Todmorden Board of Guardians

Contents:

• The First Meeting [1888]

  • Chairman of the Todmorden Board

  • Members of the Todmorden Board

• The 3 Years Ending April 1898

  • Relieving Officers

  • Assistant Overseers & Collectors

  • Medical Officers

  • Registrars of births, deaths & marriages

The First Meeting [1888]

The first meeting of the Todmorden Board of Guardians was held on 28th March 1888 at Todmorden Town Hall

Chairman of the Todmorden Board

• James Barker [18??]
• Dr James Taylor [18??]
• Rev John Maxon Walton [1900]
• D. H. Astin [1901]
• Samuel Fielding [1902]
• J. E. Mitchell [1903]
• Abraham Moss [1904]
• Edward Lord [1899, 1905]
• Charles Lord [1906]
• Thomas Greenwood [1907]
• Abraham Moss [1908]
• James Rigby Dawson [1909]
• Albert Sutcliffe [1910]
• Thomas Banks [1911]
• J. H. Helliwell [1912]
• Thomas Stott [1913]

Members of the Todmorden Board

• Rev James Albert Smith [18??]
• James Stansfield [18??]
• Samuel Starkie [18??] Charles Crabtree [1877-1884]
• Thomas Barker [1900]
• Rev Basil Graham Bourchier [1907]

The 3 Years Ending April 1898

List of Guardians of the Todmorden Union for the three years ending April 1898

• Chairman:

  • Samuel Starkie

• Vice Chair:

  • James E. Mitchell

• Clerk:

  • William Sagar, Solicitor, Todmorden

• Treasurer:

  • J. Gask, District Bank, Todmorden

• Master of the Workhouse:

  • W. H. Pilling

• Cornholme:

  • Thomas Banks, Rose Cottage, Portsmouth, Todmorden

• Erringden:

  • Charles Lord, Stubbings House, Hebden Bridge

• Heptonstall:

  • James Hartley, Kendal House
  • William Gibson, Stoneshey Gate

• Langfield:

  • David H. Astin, Halifax Road, Todmorden
  • Joseph Sutcliffe, 491 Rochdale Road, Walsden
  • James Edward Mitchell, Halifax Road Todmorden

• Stansfield:

  • Henry Walton, Claremont Place
  • Thomas Greenwood, 8 Plane Street, Lydgate, Todmorden
  • Thomas Barker, 6 Patmos, Todmorden

• Todmorden & Walsden:

  • John William Scholfield, 945 Rochdale Road, Walsden
  • Edward Lord, 1 Rosebank, Todmorden
  • R. Newell, 70 Cheapside, Todmorden

• Hebden Bridge:

  • John Crowther, Heath House, Hebden Bridge
  • William Gill, Crown Street, Hebden Bridge
  • Samuel Fielden, Market Street, Hebden Bridge
  • James Kershaw, Woodlands, Hebden Bridge

• Mytholmroyd:

  • Henry Helliwell, Acre Villas, Mytholmroyd
  • John Cockcroft, Upper Whitelee, Mytholmroyd
  • Rev J. M. Walton, The Vicarage, Fallingroyd

• Wadsworth:

  • Abraham Hoyle, Summerfield, Hebden Bridge
  • John Cousin Mitchell, Boston Hill, Hebden Bridge

• Blackshaw:

  • John Pearson, Underbank, Hebden Bridge

Relieving Officers

• Tom H. Bancroft, Todmorden & Walsden, Langfield, Stansfield, Cornholme
• H. C. Helliwell, Blackshaw, Erringden, Heptonstall, Hebden Bridge, Mytholmroyd, Wadsworth

Assistant Overseers & Collectors

• G. W. Jackman, Todmorden & Walsden, Langfield, Stansfield, Blackshaw, Cornholme
• James Ashworth, Wadsworth, Erringden, Heptonstall, Hebden Bridge, Mytholmroyd

Medical Officers

• Charles W. Thorp, Todmorden & Walsden, Langfield
• J. L. Russell, Stansfield, Cornholme
• Joseph Lawson, Wadsworth, Erringden, Hebden Bridge, Blackshaw, Heptonstall
• J. H. Thompson, Mytholmroyd
• Workhouse Medical officer: Charles W. Thorp

Registrars of births, deaths & marriages

• Superintendent Registrar of births, deaths & marriages for Todmorden & Hebden Bridge districts: William Sagar
• Deputy: A. Smith
• Registrar of Birth & Deaths Todmorden: J. W. Blomley
• Deputy: T. W. E. Blomley
• Registrar of Marriages Todmorden: John D. Camm
• Deputy: A. E. Shackleton
• Registrar of Births, Deaths & Marriages, Hebden Bridge District: Richard Crabtree
• Deputy: A. Webster
• Union Valuer: James Suthers

See Mankinholes Riots, Todmorden & Walsden Overseers of the Poor and Todmorden Poor Law Union

This & associated entries use material contributed by Linda Briggs

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