Catalogue description LOMAS FAMILY OF MANCHESTER, AND MURGATROYD FAMILY OF MANCHESTER AND HEATON NORRIS

Their letters, though chiefly about family affairs, include many references to London Rd. Sunday School (particularly M478/5/1/10, 17-19, M478/6/1, M478/7/1/3, M478/9/1/7,8 M478/9/3/2 and M478/13/5/1).

Joshua Murgatroyd, father of Mary, came to Manchester from Yorkshire and soon joined the London Rd Methodists. In 1852 he went to work in Stockport and became an important figure in the Stockport North Circuit. His Methodist faith and that of other members of the family are particularly evident in M478/2/1/1, M478/3/1, M478/5/1/21, M478/10/1/3, M478/12/1/1-4, M478/14/1, M478/15/1/1-4 and M478/16/1/1,2,7,13,18,24.

The letters also include descriptions of Southport, 1838-1844 (M478/2/1/2, M478/7/1/7, 10,11,20,23,25 and M478/10/1/1), Lytham, 1842 (M478/7/1/10,11), Fleetwood, 1843-1844 (M478/5/1/7 and M478/7/1/20,30), Lancaster, 1846 (M478/7/1/36), Ireland, 1846 (M478/7/1/21,24) and Malta, 1863 (M478/14/1 and M478/16/1/1), life in a Moravian School in Prussia, 1865-1869 (M478/16/1/1-23 and M478/16/3/1,3), the tribulations of being on jury service, 1845-1846 (M478/7/1/31,36) and a reference to an early example of a sponsored walk, 1840 (M478/2/1/2).

M478/1/1-4 GEORGE LOMAS OF BURBAGE, DERBYSHIRE AND MANCHESTER, CORN MERCHANT, 1782-1848

M478/1/1. Estate Correspondence, c 1838

M478/1/2. Notes of Children's Births, 1808-1826

M478/1/3. Family Correspondence, 1804-1843

M478/1/4. Account of Celebrations in Manchester for Coronation of George IV, 1821

M478/2/1-2 MARY, DAUGHTER OF GEORGE AND ANN LOMAS OF BUXTON, AND WIFE OF GEORGE LOMAS, 1780-1860

M478/2/1. Family Correspondence, 1826-1848

M478/2/2. Memorial Card and Biographical Sketch, 1860

M478/3/1-2 ROBERT, SON OF GEORGE AND MARY LOMAS, OF MANCHESTER, 1808-1829

M478/3/1. Family Correspondence, 1815

M478/3/2. Letter and Poem on his Death, 1829

M478/4/1 THOMAS, SON OF GEORGE AND MARY LOMAS OF MANCHESTER AND HANDFORTH, CORN DEALER, Born 1810.

Silhouette, n.d.

M478/5/1-3 MARY, DAUGHTER OF GEORGE AND MARY LOMAS, AND WIFE OF JOSHUA MURGATROYD OF MANCHESTER AND HEATON NORRIS, 1812-1898

M478/5/1. Family Correspondence, 1830-1874

M478/5/2. Photographs, 1892

M478/5/3. Memorial card and Cutting on Funeral, 1898

M478/6/1-4 ANN, DAUGHTER OF GEORGE AND MARY LOMAS, 1814-1887

M478/6/1. Family Correspondence, 1836

M478/6/2. Recipe Book, 1837

M478/6/3. Prayer Books, 1824 - 1849

M478/6/4. Photograph, 1865

M478/7/1-3 SARAH, DAUGHTER OF GEORGE AND MARY LOMAS, AND WIFE OF ROBERT LOMAS OF SALFORD AND SALE, 1819-1877

M478/7/1. Family Correspondence, 1830-1846

M478/7/2. Photograph n.d.

