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Millions signed the three great Chartist petitions of 1839 to 1848. Thousands were active in those years in the campaign to win the vote, secret ballots, and other democratic rights that we now take for granted.
Chartist Ancestors lists many of those who risked their freedom, and sometimes their lives, because of their participation in the Chartist cause. The names included on the site are drawn from newspapers, court records and books of the time, from later histories and other sources.
I would like to thank the many historians, researchers and the descendents of those associated with Chartism who have helped with this site since it was launched in 2003.
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Chartist land company subscribers in Rochdale
This page lists all those named in the Chartist land company share register with Rochdale, Lancashire addresses. It includes 285 people, and has a small number of double entries (see explanation).
During the 1840s, more than 70,000 people subscribed to the land company in the hope that they would be allocated land on one of the colonies of smallholdings established by the Chartist movement to rehouse industrial workers.
Find out more about the Chartist Land Company and understand the context for these names. See other towns for which we have lists of subscribers to the venture.
The lists were transcribed by Professor Jamie Bronstein of New Mexico State University during the course of her PhD research in the early 1990s. Chartist Ancestors is grateful to her for persmission to reproduce the lists here, believing that many family historians will find something of interest in them.
Professor Bronstein is also the author of Land Reform and Working-Class Experience in Britain and the United States, 1800-1862
A note of warning
There are likely to be many inconsistencies and errors in the lists that follow. Many of the would-be shareholders themselves may not have had a consistent way of spelling their
own name and address and may have used informal versions not found on official maps and documents. Details from whatever written application they sent to the Land Company's offices were then copied by hand into a leather-bound ledger by clerks who may have had to guess at handwriting and abbreviations. Some 150 years later, these ledger entries were typed into a spreadsheet for private academic study. And finally, a further decade and a half on, they have been converted from one redundant software package to a more modern program, and some tidying up has been carried out before publication.
If entries here do not entirely tally with those for what may be the same people in the 1851 census or in other sources, then human error at one or some of these stages may be the explanation. Similarly, census entries also go through similar processes, and similar errors occur.
1 May 1847 |
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Robert Butterworth |
weaver |
Mizzey Buildings, Rochdale |
John Butterworth |
weaver |
Miln Row, Rochdale |
Thomas Butterworth |
spinner |
Stud Shaw, Rochdale |
David Brook |
calico printer |
Belfield, Rochdale |
Thomas Butterworth |
weaver |
Spotland, Rochdale |
Robert Buckley |
spinner |
Wandleworth Brow, Rochdale |
William Bailey |
calico printer |
Moss Rochdale |
Samuel Bloomley |
calico printer |
Belfield, Rochdale |
James Brook |
calico printer |
Belfield, Rochdale |
Tempest Bertwell |
calico printer |
Hamer Row, Rochdale |
Bertwell Bertwell |
calico printer |
Hamer Row, Rochdale |
