In message <[email protected]>, Pam Clarke <[email protected]> writes >Hi David, Hi Andrea, > >Just been looking through my copies of Wills and the only Hartley one that I >have here, is Christopher Hartley, (Chapman) of Great Stone Estate (I need >to research the extent of this estate!) >Now we know Great Stone Farm was on Park Road, but nevertheless - here are >details. >Christopher Hartley died 29.12.1825 - he had a son Henry and two daughters, >Elizabeth(Betty) and Margaret. >He had cottages with tenants:- Thomas Boardman, James Marsh, Joseph Lomax, >John Green & William Hartley. >The Executors of the will were, James Silcock of Westhoughton, Fustian >Manufacturer, >Nicholas Pendlebury of Lostock, Cotton Spinner, and the third one was his >son Henry Hartley. >The Estate was under £600.00. > >Another Hartley - Hamlet Hartley keeps popping up here and there, I know he >was a pub landlord for some time, does this name ring a bell? Thanks Pam. I have seen that will, but I haven't found a connection between Christopher and "my" Hartleys, although Nicholas Pendlebury was a cousin of Catherine Pendlebury who married Peter Hartley - my ggg-grandparents. He later farmed at Ainscoughs, near Wingates. Christopher and his family are in the Westhoughton MIs in the archived list, which I see were posted by you. Yes, Hamlet Hartley does seem to keep popping up, lovely name. He has a large number of descendants in America and some collateral ones in this country who I've contacted, but we haven't established a link there either. He's in the Wingates MIs, also posted by you. They've been useful, thank you. Best Wishes David Hartley