February | 2023 | PastToPresentGenealogy

This is the latest Batley St Mary’s one-place study update, looking at the posts added in January 2023. The update also contains links to all the posts in the study to date.

If you are new to to this one-place study and want to know what it is all about, click here. Otherwise read on to discover all the other posts, new and old, containing a wealth of parish, parishioner and wider local Batley history.

*St Mary’s Church – photo by Jane Roberts*

January 2023 saw the addition of nine new posts, bringing the total number for the study to 212. Three other pages were updated. Two other categories, looking at statistics for Batley and the parish of St Mary’s, were renamed.

The additions included four weekly newspaper pages for January 1917. I have accordingly updated the surname index to these During This Week newspaper pieces, so you can easily identify newspaper snippets relevant to your family.

January saw the addition of two new Memorial biographies, those for Arthur William Bayldon Woodhead and Martin Gallagher,

More men who served and survived have been identified and that page includes these new names. However, no new biographies were added here this month. They will follow in due course.

And this month there is an unusual tale in the Miscellany of Information section – a post about a bizarre crime which took place in Batley cemetery under cover of black-out darkness in 1942.

As for the renamed categories, Batley Descriptions now becomes Batley Statistics and Descriptions – Population, Health, Mortality, Fertility etc. It will cover general information about Batley. This will provide an overview of the town where St Mary of the Angels is located and therefore some more context to the lives of the parishioners. Two new posts have been added here. One looks at the population of Batley between 1801 and 1939. The other looks at Batley in the 1921 census, with all the changes wrought by the war.

The other renamed category is Population, Health, Mortality and Fertility, which has been renamed Batley St Mary’s Population, Health, Mortality and Fertility Information and Comparisons. This will look at population and health issues at a parish rather than town level, and may draw on information from the town section to enable comparisons.

Below is the full list of pages to date. I have annotated the *NEW* and *UPDATED* ones, so you can easily pick these out. Click on the link and it will take you straight to the relevant page.

1. About my St Mary of the Angels Catholic Church War Memorial One-Place Study;

Batley St Mary’s Population, Health, Mortality and Fertility Information and Comparisons
2. 1914: The Health of Batley School Children Generally, with a Particular Focus on St Mary’s School Children

Batley Statistics and Descriptions – Population, Health, Mortality, Fertility etc.
3. 1914: Borough of Batley – Town Information from the Annual Report of the Medical Officer of Health.
4. Batley and the 1921 Census *NEW*
5. Batley Population Statistics 1801-1939 *NEW*

Biographies: Men Associated with St Mary’s Who Died but Who Are Not on the Memorial
6. Thomas Gannon
7. Reginald Roberts
8. William Frederick Townsend *UPDATED*

Biographies: The War Memorial Men
9. Edward Barber
10. Herbert Booth
11. Edmund Battye
12. Dominick (aka George) Brannan
13. Michael Brannan
14. John Brooks
15. Michael Cafferty
16. Patrick Cafferty
17. Lawrence Carney
18. Martin Carney
19. Thomas William Chappell
20. Thomas Curley
21. Peter Doherty
22. Thomas Donlan
23. Thomas Finneran
24. Michael Flynn
25. Thomas Foley D.C.M.
26. Martin Gallagher *NEW*
27. James Garner
28. Thomas Gavaghan
29. Henry Groark
30. Michael Groark (also known as Rourke)
31. James Griffin
32. Patrick Hopkins
33. Michael Horan
William McManus – See William Townsend below
34. Thomas McNamara
35. Patrick Naifsey
36. Austin Nolan
37. Robert Randerson
38. James Rush
39. Moses Stubley
40. William Townsend, also known as McManus
41. James Trainor
42. Richard Carroll Walsh
43. Arthur William Bayldon Woodhead *NEW*

Biographies: Those who Served and Survived (this includes a list of those identified to date and who will later have dedicated biographical pages) *UPDATED*
44. Patrick Cassidy
45. James Delaney
46. Thomas Donlan (senior)
47. Thomas Gannon
48. Michael Rush

Burials, Cemeteries, Headstones and MIs
49. Cemetery and Memorial Details
50. War Memorial Chronology of Deaths

Miscellany of Information
182. A Grave Disturbance in Batley *NEW*
183. A “Peace” of Batley History
184. A St Mary’s School Sensation
185. St Mary of the Angels Catholic Church – 1929 Consecration Service
186. The Controversial Role Played by St Mary’s Schoolchildren in the 1907 Batley Pageant
187. The Great War: A Brief Overview of What Led Britain into the War
188. Willie and Edward Barber – Poems

Occupations and Employment Information
189. Occupations: Confidential Clerk
190. Occupations: Lamp Cleaner
191. Occupations: Limelight Operator
102. Occupations: Office Boy/Girl
193. Occupations: Piecer/Piecener
194. Occupations: Rag Grinder
195. Occupations: Willeyer

The Families
196. A Death in the Church

World War Two
210. World War Two Chronology of Deaths
211. Michael Flatley
212. William Smith

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