News
This page will be used to keep you updated regarding new items added to the site, and planned developments.
We'll endeavour to add new material to the site as often as we can, so please keep checking back for updates.
28/04/11 - Just in time for the Royal Wedding, we've added to the website details of a possible Ormerod royal connection: The Plantagenet Link. The connection might not be directly to the House of Windsor, but Whitaker's History of Whalley indicates that Mary Haydock, who married Peter Ormerod in about 1561, was a direct descendant of Edward III. This would mean that all descendants of Peter and Mary Ormerod were also direct descendants of Edward III (of the House of Plantagenet) and earlier monarchs.
Details of these descendants can be found in the Descendants of Peter Ormerod (of Ormerod) pedigree chart.
Mary's ancestry can be found at Ancestors of Mary Haydock (née Haydock), which contains source details for the information contained within the pedigree chart.
05/02/11 - All pedigrees in the Genealogy section of the website have now been fully updated. We've not had a chance to update these since January 2009, so a large amount of additional information is now available in some of the pedigrees.
One pedigree - for The Ormerods of Fence - has been expanded quite considerably. The majority of the information in this tree has been kindly provided by Dr Brian Ormerod, who has been researching this branch of the Ormerod Family for many years.
It's taken a considerable time to input the results of all the research conducted by Brian, so we're very pleased to finally be able to publish this to the site.
Pedigrees available at the Genealogy section relate to the following branches of the Ormerod Family:
A pedigree is also available for the Waddington Family of Lancashire.
31/05/10 - Information on the Dunkirk Memorial and Klein-Vierstraat British Cemetery has also been added to the Commonwealth War Graves Commission section of the site, along with new photographs of Underhill Farm Cemetery in Belgium.
21/05/10 - Additional information about Bruce Ormerod, who fought with the Hertfordshire Regiment during the First World War, and his younger brother, George Ellis Ormerod, who died whilst a prisoner of war during the Second World War, has now been added to the site. This additional information, along with photographs, was kindly provided by Eleanor Webb, a member of this branch of the family.
10/01/10 - Photographs of the Singapore Memorial in Kranji War Cemetery have now been added to the Commonwealth War Graves Commission section of the site, courtesy of Ahmed Pasic, who kindly took these over the New Year Period.
Amongst those commemorated on the Memorial is Richard Ormerod, who died in September 1944 whilst being transported to Japan as a prisoner of war, and Thomas Ormrod, who died in January 1942.
10/10/09 - Ian, Paul and Martin have recently returned from a trip to the Netherlands and Germany, where they were able to visit and photograph graves of and memorials to some of the Ormerod casualties from the Two World Wars:
| Albert Ormerod | Parachute Regiment | Groesbeek Memorial |
| Richard Ormerod | Pioneer Corps | Hamburg Cemetery |
| Tom Lawrence Ormerod | Royal Air Force | Hamburg Cemetery |
| George Ellis Ormerod | King's Royal Rifle Corps | Berlin 1939-1945 War Cemetery |
Photographs from this trip have now been added to the Commonwealth War Graves Commission section of the site and to the pages for the individual casualties commemorated.
12/01/09 - The Guestbook on the Ormerod Family Website had been experiencing problems following the move of RootsWeb servers to a new address. This resulted in the Guestbook being unavailable to sign for several months. This has now been rectified, but we apologise for any inconvenience caused during this time.
12/01/09 - All pedigrees in the Genealogy section of the website have now been fully updated. Many of these had originally been added to the site at the end of 2004, so a large amount of additional information is now available.
Pedigrees available at this section relate to the following branches of the Ormerod Family:
A pedigree is also available for the Waddington Family of Lancashire.
03/09/07 - Anina and Paul Ormerod have recently returned from a trip to Italy, where they were able to visit the Ormerod and Ormrod graves in Commonwealth War Graves Commission cemeteries there. Photographs of these graves, along with a map, showing the location of the cemeteries containing Ormerod/Ormrod casualties, have now been added to the Commonwealth War Graves Commission section of the site.
