In 1883, he was declared bankrupt
Dancer, actor and ballet director.
Born in London.
He was involved with the Northern Ballet, when this was in Halifax.
In Q4 1961, he married Carole Needham, in Huddersfield.
They lived at Little Park Farm, Mytholmroyd.
He died of cancer [23rd October 1998] and was cremated at Elland
Owners and tenants have included
In 19??, it became a nursing home.
It has been extended sonsiderably, and is currently known
as Grange Manor
Heywood mentions the phenomenon in his diaries for March 1664
He also mentions night-whisslers and adds
In April 2010, the business closed.
Machine Tool Technology Group of New Works, Burnley Road,
Halifax, took on the workforce
He was a tailor & draper [1861].
In [Q4] 1850, he married Mary Clark [1816-1882] in Halifax.
Children:
They lived at 64 Square Road, Halifax [1861].
George Thompson died 19th April 1870 (aged 48).
Mary died 4th January 1882 (aged 66).
Members of the family were buried at Lister Lane Cemetery [Plot 1821]
with Mary's brothers:
William Clark [1822-1881]
& John Clark [1817-1892]
In 1824, the Rochdale Canal Company built the eastern dam for the
Fielden family and other local mill owners.
This was to be filled once a year by water from Langfield Common.
The western dam was built in the 1830s by the mill owners themselves.
The water flowed down Lumbutts Clough to the Calder.
There was considerable disagreement between the canal company and
local mill owners over the use of the water.
When the dam was no longer used, Parliament decreed that it must be
made safe by lowering the water level, unless a waterman was employed
to maintain the banks.
Gaddings Drain fed water to fill the dam.
A part of the dam has been drained.
In 2001, the Gaddings Dam Group bought the dam with the aim of
keeping it open for people to enjoy.
This has never been used as a reservoir for the public water supply.
A wooden theatre which was the home of Robert Templeton's
Templeton's Varieties.
Recorded in September 1881, when
it was described as
It burned down in 1888.
The Grand Theatre & Opera House was built on the site.
See
Arthur Grimmett
He was a local preacher.
He studied at Handsworth Methodist College.
He became a missionary in China.
He was
recorded when he performed a burial
at Mount Zion Church, Ogden [1954].
He was active in the Halifax-Aachen Society
In 1882, he married Ann Hornsby [1863-19??] in Leeds.
Children:
They lived at
3 Woolpack Yard, Halifax [1891].
Living with them [in 1891] was sister-in-law Jane Jackson [b
Leeds 1865] (flax spinner).
Alfred Matthew died in Halifax [Q2 1891] (aged 29).
In 1901, Ann was living at 4 Painters Court, Halifax, as
housekeeper to Sam Wood [b Halifax 1864] (green grocer own
account), and had 4 more children:
In 1911, Ann was a charwoman living at 6 Oates Street, Halifax
with her Gaines & Wood children.
In 1918, Ann and her children were living at 13 Plymouth
Grove, Halifax
He married Elizabeth.
John died in 1897.
Elizabeth took over at the General Rawdon [1897-1905]
Born in Halifax.
He was
a member of St Mary's Church, Rhodes Street, Halifax /
a worsted setter [1901] /
an assistant worsted spinning overlooker [1901] /
employed by S. Whitley & Company Limited [although his
name does not appear on their War Memorial].
In [Q1] 1916, he married Elizabeth Ann Hey [1891-19??] at Halifax Parish Church.
They lived at 24 Cherry Street, Pellon Lane, Halifax.
During World War I,
he enlisted at Halifax [March 1915] and
served as a Private
with the Machine Gun Corps (Infantry).
He was on gas and gun sentry somewhere in France when he was
killed instantaneously by a shell
[21st March 1918] (aged 29).
The Halifax Courier [13th April 1918] reported his death with a photograph.
He is remembered on the Arras Memorial, France [Grave Ref 10],
in the Halifax Town Hall Books of Remembrance,
and on the Memorial at Saint Mary's Church, Halifax
See
Harry Houdini
He lived at 32 Oxford Terrace, St James's Road, Halifax [1907]
In 1808, the Methodists built a Sunday School here in what
was described as being
The property belonged to the Sowerby Bridge Methodist Society
Born in Chichester.
He lived at
During World War I,
he served as an Aircraftman 2nd Class
with the Royal Air Force.
He died at St Luke's War Hospital, Halifax [1st May 1919] (aged 52).
He was buried at King Cross Methodist New Connexion Chapel
Probate records show that he left effects valued at £19 1/11d.
