Joseph Ogdin March

Memorial inside St. Matthew's. Holbeck

Joseph Ogdin March of Maclea and March

1799 February 17th. Born

Married Mary the daughter of Matthew Murray

1830 December 13th. Death of son Joseph Ogdin March (junior) aged 11 months and 20 days

1834 November 24th. Death of daughter Ann Maclea March age 8 years and 3 months

1839 February 24th. Birth of Ann Maclea March

1847 February 21st. Death of daughter Ann Maclea March

1864 January 18th. Mary died age 66. Of Beech Grove House, Leeds

1888 February 27th. Joseph died. Of Beech Grove House, Leeds

1888 'OBITUARY. A venerable citizen of Leeds has passed away in the person of Mr. Joseph Ogdin March, who died yesterday at his residence, Beech Grove House, Beech Grove-terrace. The deceased gentleman was the son of Mr. George March (who at the end of the last century was engaged in the woollen trade in Leeds), and was born at Holbeck in 1799. He had thus attained the advanced age of 89. Mr. March was apprenticed to Mr. Matthew Murray (Murray, Fenton, and Wood), the celebrated engineer, Holbeck, and, having served his term, joined in, partnership in the engineering and tool-making trade the late Mr. Charles Gascoigne Maclea, both of whom married daughters of Mr. Murray.
They commenced business in 1825, at the Union Foundry, Dewsbury-road, and gained more than a national reputation as makers of flax spinning and other machinery. They also acquired considerable wealth. Mr. Maclea, who died in 1864, had quitted the business some time previously owing to failing health. Mr. March took his son George into the partnership, and by them the Union Foundry has been carried on up to the present time, though for some years Mr. March, sen., has been unable to take any active part in the business. In fact, he has been an invalid for the last eight years.
Both Mr. Maclea and Mr. March took an active interest in public affairs. They were both members of the Town Council, they were elected Aldermen of the borough, and they filled the office of Mayor- Mr. Maclea in 1846-47, and Mr. March in 1862-63. In the welfare of various local institutions Mr. March took considerable interest, and as a friend of education was appointed a member of the first board of directors of the Mechanics' Institute and Literary Society in December, 1824. In politics the deceased was a Liberal, and in his younger days an energetic supporter of his party. In religion he was a Congregationalist, attending Queen-street Chapel, of which he was one of the trustees. Mrs. March died in 1864, and her husband leaves behind him two sons and three daughters.'

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