Hi everyone This is a long shot - but I'm sure you'll agree, it's always worth asking! I have put a couple of my old family photos on a website. If any of you can spare a minute to take a look at them and perhaps offer any suggestions as to how I might identify the places, I would be very grateful. I have lots more to add, but thought I'd start with these before getting too bogged down! The website is: http://sharejansphotos.blogspot.com/ Double clicking on the photos makes them larger. I'm fairly new to using the Blog site, so haven't yet explored its intricacies, but if any of you would also like to set one up, it's fairly easy to do so. I found the link on the Google screen - if you click the word 'More...' above the search box, you'll see a few more options appear. One of these is 'Blogger' and another is 'Picasa' an excellent photo organiser. Thanks for any help you can give Janet Curran researching CURRAN, BENTLEY, SIMPSON, CLEGG, BATCHELOR in the Middleton area. _________________________________________________________________ It's fast, it's easy and it's free. Get MSN Messenger 7.0 today! http://messenger.msn.co.uk

From : ed_thomas@wxc.net.nz Subject :PRICE, families of Lancashire Date :23rd. June, 2005 Hello Lancashire, I'm looking for contact with PRICE, descendants / relatives of Middleton, during the 19th. century, especially with SKS able to tell me something about a Thomas PRICE, family who were at home on census night April, 1861 in Beattie ? Farm, Middleton, Lancashire. Especially looking for any history about Beattie Farm, its location and is there any mention of it in 1901 and thereafter. Any help would be most graciously received. Ted. ( New Zealand )

Hi Doreen I don't know about the indexes but I will ask my friends if they know one or other of them is pretty well in Touchstones two or three times a week so they do get to know most of what they have, otherwise I will ask myself when I am next down there. I am a bit tied up with my family at the moment my daughter is not very well and she has two little ones 4 & 6 and is on her own so I am living between two houses cleaning etc at hers and giving mine a lick and a promise, but it means that she can keep going to work. I have seen those card indexes at Middleton they really are good, I had a relative (Fred Pickup) and he lived in Alkrington, Heywood and Rochdale plus a few other places during his lifetime. As it happens he was the man that invented Tizer and I went in the library one day looking to see what I could find on him and the lady was amazed that they didn't have anything but by the time I left there we had found his Obituary in the card Index and found all sorts of things on the Internet, they really are so helpful. Ivy Murphy Middleton UK

Thank you , I will do that. Anne ----- Original Message ----- From: "doreen EL-AHWANY" <doreen@elahwany.freeserve.co.uk> To: <ENG-LAN-MIDDLETON-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, June 22, 2005 9:26 AM Subject: Re: [ENG-LAN-MIDDLETON-L] Middleton Newspaper index online > Anne, > > If you are not local, you may wish to send an email to Middleton Library > middleton.library@rochdale.gov.uk > > Doreen. > > http://mysite.wanadoo-members.co.uk/localresearch2 > http://mysite.wanadoo-members.co.uk/localresearch3 > > > > -- > No virus found in this outgoing message. > Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. > Version: 7.0.323 / Virus Database: 267.7.8/22 - Release Date: 17/06/2005 > > > ==== ENG-LAN-MIDDLETON Mailing List ==== > If you have a home page with content interesting to subscribers of the Middleton List send an email to emmap@virtualmechhanics.com > >

Anne, If you are not local, you may wish to send an email to Middleton Library middleton.library@rochdale.gov.uk Doreen. http://mysite.wanadoo-members.co.uk/localresearch2 http://mysite.wanadoo-members.co.uk/localresearch3 -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.323 / Virus Database: 267.7.8/22 - Release Date: 17/06/2005

Hi, I may have found a family link in the Middleton Guardian section. Could someone please tell me how to progress from there, I am unable to make any of the library links work, so am stuck without a contact point. Many thanks Anne >, > > The Middleton Albion and Middleton Guardian newspaper index is now online > at: > > http://libraries.rochdale.gov.uk/ipac20/ipac.jsp?profile=dial--4#focus > > > > > -- >

Thanks Doreen - found 20+ interesting references to my family & still looking! Gwenda. PS Hope I can find some sober ones too!!

