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John Travis
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Contents of Todmorden Notes (Historical
and Biographical), by John Travis
- THE NAME
- ETYMON
- THE INHABITANTS
- THE OLD CHAPEL
- STMARY'S
- THE DATE
- TODMORDEN HALL
- THE STIPEND OF THE CHAPEL
- TITHES, ETC
- RECOMMENDATIONS
- THE LIVING
- ANOTHER WAY
- AN OLD STORY
- THE VICAR OF ROCHDALE
- ADDITIONS TO STIPEND
- OLD LIVING OF STMARY'S
- LOCAL PAPERS
- BIBLE READERS
- A GLANCE SIDEWAYS
- Two PARSONS
- ANOTHER CURATE
- ROCHDALE
- SALE OF TITHES, &c.
- MASONS' WAGES IN (20)
- THE VICARAGE
- THE OLD SCHOOL
- JOHN AND TAMAR FIELDEN
- THE NEW INN
- ANOTHER CHANGE IN THE TUNE
- RESTORATION OF THE CHURCH
- MEMORIALS
- THE SHACKLETONS
- PENANCIES
- ADMINISTRATION OF JUSTICE
- THE STOCKS
- MRTOM BIBBY
- RECOLLECTIONS OF BIBBY
- CORROBORATIONS
- BUILDING A FACTORY, &c
- THE OLD VICARAGE
- WITCHES AND DOCTORS
- THIN CREAM
- THE CREAM BREAKS
- SUPERSTITION DIES HARD
- A VERITABLE WITCH
- A WITCH'S PRANKS
- HOM SAMIL
- VISITING THE WITCH
- IMPORT OF COTTON
- MANUFACTURERS
- NATIVE EFFORT
- THE COTTON TRADE
- FIRST COTTON FACTORY
- KNOWLWOOD MILL
- LANESIDE MILL
- COTTON MACHINERY
- THE BEGINNINGS OF THE COTTON TRADE
- INFANT FIRMS
- HAND MACHINERY
- COTTON WORKING
- BUILDINGS AND PEOPLE
- MAKING THE CANAL
- TRADE PROFITS
- NUMBERING THE PEOPLE
- THE CALLY CUT
- CUTTING THE PRICE DOWN
- DECLINING MARKETS
- PEOPLE'S FOOD
- STEAM POWER AND WAGES
- QUAKER SHOPKEEPERS
- SHELL FISH
- FIRST MARKET OPENED
- BARKEEPER'S CHILDREN
- COTTON MEISTERS AND PEOPLE
- MISFORTUNES
- PROSPERITY
- NEWSPAPER CARRIER
- SHOPKEEPING AND DRESS
- WILL AND DEED MAKER
- THE CLERK BOUNCED
- TOD FAIRS
- FAMILIES AND FURNITURE
- A LOCAL HAND SPINNER
- DIFFERENT WAYS
- IT RAINS"
- A SPERRING MATCH
- FISH SELLERS, &c.
- HUNTING A FEFLICUTE
- WORKERS AND TRADESPEOPLE
- A NEW EXCHANGE
- INNKEEPERS AND SERVANTS
- COACHING TO MARKET
- GARDEN PRODUCE
- PIONEERS OF TRADE
- MARKETS AND MARKETING
- LOCALITY AND LAWYERS
- LAWYERS COME IN
- A VILLAGE NAME
- ANOTHER VILLAGE
- GAWKS GAUKS GAUXHOLME
- AN ANCIENT CUSTOM
- THE NEW COURT
- GOING UP "ECCLES' STEPS"
- WE WON'T GO HOME TILL MORNING
- SUCCESS
- JUSTICE CROSSLEY
- THE BENCH AND TEETOTALISM
- MORE LIGHT SUCCEEDS
- METHODS OF LIVING
- PLAIN SPEAKING
- WE COME, GROW, AND GO AWAY"
- EDUCATIONAL WORKS
- THE FRIDAY SUPERSTITION
- ANOTHER THEORY
- JUDGMENT
- ON THE COMPLEXITY
- A NEW VERSION
- A PREACHER
- THE CALF SUCKED
- A HAYTIME EPISODE
- HAYMAKING
- A BONDSMAN
- JOHN HACKING
- A MANUFACTURER
- MARKET REPORTS
- GARDENER AND MOWER
- CONTRACTING FOR A JOB
- AN ANNIVERSARY
- A COUNTRYSIDE HIGGLER
- FAMILY TRIALS
- TURNING THE TABLE ON HIM
- A BASTARDY CASE
- A POLITICIAN
- VARIATIONS IN DRESS
- THE GOOD (?) OLD TIMES AND OUR WOMEN
- SIPPERTIES AND NIFLES
- A MANUFACTURER'S TACTICS
- A PITCHED BATTLE
- A REPRIMAND
- THE SOCIAL FABRIC
- AN ASSISTANT CURATE
- PROFANING THE SANCTUARY
- DESECRATIONS
- HALLOWED WALLS
- LOOKING AT THINGS OUTSIDE
- MOTHER WIT
- THE LEWISES A TOOL
- ORIGIN OF A NAME
- TICKLER'S STORY
- A FIGHTING MAN
- SIMPLE, BUT SOUND
- ROLTY TOLTY DAVEY'S BROKKEN A WINDOW
- A COUNTRY TALE
- SHEEP WASHING, &c.
