DUXBURY INDEX ENTRIES

[Stanley]

DUXBURY INDEX ENTRIES AS OF 03 January 2007


1841 census
Moor Hall Earby. William Duxbury, 25, cotton weaver. Mary, wife, 25. Ellen, 1 year. 1881 census; William Duxberry[sic] 64 at Harden New Hall. No mention in 1891.

1841 census
Earby Vill(?). William Duxbury, 35, cotton weaver. Ann, wife, 30, cotton weaver. Richard, 8. James, 5. No mention of any of these in 1881/1891.

1845
John Duxbury of Crook Carr born. He died in 1916. His wife was Sarah Brown of Lothersdale who was sister to Henry Brown who started the engineering firm in Earby. She died in 1925. John and his wife were living in Earby, he was a tackler in the mill, but moved to Paythorne to start farming. In 1884 the family moved back to Barlick and took over Crook Carr tenancy. When John died Wilson, the youngest son, took over the tenancy and when it expired he moved to Nether Kellet and lived there while he worked at England’s Head at Paythorne to raise the money to buy Spen Head Farm which had belonged to his aunt and uncle. Wilson had possession of Spen Head from c.1936 to 1966 and the farm stayed in the family until it was auctioned off in 1981. Owen also said that John was uncle to Henry Brown (Old Henry’s son) and it was through him that Henry got the tenancy of the mechanic’s shop at Wellhouse as John was a director of the CHSC..

1872
Harold’s mother, Sarah[nee Gill] was born in 1872 and died in 1958 aged 86 years. She would be 10 when the family came to Barlick and she went to work as a throstle spinner in what was then New Mill, now Wellhouse.

1881 census
Higher House, Paythorne. John Duxbury, 35, farmer of 110 acres. Sarah, 35. Walter, 11. William Arthur, 8. Oliver, 6. Wilson, 4. [After a brief stay at Higher House John took England’s head at Paythorne.]

1881 census
Martha E Duxbery[sic] Hill Top Earby, 30 years. 1891 census. William Duxbury,36. Martha E, 40. Lillian Duxbury, 9. Emma L, 33. Margaret E, 4.

1881 census
Mill Brow Earby. Henry Duxbury, 23. Mary A, 19. Robert, 11 months. In 1891 the same family is at Stony Bank, Kelbrook. Henry, 33. Mary A, 28. Robert, 10. Plus Frank, 5 and Fred, 1 year.

1881 census
Bethesda Street, Earby. Smith Duxbury, 29. Lydia, 32. Mary, 8. Fred, 6. William Henry, 4. Ellen, 1 year. In 1891 the same family are at Brook View, Earby. Smith, 39. Lydia, 41. Mary, 19. Fred, 16. William Henry 15. Ellen 11. Plus Alfred, 3 and Annie, 2 years.

1881 census
The Fold, Earby. Ann Duxbury, 10 years. In 1891 she is recorded as 20 and living at Park View Terrace, Salterforth.

1881 census
Stony Bank, Kelbrook. Ellen Duxbury, 53. William, 25 and Elizabeth, 17. No mention of this family in 1891 but there is an Ellen Duxbury aged 68 at Barnard Road, Earby. Enumerator’s error?

1881 census.
Lower Green End, Earby. John Duxbury, 28. Tabitha, 27. Amy E, 4. Edith A, 2 years. In 1891, same family but at Harrison Row (Earby?) John, 37. Tabitha, 37. Amy E, 14. Edith A, 12. Caroline 5 years.

1891 census.
John Duxbury farmer at Crook Carr, 45 (died 1916) Sarah, wife 45, died 1925. Walter, 21. William Arthur, 18. (died 1954. Married Sarah Gill [who I think was born in Earby but the Gill family came from Greenhow Hill] who died 1958) Wilson, 14. Annie, 4. [Harold later told me that his mother Sarah’s father was bondsman to a man who defaulted and so he lost his capital [lead mining?] He came to Barlick in 1882 looking for work and got a job as farm man at Newfield Edge on Folly Lane and worked there for forty years, later as coachman to Billycock Bracewell.]

1895
Earby Manufacturing Company formed in 1895 and took over the new shed at Victoria Mill. Smith Duxbury was one of the investing partners. In the 1930s Smith Duxbury was chairman and the only surviving original director.

1898
Wilfred Duxbury, Harold’s brother and son of William Arthur, was born in 1898. Harold was born on 24th July 1900.

c.1900
LTP. 78/AB/03. page 3. Billy Brooks talks about a weaver at Long Ing nicknamed ‘Jim Dux’. Almost certainly Jim Duxbury.

1900
Harold Duxbury was born on 24th July 1900 in Wellhouse Square. When he was three months old the family moved to Carr House [owned by John Duxbury of Crook Carr] and lived there until 1909 when they moved into the house on Commercial Street that went with the Holdsworth business. [Harold had a brother, Cecil, who died when he was 5 years old.]

