sub editor -1900's

[Kerrywood]

The SPCK archives are held at Cambridge University Library, if dean wants to go any further.

[olliecat]

Just to confirm some of the details from Charles Croslegh's publcation. Looking at the indexes from family search...

groom's name: Charles Crossle
bride's name: Elizabeth Winder Robinson
marriage date: 11 Apr 1860
marriage place: Kilcluney, Arm, Ire
groom's father's name: Henry Crossle
bride's father's name: C.H. Robinson

Birth of William Verner Crossle (going by the information from the publication)?

name: Crossle
gender: Male
birth date: 15 Mar 1864
birthplace: 0345, CROSSMAGLEN, ARMAGH, IRELAND
father's name: Charles Crossle
mother's name: Elizabeth Winder Robinson
indexing project (batch) number: C70122-1

Death of Leonard's father.

name: Charles Crossle
registration district: Armagh
event type: DEATHS
registration quarter and year: 1872
estimated birth year: 1811
age (at death): 61
volume number: 1
page number: 61

Looks like Leonard's mother Elizabeth died in 1913

name: Elizabeth Winder Crossle
registration district: Belfast
event type: DEATHS
registration quarter and year: Jul - Sep 1913
estimated birth year: 1838
age (at death): 75
volume number: 1
page number: 304

[Coromandel]

Did he perhaps work for the SPCK?

Ah, I think you are on to something there, Kerrywood: the Bookseller for 1918 has a list (possibly of those attending a meeting at Stationers' Hall; but it is hard to tell from the snippets on Google Books) which includes
'L. Crosslé (S.P.C.K.)'.

[olliecat]

From the PRONI calendar of wills index...

Charles Crossle
Date of Death: 18 December 1871
Date of Grant: 25 January 1872
Effects under £5,000

"Letters of Administration of the personal estate of the Reverend Charles Crossle late of Kilcluney County Armagh Clerk deceased who died 18 December 1871 at same place were granted at Armagh to Elizabeth Winder Crossle (the Widow) and Henry John Crossle Esquire (the Son) both of Kilcluney (Markethill) aforesaid"

http://applications.proni.gov.uk/DCA...llsSearch.aspx

[olliecat]

Also, from the PRONI wills index...

Elizabeth Winder Crossle
Date of Death: 12 September 1913
Date of Grant: 5 January 1914
Effects £1,441 8s. 8d.

"Probate of the Will of Elizabeth Winder Crossle late of Ballyhenry Carnmoney County Antrim Widow who died 12 September 1913 granted at Belfast to Leonard Crossle and John Colquhoun Crossle Esquires"

Note: There is also probate for a John Porter Colquhoun Crossle who died on 14 March 1942.

[deanC]

many many thanks to you all , a lot of info to work thro .

dean