Notes: British Roots

Matches 151 to 200 of 276

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151	Elizabeth Newton Year of Registration: 1911 Quarter of Registration: Jan-Feb-Mar District: Auckland County: Durham Volume: 10a Page: 284	James or Jacob RAINE OR SPARKS
152	Birth record of daughter Marion states her maiden name as Marion Reid Became an airwoman in 1918. Source : The National Archives Description Name Powell, Edith Service number: 21058 Date 07 October 1918 Catalogue reference AIR 80/194links to the Catalogue Dept Records created or inherited by the Air Ministry, the Royal Air Force, and related bodies Series Air Ministry: Master General of Personnel and Director of Personnel: Airwomen's Records Piece Potter G - Prentice N	Edith Marian Elizabeth REID
153	On the death of Cosmo Charles Gordon Lennox, son of Lord and Lady Alexander Gordon-Lennox, in 1921 the Worsthorne estate passed to his cousin Lady Alice Reyntiens, a daughter of the seventh Earl of Abingdon and Caroline Towneley.	Lady Alice REYNTIENS
154	Residence in 2003 Combe Manor, Newbury, Berkshire, England.	David Vernon RUSSELL
155	At least one living individual is linked to this note - Details withheld.	Living
156	Reverend Walter Folliott Scott was the Rector at Jedburgh, Roxburghshire, Scotland. He lived at Elidon Grove, Melrose, Roxburghshire, Scotland.	Rev Walter Folliott SCOTT
157	Civil Registration event: Death Name: SLINN, George Registration District: Nottingham County: Nottinghamshire Year of Registration: 2000 Month of Registration: July Date of Birth: 17 February 1920 District No: 6891G Reg No: G78A Ent No: 176 DOR: 0700	George SLINN
158	Another George Slinn death in Sheffield age 75 Dec 1950 Sheffield 2d 61	George SLINN
159	named Tidy	Mary SMITH
160	Edward took the name Standish and when his mother died in 1777, had inherited the Standish estate containing the richest coalfields in Lancashire. The family was now wealthier than it had ever been.	Edward STANDISH
161	Name: Jessie Stevenson Year of Registration: 1879 Quarter of Registration: Jan-Feb-Mar District: St George Hanover Square County: London, Middlesex Volume: 1a Jessie Stevenson 1879 Jan-Feb-Mar St George Hanover Square London, Middlesex Jessie Emma Stevenson 1879 Jul-Aug-Sep Hackney Greater London, London, Middlesex Jessie Ethel Stevenson 1879 Jan-Feb-Mar Islington Greater London, London, Middlesex	Jessie STEVENSON
162	Inherited the Standish Estate after the death of Edward Standish	Thomas STRICKLAND
163	The name Tattersall is well known in East Lancashire. There is evidence that the Tattersall family have lived in the Burnley area since the Middle Ages. They owned land on Burnley Ridge and at Moseley Hall during the 15th century.Moseley Hall was built in Burnley Wood and it is likely that it was in existence in 1400. Edmund Tattersall owned Moseley Farm and Higher Rood House.Fields at Moseley Farm included Parrock,Rycroft,Pawerood,Dobberood,Maried Earth,Nan Hey,Nan Meadow and Leccombe. His will stated that his estate should be divided between his three daughters but was not executed until 1563. His widow married John Barcroft and continued to live at Moseley.	Edmund TATTERSALL
164	christened as Tidy	Elizabeth TIDY
165	Acknowledged as his son in the will of Gawan Harrish Nash	George TIDY
166	christened as John Tidy	John TIDY
167	christened as Tidy but married as Wales	John TIDY
168	Presumed father of John born 1786 although the marriage was not until the following year and the child was christened as John Wales. Was John not allowed to marry when under age?	John TIDY
169	Christened as Tidy	Sarah TIDY
170	Christened as Tidy. Married as Wales.	Thomas TIDY
171	The surname of his parents was Wales and he was christened as Thomas Wales. The surname came from his grandmother who gave birth to his father John before her marriage.	Thomas TIDY
172	christened as Wales. Fathers name listed as John Tidy.	Jane TIDY WALES
173	presumed to be a daughter of John Tidy who Ann married in 1787.	Sarah TIDY WALES
174	In 1315 Robert de Gretton and Agnes his wife took court proceedings against John de la Legh and Cecilia his wife and Philip de Clayton and Isabel his wife, complaining they had refused to make partition of the manor of Towneley which Agnes, Cecily and Isabel had inherited from their brother Nicholas de Towneley. The de la Legh family saw the benefit of the land being managed as a single entity and continued to add to their estates. In 1381, the third part of the manor of Towneley inherited by Agnes, was released to John de Towneley by her descendants and so in 1388 one person again held the whole of the manor. .	Agnes TOWNELEY
175	received a third share of the Towneley Estate after the death of her uncle John Towneley and her father Charles	Alice Mary TOWNELEY
176	died young	Bennet TOWNELEY
177	received a third share of the Towneley Estate after the death of her uncle John Towneley	Caroline Theresa TOWNELEY