Richard Baldwin |
weaver |
Droylsden, Scotch Row |
Mary Brierly |
spinner |
Toad Lane, Rochdale |
William Bake |
labourer |
Church Style, Rochdale |
Samuel Butterworth |
weaver |
Further Heights, Rochdale |
Edward Butterworth |
weaver |
Miln Row, Rochdale |
Abraham Butterworth |
weaver |
Penfold, Rochdale |
Joseph Collier |
tinplate worker |
Church Style, Rochdale |
James Cheatam |
weaver |
West Street, Rochdale |
John Calver |
weaver |
Lower Place, Rochdale |
Samuel Clegg |
painter |
Hope Street, Rochdale |
John Collin |
calico printer |
Wardleworth Brow, Rochdale |
Edward Conway |
shoemaker |
Sawfold, Rochdale |
Henry Crossley |
weaver |
Mount Pleasant, Rochdale |
James Chadwick |
jobber |
Gibson Row, Rochdale |
Edward Chadwick |
jobber |
Gibson Row, Rochdale |
James Clegg |
flax dresser |
Mill Gate, Rochdale |
Joseph Eccleston |
labourer |
Oldham Road, Rochdale |
Joseph Ferbershaw |
grinder |
Yorkshire Street, Rochdale |
John Fallon |
tailor |
Toad Lane, Rochdale |
James Fielding |
weaver |
Portland Street, Rochdale |
John Ferturshaw |
grinder |
Yorkshire Street, Rochdale |
Edmund Fletcher |
falling miller |
Little Borough Rochdale |
Robert Gill |
joiner |
Spencer Street, Rochdale |
Thomas Greenwood |
weaver |
John Street, Rochdale |
Thomas Holl |
weaver |
Town Hall Rochdale |
George Hoth |
taker-in |
Ending Near Rochdale |
Joseph Hokes |
labourer |
Rope Street Rochdale |
Mary Heaton |
rover |
Oldham Road, Rochdale |
Robert Hall |
clogger |
Small Bridge Rochdale |
Mark Ingle |
hatter |
Hope Street, Rochdale |
John Ingle |
inkeeper |
Cheetham Street Rochdale |
Robert Jones |
mason |
Temple Street Rochdale |
John Kershaw |
jobber |
Sackery, Rochdale |
Henry Kershaw |
labourer |
Oldfield, Rochdale |
Jabez Kershaw |
labourer |
Oldfield, Rochdale |
James Kershaw |
miner |
Small Bridge, Rochdale |
Squire Kitching |
labourer |
Rochdale |
Thomas Livesey |
brassmoulder |
Washinton Place, Rochdale |
Edward Lomax |
weaver |
Back George Street, Rochdale |
Anna Law |
weaver |
Oldham Road, Rochdale |
James Law |
weaver |
Wardle Near Rochdale |
Robert Laplow |
washer |
West Street, Rochdale |
Henry Massey |
weaver |
Little Borough, Near Rochdale |
George Morton |
blackingmaker |
Sportland Bridge, Rochdale |
Edward Mitchel |
tailor |
Princess Street, Rochdale |
William Mills |
stationer |
Cheetham Street, Rochdale |
James Mills |
jobber |
Drake Street, Rochdale |
John Marwin |
framework knitter |
Townhead Street, Rochdale |
Samuel Ogden |
warper |
Mount Pleasant Rochdale |
William Ogden |
warper |
Mount Pleasnat, Rochdale |
Abraham Ogden |
warper |
Mount Pleasant, Rochdale |
Jacob Partington |
weaver |
Oldham Road, Rochdale |
Isaac Partington |
mechanic |
Oldham Road, Rochdale |
John Pallet |
joiner |
Littleboroough, Near Rochdale |
John Pelling |
mason |
Millgrade, Rochdale |
Twilliam Rhodes |
weaver |
Nelson Street Rochdale |
Benjamin Rudman |
hawker |
Shaw Clough, Rochdale |
George Rhodes |
mechanic |
Water Street, Rochdale |
Francis Rhodes |
shoemaker |
Nelson Street, Rochdale |
Joseph Randman |
weaver |
Shaw Clough, Rochdael |
Charles Radcliffe |
woolsorter |
Regent Street, Rochdale |
Joseph Rigg |
weaver |
Buckley Street Rochdale |
Charles Shaw |
blacksmith |
Church Stile, Rochdale |
Henry Smith |
spindlemaker |
Town Head, Rochdale |
Matthew Sheppard |
weaver |
Water Street, Rochdale |
Reuben Sheppard |
carter |
Water Street, Rochdale |
Joseph Shaw |
labourer |
Rochdale |
William Taylor |
baker |
Charles Street, Rochdale |
Ambrose Tomlinson |
labourer |
Clegg Buildings Rochdale |
Thoams Taylor |
miner |
