Local Parishes
Catcliffe in 1905
Catcliffe is a small township and village with a station on the Lancashire, Derbyshire and East Coast Railway, in Rotherham Parish.
The iron Mission Church of St. Faith was erected here in 1895 and will seat 250 persons. Services are conducted by the Vicar of St. Georges, Brinsworth.
The Wesleyans have a chapel in the village, built in 1859 at a cost of £450.
The township had 1232 inhabitants in 1901 on 690 acres of land; rateable value £8745. Under the Sheffield Corporation Act of 1900, 14 acres of this township was added to the Borough of Sheffield.
The extension of colliery operations had led to an increase in population.
Post and Money Order Office at Frederick Rodgers. Letters arrive via Rotherham at 7.25 a.m. and 6.05 p.m. and are dispatched at 7.30, 11.00 a.m. and 6 05 and 6.10 p.m. Catcliffe Station is the nearest Telegraph Office.
Trades
John Robert Armstrong, Police Constable
Mrs. Mary E. Batty, butcher
Joseph Beech, Joiner
Thomas John Batten Brewer, Board Schoolmaster
Thomas Brightmore, Farmer
John Thomas Burton, Pork Butcher
Christopher Cable, Grocer and Pork Butcher
Sam Charlesworth. Greengrocer
Thomas Clarke, Station Master
Robert Duckenfield, Butcher, also at Treeton
Harold Foers, Butcher
A.S. Geldard and sons, Grocers
James Guest, Joiner
William Hallam, Farmer
Amos Lowe, Rate Collector
Arthur Morris, Boot and Shoemaker
Masborough Equitable Pioneers Society Limited, Grocers and Drapers
Miss Oakes, Schoolmistress lives Darnall
John Platts, Market Gardener, Nursery Cottage
Henry Poppleton, Market Gardener, Nursery Cottage
Henry Priestly, Grocer and Newsagent
John Pugh, Draper and Grocer
Thomas Radford, Grocer and Beer retailer
Samuel Renshaw, Vict, Red Lion Hotel
Henry Reville, Farmer Highfield
John Roddis, vict, The Plough
Frederick Rodger, Postmaster and Clerk to Parish Council
John Savage, Insurance Agent
Robert George Selby, M.B., C.M., Surgeon
Henry Shaw, Farmer
Edgar Skeet, Boot and Shoe Repairer, Hairdresser
Albert Smith, Blacksmith
Wm. Frederick Smith, Estate Agent, Glasshouse Hill, Rother Cottage
Thomas H. Swinborn, Grocer
James Thompson, Shopkeeper
Source:White's History & Directory of Rotherham, 1905