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Just realized.. Can't find lizzies birth registered . Or Leonards . In Lancashire bmd anyway . Always thought she was daughter of Elizabeth and Abel.. Unless they just didn't register them. Maybe not if Elizabeth was in hospital or Abel in prison a lot. :-S

No. Just looked ..lizzie was young to get married. Think it was florrie the other daughter who either didnt get married or married late. My mum lived a lit with my great grandma as my grandma and grandad were struggling financially in the 30,s I think .. Aunty Mary stayed at home with her mum and dad ...they had quite a dew kids who died at birth or shortly after including twins . Life was tougb in those days :-S

Oh dear ....seeing Abel in a new light ....what a horror. No wonder she chucked him out . And if the kids had seen it as they would . Yes my mum is Marjorie ...gran is mabel . Great gran Mary Hannah. I knew she married Fred later on .. He was a bit of a drinker too to be fair ...my mum used to stay a lot so he wouldn't row when he came back from pub ....though she was fierce when crossed . Wonder if she saw what her mither in law went through and was anti drink for that reason. .....poor Elizabeth. Bet her family ...the parrs ...approved of her choice of husband. Think lizzie was quite old when she eventually got married ..no wonder . Enough to put her off :-S

This Newspaper article is really cruel and horrible......

17 June 1908 - Burnley Express - Burnley, Lancashire, England

THE BURNLEY BILL. Commons, Mondat. The Burnley Corporation Bill was read a third time to-day. BRUTAL BURNLEY COLLIER KICKS HIS WIFE THE FACE. Elizabeth Dox bury who reside* in Cog-lane, •topped into tho witness-box, the Burnley Police Court, Monday, pr....
She was badly disfigured, her nose being bruised, her left eye discoloured and her face swollen.

The residence is Cog Lane....Elizabeth was residing at 111 Cog Lane on the 1911 census.


01 October 1921 - Burnley News - Burnley, Lancashire, England

IRREGULARITIES, DISCOVERED. agreed the conditions, and was bound over accordingly. THREATS IN COURT. Burnley Collier Sent to Gaol for Two Months. The wanton destruction £2O worth of furniture was admitted Abel Duxbury (52), collier living a lodging-house in Barracksroad, when was summoned

1939 Register Transcription

Household (1 Person) 1 Working Mens Home Barracks Road , Burnley C.B., Lancashire, England

Abel Duxbury 29 Jul 1870 Male Coal Hewer Married 263 4


Wife Elizabeth.......

1939 Register, in association with The National Archive
Elizabeth Duxbury on the 1939 Register

Aspden Household (4 People) 9 Hudson Street , Burnley C.B., Lancashire, England

Elizabeth Duxbury 06 Aug 1871 Female Unpaid Household Duties Married 58 4
William Aspden 14 Oct 1902 Male Cotton Weaver Married 58 1
Lizzie Aspden 20 Apr 1904 Female Cotton Weaver Married 58 2
Ella Bidwell (Aspden) 09 Mar 1933 Female At School Single 58 3


Marriages Dec 1932 (>99%)
Aspden William Duxbury Burnley 8e 428
Duxbury Lizzie Aspden Burnley 8e 428

Here is Mary Hannah Duxbury (Miaden surname Pickles) on the 1939 Register.

With her is son Herbert's daughter Marjorie.......

Marriages Jun 1934 (>99%)
Duxbury Herbert Hocking Burnley 8e 390
Hocking Mabel Duxbury Burnley 8e 390

Births Jun 1937 (>99%)
Duxbury Marjorie Hocking Burnley 8e 147

Mary H Catlow (Duxbury) on the 1939 Register

Catlow (Duxbury) Household (2 People) 2 Smithwaite Street , Burnley C.B., Lancashire, England

Mary H Catlow (Duxbury) 08 Feb 1891 Female Ring Spinner Cotton Mill Widowed 57 1
Marjorie Ashton (Duxbury) 13 Mar 1937 Female Under School Age Single 57 2.

It indicates that Mary re-married a Mr Catlow and Marjorie married a Mr Ashton.

Marriages Jun 1943 (>99%)
Catlow Fred Duxbury Burnley 8e 325
Duxbury Mary H Catlow Burnley 8e 325


Marriages Jun 1963 (>99%)
ASHTON BRIAN DUXBURY NELSON 10E 776
DUXBURY MARJORIE ASHTON NELSON 10E 776

Herbert's wife on the 1939 Register.....

Mabel Duxbury on the 1939 Register

Household (1 Person) 63 Fenwick Street , Burnley C.B., Lancashire, England

Mabel Duxbury 17 Oct 1912 Female Unpaid Domestic Duties Married 98 2
(One Closed Record)

The closed record would be daughter Mary born 1938.

