In the 1861 census, one of my families address' is listed as "Volunteer" in Turton. To my modern ear it sounds like it could have been a pub, but there's more than one household there. My ancestor there was Tomas Fielding, listed as a Provisions Dealer, not a publican. Does anybody know what Volunteer was, was it just the names of a street and does it still exist? Cheers, Pete Hulme

Hi Pete, The Volunteer is a pub. It is still there, but was boarded up when we went past a couple of weeks ago. I don't know if they are doing it up again. This pub was my gt. gt. grandfather Amos Howarth's local. He visited it on the night he died in 1876. Anne in Bolton. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Pete Hulme" <phulme@glasshouse.com> To: <ENG-LAN-BOLTON-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Saturday, May 13, 2006 10:28 AM Subject: [ENG-LAN-BOLTON] Volunteer, Turton > In the 1861 census, one of my families address' is listed as "Volunteer" > in Turton. To my modern ear it sounds like it could have been a pub, but > there's more than one household there. My ancestor there was Tomas > Fielding, listed as a Provisions Dealer, not a publican. > > Does anybody know what Volunteer was, was it just the names of a street > and does it still exist? > > Cheers, Pete Hulme > > > ==== ENG-LAN-BOLTON Mailing List ==== > To switch from one mode to the other, unsubscribe from one and then > subscribe to the other. > > ============================== > Jumpstart your genealogy with OneWorldTree. Search not only for > ancestors, but entire generations. Learn more: > http://www.ancestry.com/s13972/rd.ashx > > > > -- > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG Free Edition. > Version: 7.1.392 / Virus Database: 268.5.6/338 - Release Date: 12/05/2006 > >