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  1. Published on: 28/02/2021 08:13 AMReported by: rogerblaxall
    The latest is a series of online talks by a local family history group has been dedicated to one of the stalwarts of its cause, the late Bill Huyton.

    Bill was a mine of information about local history and could be seen every week in Ormskirk library at the Ormskirk and District Family History Society helpdesk. He is pictured far right at a 'Dig up your roots' event at Emmanuel Methodist Church a few years ago.

    In an email to the busy QLocal newsdesk, Kate Hurst from the group told reporter Roger Blaxall: "ODFHS have just released a new virtual talk on the history of St. Peter and St. Paul's Church, Ormskirk, with a focus on how the building evolved through the years.

    "Bill Huyton (our Chairman Emeritus) passed away in January, so we are dedicating this talk to him. There is a longer obituary on our website at this link, including some photos, and we will also be printing a version of it in our next magazine," she added.

    From the ODFHS website: 'It is with enormous sadness that we announce the death of Bill Huyton, our Chairman Emeritus, aged 73, at Aintree Hospital, on 29 January 2021.

    'A stalwart member of ODFHS for twenty years, Bill went on to enjoy the distinction of being our longest-serving Chairman. Described by one of our members as “one of the leading lights at ODFHS”, a fellow member of the North-West Group of Family Societies also praised him as a “thoughtful and passionate family historian, member and leader”.

    'Whether attending NWGFHS meetings or helping at public events (from Westhead Carnival and Ormskirk Mediaeval Weekend, to Who Do You Think You Are? Live and the recent Virtual Really Useful Family History Show), Bill was keenly interested in the way our ancestors lived.

    'He was a member of the West Lancashire Heritage Association, and became actively involved with the West Lancashire World War One Anniversary group. When a chance to meet distant cousins from New Zealand came up in 2011, Bill relished the opportunity to further their mutual research.'

    Some pictures of Bill here: Bill Huyton (odfhs.website)

    And the latest talk: You don’t have to delve far into Ormskirk’s history to realise that the parish church of St. Peter and St. Paul is an ancient building. If the myth is to be believed, there was a place of worship on that site in the days of Orm (or Ormr) the Viking . . . but the Vikings first arrived in Britain in about 793AD, only to be displaced by their Norman descendants after the conquest of 1066.

    During the late Victorian period, the oldest part of St. Peter and St. Paul’s Church was thought to be a twelfth-century window in the northern wall of the chancel. In 1907, the Victoria County History of Lancaster (Volume 3) reckoned that the earliest known priest was “Henry the Chaplain”, who was in residence in about 1190, but by the time that book went to print, seven centuries had passed since the Norman-era church had been built, and the building had survived some momentous events in British history.

    Last autumn, a member of Ormskirk and District Family History Society’s committee suggested that the Victorian renovations to the parish church would make an excellent topic for one of the video talks that the Society has been publishing since their meetings were suspended in March.

    Far from being an ancient structure that was in desperate need of modernisation by the 1870s, research to prepare the talk soon proved that St. Peter and St. Paul’s Church has been adapted and updated to suit the needs of its community for almost as long as it has existed.

    Published on 27 February 2021 to coincide with the forty-first anniversary of Ormskirk and District Family History Society’s first meeting, The Renovation Of Ormskirk Parish Church explores the mediaeval extensions to the building, the real story about why the church is one of only three in England to boast a tower as well as a spire (nothing to do with Orm trying to appease his argumentative sisters . . . and everything to do with Henry the Eighth!) and what happened when Jane Laithwaite found Mr. Entwistle’s apprentices sitting in her family pew in the 1630s, before delving into the changes, discoveries, fundraising events and angry letters to the newspapers prompted by the major renovation project of 1877 to 1891.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ev54...ature=youtu.be



     
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