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Royds Family  Spotland. 

Spotland Falinge 

Rochdale Royds Family 

The family have links with Rochdale and Halifax dating back to the 

1600s

During the 17th and 18th century the Royds family 

John Royds of Castleton 1730 owned looms cattle, farms and land around Rochdale

James Royds of Falinge, purchased land at Brown hill ,nearby a public house of the same name still resides to this date. Clement Royds church was built. later.

St Clements. 

1700s 

 James Royds 1689-1757 (68)  Mary Royds 1712-1799 (87)

James Royds of Falinge purchased land at Brownhill and later, in the same vicinity, built Mount Falinge. now falinge park,Mount Falinge was built inland between Cronkeyshaw and Falinge Road. The 18-acre park stretched from the junction of Sheriff Street and Falinge Road to Cronkeyshaw.  James Royd also bought the Brotherod estate      John Royds 1st son of James and Mary.                                                                             John Royds(1729-99)(69) -Ann Royds (d-1770)(34)                                            

   2nd son James Royds(1758-1842) married    Mary Royds of Rochdale (1784-1816), the fourth and youngest daughter of Charles Smith and Theodosia Ann Eyre of Lisbon.                                                                         They had 12 children, of which Clement was the eldest.    Clement Royds (1785-1854) married Jane,      (1788-1853)     the daughter of Charles Hudson of Halifax, in 1810.                                                                      On the 11th September 1811, their first child, Albert Hudson Royds.           

1800s 

Letter 1810 property of Rochdale Direct co.uk  Adressed to James Royds 7th may 1810 from his brother Thomas in Portugal

These documents are in our collection.

1845 clement Royds

 Albert Hudson Royds,  was born at Mount Falinge.                    He was followed by Emma, Edmond, William Edward, John and Julia. 

All Street names around St Edmunds Church.

Bankers  

Royds development of the bank note. 

Source - britishnotes.co.uk

All these bankers - the Rawsons, the Briggs and the Royds - were woolen manufacturers. The Royds were a long established family in the area: the name is the local word for the old English assart, meaning a land cleared for cultivation. The family owned a fulling mill down to have existed at the time of Elizabeth I and by the mid eighteenth century purchased the estate - with suitable coat of arms - which they still possessed in the twentieth century

At Rochdale, Rhodes and Briggs sold out to Clement Royds in 1827. Collectors well may associate Rochdale with the proof Fenton and Raby note, particularly as this was included in a set of notes reproduced in 1970 on thin card. The Royd's note is uncommon indeed, and has as a vignette, the superb Pistrucci George and Dragon featured on the gold sovereign coinage introduced in 1816 in place of the guinea coins of the previous 160 years. Royds was probably emphasising the pound denomination of his notes in contrast to the guinea values then gradually going out of use all over the country.

Clement died in 1854 and was succeeded by his sons Albert and William, both of whom had been with the bank since its inception. The firm's style remained as Clement Royds & Co throughout its existence. The next generation included another Clement C M Royds. He also became a magistrate and High Sheriff of Lancashire - and this Clement outdid his grandfather in achieving his ambition of becoming a Member of Parliament. He became a partner in about 1867, in which year the firm abandoned banknote issue and he was the senior partner by 1875. *

  Source Banking History  Wikipedia,                              The history of Rochdale-Henry Fishwick

1895 Clement Royds Conservative

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