Charles Howarth was born on Sunday, 22nd August 1852, in Waddington, Yorkshire. [6, 9, 14, 20, 38-41]

He was the son of Elizabeth Betty Howarth.

Charles was baptised in Waddington, Yorkshire, on 28th August 1852. [11]

Charles Birth Registration Shows Illegitimate Birth

He died in Clitheroe, Lancashire, between October and December 1924. [6]  

 

More facts and events for Charles Howarth:

  • Residence: 1861. 12 St Anns Square, Low Moor, Clitheroe, Lancashire [38] Relationship to Head of House: Son.
  • Residence: 1871. 7 St Anns Square, Low Moor, Clitheroe, Lancashire [39] Relationship to Head of House: Son. Occupation: Cotton Weaver.
  • Residence: 1881. 8 Eastford Place, Low Moor, Clitheroe, Lancashire [40] Relationship to Head of House: Head. Marital Status: Married. Occupation: Bread Baker.
  • Residence: 1891. 84 St Pauls Street, Low Moor, Clitheroe, Lancashire [41] Relation to Head of House. Head. Marital Status: Married. Occupation: Oatcake Baker.
  • Residence: 1901. 84 St Pauls Street, Low moor, Clitheroe, Lancashire [20] Relationship to head of Household: Head. Marital Status: Married. Occupation: Bread and Oatcake Baker.
  • Residence: 2nd April 1911. 84 St Pauls Street, Low moor, Clitheroe, Lancashire [14] Relation to Head of House: Head. Marital Status: Married. Occupation: Oatcake Baker.

Charles married Mary Ann Tattersall between October and December 1874 in Clitheroe, Lancashire. [18]

They had three daughters: Elizabeth, Hannah and Bertha.

Mary Ann Tattersall was born in Low Moor, Clitheroe, Lancashire, between July and September 1852. [6, 9, 14, 40-42]

She was the daughter of Henry Tattersall and Hannah Barrett.

Mary Ann died in Clitheroe, Lancashire, between October and December 1924. [6]

Mary Ann's Death Registration Wrongly Transcribed as Haworth instead of Howarth

 

More facts and events for Mary Ann Tattersall:

 

  • Residence: 1861. 9 Honey Moon Street, Low Moor, Clitheroe, Lancashire [42] Relationship: Daughter.
  • Residence: 1881 8 Eastford Place, Low Moor, Clitheroe, Lancashire [40] Marital Status: Married. Relationship to Head: Wife. Occupation: Bread Baker.
  • Residence: 1891. 84 St Pauls Street, Low moor, Clitheroe, Lancashire [41] Relation to Head of House: Wife. Occupation: Oatcake Baker Assistant.
  • Residence: 1901. 84 St Pauls Street, Low Moor, Clitheroe, Lancashire [43] Relationship to Head of House: Wife. Married.
  • Residence: 2nd April 1911. 84 St Pauls Street, Low Moor, Clitheroe, Lancashire [14] Marital Status: Married. Relation to Head of House: Wife.

Daughters of Charles Howarth and Mary Ann Tattersall:

 

f I. Elizabeth Howarth was born in Clitheroe, Lancashire, on 29th July 1875. [7, 14, 20, 40, 44, 45]

She died in Clitheroe, Lancashire, between October and December 1954. [45]

 

Elizabeth (Lizzie) was brain damaged at birth. Despite working as a weaver in her younger life, she spent most of her later life indoors alone. Her sister Bertha and brother-in-law Herbert Birch used to look after her by providing her with daily meals, doing her laundry and cleaning her house.

When Bertha died Jean and Ronald Birch took care of Lizzie. Ronald opened her door each morning and then locked it each night after dinner.

 

I liked Lizzie very much and used to spend time with her when I visited Clitheroe during my school holidays. She was a bit scary to look at the first time you saw her, but was a sweet, gentle and loving person and never, ever a nuisance. It was very sad when she died. Jill Shaver née Callaghan.

 

More facts and events for Elizabeth Howarth:

  • Residence: 1881. 8 Eastford Place, Low Moor, Clitheroe, Lancashire [40] Relationship to Head of House: Daughter.
  • Residence: 1891. 84 St Pauls Street, Low Moor, Clitheroe, Lancashire [44] Relation to Head of House: Daughter. Occupation: Winder.
  • Residence: 1901. 84 St Pauls Street, Low Moor, Clitheroe, Lancashire [20] Relation to Head of House: Daughter. Occupation: Cotton Winder.
  • Residence: 2nd April 1911. 84 St Pauls Street, Low Moor, Clitheroe, Lancashire [14] Relation to Head of House: Daughter. Single. Occupation: Cotton Winder.
  • Residence: 1939. 5 Cross Street, Low Moor, Clitheroe, Lancashire [17] Marital Status: Single. Occupation: Retired.

 f II. Hannah Howarth was born in Clitheroe, Lancashire, on 18th November 1876. [9, 14, 20, 40, 44, 46]

 

She died in Blackpool, Lancashire, between April and June 1951. [47]

 

More facts and events for Hannah Howarth:

