Susan Davies wrote: > On the LANCS list we have been having a 'Roll Call' where everybody is > sending in the surnames they are looking for. > The board has come alive as Lynne knows. > Wigan is the town I was born and bred in. I now live abroad, but > everytime I see a mention of it I get so excited. > So come on and post your surnames your looking for. On large lists like LancsGen, "roll calls" can do as much damage as good. Approximately 100 subscribers (that's 1/10th of the whole group) unsubbed or bounced off LancsGen since the roll call began, and my InBox was flooded with complaints about the posts, especially about the lack of good subject lines and paltry info included in the messages. More proof that you can't please all the people all the time. Everyone is always welcome and, in fact, encouraged in the Welcome Message to post their Wigan interests. So yes, please, DO post them. Try to use good subject lines -- SURNAME(s), date(s), location(s) -- so that we and anyone browsing or searching the archives will have an idea of the content of your message. "Roll call" in a subject line doesn't really tell anyone much of anything. This is the Wigan mailing list, so please be sure your posts relate to Wigan ancestors. With thanks and best wishes, Lynne

TAYLOR, JONES, HAYNES, STRETTON, AMOS, FARRIMOND, HARDMAN, DAVIES ************************* William TAYLOR, b. 1854 in Manchester (father - Thomas Taylor) married Mary Eleanor JONES, b. 1854 in Manchester (father - George Jones, lived at 5 Portugal St, Manchester) on March 4, 1873. By 1876/77, they had moved to Wigan and lived in various locations before moving to 5 Mitchell Street, Pemberton, Wigan. Their children: Thomas E. Taylor, b. 1873, Manchester - have not found a marriage - moved to the US Lilly E. Taylor, b. 1874, Manchester - married William HAYNES Elizabeth Taylor, b. 1877, Pemberton,Wigan - married Arthur STRETTON Ada Taylor, b. 1880, Pemberton, Wigan - married David AMOS Mary E. Taylor, b. 1882, Pemberton, Wigan - have not found a marriage for her Emily Taylor, b. 1885, Pemberton, Wigan - possible marriage to Harry FARRIMOND Beatrice Taylor, b. 1887, Pemberton, Wigan - married Eli James HARDMAN William Taylor, b. 1889, Pemberton, Wigan - have not found a marriage for him Elsie Taylor, b. 1892, Pemberton, Wigan - married George DAVIES Alfred Taylor, b. 1894, Pemberton, Wigan - have not found a marriage for him Hilda Taylor, b. 1898, Pemberton, Wigan - married David AMOS (yes, the same one mentioned above, several years after her sister died) I would love to find anyone associated with this family and also the extended family. Bev Allen British Columbia, Canada