Downham Benevolent Society Members

John Armistead a Weaver and lived in Downham. Joined on the 05/03/1785 aged 19 years old.

John Hargreaves a Weaver and lived in Downham. Joined on the 05/03/1785 aged 18 years old.

Thomas Smith a Weaver and lived in Downham. Joined on the 05/03/1785 aged 21 years old.

Henry Wilkinson a Weaver and lived in Downham. Joined on the 05/03/1785 aged 23 years old.

Edmund Slinger a Weaver and lived in Downham. Joined on the 05/03/1785 aged 21 years old.

Henry Walker a Weaver and lived in Downham. Joined on the 05/03/1785 aged 26 years old. Died Feb 1830 aged 71 .

Richard Wilson a Wool comber and lived in Downham. Joined on the 05/03/1785 aged 19 years old. Died June 1834 aged 68 .

William Wilkinson a Weaver and lived in Downham. Joined on the 05/03/1785 aged 21 years old.

Thomas Armistead a Weaver and lived in Downham. Joined on the 05/03/1785 aged 26 years old. Died May 1839 aged 80 .

Robert Bulcock a Weaver and lived in Downham. Joined on the 05/03/1785 aged 25 years old.

William Mercer a Carpenter and lived in Downham. Joined on the 05/03/1785 aged 19 years old.

James Wilkinson a Weaver and lived in Downham. Joined on the 02/07/1785 aged 17 years old. Died Dec 1836 aged 68 .

John Mercer a Weaver and lived in Downham. Joined on the 07/01/1786 aged 19 years old.

Edmund Mercer a Weaver and lived in Downham. Joined on the 07/01/1786 aged 17 years old. Died June 1846 aged 77 .

Richard Green a Cotton Carder and lived in Downham. Joined on the 04/02/1786 aged 28 years old.

Robert Robinson a Weaver and lived in Downham. Joined on the 04/03/1786 aged 23 years old.

Robert Isherwood a Husbandman and lived in Downham. Joined on the 07/10/1786 aged 18 years old.

William Burton a Blacksmith and lived in Downham. Joined on the 06/01/1787 aged 26 years old.

Thomas Driver a Husbandman and lived in Downham. Joined on the 06/01/1787 aged 20 years old.

Richard Pollard a Weaver and lived in Downham. Joined on the 06/01/1787 aged 21 years old. Died Dec 1824 aged 58 .

Thomas Hargreaves a Weaver and lived in Downham. Joined on the 03/02/1787 aged 22 years old.

John Broxup a Farmer and lived in Downham. Joined on the 03/02/1787 aged 22 years old. Died Aug 1830 aged 65 .

Thomas Boothman a Weaver and lived in Downham. Joined on the 03/02/1787 aged 19 years old.

John Robinson a Weaver and lived in Downham. Joined on the 03/03/1787 aged 27 years old.

William Robinson a Weaver and lived in Downham. Joined on the 03/03/1787 aged 27 years old.

John Worswick a Weaver and lived in Downham. Joined on the 05/01/1788 aged 16 years old.

William Harrison a Cotton Spinner and lived in Downham. Joined on the 05/01/1788 aged 18 years old.

Thomas Hudson a Weaver and lived in Downham. Joined on the 05/01/1788 aged 17 years old. Died Sep 1843 aged 72 .

Richard Smith a Weaver and lived in Downham. Joined on the 05/12/1789 aged 18 years old.

Thomas Dean a Weaver and lived in Downham. Joined on the 02/01/1790 aged 21 years old.

William Dean a Weaver and lived in Downham. Joined on the 02/01/1790 aged 17 years old.

James Hanson a Weaver and lived in Downham. Joined on the 02/01/1790 aged 18 years old.

John Janeson a Husbandman and lived in Downham. Joined on the 06/02/1790 aged 18 years old.

Richard Broxup a Weaver and lived in Downham. Joined on the 01/01/1791 aged 18 years old.

John Winall a Weaver and lived in Downham. Joined on the 01/01/1791 aged 20 years old.

George Atkinson a Weaver and lived in Downham. Joined on the 01/01/1791 aged 16 years old.

