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24 March 2009
Moss Ormerod
Moss was born on the
22nd of July 1843 in the village of West Bradford, Yorkshire, the son of
Thomas Ormerod and Jane Moss. He was christened
in nearby Waddington on the 13th of August 1843.
The 1851 census shows -
West Bradford
Thomas Ormerod, head, married, 52 chairmaker born Waddington, Yks
Jane Ormerod, daughter, 27, unmarried, power loom weaver cotton, born W
Bradford, Yks
Mary Ormerod, daughter 19, unmarried, housekeeper, born W Bradford, Yks
Thomas Ormerod, son, 17, book keeper, born W Bradford, Yks
Joseph Ormerod, son, 13, power loom weaver cotton, born W Bradford, Yks
Richard Ormerod, son, 11, power loom weaver cotton, born W Bradford, Yks
Moss Ormerod, son, 7, scholar, born W Bradford, Yks
David Ormerod, son, 5, scholar, born W Bradford, Yks
Edward Ormerod, son, 3, scholar, born W Bradford, Yks
Walter Ormerod, grandson, 7 months, born Waddington, Yks
His father died when
Moss was 10 years old and his mother when he was 13.
The 1871 census shows
Moss, 26 years old, unmarried, plasterer, born West Bradford, lodging at Lower
Heysham in Lancashire.
Moss was employed as a
plasterer and living at Stanhope, County Durham when he married Grace
Byers on the 10th of October 1871 at Gateshead Registry Office. They moved
to Darlington, where Moss' brother Joseph was living, sometime between 1871 and
1873. In 1881 they were living at 20
Eskdale Street, Darlington, a house which was later to belong to Moss'
Granddaughter, Emily until the mid 1980's.
The 1901 census
shows- 20 Eskdale Street, Darlington -
Moss Ormerod 57 plasterer born West Bradford, Yks
Grace Ormerod wife 57 born Fingland, Cumberland
John T Ormerod son 27 letter press ..... setting? born Darlington
William M Ormerod son 22 millwright, fitter born Darlington
Ruth G Ormerod daughter 20 born Darlington
David O Ormerod son 16 signal fitter born Darlington
1911 census- 20 Eskdale
Street, Darlington
Moss Ormerod head married 67 plasterer ( North East railways pension) born West
Bradford Yks
Grace Ormerod wife 68 married for 39 years ( 6 children born to marriage - 6
still living) born Fingland, Cumberland
John Ormerod son single 37 compositor* born Darlington
John Thomas Hopper Ormerod grandson 8 scholar born Darlington
* Compositor = person who set the type ready for printing
Moss and Grace had 6 children:-
 | John Thomas Whitfield
Ormerod- born in Darlington in 1873. Electoral registers for 1900 -1906
show John Ormerod renting a bedroom and the use of a sitting room, 1st and
ground floors, furnished, at 20 Eskdale Street, Darlington from his father
Moss Ormerod also of 20 Eskdale Street. Died at 20 Eskdale Street, aged 51
years. Buried at Darlington's West Cemetery on the 27th of January 1925,
grave S 6N 17. The ceremony was performed by the Reverend H E Barrell. |
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| Robert
Scott Ormerod ( my Great Grandfather) born in Darlington on the 8th of
December 1874 . Click on his name to find out more. |
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| Mary Jane Ormerod - born
in Darlington in 1876. In 1901 was visiting her Uncle Thomas in Clitheroe.
She married William Thompson at Greenbank Methodist
Chapel, Darlington on the 20th of May 1919. |
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| William Moss Ormerod
- born in Darlington in 1879. Married Mary Annie Street at Greenbank
Methodist Chapel, Darlington on the 24th of March 1906. Son Arthur born in
1909. Moved to Burton on Trent. |
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| Ruth Grace
Ormerod - Born in Darlington in 1881- was 1 month old when the census was taken, was living at 20 Eskdale Street, Darlington. In 1891 was living at 20 Eskdale Street, Darlington.
1925 Autumn Register -20 Eskdale Street - Ruth Grace Ormerod, Ada and Ernest Thompson and Edmund Craggs. Lived at 20 Eskdale Street until 1929. Married Carr Wressell in Darlington in the September quarter of 1928. |
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| David Osborne Ormerod
- born in Darlington in 1884.
Click for more. |
Moss was widowed in May
1922.
Moss died on the 29th
February 1924 at 20 Eskdale Street, Darlington, aged 80 years. The cause of
death was ` enlarged prostate cystitis (chronic) and secondary pneumonia'. His
son, David of 2 Freeman's Terrace, was with him when he died. Buried at
Darlington's West Cemetery on the 3rd of March 1924 in the same grave as his
wife Grace-
S 6S 73. The ceremony was performed by the Reverend W Howarth.
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