Crossley Westerman was born in Hebden Bridge in 1861, the youngest of the three children of Henry and Sarah Westerman. Crossley’s father died in 1873 and his mother was left to bring up the family on her own. She opened a toyshop at West End, Hebden…
Born 1937, he attended Burnley Road School, Hebden Bridge Grammar and then Calder High. In 1941 was living at Erringden Road, Mytholmroyd, he married and later lived at Bacup.
Cora was bridesmaid to her cousin Leah Shepherd of Hebden Bridge, when she married William Hatton of Eastwood at Hope Basptist Chapel, Hebden Bridge in 1940