Author: LAW, William
Biography:
LAW, William (1798-1866: ancestry.co.uk)
He was born at Spencer House, Langfield, Yorkshire, and baptised on 16 Nov. 1798 at Todmorden, Cross Stone, Yorkshire, the fourth of five children of Zachariah Law (1765-1839) and Hannah/Anna Sutcliffe (1766-1831), who had married in 1787. Nothing is known of his education but he seems to have first become a school usher at Todmorden. He married Charlotte Kay on 5 Nov. 1826 at St. James’s, Wardleworth, Rochdale, Lancashire, with his occupation given as schoolmaster and his brother Thomas Sutcliffe Law as a witness. They went on to have seven sons. For reasons unknown they baptised three adolescent sons in 1847 at St. George’s, Sowerby, Yorkshire. The eldest son, William Edwin (1828-83), became a music teacher and four sons became tailors or cotton twisters and pattern takers. In the 1851 and 1861 censuses they were living at Wharf Street, Sowerby Bridge. He was master of the Endowed School at Sowerby Bridge for thirty-six years (burial record) and sometime vestry clerk. His wife also seems to have taught at the school. He died on 16 Jan. at 1 Greenups Terrace, Warley, Sowerby Bridge, and was buried on 21 Jan. at St. Peter’s, Sowerby. His wife, Charlotte, died in 1873 and was buried next to him. The Wanderings of a Wanderer was issued in parts in 1830-2 and consisted of three cantos. It is rare, with the only complete copy in Manchester Central Library and an incomplete copy of Cantos II and III in the Empsall Collection at Bradford Central Library. (ancestry.co.uk 6 Jan. 2024; findmypast.co.uk 6 Jan. 2024; Todmorden Advertiser 27 Jan. 1866, 20 Apr. 1877, 8 July 1881, 12 Mar. 1890; Sutton, 70; Halifax Books, 138; Malcolm Bull, calderdalecompanion.co.uk) AA
Other Names:
- W. Law