Hi Elizabeth, You wrote <I would like to know when the cotton slump was> The Lancashire cotton industry started to go into terminal decline in the early 1920's due to a combination of lack of investment in modern equipment, and stiff competition from Far Eastern countries, notably Japan. I would think it likely that Violet's family would have emigrated sometime between the Wars. < I am trying to fit the above people into my family tree. Violet was my father's cousin and worked for my grandparents in a small bakery in Watt Street, Bolton. I'm not sure which side of my father's family she belonged to so her maiden name could be ALDRED or SMITH.> Have you checked the 1901 for Violet? There is a Violet Aldred listed as being 7 years old, born Walkden. Valerie