See
Sergeant Major Nelson Farrar and
Gunner Frank Hartley
They were on garrison duty in
Bermuda [1886],
Nova Scotia [1888],
West Indies [1891],
South Africa [1893],
and
Burma [around 1898].
On 2nd December 1905 when they returned to England after nearly 20
years of foreign service.
They were in Ireland [1914].
On 16th June 1919, there was public welcome home from abroad, after
World War I, for the Regiment
See
King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry
The Arts & Crafts building was designed by J. F. Walsh for Mr Smith.
In his diaries, William Henry Stott records that Smith's
wife had an affair with
and Mr Smith took the butcher to court.
With the proceeds, Smith commissioned the best architect in
Halifax to build him a new house and shop.
This was
Number 6 Stainland Road
which was designed by J. F. Walsh
There have been several businesses here including
Contributor Adele Oswin write
It might also be called the house by the tram terminus for
Halifax
Before it was hidden by the new Co-op, the outline of the original
Shears Inn could be seen as a white shape on the end wall
of 6a Stainland Road, West Vale.
There were several places – typically fields or meadows – in the
district with names such as
2 days' work,
4 days' work,
7 days' work,
and
9 days' work.
See
Common days work and
Day-work
See
Albert Mallinson,
Pals Battalion and
Fred Wilcock
See
Pals Battalion
See
Pals Battalion
See
Pals Battalion
Many members of the family were involved in the boot and shoe trade
and many joined the family business.
David Benjamin Aaron joined the business in 1958 and moved from
selling and repairing footwear to selling work and industrial
clothing and safety wear.
Philip W. B. Aaron joined the business in 1984 and began the
importation and sale of German military and industrial footwear under
the name Aaron Distribution.
The business has been at several addresses in Halifax:
24 Gaol Lane [1850],
Sovereign Street,
4 Northgate,
39 Woolshops [1936],
and
105 Northgate [1940].
The business remained at 105 Northgate, Halifax until it finally
closed on 25th March 2016
He was listed as
He took over the boot and shoe business which his father had
established at 24 Gaol Lane, Halifax in 1810.
In 1845, he was proprietor.
This became Ben Aaron & Son
On 7th May 1821, he married (1) Elizabeth Hardyman [1798-1868] at Halifax Parish Church.
Children:
In February 1870, he married (2) Mary Hodgson [1816-1???].
They lived at
He was one of the first members, and a trustee, of the Halifax Working Men's Co-operative & Provident Society [1851].
He died 3rd July 1871.
Members of the family were buried at All Saints' Church, Dudwell
He was a shoemaker like other members of the family.
He was a prize-winning swimmer [1868].
In November 1869, he married Sarah Ann Hall Standeven
Children:
The family lived at
Benjamin and Sarah Ann were buried at Lister Lane Cemetery [Plot Number 3358].
Other members of the family were buried at All Saints' Church, Dudwell
In 1911, he married Amy Moore at the Christadelphian Hall, Dudwell.
Children:
The family lived at
He died of a brain haemorrhage [9th August 1948].
Members of the family were buried at All Saints' Church, Dudwell
Son of Henry Aaron.
He was a joiner [1823, 1851].
On 20th May 1823, he married Eliza Briar [1803-18??] at Halifax Parish Church.
Children:
The family lived at
He was buried at Halifax Parish Church
He was
In [Q3] 1938, he married Florence Ethel Riley [1910-1989] in
Halifax.
There is no evidence that they had any children
He joined the family business – Ben Aaron & Son [1958].
He moved the business from selling and repairing footwear to selling
work and industrial clothing and safety wear.
In 1971, he married Joyce Gledhill.
Children:
Born 12th April 1914.
He was a boot and shoe dealer.
He bred dogs and became a judge at Crufts.
In 1940, he married Ruth Constance Sutcliffe [1914-19??] at
the Christadelphian Hall, Dudwell.
Children:
He served as a Trooper with No. 66 Yorkshire Contingent of the
Imperial Yeomanry in the South African Wars.
He died of enteric fever in the Boys' Model [10th October 1900]
Hospital, Pretoria.
He is remembered on the Halifax Parish Church South African War Memorial,
and on West View Park War Memorial
Son of Henry Aaron.
He was a cordwainer / shoemaker and carried on the family cobbling
business.
On 23rd December 1828, he married Frances Ingham [1811-1876] at Halifax Parish Church.
Children:
The children were born in Southowram.
