The HARTLEY Surname Hall
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Other notable bearers of the HARTLEY surname include:
The Taft-Hartley Act [ also known as
the Labor-Management Relations Act ] was passed over the veto of Harry S. Truman
on 23rd June, 1947. When it was passed by Congress Truman denounced it as a
"slave-labor bill". The act declared the closed shop illegal
and permitted the union shop only after a vote of a majority of the employees.
It also forbade jurisdictional strikes and secondary boycotts. Other aspects
of the legislation included the right of employers to be exempted from bargaining
with unions unless they wished to.
The act forbade unions from contributing to political campaigns and required
union leaders to affirm they were not supporters of the Communist Party. This
aspect of the act was upheld by the Supreme Court on 8th May, 1950.
The Taft-Hartley Act also established the National Labor Relations Board, a
body that had the power to determine the issuance or prosecution of a complaint.
Under the terms of the act the United States Attorney General had the power
to obtain an 80 day injunction when a threatened or actual strike that he/she
believed "imperiled the national health or safety".
Sir William Pickles HARTLEY [1846-1922]
William Pickles HARTLEY was one of England's famous sons - he set up factories
for jam making and preserving, whose products grew to be world famous.
Born in Colne, Lancashire 23rd February 1846, Sir William Pickles HARTLEY is
probably best remembered as the founder of the "Hartley's Jam" empire.
The only surviving child of his parents, he was educated at the British School
and the Grammar School, Colne. William left school at the age of fourteen and
worked at his mother's grocery shop. He started in business for himself in Colne
at the age of sixteen.
William's HARTLEY family is thought to be Lancashire
Huguenot Yeomen who had lived and farmed in the Trawden area since the 16thC,
in particular near Barley at the foot of Pendle Hill since sometime around 1620.
They later went from farming to become fairly modest local Grocers in the district.
At the disforesting in 1507 Barley Booth was
occupied by John ROBINSON the elder and John ROBINSON the younger. The two parcels
of pasture called Hawbooth and Whitley-in-Hawbooth was occupied by John ROBINSON
the elder, John ROBINSON the younger and Roger HARTLEY. In Barley Booth £1 each
was paid by the wife of William ROBINSON, James HARTLEY and their successors
in 1609 James HARTLEY, Christopher ROBINSON and John ROBINSON]. These are likely
William's ancestors.
Wycoller
Hall nearby was built by a HARTLEY family in the 16th century, probably
his relations.
Much work needs to be done to link William's family to these
early Hartley farmers in the Trawden area.
His earliest known ancestor was his great great grandfather,
John HARTLEY [1710-1763] of Gatehouse, Yorkshire. His children were Robert,
John, Lawrence and William [1746].
His great grandparents were William HARTLEY [1746-1809]
born at Barley, Pendle, and Mary ROBINSON [1749-1822]. They had ten children.
William owned two Cotton Mills, one at Barley Green and the other at Narrowgates.
William's grandfather, William HARTLEY [b.1789-1848]
William Pickles HARTLEY's grandparents were William HARTLEY
and Christiana LISTER.
1841 Census, Colne Lane, Colne:
William Hartley, Age: 52, Occupation: Schoolmaster, Not born in same county.
Christiana Hartley, Age: 49, was born in same county.
John Hartley, Age 17, was born in same county
Richard Hartley, Age 8, was born in same county
William HARTLEY was born 1789 at Malham, North Yorkshire. He
was a Schoolmaster at Trawden and a Primitive Methodist Preacher at Barrowfield
in the 1830's. He was in later life a Missionary on the
Isle of Man, where he died from Fever in 1848. Christiana was the daughter of
Christopher LISTER [who had a large Ironmonger business] of Horsfield Cottage,
Colne. She died 27th April 1859. Here she is on the 1851 Census, along with
William Pickles HARTLEY aged 5:
1851 Census: 38/39 Colne Lane, COLNE
Christiana Hartley b.abt 1792 Colne, Lancashire
Widow Head [Proprietor of Houses] Colne Lancashire
Richd Wm Hartley b.abt 1833 Trawden, Lancashire
Son Colne Lancashire
John Hartley b.13th July 1825 Trawden, Lancashire
Head [Whitesmith] Colne Lancashire
Margaret Hartley b.abt 1825 Colne, Lancashire Wife Colne Lancashire
Wm Pickles Hartley b.abt 1846 Colne, Lancashire Son Colne Lancashire
William's father, John HARTLEY [1825-1892].
