WINDLE INDEX ENTRIES BARNOLDSWICK AND EARBY
Posted: 22 Apr 2012, 09:04
WINDLE INDEX ENTRIES BARNOLDSWICK AND EARBY AS OF 27 October 2006
1594
Langdale 1822 mentions Robert Windle as founding Earby Grammar School in 1594 with £20 per annum endowment. Education free to boys residing in the parish of Thornton in Craven.
1711
In History of Baptist Church in Barnoldswick Christopher Windle is mentioned as a signatory to a request to John Wilson to come to Barlick as pastor.
1741
William Windle mentioned as a freeholder and elector of Barnoldswick.
1753
Mr Windle (William?) paid land tax of 6s/1d in 1753, no location given. 1756/57 pays 12/2. 1760 pays 14/10. 1770 pays 11/1 ½ .
1788
The will of John Shackleton of Pasture House [Barrowford] mentions a messuage called Windle Field in Thornton to be left to his wife Mary.
1841 census. Earby.
Betty Windle, pauper, 80. William Windle, 45, cotton weaver.
Richard Windle, 25, weaver. Maria Windle, 20. Elizabeth Windle, 4. Abigail Windle, 2. John Windle, 6 months.
Hartley Windle, 60, cotton worsted weaver[sic]. Batty Windle, 55. Thomas Windle, 20, CWW[sic].
John Windle, 35, CWW[sic] Sarah Windle, 35, CWW[sic]. Ann Windle, 5. Alice Windle, 2. Hartley Windle, 1 month.
Thomas Windle, 40, cotton twister. Sarah Windle, 40, cotton weaver. Mary Windle, 15, cotton weaver. William Windle, 15, cotton weaver. John Windle, 11. George, 9. Hartley, 7. Sarah, 5.
1849
Information from Avril Slater [2006]. Her husband’s great grandmother was Nancy (Nanny) Slater born 1849. she married Joseph Windle, cotton manufacturer.
1851 census
Mention of a 20 acre farm on Jepp Hill, Barnoldswick names Windle House.
1851 census
John Windle at Cow Pasture Farm, Barnoldswick, 32, PLW cotton. Alice, wife, 27, HLW wool. Henry, son, 7. Margaret, 2. Sarah, 1.
1851 census
Joseph Windle, 31, farmer of 31 acres at Moor Gate Farm Barnoldswick. Mary, wife, 29. William, 7. Margaret, 6. Joseph, 4. Alice, 2. Mary, 1 month. John Dean, lodger, 40. Labourer.
1859
William Windle mentioned as an elector of Barlick.
1871 census
Joseph Windle, 50, Moor Close Farm, farmer.
1871 census
William Windle, 46, Newtown, overlooker. Born Earby.
c.1880
Joseph Windle starts manufacturing in a small way at Clough Mill. Nicknamed Pummers.
1891
Walton Windle was a shareholder of the CHSC in 1891.
1892
CHSC minutes. 02/03/1892, John Windle millwright given time and a quarter for working overtime on the shafting at Wellhouse Mill. Given 2 weeks notice from May 28th 1892.
1892
Calf Hall Shed tenants from BUDC rate book. Windle and Bailey paid £77 for one half year rate. [W&B struck out for second payment in September. Moved to Wellhouse? According to the CHSC minutes, W&B left Calf Hall in 1892 and the shed company bought their looms for £800. CHSC also owned Wellhouse and in 1895 they report that W&B were asking for rent to run in arrears. There are many references in the minutes to W&B owing up to £2,000 rent between them. No mention of the firm in the 1912 M/c Royal Exchange year book.]
1894
BUDC rate book records Windle and Bailey paying £188 half year rate at Wellhouse Mill.
1896
Barrett directory notes Windle and Bailey as being manufacturers at Wellhouse Mill.
1896
Barrett Directory for 1896 mentions Ormerod Windle as overlooker (tackler) of 22 Rainhall Road.
1896
Barrett directory mentions Thomas Windle as overlooker (tackler) of Westgate.
