Hi listers, When I was in Bury last month I was able to view the 1801 census for Elton at the Bury Archives, and I have now transcribed it. It has not been double checked so please always check with originals. The census can be viewed from this page: http://users.bigpond.net.au/bunter/bury_data.htm Hope this helps. best wishes, Sharon in Perth, Western Australia http://users.bigpond.net.au/bunter/bury_parish.htm

i appreciate all the work you do for us descendants. My great grandfather (Wm. Lefley born 1828 in bolton..his parents died when he was a baby) sailed around the work with either the English Navy or US navy before the Civil War in 1861? On the miliary records would you mind looking for a Willaim Lefley? I have a ring he carved from a tree in the Holy Land. thanks, Marhta goodricgh ----- Original Message ----- From: "Michele Bender" <mishbender@insightbb.com> To: <ENG-LAN-BOLTON-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Thursday, June 15, 2006 5:42 PM Subject: [ENG-LAN-BOLTON] military records...searchable? >I am wondering if there is any index or online database for the British > Military who served in WWI. I am trying to find a needle in a haystack! > I > am looking for a fairly young man who was killed in action sometime > between > 1917-1918 whose first name was possibly Neville. I figure him to be born > between 1895-1900 and to be from the Bolton area. Any suggestions? > > > > Michele > > > > ==== ENG-LAN-BOLTON Mailing List ==== > To unsubscribe from this list, send the command "unsubscribe" to > ENG-LAN-BOLTON-L-request@rootsweb.com (if in mail mode) or > ENG-LAN-BOLTON-D-request@rootsweb.com (if in digest mode.) > > ============================== > Search the US Census Collection. Over 140 million records added in the > last 12 months. Largest online collection in the world. Learn more: > http://www.ancestry.com/s13965/rd.ashx > > > > -- > Internal Virus Database is out-of-date. > Checked by AVG Free Edition. > Version: 7.1.385 / Virus Database: 268.4.5/321 - Release Date: 4/21/2006 > >

Hello Anne Gore appears to be in Mosley Common more-or-less, which puts it a lot closer to Kearsley than Bongs CBD was. If Kearlsey had been used rather loosely and the pit was on the SW side of the area, it may have been only 2-3 miles away, which is a more manageable walk across the fields. Even so, there would have been plenty of closer pits. You asked about tunnels between pits. In the 1850s it is unlikely that deep pits were connected underground. There would have to have been a good commercial reason to go to the expense of opening such connections, maintaining them (in a deep mine, the weight of rock above soon closes up any tunnel that is left to its own devices), and providing ventilation. I believe during WWII they deliberately drove tunnels to interconnect collieries in case a head gear was damaged by bombing, though it never happened as far as I know. However, between Mosley Common and Kearsley there was an amazing system of interlinked underground canals and coal workings that extended from Worsley under Walkden and as far as Four Lane Ends (Hulton Lane Ends) in Over Hulton. This was the Duke of Bridgewater's colliery based on a reaching seams by underground canals and inclined planes using specially built narrow boats to ship the coal out of the collieries to the Bridgewater Canal. There were also many surface pits and shafts connected with the operation. Maybe Warm Hole was connected with this system??? I've emailed someone who researches those mines, and I'll report back if I hear from him. Regards Peter Wood

