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This section features research into two entrepreneurs based in the Manchester area :
Richard Crumbleholme [Cro0154] (1768-1814) and his younger brother Thomas Crombleholme [Cro0161] (1777-1815). They descend from the main Dutton family via the Crombleholme Fold family.
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Their Parents were Thomas Crombleholme [Cro0146] (1735-1818) and his wife Agnes (nee Teebay) [Cro0147] (1739-1797).
Thomas Crumbleholme [Cro0146] (senior) was born in 1735, the son of Richard Crombleholme [Cro0123] who was the last member of the family living at Crombleholme Fold in Goosnargh. The family moved to nearby Inglewhite "with a view to embarking in a manufacturing business" (Source : Chetham Old Series Vol 105 p259).
Richard Crombleholme [Cro0123] (1694-1770) was one of the
Little is known about Thomas C's [146] (sen)'s early life. However, by the time he married aged 30 in 1765, he had already moved (c1763) to nearby Garstang and was earning a living as a dyer.
Later in 1801, he was still a dyer but also a farmer in the Garstang area and in a letter written in 1801 to his eldest son John Crombleholme [Cro0152] (who was then living in Bordeaux, France), he describes himself as ....”being in a comfortable position, carrying on the business of dyeing, as well as farming with his son in law William Bamber" (husband of his daughter Elizabeth C [160]) (Source : Chetham Old series Vol 105 p259)
1765 - 14th January : Thomas Crombleholme [Cro0146] of the parish of Garstang, Dyer, married Agnes (nee Teebay) [Cro0147] of the parish of Blackburn, spinister at St Helens Church, Garstang. Married by licence, James Fisher, minister, (both signed), witnesses : John Thorney & Henry Lucas. (Source : Par Reg St Helens Garstang 1760-1769 entry 267 via Ancestry + IGI & Boyds Marriages* 372 p155)
They were Roman Catholics and were recorded as such :
1767 - Returns of Papists (see page for all C listings)
Thomas Crombleholme [Cro0146] Dyer 32 Kirkland 4 (years in area) (Father)
Agnes C [Cro0147] (nee Teebay) 28 2 (mother)
John C [Cro0152] 1 1 (eldest child)
They had 8 children
John C [Cro0152] Eldest son born in 1766; educated in France as a monk but became a lecturer in Paris, married Eleonore de Balay, moved to Mauritius as Professor of English and became a plantation owner. John returned and died in Nantes, France in 1838 - no children. Full details
Richard C [Cro0154] born 1768; married Elizabeth (nee Bradshaw) [Cro0155] in 1787; 8 children; died 1815
George C [Cro0156] born 1770 - may have died as a child ?
Martin C [Cro0187] born 1774; died 1815 buried at Kirkland, Garstang (probably not married)
Mary C [Cro0158] born 1773; died 1821 (possibly not married)
Anne C [Cro0159] born 1775; died 1817; married Sam Kirton. Her daughter Elizabeth (nee Kirton) [Cro0533] married her cousin George Crombleholme [Cro0165] & moved to Ohio USA
Elizabeth C [Cro0160] born 1776; died 1823/43?; married William Bamber in 1798; they moved to Ohio in North America in 1819. The
Thomas C [Cro0161] born 1780; died before 1818; married Ann (nee Burgess) [Cro0629] 22/4/1802 in Wilslow, Cheshire. They had four children : Richard C [164] b1809 moved to Ohio d 1852; George C [165] b1814 moved to Ohio d1870; Mary Anne C [166] b1815; Catherine C [167] b 1818;
Richard’s [154] elder brother John Crombleholme [Cro0152] attended a local school at Garstang Church Town near his home until he was 14 years old until, in 1779, he was sent abroad to France and attended the College of Dieulouard in Lorraine. It is not known whether Richard Crombleholme [Cro0154], who was two years younger, also attended the local school in Garstang.
Richard Crombleholme [Cro0154] had followed his father into the dyeing trade and later farmed in Ordsall near Salford before founding the company noted below. (Source : for farming in Ordsall -Fishwick in his History of Goosnargh (p178)
1768 - .... ? : Richard Crombleholme [Cro0154] baptised at Kirkland in Garstang Parish (Source : Ancestry search PR Garstang for Crombleholme)
Marriage :
Marriage :
1787 - 30th December : Richard Crombleholme [Cro0154] “X” Dyer of this parish & town of Salford, married Elizabeth (nee Bradshaw) [Cro0155] “X” spinister of Salford aforesaid at Collegiate Church of St Mary, St Denys & St George, Manchester, Lancashire. Witness Henry Aspinall & Joseph Seddon. Banns Read: 1 Oct 1787, 2nd: 8 Oct 1787, 3rd: 15 Oct 1787. Married by Banns by: Humphrey Owen. (Source: LDS Film 2356674 + Register: Marriages 1787, Page 227, Entry 891) (Note Richard was 19 and Elizabeth (b1769) 18 years old; he made his mark here but signed his will in 1814.
They had 8 children :
Ann [Cro0206] born 1788; died 1861 Married Sam Kirton. Daughter married George C [165] & moved to Ohio
Thomas [Cro0207] born 1791; died 1820 (see 1803 below - Cotton College) Will SR3
Mary [Cro0210] born 1792; died 1866; married Jone Bone in 1828 (mother of John W Bone antiquarian)
Elizabeth [Cro0208] born 1793; died 1834 spinster of Manchester - her Will SR2 only notes her mother & sister Mary.
James [Cro0564] born 1795; died 1795 as an infant.
Agnes [Cro0565] born 1797; died 1797 as an infant.
Richard [Cro0209] born 1800; died 1821 killed in a fall from a horse
William Henry **[Cro1149] born Nov 1806 at Clifford, Hereforshire; (see Dudley family)
** Note : In 1814, his father Richard Crombleholme [Cro0154]’s will (SR4) states that William Henry Crombleholme [1149] - was the child of Elizabeth Cooksay otherwise Gaskell residing in Lothbury, London;
William [1149] later lived in Dudley, Worcs and married Maria (nee Mainwaring) [Cro1150] in 1834 & Amelia (nee Massey) [Cro1156] in 1855 - had 8 children; died 1891. See Dudley section
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