1899
Benjamin Windle noted in CHSC minutes as being qualified to act as a director. Same entry in 1901. [He had sufficient shares in the company to qualify]
1899
Joseph Windle was BUD Councillor 1899-1910.
c.1900
LTP. 78/AB/05. p. 4. Billy Brooks talks about tacklers setting up their own firms, mentions Windles as becoming manufacturers this way.
1902
Joseph Windle mentioned as BUD Councillor.
1902
Robert Slater Windle mentioned as Registrar for births and deaths and vaccinations, address given as Mosley Street, Barnoldswick.
1902
Barrett directory for 1902 mentions Joseph Windle as cotton manufacturer at Wellhouse Mill. Address given as 23 Rainhall Road.
1903 [28th April]
BUDC papers. Joseph Windle was member of the Education Committee and gave his address as Park Road, cotton manufacturer.
1912
M/c Royal Exchange Directory mentions Joseph Windle and sons as manufacturers at Wellhouse with 407 looms. Mentioned as vacating space at Wellhouse on 03/09/1912 and threatened to leave in 1913 but signed a 7 year lease the same year. Mentioned in Worrall’s Directory as tenant at Wellhouse Mill in 1939 with 401 looms.
1912
Robert Slater Windle mentioned as a stock and share broker, ‘Station Chambers’ Barnoldswick. He becomes an incorporated accountant and this later results in the firm of Windle and Bowker, Croft House, Station Road.
1913
R S Windle mentioned as secretary of the Barnoldswick Room and Power Company, Newtown, Barnoldswick. [the company that built Bankfield Shed]
1914
Robert Slater Windle mentioned as secretary for the Barnoldswick Tallow Company who were tripe dressers and tallow refiners in Butts. This would be RSW acting in his capacity as accountant.
1918
Robert Slater Windle is mentioned as executor, together with widow Jane, in the will of William Henry Atkinson, architect dated March 1918.
1929
Craven Herald 01/03/1929. Advertised to let or sell in Barnoldswick 200 45” reedspace Pemberton looms 9made 1915) with all ‘utensils’.[sic] Apply to R Slater Windle, Midland Bank Chambers, Barnoldswick. He was liquidator of the firm that owned the looms and was therefore an accountant at the time. At the same time, in his capacity as a director of the CHSC he reported to the board that Henry Brown and Sons had filed for bankruptcy. This was important to the company as HB and Sons were their engineers and millwrights. They bought all the machinery and rented it to Johnny Pickles and this was the start of Henry Brown Sons and Pickles.
1930
CH 18/07/1930. R S Windle mentioned as a director of the Barnsey Shed Company.
1930
CH. 27/06/1930. Report of the death of Samuel Windle aged 72 of Bankfield Terrace. Born in Newtown in 1858, Mr Windle attended the National School in Butts and stayed on until he was 13 when he became page boy for Dr Roberts who for many years lived in a house on what is now the site of the Independent Methodist Church. After 18 months he went into service with John Turner Hopwood at Bracewell Hall as a pony boy and then a coachman. He removed with the Hopwoods to Ketton Hall, Rutland and remained in service with various families until he got married in 1878 in Northampton when he returned to Barlick and worked with his brother in the mills. About 1880 he went into service again in Kent and in 1898 returned to Barlick and worked at Bankfield Shed in the warehouse, his wife was a winder in the same mill. He was in employment until his death.
1931
James Slater Windle, taper of 11 Wellhouse Road mentioned as a candidate in the council election.
c.1931
In A Way of Life Gone By, Dorothy Carthy says that James Slater Windle, was taper at Joseph Windle and Sons, Wellhouse Mill, [‘Pummers’].
c.1932
LTP. 78/AG/01. side one page 9. Fred Windle mentioned as helping Johnny Pickles to set up his new workshop by lending him a gas engine. Jack Griffiths, in ‘This is my life’ says that Fred Windle started in the garage business repairing motor cycles in a wooden hut next to the gas works. Later he moved down to the Vicarage Road site on Skipton road and eventually had a taxi service and funeral directors.
