April | 2023 | Past To Present Genealogy

This is the latest Batley St Mary’s one-place study update, looking at the posts added in March 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*

March 2023 has been a busy month. It saw the addition of 10 new posts, bringing the total number for the study to 228. Seven others were updated.

The additions included five weekly newspaper pages for March 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.

This month there is one new Memorial biography, James Groark. More men who served and survived have been identified and are included in that section, though no new biographies were added here this month. They will follow in due course. And thanks to information received, a new man associated with the parish who lost his life in the War has been identified, Martin Flatley. He has therefore been added to the section covering Men Associated with St Mary’s Who Died but Who Are Not on the War Memorial. I very much appreciate it when people contact me with information about St Mary’s parishioners to include in this one-place study.

A new occupation post has been added this month – a colliery bye-worker (and other variants by which the job was known).

Following on from this, a new post has been added to the Miscellany of Information section, dealing with a coal mining accident with tragic consequences which involved four parishioners. With thanks to Joanne Harrison for allowing me to use a family photo for this piece.

If anyone does have any photos which could be included in this one-place study, they would be gratefully received.

The last couple of additions this month are two new school log books have been added for the Infants’ school, covering 1919 and 1920.

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.

Finally for this month, if you do have any information about, or photos of, parishioners from the period of the First World War, including any men who served (be it those who died or those who survived), or any parishioners who died in World War Two, it is always gratefully received.

I can be contacted at: pasttopresentgenealogy@btinternet.com

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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
5. Batley Population Statistics 1801-1939

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

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 *UPDATED*
19. Thomas William Chappell
20. Thomas Curley
21. Peter Doherty
22. Thomas Donlan
23. Thomas Finneran *UPDATED*
24. Michael Flynn
25. Thomas Foley D.C.M.
26. Martin Gallagher
27. James Garner
28. Thomas Gavaghan
29. Henry Groark
30. James Groark *NEW*
31. Michael Groark (also known as Rourke)
32. James Griffin
33. Patrick Hopkins
34. Michael Horan
William McManus – See William Townsend below
35. Thomas McNamara
36. Patrick Naifsey
37. Austin Nolan
38. Robert Randerson
39. James Rush
40. Moses Stubley
41. William Townsend, also known as McManus
42. James Trainor
43. Richard Carroll Walsh
44. Arthur William Bayldon Woodhead

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

Burials, Cemeteries, Headstones and MIs
50. Cemetery and Memorial Details *UPDATED*
51. War Memorial Chronology of Deaths *UPDATED*

Miscellany of Information
192. A Colliery Accident with Tragic Consequences *NEW*
193. A Grave Disturbance in Batley
194. A “Peace” of Batley History
195. A St Mary’s School Sensation
196. St Mary of the Angels Catholic Church – 1929 Consecration Service
197. The Controversial Role Played by St Mary’s Schoolchildren in the 1907 Batley Pageant
198. The Great War: A Brief Overview of What Led Britain into the War
199. Willie and Edward Barber – Poems

Occupations and Employment Information
200. Occupations: Colliery Byeworker/Byeworkman/Byworker/Bye-Worker/By-Worker *NEW*
201. Occupations: Confidential Clerk
202. Occupations: Lamp Cleaner
203. Occupations: Limelight Operator
204. Occupations: Mason’s Labourer
205. Occupations: Office Boy/Girl
206. Occupations: Piecer/Piecener
207. Occupations: Rag Grinder
208. Occupations: Willeyer

The Families
209. A Death in the Church

World War Two
226. World War Two Chronology of Deaths
227. Michael Flatley
228. William Smith

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