Huddersfield Daily Chronicle (31/Dec/1892) - Local Obituary for 1892
LOCAL OBITUARY FOR 1892.
Following our usual custom, we this morning publish, in an abbreviated form, our local obituary for the past year. The list is specially compiled for the Daily Chronicle by one whose knowledge of Huddersfield and Huddersfield men, extending over a number of years, renders it of peculiar value. It is perused each year with melancholy interest by those whose memories can carry them back to the time when the departed worthies took a more or less active interest in the affairs of the town. This year death has been busy amongst the more prominent men of the town, the number of whom in the subjoined list is, we are assured, larger than for several years past. As the list is prepared without any regard to the ages of the persons included, a comparison may not be out of place. The number in the list is a slight increase on the previous year, viz., 55. For two years the average age has been 65. This year it is a fraction over 64, which speaks well for the healthiness of a manufacturing community like ours. The list is as follows :—
January | 1 | Joseph Marsden | woollen merchant | 65 |
2 | Edward Hath, J.P. | shipping merchant | 75 | |
4 | John Worthington | hairdresser and perfumer | 50 | |
6 | Richard Hartley | formerly verger at St. John's | 86 | |
8 | Thomas Rhodes | retired builder | 67 | |
9 | William D. Henshall | formerly carpet warehouseman | 80 | |
12 | Luke Schofield (of Marsh) | quarry owner | 72 | |
22 | Ernest C. Walker (of Lindley) | manufacturer | 27 | |
23 | Llewellyn R. Bibby | solicitor | 42 | |
23 | Alexander Hathorn | formerly agent to the Ramsden Estate | 76 | |
28 | Rev. W.B. Calvert, M.A. | formerly vicar of St. Peter's | 71 | |
31 | Joseph Travis Clay | retired worsted manufacturer | 87 | |
February | 4 | Mark M. Kertland | surveyor to the Ramsden Estate | 74 |
9 | George Thomas Wright | formerly tea dealer | 65 | |
18 | Joseph Stork | yarn spinner | 71 | |
19 | Alfred Milnes Blackburn | salesman and traveller | 50 | |
March | 7 | James T. Wigney | art dealer | 76 |
9 | John Wilkinson | woollen merchant | 77 | |
20 | John Ogston | formerly woollen merchant | 70 | |
20 | Edward Dyson | retired draper | 50 | |
21 | William H. Hattersley | retired manufacturer | 61 | |
22 | Jonas Craven | solicitor | 60 | |
22 | Lawrence Pitkethley | formerly waste dealer | 77 | |
April | 5 | John William Walker | formerly draper | 65 |
17 | Walter Armitage | solicitor | 56 | |
22 | Rev. Eli Whitehead | Swedenborgian minister | 69 | |
22 | James Young | brush maker | 72 | |
23 | Eli Gaukroger | shopkeeper | 77 | |
25 | John W. Hinchliffe | whitesmith and gas fitter | 68 | |
27 | James Hartley | retired wool buyer | 75 | |
May | 16 | Friend Tinker | aerated water manufacturer | 55 |
19 | Walter Love | formerly pawnbroker | 67 | |
June | 11 | George Heywood | builder | 67 |
July | 18 | Charles Wood | retired cotton waste merchant | 81 |
27 | William Schofield | retired accountant | 65 | |
August | 10 | Joseph Lodge | furniture dealer | 72 |
13 | Sam Wilkinson | flock and waste dealer | 49 | |
September | 5 | William Bartin | teacher of singing | 48 |
17 | Benjamin Jowett | retired shopkeeper | 67 | |
25 | John Matthewman | grocer | 71 | |
26 | William Fox | formerly woollen merchant | 74 | |
October | 5 | Edmund Henry Walker | retired boot and shoe dealer | 69 |
7 | Henry Davison | cigar merchant | 61 | |
7 | John Chilton | retired Excise officer | 67 | |
19 | Frederick Learoyd | formerly cotton spinner | 64 | |
22 | John Clayton | cabinet maker | 58 | |
22 | Walter Turner | manager of the Co-operative Society — wholesale department | 43 | |
28 | Thomas Denham, J.P. | retired linen draper | 74 | |
November | 1 | George J. Turton | bank cashier | 44 |
5 | George Sykes | formerly stamp distributor | 52 | |
7 | Joe Webb Tempest | formerly accountant | 65 | |
16 | Law L. Stead | builder and contractor | 56 | |
22 | George Winter Rhodes | surgeon | 69 | |
December | 6 | Thomas Robinson | retired solicitor | 76 |
16 | Frank H. Walker | manufacturer | 35 |