James Baldwin a Weaver and lived in Downham. Joined on the 01/01/1791 aged 20 years old.

Thomas Boothman a Cotton Spinner and lived in Downham. Joined on the 02/04/1791 aged 31 years old.

John Smith a Weaver and lived in Downham. Joined on the 05/01/1793 aged 27 years old. Died Apr 1829 aged 63 .

James Hartley a Cotton Spinner and lived in Downham. Joined on the 05/01/1793 aged 19 years old.

George Watson a Weaver and lived in Downham. Joined on the 05/01/1793 aged 18 years old.

John Clayton a Cotton Spinner and lived in Downham. Joined on the 05/01/1793 aged 20 years old.

John Chatburn a Weaver and lived in Downham. Joined on the 05/01/1793 aged 17 years old.

Matthew Eatough a Cotton Spinner and lived in Downham. Joined on the 06/04/1793 aged 23 years old. Died June 1836 aged 66 .

John Brogden a Weaver and lived in Downham. Joined on the 04/01/1794 aged 17 years old.

Henry Harrison a Weaver and lived in Downham. Joined on the 04/01/1794 aged 16 years old. Died Mar 1831 aged 53 .

Richard Wigglesworth a Weaver and lived in Downham. Joined on the 04/01/1794 aged 18 years old.

Robert Duckworth a Cotton Spinner and lived in Downham. Joined on the 04/01/1794 aged 19 years old.

James Pollard a Weaver and lived in Downham. Joined on the 05/04/1794 aged 25 years old.

Joseph Dawson a Cotton Spinner and lived in Downham. Joined on the 05/09/1794 aged 21 years old.

John Wigglesworth a Weaver and lived in Downham. Joined on the 03/01/1795 aged 25 years old. Died Mar 1840 aged 70 .

William Hanson a Weaver and lived in Downham. Joined on the 03/01/1795 aged 22 years old.

Richard Smithies a Weaver and lived in Downham. Joined on the 03/01/1795 aged 19 years old.

John Baldwin a Weaver and lived in Downham. Joined on the 07/02/1795 aged 23 years old.

Thomas Wilkinson a Weaver and lived in Downham. Joined on the 02/01/1796 aged 21 years old.

John Hanson a Weaver and lived in Downham. Joined on the 02/01/1796 aged 20 years old.

Thomas Worswick a Weaver and lived in Downham. Joined on the 02/01/1796 aged 19 years old. Died June 1830 aged 53 .

Lawrence Nowell a Weaver and lived in Downham. Joined on the 02/01/1796 aged 17 years old.

Benjamin Bulcock a Weaver and lived in Downham. Joined on the 07/01/1797 aged 18 years old.

Henry Chatburn a Weaver and lived in Downham. Joined on the 07/01/1797 aged 19 years old. 0 aged . Died Oct 1837 aged 59 .

Richard Thornber a Weaver and lived in Downham. Joined on the 06/05/1798 aged 22 years old.

William Wigglesworth a Weaver and lived in Downham. Joined on the 03/02/1798 aged 17 years old.

James Smith a Weaver and lived in Downham. Joined on the 03/02/1798 aged 19 years old.

William Bulcock a Weaver and lived in Downham. Joined on the 05/01/1799 aged 17 years old.

Robert Atkinson a Weaver and lived in Downham. Joined on the 05/01/1799 aged 17 years old.

Richard Hanson a Weaver and lived in Downham. Joined on the 05/01/1799 aged 17 years old.

Henry Armistead a Maltster and lived in Downham. Joined on the 02/02/1799 aged 18 years old.

James Robinson a Farmer and lived in Downham. Joined on the 04/01/1800 aged 22 years old. Died nov 1827 aged 49 .

George Altham a Farmer and lived in Downham. Joined on the 04/01/1800 aged 23 years old. expelled for none payment in 1825 aged 48.

George Chatburn a Weaver and lived in Downham. Joined on the 04/01/1800 aged 18 years old.

Lawrence Tattersall a Husbandman and lived in Downham. Joined on the 04/01/1800 aged 18 years old.

William Spencer a Weaver and lived in Downham. Joined on the 04/01/1800 aged 20 years old.

