St Mary of the Angels, Batley: One-Place Study Update – 1 to 31 January 2025 Additions

2025 got off to a great start for the Batley St Mary of the Angels One-Place Study, with the addition of five posts which cover a varied mix of the history of the parish and its people. It brings the total number of posts to 383. One other post was updated.

Below is the complete list of all the St Mary’s posts published up to the end of January 2025, including links to them, with those 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.

Two new War Memorial biographies were added, those of Harold Gaunt and Thomas Dolan. The former covers a lesser known aspect of military service. The latter includes some cherished photos, used with the family’s permission. I also identified more parishioners who served in, and survived, the First World War. That list has been updated.

The Bulletin for Batley St Mary of the Angels and Birstall St Patrick section, has one addition. This is the piece covering the parish history snippets which were included in the parish bulletins during January 2025 – one of which may be rather surprising but reflects commonly held initial world attitudes to someone who turned out to be a monster.

It also links to the one of the two new posts in the Miscellany of Information section. One is about a former parishioner who played an unexpected and significant role, bringing him into contact with people across the world. The other post is a topic I never thought would be covered in the St Mary’s One-Place Study. Given this month, on the 27 January, we commemorated World Holocaust Day and the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau, the largest Nazi concentration camp complex, it serves as a timely and important reminder.

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.

Postscript:
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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

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 Dolan *NEW*
29. Thomas Donlan
30. John W. Enright
31. Mathew Farrer
32. Thomas Finneran
33. Michael Flynn
34. Thomas Foley D.C.M.
35. Martin Gallagher
36. James Garner
37. Harold Gaunt *NEW*
38. James Gavaghan
39. Thomas Gavaghan
40. Henry Groark
41. James Groark
42. Michael Groark (also known as Rourke)
43. James Griffin
44. William Hargreaves
45. Michael Hopkins
46. Patrick Hopkins
47. Michael Horan
48. James Hughes
49. Lawrence Judge
50. John Leech
51. Michael Lydon
52. Patrick Lyons
William McManus – See William Townsend below
53. Thomas McNamara
54. Clement Manning
55. Patrick Naifsey
56. Austin Nolan
57. Robert Randerson
58. James Rush
59. Moses Stubley
60. William Townsend, also known as McManus
61. James Trainor
62. Richard Carroll Walsh
63. 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*
64. Patrick Cassidy
65. James Delaney
66. Thomas Donlan (senior)
67. Thomas Gannon
68. Michael Rush

Burials, Cemeteries, Headstones and MIs
69. Cemetery and Memorial Details
70. War Memorial Chronology of Deaths .

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

Maps and Photographs
304. Aerial View of St Mary’s Church and the Surrounding Streets
305. Batley St Mary’s – Map Published in 1894
306. Batley St Mary’s – Map Published in 1907
307. Batley St Mary’s – Map Published in 1922
308. Batley St Mary’s – Map Published in 1933

Miscellany of Information
309. A Bitter-Sweet Remarriage *NEW*
310. A Colliery Accident with Tragic Consequences
311. A Grave Disturbance in Batley
312. A Part of St Mary of the Angels in Batley Cemetery
313. A “Peace” of Batley History
314. An Appeal to Ireland to Build a Catholic Church in Batley
315. 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
316. A St Mary’s Parishioner in the Holy Land *NEW*
317. A St Mary’s School Sensation
318. A St Mary’s School Trip Souvenir
319. Batley’s Secret Irish Society and the Ammunition Seizure
320. Batley St Mary’s First Torchlight Procession
321. “Daddy’s Death and then Triplets”
322. Heritage Impact Assessment: St Mary’s Catholic Primary School and Convent, Batley
323. Hot-Cross Buns and the Yorkshire Tea-Cake Dilemma. Plus A Suggested Meal Planner for Batley Families in 1917
324. Into the Valley of Death – One of the Six Hundred
325. St Mary of the Angels Catholic Church – 1929 Consecration Service
326. The Consequences of a Refusal to Work in 1918
327. The Controversial Role Played by St Mary’s Schoolchildren in the 1907 Batley Pageant
328. The Earliest Published Account of Batley St Mary’s Church and Schools
329. The Great War: A Brief Overview of What Led Britain into the War
330. The Unholy row between St Mary’s Church and the Batley and Birstall Irish Clubs
331. Thomas Ate My Rat
332. William Berry – A Beautiful Voice Stilled
333. Willie and Edward Barber – Poems

Occupations and Employment Information
334. Occupations: Colliery Byeworker/Byeworkman/Byworker/Bye-Worker/By-Worker
335. Occupations: Confidential Clerk
336. Occupations: Lamp Cleaner
337. Occupations: Limelight Operator
338. Occupations: Mason’s Labourer
339. Occupations: Office Boy/Girl
340. Occupations: Piecer/Piecener
341. Occupations: Rag Grinder
342. Occupations: Willeyer

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

World War Two
380. World War Two Chronology of Deaths
381. Thomas Egan
382. Michael Flatley
383. William Smith

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