July | 2024 | Past To Present Genealogy

June 2024 has been my busiest month ever for new posts in Batley St Mary of the Angels One-Place Study. This update contains the list of all the St Mary’s posts published up to the end of last month , including links to them, with June’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.

16 new posts were added during June 2024, bringing the total number of study posts to 338. Two other posts were updated. There’s also a new one-place study section, where I will write about the history of some of Batley’s public buildings and institutions which would have been familiar to the St Mary’s parishioners.

These additions and updates included five new weekly newspaper pages for June 1918. 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.

One new War Memorial biography has been added this month, James Hughes. I have also updated the names of parishioners who served in, and survived, the First World War section, as more men were identified during June.

There are two new posts in the Miscellany of Information section, about the first Torchlight Procession. So if you want to know about why this annual parish event started, and read about that inaugural procession, head over to that post. The other is about a famous parishioner, Thomas Cassidy, who was a record-breaking rat catcher. And with the General Election on 4 July, his polling booth exploits are something well worth reading about!

The first posts have been added to the Maps and Photographs section. These include four new maps depicting the area around St Mary’s church and schools from the 1890s to the 1930s. There is also an aerial photo from the 1960s.

There is a new post in the Bulletin for Batley St Mary of the Angels and Birstall St Patrick section – it is the parish history snippets which were included in the bulletins during June 2024.

The final two posts can be found in the public buildings and institutions section. One is about the first 50 years of Batley’s hospital – particularly relevant as the first ever patient treated in the initial cottage hospital was a St Mary’s parishioner. The other is the scene of much success for St Mary’s school children – the public baths. Sadly neither of these buildings function today. The hospital has for years stood derelict, crumbling and in 2017 the scene of a fire. There are plans – apparently – to turn it into apartments. The Grade II Listed public baths stand empty, victims of Kirklees Council cuts.

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’s Public Buildings and Institutions
2. Batley Hospital: The First 50 Years – 1878 to 1928 *NEW*
3. The Early History of Batley’s Public Baths *NEW*

Batley St Mary’s Population, Health, Mortality and Fertility Information and Comparisons
4. 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.
5. 1914: Borough of Batley – Town Information from the Annual Report of the Medical Officer of Health.
6. Batley and the 1921 Census
7. Batley Population Statistics 1801-1939

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

Biographies: The War Memorial Men
11. Edward Barber
12. William Barber (Memorial name spelling)
13. Herbert Booth
14. Edmund Battye
15. Dominick (aka George) Brannan
16. Michael Brannan
17. John Brooks
18. Michael Cafferty
19. Patrick Cafferty
20. John William Callaghan
21. Lawrence Carney
22. Martin Carney
23. Thomas William Chappell
24. William Colbeck
25. Michael Cunningham
26. Thomas Curley
27. Peter Doherty
28. Thomas Donlan
29. John W. Enright
30. Mathew Farrer
31. Thomas Finneran
32. Michael Flynn
33. Thomas Foley D.C.M.
34. Martin Gallagher
35. James Garner
36. Thomas Gavaghan
37. Henry Groark
38. James Groark
39. Michael Groark (also known as Rourke)
40. James Griffin
41. William Hargreaves
42. Patrick Hopkins
43. Michael Horan
44. James Hughes *NEW*
45. Lawrence Judge
46. John Leech
47. Michael Lydon
48. Patrick Lyons
William McManus – See William Townsend below
49. Thomas McNamara
50. Patrick Naifsey
51. Austin Nolan
52. Robert Randerson
53. James Rush
54. Moses Stubley
55. William Townsend, also known as McManus
56. James Trainor
57. Richard Carroll Walsh
58. 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*
59. Patrick Cassidy
60. James Delaney
61. Thomas Donlan (senior)
62. Thomas Gannon
63. Michael Rush

Burials, Cemeteries, Headstones and MIs
64. Cemetery and Memorial Details
65. War Memorial Chronology of Deaths

Electoral Registers 1918-1921
271. 1918 Batley Electoral Register, North Ward, Polling Districts A and B – Naval and Military Voters

Guest Contributions
272. Memories of Skelsey Row – by Brian Foley

Maps and Photographs
273. Aerial View of St Mary’s Church and the Surrounding Streets *NEW*
274. Batley St Mary’s – Map Published in 1894 *NEW*
275. Batley St Mary’s – Map Published in 1907 *NEW*
276. Batley St Mary’s – Map Published in 1922 *NEW*
277. Batley St Mary’s – Map Published in 1933 *NEW*

Miscellany of Information
278. A Colliery Accident with Tragic Consequences
279. A Grave Disturbance in Batley
280. A Part of St Mary of the Angels in Batley Cemetery
281. A “Peace” of Batley History
282. An Appeal to Ireland to Build a Catholic Church in Batley
283. 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
284. A St Mary’s School Sensation
285. Batley’s Secret Irish Society and the Ammunition Seizure
286. Batley St Mary’s First Torchlight Procession *NEW*
287. “Daddy’s Death and then Triplets”
288. Heritage Impact Assessment: St Mary’s Catholic Primary School and Convent, Batley
289. Hot-Cross Buns and the Yorkshire Tea-Cake Dilemma. Plus A Suggested Meal Planner for Batley Families in 1917
290. St Mary of the Angels Catholic Church – 1929 Consecration Service
291. The Consequences of a Refusal to Work in 1918
292. The Controversial Role Played by St Mary’s Schoolchildren in the 1907 Batley Pageant
293. The Great War: A Brief Overview of What Led Britain into the War
294. Thomas Ate My Rat *NEW*
295. Willie and Edward Barber – Poems

Occupations and Employment Information
296. Occupations: Colliery Byeworker/Byeworkman/Byworker/Bye-Worker/By-Worker
297. Occupations: Confidential Clerk
298. Occupations: Lamp Cleaner
299. Occupations: Limelight Operator
300. Occupations: Mason’s Labourer
301. Occupations: Office Boy/Girl
302. Occupations: Piecer/Piecener
303. Occupations: Rag Grinder
304. Occupations: Willeyer

The Bulletin of St Mary of the Angels and Birstall St Patrick – Parish History Section
329. March 2024 Bulletin History Pieces
330. April 2024 Bulletin History Pieces
331. May 2024 Bulletin History Pieces
332. June 2024 Bulletin History Pieces *NEW*

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

World War Two
335. World War Two Chronology of Deaths
336. Thomas Egan
337. Michael Flatley
338. William Smith

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