Richard Dean a Weaver and lived in Downham. Joined on the 04/01/1800 aged 19 years old.

John Turner a Weaver and lived in Downham. Joined on the 05/04/1800 aged 21 years old.

Henry Wigglesworth a Weaver and lived in Downham. Joined on the 02/08/1800 aged 28 years old. Died Mar 1834 aged 62 .

William Oddie a Weaver and lived in Downham. Joined on the 03/01/1801 aged 21 years old.

William Atkinson a Weaver and lived in Downham. Joined on the 03/01/1801 aged 21 years old. Died Mar 1829 aged 49 .

Richard Atkinson a Weaver and lived in Downham. Joined on the 03/01/1801 aged 17 years old.

James Broxup a Weaver and lived in Downham. Joined on the 03/01/1801 aged 18 years old.

Thomas Douglas a Spinner and lived in Downham. Joined on the 07/11/1801 aged 24 years old. Died June 1847 aged 70 .

William Smith a Weaver and lived in Downham. Joined on the 02/01/1802 aged 23 years old.

John Harrison a Weaver and lived in Downham. Joined on the 02/01/1802 aged 18 years old.

John Hargreaves a Weaver and lived in Downham. Joined on the 02/01/1802 aged 16 years old.

William Robinson a Weaver and lived in Downham. Joined on the 02/01/1802 aged 17 years old.

Thomas Smith a Weaver and lived in Downham. Joined on the 06/03/1802 aged 18 years old. Died Oct 1827 aged 43 .

Robert Peel a Weaver and lived in Downham. Joined on the 03/07/1802 aged 18 years old.

Thomas Nutter a Weaver and lived in Downham. Joined on the 04/06/1804 aged 16 years old.

William Bulcock a Weaver and lived in Downham. Joined on the 04/06/1804 aged 26 years old.

John Spencer a Weaver and lived in Downham. Joined on the 02/07/1804 aged 27 years old.

Robert Smith a Weaver and lived in Downham. Joined on the 06/07/1805 aged 21 years old.

William Parker a Mason and lived in Downham. Joined on the 07/12/1805 aged 26 years old.

Robert Proctor a Shoemaker and lived in Downham. Joined on the 03/01/1806 aged 20 years old. expelled in 1830 aged 54.

Richard Altham a Farmer and lived in Downham. Joined on the 06/06/1807 aged 28 years old.

Hugh Granger a Farmer and lived in Downham. Joined on the 04/03/1809 aged 28 years old. Died Jan 1835 aged 54 .

William Assheton a Gentleman and lived in Downham. Joined on the 03/06/1809.

George Nuttall a Weaver and lived in Downham. Joined on the 07/10/1809 aged 21 years old. expelled for none payment in 1826 aged 38.

Richard Wilson a Weaver and lived in Downham. Joined on the 07/10/1809 aged 23 years old.

James Robinson a Weaver and lived in Downham. Joined on the 03/07/1813 aged 21 years old.

William Hartley a Farmer and lived in Downham. Joined on the 03/07/1813 aged 21 years old. Died Jan 1827 aged 35 .

James Hargreaves a Weaver and lived in Downham. Joined on the 07/08/1813 aged 24 years old. Died Mar 1837 aged 48 .

John Whipp a Husbandman and lived in Downham. Joined on the 07/08/1813 aged 18 years old.

William Slinger a Weaver and lived in Downham. Joined on the 01/01/1814 aged 23 years old.

Francis Slinger a Weaver and lived in Downham. Joined on the 01/01/1814 aged 19 years old.

James Chaburn a Weaver and lived in Downham. Joined on the 01/01/1814 aged 19 years old.

Thomas Robinson a Bookkeeper and lived in Downham. Joined on the 06/05/1815 aged 25 years old. expelled for none payment in 1831 aged 41.

Nathaniel Ridge a Weaver and lived in Downham. Joined on the 03/06/1815 aged 27 years old.

Thomas Calverley a Husbandman and lived in Downham. Joined on the 03/05/1817 aged 27 years old.

Richard Hargreaves a Husbandman and lived in Downham. Joined on the 03/05/1817 aged 18 years old. expelled in 1824 aged 25.