Hi Ivy, I suppose they will eventually put Rochdales online. Do you know whether any of their newspapers are already indexed? I haven`t been up there for a long time. They are trying the Middleton one out to see what the response is, but I think after a few changes in the format, it will be widely used and much appreciated. Middleton have had this very good card index for years and it is kept up to date from the present newspapers. One of the staff started to computerise it a couple of yrs ago, but its still ongoing. There is a gap for the late 1940s and early 50s though. Doreen. -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.323 / Virus Database: 267.7.8/22 - Release Date: 17/06/2005

Hi Ian, The library staff are trying to change the format in the indexes so that further details come up. The full details are at Middleton library on microfilm. Doreen. -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.323 / Virus Database: 267.7.8/22 - Release Date: 17/06/2005

This is a wonderful resource, a few minutes searching yielded 8 snippets of previously unknown information. Presumably the full articles / reports /announcements are only available from the library? Ian Saunders Suffolk ----- Original Message ----- From: "Doreen El-Ahwany" <Doreen@elahwany.freeserve.co.uk> > > The Middleton Albion and Middleton Guardian newspaper index is now online > at: > > http://libraries.rochdale.gov.uk/ipac20/ipac.jsp?profile=dial--4#focus > > The Rochdale and Heywood papers are not yet included. > > Doreen. -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.323 / Virus Database: 267.7.9/23 - Release Date: 20/06/05

Hi Doreen Thank you for that it is very useful indeed. I was wondering if you knew if they are going to do the same thing with the Rochdale Observer That could save months of trawling through. Ivy Murphy Middleton UK

I definitely will Doreen. I find newspaper articles from the days of our ancestors particularily fascinating. Since we last spoke our last Clayton Great aunt passed away so it's up to us to keep the tree flourishing. best wishes angela ----- Original Message ----- From: "doreen EL-AHWANY" <doreen@elahwany.freeserve.co.uk> To: <ENG-LAN-MIDDLETON-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, June 20, 2005 9:18 PM Subject: Re: [ENG-LAN-MIDDLETON-L] Middleton Newspaper index online > Hi Angela, > > Pleased to hear you have found something on the indexes. > These are still being added to, so it may be worth while going back to it > every now and then. > > Doreen. > > > -- > No virus found in this outgoing message. > Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. > Version: 7.0.323 / Virus Database: 267.7.8/22 - Release Date: 17/06/2005 > > > ==== ENG-LAN-MIDDLETON Mailing List ==== > Please ensure the "subject" reflects the contents of your message > http://www.vmims.com/middleton.htm > >

Baptisms for the above church have now been indexed 1864-1894. Further records are still at the church. Have left a copy at the library for those able to visit. Doreen. -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.323 / Virus Database: 267.7.8/22 - Release Date: 17/06/2005

thank you so much doreen. I immediately found a record of an industrial accident that none of us knew about our Great Grandfather Thomas Clayton! Angela ----- Original Message ----- From: "Doreen El-Ahwany" <Doreen@elahwany.freeserve.co.uk> To: <ENG-LAN-MIDDLETON-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, June 20, 2005 8:22 PM Subject: [ENG-LAN-MIDDLETON-L] Middleton Newspaper index online > Hi everyone, > > The Middleton Albion and Middleton Guardian newspaper index is now online > at: > > http://libraries.rochdale.gov.uk/ipac20/ipac.jsp?profile=dial--4#focus > > The Rochdale and Heywood papers are not yet included. > > Doreen. > > > -- > No virus found in this outgoing message. > Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. > Version: 7.0.323 / Virus Database: 267.7.8/22 - Release Date: 17/06/2005 > > > ==== ENG-LAN-MIDDLETON Mailing List ==== > Make your own home page with IMS > Web Dwarf. Free HTML Editor http://www.webdwarf.com > >