178	Cecily de Towneley in her widowhood granted to John son of Gilbert de la Legh all the lands she had by reversion of dower in Towneley, Brunshaw and Worsthorne.	Cecilia TOWNELEY
179	became a nun	Cecilia TOWNELEY
180	In the 1850s Charles established a successful herd of shorthorn cattle at Towneley to meet the rapidly growing Burnley population's need for milk. The breed achieved national fame with outstanding success at agricultural shows.The moors once the place to hunt deer was now used for shooting grouse. In 1873 the Towneley estates in Lancashire amounted to 14,086 acres and together with estates in Yorkshire (23,153 acres) and County Durham (2,826 acres) were worth £26,979 a year	Colonel Charles TOWNELEY
181	Charles spent a number of years abroad before buying a house in London. He became a national celebrity through his collection of Roman sculptures that was one of the sights of London. On his death, Parliament voted £20,000 so the nation could purchase the collection for the British Museum. Charles never married and Towneley passed to his brother Edward.	Charles TOWNELEY
182	Christopher Towneley (1604-74) had befriended a number of the northern astronomers, including Jeremiah Horrocks, William Crabtree, William Gascoigne and John Stephenson, and collected their papers. As an astronomer Towneley carried on the tradition of observation, that had been established in the north of England by Horrocks, Crabtree and Gascoigne based on the work of Johannes Kepler. Towneley's main astronomical work was measuring eclipses of the moons of Jupiter and Flamsteed made copies of Towneley's results taken between 9 September 1665 and 21 September 1672. Flamsteed's first task as Astronomer Royal was to continue Towneley's work on the moons of Jupiter. The same work was also underway at the Observatoire de Paris and, in 1683, Flamsteed recorded a catalogue of eclipses of Jupiter's satellites for the following year based on communication from, amongst others, Mr Towneley. This was at the time, the best method of determining longitude and, although unsuited for use at sea, was successful in determining the true longitude of remote coasts for the correction of charts. A regular topic of the Flamsteed letters was the weather and how clouds had prevented measurement. In this respect, Towneley had two particular pieces of luck with weather in Lancashire. The first concerned a solar eclipse on 1 June 1676. The new Observatory at Greenwich was nearing completion and it was decided that this eclipse was a fitting occasion for the inaugural observations. The King had said he would like to be present. The day turned out to be cloudy at Greenwich and there was no Royal presence. Flamsteed was still able to report the event using the data recorded in Lancashire by Towneley. The second event concerned a transit of Mercury on 28 October 1677. In Lancashire, Towneley was able to observe the sun through "flying clouds" during the last part of the event and was able to time Mercury's exit. Neither Greenwich nor Paris were so lucky as clouds covered most of Europe. There was only one other European report of Mercury's exit, from Avignon, but Edmund Halley much further south on St Helena was able to record the entire event. Christopher Towneley also recorded the pedigree of his ancestors and his manuscript of 1662 can be seen at Towneley Hall.	Christopher TOWNELEY
183	living 1791	Edmund TOWNELEY
184	received a third share of the Towneley Estate after the death of her uncle John Towneley	Emily Frances TOWNELEY
185	Francis joined the French army before aiding the Jacobite rebellion of 1745. Francis was captured at Carlisle and executed in 1746. His severed head was one of the last to be displayed on Temple Bar in London.	Francis TOWNELEY
186	George was not involved in the rebellions. He helped to rebuild the family finances through marriage to Mary Hodgson,the heiress of Leighton Hall in Lancashire	George TOWNELEY
187	died young	Grace TOWNELEY
188	In 1315 Robert de Gretton and Agnes his wife took court proceedings against John de la Legh and Cecilia his wife and Philip de Clayton and Isabel his wife, complaining they had refused to make partition of the manor of Towneley which Agnes, Cecily and Isabel had inherited from their brother Nicholas de Towneley.	Isabel TOWNELEY
189	died young	John TOWNELEY
190	Executor to Richard Towneley 1499-1556 In 1559 Queen Elizabeth I had required everyone to follow the Church of England and it became illegal for anyone to attend Catholic mass. Over the years, the laws against those determined to support the old Catholic religion became more severe. Anyone not attending a regular Anglican service was termed a recusant and subject to heavy fines and possible imprisonment. John Towneley refused to renounce his Catholic faith and gave shelter to Catholic priests at Towneley. As a result, he was imprisoned on numerous occasions between 1573 and 1594.	John TOWNELEY, of Grays Inn
