WHITTAKER ET AL INDEX ENTRIES

[Stanley]

WHITTAKER ET AL INDEX ENTRIES AS OF 17/01/06

1753
Henry Whittaker paid land tax (no location) in Barlick in 1753(£1-5-4)/1756(£2-10-8)/1757/1760(last two years ditto).

1753
‘Mr Whittaker’ pays land tax for ‘Folds’ in 1753, 5/-. In 1756 same location, 10/-

1756
Land tax. Thomas Whittaker pays £1-3-6.

1753/1760
William Whittaker pays land tax for Hill Clough farm. 1753, 11/7 ½ , 1757, £1-3-6. 1760, £1-3-6.

1822.
Baines directory reports John Whitaker as grocer and flour dealer of Salterforth.

1841
census records Hargreaves Whitaker, 40 years, as being a hatter at Great Hague. [Hamlet between Kelbrook and Foulridge]

1841
Census records William Whitaker aged 38 as farmer at Stone Trough. Betty Whitaker, wife, 37. Benjamin son 8 years.

1841
Census records Mary Whitaker, 55, grocer of Salterforth. William Whitaker, 26 worsted weaver (HLW almost certain) John Whitaker, 20, worsted weaver. ( Note that Midge Hole Mill on County Brook was weaving by water power at this time and working with wool. I may be wrong about HLW)

C1850
CH. 14/011/1927. First wife of Christopher Bracewell (1818), a Miss Whittaker, of Bacup who was a Baptist, by family connections, obtained a gift, from Mr. Riley of Halifax, of land on which the present commodious Mount Zion Chapel is built, and she laid the foundation stone, but died (1855) before the building was completed

1851
Census records James Whittaker at Barnoldswick Hey (vicinity not farm I think SCG) 44 years, PLW cotton. Wife Mary, 43. Son Thomas, 23, PLW C. Daughter Ellen, 18, PLW C. Son John, 16, PLW C. Daughter Mary A., 13, cotton spinner. Daughter Susan, 11. Son Vickers, 9. Daughter Martha, 1 year.

1851
Census records Thomas Whittaker of Jepp Hill, 39, power loom overlooker. Mary, wife, 36. John, son, 12. William, son, 9. Both scholars.

1851
Census records Thomas Whittaker of Moses Lea Farm Barnoldswick as being 39 years, farmer of 31 acres. Mary, wife, 37. Ellen, D, 12, HLW wool. Mary, D, 9, bobbin winder. Jane, D, 6, bobbin winder. Hannah, 4. Thomas, 2.

1851.
Census reports Robert Whitaker of Old Slack, Thornton in Craven, 52, farmer of 72 acres, born Thornton. Susannah, wife [nee Slater], 51, born Salford. James, Son, 18 born Thornton. Sarah, daughter, 15, born Thornton. {This is part of the antecedents of Susannah Whitaker who married Christopher Bracewell. Not mentioned in evidence but I think Susannah was the youngest member of this family.} (SCG note: Even I don’t understand this last entry, it must have been clear to me at the time. Download the Bracewell PAF file from the OGFB site and search for Whitaker, there are about six connections)

1859
Thomas Whittaker is an lector of Barlick on a roll of 1859.

1871
Census records Thomas Whittaker, 57, at Green Hill Farm, farmer of 48 acres.

1880
Elizabeth Hartley of Admergill married James Whittaker of Hopwood House Farm in 1880. She died in 1940 and is buried at Bracewell. N Son Richard took over Hopwood House Farm. James farmed Newhouse at Bracewell. John farmed Standedge at Barnoldswick.

1887
Barrett directory records Thomas Whittaker as farmer at Moses Lea.

1890
Calf Hall Shed Co. minutes 08/01/1890 record the purchase of coal from Michael Whittaker, coal agent, Keighley.

1896.
Barrett dir. For 1896 records Vickers Whittaker as overlooker living at 8 Sussex Street, Barnoldswick.

c.1900
Thomas Whittaker carted water from Gilbert Well (SD88054365) and sold it for a penny a bucket.

1902.
Barrett dir. Records Benjamin Whittaker as butcher at 24 Wellhouse Road.

1902
Barrett directory for Barlick reports William Whitaker as Boot and Shoe maker of 29 Church Street.

1908
BET 23/01/2004. Report of the death of Bill Whittaker at his home in Barrowford. He was born in Colne in 1908 and went to the mill at 12 years. He resigned from the Labour Party in 1938 and joined the Communists as he was violently opposed to Fascism and felt more needed to be done. Later he became a full time worker for the Textile Union and continued on a voluntary basis until well into the 19080s.

c.1920
LTP. 79/AO/01 page 11. Jack Platt talks about stealing apples from Peel Whitaker’s farm on the lane down Salterforth Lane (Park Close or Booth House?)

1930
LTP. 77/AA/07. Jim Pollard talks about Tom Whittaker being blacklisted. He was an overlooker at Dotcliffe Mill during a strike against More Looms in 1932. He helped picket the mill and never worked again in the area. Jim says that the way they were forced out was by making their lives a misery.

1932.
Craven Herald 15/07/1932. Reporting on the flood of 12th July the CH records that Benjamin Whittaker, a tackler at John Slater and Sons at Clough Mill had a dramatic escape when the back wall of the shed was broken in by the flood.

c.1935
Tom Whittaker was a tackler who was a militant in the industrial troubles of the 1930s in Barlick and lost his job by being blacklisted. See LTP. 78/AA/7.

1930s
Walter Whittaker was a fellow caddie with Ernie Roberts at the Barlick golf course. See LTP. 78/AC/06.

1940/1970?
Whitakers farmed Hopwood Farm at Bracewell before the Bargh family took over. One brother, Richard (Dick), had a withered arm but this did not stop him doing a full time job. I think they moved to a farm in Cheshire.

1940/1960
Stanley Whittaker was a garage proprietor in Earby in the old blacksmith’s shop on Skipton Road that used to belong to his uncle, a man called Hodgon.

1970
Ernie Whittaker was a clothlooker at Bancroft Shed during time SCG worked there 1972/78. See LTP 78/AC/10 and 79/AF/02.

No date
See A way of Life gone by page 76 for a reference to Rev. Frank Whittaker of Booth House Farm Thornton in Craven who was a Baptist Minister.
SCG/17/01/06