M478/7/3. Address following her Death, 1877

M478/8/1 ROBERT LOMAS OF SALFORD AND SALE, CORN DEALER, HUSBAND OF SARAH LOMAS

M478/8/1. Correspondence, 1859

M478/9/1-5 ELIZABETH, DAUGHTER OF GEORGE AND MARY LOMAS, AND WIFE OF THOMAS LOMAS, JUN. OF MACCLESFIELD, 1826 - post 1906

M478/9/1. Family Correspondence, 1830-1854

M478/9/2. Autograph Albums, 1846-1877

M478/9/3. Writings, 1867-1906

M478/9/4. Photographs, n.d.

M478/9/5. Invitation to Presentation of Address by Mayor of Salford to Queen Victoria, 1851

M478/10/1 THOMAS LOMAS, JUN. OF MANCHESTER AND MACCLESFIELD, HUSBAND OF ELIZABETH LOMAS

M478/10/1. Family Correspondence, 1838-1851

M478/11/1 THOMAS GEORGE, SON OF THOMAS AND ELIZABETH LOMAS. Died 1928. (see also wife Mary Lomas Murgatroyd)

M478/11/1. Visiting card, 1887

M478/12/1-2 BANCROFT FAMILY (Elizabeth Bancroft married Thomas Lomas sen.)

M478/12/1. Family Correspondence, 1809-1814

M478/12/2. Medical Recipes, early 19th c. ( ?)

M478/13/1-6 JOSHUA MURGATROYD OF HUDDERSFIELD, MANCHESTER AND HEATON NORRIS, HUSBAND OF MARY, DAUGHTER OF GEORGE AND MARY LOMAS, 1812-1874

M478/13/1. Business Papers, 1828-1853

M478/13/2. Notes of Marriages and Children's Births, 1812-1857

M478/13/3. Family Correspondence, 1832-1854

M478/13/4. Photographs, c 1829 - 1859

M478/13/5. Notes on London Rd. Sunday School, 1848

M478/13/6. Obituaries, 1874

M478/14/1-2 GEORGE LOMAS MURGATROYD OF HEATON NORRIS, SON OF JOSHUA AND MARY MURGATROYD, 1850-1894

M478/14/1. Family Correspondence, 1863

M478/14/2. Sketch, c 1870

M478/15/1 THOMAS LOMAS MURGATROYD OF HEATON NORRIS, SON OF JOSHUA AND MARY MURGATROYD, 1855-1929

M478/15/1. Family Correspondence, 1863-1870

M478/16/1-4 MARY LOMAS MURGATROYD OF HEATON NORRIS AND MACCLESFIELD, DAUGHTER OF JOSHUA AND MARY MURGATROYD, AND WIFE OF THOMAS GEORGE LOMAS, 1853-1943

M478/16/1. Family Correspondence, 1863-1892

M478/16/2. Notification of Marriage, 1898

M478/16/3. Writings, c 1868-1910

M478/16/4. Photographs, n.d.

M478/17/1 MARY GERTRUDE MURGATROYD, DAUGHTER OF THOMAS LOMAS MURGATROYD, AND WIFE OF REV. H. J. SAUNDERS, 1885-1974

M478/17/1. Notes on Family History, 1915-c 1960

M478/18/1-2 MISCELLANEOUS PAPERS

M478/18/1. Advert for Grand Speedwell Mine, Castleton, Derbys., 1838

M478/18/2. Part of a letter, n.d.

Lomas family of Manchester

Murgatroyd family of Manchester

The papers were given to the Library in December 1983 and February 1984 by Miss E. M. Saunders, grand-daughter of Thomas Lomas Murgatroyd, who was son of Joshua Murgatroyd and Mary Lomas.

The Lomas and Murgatroyd families were united by the marriage of Mary, daughter of George and Mary Lomas, with Joshua Murgatroyd in 1848, and further by the marriage of their daughter Mary Lomas Murgatroyd with her cousin Thomas George Lomas, son of her mother's sister Elizabeth and her cousin Thomas Lomas in 1898.

Both families were Methodists. George and his brother Thomas, having come to Manchester from Derbyshire, joined London Rd. Sunday School and all George's children were involved as Sunday School teachers.