William Pickles HARTLEY's parents were
John HARTLEY [Whitesmith/Drysalter and Primitive Methodist Choir Master] b.13th
July 1825 at Trawden and Margaret PICKLES b.abt.1825 at Colne [her father was
John PICKLES of Cowling Head, Keighley, North Yorkshire]. Margaret died young
on 18th May 1870. [After Margaret's death John HARTLEY
may have married an Elizabeth Ann [unknown surname] though she does not appear
on the 1871/1881 Censuses]. John was Baptised
in 1825 as a Wesleyan Methodist but was later Baptised as a Primitive Methodist
in 1837. He died 27 January 1892.
William
Pickles HARTLEY aged abt 14
1861 Census: East Side Colne Lane, COLNE
John Hartley b.13th July 1825 Trawden, Lancashire
Head Colne Lancashire
Margaret Hartley b.abt 1825 Colne, Lancashire Wife Colne Lancashire
William Pickles Hartley b.abt 1846 Colne, Lancashire Son Colne Lancashire
John Pickles b.abt 1793 Cowling Head, Yorkshire Father-in-law Colne Lancashire
William Pickles HARTLEY married Martha HORSFIELD
on 21st May 1866, the daughter of Henry and Ann Horsfield, Grocers of Colne.
She was the youngest of thirteen children. They were Primitive Methodists.
As the business grew, William and his family moved into the wholesale trade,
and a chance event in 1871 started the Hartley business rolling, as, so it is
said, a supplier failed to deliver a batch of jam and William was forced to
make his own. His jam, marmalade and jelly sold so well that he continued to
make it. Hartley began to develop his business by producing his own fruit and
packaging it in his own distinctive earthenware pots.
1871 Census: Lord Street, COLNE
William Pickles Hartley b.abt 1846 Colne,
Lancashire, England Head Colne Lancashire
Martha O'Connor Hartley b.abt 1843 Colne,
Lancashire, England Wife Colne Lancashire
Maggy Ann Hartley b.abt 1868 Colne, Lancashire, England Daughter Colne Lancashire
Polly Hartley b.abt 1870 Colne, Lancashire, England Daughter Colne Lancashire
Nicholas Sheilds b.abt 1855 Lothersdale, Yorkshire, England Apprentice Colne
Lancashire
Caleb Duckworth b.abt 1855 Rimmington, Lancashire,
England Apprentice Colne Lancashire
In 1874 the business was transferred to Bootle,
Liverpool.
In 1880 he moved his family to Southport, where he emerged as an influential
local benefactor and entrepreneur, as well being a regular active member of
the local Methodist Church, as were all the members of the Hartley family. One
of his daughters, Christiana [b.1872] , became Southport's first woman Mayor
in 1921. Other children incl. Maggy, Polly, Sarah, John and Clara.
1881 Census
William Pickles HARTLEY Head M Male 35 Colne, Lancashire, England Occupation:
Wholesale Preserve Manfacturer Employing On Average 120 Women & 30 Men
Martha O. HARTLEY Wife M Female 38 Colne, Lancashire, England
Maggy Ann HARTLEY Daur U Female 13 Colne, Lancashire, England Scholar
Polly HARTLEY Daur Female 11 Colne, Lancashire, England Scholar
Christiania HARTLEY Daur Female 9 Colne, Lancashire, England Scholar
Sarah J. HARTLEY Daur Female 5 Bootle, Lancashire, England Scholar
John W. HARTLEY Son Male 3 Bootle, Lancashire, England
Clara L. HARTLEY Daur Female 1 Bootle, Lancashire, England
Bridget LEYDEN Serv U Female 21 Swansea General Serv
Sarah A. ABEL Nurse U Female 15 Coed Poeth, Denbigh, Wales Nurse
Address: 22 Sussex Road, North Meols, Lancashire, England
In 1884 the jam-making business was incorporated as William Hartley & Sons Limited.
