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Sagar, DonaldRef 556-708
[1860-1915]
Son of
Joseph Sagar.

Born 18th March 1860.

He was educated at Rishworth School / apprenticed to Buck & Watkin / a saw mill engineer [1891] / a partner in J. Sagar & Company Limited.

In 1886, he patented improvements in grinding cutters and machine plane irons

On 2nd August 1881, he married Letitia Nicholl at Halifax Parish Church.


Letitia was the daughter of William Nicholl
 

Children:

  1. Martha [1882-1966] who married [Halifax Q2 1907] Thomas Stell
  2. Jessie [1883-1939] who married George Adair Haigh
  3. Joseph Donald

They lived at

The family lived at

  • 9 Charles Street, Halifax [1891]
  • 18 Savile Park, Halifax [1901]
  • Heath Villas, Halifax [1916]
  • Heath Villas, Halifax (the widowed Letitia living with  Emily Kenworthy [1939]

He owned Haigh House, Warley [1905-1913].

In 1903, he was one of the first people to be granted a car registration and a motor drivers' licence

Donald died 5th April 1915.

The Halifax Courier [10th April 1915] reported his death with a photograph.

Probate records show that he left effects valued at £93,632 8/5d.

Probate was granted to his widow Letitia, son Joseph Donald, Thomas Steel (manufacturer), and George Adair (engineer) 

Letitia died 15th October 1946.

Members of the family were buried at All Saints' Church, Dudwell

This & associated entries use material contributed by Derrick Habergham, Jeffrey Knowles & Jayne Talbot

Sagar, Donald JosephRef 556-3136
[1890-1922]
Or Joseph Donald.

Son of Donald Sagar.

Born 28th August 1890.

He was an engineer / a director of J. Sagar & Company Limited / a member of Halifax Golf Club.

On 14th August 1913, he married Clara Law at St Jude's Church, Halifax.


Clara was the daughter of Charles Edward Law
 

They lived at Heath Villas, Halifax [1922].

He and John Robinson were killed when the Strasbourg to Paris air express crashed into the Gorge de Saverne as they were returning from motor races in Strasbourg [16th July 1922].

He was buried at All Saints' Church, Dudwell with other members of his family

This & associated entries use material contributed by Glynn Helliwell

Sagar, GeorgeRef 556-878
[1857-1883]
Born in Lancashire.

He was a cotton weaver [1871, 1881].

He lived at

  • Higher Hawk Head, Burnley (the infant George living with  his widowed mother Margaret Sagar & siblings) [1861]
  • New Town, Read, Burnley (George living with his mother  now Margaret Banister & siblings) [1871]
  • 2 Edge End, Great Harwood, Blackburn (George with his  father-in-law George Heys) [1881]

On 9th April 1881, he married Helen Hinchliffe in Burnley.


Helen was the daughter of Hinchliffe Hinchliffe
 

They married secretly, against her father's wishes.

George died in Southport in 1883 and was buried at St John's Church, Cragg Vale.

On 16th April 1884, Helen married (2) Dr Edmund Strickland at St John's Church, Cragg Vale

This & associated entries use material contributed by Derrick Habergham

Sagar, George SharpRef 556-2996
[1856-1937]
Son of
Joseph Sagar.

Born in Southowram.

He was a yarn salesman [1881].

In [Q1] 1877, he married (1) Mary Jane Talbot [1857-1907] in Wakefield.

Child: Eleanor Gertrude [b 1878]

They lived at Spring Edge, Skircoat [1881].

Mary Jane died in Halifax [5th February 1907] (aged 50).

In 1907, he married (2) Agnes Hannah Dunstan [1865-1918] in Halifax.


Agnes Hannah came from Sheffield
 

Agnes Hannah died 29th March 1918 (aged 53).

George died 15th February 1937 (aged 79).

Members of the family were buried at All Saints' Church, Dudwell

This & associated entries use material contributed by Carole Edwards Caruso & Jeffrey Knowles

Sagar, HarryRef 556-863
[1895-19??]
MM.

Son of James Sagar.

He was a silk dresser [1911].

He lived at New House Hill, Greetland.

During World War I, he served as a Lance Corporal with the Machine Gun Corps.

He was awarded the Military Medal [1918]


for bravery and gallant work in Mesopotamia in February 1918
 

His photograph appears with reports of his award in the Halifax Courier [9th November & 16th November 1918]

This & associated entries use material contributed by Roger Beasley

Sagar, HenryRef 556-1368
[1865-1947]
Born in Ilkley, Yorkshire [12th October 1865].

He was master wool & piece dyer [1891] / an indigo & colour dyer also carboniser of vegetable matter in  woollens [1901] / a dyer & finisher [1911] / managing director dyeing, finishing of worsted woollen goods  (employer) [1921].

As a young man, he established the partnership Sagar & Meredith.

Around 1889, he established H. Sagar Limited.

In 1881, he was a visitor to John Crossley Fawcett

In 1919, he was a partner in Sagar-Richards Limited.

In [Q1] 1891, he married Bfd [1867-1957].