Sudden Brow, Rochdale |
William Taylor |
weaver |
Shaw Clough, Rochdale |
Samuel Whitworth |
plasterer |
Portland Street Rochdale |
John Wardle |
tailor |
Mount Pleasant, Rochdale |
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17 July 1847 |
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Jabez Kershaw |
labourer |
Harner Lane, Rochdale |
Squire Kitchen |
moulder |
Proncess Street Rochdale |
5 Feb 1848 |
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James Kershaw |
labourer |
Drake Street Rochdale |
Thomas Kershaw |
weaver |
West Street Rochdale |
William Kershaw |
weaver |
Kershaw Street Rochdale |
John Kenworthy |
slubber |
Pleasant View Rochdale |
Thomas Kershaw |
smith |
Brown Street Rochdale |
Edmund Kershaw |
labourer |
Lower Place Street Rochdale |
Berym Kershaw |
labourer |
Pleasant View Joseph Moss Rochdale |
Thomas Kershaw |
weaver |
Law Fields Mill Row Rochdale |
Thomas Lord |
scutcher |
Field Head Rochdale |
Samuel Law |
engineer |
Oldham Road Rochdale |
Samuel Leach |
dyer |
Pits Road Rochdale |
Charles Law |
shoemaker |
Law Fold Rochdale |
William Lloyd |
brick setter |
Packer Meadow Square, Rochdale |
Edmund Lord |
weaver |
Bank Side, Rochdale |
Emmannuel Lee |
labourer |
Water Streetm Rochdale |
James Lord |
blacksmith |
Temple Street, Rochdale |
Jane Lord |
servant |
Temple Street, Rochdale |
Samuel Lees |
finisher |
Lower Hay Street, Rochdale |
Richard Leeming |
grocer |
Enden Street, Rochdale |
Thomas Mitchell |
weaver |
Littleborough Near Rochdale |
William Minsey |
calico printer |
Dick Field Rochdale |
Benjamin Marsden |
overlooker |
Bank Side Rochdale |
James Nuttall |
engineer |
Bacup Rochdale |
Job Newby |
barber |
Drake Street Rochda;E |
Edwin Oldham |
hatter |
Penfold Rochdale |
John Ormrod |
weaver |
Bacup Rochdale |
Henry Ogden |
weaver |
Bacup Rochdale |
James Partington |
weaver |
Cromley Lane Rochdale |
Richard Parkington |
labourer |
Oldham Road Rochdale |
Edward Rich |
mule spinner |
Water Street Rochdale |
William Richmond |
shoemaker |
Dick Fields Rochdale |
George Rothwell |
woolsorter |
Holland Street Rochdale |
James Rothwell |
woolsrter |
Regent St Rochdale |
John Rudman |
weaver |
Shaw, Clough, Rochdale |
Robert Rudman |
weaver |
Shaw, Clough, Rochdale |
James Rigg |
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Field Head Rochdale |
Thomas Schofield |
labourer |
New Bold Rochdale |
John Schofield |
labourer |
New Bold Rochdale |
James Schofield |
labourer |
New Bold Rochdale |
John Shaw |
mechanic |
Great George Street Rochdale |
James Smith |
green grocer |
High Street Rochdale |
James Schofield |
picker maker |
St James St Rochdale |
Thomas Stott |
weaver |
Field Head Rochdale |
John Stott |
weaver |
George Street Rochdae |
Thomas Smith |
labourer |
Newbold Street Rochdale |
Robert Stewartson |
sawyer |
Union Street Rochdale |
Alice Feargus Arthur O'Connor Stuart |
minor |
Newbold Street Rochdale |
John Simcock |
hatter |
Sudden Street Rochdale |
Charles Smith |
finisher |
Oldham Road Rochdale |
John Taylor |
labourer |
Drake Street Rochdale |
John Taylor |
labourer |
School Lane Rochdale |
Henry Tuck |
labourer |
Richard St Rochdale |
William Tailor |
boilermaker |
Accrington Rochdale |
Anna Townley |
spinner |
Oldham Road Rochdale |
Thomas Taylor |
weaver |
Coal Bank Rochdale |
William Tuck |
carder |
Richard St Rochdale |
John Tuck |
jobber |
Richard St Rochdale |
Samuel Taylor |
spinner |
Vale Mill Rochdale |
John Turner |
tenter |
Mary Lane Rochdale |
Lucy Taylor |
tuler? |
West St Rochdale |
Bery Travis |
self actor |
Oldham Rd Rochdale |