In 1886 Hartley moved the business to Aintree in Liverpool, where he built Hartley
Village for his workers. The factory was self-contained and included Coopers,
Joiners and Boxmakers. Millions of the famous earthenware 'Hartley Jam Jars'
were made at Melling and St. Helens. The factory had its own railway sidings
with two locomotives. In the busy season there were six trains per day handling
two hundred waggons.. William chartered ships and had his own bonded warehouses.
Two thousand boxes were made in a day, the timber imported from Norway.
1891 Census: Long Lane, BOOTLE
Hartley, Christiana abt 1873 Colne,
Lancashire, England Daughter Fazakerley Lancashire Hartley, Constance Beatrice
abt 1885 Southport, Lancashire, England Daughter Fazakerley Lancashire Hartley,
Elizabeth Ann abt 1840 Padiham, Lancashire, England Wife Fazakerley Lancashire
Hartley, John abt 1825 Trawden, Lancashire, England Head Fazakerley Lancashire
Hartley, Martha abt 1883 Southport, Lancashire, England Daughter Fazakerley
Lancashire Hartley, Martha Oconnor abt 1843 Colne, Lancashire, England Wife
Fazakerley Lancashire Hartley, Pollie abt 1870 Colne, Lancashire, England Daughter
Fazakerley Lancashire Hartley, William Pickler abt 1846 Colne, Lancashire, England
Head Fazakerley Lancashire
1901 Census: Hartley Village, BOOTLE
Christina Hartley abt 1873 Colne, Lancashire,
England Daughter Fazakerley Lancashire Clara L Hartley abt 1880 Bootle, Lancashire,
England Daughter Fazakerley Lancashire Constance Hartley abt 1885 Southport,
Lancashire, England Daughter Fazakerley Lancashire Martha B Hartley abt 1883
Southport, Lancashire, England Daughter Fazakerley Lancashire Martha E Hartley
abt 1843 Colne, Lancashire, England Wife Fazakerley Lancashire William P Hartley
abt 1846 Colne, Lancashire, England Head Fazakerley Lancashire Nellie Owen abt
1880 Liverpool, Lancashire, England Servant Fazakerley Lancashire Catherine
Thomas abt 1867 Aberdavon, Wales Servant Fazakerley Lancashire
In 1900 Hartley opened a jam factory in Bermondsey,
south-east London and employed over 2,000 people. William moved home from Aintree
to 'Sea View', Southport in 1904.
By 1908 he had been knighted by King Edward VII for his many charitable acts
and funding to Sunday Schools and for the establishment of hospitals. In 1919
William moved home from Southport to Birkdale.
Throughout his life, he maintained a commitment to set aside money for religious
or philanthropic purposes and the town of Colne was one of the recipients of
this gesture.
Many buildings were erected and modernised and one of those, built in 1911,
was Hartley Homes which still stands today. Other buildings bought by William
included a Cottage Hospital at Colne, Hartley College, Hartley Village at Aintree
and Holborn Town Hall.
1922 The funeral of Sir William Pickles HARTLEY c.British Pathe
News
The death of Sir William Hartley was on Wednesday
25th October 1922, with a Funeral Service at Church Street, Southport, and Interment
at Trawden on Saturday 28th October 1922.
The village of Trawden, near Colne, still boasts
what is thought to be a rare monument to jam manufacturing in the area. An industrial
jam pan, found in a farmer's field in the village of Wycoller nearby was brought
back to Trawden where it remains today.
