Charles Henry DARLOW [7250]

  General Notes:

It appears that Charles was christened twice, once on the 8th April 1872 at Littleborough, Lancashire, England at the Holy Trinity Church. Then Charles was christened again at St John the Baptist Church, in Smallbridge, Lancashire, along with Albert Edward, Arthur William, Walter Herbert, and Primrose. William and Sarah were living at Dearnley and William's occupation was given as labourer.

When Charles was born William and Sarah were living at Box Meadow, Blatchinworth, Lancashire, England. This is noted as the sub district of Blatchinworth and Calderbrook on his birth certificate. I cannot find this town on the map so I presume it no longer exists. According to what I have been able to ascertain, it appears to have been nearby to Rochdale, and quite close to the Higher Chelburn Reservoir.

In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Blatchinworth like this: BLATCHINWORTH, a township and a subdistrict in the district of Rochdale, Lancashire. The township bears the name of Blatchinworth-with-Calderbrook; lies on the Manchester and Leeds railway, 5 miles NE of Rochdale; contains seven hamlets and Little borough village,-the last with a post office under Manchester and a r. station; and has romantic scenery., numerous good residences, a church, five dissenting chapels, an endowed school, eight cotton mills, twelve woolen mills, two collieries, and rich quarries. Real property, £14,551; of which £1,020 are in mines. Pop., 4,860. Houses, 980.-The subdistrict is conterminate with the township.