Probate was granted to
William Gale (Corporation employee).
He lived at
Prescott Place
In August 1866, he filed a patent for
He was
a plumber's labourer [1901] /
a gas works labourer [1911].
In [Q3] 1896, he married Ellen Cain [1873-19??] in Halifax.
Children:
The family lived at 37 Southowram Bank, Halifax [1901, 1911]
He was employed by Halifax Corporation Highways Department.
He married Dora.
Children:
The family lived at 22 Ovenden Close, Halifax.
During World War II,
he served as a Private
with 75 Company
Aux. Mil.
Pioneer Corps.
He was lost [17th June 1940] (aged 36)
when the troopship HMS Lancastria was bombed and sank at St
Nazaire,
with the loss of 2,899 of the 5,310 people aboard.
He is remembered on the Dunkirk Memorial, France [151],
and in the Halifax Town Hall Books of Remembrance
Born in Halifax [Q3 1897].
He was
a member of St Bernard's Catholic Church, Halifax /
a worsted doffer [1911] /
employed by Brookfoot Dye Works.
During World War I,
he served as a Private
with the 12th/13th Battalion
Northumberland Fusiliers.
He has served in France for almost 2 years, when he was reported
missing and assumed to have died
[27th April 1918].
His photograph appears with a report of his death in the Halifax Courier [23rd November 1918].
He was buried at Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery, Belgium [Grave Ref XXVIII A 15].
He is remembered in the Halifax Town Hall Books of Remembrance,
and on the Memorial at Saint Bernard's Catholic Church
See
Gallypole
In [Q3] 1910, he married Mary Elizabeth Cummings in Bradford.
During World War I,
he served as a Sergeant
with the 120th Heavy Battery
Royal Garrison Artillery.
He died 7th November 1917.
He was buried at St. Sever Cemetery Extension, Rouen, France [P III L 7B].
In [Q3] 1920, Mary Elizabeth married Joseph M. Cartwright in Bradford.
They lived at Pontefract
During World War II,
he served as a Wireman
with the Royal Navy
aboard HMT Sotra.
He died 29th January 1942 (aged 20)
when his ship was torpedoed by German Submarine U-431, and
sank in the Mediterranean, 80 miles east of Tobruk,
with the loss of all of her crew of 22.
He is remembered on the Portsmouth Naval Memorial, England [69 2]
In 1925, he married Laura Ainley in Halifax.
The couple died in Halifax
See
Gallipole Allotment, Barkisland
A plantation at Greetland called Gallipolli Hill is
recorded in 1828 as part of the Crowstone Hall estate.
Watson suggests that the name comes from a
gallows which once stood there
During World War I,
he served as a Private
with the 12th (Ayr & Lanark Yeomanry) Battalion
Royal Scots Fusiliers.
He died 30th September 1918.
He was buried at Messines Ridge British Cemetery, Belgium [I A 60].
He is remembered in the Halifax Town Hall Books of Remembrance,
and on the Memorial at Saint Bernard's Catholic Church
Son of Dr Charles Edward Gamble.
Born in Elland [21st October 1882].
a medical student [1901] /
qualified at Leeds [1907] /
a physician & surgeon [1911] /
Medical Officer & Public Vaccination Elland & Greetland District
Halifax Union [1915-1942]
and was in practice at Bedford House, Elland [1925-1942].
In 1919, he married Elsie Ellen Law in Halifax.
Children:
The family lived at
Albert died at 129 Newton Drive, Blackpool [25th November 1962].
Elsie Ellen died 22nd June 1963
Born in Fulneck / Calverley / Bradford.
He was
Medical practitioner in Elland [1874] /
Medical Officer & Public Vaccination Elland & Greetland District,
Halifax Union [1875-1895] /
with the Local Government Medical Service [1895] /
Medical Officer Smallpox Hospital [1895] /
Medical Officer for Elland, Greetland & Upper Greetland [1905] /
a retired surgeon [1911].
In [Q2] 1880, he married Sarah Elizabeth Rushfirth [1846-1919] in Leeds.
Children:
In August 1876, the jury found him
Not Guilty,
but expressed an opinion that he had been guilty of great
indiscretion.
He was discharged with a warning
They lived at
13 John Street, Elland [1881, 1891, 1901, 1911].
Sarah Elizabeth died Q1 1919 (aged 73).
Charles Edward died 14th June 1928 (aged 86).
