Hi, All, I have been told by an ancestor that her father, a GARTHSIDE or a SMITH (and she was m. to a HOLT) was the person who made shoes/(cloggers?) for that Club. (? a Clogger). Some of my GARTHSIDE/GARTSIDE etc. were cloggers/shoe makers and she told me in the 1990's that her father made shoes for the Bolton Wanderers. When I asked her / replied to her mail, she told me that she was too old to 'bother' with family history.! (Oh, alas!) However, when I wrote to the Club in abt 1996-1998 they replied with a message that they "had never heard of him" ! It is still a mystery to me ! I am sure she was a Gertrude m. to a HOLT (I could be wrong in the surnames). I still wonder............. Carolyn. Australia. ----- Original Message ----- From: "BARBARA WINDER" <barbara@wonderwinder.freeserve.co.uk> To: <ENG-LAN-BOLTON-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Friday, August 25, 2006 6:12 PM Subject: Re: [ENG-LAN-BOLTON] GARTHIDE/GARTSIDE/GARSIDE ET AL. > Sharon, > Do you know the Bolton Wanderers Football Club chairman is a GARTSIDE? > Barbara > > > ==== ENG-LAN-BOLTON Mailing List ==== > For Family/Local History covering Bolton, Horwich, Farnworth, Westhoughton >> ============================== > 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 and Turton. Please > keep the messages coming. > >