Thank you Keith. What a great website. The Gore or Goor in 1851 is shown as Tyldesley, but it seems to have been nearer to Boothstown. Anne ----- Original Message ----- From: "keithopenshaw" <ko001b4578@blueyonder.co.uk> To: <ENG-LAN-BOLTON-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, June 18, 2006 3:02 PM Subject: Re: [ENG-LAN-BOLTON] PIT ACCIDENT 1852 > Anne > > If you go to the following web site www.boothstown.com then choose 'Farms > & Folds' thre is a brief description of the location of The Gore > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "pneanne" <pne.anne@ntlworld.com> > To: <ENG-LAN-BOLTON-L@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Sunday, June 18, 2006 2:47 PM > Subject: Re: [ENG-LAN-BOLTON] PIT ACCIDENT 1852 > > >> Hello Peter, Bob and Sandie, >> >> Thank you all for your help. >> >> Peter, I phoned someone a while ago to see if a Joseph Platt had died in >> a mining accident, as I couldn't find his death. I had been looking for >> a death in Bolton, as I had no idea they had moved to Tyldesley. >> >> It wasn't until I got the death certificate that I found Joseph had been >> killed in an accident. I also found the coroner's report in the >> newspaper. Whoever gave the information about the death called it Warm >> Hole Pit. I would have thought that Joseph moved to the Tydlesley area >> for work at Mosley Common or a pit close by. Do you know if tunnels from >> a Tyldesley pit would stretch as far as Kearsley. I know that when my >> grandad worked in the pit, my mum said he walked a long way to get to the >> coal face. >> >> Bob, thank you for the map. I will have to have a ride to Tyldesley and >> see if I can find out where The Gore was. I have gone through the 1861 >> Tyldesley Census and I can't find Goor or The Gore on there. There is >> no street index. >> >> Sandie, thank you for all the information about the area. I think you >> are right about the Goor being the Gore. Now you have given me a >> different spelling, I have done a 'Google' search for The Gore and >> someone on the Lancsgen List, a few years ago, had a death certificate >> for someone whose address was The Gore, Tyldesley and she didn't know >> where the place was either. >> >> Anne in Bolton >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "Bob Thornley" <bob@thornleysystems.co.uk> >> To: <ENG-LAN-BOLTON-L@rootsweb.com> >> Sent: Sunday, June 18, 2006 10:27 AM >> Subject: Re: [ENG-LAN-BOLTON] PIT ACCIDENT 1852 >> >> >>> Hi Anne, >>> The address does look like Goor, and the adjacent addresses are Platts >>> Fold, Stone House, Mill Brow, and Turncroft. >>> >>> I can't find Goor on the 1848-1850 map, but all the others appear within >>> a small area roughly centred on Grid Ref: 371922,402006. >>> http://www.old-maps.co.uk/ >>> >>> Rgds, Bob Thornley, Bolton >>> >>> From: "pneanne" <pne.anne@ntlworld.com> >>>> On the 1851 Census, Joseph Platt and Alice (nee Lomax born Affetside,) >>>> were living, at what looks like Goor, Tyldesley. I have been unable to >>>> find this address on a map. >>> >>> >>> ==== ENG-LAN-BOLTON Mailing List ==== >>> For Family/Local History covering Bolton, Horwich, Farnworth, >>> Westhoughton and Turton. Please keep the messages coming. >>> >>> ============================== >>> Find your ancestors in the Birth, Marriage and Death Records. >>> New content added every business day. Learn more: >>> http://www.ancestry.com/s13964/rd.ashx >>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> No virus found in this incoming message. >>> Checked by AVG Free Edition. >>> Version: 7.1.394 / Virus Database: 268.9.0/368 - Release Date: >>> 16/06/2006 >>> >>> >> >> >> ==== ENG-LAN-BOLTON Mailing List ==== >> To switch from one mode to the other, unsubscribe from one and then >> subscribe to the other. >> >> ============================== >> Search the US Census Collection. Over 140 million records added in the >> last 12 months. Largest online collection in the world. Learn more: >> http://www.ancestry.com/s13965/rd.ashx >> >> > > > > ==== ENG-LAN-BOLTON Mailing List ==== > For Family/Local History covering Bolton, Horwich, Farnworth, Westhoughton > and Turton. Please keep the messages coming. > > ============================== > Search Family and Local Histories for stories about your family and the > areas they lived. Over 85 million names added in the last 12 months. > Learn more: http://www.ancestry.com/s13966/rd.ashx > > > > -- > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG Free Edition. > Version: 7.1.394 / Virus Database: 268.9.0/368 - Release Date: 16/06/2006 > >