Probate records show that he left an estate valued at £10,563
He owned the townships of
Brighouse,
Elland,
Greetland,
Southowram,
Thornhill,
and
the Manor of Rochdale
before they became a part of the Honour of Pontefract of Ilbert de Lacy.
He married Unknown.
Children:
After the land was granted to Ilbert, it was still managed
by Gamel, then passed down through his family to Orm, then
to Leising.
In the 18th/19th century, there was an effigy of Gamel
displayed outside Mr Howarth's druggist's shop in High Street, Halifax.
See
Essolf and
Manor of Heptonstall
On 18th August 1884, Mary and her daughter were on the way to take
a dinner to Ridgway at his work.
On the way, they called in at the Pine Apple, Halifax where
they found Ridgway, and gave him his dinner.
Ridgway had been drinking and, instead of returning to work,
went home to sleep.
When he woke, he called for his tea, and Mary, who had also
been asleep, promised to get it for him, but later she refused.
As Ridgway got up to walk out of the house, Mary seized
him and forced him into a chair.
The 2 began swearing at each other and Mary picked up the fire
tongs and struck him.
He took them from her, and she picked up the poker and struck him
with that.
He took that from her and followed her outside where he struck and
felled her.
She died a few days after.
At the Yorkshire Winter Assizes [November 1884], Ridgway
pleaded guilty, and was imprisoned for one year with hard labour
The company also used the nearby Marshfield Mills and
Broad Lea Mill
He was a mason's labourer [1881].
Around 1874, he married Mary [1856-1???].
Children:
Catherine was born in Greetland; the older children were born
in Bradford.
They lived at Lister Court, Bradford [1881].
A Michael Gannon died in Halifax [Q4 1884] (aged 41).
In 1885, Mary married (2) James Earley
It is likely that the name comes from a field-name which led down
to the Calder in that area of the town.
See
Ganny Bar,
Ganny Cottage,
Ganny Lock,
Ganny Mill and
Ganny Road
See
Ganny
Owners and tenants have included
See
Ganny
The lock-keeper's cottage is built over the floodgates which connect
the canal and the river.
In October 2003, there were plans to widen the lock which has
narrowed under pressure from the north bank of the canal.
Like most of the locks on the canal, this is a scheduled monument
Born in Brighouse.
He was a manager at the family's mineral water business
after his father's death [1904].
In 1892, he married (1) Mary Ellen Sykes [1871-1898].
Children:
Mary Ellen died in 1898.
In 1910, he married (2) Hannah [1859-1924].
After their marriage, he was
innkeeper at the Vine Hotel, Brighouse [1911, 1917] /
a licensed victualler [1918]
Hannah died at the Vine Hotel [17th November 1924].
She was buried at St John's Church, Cragg Vale
with her first husband
The family originally came from Magdeburg, Germany.
Born in Antigua, West Indies.
He married Susanna [1???-1806].
Children:
Established by William Ganson after he bought a small mineral water
business next to the Joiner's Arms, Hove Edge.
The company supplied drinks to Sunny Vale Pleasure Gardens.
In the 1920s, the company was bought by Ernest Sheffield.
In the 1930s, the business moved across the road to premises in Half House Lane.
W. Ganson & Company were recorded at Cornaro Works, Hove Edge in 1937
Born in Droylsden, Manchester [16th July 1831].
He was
educated at the Moravian Day School, Fairfield, Manchester.
On 28th May 1854, he married Catherine Barlow [1836-1918]
at the Methodist New Connexion Chapel, Ashton, Lancashire.
Children:
In 1867, the family came to live in Brighouse for a short time.
He was a cotton carder [1871].
They lived at 40 Thornhill Briggs Lane [1871].
William returned in 1885 to buy a mineral water business at
premises next to the Joiner's Arms, Hove Edge.
He established the Ganson Mineral Water Company.
He was elected Councillor in the Brighouse Municipal Elections of 1893.
They lived at 180 Halifax Road, Hove Edge [1901].
William died in 1901.
Catherine died 12th February 1918.
Probate records show that she left effects valued at £351 1/-.
Probate was granted to
son Abraham
and
Annie Rawnsley (widow)
Son of William Garaghty of 37 Brooke Street, Rastrick.
During World War I,
he served as a Private
with the 2nd/4th Battalion
Duke of Wellington's (West Riding Regiment).
He died 24th May 1918 (aged 24).
He was buried at Doullens Communal Cemetery Extension No.2, France [II C 19]
He is remembered on Brighouse War Memorial
He was a municipal engineer.