The family lived at Bank Bottom, Halifax [1837, 1871].
He was buried at Lister Lane Cemetery [Plot Number 3916]
Born in Halifax.
He was a cellar man [1904].
On 15th October 1904, he married Kate Parker [1865-1924] in Halifax.
They had no children
He moved to Halifax
He was
a traveller in hardware /
an optician /
a spectacle maker.
In 1810, he set up a boot and shoe business at 24 Gaol Lane, Halifax.
In 1793, he married Mary Stephenson at Halifax Parish Church.
Children:
Mary was a Christian and the children were baptised at South Parade Methodist Chapel, Halifax, and brought up as Christians.
He was buried at Lister Lane Cemetery [Plot Number 780]
Born in Southowram.
He was a cordwainer.
On 23rd February 1859, he married Sarah Horner in Halifax.
Children:
The children were born in Southowram.
The family lived at 60 Waterhouse Street, Halifax [1894].
Henry died 27th November 1894 (aged 59).
He was buried at Stoney Royd Cemetery
[K 1136 D]
Born in Southowram.
He was a cordwainer [1886].
On 20th September 1886, he married Hannah Stansfield
[1863-1933] in Halifax.
Children:
The children were born in Halifax
In 1855, he married (1) Martha Kershaw [1836-1871] from
Halifax, at Halifax.
In 1871, he married (2) Mary [1850-1890] from Devonshire, in
Halifax.
Children:
The family lived at
John and his wives, Martha and Mary, were buried at Lister Lane Cemetery [Plot Number 780]
He was a greengrocer [1861].
In August 1867, he was declared bankrupt.
He was a grocer's man [1871]
In 1891, there a Joseph Aaron, a fish hawker, staying at a
Halifax lodging house.
In 1856, he married Charlotte Ann Balmforth [1839-1886] in
Halifax.
Children:
The family lived at
In 1881, Charlotte and Elizabeth Ann are in the
Halifax Union Workhouse.
Arthur is a mill hand lodging with the Hanson family in Halifax
Born in Halifax [23rd May 1896].
On 19th May 1923, he married Maud Brewer [1895-1977] in Halifax.
There is no evidence that they had any children.
The couple died in Halifax:
Leonard [] (aged 1975);
Maud [9th April 1977]
He was a watchmaker.
On 27th December 1818, he married Hannah Jowett [1795-1846] at Halifax Parish Church.
It appears that they had no children.
They lived at Well Lane, Gardeners Square, Halifax [1839, 1841, 1851].
In 1851, Joshua Keighley and family were lodgers
with Moses at 7 Gardeners Square, Halifax.
In 1861, Moses and Hannah were lodgers with his nephew,
John Smith, at 21 Winding Road, Halifax [1861]
He runs the family business – Ben Aaron & Son.
He married Alison.
Alison also joined the partnership
He was an engineering draughtsman.
He married Valerie.
He joined the family business – Ben Aaron & Son [1984].
Valerie also joined the partnership.
Philip changed the business towards the importation and sale
of German military and industrial footwear under the name Aaron
Distribution
He was a shoemaker like other members of the family.
In 1871, he was a boot manufacturer and employed 22 men, 2 boys and 2
women.
He was a prize-winning swimmer.
In 1846, he married Martha Knowles [1826-1921] in Halifax.
Children:
The family lived at
He was
On 23rd June 1897, he married Eleanor Jane Nicholl [1876-1954]
in Halifax.
Children:
In 1888, this was superseded by a new facility at The Lees, Brighouse.
At the end of the 19th century, there was a slaughter house on
Wakefield Road / Armytage Road.
The abattoir at Woolshops was originally built around 1920 on the
site of the Assembly Rooms behind the Talbot Inn, this
was against the Piece Hall, near the north gate, and near the site
of the present shopping precinct.
The corner stones for a new building were laid on 25th November 1926.
It opened in October 1929 at a cost of about £69,000, and was
designed to handle 400 cattle, 250 pigs, 770 sheep and calves.
Animals arrived at front and were held in pens before hydraulic lifts
took them to the upper level.
It had seven cubicles for killing cattle, four pig-sticking
pens and 28 cratches for killing sheep.
The building deteriorated and needed considerable refurbishment; it
became redundant and closed in March 1976.
It was demolished in 1979 to make way for the new Woolshops
development.
See
Harold Victor Leslie Westwood
He was a retired co-operative society worker [1911].
In [Q4] 1864, he married Elizabeth Meredith [1829-1893] in
Halifax.