Anne If you go to the following web site www.boothstown.com then choose 'Farms & Folds' thre is a brief description of the location of The Gore ----- Original Message ----- From: "pneanne" <pne.anne@ntlworld.com> To: <ENG-LAN-BOLTON-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, June 18, 2006 2:47 PM Subject: Re: [ENG-LAN-BOLTON] PIT ACCIDENT 1852 > Hello Peter, Bob and Sandie, > > Thank you all for your help. > > Peter, I phoned someone a while ago to see if a Joseph Platt had died in a > mining accident, as I couldn't find his death. I had been looking for a > death in Bolton, as I had no idea they had moved to Tyldesley. > > It wasn't until I got the death certificate that I found Joseph had been > killed in an accident. I also found the coroner's report in the > newspaper. Whoever gave the information about the death called it Warm > Hole Pit. I would have thought that Joseph moved to the Tydlesley area > for work at Mosley Common or a pit close by. Do you know if tunnels from > a Tyldesley pit would stretch as far as Kearsley. I know that when my > grandad worked in the pit, my mum said he walked a long way to get to the > coal face. > > Bob, thank you for the map. I will have to have a ride to Tyldesley and > see if I can find out where The Gore was. I have gone through the 1861 > Tyldesley Census and I can't find Goor or The Gore on there. There is no > street index. > > Sandie, thank you for all the information about the area. I think you are > right about the Goor being the Gore. Now you have given me a different > spelling, I have done a 'Google' search for The Gore and someone on the > Lancsgen List, a few years ago, had a death certificate for someone whose > address was The Gore, Tyldesley and she didn't know where the place was > either. > > Anne in Bolton > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Bob Thornley" <bob@thornleysystems.co.uk> > To: <ENG-LAN-BOLTON-L@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Sunday, June 18, 2006 10:27 AM > Subject: Re: [ENG-LAN-BOLTON] PIT ACCIDENT 1852 > > >> Hi Anne, >> The address does look like Goor, and the adjacent addresses are Platts >> Fold, Stone House, Mill Brow, and Turncroft. >> >> I can't find Goor on the 1848-1850 map, but all the others appear within >> a small area roughly centred on Grid Ref: 371922,402006. >> http://www.old-maps.co.uk/ >> >> Rgds, Bob Thornley, Bolton >> >> From: "pneanne" <pne.anne@ntlworld.com> >>> On the 1851 Census, Joseph Platt and Alice (nee Lomax born Affetside,) >>> were living, at what looks like Goor, Tyldesley. I have been unable to >>> find this address on a map. >> >> >> ==== ENG-LAN-BOLTON Mailing List ==== >> For Family/Local History covering Bolton, Horwich, Farnworth, >> Westhoughton and Turton. Please keep the messages coming. >> >> ============================== >> Find your ancestors in the Birth, Marriage and Death Records. >> New content added every business day. Learn more: >> http://www.ancestry.com/s13964/rd.ashx >> >> >> >> -- >> No virus found in this incoming message. >> Checked by AVG Free Edition. >> Version: 7.1.394 / Virus Database: 268.9.0/368 - Release Date: 16/06/2006 >> >> > > > ==== ENG-LAN-BOLTON Mailing List ==== > To switch from one mode to the other, unsubscribe from one and then > subscribe to the other. > > ============================== > Search the US Census Collection. Over 140 million records added in the > last 12 months. Largest online collection in the world. Learn more: > http://www.ancestry.com/s13965/rd.ashx > >