On 4th February 1925, he married Clara
at St John's Wesleyan Chapel, Halifax
He was
a block painter [1868] /
a seal skin colour mixer [1871].
In [Q1] 1843, he married Ellen Hatherstall [1823-1???]
in Clitheroe, Lancashire.
Children:
The family lived at 44 Lower Hope Street, Halifax [1871]
The central area of the U-shaped development was intended to be used
for allotments, but more houses were built on the land in the 1930s
House at the corner of Lightcliffe Road and Garden Road.
Dated 1901
Owners and tenants have included
He lived at 37 Mason Street, Range Bank, Halifax.
During World War I,
he enlisted [1914], and
served as a Stoker 1st Class
with the Royal Navy
aboard the destroyer HMS Kale.
He was lost [27th March 1918] (aged 24)
when his ship struck a (possibly British) contact mine and sank in
the North Sea, with the loss of 41 officers & men.
He is remembered on the Portsmouth Naval Memorial, England [30],
and on the Memorial at Crossley's Carpets
Recorded on 14th April 1873, when
a group of around 75 members celebrated their anniversary at the
George, Brighouse
His rôle was
He married Unknown.
Children:
In 1849, he moved to Salford where he was chaplain to the workhouse
for the next 20 years.
He died in Essex
Son of Rev Alexander Stoker Gardiner.
Born in Dublin.
He was ordained deacon [1858] and priest [1860].
He was the first vicar of All Saints' Church, Todmorden [1858], and
Curate at Cross Stone [1861].
On 6th August 1861, he married Marianne Frances Berry at
Eccles.
In 1862, he moved to Wakefield, where he was a curate at St John's
Church.
He then worked as a chaplain in the Convict Prison Service – being at
Chatham, Dartmoor and Woking.
He died in London [26th October 1900], having retired there
He married Elizabeth.
Children:
The children ‡ were buried at Lister Lane Cemetery [Plot 2862]
with their Gardiner grandparents
He married Hannah.
Children:
John died 11th July 1851 (aged 47).
He & the children ‡ were buried at Lister Lane Cemetery [Plot 2862]
Around 1824, he married Hannah [1806-18??].
Children:
They lived at Boulderclough, Sowerby [1841]
He married Elizabeth Broadbent [1822-1850].
Elizabeth died 15th September 1850 (aged 28),
and was buried at Lister Lane Cemetery [Plot 2756].
Born in Dublin.
Chris Davidson, his great-grandson, writes:
In 1879, he married Lucy Georgina Holdsworth.
Children:
The couple moved to Edinburgh, where their 3 daughters were born.
They moved at least 4 times whilst there.
His affairs were sequestrated in 1882.
The family moved to Brighton, and lived at several addresses there.
Their youngest 2 children were born there.
In 1888, he was listed as a debtor in the London Gazette.
At some point after that, and before 1895, he and Lucy went their
separate ways and had no contact whatsoever before his death in 1909
and hers in 1908.
She had the children living with her in Newcastle under Lyme.
Theodore served for a while in the second Boer War in the
Army Medical Corps.
On his return, he was a broken man.
He developed dementia and was eventually picked up on the streets
sleeping rough in winter
He was an overlooker at worsted mill [1871].
In [Q4] 1848, he (possibly) married Esther Robertshaw [1826-1???] in Bradford.
She was a worsted weaver [1871]
They lived at St James's Square, Northowram [1871].
Living with them [in 1871] was William's sister Mary
Gardiner [b 1843] (worsted warper)
William died 29th April 1879 (aged 53)
and was buried at Lister Lane Cemetery [Plot 2454]
with
Jonathan Scott
& James Alfred Smith [1846-1863]
He was a cabinet maker [1871].
He married Mary [1818-1???] from Lancashire.
Children:
They lived at 6 Garden Street, Halifax [1871].
Living with them [in 1871] were granddaughter Sarah J Gardner
[b 1868], daughter Isabel and her husband John Batty
Gabbett, W. Ref G200 Gabbott, William Ref G136 Gable, Christopher Michael Ref G998
Carole was a dancer
The Gables, Halifax Ref G1168
The Gables, Hipperholme Ref G499
The Gables, Norland Ref G166 Gabriel Ratchetts Ref G38
there is also a strange noyse in the aire heard of many in these
parts this winter, called Gabriel-Ratches by this
country-people, the noyse is as if a great number of whelps were
barking and howling, and tis observed that if any see them the
persons that see them dye shortly after, they are never heard but
before a great death or dearth.
tho I have never heard either of them
GAC Engineering Group Ref G1353
Gad's Hill, Halifax Ref G350 Gadd, George Thompson Ref G607
Mary was born in Halifax
Gaddings Dam Group Ref G962 Gaddings Dam, Todmorden Ref G408
Gaiety Theatre, Halifax Ref G97
near North Bridge ... a large and commodious structure ... will hold
3000 persons.