1902.
Barrett Directory records Oliver Duxbury as farmer of Carr’s Farm. [Carr House]

1905.
Harold Duxbury delivers milk with his Uncle Wilson at five years old.

c.1905
Harold says that while at Carr House they went to school at Bracewell in what is now the Institute. The teacher was Mrs Watson who lived in the top house of the cottages on the east side of Park Road with her husband Walter. She walked to Bracewell every day.

1909
[Evidence of Owen Duxbury in 2003] Walter Duxbury, son of John Duxbury of Crook Carr Farm served an apprenticeship as a butcher in Burnley and then opened his own shop in Barlick on Park Road at the bottom of Beech Street. His Brother William Arthur Duxbury (Harold Duxbury’s father) worked for Waite and Lambert in York Street. The Lambert at this firm was the great grandfather of Robert Lambert who still [2007] works for B&D in Butts. In 1909 William Arthur went into partnership with John Briggs and they founded Briggs and Duxbury. Oliver Duxbury, another brother, farmed 7 acres at Carr House Farm. William Arthur married Sarah, daughter of Moses Gill, Billycock Bracewell’s coachman at Newfield Edge. Sarah had a brother, Walter, who is Peter Gill’s ancestor. John Duxbury of Crook Carr had shares in the Calf Hall Shed Company and helped Henry Brown to get space at Wellhouse to found what eventually became Henry Brown Sons and Pickles. John may have influenced CHSC to take Harold on as managing director at such an early age. In LTP. 82/HD/01, page 7 Harold says that his dad William Arthur served his time with Alfred Dodgson at Earby who was an ironmonger, blacksmith and wheelwright at Lane Ends. William was a qualified joiner when he came to Barlick to work at Waite and Lamberts in York street which was where he met John Briggs. They took over William Holdsworth’s existing joinery business in Commercial Street using stables across the road as workshops. All the machinery was hand driven until in 1911 they got a Crossley Gas engine. In 1936 they bought the Model Lodging House in Butts and converted it to a joinery works. John Briggs died in c.1950. B&D also bought Sam Yates’ gardens, greenhouses and garages on the town side of the Model.

c.1910
Norah Duxbury was sister to Harold Duxbury.

1914
Harold’s brother Wilfred joins up though underage and only 15. His father wrote to the War Office and they returned him home. He rejoined later when he came of age. Harold says that both of them were weaving at Bradley’s at Bankfield Shed at the time.

1917
Harold goes as apprentice in his father’s business but is called up into the RFC (later the RAF) and trained at Blandford and Wendover before being sent to Ireland.

c.1920/30
Owen Duxbury told me in 2002 that it was definitely Reginald Nutter who married Annie Duxbury, sister to William Arthur and daughter of John at Crook Carr. John was tenant at Crook Carr and hawked milk in Barlick. Oliver Duxbury, William Arthur’s brother had the buildings and land at Carr House where Harold lived until 1909. He also had Lane Ends Farm, Land attached to Fosters Arms, and Owen thinks he also had Moorside at Earby at one point. Reginald Nutter had Gill Farm in the 1950s because Owen once saw some plans and accounts for extensions there built by B&D.

1930
Craven Herald 27/06/1930. Crook Carr Farm advertised for rent. The land from 2 Feb 1931 and the house from May 12th 1931. At present in tenancy of Wilson Duxbury. 117 acres, 31 of which was meadow.

1936
Harold talks about the move from Commercial Street into the old Model in Butts where the firm still operates. He says it was built in about 1911 by Bill Taylor, a local builder.

1946
LTP. 82/HD/05, page 5. Harold Duxbury talks about when he became managing director of the Calf Hall Shed Company following the death of Edmondson Banks on September 16th 1946.

1954
William Arthur Duxbury dies aged 82. Sarah died in 1958.

1983
Harold Duxbury address was 11 Banks Hill. These houses were built by B&D on the site of the former Isolation Hospital.

1991
22nd November 1991. Harold Duxbury died early in the morning at 11 Banks Hill as he was getting dressed to go to work at the Model Joinery in Butts. He was born on 24th July 1900 and so was well into his 91st year.

2004
Dorothy Carthy told me that when she married she spent a year in Barnsley and one day she met Walter Duxbury in the street. She knew him well because she used to keep his books for him at the butcher’s shop in Park Road. He had retired, his wife was dead and he had gone to live with his son who was in charge of the ARP in Barnsley during the war. Dorothy thinks that he died in Barnsley. Dorothy was related to the Windles of Station Road garage and she once heard them talking about the fact that B&D paid Towers Singleton so badly for funeral carriages that it made him bankrupt. They said they weren’t going to go that way and so started as funeral directors themselves. Dorothy said that Harold was close but fair and his father had a very bad name for being hard to deal with.

SCG/04 January 2007