Hello Peter, Bob and Sandie, Thank you all for your help. Peter, I phoned someone a while ago to see if a Joseph Platt had died in a mining accident, as I couldn't find his death. I had been looking for a death in Bolton, as I had no idea they had moved to Tyldesley. It wasn't until I got the death certificate that I found Joseph had been killed in an accident. I also found the coroner's report in the newspaper. Whoever gave the information about the death called it Warm Hole Pit. I would have thought that Joseph moved to the Tydlesley area for work at Mosley Common or a pit close by. Do you know if tunnels from a Tyldesley pit would stretch as far as Kearsley. I know that when my grandad worked in the pit, my mum said he walked a long way to get to the coal face. Bob, thank you for the map. I will have to have a ride to Tyldesley and see if I can find out where The Gore was. I have gone through the 1861 Tyldesley Census and I can't find Goor or The Gore on there. There is no street index. Sandie, thank you for all the information about the area. I think you are right about the Goor being the Gore. Now you have given me a different spelling, I have done a 'Google' search for The Gore and someone on the Lancsgen List, a few years ago, had a death certificate for someone whose address was The Gore, Tyldesley and she didn't know where the place was either. Anne in Bolton ----- Original Message ----- From: "Bob Thornley" <bob@thornleysystems.co.uk> To: <ENG-LAN-BOLTON-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, June 18, 2006 10:27 AM Subject: Re: [ENG-LAN-BOLTON] PIT ACCIDENT 1852 > Hi Anne, > The address does look like Goor, and the adjacent addresses are Platts > Fold, Stone House, Mill Brow, and Turncroft. > > I can't find Goor on the 1848-1850 map, but all the others appear within a > small area roughly centred on Grid Ref: 371922,402006. > http://www.old-maps.co.uk/ > > Rgds, Bob Thornley, Bolton > > From: "pneanne" <pne.anne@ntlworld.com> >> On the 1851 Census, Joseph Platt and Alice (nee Lomax born Affetside,) >> were living, at what looks like Goor, Tyldesley. I have been unable to >> find this address on a map. > > > ==== ENG-LAN-BOLTON Mailing List ==== > For Family/Local History covering Bolton, Horwich, Farnworth, Westhoughton > and Turton. Please keep the messages coming. > > ============================== > Find your ancestors in the Birth, Marriage and Death Records. > New content added every business day. Learn more: > http://www.ancestry.com/s13964/rd.ashx > > > > -- > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG Free Edition. > Version: 7.1.394 / Virus Database: 268.9.0/368 - Release Date: 16/06/2006 > >

Dear Listers - I am wondering if someone could help in informing me where I could obtain further information/documentation on the matter of liquidation of my grandfather's Company in Bolton. Entry found in The London Gazette 30 Apr 1907 (www.gazettes-online.co.uk) Re: Amos ATHERTON & Co Ltd; a general meeting was held 3 Jun 1907 at 23, Acresfield, Bolton for the purpose of winding up the business and disposing of assets. Thanks Robin NSW Australia

Hello Anne Warm Hole Pit sounds a bit like a collier's nickname for a pit, doesn't it? Kearsley area was littered with small pits in the old days. I had a quick browse at the 1849 map but couldn't see anything similar. One way to find out more detail is to get info from Ian Winstanley's Mining Deaths Database (it will cost you!). There is an entry for a J. Platt in the 1850-59 period, but it could be anywhere in Britain. You could always email him with what you know and he ought to confirm first whether it is the person you are interested in. Tyldesley is not all that far from Kearsley (~5 miles), but I'd have thought in the 1850s the distance would have been too far for a daily trek to work and back when there where plenty of nearer pits. I've never heard of Goor, but I'm not from Tyldesley. I don't have access to that census, but if you'd like to email the page it to me, I'll see what I can make of it if you like. Regards Peter Wood

Hi Anne, The address does look like Goor, and the adjacent addresses are Platts Fold, Stone House, Mill Brow, and Turncroft. I can't find Goor on the 1848-1850 map, but all the others appear within a small area roughly centred on Grid Ref: 371922,402006. http://www.old-maps.co.uk/ Rgds, Bob Thornley, Bolton From: "pneanne" <pne.anne@ntlworld.com> > On the 1851 Census, Joseph Platt and Alice (nee Lomax born Affetside,) > were living, at what looks like Goor, Tyldesley. I have been unable to > find this address on a map.

