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daughter and co-heiress, Eleanor Mary, with the Rev. 

 William Thursby, they became vested in the Thursby 

 family, 1 represented until recently by Sir John Hardy 

 Thursby, Bart., of Ormerod House, Burnley, Lancashire, 

 and Holmhurst, Christchurch, Hants. Sir John showed 

 thoughtful, philanthropic feeling to his Lancashire district, 

 by presenting the land for a public park to Burnley, and, in 

 connection with his family, he also gave the site for the 

 neighbouring " Victoria Hospital." In 1887, he served as 

 High Sheriff of Lancashire, and was created Baronet. 

 Dying on March 16, 1901, he was succeeded by his eldest 

 son, John Ormerod Scarlett Thursby, of Bankhall, Burnley, 

 who, in his surname and baptismal names, keeps alive the 

 connection with the old family stock and the families with 

 which the last two co-heiresses of Ormerod were connected 

 by marriage. With these matters of possessions, however, 

 the collateral branch of Ormerod, of Bury in Lancashire 

 (from the special founder of which my father was descended 

 in direct male line), had nothing to do. From Oliver 

 Ormerod, who became permanently resident at Bury shortly 

 after the close of the seventeenth century, descended his 

 only son, George Ormerod of Bury, merchant. From him 

 descended George Ormerod (an only child), who died on 

 October 7, 1785, a few days before the birth of his only 

 child my father yet another George Ormerod. In a 

 mere statement of the names of the representatives of 

 successive generations, of whom no specially distinguishing 

 points appear to have been recorded, there is, perhaps, little 

 of general interest. But possibly some amount of interest 

 attaches to the proofs of representatives of one family having 

 lived quietly on from generation to generation in one 

 locality since the early part of the fourteenth century. The 

 connections and intermarrying of the Ormerods with many 

 of the Lancashire families of former days give the subject a 

 county interest to those who care to search out the 

 genealogical, historical and heraldic details given at great 

 length in my father's volume of " Parentalia." Here and 

 there some member of the family appears to have come 

 before the world, as in the case of Oliver Ormerod, M.A., 

 noted as a profound scholar, theologian, and Puritan 



1 See Parentalia, Genealogical Memoirs, by Geo. Ormerod, D.C.L., 

 F.R.S., pp. 3-8, for records and evidences regarding successive 

 generations of the family from 1311 onwards, as existing in Inquisitions; 

 Pedigrees in College of Arms ; Duchy Records ; Clithero Records, and 

 Other official sources quoted in the work. (E.A.O.) 