1932
CH. 30/12/1932. William Windle was born in Earby on January 3 1825. His father was Thomas Windle. In his early years William was a hand loom weaver and he was one of the first power loom weavers at ‘The Old Shed’ which was the weaving shed that Christopher Bracewell built on New Road in Earby. William became one of the first tacklers in the town. In 1859 he married Margaret Broughton. William later became a taper at Butts in Barlick. In later years he had 16 looms in Clough Shed on commission weaving. Francis Watson had 16 looms on the same terms and William tackled for both sets.
1932
CH. 30/12/1932. Sally Windle used to live in Green End Cottages, Earby, the second from the top. At the end of the cottages was a long narrow building used as a bake house. She baked a ‘score’ of oatmeal at a time into oatcakes. Later she and her husband moved to a house off Stoneybank Road which in 1932 was the Clarence Club. She had a bakestone in the living room.
1938
Death of James Slater Windle Nov 17th 1938. Was BUD council member 1925-1931.
1952
Stuart Windle dies on March 9th 1952. He was a BUD councillor 1932-1935.
2002
Maurice Windle, one of the Windle Brothers at the garage in Skipton Road (sold out by then) died Friday 25th October 2002 aged 87 years. At that time he lived in Forester’s Buildings Barnoldswick.
2004
Dorothy Carthy was related to the Windles at Windles garage on Skipton Road and she told me that William Duxbury paid Towers Singleton so poorly for the hire of his vehicles for funerals that the Windle Brothers decided to do undertaking themselves so that they wouldn’t go down the same road hiring vehicles to Duxburies. Dorothy’s father was Dewhurst Broughton Windle.
2005?
Report in Barlick and Earby Times [BET] of the death of Ellen Windle aged 75 at her home on Kelbrook Road Barnoldswick. Wife of Victor and mother of Angela, John, Ruth, Joy and Sheralin. Born in Burnley and brought up in Harle Syke. After marriage she moved to Earby and in the end they were partners in a small weaving shed on Red Lion Street trading as Windle and Whittingham. In 1984 Victor died and the mill closed and was demolished. She was a strong Jehovah’s Witness. The partner Whittingham lived on the Ranch?
1594
Langdale 1822 mentions Robert Windle as founding Earby Grammar School in 1594 with £20 per annum endowment. Education free to boys residing in the parish of Thornton in Craven.
1711
In History of Baptist Church in Barnoldswick Christopher Windle is mentioned as a signatory to a request to John Wilson to come to Barlick as pastor.
1741
William Windle mentioned as a freeholder and elector of Barnoldswick.
1753
Mr Windle (William?) paid land tax of 6s/1d in 1753, no location given. 1756/57 pays 12/2. 1760 pays 14/10. 1770 pays 11/1 ½ .
1788
The will of John Shackleton of Pasture House [Barrowford] mentions a messuage called Windle Field in Thornton to be left to his wife Mary.
1841 census. Earby.
Betty Windle, pauper, 80. William Windle, 45, cotton weaver.
Richard Windle, 25, weaver. Maria Windle, 20. Elizabeth Windle, 4. Abigail Windle, 2. John Windle, 6 months.
Hartley Windle, 60, cotton worsted weaver[sic]. Batty Windle, 55. Thomas Windle, 20, CWW[sic].
John Windle, 35, CWW[sic] Sarah Windle, 35, CWW[sic]. Ann Windle, 5. Alice Windle, 2. Hartley Windle, 1 month.
Thomas Windle, 40, cotton twister. Sarah Windle, 40, cotton weaver. Mary Windle, 15, cotton weaver. William Windle, 15, cotton weaver. John Windle, 11. George, 9. Hartley, 7. Sarah, 5.
1849
Information from Avril Slater [2006]. Her husband’s great grandmother was Nancy (Nanny) Slater born 1849. she married Joseph Windle, cotton manufacturer.
1851 census
Mention of a 20 acre farm on Jepp Hill, Barnoldswick names Windle House.
