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Briercliffe-with-Extwistle

Is an extensive township, extending from 2 to 5 miles N.E. from Burnley, and covering an area of 4,227 acres. Robert Townley Parker, Esq., is the principal landowner, but a portion is also owned by the Halstead, Smith and Spencer families. The population of the township in 1851, was 1,612; 1861, 1,332; and in 1871, 1,263; and its rateable value is £7,440. The cotton trade gives employment to a considerable number of persons. The Church, dedicated to St. James, was erected in 1840, at a cost of £1,800, and has subsequently been beautified at a considerable expense. It contains 515 sittings, of which 300 are free. The benefice is a vicarage of the annula value of £250, in the patronage of Hulme's trustees, and held by the Rev. Robert Daniel Horace Gray, M.A. There are two schools in connection with the church, one of which was built in 1855, at a cost of £800, on a site presented by the Duke of Buccleuch. The Baptists have a chapel in the township, built in 1865, at a cost of £2,000; it has superseded the older one erected in 1840; Rev. Isaac Lloyd, minister. The [i[Free Gospellers[/i] also have a chapel here. (Letters via Burnley)

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Mel

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Allan Adam, boot and shoemaker
Altham Mrs. Mary, shopkeeper
Atkinson John, farmer, Pig hole
Banks Elijah, tailor
Banks John, tailor
Barker Mrs. Susannah, farmer, Cockden
Blackburn John, farmer, Cockden
Blackburn John, farmer, Broad bank
Brockbank Thomas, vict., Hare and Hounds
Catlow John, shopkeeper
Crabtree Elizabeth, shopkeeper
Dent Thomas, farmer, Shaw lane
Dent William, farmer, Bend hill
Duerden William, farmer, Spring house
Edmondson Christopher, farmer, Black House lane
Edmondson James, farmer, Extwistle
Edmondson John, farmer, Extwistle
Elliott Wilson, farmer, Folds house
Gray Rev. Robert D. H., M.A., vicar
Greenwood James, farmer, Hollin Grove
Greenwood Moses, farmer, Lane house
Greenwood Shackleton, farmer, Finney Moor foot
Greenwood W., vict., Roggermoor gate
Halstead Miss Ellen, Cockden
Halstead Jas., farmer, Jack Well house
Halstead Robert, grocer and draper
Halstead William, farmer, Burwains
Harker Thomas, farmer, Higher house
Hartley Betty, farmer, Stoneyrakes
Hartley George, beerhouse, Sun Inn
Heap Ann, shopkeeper
Heap Bernard, farmer, Ridehalgh
Higson James, farmer, Back lane
Hudson Thomas, farmer, Stephen hey
Jackson Robert, plasterer and painter
Jobling John, farmer, Elder's row
Jobling Thomas, farmer, Netherwood
Jobling Matthew, farmer, Holden clough
Kippax James, farmer, Batty hole
Kippax Joshua, grocer and baker
Lee Benjamin, farmer, New house
Leaver Peter, farmer, Black House lane
Leaver Thos., assistant overseer, Lane bottom
Lloyd Rev. Isaac (Baptist)
Mason George, farmer, Windle house
National Schools (mixed), Jas. Corrin; Lane Head (mixed), Hartley Stuttard
Nuttall James, farmer, Holt hill
Nuttall William, farmer, Hill
Nutter Betty, shopkeeper
Parker Wm., farmer Walshaw
Pickles Henry, shopkeeper
Rawstron Rd. & Sons, farmers, Shuttleworth pasture
Robertshaw Thos., farmer, Yeoman's
Robinson Joseph, farmer, Boulsworth
Shackleton Wm., farmer, North bank
Simpson John (Simpson & West); h. Tattersall barn
Simpson & Wesy, cotton manufacturers, Harle Syke shed
Smith Thos. T., cotton manufacturer, hill end
Stanworth Benj., farmer, Shorey hey
Stanworth James, farmer, Sweet well
Stanworth John, farmer, Ridehalgh
Stanworth Joseph, farmer, Mustyhalgh
Stuttard john & Co., cotton manufacturers, Harle Syke shed
Tatham Joseph, farmer, Ridehalgh
Taylor Hartley, cotton manufacturer, Harle Syke shed
Taylor Rt., farmer, Haggate house
Thornton James & Co., cotton manufacturers, Harle Syke shed
Watson Jonathan, farmer, Thurston scarrs
Whittaker Samuel, grocer
Whittaker Thos., farmer, Widow hill
Whittam Joseph, farmer, Extwistle
Wilkinson Thomas, farmer, Herd house

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James Kippax was my 3Xgt grandfather.

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Gloria

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