George Bagnall

He did a lot of work building at Silcoats School and he built the very high wall at the prison. He also installed gallows there but only he used them with a bag of sand to test them."

- Margaret Johnson

William Bagnall married Sarah Woodhead in St John's Church. n 1839 a daughter Jane Elizabeth Bagnall was christened. They lived in Eastmoor and he was an iron founder. His son Thomas 1823 was married to Hannah Willis in 1843 and he also was a foundryman.

Their son John was the father of my Grandfather.

My Grandfather, George Bagnall was the youngest child of John Bagnall.

In the 1881 census John, living in Eastmoor and shown as a builder in Rowlings Yard, was 32, his wife Mary was 31 and their 4 children were;

• Hannah 8
• William 6
• Ann E 3
• George 1

Johns' birth however is recorded as 1849

His brother William and he had a partnership Bagnall Brothers, Builders but William died about 1880, leaving his wife Eleanor whom he married in 1866 and his sons Joe and John and a daughter Jane (aged 6 months)

John continued the building company and George (my grandfather) ran it on his own when his father either retired or died.

George married Annie Bolland in St Peter's Church Stanley. Their children were

• Edna 1908 (My Mother)
• Rowland Wilby 1910
• Jeffery Bolland 1914
• Jack Neville 1915 (died as a small child)
• Bernard 1920 (died I think the same year, both children I believe died of diptheria)

My Grandfather enlisted in the 1st World war on the first Sunday and announced,to the shock of the family, that my Grandmother would run the building firm and his brickworks in Accrington - which she apparently did very well.

He was invalided out in hospital in Aberdeen towards the end of the war and she also had to visit him. As a child my Mother lived at Ivy Bank, Stanley.

Annie died in 1962, George died in 1964

Rowland and Jeffery went into the building company when they left Wakefield Grammer School. My Mother went to the High School.

Rowland was in the Army in France in the 2nd World war and Jeffery as an engineer in the Airforce.

Rowland married Betty Holliday just before the war but when he finally came home she had locked him out and was living with someone else. He never got his house back but after a few years got a divorce and subsequently married Gladys Kershaw who died last month. They had no children They lived in various houses in Stanley. Rowland died in 1955.

Jeffery married Lena and my cousin Tony will fill in details of their family. His 'phone no. is ###########.

Edna married Arthur Guy Webster in 1933 in St John's Church and they had 3 children

• Elizabeth Anne 1935
• Margaret Rosemary 1937
• George Michael 1939

We lived at 3, Blenheim Road Wakefield.

Our Father took over Webster Brother's from his Father and was on the Council and they were Mayor and Mayoress in 1956. they were Govenors of the High school and Grammer School and did a lot of charity work in Wakefield My Mother died in 1994,my Father in 1988.

Since we none of us have the surname of Bagnall now I think you will not need any further information. However I do have some on John Bagnalls' brother William and if no one else in the family has sent it I will do so.

I will also copy the 'photo's that I have of the wedding of George and Annie. I think the Bagnalls are sitting on the right of the picture because I know the small boy is Milton Bolland and the parents on the right have a Bagnall look about them so I assume it is John and Mary Bagnall.

- - Margaret Johnson y