Photographs of the Firefighters Memorial outside St Paul's Cathedral, London, have now been added to the site. John James Ormerod, who died whilst serving with the Fire Service during the Second World War is commemorated on the Memorial.
Photographs of the grave of George Milner Ormerod, in the churchyard of St John sub Castro, Lewes, East Sussex, have also now been added to the site. George's son, George Wareing Drewry Ormerod, who was killed near Caen during the Second World War, is also commemorated on the grave.
Photographs of the grave of James Richard Ormrod, who died in Germany during the First World War, and who is buried in Cologne Southern Cemetery, can now be viewed in the Commonwealth War Graves Commission section of the site.
19/07/07 - A link to a Google Map, showing the location of Ormerod and Ormrod war graves and commemorations in France, has now been added to the site - Ormerod & Ormrod Commonwealth War Graves - France.
01/07/07 - A link to a Google Map, showing the location of Ormerod and Ormrod war graves and commemorations in Belgium, has now been added to the site - Ormerod & Ormrod Commonwealth War Graves - Belgium.
Maps showing the location of Ormerod and Ormrod war graves and commemorations elsewhere in the world will be added to the site in due course.
07/05/07 - Photographs of Ormerod and Ormrod graves in Atherton Cemetery, Greater Manchester, have now been added to the Graves & Memorials section of the website - including that of Harold Ormrod, who died in 1919, having served during the First World War with the Guards Machine Gun Regiment.
Further additions to site include photographs of the graves of Raymond Ormerod and William Ormerod in Penzance Cemetery, and photographs of commemorations to Doctor Young Ormerod, Willie Ormerod and Harold Ormrod, who all died during the First World War
28/01/07 - Details of Ormerod and Ormrod casualties from the Soldiers Died in the Great War Database and the Army Roll of Honour 1939-45 Database have now been added to the Two World Wars section of the website.
25/11/06 - Following a recent trip to the Gallipoli Peninsula, photographs of Ormerod graves and commemorations from the ill-fated Gallipoli Campaign of 1915 have now been added to the Commonwealth War Graves Commission section of the site.
Frank Ormerod and his brother, Robert Ormerod, both fell during the Campaign, as did Harold Ormerod, and George Booth Ormerod of Australia. Ormerods are commemorated on the Helles Memorial, in Twelve Tree Copse Cemetery, and on the Lone Pine Memorial.
14/10/06 - Photographs of the Plymouth Naval Memorial, and the names of Tom Ormerod, Jack Ormerod and Maurice Ormerod, commemorated upon it, have now been added to the Graves & Memorials section of the site.
An article on the Abraham Ormerod Medical Centre, Todmorden, Yorkshire, has also been added to the site.
16/09/06 - Articles on The Ormerod Bells, now housed in York Minster, and The Ormerod Home, St Anne's-on-Sea, have now been added to the site. These can be accessed directly from the links on this page, or through the History and then Ormerods sections.
02/08/06 - Information about Frank Edwin Ormerod, who was killed whilst serving with the Royal Air Force in 1942, has now been added to The Two World Wars section of the site. Much of the information about Frank's death has been made available through the research of Dirk Bruin, of Vlieland, and he has also kindly provided a photograph of Frank's grave in Vlieland General Cemetery.
We are still trying to obtain photographs of all Ormerod and Ormrod war graves and memorial inscriptions from around the world, and details of locations where these exist, but that we haven't managed to visit yet, have been added in a new War Graves Project section of the site. Hopefully we'll be able to obtain photographs of some more of these outstanding locations in the future.
A Surname History Card for the Ormerod Family was included in the September 2006 edition of Your Family Tree magazine, including a recommendation for the Ormerod Family Website, as well as Neville Ormerod's Family Website at http://website.lineone.net/~nevilleo, and the Ormerod Genealogy Forum at http://genforum.genealogy.com/ormerod.