Hello Robin, I looked on the a2a website to see if there was anything about Amos Atherton and the only thing that showed up was the following. These records are held at Bolton Archives and Local Studies. Bolton County Borough Council FILE - Contract with Amos Atherton of Tonge Bridge Saw Mills, joiner and builder, to extend and enlarge the Fever Hospital at Deane. Detailed bills of quantities attached - ref. ABCT/49/14 - date: 1 Jul. 1898 Anne in Bolton. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Robin Ireland" <rireland@tadaust.org.au> To: <ENG-LAN-BOLTON-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, June 18, 2006 5:40 AM Subject: [ENG-LAN-BOLTON] Liquidation of a business > Dear Listers - I am wondering if someone could help in informing me where > I could obtain further information/documentation on the matter of > liquidation of my grandfather's Company in Bolton. > Entry found in The London Gazette 30 Apr 1907 (www.gazettes-online.co.uk) > Re: Amos ATHERTON & Co Ltd; a general meeting was held 3 Jun 1907 at 23, > Acresfield, Bolton for the purpose of winding up the business and > disposing of assets. > Thanks > Robin > NSW Australia > > > ==== ENG-LAN-BOLTON Mailing List ==== > Bolton Metro - bolton@bolton.gov.uk > > ============================== > Census images 1901, 1891, 1881 and 1871, plus so much more. > Ancestry.com's United Kingdom & Ireland Collection. Learn more: > http://www.ancestry.com/s13968/rd.ashx > > > > -- > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG Free Edition. > Version: 7.1.394 / Virus Database: 268.9.0/368 - Release Date: 16/06/2006 > >

In a message dated 17/06/06 21:49:45 GMT Daylight Time, pne.anne@ntlworld.com writes: On the 1851 Census, Joseph Platt and Alice (nee Lomax born Affetside,) were living, at what looks like Goor, Tyldesley. I have been unable to find this address on a map. Hi Anne, It looks like Goor to me too. I had a look at the pages either side on the census and Goor appears between Platt's Fold and Stone House, so I googled them and turned up a page _http://freespace.virgin.net/tony.smith/city.htm_ (http://freespace.virgin.net/tony.smith/city.htm) which is part of the Boothstown website and seems to give some interesting information about farms and smallholdings around Tyldesley including Platt's Fold and Stone House. It mentions that nearby is "a hamlet called the Gore" and goes on to say a Gore was a triangular piece of cloth = perhaps the Gore was on a triangular piece of land. I wonder if this could be connected? There's a lot of info about loacl mining activity too, though I didn't have time for a long browse, but if you haven't seen this site it might be worth a look. Sandie

My great great grandmother's first husband,Joseph Platt born Harwood, died in a pit accident, when a piece of coal fell on him. The date was 5.3.1852 and the place was Warm Hole Pit, Kearsley. I have never come across this pit before and wondered if anyone on the list knows exactly where it was. I have been unable to find anything about it. On the 1851 Census, Joseph Platt and Alice (nee Lomax born Affetside,) were living, at what looks like Goor, Tyldesley. I have been unable to find this address on a map. Also, would someone living in Tyldesley be likely to work at a pit in Kearsley? Anne in Bolton.