Sarah Annie was born in Bradford [November 1867]
 

Children:

  1. Dorothy [b 1894]
  2. Marjorie [b 1897]
  3. Gwendoline [b 1901]
  4. Kathleen [b 1905]
  5. Laurence Henry [b 1908] who was a student at Oundle  school [1921]

The family lived at

  • Bank View, Luddendenfoot [1891]
  • Bankfield, Hollins Lane, Sowerby Bridge [1901, 1911]
  • Thorpe House, Triangle [1921]
  • Lower Hey, Ripponden [1939]

Henry died Q4 1947 (aged 82).

Sarah died Q2 1957 (aged 89).

They both died in in Barkston Ash, Yorkshire

This & associated entries use material contributed by Jeffrey Knowles

Sagar, Hubert GordonRef 556-3653
[1886-1966]
Son of
Joe Sagar

In 1912, he married Ethel Durber, at Wolstanton, Staffordshire.

Children:

  1. John Gordon
  2. Anthony D. G. [b 1919]
  3. Joan G. [b 1924]

He died in Westmorland

This & associated entries use material contributed by Phil Pritchard

Sagar, JamesRef 556-850
[1871-1928]
Son of Rawson Sagar, woolsorter.

Born in Hebden Bridge.

He was a gardener of West Vale, Greetland [1894] / a carter for dyer [1901] / a carter [1911].

In 1894, he married Ada Hives [1868-1957] at Halifax Parish Church.


Ada, of Halifax, was born in Swinton, Yorkshire, the daughter of James Hives, moulder
 

Children:

  1. Harry
  2. Jack [b 1898] who was a worsted doffer [1911]

They lived at

  • The Mount, Greetland [1901]
  • 1 The Mount, Greetland [1911]

James died Q4 1928 (aged 57).

Ada died Q2 1957 (aged 89).

They both died in Halifax

This & associated entries use material contributed by Roger Beasley

Sagar, JoeRef 556-2242
[1854-1915]
Son of
Joseph Sagar.

He was a member of Northgate End Chapel / IPM of Probity [No 61] Masonic Lodge / one of the subscribers to The Old Halls & Manor Houses of Yorkshire  [1913] / a mechanical engineer / employed with his father on woodworking machinery / a partner in J. Sagar & Company Limited.

In 1877, he married Mary Jane Gordon [1855-19??] in Keighley.


Mary Jane came from Keighley
 

Children:

  1. Sarah [b 1879] who married John Arnold Ackroyd
  2. Mary [b 1881]
  3. Hubert Gordon
  4. Annie [b 1890]
  5. Dorothy [b 1892]
  6. Edith Marjorie [b 1894] who married Thomas Percy Kershaw
  7. Miriam Audrey [b 1898]
  8. child

Only 4 of the children survived.

They lived at

  • 9 Charles Street, Halifax [1881]
  • 34 Union Street, Halifax [1891]
  • The Poplars, Halifax [1901, 1905, 1911]

Joe died suddenly at home [23rd September 1915] (aged 62).

He was buried at All Saints' Church, Dudwell [27th September 1915]

This & associated entries use material contributed by Jeffrey Knowles & ROOTSCHAT members

Sagar, John GordonRef 556-3654
[1913-1981]
Son of
Hubert Gordon Sagar.

Born 22nd February 1913.

He was the last managing director of Sagar's

In 1935, he married Sylvia Mary Rimmer [1905-19??] at St Margaret's Church, Westminster.


Sylvia Mary was born in Cheshire
 

Children: Dale [b 1939]

He died at Huddersfield

This & associated entries use material contributed by Phil Pritchard

Sagar, JosephRef 556-2451
[1831-1900]
Son of Joseph Sagar.

Born in Cononley, Keighley [31st January 1831].

In 1841, the 10-year-old Joseph was living in Cononley with William Cockshott and family.

In 1851, he was living with Henry Cockshott and family at Clipster Hall, Siddal, Halifax.

He was an oiler man [1851] / an oiler in a worsted factory [1861] / Verger at Halifax Parish Church [1871] / Church Sexton [1881] / Halifax Parish Clerk [1891] / (possibly) Chapel Warden at Northgate End Chapel [1891-1897] / an engineer with his son, Joe, on woodworking machinery  [1901].

On 20th April 1852, he married Sarah Sharp [1832-1???] at Halifax Parish Church.


Sarah came from Midgley
 

Children:

  1. Joe
  2. George Sharp
  3. Donald

They lived at

  • Wilson's Yard, Halifax, [1861]
  • 12 Nelson Street, Halifax, [1871]
  • 10 Causeway, Halifax, [1881, 1891]
  • 26 Elmfield Place, Halifax [1900]

He died 2nd April 1900.

He was buried at Holy Trinity Church, Halifax.

The funeral cortège was headed by 200 workpeople from J. Sagar & Company Limited.

The epitaph on his memorial in Halifax Parish Church is recorded in the book Monumental & Other Inscriptions

This & associated entries use material contributed by Jeffrey Knowles

Sagar, WilliamRef 556-6001
[1???-18??]
Recorded in 1838, when he was a member of the
Todmorden & Walsden Select Vestry

Sagar, WilliamRef 556-2483
[1851-1893]
On 8th July 1900, a stained glass window at
St Paul's Church, Cross Stone was dedicated to his memory by his children

This & associated entries use material contributed by Alan Longbottom

Surname

Sagar surnameRef 556-1
Entries for people with the surname Sagar are discussed in this SideTrack.


Unattached BMDs for Sagar

Marriage 1925

 



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