John Walker a Weaver and lived in Downham. Joined on the 07/06/1817 aged 26 years old.

William Robinson a Weaver and lived in Downham. Joined on the 05/08/1819 aged 28 years old.

James Blade a Mason and lived in Downham. Joined on the 01/06/1820 aged 21 years old. expelled for none payment in 1824 aged 25.

William Harrison a Shoemaker and lived in Downham. Joined on the 05/05/1821 aged 21 years old.

William Hargreaves a Mason and lived in Downham. Joined on the 05/05/1821 aged 20 years old.

Thomas Worswick a Weaver and lived in Downham. Joined on the 03/05/1823 aged 27 years old. expelled for none payment in 1827 aged 31.

John Bank a Weaver and lived in Downham. Joined on the 05/06/1824 aged 25 years old.

James Hanson a Weaver and lived in Downham. Joined on the 07/05/1825 aged 25 years old.

James Hartley a Warper and lived in Downham. Joined on the 07/05/1825 aged 22 years old. expelled for none payment in 1828 aged 25.

Richard Whalley a Husbandman and lived in Downham. Joined on the 04/06/1825 aged 19 years old.

Robert Chatburn a Mason and lived in Downham. Joined on the 04/06/1827 aged 24 years old.

Edward Robinson a Mason and lived in Downham. Joined on the 01/06/1839 aged 23 years old.

John Boothman a Printer and lived in Downham. Joined on the 01/06/1839 aged 21 years old.

Richard Smithies a Weaver and lived in Downham. Joined on the 01/06/1839 aged 27 years old.

John Tattersall a Husbandman and lived in Downham. Joined on the 01/06/1839 aged 20 years old.

Jonas Tattersall a Husbandman and lived in Downham. Joined on the 01/06/1839 aged 19 years old.

George Nuttall a Weaver and lived in Downham. Joined on the 01/06/1839 aged 18 years old. expelled in 1844 aged 23.

William Oddie a Weaver and lived in Downham. Joined on the 01/06/1839 aged 28 years old.

Thomas Whipp a Shoemaker and lived in Downham. Joined on the 01/06/1839 aged 20 years old.

William Duckworth a Shuttle Maker and lived in Downham. Joined on the 01/06/1839 aged 28 years old.

Robert Rydeheard a Schoolmaster and lived in Downham. Joined on the 01/06/1839 aged 19 years old.

Robert Smithies a Weaver and lived in Downham. Joined on the 06/07/1839 aged 24 years old.

Henry Ridge a Weaver and lived in Downham. Joined on the 06/07/1839 aged 20 years old.

Robert Tate a Husbandman and lived in Downham. Joined on the 03/08/1839 aged 24 years old.

John Harrison a Weaver and lived in Downham. Joined on the 02/05/1840 aged 28 years old.

John Preston a Weaver and lived in Downham. Joined on the 06/06/1840 aged 20 years old.

William Bulcock a Husbandman and lived in Downham. Joined on the 04/07/1840 aged 20 years old.

William Wigglesworth a Husbandman and lived in Downham. Joined on the 04/07/1840 aged 23 years old.

Jonas Boothman a Labourer and lived in Downham. Joined on the 07/05/1842 aged 19 years old. expelled in 1843 & 1846 aged 20.

John Robinson a Farmer and lived in Downham. Joined on the 04/05/1844 aged 28 years old.

Henry Smith a Husbandman and lived in Downham. Joined on the 04/05/1844 aged 21 years old.

John Ridge a Gardner and lived in Downham. Joined on the 24/05/1847 aged 21 years old.

James Hartley a Weaver and lived in Downham. Joined on the 24/05/1847 aged 21 years old.

Isaac Hanson a Husbandman and lived in Downham. Joined on the 24/05/1847 aged 25 years old.

John Hanley a Weaver and lived in Downham. Joined on the 05/05/1849 aged 27 years old.

Job Smith a Weaver and lived in Downham. Joined on the 07/06/1851 aged 22 years old.

John Wilkinson a Innkeeper and lived in Downham. Joined on the 04/06/1864 aged 23 years old.

