Help needed to read name 1901 census

[Liz from Lancs]

I am going at a cracking pace helping my friend with his Oswaldtwistle, Lancs tree. Can you make out the middle name of the youngest son of William Pickup at 99 Stanhill, Oswaldtwistle:

http://search.ancestry.co.uk/iexec/?htx=view&r=5538&dbid=7814&iid=LANRG13_3916_3919-1099&fn=William&ln=Pickup&st=r&ssrc=&pid=25150597

First name is Thos but the second looks strangely like the surname of the next family down...

[champagnegal]

Think its Townley - could be wife's brother the family below ??

ps - and wife's sister the family 2 above ???

[Liz from Lancs]

Thanks champagnegal...the transcript says that. Townley Hall, Burnley would have been a big thing then as well. Will pencil in that possible link with family next door for when I have more time.

I am so grateful for that sister in law staying there...confirms what I needed to know!

[maggie_4_7]

If you look further up there is a Peter son of Mary Boardman with the same middle name.

[Liz from Lancs]

Thanks Maggie, I have now found grandparents with surname of Townley so that solves that one...I am so jealous of my friend's tree. In a couple of hours, with Elaine's help, I have so many of his relatives that I can't keep pace. Gonna have to go out and buy some big pieces of paper to draw out his tree.

Can't wait to tell him tomorrow what I have found about his mother's tree, of which he knows nothing.

[Olde Crone Holden]

Liz

The Townleys go right back to the Domesday Book - they link up with my Holdens along the way!

Try A2A and British history online, for LOTS of documents concerning the Townleys.

OC

[Liz from Lancs]

OC many thanks...I would love to be able to tell my friend that he has a long line from his mother's side going back to the Townleys. They seem to all be based in Oswaldtwistle. This looks like his gt grandfather:

1861 Grandson: William Pickup 17 b1844. Coal miner’s ?drawer.
Household
Head: John Townley 65 b1796 formerly Coal Miner
Wife: Betty Townley 64 b1797 Darwen. Housekeeper.
Grandson: James Pickup 11 b1850

Stanhill Rd, Oswaldtwistle

1841 John Townley 46 b1795 Coal Miner
Household
Betty Townley 45
Ann Townley 25 Calico ?Weaver
Jane Townley 18 “
John Townley 16 Coal Miner
James Townley 14 “ “
Joseph Townley 12 “ “
Low Townley 9
Robert Townley 7
Richd Townley 5

Civil parish: Whalley Hundred: Blackburn (Higher Division)
Reg district: Blackburn Sub-reg district: Oswaldtwistle

1851 Head: John Townley 56 b1795 Tockholes
Wife: Betty 54 b1797
Son: Joseph Townley 20
Son: Lawrence Townley 14
Son: Robert Townley 14
Son: Richard Townley 14
Son: Betty Townley 14
Joseph Hood 13
William Ackery 7
Joseph Ackery 5
Charles Haworth 26

James Pickup 2 b1849

Alleytroyds Village, Church.
Civil parish/sub-reg district: Oswaldtwistle

OC - do you know anything about Alleytroyds (sp ?) village? Not got time yet to go into that.