sub editor -1900's

[deanC]

Good morning All ,

our ancestor leonard alexander crossle . b.1863 Ireland.
on the 1901 census he was a sub editor for a newspaper in the london area , how can i find out which one .

also with ref to Ireland , how can i find out where he was born and his parents ?

any help or a point in the right direction ..

dean

[olliecat]

our ancestor leonard alexander crossle . b.1863 Ireland.
on the 1901 census he was a sub editor for a newspaper in the london area , how can i find out which one .

also with ref to Ireland , how can i find out where he was born and his parents ?

If he doesn't state specifically where he was born on the 1901 census or any previous census, then it would be worth your while looking at the 1911 census. In 1911 he does state where he was born in Ireland.

1911: RG14/2224 SN28

[Coromandel]

If you Google for "Leonard Alexander Crossle" there's just one match, but a potentially very useful one: an online book called Descent and alliances of Croslegh, or Crossle, or Crossley, of Scaitcliffe, compiled by Charles Croslegh, D.D. (privately printed in 1904)

Among the relatives he thanks for their help is 'my brother, Leonard Alexander Crossle, for his pictures of Anahoe'. I wonder if he's the same as your Leonard?

[olliecat]

Do you have his marriage certificate? That would at least give you his father's name...

Marriages Dec 1891 Fulham 1a 603
Crossle Leonard Alexander
Howard May
James Emily
Olliver William

[olliecat]

Is he in the 1891 census in Fulham with mother Elizabeth and sister Marian?

1891: RG12 Piece: 49 Folio: 85 Page: 14 (crown copyright, care of the TNA)

[deanC]

thanks olliecat ,
i had the marriage but not the place , i will have alook at 1891 census

dean

[Coromandel]

That online book is rather hard to follow, but I have found this bit:
'My father m. 2nd, at Kilcluny, [?]th April, 1860, Elizabeth Winder, eldest dau. of the Rev. Leonard Horner Robinson . . . and had issue, two s[on]s and one dau.:
Leonard Alexander Crossle, b. 8th April, 1863.
William Verner Crossle, b.15th March, 1864.
Marian Leonora Crossle, b.5th May, 1862.

from which I presume that Leonard was a half-brother of the book's author, from his father's second marriag. I still haven't found the bit where the author gives his own birth details and names their father!

Edit: If I am reading the pedigree correctly, the author's father was Rev. Charles Crossle (1810-1871) who married first Isabella Atkinston, by whom he had seven sons and four daughters.

[olliecat]

I still haven't found the bit where the author gives his own birth details and names their father!

There is a pedigree chart which has Charles Crossleigh as the son of the Rev. Charles Crossleigh and Isabella Atkinson.

Pedigree Chart on page 36 (of the PDF)

[Coromandel]

Pedigree Chart on page 36 (of the PDF)

Thanks, olliecat! I was trying to find it in the nasty plain text version: I didn't think of downloading a PDF.

[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