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Bob Dobson · 24-06-2008, 20:49

Carter St....Atarah tells me that Sam Priestley, son of the then owner of Woodnook Mills (later sold to Highams) married a Miss Carter from Enfield so the street, not far from the mill, may have been named for her family. I suggest that it may be named after John Carter, treasurer of the Accrington Provident Building Society when it started in 1843, and for many years a man who would have contact with builders, might be the man behind the name. Of course, the Mr & Miss Carter might have been related. Father & daughter maybe.

Belfield Rd again....Whilst I still think that the name comes from the Royds/Nuttall family home near Rochdale, there is a development, discovered by the staff in the Local
studies library.:- About 1882 there was founded a Working Men's Temperance Club in Cotton St.It soon outgrew the premises and moved to Nuttall Street, later acquiring an old chapel in Woodnook and renting land from Mr Royds for sporting purposes. The club ,football team and I believe the field were named in honour of William Bell, a temperance missionary and Band of Hope agent/lecturer. I had earlier learned that a Accrington doctor, Dr Hartley was involved with the team. His initials were J.P but in the
various censuses 1871/81/91 he is shown simply as Doctor at his home 257 Blackburn Rd, opposite where the Grammar School came to be built in 1894.

Ellison St....Clearly linked to the Ellison family who owned nearby Ellison's Tenement ( tenement simply means piece of land). Likely that the man who brought the Baptists to Accrington in 1770 and had the Macpelah Chapel built on Hyndburn Rd, close by the tenement was linked to this. John Ellison lived at Altham Hall . On 1.4.1766 the first recorded christeneing in St James;' church took place - Mally Ellison, daughter of Ralph & Martha. Assuming that this too was John's family, why did they have the child christened in an Anglican church and not the Baptist chapel? Probably because christenings could not be conducted then in Dissenting chapels - only CofE churches.

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Bob Dobson Senior Member+ Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: Staining, Blackpool Posts: 3,096 Liked: 407 times Rep Power: 158676	Re: Street Names Carter St....Atarah tells me that Sam Priestley, son of the then owner of Woodnook Mills (later sold to Highams) married a Miss Carter from Enfield so the street, not far from the mill, may have been named for her family. I suggest that it may be named after John Carter, treasurer of the Accrington Provident Building Society when it started in 1843, and for many years a man who would have contact with builders, might be the man behind the name. Of course, the Mr & Miss Carter might have been related. Father & daughter maybe. Belfield Rd again....Whilst I still think that the name comes from the Royds/Nuttall family home near Rochdale, there is a development, discovered by the staff in the Local studies library.:- About 1882 there was founded a Working Men's Temperance Club in Cotton St.It soon outgrew the premises and moved to Nuttall Street, later acquiring an old chapel in Woodnook and renting land from Mr Royds for sporting purposes. The club ,football team and I believe the field were named in honour of William Bell, a temperance missionary and Band of Hope agent/lecturer. I had earlier learned that a Accrington doctor, Dr Hartley was involved with the team. His initials were J.P but in the various censuses 1871/81/91 he is shown simply as Doctor at his home 257 Blackburn Rd, opposite where the Grammar School came to be built in 1894. Ellison St....Clearly linked to the Ellison family who owned nearby Ellison's Tenement ( tenement simply means piece of land). Likely that the man who brought the Baptists to Accrington in 1770 and had the Macpelah Chapel built on Hyndburn Rd, close by the tenement was linked to this. John Ellison lived at Altham Hall . On 1.4.1766 the first recorded christeneing in St James;' church took place - Mally Ellison, daughter of Ralph & Martha. Assuming that this too was John's family, why did they have the child christened in an Anglican church and not the Baptist chapel? Probably because christenings could not be conducted then in Dissenting chapels - only CofE churches.