May | 2025 | Past To Present Genealogy

April was a particularly busy month for the Batley St Mary of the Angels One-Place Study. It included the addition of a new subject heading, along with eight new posts, bringing the total number of posts to 399. One other post was updated.

Below is the complete list of all the St Mary’s posts published up to the end of April 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.

The new section added in April was one about the May Queens of the parish. I am trying to identify as many of them as possible, with a piece dedicated to each year. To date seven years have been added to this section, 1922, 1931-1933, 1939-1941.

The final addition this month is in the Bulletin for Batley St Mary of the Angels and Birstall St Patrick section. It is the piece covering the parish history snippets included in the parish bulletins during April 2025.

I have also added a further update to the World War Two introduction page.

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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As a professionally qualified genealogist, if you would like me to undertake any family, local or house history research for you do please get in touch. More information can be found on my research services 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

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
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
38. James Gavaghan
39. Peter Gavaghan
40. Thomas Gavaghan
41. Henry Groark
42. James Groark
43. Michael Groark (also known as Rourke)
44. James Griffin
45. William Hargreaves
46. Michael Hopkins
47. Patrick Hopkins
48. Michael Horan
49. James Hughes
50. Lawrence Judge
51. John Leech
52. Michael Lydon
53. John Thomas Lynch
54. Patrick Lyons
William McManus – See William Townsend below
55. Thomas McNamara
56. Clement Manning
57. Patrick Naifsey
58. Austin Nolan
59. Robert Randerson
60. James Rush
61. Moses Stubley
62. William Townsend, also known as McManus
63. James Trainor
64. Richard Carroll Walsh
65. 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)
65. Patrick Cassidy
67. James Delaney
68. Thomas Donlan (senior)
69. Thomas Gannon
70. Michael Rush

Burials, Cemeteries, Headstones and MIs
71. Cemetery and Memorial Details
72. War Memorial Chronology of Deaths .

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

Maps and Photographs
306. A Description of the Parish Boundaries
307. Aerial View of St Mary’s Church and the Surrounding Streets
308. Batley St Mary’s – Map Published in 1894
309. Batley St Mary’s – Map Published in 1907
310. Batley St Mary’s – Map Published in 1922
311. Batley St Mary’s – Map Published in 1933

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

Occupations and Employment Information
339. Occupations: Colliery Byeworker/Byeworkman/Byworker/Bye-Worker/By-Worker
340. Occupations: Confidential Clerk
341. Occupations: Lamp Cleaner
342. Occupations: Limelight Operator
343. Occupations: Mason’s Labourer
344. Occupations: Office Boy/Girl
345. Occupations: Piecer/Piecener
346. Occupations: Rag Grinder
347. Occupations: Willeyer

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

The May Queens of Batley St Mary of the Angels *NEW*
388. 1922 May Queen: Phyllis Doyle *NEW*
389. 1931 May Queen Ceremony: Theresa Judge *NEW*
390. 1932 May Queen Ceremony: Agnes Kilgallon *NEW*
391. 1933 May Queen Ceremony: Winnie Colleran *NEW*
392. 1939 May Queen Ceremony: Kathleen Gooder *NEW*
393. 1940 May Queen Ceremony: Sheila Rowan *NEW*
394. 1941 May Queen Ceremony *NEW*

World War Two *UPDATED*
395. World War Two Chronology of Deaths
396. Thomas Egan
397. Michael Flatley
398. Edward Lynch
399. William Smith

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