Thank you. I will look at these. Michele -----Original Message----- From: M.A.Reynolds [mailto:anouska.reynolds@ntlworld.com] Sent: Friday, June 16, 2006 8:48 AM To: ENG-LAN-BOLTON-L@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: military records...searchable? Hi Michele, A search on google produced these links, and others. http://www.military-genealogy.com/google.php http://www.pals.org.uk/research.htm http://www.great-war-casualties.com/ Anouska ----- Original Message ----- From: "Michele Bender" <mishbender@insightbb.com> To: <ENG-LAN-BOLTON-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Friday, June 16, 2006 1:42 AM Subject: [ENG-LAN-BOLTON] military records...searchable? >I am wondering if there is any index or online database for the British > Military who served in WWI. I am trying to find a needle in a haystack! > I > am looking for a fairly young man who was killed in action sometime > between > 1917-1918 whose first name was possibly Neville. I figure him to be born > between 1895-1900 and to be from the Bolton area. Any suggestions? > > > > Michele > > > > ==== ENG-LAN-BOLTON Mailing List ==== > To unsubscribe from this list, send the command "unsubscribe" to > ENG-LAN-BOLTON-L-request@rootsweb.com (if in mail mode) or > ENG-LAN-BOLTON-D-request@rootsweb.com (if in digest mode.) > > ============================== > Search the US Census Collection. Over 140 million records added in the > last 12 months. Largest online collection in the world. Learn more: > http://www.ancestry.com/s13965/rd.ashx > > ______________________________

Thank you. I will look into this. Michele -----Original Message----- From: KILCOYELS@aol.com [mailto:KILCOYELS@aol.com] Sent: Friday, June 16, 2006 8:30 AM To: ENG-LAN-BOLTON-L@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [ENG-LAN-BOLTON] Re: military records...searchable? Hi There is a Private N Ashworth 241435, !st/6th Bn Royal Lancashire Fusiliers, who died 24 February 1917. He is buried at Hamburg Cemetery. It dosnt give his age or where he was born. Regards Jacqui ______________________________

Thank you. I will try this. Michele -----Original Message----- From: M.A.Reynolds [mailto:anouska.reynolds@ntlworld.com] Sent: Friday, June 16, 2006 8:26 AM To: ENG-LAN-BOLTON-L@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: military records...searchable? Hi Michele, All WW1 records still available are with PRO, but many were burnt in WW2 so missing. This is a link to WW1 men of Bolton area who were prisioners, who did come home after the war finished, or who died in captivity. It may be worth having a look at. http://www.lan-opc.org.uk/Bolton-le-Moors/downloads/WW1_POW.pdf Anouska ----- Original Message ----- From: "Michele Bender" <mishbender@insightbb.com> To: <ENG-LAN-BOLTON-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Friday, June 16, 2006 1:42 AM Subject: [ENG-LAN-BOLTON] military records...searchable? >I am wondering if there is any index or online database for the British > Military who served in WWI. I am trying to find a needle in a haystack! > I > am looking for a fairly young man who was killed in action sometime > between > 1917-1918 whose first name was possibly Neville. I figure him to be born > between 1895-1900 and to be from the Bolton area. Any suggestions? > > > > Michele > > > > ==== ENG-LAN-BOLTON Mailing List ==== > To unsubscribe from this list, send the command "unsubscribe" to > ENG-LAN-BOLTON-L-request@rootsweb.com (if in mail mode) or > ENG-LAN-BOLTON-D-request@rootsweb.com (if in digest mode.) > > ============================== > Search the US Census Collection. Over 140 million records added in the > last 12 months. Largest online collection in the world. Learn more: > http://www.ancestry.com/s13965/rd.ashx > > ______________________________