07/07/06 - Photographs of the Soissons Memorial and the La Ferté-sous-Jouarre Memorial have now been added to the Graves & Memorials section of the site. Albert Ormerod and Victor James Ormerod are commemorated on the respective memorials.
23/04/06 - Photographs of gravestones around St James Church, Accrington, and Rishton War Memorial, have now been added to the Graves & Memorials section of the site.
04/02/06 - Details of Arnold and James Ormerod, brothers who fought in the First World War, have been added to the site. The details of Arnold and James' family, as well as photographs of the two brothers, have been kindly supplied by Trevor Ormerod.
A photograph of the grave of Elizabeth Ann Ashworth (née Ormerod), in the churchyard of Bethlehem Unitarian Church, Newchurch, Rossendale, has also been added to the site. This photograph was also supplied by Trevor Ormerod.
22/10/05 - Photographs of the graves of Robert and Edwin Ormerod in the churchyard of Ainsworth Methodist Church, Greater Manchester, have now been added to the Graves & Memorials section of the website. These photographs were kindly provided by Richard Cooke.
Photographs of Guisborough War Memorial, Yorkshire, which bears the name of James Ormerod, of the Yorkshire Light Infantry, have also now been added to the Graves & Memorials section of the site. These photographs were kindly provided by Ian Hudson.
A photograph of Benjamin Thomas Ormerod, who died whilst serving with the Royal Army Medical Corps during the First World War has now been added to the site.
17/10/05 - The site has now been updated with photographs of Ormerod and Ormrod graves from Commonwealth War Graves Commission cemeteries across northern France and Flanders.
These were taken during a trip undertaken by Ian, Paul and Martin at the end of July 2005.
Details of the cemeteries visited, and photographs from these have been added to the Commonwealth War Graves section of the site.
Further information about Ormerod and Ormrod casualties have been added to The Two World Wars section of the site.
09/07/05 - Further information from census returns has now been added in relation to Ormerod casualties from the First World War at The Two World Wars section of the site.
11/05/04 - A "Dynamic Family Tree" created from the main Ormerod GEDCOM file has now been created by Ian Ormerod using the Dynamic Family Tree Compiler 'DftCom2'. The can be accessed at Ormerod Dynamic Tree, and then by clicking on the tree icon. This can be found at the Genealogy section of the website.
N.B. 15/11/06 - The link to the Ormerod Dynamic Tree is currently unavailable. We apologise for any inconvenience this causes, and will advise on the News page when the link is available once again.
30/04/05 - Photographs of the Tower Hill Memorial, London, have been added to the Graves & Memorials section of the site.
21/04/05 - Additional information on Ormerods who served with the Australian Infantry Force during the First World War can now be found at the page detailing Ormerods in the Australian First World War Nominal Roll.
01/04/05 - Further details on Ormrod Casualties from the First World War have now been added to the site.
30/03/05 - New entries have now been added to the Graves & Memorials section of the site.
St James the Great, Haslingden
Information relating to Oliver Ogle Ormrod, who was killed whilst flying in the defence of Malta during the Second World War has been added to the site.
13/02/05 - There are numerous Ormerod links to the areas of Ballarat and Robe in South Australia, as a result of the endeavours of George Ormerod, a pioneer settler, who made his fortune there. Details of these links can be found in a page on South Australia in the Places section of the website.
06/02/05 - A page on Australian Ormerods has now been added to the site, along with the following records.
Ormerod Births in New South Wales - 1788-1905
Ormerod Marriages in New South Wales - 1788-1945
Ormerod Deaths in New South Wales - 1788-1945
Ormerods in the Australian First World War Nominal Roll
04/02/05 - A page containing details of Ormrod casualties recorded on the Commonwealth War Graves Debt of Honour Register has now been added to The Two World Wars section of the site.
