I have just discovered that my grt grt grandfather JAMES DOWN, a surgeon in Leicester until 1831 died outside Manchester Excerpt from the Annals of Manchester Page 185 Mr. James Down, surgeon, late of Leicester, died at Kersal Lodge, May 2. He was the inventor and patentee of a valuable method of purifying gas. ... Does anyone have any information on this place or who lived there. I am trying to discover if his wife and 2 small children were with him I am also in the process of trying to find an obituary which may be of help Any help or ideas GRATEFULLY RECEIVED I am new to this list and researching in Lancashire Alison in Canada ( I have already posted this on the Lancashire site but hope there is someone "out there" who hasn"t seen this)