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Parish Album: The First Rector
| The Revd Henry Norburn was the first Rector of St Agnes from 1885 to 1923. Click on a thumbnail to enlarge - then use the 'back' button to return to this album index. |
parishioners in memory of Henry
Nornurn
Nornurn
looking down Norburn Road from
Hamilton Road
Hamilton Road
| These words were sent in by Canon Richard Norburn and are reproduced here with his kind permission. The first ancestor we have found is Henry Norburn Roxham never seems to have had more than 40 or so people and there were just 2 farms, on one of which Henry was tenant. He lived from 1727 to 1783 and had 13 children of whom at least six died in their first 6 months and as far as we know only two had families of their own. One of these was another Henry (1776 to 1847), who after his much older brother farmed the Roxham land. He had 5 children, one of whom, Richard (1819 to 1891) is my great-grandfather. An older son, William (1813 to 1885) was the father of "your" Henry. William and his wife Rhoda had a farm at Denver, very close to Roxham. They had ten children of whom Henry was the third, born in 1842. We haven't yet found out much about his brothers and sisters but one died at 11 months in 1849 and one sister (Mary) was a school teacher at Ilkeston, Derbyshire, in 1881 and a brother was a Farm labourer just the other side of Downham at the same date. Henry had meanwhile been to London University, been ordained and got married by the 1881 Census. His wife was Jessie Morley from Newark, Nottinghamshire. So unless she had a second name, the church dedication was not from her! There first child, Horace, was born at Newark in 1868. They must have then moved to Ashton-on-Ribble, where Edith J. was born in 1869, Gertrude in 1871 and Fredrick William in 1873. They then must have moved to Withington, where Harry E. was born in 1875, and then into Rusholme where they had two more children Sybil in 1879 and Ethel M. in 1880. In the 1881 census their address is "The Oaks", Birch Lane, Rusholme. In 1891 they lived at "Crowcroft", Stockport Road, Longsight, and had Jessie's widowed mother with them. They were in the same house in 1901 and most of the family were still there. Horace was a Foreman engineer in ironworks, Edith, Gertrude and Sybil were all teaching English in a Ladies School and Ethel was a kindergarten teacher in the same school. Henry was in the new area for several years before the church was built and plainly saw it through its planning and then gave it the rest of his life! |
Corner of Norburn Road with Slade
Lane, St Agnes' in the distance
Lane, St Agnes' in the distance
Norburn Road looking towards Slade
Hall on Slade Lane
Hall on Slade Lane
Victoria Terrace - one of a number of
terraces forming Norburn Road
terraces forming Norburn Road
view of St Agnes' through ginnel on
Norburn Road
Norburn Road
the Lady Chapel was created in
memory of Henry Norburn. This picture
shows the altar and some furnishings.
In the 1980's the chapel was changed
in to a vestry.
memory of Henry Norburn. This picture
shows the altar and some furnishings.
In the 1980's the chapel was changed
in to a vestry.