Children:
The family lived at 85 Bradford Road, Brighouse [1911]
It was formerly known as Avelt Royds.
In 1800, David Dyson bought
a piece of
land called Abbots Royd.
Between 1820-1829, his children, Samuel and
Barbara, built the house.
Later owners included
See
Cut Hedge Farm, Barkisland
They were at
Union Street, Halifax [1816]
and
Albion Street, Halifax [1821]
During World War I,
he served as a Private
with the 2nd Battalion
King's Own Scottish Borderers.
He died 23rd July 1916.
He is remembered on the Thiepval Memorial, France,
and in the Todmorden Garden of Remembrance
He was an estate agent [1901].
In [Q4] 1868, he married Mary Elizabeth Rhodes [1848-1924] in
Kirkstall, Leeds.
Children:
The 4 oldest children were born in Leeds; the 2 youngest were born in
Greetland.
The family lived at Crawstone Hall, Greetland [1881, 1901].
Mary Elizabeth died at Cronk Beg Derby Haven, Isle of Man [19th December 1924].
Probate records show that she left effects valued at £92 2/8d.
Administration was granted to
her husband George Edward.
George Edward died at Cronk Beg Derby Haven, Isle of Man [9th October 1928].
Probate records show that he left effects of Nil.
The will was proved by
his daughter Ethel Ruth
He was a maltster [1891].
In 1884, he married Elizabeth Stockings [1862-1???].
Children:
The family lived at
James died in Halifax [1899] (aged 35).
James was buried at St Stephen's Church, Copley
Born in Elland.
He was
a member of the Choir & Sunday School teacher at St Stephen's Church, Copley /
a worsted maker-up [1901] /
a warehouse man of Copley [1910] /
a worsted yarn maker-up [1911] /
employed by Akroyd's at Copley Mills [for 19½ years].
In [Q4] 1910, he married Elizabeth Harris [1885-19??] at St Stephen's Church, Copley.
Children:
The family lived at 29 Calder Terrace, Copley [1917].
During World War I,
he enlisted [June 1916], and
served as a Private
with the 1st/5th Battalion
Essex Regiment.
He was killed in action at Gaza whilst serving with the Egyptian
Expeditionary Force
[2nd November 1917] (aged 31).
He was buried at the Gaza War Cemetery, Palestine [X F 12].
He is remembered on the Memorial at Halifax Town Hall Books of Remembrance,
on Copley War Memorial,
and on the Copley Roll of Honour
Son of Robert Abbott.
He made his money as a woolstapler.
See
Cold Edge Dam Company,
William Emmet,
Halifax, Bradford & Keighley Insurance Company and
West Yorkshire Railway Company
See
Horace E. Foster,
Elizabeth Ann Gregory,
Emma Gregory,
Edward Wallace Norris and
John Whitley
In 1817, he bought Spring Mill, Warley from Samuel Schorfield
He ran a carpet-manufacturing business with his son,
John, and Francis Ellerton.
The partnership was dissolved in 1821.
In 1830, John Crossley bought the business.
On 29th January 1792, he married Jane Nicholl at Halifax
Parish Church.
Children:
See
Abbott, Crossley & Company and
Robert Abbott & Company
See
Robert Abbott
In 1884, it was recorded that
A legend says that the stones mark the graves of two rival suitors
who fought and died for the love of Katie, a farmer's daughter
from Cross End's Farm.
Katie later committed suicide by jumping into the waterfall
from the bridge at Lumb Bridge.
She was buried between the 2 crosses.
Her ghost is said to haunt Stone Booth, Cross Ends
and Grain
The family lived at 6 Milton Place, Halifax [1913]
During World War II,
he was a member of the Municipal Borough Home Guard in Crewe.
On 29th December 1940, he was injured when a German Junkers 88
dropped 2 bombs on the Rolls-Royce Works at Crewe.
60 people were injured, and 16 people were killed outright.
John died at the Memorial Hospital [3rd January 1941] (aged 23).
She married Frederick Smith.
The couple had met while Frederick was travelling in Scotland
for Royston's.
Mary died before her husband went into business on his own.
Mary's Scottish ancestry is remembered in the
name – Caledonia Wire Mills – and the thistle emblem of his
company Frederick Smith & Company
Born in Bradford [Q3 1843].
He was an apprentice stuff merchant [by 1861].
He was a manufacturer in Lightcliffe.
On 12th December 1866, he married Elizabeth Ann Webster.
