Longworth Family Gravestones at Horwich

Genealogical information of the LONGWORTH family, from four adjacent gravestones in Horwich Parish Church (next to the front wall of the churchyard, directly across from the doorway of the public house Bank Top Brewery Ale House).

The Okey, Marshes, and Diggle Families

Barton's Historical Gleanings - Bolton & District, Vol. 2, 1882, pp51-59

Subjoined is a list of the Freeholders in Breightmet, nearly a century ago, who were liable to serve as jurors at the assizes and quarter sessions of the peace, to be held within the county:-

1784 Kinder vs. Knowles Dispute

Extracts from "Captain Dewhurst & his Diary", Edited by W.D. Billington, relating to the Kinder family of Breightmet, and their dispute with Robert and Andrew Knowles.

Longworth Family Apprenticeship Indentures

Summary of five Longworth family apprenticeship indentures held at Bolton Archives, including photographs of signatures.

1763 Apprenticeship Indenture of Catherine Hope to John Longworth

This Indenture Made the Eigth Day of March in the Year of our Lord, One Thousand Seven Hundred and Sixty Two BETWEEN Robert Brooks Churchwarden and the said Robert Brooks and Ralph Seddon Overseers of the Poor of the Township of Middle Hulton in the Parish of Dean in the County of Lancaster of the one part and John Longworth of Great Bolton in the said County fustian weaver of the other part

1763 Apprenticeship Indenture

1779 Contract to Purchase the Old Wool Pack in Bolton

A Contract Bargain and Agreement made and agreed upon the Twenty sixth day of April in the year of our Lord one Thousand Seven Hundred and Seventy Nine BETWEEN Adam Lomax of Dunscar within Turton Gentleman, Samuel Simpson of Bolton Gentleman, Peter Marsh of Breightmet Yeoman, Thomas Cross of Ainsworth Yeoman, John Marsh, Samuel Marsh and John Longworth of Horwich, Yeoman (persons interested in or appointed to Sell and Convey Title to the premises now in after mentioned, of the one part and William Holden of Bolton aforesaid, Chapman and John Brown of Bolton aforesaid Gentleman of the other parts as Follows.

1754 Crompton Family Little Lever Lease

John Crompton of Eccleston near Knowsley, husbandman, eldest son of Adam Crompton of Little Lever, papermaker, deceased, Mary his wife, Adam Crompton of Little Lever, papermaker, son of Adam Crompton, deceased, Hannah his wife, Heap Crompton of Liverpool, sailmaker, son of Adam Crompton, deceased, John Longworth of Bolton, fustianmaker, Ellen his wife, daughter of Adam Crompton, deceased, Ralph Greenhalgh of Bolton. wheelwright, Alice his wife, widow of Adam Crompton, deceased, to Jacob Fletcher of Breightmet, yeoman, and John Fletcher his son - a messuage and tenement in Little Lever.

1754 Little Lever Lease - Bolton ZFL/8/1

1779 Release - Mealhouse Lane in Bolton-le-Moors

1779 Release Document - Property in Mealhouse Lane, Bolton

Release relating to property in Deansgate, otherwise Mealhouse Lane in Bolton-le-Moors; three cottages, ten other cottages, one warehouse, three loom shops, three brew shops, one stable, one garden and nine small back yards.

The Old Parish Church of Bolton-le-Moors

Illustrations of the old Bolton Parish Church from The History of Bolton by J. C. Scholes and W. Pimblett.

The Old Parish Church, p189 The History of Bolton, Scholes

1691 Abstract of Title, Farnworth: William Hulton & John Crompton

Abstract of title of lands in Farnworth leased to John Crompton of Kearsley and his brothers James and Henry of Farnworth by William Hulton of Hulton

Abstract of Title, Farnworth: William Hulton & John Crompton, 1691

Knowles Family Gravestone at St Annes, Turton

Gravestone and inscription of Knowles family of Quarlton, Little Bolton and Eagley Bank, at St. Annes, Turton.

St Annes Turton - Knowles grave bottom right

Stones, Isherwood, Knowles and Kinder Family Trees

Further exploration of the families mentioned in the will and codicil of Mary Stones of Horrocks Fold, Sharples.

Will & Codicil of Mary Stones of Horrocks Fold, Little Bolton, 1745

Transcript of the codicil to the last will and testament of Mary Stones of Horrocks Fold.

1745 Codicil of Mary Stones of Little Bolton

The Wright Family of Great Bolton - Census Records 1811, 1821 and 1831

1811 Census Great Bolton

WRIGHT, John, Back Spring Gardens
WRIGHT, John, School Street
WRIGHT, Hannah, Kay Street
WRIGHT, Thos., Deansgate

The Longworth Family of Bolton - Monumental Inscriptions

Monumental inscriptions at St. Peter, Bolton relating to members of the Longworth family, with some additional notations, particularly about the Longworth family of Horrocks Fold, Little Bolton.

