St Mary of the Angels, Batley: One-Place Study Update – 1 to 31 December 2023 Additions

This is my regular look back at the posts added to the Batley St Mary of the Angels One-Place Study during the previous month. The December 2023 monthly update contains the list of all the St Mary’s posts to date, including links to them, with this month’s new and updated posts signposted.

If you want to know the background, and what is involved in a one-place study, click here. Otherwise read on, to discover a wealth of parish, parishioner and wider local Batley history.

Seven new posts were added during December 2023, bringing the total number of study posts to 290. Two other posts were updated.

The additions included one new War Memorial biography, that of William (Willie) Hargreaves. There was also a new school Log Book for 1918. To round the additions off, there were five weekly newspaper pages for December 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. The other updated post is to the men who served and survived the First World War section, with more being identified last month. No new biographies have been added here. They will follow in due course.

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. William Colbeck
22. Michael Cunningham
23. Thomas Curley
24. Peter Doherty
25. Thomas Donlan
26. Mathew Farrer
27. Thomas Finneran
28. Michael Flynn
29. Thomas Foley D.C.M.
30. Martin Gallagher
31. James Garner
32. Thomas Gavaghan
33. Henry Groark
34. James Groark
35. Michael Groark (also known as Rourke)
36. James Griffin
37. William Hargreaves *NEW*
38. Patrick Hopkins
39. Michael Horan
40. Lawrence Judge
41. John Leech
42. Michael Lydon
43. Patrick Lyons
William McManus – See William Townsend below
44. Thomas McNamara
45. Patrick Naifsey
46. Austin Nolan
47. Robert Randerson
48. James Rush
49. Moses Stubley
50. William Townsend, also known as McManus
51. James Trainor
52. Richard Carroll Walsh
53. 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*
54. Patrick Cassidy
55. James Delaney
56. Thomas Donlan (senior)
57. Thomas Gannon
58. Michael Rush

Burials, Cemeteries, Headstones and MIs
59. Cemetery and Memorial Details
60. War Memorial Chronology of Deaths

Electoral Registers 1918-1921
240. 1918 Batley Electoral Register, North Ward, Polling Districts A and B – Naval and Military Voters

Miscellany of Information
241. A Colliery Accident with Tragic Consequences
242. A Grave Disturbance in Batley
243. A Part of St Mary of the Angels in Batley Cemetery
244. A “Peace” of Batley History
245. An Appeal to Ireland to Build a Catholic Church in Batley
246. A Potted Early History of the Irish in Batley, the Building of St Mary of the Angels Church, and the Parish Priest’s Fatal Accident
247. A St Mary’s School Sensation
248. Batley’s Secret Irish Society and the Ammunition Seizure
249. Hot-Cross Buns and the Yorkshire Tea-Cake Dilemma. Plus A Suggested Meal Planner for Batley Families in 1917
250. St Mary of the Angels Catholic Church – 1929 Consecration Service
251. The Controversial Role Played by St Mary’s Schoolchildren in the 1907 Batley Pageant
252. The Great War: A Brief Overview of What Led Britain into the War
253. Willie and Edward Barber – Poems

Occupations and Employment Information
254. Occupations: Colliery Byeworker/Byeworkman/Byworker/Bye-Worker/By-Worker
255. Occupations: Confidential Clerk
256. Occupations: Lamp Cleaner
257. Occupations: Limelight Operator
258. Occupations: Mason’s Labourer
259. Occupations: Office Boy/Girl
260. Occupations: Piecer/Piecener
261. Occupations: Rag Grinder
262. Occupations: Willeyer

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

World War Two
287. World War Two Chronology of Deaths
288. Thomas Egan
289. Michael Flatley
290. William Smith

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