacup, Lancs. Mary Cropper Moth W 82 Bacup, Lancs. Parish Registers
St. Nicholas, Newchurch-in-Rossendale, Marriages Married Name Surname Abode 07.01.1799 Joshua Cropper Greens Mary Lord Change Burial Registers
Bacup Cemetery Grave No: B61.
Name Age Interred Mary Cropper 85 years 14.12.1863 Bacup Cemetery Grave No: B62.
Name Age Interred Alice Mills 42 years 29.07.1865 They had adjoining graves.
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