30/01/05 - Photographs of Rosegrove Hall and Old Oak Cottage, at Lower Rosegrove Bridge, Burnley, have now been added to the Ormerods of Rosegrove page within the Genealogy section of the site.
07/11/04 - The following additions have been made to the Graves & Memorials section of the site.
| Stalybridge War Memorial | Whaley Bridge War Memorial |
| Southport (Duke St) Cemetery | St Andrew's Church, Burnley |
| Fence War Memorial | St Anne's Church, Fence |
| Wheatley Lane Methodist Church |
Additions have been made to the entries for Blackburn Cemetery, and further details from the 1901 Census have been added for individuals whose details can be found in The Two World Wars section of the site.
15/10/04 - A photograph of the grave of Emily Ormerod (d. 1888), widow of Laurence Ormerod, has now been added to the site. Emily is buried in the grounds of Cartmel Priory, Cumbria.
An article about Ormerod First Names has been added to the History of the Ormerods & In-Laws section of the site.
07/10/04 - Details of Ormerod entries from the First World War Medal Rolls can now be found in the Two World Wars section of the site.
03/10/04 - Amendments have been made to the information in the Genealogy section of the site relating to the Ormerods of Giggleswick & Rochdale and the Ormerods of Foxstones.
The additional information about the Ormerods of Giggleswick & Rochdale was kindly supplied by Andrew Bowcock, who has been researching this branch of the Ormerods.
A page for Candie Cemetery, St Peter Port, Guernsey has now been added to the Graves & Memorials section of the site.
02/10/04 - A photograph of the service medals and death plaque of Andrew Ormerod, who died during the First World War, have now been added to the site.
A photograph of the grave of Arthur Albert Ormerod, who also died in the First World War, and who is buried at Cabaret-Rouge British Cemetery, Souchez, France, has been added to the site.
21/09/04 - The Genealogy section of the site has been updated and details of another branch of the Ormerods - the Ormerods of Giggleswick & Rochdale - have now been added.
Individuals and vital information have been added for the following branches of the Ormerod Family.
Details of the Hudsons & Other Related Families of Co. Durham, who are related to the Ormerods through a maternal line have also been added.
N.B. 15/11/06 - The link to the Hudsons & Other Related Families of Co. Durham is currently unavailable. We apologise for any inconvenience this causes, and will advise on the News page when the link is available once again.
19/09/04 - Further information about Frank Ormerod, who died during the Gallipoli Campaign of the First World War, has now been found and added to The Two World Wars section of the site. It was previously though that Frank had died during fighting on the Gallipoli Pensinsula, but it has now been confirmed that he died when the troopship on which he was travelling, H.M.T. Royal Edward, was torpedoed in the Aegean Sea.
09/08/04 - Photographs of the Portsmouth Naval Memorial and the name of Frank Ormerod, commemorated thereon, have now been added to the site.
31/07/04 - Ormerod and Waddington entries from The Registers of St Mary Magdalene, Clitheroe - 1570-1680 have now been added to the Documents section of the site.
26/06/04 - Further details of 1901 Census entries relating to Ormerod casualties from The Two World Wars have been added to the site.
13/06/04 - Details from the 1901 Census have now been added to some of the entries for Ormerod casualties from The Two World Wars. These will be added to in due course.
31/05/04 - Waddington and Ormerod entries from Colne - Register of Baptisms and Burials (1774-1789), Altham Parish Registers (1596-1695) and Blackrod Parish Registers (1606-1701) can now be found in the Documents section of the site.
09/05/04 - Waddington and Ormerod entries from the Rochdale Parish Registers (1582-1801) have now been added to the Documents section of the site.
07/05/04 - Waddington and Ormerod entries from the Halifax Parish Registers - Marriages and Burials (1538-1593) have now been added to the Documents section of the site.