1851 census
John Windle at Cow Pasture Farm, Barnoldswick, 32, PLW cotton. Alice, wife, 27, HLW wool. Henry, son, 7. Margaret, 2. Sarah, 1.
1851 census
Joseph Windle, 31, farmer of 31 acres at Moor Gate Farm Barnoldswick. Mary, wife, 29. William, 7. Margaret, 6. Joseph, 4. Alice, 2. Mary, 1 month. John Dean, lodger, 40. Labourer.
1859
William Windle mentioned as an elector of Barlick.
1871 census
Joseph Windle, 50, Moor Close Farm, farmer.
1871 census
William Windle, 46, Newtown, overlooker. Born Earby.
c.1880
Joseph Windle starts manufacturing in a small way at Clough Mill. Nicknamed Pummers.
1891
Walton Windle was a shareholder of the CHSC in 1891.
1892
CHSC minutes. 02/03/1892, John Windle millwright given time and a quarter for working overtime on the shafting at Wellhouse Mill. Given 2 weeks notice from May 28th 1892.
1892
Calf Hall Shed tenants from BUDC rate book. Windle and Bailey paid £77 for one half year rate. [W&B struck out for second payment in September. Moved to Wellhouse? According to the CHSC minutes, W&B left Calf Hall in 1892 and the shed company bought their looms for £800. CHSC also owned Wellhouse and in 1895 they report that W&B were asking for rent to run in arrears. There are many references in the minutes to W&B owing up to £2,000 rent between them. No mention of the firm in the 1912 M/c Royal Exchange year book.]
1894
BUDC rate book records Windle and Bailey paying £188 half year rate at Wellhouse Mill.
1896
Barrett directory notes Windle and Bailey as being manufacturers at Wellhouse Mill.
1896
Barrett Directory for 1896 mentions Ormerod Windle as overlooker (tackler) of 22 Rainhall Road.
1896
Barrett directory mentions Thomas Windle as overlooker (tackler) of Westgate.
1899
Benjamin Windle noted in CHSC minutes as being qualified to act as a director. Same entry in 1901. [He had sufficient shares in the company to qualify]
1899
Joseph Windle was BUD Councillor 1899-1910.
c.1900
LTP. 78/AB/05. p. 4. Billy Brooks talks about tacklers setting up their own firms, mentions Windles as becoming manufacturers this way.
1902
Joseph Windle mentioned as BUD Councillor.
1902
Robert Slater Windle mentioned as Registrar for births and deaths and vaccinations, address given as Mosley Street, Barnoldswick.
1902
Barrett directory for 1902 mentions Joseph Windle as cotton manufacturer at Wellhouse Mill. Address given as 23 Rainhall Road.
1903 [28th April]
BUDC papers. Joseph Windle was member of the Education Committee and gave his address as Park Road, cotton manufacturer.
1912
M/c Royal Exchange Directory mentions Joseph Windle and sons as manufacturers at Wellhouse with 407 looms. Mentioned as vacating space at Wellhouse on 03/09/1912 and threatened to leave in 1913 but signed a 7 year lease the same year. Mentioned in Worrall’s Directory as tenant at Wellhouse Mill in 1939 with 401 looms.
1912
Robert Slater Windle mentioned as a stock and share broker, ‘Station Chambers’ Barnoldswick. He becomes an incorporated accountant and this later results in the firm of Windle and Bowker, Croft House, Station Road.
1913
R S Windle mentioned as secretary of the Barnoldswick Room and Power Company, Newtown, Barnoldswick. [the company that built Bankfield Shed]
1914
Robert Slater Windle mentioned as secretary for the Barnoldswick Tallow Company who were tripe dressers and tallow refiners in Butts. This would be RSW acting in his capacity as accountant.
1918
Robert Slater Windle is mentioned as executor, together with widow Jane, in the will of William Henry Atkinson, architect dated March 1918.
