September | 2023 | PastToPresentGenealogy

Even though it was a difficult month personally with the death of my mother, more posts were added to the Batley St Mary of the Angels One-Place Study during August.

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 a wealth of parish, parishioner and wider local Batley history.

Six new posts were added to the Batley St Mary’s one-place study during August. Although it is not as many as I planned, it does bring the total to 265. Two other posts were updated. This latest study update contains the list of all the posts to date, including links to them, with the new and updated posts signposted.

These additions included four weekly newspaper pages for August 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.

There was one new War Memorial biography added added this month, for Lawrence Judge.

More men who served and survived the First World War have been identified and are included in that section, though no new biographies were added here this month. They will follow in due course.

The final addition this month was about a Batley Irish secret society, and the discovery of an arms cache.

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, if you do have any information about, or photos of, parishioners from the period of the First World War please do get in touch. It does not have to be War Memorial men. It could be those who served and survived, or indeed any other men, women and children from the parish.

I would also be interested in information about, and photos of, those parishioners who were killed in World War Two, or others from the parish who undertook any war service and survived. This can be as broad as serving in the military, or work in munitions factories, the Land Army, even taking in refugees. This is an area I’m looking to develop in the future.

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
6. Thomas Gannon
7. Reginald Roberts
8. William Frederick Townsend

Biographies: The War Memorial Men
9. Edward Barber
10. William Barber (Memorial name spelling)
11. Herbert Booth
12. Edmund Battye
13. Dominick (aka George) Brannan
14. Michael Brannan
15. John Brooks
16. Michael Cafferty
17. Patrick Cafferty
18. Lawrence Carney
19. Martin Carney
20. Thomas William Chappell
21. Thomas Curley
22. Peter Doherty
23. Thomas Donlan
24. Mathew Farrer
25. Thomas Finneran
26. Michael Flynn
27. Thomas Foley D.C.M.
28. Martin Gallagher
29. James Garner
30. Thomas Gavaghan
31. Henry Groark
32. James Groark
33. Michael Groark (also known as Rourke)
34. James Griffin
35. Patrick Hopkins
36. Michael Horan
37. Lawrence Judge *NEW*
38. John Leech
39. Michael Lydon
40. Patrick Lyons
William McManus – See William Townsend below
41. Thomas McNamara
42. Patrick Naifsey
43. Austin Nolan
44. Robert Randerson
45. James Rush
46. Moses Stubley
47. William Townsend, also known as McManus
48. James Trainor
49. Richard Carroll Walsh
50. 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*
51. Patrick Cassidy
52. James Delaney
53. Thomas Donlan (senior)
54. Thomas Gannon
55. Michael Rush

Burials, Cemeteries, Headstones and MIs
56. Cemetery and Memorial Details
57. War Memorial Chronology of Deaths

Electoral Registers 1918-1921
219. 1918 Batley Electoral Register, North Ward, Polling Districts A and B – Naval and Military Voters

Miscellany of Information
220. A Colliery Accident with Tragic Consequences
221. A Grave Disturbance in Batley
222. A “Peace” of Batley History
223. A St Mary’s School Sensation
224. Batley’s Secret Irish Society and the Ammunition Seizure *NEW*
225. Hot-Cross Buns and the Yorkshire Tea-Cake Dilemma. Plus A Suggested Meal Planner for Batley Families in 1917
226. St Mary of the Angels Catholic Church – 1929 Consecration Service
227. The Controversial Role Played by St Mary’s Schoolchildren in the 1907 Batley Pageant
228. The Great War: A Brief Overview of What Led Britain into the War
229. Willie and Edward Barber – Poems

Occupations and Employment Information
230. Occupations: Colliery Byeworker/Byeworkman/Byworker/Bye-Worker/By-Worker
231. Occupations: Confidential Clerk
232. Occupations: Lamp Cleaner
233. Occupations: Limelight Operator
234. Occupations: Mason’s Labourer
235. Occupations: Office Boy/Girl
236. Occupations: Piecer/Piecener
237. Occupations: Rag Grinder
238. Occupations: Willeyer

The Families
239. A Death in the Church
249. St Mary’s Schoolboys Wreak Havoc in a Batley Graveyard

World War Two
262. World War Two Chronology of Deaths
263. Thomas Egan
264. Michael Flatley
265. William Smith

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