Names that have been changed



For legal and other reasons – typically for bequests and matters of inheritance – several local people have changed their names.

Some of these were



Fred Akroyd
Johnson Atkinson
Matthew Ayrton

James Baldam
John Baldam
Ernest Barsdorf
Henry Barsdorf
Philip Barsdorf
William Edward Barton
James Thomas Berry
Cautley Holmes Bottomley
Moses Nathaniel Bottomley
the daughters of Currer Fothergill Busfeild
William Busfeild
William Busfeild

Croslegh Dampier-Crossley
Rev Hugh Noel Conway Davies
Albert Wilhelm Dehner
Samuel Dixon

Harry Booth Eagland
Dr Bogdan Edward Jastrzębski Edwards

Reginald Fruhe-Sutcliffe

John Gay



Rev Walter Buchanan Gegg
Luke Henry Goodyear

Martin Hallas
Winchcombe Henry, son of Samuel Hartley
Walter Hawksworth
Thomas Hirst
Arthur Holdsworth-Groom
The children of Robert Hollas
Elkanah Holroyd
John Hoyle

John Edward Rice Jones

Arthur Thompson Longbottom
Lewis Henry Longbottom

Henry Hale MacDougall
Dr John William MacVine
Rev Alfred Master
George Montagu-Dunk

Alfred Pigg
Rev Edwin Powell
Clement Priestley

Sir Joseph Radcliffe
John de Rastrick



John Riley
Edward Rookes
Naomi Gwladys Royde-Smith

Children of William Henry Sandbach
Annie Butterworth Sandbach-Marshall
William Lacy Sandbach-Marshall
John de Schipeden
Samuel Schorfield
Henry John Selwin-Ibbetson
William Edward Sharp
William Algernon Simpson-Hinchliffe
George Henry Smith
Michael Holroyd Smith
Samuel Milne Smith
Alfred Gorton Spencer
David Squire
John Squire
Tom Haigh Sunderland
Evan Charles Sutherland-Walker

Sir Frederick Whitley Thomson
Asheton Tonge

Richard Wainhouse
John Wheelwright
John Wheelwright
Herbert James Whiteley



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