Simpson Hill, Bury - RootsChat.com
...Simpson Hill, Bury Hi DAve, was looking through your post and was glad to see you are able to get in touch with the present owners. I was in St Anne's Mother and Baby Home in 1966 and would love to go back to have a look at the old house. Do you think the owner would let me have a look round for old time sake ? I know it is a lot to ask but as I get older it somehow seems more important. I had ......
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Bensons Sweets Bury - RootsChat.com
...Bensons Sweets Bury A member of my family once had a stop-gap job at White Hudsons in Southport, a sweetie and stick of Rock factory, and said no-one ever wanted to eat the sweeties made after the first few days. Think it must have been fairly general....
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Milligans of Bury, Lancashire - RootsChat.com
...The following Milligans were buried in Bury with their dates, because some of the names reoccur in each branch of our families it is proving a mammoth task to put the families in the right groupings. Would appreciate the parents of the following Edith Milligan buried in bury 6 July 1929 John Milligan buried ditto 18 April 1882 Joseph buried in Bury 11 June 1881 Alice Milligan buried in 16 ......
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Simpson Hill, Bury - RootsChat.com
...Simpson Hill, Bury Alternatively there is a Simpson Clough ("clough" meaning steep-sided valley in Lancs dialect) between Heywood and Bury. There is/was a paper mill in the valley, but I remember the school bus taking us from Rochdale to Bury Grammar School being unable to get up the long steep hill at Simpson Clough because of snow and ice. This was in the early 1950s and we had to walk the ......
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William Bury & Eleanor Byrne - RootsChat.com
...I'm looking for information relating to the families & marriage of my great great grandparents William Bury & Eleanor Byrne. I believe they were married in Wicklow abt 1864 or earlier. Two of their children were born in Wicklow, Bridget b. 20th Oct. 1864 in Kilmacow, Ovoca & my great grandfather William b. 29th June 1866 in Ballinabarney, Rathdrum. They moved to Co. Durham, England before ......
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Jericho, Bury. - RootsChat.com
...1) In Barret's Directory of Bury 1883, home of farmer James Suthurst (coal miner and beer seller) in Birtle cum Bamford. n.b Suthurst also spelt Sutherst and Birtle also spelt Bircle. 2) Hall family of Boaredge (farm?) were prominent Wesleyans and probably named the place after the biblical city, also a Ninervah at Birtle....
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orphanages in bury lancs - RootsChat.com
...orphanages in bury lancs There was Hollymount convent for boys & girls. This run from 1888 to 1988. Tottington, Bury. Boy would only stay they until they were 11 years old and would then be sent to Buckley Hall, Rochdale, which has now become a prison. Hollymount has been sold off and the chapel has been turned in to apartments. The school is still there and working to this day. You will find ......
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Holts of Bury - RootsChat.com
...Hi eveyone, one of my relatives, Mary Wilson (b.1796) married William Entwistle and then was widowed. She later married John Holt (b.1796), also a widower in 1832 at the parish church of Bury. I have the 1841 Census for them, by then Mary's 3 children from her first marriage are living with them (Richard, Abraham and William Entwistle) as well as their children together (James, John and Ann ......
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Martin LYON of Bury St Edmunds - RootsChat.com
...The wills don't mention Elizabeth and Martin directly but there are enough names in common to establish that Martin must be the son of William and Ann. From the wills it is also clear that Samuel is the son of Thomas. Thank you for your help Jan Burials included Bury St.Edmunds St.James; 30-10-1739 Ann Lyon wife of William 9-2-1744 William Lyon....
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Bensons Sweets Bury - RootsChat.com
...Re: Bensons Sweets Bury « Reply #7 on: Saturday 14 April 12 17:35 BST (UK) » Thanks Rob They were living 12 of them at 7 Shepherd St in 1891.I'm not sure if it''s the end existing house/shop or whether it's knocked down.Anyway within walking distance if its predecessor business was in a similar location prior to 1919....
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