Peel Street circa 1900

Places

Eastergate

Hamlets and homesteads

Badger Gate | Binn | Clough Lee | Dirker | Farms etc | Hard End | Hey Green
Planks | Smithy Holme | White Lee

Smithy Holme

Smithy Holme was a small group of houses just beyond Warehouse Hill Mills, on the canal.

1881 Census

Number of households in Smithy Holme - 4 Population of Smithy Holme - 21
Ave household size - 5.25 Ave size of nuclear family unit - 5
Ave age of household heads - 43.5 Number born outside county - 0
Percent born outside Marsden - 9 = 42/9
Households with related kin - 1 Wives in paid employment - 1

This settlement was too small in 1881 to provide any meaningful statistics.

Farmer - 1Power loom tuner - 1
Worsted weaver - 1Furnace tenter at Foundry - 1
Fire tenter at woollen mill - 1Woollen piecer - 1
Wool finisher - 1Foundry labourer - 1
Railway labourer - 1Worsted mender - 2


Resident families

Lodge
Hirst
Holroyd
Sharp

1901 Census

Number of households in Smithy Holme - 4 Population of Smithy Holme - 16 - but 1 household was away from home

Smithy Holme was no bigger in 1901, and one household was away, which makes it impossible to come to any general conclusions.

Stonemason - 2Woollen weaver - 2
Joiner - 1Railway platelayer - 1
Millhand - 1


Resident families

Whitehead
Gledhill
Holroyd