  • Residence: 1881. 8 Eastford Place, Low Moor, Clitheroe, Lancashire [40] Relationship to Head of House: Daughter.
  • Residence: 1891. 84 St Pauls Street, Low Moor, Clitheroe, Lancashire [44] Relation to Head of House: Daughter. Occupation. Weaver.
  • Residence: April 1901. 84 St Pauls Street, Low Moor, Clitheroe, Lancashire [20] Relation to Head of House: Daughter. Marital Status: Single. Occupation: Cotton Winder.
  • Residence: 2nd April 1911. 5 St Pauls Street, Low Moor, Clitheroe, Lancashire [14] Relation to Head of House: Wife. Marital Status: Married.
  • Residence: 1915. 17 Lindsay Ave, Levenshulme, Manchester, Lancashire [16] WWI Service Records: Spouse
  • Residence: 1939. 80 Cornwall Avenue, Blackpool, Lancashire [46] Marital Status: Married, Occupation: Unpaid Domestic Duties.
  • Residence: 1950. 80 Cornwall Avenue, Blackpool, Lancashire.

Additional Information for Hannah Howarth:

 

At the age of 24, Hannah married Richard (Dick) Taylor on Thursday, 12th September 1901, at Wesleyan Chapel in Clitheroe, Lancashire, when he was 24 years old. [10,20]

They had one daughter: Mabel.

Richard Taylor was born in Clitheroe, Lancashire, on Saturday, 21st April 1877 [16, 20, 22, 23]

Richard served in the army at a Military Depot in Manchester, Lancashire in the Manchester Regiment - (Infantry) about 1915. [20]  

He died in Blackpool, Lancashire, between January and March 1954. [17]

 

Richard’s mother died and at the age of 3 and he was brought up by his father William Taylor a 26-year-old widow. [1881 census]

 

Dick was on the stage for years and was a wonderful ventriloquist, he made lots of money and they were a very well-off family. Dick and Hannah were very nice to me when I used to visit them in Blackpool during my school holidays. Jill Shaver née Callaghan.

 

I can just remember ‘Uncle Dick’ at the limits of my childhood memory when I visited Blackpool with my parents. He used to wear a smoking jacket and a fez type hat to protect his clothes from smoke. He used to be a serious cigar and pipe smoker and used to let me suck on the empty pipes in his pipe rack, pretending to smoke.

Charles Birch.

 

Dick was an accomplished ventriloquist and I believe that one of his main acts was "Farmyard Imitations" where he used to imitate animal noises. "I was walking down a country lane and opened a farmyard gate ...creaking gate noise.... and there met Shep the farmer’s dog ....... barking sounds..... further along there was a sheep pen ..... sheep baaing noises.... etc."

 

Hardly believable as entertainment today, but a very popular Vaudeville / Music Hall act in its time. Mabel, Dick's daughter, for some years in her youth was also on the stage and travelled with her father. She was a singer and they travelled throughout the UK and occasionally on the continent pre-war, but mainly worked the seaside holiday venues especially around Blackpool until her father retired. Charles Birch.

 

More facts and events for Richard Taylor: 

  • Residence: 1881. 17 St Anns Square, Low Moor, Clitheroe, Lancashire [22] Relationship to Head: Son.
  • Residence: 1891. 17 St Anns Square, Low Moor, Clitheroe, Lancashire [23] Relation to Head: Son. Occupation: Cotton Weaver.
  • Residence: 1915. 17 Lindsay Avenue, Levenshulme, Manchester. [20] WWI Service Records.
  • Residence: 1939. 80 Cornwall Avenue, Blackpool, Lancashire [16] Marital Status: Married. Occupation: Music Hall Entertainer.
  • Residence: 1950. 80 Cornwall Avenue, Blackpool, Lancashire [21]

Daughter of Hannah Howarth and Richard Taylor:

 

Mabel Taylor was born in Clitheroe, Lancashire, on 19th May 1905. [1, 5, 7, 16, 20]

She died in Poulton-le-Fylde, Lancashire, on 4th April 1993, at the age of 87. [7,24]

 

More facts and events for Mabel Taylor:

  • Residence: 2nd April 1911. 5 St Pauls Street, Low Moor, Clitheroe, Lancashire. Relation to Head of House: Daughter. Occupation: Scholar.
  • Residence: 1939. 80 Cornwall Avenue, Blackpool, Lancashire Marital Status: Single. Occupation: Sweet Shop Assistant.
  • Residence: 1951. 80 Cornwall Avenue, Blackpool, Lancashire.
  • Residence: 1975 4 St Chads Close, Poulton-le-Fylde, Lancashire.
  • Residence: 1984 106 Breck Road, Poulton-le-Fylde, Lancashire Care Home Resident.

Mabel married Robert Ormerod between July and September 1950 in Blackpool, Lancashire.

Robert Ormerod was born in Great Harwood, Lancashire, on Saturday, 10th October 1891.

He was the son of Thomas Ormerod and Ann Scott.

Robert served in the Royal Flying Corp / Royal Air Force as an Airman from 18th August 1916. Service number: 44371.

Robert died in Poulton-le-Fylde, Lancashire, between April and June 1975.

His estate was probated on 29th May 1975, in Liverpool (Robert leaves £4,332).

