St Mary of the Angels, Batley: One-Place Study Update – 1 to 31 August 2024 Additions

August 2024 has seen the addition of a key history post to the Batley St Mary of the Angels One-Place Study, alongside the usual eclectic mix of topics. It was also the month that the study topped 350 posts. This update contains the list of all the St Mary’s posts published up to the end of August 2024, including links to them, with last month’s new and updated posts signposted so you can easily locate them.

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 August 2024, bringing the total number of study posts to 352. Two other posts were updated.

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

No new War Memorial biographies have been added this month. I hope to write some for next month. I have, however, updated the names of parishioners who served in, and survived, the First World War section, as more men were identified during August.

There is one major new post in the Miscellany of Information section. It is the earliest written account of the history of the parish and school of St Mary of the Angels I have found, dating from 1898.

The final post added this month is in the Bulletin for Batley St Mary of the Angels and Birstall St Patrick section, containing the parish history snippets which were included in the bulletins during August 2024.

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
3. The Early History of Batley’s Public Baths

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
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
280. 1918 Batley Electoral Register, North Ward, Polling Districts A and B – Naval and Military Voters

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

Maps and Photographs
282. Aerial View of St Mary’s Church and the Surrounding Streets
283. Batley St Mary’s – Map Published in 1894
284. Batley St Mary’s – Map Published in 1907
285. Batley St Mary’s – Map Published in 1922
286. Batley St Mary’s – Map Published in 1933

Miscellany of Information
287. A Colliery Accident with Tragic Consequences
288. A Grave Disturbance in Batley
289. A Part of St Mary of the Angels in Batley Cemetery
290. A “Peace” of Batley History
291. An Appeal to Ireland to Build a Catholic Church in Batley
292. 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
293. A St Mary’s School Sensation
294. A St Mary’s School Trip Souvenir
295. Batley’s Secret Irish Society and the Ammunition Seizure
296. Batley St Mary’s First Torchlight Procession
297. “Daddy’s Death and then Triplets”
298. Heritage Impact Assessment: St Mary’s Catholic Primary School and Convent, Batley
299. Hot-Cross Buns and the Yorkshire Tea-Cake Dilemma. Plus A Suggested Meal Planner for Batley Families in 1917
300. St Mary of the Angels Catholic Church – 1929 Consecration Service
301. The Consequences of a Refusal to Work in 1918
302. The Controversial Role Played by St Mary’s Schoolchildren in the 1907 Batley Pageant
303. The Earliest Published Account of Batley St Mary’s Church and Schools *NEW*
304. The Great War: A Brief Overview of What Led Britain into the War
305. The Unholy row between St Mary’s Church and the Batley and Birstall Irish Clubs
306. Thomas Ate My Rat
307. Willie and Edward Barber – Poems

Occupations and Employment Information
308. Occupations: Colliery Byeworker/Byeworkman/Byworker/Bye-Worker/By-Worker
309. Occupations: Confidential Clerk
310. Occupations: Lamp Cleaner
311. Occupations: Limelight Operator
312. Occupations: Mason’s Labourer
313. Occupations: Office Boy/Girl
314. Occupations: Piecer/Piecener
315. Occupations: Rag Grinder
316. Occupations: Willeyer

The Bulletin of St Mary of the Angels and Birstall St Patrick – Parish History Section
341. March 2024 Bulletin History Pieces
342. April 2024 Bulletin History Pieces
343. May 2024 Bulletin History Pieces
344. June 2024 Bulletin History Pieces
345. July 2024 Bulletin History Pieces
346. August 2024 Bulletin History Pieces *NEW*

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

World War Two
349. World War Two Chronology of Deaths
350. Thomas Egan
351. Michael Flatley
352. William Smith

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