1929
Craven Herald 01/03/1929. Advertised to let or sell in Barnoldswick 200 45” reedspace Pemberton looms 9made 1915) with all ‘utensils’.[sic] Apply to R Slater Windle, Midland Bank Chambers, Barnoldswick. He was liquidator of the firm that owned the looms and was therefore an accountant at the time. At the same time, in his capacity as a director of the CHSC he reported to the board that Henry Brown and Sons had filed for bankruptcy. This was important to the company as HB and Sons were their engineers and millwrights. They bought all the machinery and rented it to Johnny Pickles and this was the start of Henry Brown Sons and Pickles.
1930
CH 18/07/1930. R S Windle mentioned as a director of the Barnsey Shed Company.
1930
CH. 27/06/1930. Report of the death of Samuel Windle aged 72 of Bankfield Terrace. Born in Newtown in 1858, Mr Windle attended the National School in Butts and stayed on until he was 13 when he became page boy for Dr Roberts who for many years lived in a house on what is now the site of the Independent Methodist Church. After 18 months he went into service with John Turner Hopwood at Bracewell Hall as a pony boy and then a coachman. He removed with the Hopwoods to Ketton Hall, Rutland and remained in service with various families until he got married in 1878 in Northampton when he returned to Barlick and worked with his brother in the mills. About 1880 he went into service again in Kent and in 1898 returned to Barlick and worked at Bankfield Shed in the warehouse, his wife was a winder in the same mill. He was in employment until his death.
1931
James Slater Windle, taper of 11 Wellhouse Road mentioned as a candidate in the council election.
c.1931
In A Way of Life Gone By, Dorothy Carthy says that James Slater Windle, was taper at Joseph Windle and Sons, Wellhouse Mill, [‘Pummers’].
c.1932
LTP. 78/AG/01. side one page 9. Fred Windle mentioned as helping Johnny Pickles to set up his new workshop by lending him a gas engine. Jack Griffiths, in ‘This is my life’ says that Fred Windle started in the garage business repairing motor cycles in a wooden hut next to the gas works. Later he moved down to the Vicarage Road site on Skipton road and eventually had a taxi service and funeral directors.
1932
CH. 30/12/1932. William Windle was born in Earby on January 3 1825. His father was Thomas Windle. In his early years William was a hand loom weaver and he was one of the first power loom weavers at ‘The Old Shed’ which was the weaving shed that Christopher Bracewell built on New Road in Earby. William became one of the first tacklers in the town. In 1859 he married Margaret Broughton. William later became a taper at Butts in Barlick. In later years he had 16 looms in Clough Shed on commission weaving. Francis Watson had 16 looms on the same terms and William tackled for both sets.
1932
CH. 30/12/1932. Sally Windle used to live in Green End Cottages, Earby, the second from the top. At the end of the cottages was a long narrow building used as a bake house. She baked a ‘score’ of oatmeal at a time into oatcakes. Later she and her husband moved to a house off Stoneybank Road which in 1932 was the Clarence Club. She had a bakestone in the living room.
1938
Death of James Slater Windle Nov 17th 1938. Was BUD council member 1925-1931.
1952
Stuart Windle dies on March 9th 1952. He was a BUD councillor 1932-1935.
2002
Maurice Windle, one of the Windle Brothers at the garage in Skipton Road (sold out by then) died Friday 25th October 2002 aged 87 years. At that time he lived in Forester’s Buildings Barnoldswick.
2004
Dorothy Carthy was related to the Windles at Windles garage on Skipton Road and she told me that William Duxbury paid Towers Singleton so poorly for the hire of his vehicles for funerals that the Windle Brothers decided to do undertaking themselves so that they wouldn’t go down the same road hiring vehicles to Duxburies. Dorothy’s father was Dewhurst Broughton Windle.
2005?
Report in Barlick and Earby Times [BET] of the death of Ellen Windle aged 75 at her home on Kelbrook Road Barnoldswick. Wife of Victor and mother of Angela, John, Ruth, Joy and Sheralin. Born in Burnley and brought up in Harle Syke. After marriage she moved to Earby and in the end they were partners in a small weaving shed on Red Lion Street trading as Windle and Whittingham. In 1984 Victor died and the mill closed and was demolished. She was a strong Jehovah’s Witness. The partner Whittingham lived on the Ranch?