- SALUTATIONS
- TODMORDEN A LAKE VALLEY
- VARIATIONS OF TASTE
- THE CHURCH CHOIR
- SACRED MUSIC AT WHITWORTH
- TA FLAT ! TA FLAT !
- DEVERIANCES DIFFERENCES
- A Boy's TALK
- THE WOODS OF STONEHOUSE
- TH' TEALEURE MADE UM
- No ACTION COMMENCED
- GRACE I'TH' KEYGE (CAGE)
- THE SITTING TREE AN UNEASY SEAT
- MAKING A FINE JOINT
- IN A DILEMMA
- THE SOLDIER'S RETURN
- AN INDUSTRIOUS MAN
- LITTLE HOCK, SANDY, AND MOONSHINE
- HUSH! HOL'D THI TONG
- A CURE FOR RHEUMATISM
- THE YOUNG AND OLD HANDS
- THE VILLAGE ATTORNEY
- MOTS AND DOTS
- DOTS AND MOTS
- ADOPTING AN ORPHAN
- I'M PUTTIN' GP SOM MOOAR
- OLD LANDMARKS
- OTHER OLD FEATURES
- A THIMBLE LOST AND FOUND
- JIM, THROW ME ON !
- PUT INTO QUOD ,
- BILL O' ROGERS, OF BACUP
- FEMALE COUSINS
- A BLOW UP
- JOHN O'TH' DOCTOR'S
- REFLECTIONS
- HEY, BACUP, I'M COMING
- PAYING A BAD £5 NOTE
- A MOTHER'S SPOILED LAD
- A MISHAP AT CHRIST CHURCH
- WILLIAM THE FIFTH, A PREACHER
- THE ORIGIN OF SILK
- NICKNAMES
- THE LANDERSDALE FEAST
- CAPTAIN FLASH
- CRUCKLIN AND CROODLIN
- THE TODMORDEN PARSON
- SOME OLD FEATURES
- Too GOOD TO BE USED
- AN OLD WAY OF COURTING
- AN OLD TENANT
- ANOTHER OLD OCCUPIER
- A ROLLING STONE GATHERS NO MOSS
- DISAPPOINTMENTS IN LIFE
- WE ALL DIRTY THE WATER
- SCHOOLBOY DAYS
- THE HELPING HAND
- DAN GREENWOOD
- REPAIRING A SLATE
- GUIDED BY TH' TEYLE
- STORMING THE CITADEL
- AN ECCENTRIC DOCTOR
- STORY OF A NATIVE PATIENT
- SUNDAY SCHOOLS
- OLD JOHN AND OLD JOSH
- MARTHA, SET TH' PORRIDGE ON
- OLD FASHIONED PUBLICANS
- FROG I'TH' HOLE PUDDIN'
- THE WISE MEN OF HELBON
- THE CRIMMY FAMILY
- THE HAMERS OF CHELBURN
- PHILIP CROWTHER LOST ,
- OLD THINGS PASSED AND GONE
- THE ECCENTRIC PREACHER
- THE YOUNGER PREACHER
- A CHANGE OF PERFORMANCE
- A VOTE LOST
- A VOTE ALLOWED
- WORKMEN AND CONTRACTORS
- A NEW FIRM
- ANOTHER VOTE ALLOWED
- DAYLIGHT AN' ALL
- AN ECCENTRIC OLD MAN
- THE RAILWAY ERA
- A RAILWAY ANECDOTE
- JACK! JACK ! COME HERE
- BREWING AND PORRIDGE EATING
- NEWSPAPER READERS
- OTHER READERS
- PIONEERS OF PROGRESS
- FINDING A BIRD'S NEST
- CATCH SHOOTING
- A PRACTICAL JOKE
- GARDENER AND BEE KEEPER
- QUAKER MANNERS
- STORM OF RAIN
- DIFFERENCES OF OPINION
- THE GOOD OLD TIMES
- CROSSING THE LINE
- GREAT WORKS AT GAUXHOLME
- GAUXHOLME PROPER
- A POSTSCRIPT
- FUNERAL REFORM
- GETTING A NOTE SATTLED
- FEATS OF HAND LOOM WEAVERS
- JONAS WOOD
- A WIFE WHO RAN HER WAY
- ANOTHER WAY OF VIEWING
- A WOMAN WHO DID NOT RUN AWAY
- THE CLANGING OF BELLS
- TURVIN OR GRET JIM
- THE COLLIER'S WEDDING
- SKENNING, OR CROSS EYED
- JOHN SUTCLIFFE
- DEPLORABLE ACCIDENT
- OLD ROOK O' PILLS
- LITTLE BILLY AND BIG SUSS
- GILBERT HOLDEN
- OLD WILL AT TH' HARBOUR
- WEDDINS AND WEDDINERS
- OLD AND NEW ROCHDALE "
- A WHITE LIE
- ELY Two TIMES
