Sunday, 8 January 2017

Longworth Family of Sharrocks Farm, Horwich

I didn't see this monumental inscription when looking in the churchyard, but it's recorded in the MIs book at Bolton Archives (B929.5B).  It must be in one of the blue sections below:-


Plan of Horwich Churchyard
Plan of Horwich Churchyard

Tuesday, 3 January 2017

Old Gravestones in Deane Churchyard

A random few photographs of some of the older gravestones in Deane churchyard

Seddon Family of Farnworth, 1619

Three Stones Family Gravestones at Deane

Three adjacent gravestones in Deane churchyard belonging to the Stones family of Heaton and Little Bolton.

Monday, 2 January 2017

1786 Auction of Titus Wood's Propery in Bolton


Manchester Mercury - Tuesday 18 April 1786

To be SOLD, by AUCTION

At the House of Mr. John Moss, the Sign of the Swan, in Bolton in the Moors, in the County of Lancaster, on Friday 28th Day of April 1786, at five o'Clock in the Afternoon, according to such Conditions as will be then and there produced.

Sunday, 1 January 2017