05/05/04 - Ormerod entries from the Heptonstall Parish Registers (1593-1660) have now been added to the Documents section of the site.
30/04/04 - A photo of the grave of Maria Susan Ormerod (née Bailey) in the churchyard of St Mary's Church, Redenhall, has been added to the Graves & Monuments section of the site.
Details of the Ormerod link to Redenhall in Norfolk have also been added.
Photographs of the churches in Bergh Apton and Brooke in Norfolk, where William Ford Thursby was Rector, have been added to the site.
13/04/03 - Details of further Ormerod casualties from the First World War have now been added to The Two World Wars section of the site.
14/03/04 - Details of Ormerod Entries in Alumni Cantabrigienses - Pt. 1: From the earliest times to 1751 and Ormerod Entries in Alumni Oxonienses have been added to the Documents section of the site.
21/02/04 - Photographs of the grave of Frank Ormerod in Rochdale Cemetery have now been added to the site.
Photographs of the grave of Robert Ormerod, in Cross Stone (St Paul) Church Cemetery, Todmorden, Yorkshire have also been added, along with photographs of the grave of Reginald Hanson Ormerod, in Brighouse Cemetery, Yorkshire.
A photograph of Vincent Ormerod, who died in the Zeebrugge Raid on 23 April 1918, has been added to site, courtesy of Jim Clay.
Photographs of the old pub sign at The Fighting Cocks Inn, Mereclough, and the pub itself, have been added by Ronald Ormerod.
18/01/04 - Ormerod and Waddington entries from the Registers of Todmorden, have been added to the Documents section of the site.
17/01/04 - Further additions have been made to the Graves & Memorials section of the site, with photos of the Cornholme War Memorial, situated in the chapelyard of Vale Baptist Chapel, Cornholme, Yorkshire, and graves from the chapelyard of Mount Zion Methodist Church, Cornholme, and St John the Divine Church, Holme in Cliviger.
Entries for Great Harwood War Memorial and Barnoldswick War Memorial have also been added to the site.
04/12/03 - Additions have been made to the Graves & Memorials section of the site, with pages for the following cemeteries or churchyards.
St Mary le Ghyll Church, Barnoldswick
Shore General Baptist Chapel, Shore, Yorkshire
18/11/03 - Further photos of graves from the churchyard of St John's, Worsthorne, have been added to the site.
17/11/03 - Further photos of graves and memorials have been added to the pages for Burnley and Padiham Cemeteries.
Pages for Easington Lane and Houghton Cemeteries in Tyne & Wear have also been added.
15/11/03 - Ormerod entries from the Act Book of the Ecclesiastical Court of Whalley 1510-1538 have now been added to the Documents section of the site.
Further details have also been added regarding Ormerod casualties from The Two World Wars.
26/10/03 - New sections on the village of Waddington and Waddington Hall have now been added to the site.
24/10/03 - Numerous additions have been made to The Two World Wars, and the Commonwealth War Graves sections of the site.
Details have also been added to the Thursby section of the site, with entries being added relating to John Ormerod Scarlett Thursby and his daughter, Clara.
14/10/03 - Various additions have been made to the site in relation to Ormerod casualties from the First World War. These include the addition of a Commonwealth War Graves section to Graves & Memorials.
There are now photographs of some of these Ormerod war graves, or the inscriptions commemorating their names on monuments where they have no known grave.
04/10/03 - Details of more Ormerod casualties from The Two World Wars have been added to that section.
02/10/03 - Research notes of Ronald Ormerod have now been added to the site.
Ronald has been researching the Ormerods for over forty years, and his notes contain some of the interesting facts that he has come across in his research, and provide an insight into the links between the Ormerods and other Lancashire families, as well as their place in Lancashire history.
29/09/03 - A new page entitled Heraldry has been added to the Ormerod History section of the website. This shows the Ormerod coat of arms, and describes how the coat of arms was granted and subsequently used by the Ormerod Family.