The Orrell Family of Bolton - Miscellaneous Records

1811 Census - Great Bolton

ORREL, Guy, Back Acres
ORRELL, James, V. Walks
ORELL, I., Bank Street
ORRELL, Jas., Queen Street
ORRELL, Jno., Pump Houses
ORRELL, Jonathan, Howell Croft
ORRELL, John, Kay Street
ORRELL, Ralph, Queen Street
ORRELL, Richd., Back Spring Gardens
ORRELL, Richd., Tailor Brow
ORRELL, Robt., Kay Street
ORRELL, Thos., Howell Croft

The Warr Family of Bolton - Miscellaneous Records (1700 - 1851)

Great Bolton Survey of Valuation, 1796

Betty Warr, 3 Workhouse Lane, Deansgate, northside, p24
James Warr, 9 Ridgeway Gates (with cellar), Deansgate, northside, p42
John Warr, 42 Deansgate, southside, p43
Martha Warr, 8 Blackhorse Street, Deansgate, southside, p33 (with bowling green)
Thomas Warr, 7 Workhouse Lane, Deansgate, southside, p24
William Warr, 7 Green Street, Moor Lane, westside

The Chadderton Coat-of-Arms and Turton High School Badge

I had been looking at the various crosses and shields associated with the medieval knightly orders, which I'd become interested in after going to Santiago de Compostella in Spain.  I noticed a cross symbol on my old school badge (Turton High School), which I hadn't paid any attention to before.  I wondered where it had originated from.

Turton High School Badge

1796 Lease of Tongue Fields & Dunscar Croft, Turton

This post is a transcript of the first page of a 1796 indenture I acquired a few years ago, which is a lease from John Haslam to Ralph Longworth relating to Tongue Fields and a cottage in Dunscar Croft in Turton.

Early Photographs of the São Paulo Railway

Railways of Brazil in Postcards and Souvenir Albums

By João Emilio Gerodetti, Carlos Cornejo
This book is available on Google Books here

p80.  Switchyard and workshops of the São Paulo Railway's original São Paulo Station, between Jardim de Luz and Rua da Estação, later renamed Rua Mauá.  This street is seen at the right in the postcard.  The station was inaugurated on February 16, 1867.  That same year the famous photographer Militão Augusto de Azevedo took this picture.

The Kerfoots and Cowcills

This little piece of research was to look a bit deeper into the the ancestry of Esther Kerfoot, the wife of Willam "Owd Chum" Cowcill of the Nut Inn, Farnworth.

William "Owd Chum" Cowcill of Farnworth (1796 - 1849)

Local Notes and Reminiscences of Farnworth

by Simeon Dyson
p20-21

Selected Mayoh Monumental Inscriptions at Walmsley Unitarian Turton

Mayoh Monumental Inscriptions at Walmsley Presbyterian, Turton, extracted from WALMSLEY UNITARIAN CHAPEL MONUMENTAL INSCRIPTIONS at Bolton Archives (Ref: B929.5B WAL).  There are three and a half pages of Mayoh entries in the index, so I only had time to record some of them here.  The index pages are at the bottom of this page.

Mayoh Monumental Inscriptions at St. Annes, Turton

All Mayoh entries in ST ANNE'S CHURCH TURTON MONUMENTAL INSCRIPTIONS (Ref: B929 5B) at Bolton Archives.  Some of the church yard has been cleared, so some of these grave stones may no longer exist.

Mayoh References from the Records of the Manor Court of Turton (1737 - 1850)

All Mayoh entries extracted from "An abstract of the records of the Manor Court of Turton, 1737-1850"

Cooper of Chadwick Close Farm, Halliwell

The purpose of this little piece of research was to try and find a family link between Ralph Tonge and Susannah (nee Cooper) who farmed at Chadwicks Close Farm, Halliwell, between 1861 and 1871, and the occupiers in 1841 and 1851; James & Nancy Cooper.

Heaton Land Tax - One Pound, Nine Shillings and Four Pence

I've been having a look at the land tax records for Heaton, and was interested to try and trace the ownership of a particular property which is not named, but was rated at £1 10s 9d.

1711 Quitclaim Release of Elizabeth Marsden of Bolton in le Moors

This document came up for sale on eBay in January 2016, being sold by Jackson Fine Art Ltd in Southampton.  The starting price was £40.  I thought it was worth extracting the genealogical information from the document before it disappears into a private collection.

1714 Quitclaim of Elizabeth Marsden of Bolton in le Moors