I used to live near Wildboarclough; there used to be a carpet mill there (sorry I can't tell you the dates, certainly demolished in the early 20Cent. but the worker's cottages remain to current time) It could be the connection to the textile trade. If he was a pauper could he have been "unloaded" by the Blackburn Poor Authorities back to Macclesfield as his birth parish? David Gregory