Edmund Travis |
shoemaker |
Oldham Rd Rochdale |
Thomas Taylor |
shopkeeper |
Church Lane Rochdale |
John Williams |
hatter |
Penfold Rochdale |
Charles Walkden |
hatter |
John Street Rochdale |
John Walkden |
barber |
Market Place Rochdale |
Samuel Web |
miner |
Toad Lane Rochdale |
James Walker |
shoemaker |
Fleece Street Rochdale |
Thomas Ashworth |
sawyer |
Sudden Rochdale |
John Ashworth |
cotton spinner |
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Thomas Simpson |
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Holme Rochdale |
William Ashtowrth |
weaver |
Hay Head Rochdale |
William Arnett |
hatter |
29 Hook St Salford |
George Richard Ashworth |
minor |
Dawson Sq Rochdale |
Jesse Ashworth |
weaver |
Small Bridge Rochdale |
Alice Feargus Arthur O'Connor Stuart |
minor |
Newbold Rochdale |
Mary Waterhouse |
widow |
Moseley Rochdale |
Henry Wrigley |
deviler |
Oldham Rd Rochdale |
Robert Waterhouse |
spinner |
Moseley Rochdale |
Joseph Waterhouse |
weaver |
Moseley Rochdale |
Thomas Wild |
grinder |
New Bold Rochdale |
Joseph Fielding Wood |
laabourer |
Whisworth Rochdale |
Benjamin Wayman |
printer |
Belfield Rochdale |
John Whitehead |
joiner |
Great George St Rochdale |
Samuel Woleyhead |
printer |
Belfield Rochdale |
Thomas West |
labourer |
Hamer Mill Lane Rochdale |
Richard Wilson |
weaver |
Whitworth Rd Rochdale |
James Wild |
spinner |
Vale Mill Rochdale |
William Whip |
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Benjamin Brierley |
weaver |
Rochdale |
Charles Butterworth |
grinder |
Mitchell Hay Rochdale |
John Butterworth |
cotton spinner |
Mitchell Hay Rochdale |
Joseph Butterworth |
overlooker |
Facet Rochdale |
William Butterworth |
wiredrawer |
High St Rochdale |
William Bollourley |
mechanic |
Oldham Rd Rochdale |
James Buckley |
dresser |
Dawson Sq Rochdale |
John Barrett |
weaver |
Ladie House Rochdale |
Joseph Barnes |
calico printer |
New Bold Rochdale |
John Booth |
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Block Cutter Cricket Field Moss Rochdale |
Thomas Butterworth |
labourer |
Princes St Rochdale |
George Bradley |
overlooker |
Honey Field Rochda;E |
Abel Bradley |
hatter |
Pinfold Rochdale |
Thomas Baxter |
weaver |
Chadwick Hall Rochdale |
William Brook |
smith |
Pleasant View Rochdale |
James Butterworth |
weaver |
Holland St Rochda;E |
Benjamin Butterworth |
weaer |
Vale Mill Rochdale |
Richard Bentley |
engineer |
Whitworth Rochdale |
William Brierley |
dresser |
Nuke The Field Rochdale |
James Butterworth |
weaver |
Milnrow Rochdale |
Edward Butterworth |
weaver |
Milnrow Rochdale |
Sally Butterworth |
spinner |
Milnrow Rochdae |
John Bamford |
weaver |
Howard St Rochdale |
Hannah Bradley |
widow |
Honey Field Rochdale |
Richard Banister |
spinner |
Field House Rochdale |
Samuel Butterworth Jr |
cotton carder |
Welfield Rochdale |
William Burgess |
hatter |
Sudden Rochdale |
Samuel Butterworth |
engineer |
Welfield Rochdale |
Peter Brierley |
hatter |
Pinfold Rochdale |
Joseph Carter |
mechanic |
Oldham Rd Rochdale |
Edmund Clegg |
painter |
Casson Clough Rochdale |
Edward Cunliffe |
hatter |
John St Rochdale |
Abraham Crabtree |
joiner |
Pinfold Rochdale |
James Chadwick |
card dealer |
Oaken Rod Hall Rochdale |
John Clayton |
labourer |
Littleborough Rochdale |
Thomas Chadwick |
warehouseman |
Drake St Rochdale |
John Crabtree |
spiner |
Dunkirk Rochdale |
John Clark |
labourer |
Fentons Rochdale |
Edmund Cryer |
calico printer |
Harner Bottoms Rochdale |
Joseph Clegg |
tailor |
Toad Lane Rochdale |
Samuel Cooper |
spinner |
