sub editor -1900's

[olliecat]

Rev. Charles Crossle (1810 to 1872)

First wife Isabella Atkinson
Second wife Elizabeth Winder

Lots of children, including Leonard Alexander Crossle by his second wife Elizabeth (probably the one in the 1891 census)

Details of who he married, first and second wife, and all his children - in the PDF verson, type in page 18

[Coromandel]

olliecat, how did you download a PDF version? I tried going to 'See other formats' and clicking on 'PDF' but that just took me to Google Books, where the book only seems to be available in snippet view. What am I doing wrong?

[olliecat]

olliecat, how did you download a PDF version? I tried going to 'See other formats' and clicking on 'PDF' but that just took me to Google Books, where the book only seems to be available in snippet view. What am I doing wrong?

I found a PDF version here. Sorry Coromandel, it was your discovery and so I thought you already had it.

http://
openlibrary.org/books/OL23293921M/Descent_and_alliances_of_Croslegh

Link to the actual PDF from that page is...

www.
archive.org/download/descentalliances00cros/descentalliances00cros.pdf

I would have posted a link before, but I thought I shouldn't, as you found the publication in the first place.

[Coromandel]

Thanks again, olliecat, I've got it now! I was on www. archive.org all the time, where there doesn't seem to be a direct way to get to the PDF version.

[olliecat]

I see Leonard left a will, proved on 12 Dec 1925. Executors Emslie John Horniman esq. and Thomas Williams retired manufacturer.

You may know of this already.

[olliecat]

I don't know if you want this information, since it is not answering your question about Leonard's occupation, but I wondered what had happened to Leonard's sister Marian Leonora Crossle. It looks like she married Joseph Menary in 1894

name: Marion Leonard Crossle
registration district: Belfast
event type: MARRIAGES
registration quarter and year: Jul - Sep 1894
volume number: 1
page number: 388

name: Joseph Couser Menary
registration district: Belfast
event type: MARRIAGES
registration quarter and year: Jul - Sep 1894
volume number: 1
page number: 388

1901 Ireland census
Residents of a house 19 in Cliftonville Road (Clifton, Antrim)
Menary Joseph Conner 39 Head of Family Presbyterian County Armagh Sergeant R.I.C.
Menary Charles Crosele 5 Son Presbyterian City of Belfast
Menary Marian Leonora 34 Wife

[olliecat]

Mother Elizabeth is also alive and well in 1911

1911 Ireland census
Residents of a house 21 in Carnmoney (Carnmoney, Antrim)
Menary Joseph Couser 49 Head of Family Presbyterian Co Armagh Clerk Commercial, Married 16 yrs
Menary Marian Leonora 48 Wife Presbyterian Co Armagh
Menary Charles Crossle 15 Son Presbyterian City of Belfast
Crossle Elizabeth Winder 74 Mother in Law Church of Ireland

[Kerrywood]

our ancestor leonard alexander crossle . b.1863 Ireland.
on the 1901 census he was a sub editor for a newspaper in the london area

I'm not sure why you think he worked for a newspaper?

The 1901 says Sub-editor (Author) (RG13/459 folio 171 page 36), which is supported by the 1911 (RG14/2224 SN 28 - reference to records held by TNA).

He's more than likely to have worked for a book publisher. His translation (with Edmund McClure) of Fritz Hommel's The ancient Hebrew tradition as illustrated by the monuments: a protest against the modern school of Old Testament criticism was apparently published in 1897 by the SPCK, under the name Leonard CROSSLÉ.

Did he perhaps work for the SPCK? They were/are a huge publishing outfit.

www.
spck.org.uk/index.php

[deanC]

hi olliecat

thanks for your help , yes the info on the sister is usefull ,,i am still working thro everything from this morning ,the whole irish area is new to me ,so its been great fun .

dean

[olliecat]

He's more than likely to have worked for a book publisher. His translation (with Edmund McClure) of Fritz Hommel's The ancient Hebrew tradition as illustrated by the monuments: a protest against the modern school of Old Testament criticism was apparently published in 1897 by the SPCK, under the name Leonard CROSSLÉ.

Did he perhaps work for the SPCK? They were/are a huge publishing outfit.

I would agree. According to the 1891 census, his occupation was recorded as 'Secretary To Society Pro Chin (?) Knowledge'.
This probably meaning "Secretary to the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge. i.e. SPCK