Monday, 24 March 2025

Booth of Breightmet Hill

Genealogical notes and "try-out" pedigree including:  Thomas Booth of Breightmet Hill, Isaac Booth of Breightmet Hill, James Booth of Ainsworth, William Horrocks of Harwood, James Holt of Three Lowes.


Sunday, 9 February 2025

Crompton of Firwood Fold

Genealogical notes on the Crompton family of Firwood Fold in Tonge in the parish of Bolton-le-Moors.

Firwood Fold in Tonge

Saturday, 5 October 2024

Rental of Ralph Assheton of Great Lever 1598

Manchester Archives Ref: E7/27/2/1. 

Ralph Assheton of Great Lever for Great Lever, Farnworth, Ladyhalgh, Bolton, Warton and Hopehey.  Original documents contain record of rental values (not reproduced here).  Ladyhaulgh and Warton not reproduced here.

Rental of Ralph Assheton of Great Lever 1598
Rental of Ralph Assheton of Great Lever 1598

Farnworth Land Tax 1780

Lancashire Archives Ref QDL/S/40.

As Assessment of the Land Tax on the Inhabitants of the Township of Farnworth after the Rate of 4s per pound for the year 1780.

Wednesday, 25 September 2024

The Davenport Estate in Farnworth

The text below is extracted from a collection of Farnworth Deeds of Title at Salford Archives (Ref: BW/T/8/1 1649-1809).  Note that original purchaser is named as Edmund Rushton in the abstract of title, but Rishton in the original documents.

Abstract of the Title of the Assignees of Mr Robert Wilson a Bankrupt to a Messuage Tenement & Premises situate in Farnworth in the County of Lancaster.

Tuesday, 24 September 2024

Gartside of Prestwich

Genealogical notes on the Gartsides of Prestwich, later Manchester, and connected family Crompton of the Park in Pilkington.

Family tree of Gartside of Prestwich

Signature of Robert Gartsyde 1640
Witness to the will of Lawrence Crompton of Clifton

Saturday, 14 September 2024

List of Farms in Little Hulton 1789

The text below is taken from the Little Hulton Town Book at Salford Archives (Ref: P6/04)