Thanks Anne. These are different than the 5 I found on the FreeBMD Birth Index: 1837-1983. I was able to check those 5 against the CWGC site and found not one of them. I will see if any of these appear there. The problem with the CWGC site is that when I type in the name Neville, I get over 5,000 hits and it won't show me any of them! I didn't realize that Neville was such a popular name! No one else in our family carries that name and to us it is so unusual. Thanks again for your help. Michele -----Original Message----- From: pneanne [mailto:pne.anne@ntlworld.com] Sent: Friday, June 16, 2006 6:30 AM To: ENG-LAN-BOLTON-L@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [ENG-LAN-BOLTON] military records...searchable? Hi Michele, I have checked the 1901 Census surname index on Ancestry and there are 5 Neville's conected to Bolton. Neville M. Fellows b. 1894 Bolton Neville C. Jessop b. 1892 Bolton living Blackpool Neville Beard b. 1891 Bolton living Oldham Neville Collier b. 1889 Bolton Charles Neville Ashworth b. 1894 Lancashire living Bolton. I don't know if this is of any help to you. Anne in Bolton. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Michele Bender" <mishbender@insightbb.com> To: <ENG-LAN-BOLTON-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Friday, June 16, 2006 1:42 AM Subject: [ENG-LAN-BOLTON] military records...searchable? >I am wondering if there is any index or online database for the British > Military who served in WWI. I am trying to find a needle in a haystack! > I > am looking for a fairly young man who was killed in action sometime > between > 1917-1918 whose first name was possibly Neville. I figure him to be born > between 1895-1900 and to be from the Bolton area. Any suggestions? > > > > Michele > > > > ==== ENG-LAN-BOLTON Mailing List ==== > To unsubscribe from this list, send the command "unsubscribe" to > ENG-LAN-BOLTON-L-request@rootsweb.com (if in mail mode) or > ENG-LAN-BOLTON-D-request@rootsweb.com (if in digest mode.) > > ============================== > Search the US Census Collection. Over 140 million records added in the > last 12 months. Largest online collection in the world. Learn more: > http://www.ancestry.com/s13965/rd.ashx > > > > -- > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG Free Edition. > Version: 7.1.394 / Virus Database: 268.8.4/364 - Release Date: 14/06/2006 > > ______________________________

Hi Michele, A search on google produced these links, and others. http://www.military-genealogy.com/google.php http://www.pals.org.uk/research.htm http://www.great-war-casualties.com/ Anouska ----- Original Message ----- From: "Michele Bender" <mishbender@insightbb.com> To: <ENG-LAN-BOLTON-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Friday, June 16, 2006 1:42 AM Subject: [ENG-LAN-BOLTON] military records...searchable? >I am wondering if there is any index or online database for the British > Military who served in WWI. I am trying to find a needle in a haystack! > I > am looking for a fairly young man who was killed in action sometime > between > 1917-1918 whose first name was possibly Neville. I figure him to be born > between 1895-1900 and to be from the Bolton area. Any suggestions? > > > > Michele > > > > ==== ENG-LAN-BOLTON Mailing List ==== > To unsubscribe from this list, send the command "unsubscribe" to > ENG-LAN-BOLTON-L-request@rootsweb.com (if in mail mode) or > ENG-LAN-BOLTON-D-request@rootsweb.com (if in digest mode.) > > ============================== > Search the US Census Collection. Over 140 million records added in the > last 12 months. Largest online collection in the world. Learn more: > http://www.ancestry.com/s13965/rd.ashx > >

Hi Michele, All WW1 records still available are with PRO, but many were burnt in WW2 so missing. This is a link to WW1 men of Bolton area who were prisioners, who did come home after the war finished, or who died in captivity. It may be worth having a look at. http://www.lan-opc.org.uk/Bolton-le-Moors/downloads/WW1_POW.pdf Anouska ----- Original Message ----- From: "Michele Bender" <mishbender@insightbb.com> To: <ENG-LAN-BOLTON-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Friday, June 16, 2006 1:42 AM Subject: [ENG-LAN-BOLTON] military records...searchable? >I am wondering if there is any index or online database for the British > Military who served in WWI. I am trying to find a needle in a haystack! > I > am looking for a fairly young man who was killed in action sometime > between > 1917-1918 whose first name was possibly Neville. I figure him to be born > between 1895-1900 and to be from the Bolton area. Any suggestions? > > > > Michele > > > > ==== ENG-LAN-BOLTON Mailing List ==== > To unsubscribe from this list, send the command "unsubscribe" to > ENG-LAN-BOLTON-L-request@rootsweb.com (if in mail mode) or > ENG-LAN-BOLTON-D-request@rootsweb.com (if in digest mode.) > > ============================== > Search the US Census Collection. Over 140 million records added in the > last 12 months. Largest online collection in the world. Learn more: > http://www.ancestry.com/s13965/rd.ashx > >