Roberts father, Thomas was the Manager at Great Harwood Co-Op. Roberts first job was working as a Clerk in the same Great Harwood Co-Op.

 

Robert married a young widow - Irene Lawton and adopted her daughter Blanch.

 

Irene Lawton was born in Soyland, Near Halifax, Yorkshire in 1887.

In October 1909 she married Becket Broadhead in Bispham. Beckett 24 and Irene 22.

Between Jan-Mar 1910 Beckett Broadhead died, leaving Irene a widow after less than 6 months of marriage.

Irene then went back to live with her parents Benjamin and Blanch Augusta, and sister Gladys Lawton at 124 Whitegate Drive Blackpool. Irene's parents were Poultry Farmers.

On 12 Aug1910 Irene gave birth to her daughter Blanch (Blanch married Leslie Worthington Apr-Jun 1935 and died in Blackpool Apr-Jun 1979).

Between Jan-Mar 1914 Irene married Robert Ormerod.

Irene died Jan-Mar 1948 leaving Robert a widower.

Between Jul-Sep 1950 Robert married Mabel Howarth in Blackpool. Robert 58 and Mabel 45. They were cousins.

Robert went to live with Mabel and her parents at 80 Cornwall Avenue, Blackpool.

 

Later, after Hannah and Richard's death, and as Robert was getting older, he and Mabel sold the house and moved to a smaller single storey house in Poulton-le-Fylde.

 

More facts and events for Robert Ormerod:

  • Residence: 1901. 168 St. Huberts Road, Great Harwood, Lancashire. Relation to Head of House: Son.
  • Residence: 2nd April 1911. 168 St. Huberts Road, Great Harwood, Lancashire. Relation to Head of House: Son. Single. Occupation: Clerk Co-Operative Society.
  • Residence: 1939. 32 Beach Road (shop), Thornton Cleveleys, Lancashire. Marital Status: Married. Occupations: Robert - Clerk Estate Office, Irene - Millinery Dealer.
  • Residence: January 1948. 5 Runnymede Avenue, Thornton Cleveleys, Lancashire.
  • Residence: 1950. 80 Cornwall Avenue, Blackpool, Lancashire.
  • Residence: 1975. 4 St Chads Close, Poulton-le-Fylde, Lancashire.

Additional Information for Mabel Taylor:

 

Mabel for some years in her youth was on the music hall stage with her father. She was a singer and they travelled throughout the UK and occasionally on the continent pre-war, but mainly worked the seaside holiday venues especially around Blackpool until her father retired. Charles Birch

 

Mabel once told me that as a child and before her father found success in the Music Halls, the family lived in real poverty in St. Annes Square, Low Moor, Clitheroe. Both parents originally working as Cotton Weavers at the Low Moor Mill. Charles Birch

 

Mabel was a fantastic cook. Jill Shaver nee Callaghan

 

Mable has the knack of being able to produce a delicious meal from next to nothing and in no time at all.

Ronald Birch

 

Although they were very well off financially, Mabel was very careful with money, probably due to her upbringing. When I was a child, she used to give me the worst birthday and Christmas presents - vests, underpants and socks! When I stayed with Mabel and Robert in Blackpool as a youngster, I enjoyed their garden. Robert used to grow peas and tomatoes amongst other things and I used to pick and shell the peas daily. The down side was that their new TV which I wanted to watch in the early evening was switched off at 8pm - to cool down! Also I had to sit upright in a very hard small chair. In the early 60's Mabel and Robert sold their house in Blackpool and moved to a smaller single storey house in Poulton-le Fylde. They used to love driving around the Lancashire, Yorkshire and Cumbrian countryside, knowing all the small country roads, stopping at village pubs for lunch and then taking afternoon walks before driving home again. Robert smoked a pipe and Mabel smoked cigarettes. She used to religiously limit herself to 4 cigarettes per day - one after breakfast, lunch, afternoon tea and dinner. Mabel, having been a professional singer, was very active in her local choir until her singing voice eventually failed with age. In my later life I got on reasonably well with Mabel but could never take to Robert. I found him taciturn and cold. He was also a Mason and used to shake hands with a Masonic handshake. Charles Birch

 

 

I met Robert Ormerod a few times and visited his house once before he married Mabel. Oh my, I can hardly tell you how magnificent his house was. It was full of wonderful artefacts from the Orient and Africa, Ivory and jade everywhere, beautiful books, tiger skin rugs. I can still see the house as plain as if I had just walked into it. I believe he was a widower, marrying Mabel and moving in to her and her parents' house when he would be about 60 and Mabel 45. They were actually cousins. Jill Shaver née Callaghan

 

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f III Bertha Howarth was born in Clitheroe, Lancashire, on Friday, 7th November 1884. [6, 7, 9, 14, 19, 20]

 

Bertha died in Clitheroe, Lancashire, between January and March 1950. [6]


Waddington Methodist Capella
Waddington Methodist Capella
84 Saint Pauls Street, Low Moor, Clitheroe
84 Saint Pauls Street, Low Moor, Clitheroe
Cornwall Avenue, Blackpool
Cornwall Avenue, Blackpool