Hi Angela, Pleased to hear you have found something on the indexes. These are still being added to, so it may be worth while going back to it every now and then. Doreen. -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.323 / Virus Database: 267.7.8/22 - Release Date: 17/06/2005

Hi everyone, The Middleton Albion and Middleton Guardian newspaper index is now online at: http://libraries.rochdale.gov.uk/ipac20/ipac.jsp?profile=dial--4#focus The Rochdale and Heywood papers are not yet included. Doreen. -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.323 / Virus Database: 267.7.8/22 - Release Date: 17/06/2005

Ness & Dave Thank you very much for the information. It is my Robert HOWARTH as all the details fit perfectly and when I checked my records, his father James was also living at Fairview in 1871; your kind assistance greatly appreciated Alan KL Malaysia ----- Original Message ----- From: "Vanessa & Dave Hughes" <hughes.familytree@btopenworld.com> To: <ENG-LAN-MIDDLETON-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, June 19, 2005 4:43 AM Subject: Re: [ENG-LAN-MIDDLETON-L] Robert HOWARTH look up in the 1871 census > Alan here is the one I found > > 1871 census RG 10 / 4123 entry 118 > > Spotland Wolstenholme St. Pauls Norden > > At Fairview > > Robert Howorth 25 Fulling Miller > Sarah E 27 > Sarah E 1 > James W 1 month > > all family Ditto as being born Spotland Lancashire > The next entry 119 is Lower Tenter house . > > I did not find A matchng Robert Howarth I hope this helps > Regards Ness & Dave -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.323 / Virus Database: 267.7.8/22 - Release Date: 6/17/2005

To all List Could anyone with access to the 1871 census, please make a search for Robert HOWARTH ,his wife Sarah Elizabeth and children in Rochdale. The 1881 census for Spotland in the Hamlet of Wolstenholme and Naden Local Board in the Township of Rochdale and Eccliastical District of St Paul showed Robert HOWARTH (36) a Fulling Miller born in Heywood, Lancs living at Tenter Houses with his wife Sarah Elizabeth (36) born in Salford, Lancs and children Sarah Emma (11) a Scholar, James William (10) a Scholar, Mary Alice (7) a Scholar, George Parkinson (5) a Scholar and Clara Ann (7mths) all born in Rochdale, Lancs; ref RG11/4112 Folio 116 Pages 2/3. Thanks in anticipation Alan KL Malaysia -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.323 / Virus Database: 267.7.8/22 - Release Date: 6/17/2005

Alan here is the one I found 1871 census RG 10 / 4123 entry 118 Spotland Wolstenholme St. Pauls Norden At Fairview Robert Howorth 25 Fulling Miller Sarah E 27 Sarah E 1 James W 1 month all family Ditto as being born Spotland Lancashire The next entry 119 is Lower Tenter house . I did not find A matchng Robert Howarth I hope this helps Regards Ness & Dave

From: ed_thomas@wxc.net.nz Subject: PRICE Families Date: 13th.June, 2005 Here's hoping to make contact with descendants / relatives of Joseph Henry PRICE, born in Middleton, Lancashire, c.1859. Joseph, was at home on census night 7th. Apr. 1861.in Beattie? Farm, Middleton. Joseph, was at home on census night 2nd. Apr.1871 in llex Bldgs 25, Newchurch, Rawtenstall, Lancashire. On census night 5th. Apr. 1891 Joseph, was at home in the Coldstream Guards, Wellington millitary Barracks, Westminister, London. On the night of 1901 census Joseph, was at home in Lodging House, 9, Front Mill Gate, Rowtenstall, he's still single aged 40 boarding and working as a mason's labourer. Any further information will be very much appreciated. Best wishes, to all. Ted.