The interior is fitted up with every comfort;
one large gallery stretches round 3 sides of the hall, at the end of
which are refreshment rooms, there are 4 outlets in case of fire
Gaimster, Leslie Rayner Ref G1074 Gaines, Alfred Matthew Ref G783
Ann was born in Leeds
Gaines, John Ref G1048
Gaines, Matthew Ref G103
Elizabeth Ann, of Cherry Street, Pellon Lane, was the daughter
of George Ellis Hey, sawyer
Gaines's: T. Gaines & Sons Ref G828 Gaines, William Henry Ref G377 Gainest Ref G3 Gainest Cottage, Halifax Ref G318
in a little fold at the entrance to Washer Lane
Gainsborough Studio, Brighouse Ref G457 Galas Ref G18 Galbraith, Rev Angus Ref G153 Gale, George Ref G721
Gall, Charles Ref G913
patentee of Patent Self-Acting Smoke Preventers
Gall, Thomas Ref G592
improvements in machinery or apparatus working stone or cutting and
working mouldings thereon
Gallagher, John Ref G1045
Gallagher, John Ref G196
Gallagher, John Joseph Ref G143 Galland, Thomas Ref G1194 Galley, Roy Ref G141 Gallipole Allotment, Barkisland Ref G1097 Gallon, Gilbert Haigh Ref G732
Gallon's Limited Ref G1288
Gallop, Harold John Ref G593 Galloway, George Ref G892 Galloway, James Ref G185
Laura was the daughter of Benjamin Ainley
Gallypole Ref G1098 Gallypole Hill Ref G4 Galvani, Madame Ref G1047 Galvin, Thomas Ref G208 Gamble, Dr Albert Gaunt Ref G984
Elsie was born 21 July 1886
Gamble, Dr Charles Edward Ref G513
Sarah Elizabeth was born in Manchester
In May 1876, he was charged with having – on 25th April
1876 – committed an indecent assault upon a girl about 14 years of
age named Mary Jane Farrar.
It appeared that the girl had gone to the prisoner's surgery, and
while there the alleged assault was committed.
The magistrates, committed him to the Assizes for trial.
Gamble, Hal Ref G249 Gamble, Mr Ref G973 Gamel Ref G5 Gandy Bridge, Todmorden Ref G157 Ganger Ing, Brighouse Ref G1009 Ganley, Mary Ref G162 Gannex Ref G6 Gannon, Michael Ref G1015
Mary was born in Durham
Ganny Ref G150 Ganny Bar, Brighouse Ref G305 Ganny Cottage, Brighouse Ref G1219
Ganny Lock, Brighouse Ref G616 Ganson, Abraham Ref G393
Hannah – née Hirst – was the widow of George Greenwood
Ganson, John Emmanuel Ref G935
Susanna was born in Littletown, Gomersal
Ganson Mineral Water Company Ref G830
Ganson, William Gottlieb Ref G300
Garaghty, William Ref G671 Garbutt, Rev John Ref G679 Garbutt, John Watson Ref G905
Clara (née Halstead) was the widow of Frank Mitchell
Gardam, James B. Ref G639
Ellen was born in Clitheroe
Garden City, Bailiff Bridge Ref G251
Garden City, Halifax Ref G624
Garden City, Waring Green Ref G28 Garden House, Brighouse Ref G9400
Gardener, Victor Ref G217
Gardeners' [No 206] Masonic Lodge Ref G389 Gardening & Horticulture Ref G864 Gardens & Parks Ref G863 Gardens Guild, Halifax Ref G1176 Gardiner, Rev Alexander Stoker Ref G955
to bring religion to the men who were working on the railways
Gardiner, Rev Frederick Augustus Ref G99
Gardiner, James Ref G926
Gardiner, John Ref G682
Gardiner, John Ref G740
Gardiner, Robert Ref G204
Elizabeth was the daughter of John & Ellen Broadbent
Details of Robert's death / burial place are not yet known
Gardiner, Theodore Senior Ref G954
He lists himself on birth certificates as a surgeon – though
in reality he never qualified as a medical practitioner.
Gardiner, William Ref G908
Esther was born in Halifax.
Gardner, John Ref G186
