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| Book | A History of Samlesbury in Blackburnshire by Eaton, published 1936 |
| Biography | Henry Anderton(1808-55) from 'Modern English Biography' by F. Boase |
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At an inquest held in Penwortham in 1513 a Henry Anderton was there named as a servant to John Southworth of Samlesbury. This yeoman family was settled here before 1580, and later held several farms in the township. 'Firwood' near Roach was occupied by Henry Anderton in 1695, Hoyle or Beau Lea (Hole Bottoms) was farmed by Thomas Anderton, also in 1695. Thomas appears to have obtained in 1672 a licence for the exercise of Presbyterian worship at his farm house, which is still standing in Spring Lane. The house is on the edge of Hole Brook, right in the valley.
Thomas Southworth of Samlesbury Hall demised to Henry Anderton in 1622 'Lands and Mosse groundes' in Mellor. This Henry Anderton lost his wife by death on 7th August 1653 and followed her on the 31st of the same month.
In 1654 the executors of the above Henry Anderton leased land and moss ground pertaining to the farm to George Haydock of Mellor. The name of the family is still preserved in 'Anderton House', Saccary Lane, Mellor just above the Rann. In 1793 a John Anderton, farmer, was living in Mellor, probably at the above farm.
The Samlesbury Andertons carried on the trade and work of saddlers, collar makers and holster makers (pistol cases affixed to the forepart of the riding saddle), and it is feasible that Holster Farm near the Hall may be named from the occupation of a former tenant. A member of this family, following his father's trade of saddler, moved to Walton-le-Dale about 1701. From this Thomas Anderton descended Henry Anderton, born December 3rd, 1808, at Walton, who, like his forebears, was a saddler. He was a staunch abstainer and Methodist local preacher. He wrote many poems and temperance songs, which were published later by his friend Edward Grubb who also wrote a memoir of Anderton, included in the same work. One of his songs had a great vogue and was often used at his temperance meetings. It begins:
'Pins a piece to look at a show
Longridge cushions all in a row'
Henry Anderton died in June 1855 and was interred behind the chancel in Walton-le-Dale churchyard.
On Saturday afternoon, September 10th, 1932, the 'International Order of Good Templars', who were holding their sixty-fourth Anniversary at Preston, made a pilgrimage to the grave of Anderton and held a service in the churchyard.
A William Anderton occurs in the Royal Arms panel above the east window of Samlesbury church as a warden in 1741. A pew near the pulpit carries the letters TAE 1720, and Henry Anderton 1745. In the year 1834 no Andertons were resident in the township, but a small farm on Copster land near Nab's Head still retained the name. This farm has now quite disappeared.
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ANDERTON, HENRY (son of a saddler at Walton near Preston, d. March 1836). b. Walton 3 Dec. 1808; a saddler at Walton; very popular in Lancashire as a speaker on the temperance question; presented by his friends with a beautiful silver star at Hulme, Manchester 6 Aug. 1836; agent for the Preston and Wyre railway co. at Fleetwood-on-Wyre 1840 and at Bury about 1847 to death; wrote many temperance poems, including The joys of drinking, Up and be doing lads, The river of death, The drunkard's wife; also wrote other poems and hymns. d. Bury 21 June 1855. bur. Walton churchyard. Henry Anderton's Poems, edited by Edward Grubb (1863) memoir; Life and poems of Henry Anderton (1868); Winskill's Temperance movement i 96 (1891) prt.
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