of Shawclough & Edgeside
Baptised on 21 January 1671.
The Court Roll reveals that on 1 February 1690/91 George took a 70year lease of a messuage and land at Shawclough of yearly rent 5/-(=15 Lancashire acres) at a rent of £8-10-0 per annum. George was only19 at this time.
By 1707 he was leasing two further messuages and land in Shawclough ofyearly rent 7/1d for 40 years, and in 1708 he bought outright fourmessuages and land of yearly rent 4/4d in Edgeside inWolfendenboothedgeside for £254 adding more land there, of yearly rent2/10 for £70 in 1710.
With these purchases he moved to Edgeside leaving his eldest son,George, and his nephew, John (8Cf1) at Shawclough.
Buried on 29 April 1729.
Will proved in 1730.In his will of 1730 George of Edgeside appoints his brother John ofCloughfold as his feoffee in fiducia for the disposal of his lands inthe Halmot Court.
The inventory of George's goods survived with his will.
Apart from household goods and three beasts and a horse 'in the leath'(i.e. the barn), he had 3 wheels, 2 pairs of combs, warping wogs,tings and two pairs of looms, 50lb of Jersey (£4-16-0), 182lb combedwool (£6-10-0), 52lb of butter (probably to dress wool) (£1-12-1),skin wool and fleece wool spun & weaved (£37-15-0), broad looms andgears (£1-15-0) and in debts owed to him (£193-5-2).
Besides this he had already set up his four eldest sons in estates oftheir own.
Possibly an Elizabeth Haworth, who was married to a George Ormerod on4 February 1690/91 in Haslingden.
Three of George's five sons called their eldest daughters Elizabeth,so it is believed that George's first wife was an Elizabeth.
Baptised in April 1699.
Buried in February 1699/1700.
Left a probate but no extant will.
Buried in 1736.
Will proved in 1736.