Croft street was a lodging house and Leonard was also separated from my great gran ...mind you ..she was a very strict tee tottaller and would not have stood for Leonard having a drink I don't think. Poor Leonard ...died very young anyway ..have never seen his death certificate . Think I should get it to see what was cause of death. :-S

Goodness me ..sounds like it was naughty Abel not naughty Leonard ...all the time I've been thinking that Leonard must have been out of control but at least he only appeared in the paper with a joke ....seems like his dad didn't set such a good example to Leonard ....and Leonard was in the Accrington howitzers and went to the somme so maybe that affected him a little bit....thanks for that . Elizabeth must have had a hard time then as she had lots of kids ...poor woman. Seeing them in a new light ... :-( :-\ :-\ :-S. Will check out the papers next week... Interesting though so thankyou very much :-)

Burial: 24 Feb 1937 Burnley Cemetery, Burnley, Lancashire, England
Leonard Duxbury -
Age: 45yrs
Abode: 15 Croft Street
Grave: NE3696
Gender: M
Register: Burials 1933 - 1940, Page 169, Entry 108899
Source: Original Registers Book 14

If you are going to the library Shirley, you can also have a look at these. I am pretty sure they are all about Abel. I'm afraid he seems to have been a man who drank far too much and abused his wife. :-(



£2O DAMAGE AT WIFE'S HOUSE.
Today, at Burnley, Abel Duxbury (52). lodging-house Barracks-road, guilty jo doing wilful damage to the extent of £2O. It was stated that the 17th inst. defendant went the houee of H's wife, from whom h« was separated, and

28 September 1921 - Lancashire Evening Post - Preston, Lancashire, England





POLICE INTELLIGENCE
from the 3/Sth Hast Lancashire Regiment since November 28.—The Chief Constable said that the man had twice d—toed since October.—the Bench remanded the prisoner in oustody, te be handed over to military escort arrival. Abel Duxbury (48), 208. 00g4.n0,

24 December 1915 - Burnley Express - Burnley, Lancashire, England





AND CHURCH OO- , Pw*om the I SOCIETY Ground* a pignoa abootiag match U . (K. AochnxtOQ and nde vat
saa fined 10s inolnding coets.—David Marsden aud John James Fielding, for fighting, were also fined 10s including coate. Abel Duxbury, who when a state of inebriation, ran violently avaiost constable and almost knocked him down, was ordered to pay the same

05 July 1899 - Preston Herald - Preston, Lancashire, England





POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
Burnley, deposed to buying the lamp and the shirt from prisoners.—The lads were remanded until Monday. Wefe Deserter.—Abel Duxbury, collier, was charged with deserting his wife and family.—Wm. Dion, relieving officer for the Burnley Union, gave evidence

25 January 1902 - Burnley Express - Burnley, Lancashire, England

But I could check the paper on Tuesday at the library and see the article in full I think...at least I have the dates now thankfully :-D

How can you tell its about Abel ? Does it mention them by name ? If it's Abel he would be living on accrington road then I think ...and in his 50,s . Thought it may be about Leonard as my great grandma was against drinking and very strict. Leonard had been a driver in the first world war in the accrington howitzers and had time on the Somme and I was imagining that maybe he came home and was behaving badly due to his war experiences maybe ?
:-) :-\

30 April 1921 - Burnley News - Burnley, Lancashire, England


"...summoned two instances, for assaulting his wife, and the other for using obscene language to the police. offences Duxbury pleaded guilty. Mrs. Duxbury stated on Friday last her husband went home under It-he influence of drink and, without a word, seized her


This one is about Abel and his wife.

20 October 1928 - Burnley Express - Burnley, Lancashire, England

This one is a joke sent in to be published in the paper's Joke Column.

'.....giving £5OO at the Vic. to anyone who finds the murderer in ' The Ringer," and I'm sure it's The Student Prince.' —Leonard Duxbury, 13, Croft-court, Burnley.

It really is not very funny at all but they had a different sense of humour back then. :-D

Oh yes ..sorry ..Leonard duxbury born 1891 in burnley son of Abel duxbury and elizabeth nee Parr . Leonard married Mary Hannah pickles in 1910 and they had my grandad Herbert in 1911 . Unusually they seem to have had only one child ..well one living one , maybe had Albert salisbury duxbury in 1917 but he died two months later ..not certain he is their child as yet. I think they did not get along and he seemed to spend time living apart from my great grandma perhaps due to drunken behaviour ..but was curious to see if he appeared in the local paper as I know he lived in a lodging house on croft street in burnley on occasions . :-)

It might help to know.......

Leonard Duxbury born when and where?

Hi
I'm trying to find any newspaper article on the above man from about 1911 to about 1937 in burnley lancashire . I find what may be relevant articles ...one in 1921 and one in 1928 in the burnley express and/or the burnley tines and download them with my credits but I can't view the articles though they save to my keepsake but I am unable to view them there . Can anyone help or advise. Was not certain it was same Leonard duxbury but I do know he lived on croft street at one point and did like to have a drink so thought that it might be him in both those articles I am unable to view
Can anyone help ? :-)