One of William Hartley's relatives is thought
by some to be Wallace Hartley [see below] who was a musician on the ill-fated
Titanic on her maiden voyage in 1912. He continued playing "Nearer my God to
Thee" as the ship sank. He died with the ship and is celebrated in his home
town of Colne as a local hero.
Wallace Henry HARTLEY [1879-1912]
English bandmaster/violinist "RMS Titanic"
Born at 92 Greenfield Road, Colne in 1878, the son of Albion HARTLEY, a Cotton
Mill Manager, and Elizabeth, of Colne, Lancashire. [At the time of his death
his home was Surreyside, West-Park Street, Dewsbury, England]. His Grandparents
were Henry HARTLEY [a Cotton Weaver] and Mary of Colne.
As a youngster, Wallace was a choirboy [his church music tutor at Colne was
Pickles RILEY], and was giving solo violin performances by the age of 15. Later
he led orchestras in Harrogate and Bridlington and was a member of the Savage
Club in Leeds. Wallace, a violinist, worked on the Cunard Liner Mauretania before
leaving to become bandmaster on "RMS Titanic". He had a fiancé in Boston Spa,
near Wetherby in Yorkshire and spent time with her in that village the week
before boarding the Titanic ...
"RMS
Titanic"
Wallace Henry HARTLEY
After the collision Wallace led the orchestra in playing ragtime tunes. A newspaper
at the time reported, "the part played by the orchestra on board the Titanic
in her last dreadful moments will rank among the noblest in the annals of heroism
at sea." His body was recovered as #224 on May 4th 1912 Strapped to his body
was his music box and in his pockets, amongst other things, was a gold fountain
pen with his initials W.H.H.The body was transferred from Halifax to Boston
for it's return to Liverpool on-board the "Arabic" where it arrived on May 12th.
From Liverpool his body was taken by hearse to his boyhood hometown of Colne,
Lancashire.
The funeral service took place at the Bethel Chapel to a congregation of over
1000 (the chapel is designed to hold about 700). Around 40,000 people lined
the route of the funeral procession as his rosewood casket made its way to Colne
cemetery, led by seven bands. In 1915 a statue of Wallace was erected just to
the side of the Rectory on Albert Road. The area around the statue has recently
been renovated. The inscription reads: WALLACE HARTLEY Bandmaster of the RMS
Titanic who perished in the foundering of that vessel April 15th 1912 Erected
by voluntary contributions to commemorate the heroism of a native of this town.
Wallace HARTLEY Monument, Colne.
taken from Censuses, this is Albion's family living at Greenfield
Road, Colne:
Henry Hartley abt
1815 Colne, Lancashire Head [Cotton Weaver] Colne Lancashire [died 1861-1871]
Mary Hartley abt 1815 Colne, Lancashire Wife Colne Lancashire
Albion Hartley abt 1850 Colne, Lancashire Son Colne Lancashire [Albion was a
Cotton Sizer, later manger of a Cotton Mill]
Ellen Hartley abt 1849 Colne, Lancashire Daughter Colne Lancashire
John Rushton Hartley abt 1847 Colne, Lancashire Son Colne Lancashire
Martha Ellen Hartley abt 1846 Colne, Lancashire Daughter Colne Lancashire
Mary Ann Hartley abt 1843 Colne, Lancashire Daughter Colne Lancashire
Henry Hartley abt 1854 Colne, ancashire Son Colne, Lancashire
The act declared the closed shop illegal
and permitted the union shop only after a vote of a majority of the employees.
It also forbade jurisdictional strikes and secondary boycotts. Other aspects
of the legislation included the right of employers to be exempted from bargaining
with unions unless they wished to. 
1922 The funeral of Sir William Pickles HARTLEY c.British Pathe
News
Wallace Henry HARTLEY
HARTLEY Crest and Coat of Arms - Shop at 