- BELL TINKER A BOLD MAN
- BILL O'TH' LITTLEON'S
- IMPORTATIONS, AND OTHERWISE
- TRUCKING JOHNNY
- A SMALL STRIKE
- AN OLD HOUSE AT HOME
- COACHING DAYS
- LORD OF THE MANOR
- THE UNIVERSE
- A MILLION YEARS
- OLD MAJOR
- A BROKEN SHUTTLE SHOE
- FELLOW WORKERS
- THE VILLAGE PUBLIC HOUSE
- A PLAYER ON THE FIDDLE
- THE BANNOCKER NEWELLS
- HILEY I'TH' VICARAGE
- JAMES MARSHALL
- LITTLE ROBERD
- JOHN SCHOFIELD
- A DINNER
- SUPPER TO A HERO OF EIGHTY YEARS
- A DUTIFUL SON: OR, LEARN TO BE MERRY AND WISE
- A PEDIGREE
- JIM O' GEORGE'S
- JOHN MARLAND
- PRAYER FOR A BLESSING
- SIX STAGES OF LIFE
- JAMES STANSFIELD POLITICS
- AHASUERUS ASHWORTH
- WILLIAM FARRAH TREYDER
- THOMAS NEWELL
- SPELLING LESSON
- FAIRS HELD IN CHURCHES
- JOHN WARD'S PRAYER
- MISCARRIAGE OF JUSTICE
- as WHY WON'T YOU?"
- GHOST OF SCRAPER'S LANEA LEGEND
- MOLL TOOT
- A FANT I WANT
- JAMES HODGSON
- BUTTY O' REUBEN'S
- HIPS AND HAWS
- ENOCH HORSFALL
- PROLOGUE TO WILLIAM HOLT
- WILLIAM HOLT
- A POOR CALLY WEYVER
- SEYLOR TUMMY, AND OTHERS
- THOMAS GREENWOOD
- JOHN CUNCLIFFE
- BORRAIN A MEWSE TRAP
- BUYING AND SELLING
- TODMORDEN GREAT WATERWORKS COMPANY (2)
- THE KNABBY FAMILY
- RICHARD STEPHENSON
- WILLIAM SOUTHWELL
- TOO LATE, SOON
- CAKE MAKING
- WAYS AND MEANS
- A MODERN EVE
- HELPED OVER THE STILE
- HELPING THE LAME DOG
- OLD MORTALITY
- FROLICSOME PEOPLE
- A MUCH MARRIED MAN
- FAMILY FEATURES
- A NATURAL HISTORY LESSON
- WET BEFORE AND BEHIND
- THE LAND Ho
- ROBERT HELLIWELL
- CAPTAIN HARDMAN
- TOM O'TH' TOCHEY DAMES
- DAN I'TH' DOCK
- JOHN WESLEY
- OLD SAM MILLS
- SAMUEL FIELDEN
- THE SLIP LAND
- SEEKING AND FINDING
- INCORPORATION OF TODMORDEN
- WHEN TODMORDEN IS A SEAPORT TOWN
- OLD MOORHEY
- THE DISTRIBUTION OF SITTINGS IN STMARY'S CHURCH, TODMORDEN
- A STRANGE PREACHER
- JOSEPH RAYNOR STEVENS (REV), ASHTON
- OLD TUMMIES VAUGHAN, OF ASHTON
- STMICHAEL'S BELLS, ASHTON
- AN HOUR WITH "ROB OF ASTON"
- LUCIFER MATCHES
- NELL OATH' LOAVES
- A PLEADER
- BONNY NEWELL
- OLD TIMES
- TH' CLOCK YEAS
- A CLOCK'S HISTORY
- A DRUNKARD RECLAIMED
- ANOTHER DRUNK
- JOHN BARLEYCORN, MY FOE, JOHN
- PAUL GREENWOOD
- THE ROCHDALE CANAL
- STAND BACK A MEAL
- HENRY SUNDERLAND
- CELEBRATION OF WAKES
- WO DEN JOHNNY
- CHRISTMAS
- PRINCE BISMARCK IN TODMORDEN
- A BEERHOUSE AT SWINESHEAD
- JOHN BURROH
- JOHN EARNSHAW
- ABEL WOODHEAD
- THE CLOG AND PATTEN MAKERS' PETITION TO PARLIAMENT IN THE
- CENTURY
- COFFEE TAVERN
- SUMMIT CHAPEL
- THE BATTLE OF THE "SCREW"
- GUIDES TO A BETTER LIFE
- RELIGION IN THE SCHOOLS
- COLOGNE AND THE RHINE
- VILLAGE OR TOWN
- DIFFERENT SORTS OF FOLK
- EDMUND HARTLEY
- FIRST ON THE FLOOR
- BOASTING OF HIS PEDIGREE
- MRSALA ON HIS ANCESTORS
- AN OLD ELECTION RHYME
- OLIVER CROMWELL'S SPEECH WHEN HE PUT AN END TO THE LONG PARLIAMENT