William Smithies a Husbandman and lived in Downham. Joined on the 03/06/1865 aged 19 years old.

William Jackson a Woodman and lived in Downham. Joined on the 01/06/1867 aged 20 years old.

James Bulcock a Woodman and lived in Downham. Joined on the 01/06/1868 aged 32 years old.

William Yates a Weaver and lived in Downham. Joined on the 01/06/1868 aged 18 years old.

John Smithies a Husbandman and lived in Downham. Joined on the 04/06/1870 aged 20 years old.

Edward Hartley a Husbandman and lived in Downham. Joined on the 04/06/1870 aged 33 years old.

John Robinson a Farmer and lived in Downham. Joined on the 06/06/1870.

John Taylor a Stone mason and lived in Downham. Joined on the 03/02/1872 aged 19 years old.

William Hartley a Groom and lived in Downham. Joined on the 20/05/1872.

Richard Lonsdale a Farmer and lived in Downham. Joined on the 01/06/1872 aged 20 years old.

James Smithies a Labourer and lived in Downham. Joined on the 01/05/1875 aged 20 years old.

John Ellisom a Horseman and lived in Downham. Joined on the 02/06/1879 aged 22 years old.

Henry Hanson a Labourer and lived in Downham. Joined on the 07/06/1879 aged 25 years old.

Charles Greenwood a Miller and lived in Downham. Joined on the 01/05/1880 aged 23 years old.

John Barker a Mason and lived in Downham. Joined on the 17/05/1880 aged 19 years old.

William Parker a Farmer and lived in Downham. Joined on the 05/06/1880 aged 29 years old.

Thomas Walmsley a Twister and lived in Downham. Joined on the 03/07/1880 aged 29 years old.

Joseph Smithies a Mason and lived in Downham. Joined on the 03/07/1880 aged 26 years old.

William Clarke a Labourer and lived in Downham. Joined on the 03/07/1880 aged 19 years old.

Robinson Greenwood a Miller and lived in Downham. Joined on the 03/07/1880 aged 20 years old.

Joseph Parker a Labourer and lived in Downham. Joined on the 03/07/1880 aged 20 years old.

George Dugdale a Carter and lived in Downham. Joined on the 06/11/1880 aged 24 years old.

Thomas Yates a Miller and lived in Downham. Joined on the 29/05/1882 aged 19 years old.

Robert Seed a Labourer and lived in Downham. Joined on the 05/05/1883 aged 19 years old.

Richard Hartley a Labourer and lived in Downham. Joined on the 14/05/1883 aged 16 years old.

Alfred M Robinson a F. Labourer and lived in Downham. Joined on the 14/05/1883 aged 21 years old.

Charles Fish Beesely a Butcher and lived in Downham. Joined on the 07/06/1884 aged 16 years old.

Matthew Winder a Labourer and lived in Downham. Joined on the 25/05/1885 aged 27 years old.

John Newby a Labourer and lived in Downham. Joined on the 04/12/1886 aged 28 years old.

Francis Lowson a Shoemaker and lived in Downham. Joined on the 04/05/1889 aged 28 years old.

Walter Cunliffe a Labourer and lived in Downham. Joined on the 07/12/1889 aged 23 years old.

Parker Spence a Miller and lived in Downham. Joined on the 07/11/1891 aged 27 years old.

Thomas James Holgate a Farmer and lived in Downham. Joined on the 06/06/1892 aged 19 years old.

John Thos. Whittaker a Labourer and lived in Downham. Joined on the 06/05/1893 aged 29 years old.

Richard Smithies a Gardener and lived in Downham. Joined on the 02/12/1893 aged 29 years old.

Francis John Smithies a Labourer and lived in Downham. Joined on the 03/02/1894 aged 16 years old.

Thomas Parker a Farmer and lived in Downham. Joined on the 02/03/1895 aged 26 years old.

Herbert Hartley a Labourer and lived in Downham. Joined on the 25/05/1896 aged 18 years old.

John Hargreaves a Farmer and lived in Downham. Joined on the 02/01/1897 aged 23 years old.

Ed. Harrison Slinger a Labourer and lived in Downham. Joined on the 07/06/1897 aged 16 years old.