Milkstone Rochdlae |
Edmund Cooper |
coller |
Greengate Rochdale |
Edward Chatham |
weaver |
Milkstone Rochdale |
John Lord Carter |
labourer |
Belfield Mill Rochdale |
John Cockcroft |
weaver |
Gibsons Row Rochdale |
Thoms Forrest |
block cutter |
New Bold Rochdale |
John Fielding |
grinder |
Hamer Bottoms Rochdale |
Henry Farrand |
weaver |
Portland Pl Rochdale |
George Foster |
weaver |
Smelshaw Rochdale |
John Fitton |
weaver |
Milkstone Rochdale |
George Greenwood |
spinner |
Bankside Rochdale |
John Gill |
self actor |
Oldhaam Rd Rochdale |
John Grimshaw |
block cutter |
Hamer Bottoms Rochdale |
Edward Grimshaw |
labourer |
Hamer Bottoms Rochdale |
Frederick Greenwood |
mechanic |
Bank Side Rochdale |
Samuel Grindrod |
roller coverer |
Nuk-The-Field Rochdale |
Thomas Grindrod |
block printer |
Hamer Bottoms Rochdale |
John Holland |
scotton spinner |
Stone Fold Central Rossendale Rochdale |
William Hanson |
weaver |
Rawtenstall Rochdale |
John Howarth |
labourer |
Holt Holme Mill Rochda;E |
Edwin Holt |
labourer |
Holt Holme Mill Rochdale |
William Holt Sr |
dyer |
New Hall Hey Rochdale |
William Holt Jr |
loom tackler |
New Hall Hey Rochdale |
Richard Holt |
woolen carder |
New Hall Hey Rochdale |
Thomas Holt |
woolen spinner |
New Hall Hey Rochdale |
James Holt |
woolen rover |
New Hall Hey Rochdale |
Thomas Holt |
labourer |
Holt Holme Mill Rochdale |
Samuel Holt |
printer |
Beffield Littleborough Rochdale |
William Holt |
printer |
Beffield Littleborough Rochale |
John Holding |
weaver |
Lovels Row Rochdale |
John Hollawell |
hatter |
Pinfold Rochdale |
Richard Hargreaves |
clogger |
Temple St Rochdale |
Robert Hebbershaw |
mechanic |
Oldham Rd Rochdale |
Robert Hacking |
printer |
Princess St Rochdale |
John Hoyle Sr |
machinemaker |
Gilbert St Rochdale |
John Hoyle Jr |
machinemaker |
Gilbert St Rochdale |
James Heaton Jr |
brickmaker |
Royton Rochdale |
James Heaton Sr |
brickmaker |
Royton Rochdale |
William Harrison |
hatter |
Sudden Brow Rochdale |
James Hargreaves |
labourer |
John St Rochdale |
John Holl |
spinner |
Cottage Houses Rochdale |
Abraham Holl |
spinner |
School Lane Rochdale |
Robert Holl |
brewer |
Spring Gardens Rochdale |
Henry Holl |
labourer |
Spring Gardens Rochdale |
Hames Holl |
spinner |
Low Fold Rochdale |
James Holt |
weaver |
Brickfield Rochdale |
Edmund Holt |
shopkeeper |
Blackwater Rochdale |
John Hollows |
block printer |
Falinge Rd Rochdale |
Thomas Hollows |
weaver |
Falinge Rd Rochdale |
Thomas Healey |
joiner |
Pleasant View Rochdale |
William Howarth |
shoemaker |
Low Folds Rochdale |
John Hague |
weaver |
Nuke The Fields Rochdale |
Thomas Holt |
deviler |
Mossy Lane Rochdale |
Benjamin Howarth |
spinner |
Oldham Rd Rochdale |
Abraham Hague |
weaver |
Dicke Field Rochdale |
Christopher Harrison |
dresser |
Milkstone Rochdale |
Samuel Holden |
labourer |
Hamilton Fold Rochdale |
James Haywood |
weaver |
Milkstone Rochdale |
Philip Johnson |
weaver |
Oldham Rd Rochdale |
John Johnson |
weaver |
Union St Rochdale |
Henry Johnson |
spinner |
Oldham Rd Rochdale |
Daniel Jorden |
pattern maker |
Gibson Row Rochdale |
William Ingle |
carder |
Foot Mill Rochdale |
Thomas Jackson |
labourer |
Vale Mill Rochdale |
James Jackson |
joiner |
Albert St Rochdale |
Thomas Jackson |
weaver |
26 King St Preston |
John Jackson Jr |
weaver |
2 Colnton Court Preston |
John Jackson Sr |
weaver |
Club St Bamber Br Walton Le D. Preston |
John Janson |
tin plate worker |
71 Friargate Preston |
John Jump |
spinner |
23 Higford Preston |
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