Hi Pete I noticed one of your names was Atkinson. Would that be a Bolton Atkinson? It is one of my family names of my fathers side. These Atkinsons owned a brewery in Commission St Bolton. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Pete Hulme" <phulme@glasshouse.com> To: <ENG-LAN-BOLTON-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Saturday, May 13, 2006 12:20 PM Subject: [ENG-LAN-BOLTON] Introduction > Hi everyone, I was pointed to this list by Martin Briscoe (thanks Martin) > and have posted a couple of questions that have been troubling me. I > thought it would be polite to briefly introduce myself and my interests. > I've read through the back archive of the list, so I have a reasonable > idea of how active you all are, though I haven't spotted anyone looking at > my particular lines. > > My name is Pete Hulme and I was born and brought up in Bolton, though I > now live near Portsmouth in Hampshire. I've been researching my genealogy > since my mother died three years ago, though my efforts have been a bit > patchy. My main interests are in HULME (obviously), FIELDING (my mother), > WHITLOW (my father's mother) and WHITTAKER (my mother's mother) though > I've been actively chasing Middleton and Stackhouse from my mother's side > and Atkinson from my father's > > My current focus projects include trying to pick up my Hulme's in Bolton > in first half of the 19th century (see my earlier post), working out > which of two Thomas Middleton's in Dent at the end of the 18th century is > my ancestor and trying to track my Whitlow line back from Whitley in > Cheshire around the turn of the 18th century. Obviously I have lots of > other lines "on the go" but these are my focus items. > > I'm more than happy to share any information that I have and I do have my > tree up on Rootsweb if anyone wants it. I'm looking forward to > participating in this lively community. > > Cheers, Pete Hulme > > > ==== ENG-LAN-BOLTON Mailing List ==== > To unsubscribe from this list, send the command "unsubscribe" to > ENG-LAN-BOLTON-L-request@rootsweb.com (if in mail mode) or > ENG-LAN-BOLTON-D-request@rootsweb.com (if in digest mode.) > > ============================== > Find your ancestors in the Birth, Marriage and Death Records. > New content added every business day. Learn more: > http://www.ancestry.com/s13964/rd.ashx > >

Hi Michele, I have checked the 1901 Census surname index on Ancestry and there are 5 Neville's conected to Bolton. Neville M. Fellows b. 1894 Bolton Neville C. Jessop b. 1892 Bolton living Blackpool Neville Beard b. 1891 Bolton living Oldham Neville Collier b. 1889 Bolton Charles Neville Ashworth b. 1894 Lancashire living Bolton. I don't know if this is of any help to you. Anne in Bolton. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Michele Bender" <mishbender@insightbb.com> To: <ENG-LAN-BOLTON-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Friday, June 16, 2006 1:42 AM Subject: [ENG-LAN-BOLTON] military records...searchable? >I am wondering if there is any index or online database for the British > Military who served in WWI. I am trying to find a needle in a haystack! > I > am looking for a fairly young man who was killed in action sometime > between > 1917-1918 whose first name was possibly Neville. I figure him to be born > between 1895-1900 and to be from the Bolton area. Any suggestions? > > > > Michele > > > > ==== ENG-LAN-BOLTON Mailing List ==== > To unsubscribe from this list, send the command "unsubscribe" to > ENG-LAN-BOLTON-L-request@rootsweb.com (if in mail mode) or > ENG-LAN-BOLTON-D-request@rootsweb.com (if in digest mode.) > > ============================== > Search the US Census Collection. Over 140 million records added in the > last 12 months. Largest online collection in the world. Learn more: > http://www.ancestry.com/s13965/rd.ashx > > > > -- > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG Free Edition. > Version: 7.1.394 / Virus Database: 268.8.4/364 - Release Date: 14/06/2006 > >