Children:
Elizabeth and the children were living with her brother
Isaac at Buckley Gate Hall, Ovenden [1871]
The family lived at 23 The Avenue, Acton, Middlesex [1881]
He was
a stuff merchant [1851, 1861] /
a Poor Law Guardian for Bradford [1861] /
a member of the Provisional Committee of The Bradford District Bank [1862].
He was in partnership with Thomas Arton as D. Abercrombie &
Company and Abercrombie & Ayrton.
This was dissolved in May 1862.
He married Elizabeth [1803-1???] from Perth, Scotland.
Children:
All the children's births were registered in Bradford.
The sons went on to become apprentice stuff merchants [by 1861]
The family lived at Springfield Place, Bradford [1851].
In 1860, he built Perth House, Lightcliffe and came to live in
Lightcliffe.
The family were at
Perth House, Lightcliffe [1861, 1862]
and
Perth Villas, Lightcliffe [1871]
He died on 27th June 1869.
He was buried at Undercliffe Cemetery.
Mrs Abercrombie was still living at Perth House
[1874].
See
Halifax & Ovenden Junction Railway Company
A merchant [1876, 1878].
In [Q3] 1874, he married Mary Ellen Whitteron
in Wetherby.
Children:
The family lived at The Crescent, Hipperholme [1876].
George died in Halifax [Q2 1881] (aged 36)
Born at Ashton upon Mersey [9th January 1881].
He was a poet and literary critic.
He married Catherine Dwatkin [1881-1968] in Ulverston,
Lancashire [1909].
Children:
He suffered from diabetes and died in hospital at St John's Wood,
London [27th October 1938]
Son of William Abercrombie.
Born at Ashton upon Mersey [6th June 1879].
He was
an architect /
articled to Manchester architect Charles Henry Heathcote /
professor of Civic Design at Liverpool /
knighted for his work as a town planner [1945].
He married Emily Maud Gordon [1886-1942] in Wirral, Cheshire
[1908].
Sir Patrick died at Didcot [23rd March 1957]
Born in Bradford [Q2 1838].
He was
an apprentice stuff merchant [by 1861] /
a Manchester stockbroker.
On 10th February 1863, he married Sarah Ann Heron [1842-1916] in Huddersfield.
Children:
It closed in 19??.
The building has been left to fall into disrepair by the
ever-reliable value-for-money Calderdale Council.
In November 2007, a proposal was announced to demolish the building
and build sheltered accommodation for the elderly on the site.
See
Patmos Congregational Church War Memorial,
Harold Shipman and
Todmorden Health Centre
on account of his way of addressing people he met on his way home
from the pub
He was
a colour sergeant in the Infantry [1891] /
publican at the Black Bull, Brighouse or the Anchor, Brighouse [1901]
He married Catherine [1863-19??] from Aldershot.
Children:
The family lived at
Living with them in 1901 was M. Dobson [aged 27] (singer) born
in Kent
On the death of her husband [1888], she had taken over as beerhouse
keeper of the Railway Hotel, Ripponden, and was there until
the pub closed in 1906
Rachel died in 1928
an amorous butcher from Cross Hills, Greetland
Originally, the shoe shop was a single storey and the top bit was
added on, though I don't know when.
The boot and shoe shop was run by the Smiths.
The shop front was replaced in 1914 when the business was run by Mr
Percy Smith, (possibly) a son of the original Smiths.
Elizabeth came from Halifax
Sarah Ann was the daughter of Sarah Ann
and Mr Standeven
Florence Ethel was born in Halifax
Kate [née Parker] was born in Friskney, and
widow of Mr Smith
Sarah was the daughter of Joshua Horner
Hannah was born in Halifax
Maud was born in Huddersfield
Hannah came from Halifax
Eleanor Jane was the daughter of David Nicholl
Mary Elizabeth was born in Leeds
Elizabeth was born in Onehouse, Suffolk
Elizabeth, of Copley, was the daughter of William Henry Harris
the scholarship this year will be awarded for proficiency in classics.
The value of the scholarship will be about £60 a year, and it
will be tenable for 3 years.
Candidates must be the sons of clergymen of the Church of England,
who stand in need of assistance to enable them to obtain the benefit
of a university education.
Candidates from the West Riding of Yorkshire are to be preferred
Elizabeth Ann was the daughter of Samuel Webster
Sarah Ann came from Dewsbury
The Good Night and God Bless Man
Rachel was the widow of Benjamin Berry.