Grimshaw & holden family
 

A pal of mine is interested in Septimus Mortimer HOLDEN and his father(?) Mortimer GRIMSHAW. Sep was editor/owner(?) of the Accrington Advertiser, Mort (1826-69) was a firebrand politician/orator who was called The Lancashire Thunderer. Anyone descended from them who might know why there was a surname variation or who knows anything about them?

Re: Grimshaw & holden family
 

Marriage: 24 Nov 1887 St John the Evangelist, Accrington, Lancashire, England
Servetus Mortimer Holden - 25 Journalist Bachelor of 87 James St Blackburn
Louise Bray - 27 Spinster of Arnold St Accrington
Groom's Father: Mortimer Grimshaw Holden
Bride's Father: William Bray, Stone Mason
Witness: William Bray; Clara Bray
Married by Licence by: J M Harries Curate
Notes: [Groom's father's surname written as Holden then crossed out]
Register: Marriages 1887 - 1898, Page 7, Entry 13
Film 1470821

Re: Grimshaw & holden family
 

Thanks Acstan. It will be intersting to learn why Servetas changed his name. Although he was a newspaper owner in the town, when he died, the Observer failed to give him a decent write-up