191	in 1482, John became the ward of his father-in-law, now Sir Charles Pilkington. Sir Charles himself died around 1485 and his daughter inherited the estate of Gateford in Nottinghamshire The early life of John reflected the lives of his ancestors; he took part in the war with Scotland and was knighted in 1497. In that year, he obtained a licence for a chapel at Hapton where he enclosed the land for a park and built a tower. He purchased more land in Burnley and Cliviger In 1373, the de la Legh family had established a chantry in Burnley church. In 1500, Sir John rebuilt and re-endowed the chantry for the souls of his ancestors. Sir John's eldest son, Richard was born in 1499 and a second son, Charles, was born around 1502. Sir John also had six daughters who all married and several illegitimate children born after the death of his wife Isabella in 1522. Richard was contracted to marry Elizabeth Fuljambe in 1511 and he fathered two sons and two daughters by her as well as several other illegitimate children. Sir John married for the second time in 1531. His wife was Anne, daughter of Ralph Caterall. Sir John settled lands in Lancashire in trust for himself and Anne for their two lives and after to the use of Richard Towneley the younger, (that is the eldest legitimate son of Sir John's eldest son).	Sir John TOWNELEY
192	Inherited the Towneley estate after the death of Edward Standish. Book collector	John TOWNELEY
193	John (Esq) Towneley, born 1415, died c 1474. Married (2) Isabella Sherburne, daughter of Richard Sherburne and Mathilda Hamerton. Built the gatehouse chapel of Townelwy Hall in 1454 and south wing about 1460. ■Sir Richard Towneley, married Joanna Southworth 24 September 1472, knighted at Hutton Field, died 8 September 1482, heir to estate, issue ■Laurence (Lawrence) Towneley, born in Barnside, died 11 October 1530 ■Nicholas Towneley ■Henry Towneley, married — Dutton ■Bernard Towneley, became parson at Felkirk ■Grace Towneley, married Roger Nowell of Read	John TOWNELEY
194	John joined the French army before aiding the Jacobite rebellion of 1745.He later returned to France to receive a pension and the order of St. Louis	John TOWNELEY
195	John,ancestor of the Towneleys of Hurstwood	John TOWNELEY
196	Richard died on 16 April 1381, leaving three sons, John, Robert and Henry. Gilbert de la Legh died after his brother and left a widow, Alicia, but no children. When Alicia died in 1388 there was an inquiry called an inquisition post mortem. Such an inquiry was always taken after the death of a tenant in chief (that is a direct tenant of the crown) but not all of the records have survived. The purpose was to establish what lands were held and who should succeed to them. If there was no one to inherit the land, it was reclaimed by the crown. In this case, Richard's son John inherited. The feudal system required the lands be held by one person and not be dispersed among many. This made it easier to enforce the obligations that came with the lands. The rule adopted was that of primogeniture, the eldest son inherited. The lands John inherited included the manors of Hapton and Birtwisle and two parts of the manor of Tounlay together with various buildings and land in Cliviger, Worsthorne and Briercliffe cum Extwistle. In 1381, the third part of the manor of Towneley inherited by Agnes, the sister of John's grandmother, had been released to John by her descendants and so in 1388 one person again held the whole of the manor. Richard de Tounlay's descendants all took one or another of the variations of Towneley as their surname. Robert and Henry are recorded as chaplains but Robert appears to have had a son called Henry Towneley of Dutton.	John TOWNELEY
197	When Charles died in 1876, he left three daughters but no sons and the estate passed to his brother John. John had a son, Richard, and four daughters but within two years, first Richard and then John died. Without male heirs, it was necessary to divide the estate between the daughters and this was no easy task and required a private Act of Parliament, which was completed in 1885. As a result, the daughters of John Towneley jointly held 21,341 acres in Yorkshire, being the land Peregrine purchased in 1835, plus 2,826 acres of the Stella estate in County Durham.	John TOWNELEY
198	became a nun	Margaret TOWNELEY
199	Sir Richard died before his father on 22nd October 1554. There was an inquisition post mortem held on 10th January 1555, which reviewed Sir John's trust of 1537. The only surviving child of the marriage of Sir Richard and Frances was Mary, born in 1541, now 13 years old. She was confirmed as Sir Richard's heir.	Mary TOWNELEY
200	ancestor of the Towneleys of Royle	Nicholas TOWNELEY