- RECIPE FOR SLEEP
- SCRAPS FROM ROBIE BURNS
- THE HOUSE THAT JACK BUILT
- THE YEAR ROUND
- INCORPORATION OF TODMORDEN
- NICKNAMES
- TODMORDEN NICKNAMES
Index to Historical Notes and Personal Reminiscences by John
Travis.
- Atkinson, Rev.Joseph
- Autonomy: Todmorden's Claim against Rochdale
- Bright John and Rev.Dr.Molesworth...
- Christ Church (3)
- Christ Church, Statement as to cost of ...
- Churchwardens for St.Mary's
- Church Rate (a local)
- Concert in Aid of St.Mary's
- Cow ell, Rev.Joseph
- Conway, Rev.W.A
- Crosse, Rev.John
- Crossley Anthony (3)
- Crossley John
- Curates of Todmorden (List of) since (2)
- Edwards.Rev.John (5)
- Endowed School (The)
- Episcopal Sympathy with Old Church Fieldens (The) and Todmorden
Hall
- Fielden John (of Dawson Weir) on Town ship and Ecclesiastical
Concerns
- Grimshaw, Rev.William
- Hargreaves, Rev.Robert
- Krabtree, Henry
- and his Quaint Almanack
- Lawsuit, A memorable
- Lee (First Bishop of Manchester) and the Vicar of Rochdale
(3)
- Lightfoot, Rev.Dr.(Cross stone)
- Methodism in Todmorden
- Mission Efforts in Langfield
- Molesworth, Rev.Dr(5)
- Molesworth, Rev.R.F.W
- Morgan, Rev.Wm (3)
- Musical Societies in Todmorden : A Separation and a.Reunion
(3)
- Oddfellows' Funeral (An)
- Old Church Re opening Movement
- Old Church Wall, Fall of
- Organ for St.Mary's
- Oxford st.: Transfer from St.Mary's to
- Parsonage, Erection of New
- Plow, Rev.A.J (3)
- Quaker and Squire
- Radcliffes and Todmorden Hall
- Reform Movement, Todmorden and the
- Rochdale Vicarage Act
- Seattle, Rev.Robert
- Somerton, Rev.Thomas
- St.Mary's Church (3)
- Re opened as a Sunday School (3)
- Removal of Fittings from(3)
- Stipend (4)
- Derelict (3)
- Memorable Oratorio and Tea Party Todmorden Created a Separate
Township
- Todmorden Parish : Movements for Sub division
- Todmorden Chapelry, The Case of;and reply thereto (3)
- Todmorden and its Churches
- Todmorden Hall
- Township Boundary, Alteration of
- Verity, Rev.Dr
- Verity, Rev.Dr., An Inhibition for
- Vestry Meetings, The Great Controversy over the Building
of Christ Church (2)
- Walsden, A Church Mission for (3)
- First Curate (3)
- Made a Peel Parish
- Welsh, Rev.John
- Wesleys (The) and Todmorden
- Wesleyanism in Todmorden, Growth of (3)
List of Families included in "Walsden
Families"
- Fielden of Bottomley
- Bottomley family of Walsden
- Hollinrake
- Howorth
- Fielden of Waland
- Dawson of Rough-Stones
- Hill
- Greenwood
- Alleschole
- Taylor
- Jackson of Moorhey etc.
- Schofield
- Fielden of North Hollingworth etc.
- Crossley
- Law
- Newell
- Jackson of Inchfield
- Haigh
- Inchfield pasture
- Barker of Inchfield etc.
- Dawson of Knowlwood and Hebden Bridge.
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