A page with information about the possible De Lancaster Connection with the Ormerods of Ormerod has also been added to the site.
22/09/03 - Details of Doctor Young Ormerod and James Arthur Ormerod, who were both killed serving with the Canadian Expeditionary Force during World War One, have been added to the site.
Details have also been added in relation to George Booth Ormerod and James Edward Ormerod, who died serving in the Australian forces during the same war.
06/09/03 - A new section - Ormerods around the British Isles - has been added to the Ormerod History section of the site. Clicking on the links in this section will take you to maps of British counties, showing places where references to Ormerods are recorded on the International Genealogical Index, along with the date of the earliest record found.You can also download the relevant IGI records from each of the county pages.
Photos of the grave of George Sumner Ormerod in St Michael's The Archangel churchyard in Chagford, Devon, have also been added.
01/07/03 - A new section has been added on Ormerods who fought and died in The Two World Wars. Further details of individuals will be added in due course.
24/06/03 - A scanned copy of the temporary commission issued to Andrew Ormerod in the First World War has been added to the Ormerod Certificates section of the site.
Further details about Andrew, was was killed on Friday 13 April 1917, whilst serving as an observer with the Royal Flying Corps, have also been added to a new section on Ormerod History - The Two World Wars.
23/06/03 - A new section has been added to the site, which contains photographs of Graves & Memorials of Ormerods or related families.
This section will continued to be added to.
Locations covered so far are:
St John's Church, Worsthorne, and
19/05/03 - Two articles about Gambleside, which appeared in the Rossendale Free Press, in the 1950s, have now been transcribed, and can be viewed by clicking on the following links.
Gambleside - A Vanished Village
Information about Gambleside Colliery has now been added to the site, along with photographs.
18/05/03 - Pedigrees for the Ormerods of Higham and the Ormerods of Fence have been added to the Genealogy section.
19/04/03 - Numerous additions to the site, as follows:
The Hargreaves and Thursby sections are now live, and have numerous links to individuals from these families.
Various Ormerod Tales have been added to the Ormerod History section.
The Fighting Cocks Inn, with its historic Ormerod links has now been added the the Places section.
16/04/03 - Various items relating to the Ormrods - a distinct branch of the Ormerods - have now been added to the site.
These include a brief background to the Ormrods, and the following maps:
Ormerod and Ormrod Surname Variants in the North West at the time of the 1881 Census
Distribution of Ormrods in the 1881 Census
Ormrods in the North West of England at the time of the 1881 Census
Ormrods per 100,000 of the population in North West England at the time of the 1881 Census
The Ormerods of Bowness-on-Solway & Ontario pedigree has also been greatly added to thanks to Don Tomlinson, who has been researching this branch of the Ormerods, and has kindly added the results of his research to the exisiting database.
23/03/03 - A pedigree for the Ormerods of Tyldesley has now been added to the Genealogy section. This comprises descendants of Oliver Ormerod (b. bef. 1691) of Bury, and includes Dr George Ormerod (1785-1873), the famous Historian of Cheshire.
22/03/03 - The following pedigrees have now been added to the site, and can be accessed through the Genealogy section, or by clicking on the links below.
14/03/03 - a Guestbook has now been added to the site, so that you can add comments and observations.
A pedigree of the Waddington Family of Lancashire has also been added to the Genealogy section.
13/03/03 - The following pedigrees have been added to the site, and can be accessed through the Genealogy section, or by clicking on the links below.
| The Ormerods of Foxstones | |
| The Ormerods of Stansfield & Cliviger | The Ormerods of Bristol |
| The Ormerods of Bowness-on-Solway & Ontario |
Various maps have also been added to the site, which can be accessed through Maps, or by clicking on the links below.
Distribution of Ormerods in the 1881 Census
Ormerods in the North West of England at the time of the 1881 Census
Ormerods per 10,000 of the population in North West England at the time of the 1881 Census