Begin forwarded message: > From: Brian Hope <bthopeone@waitrose.com> > Date: 6 September 2005 08:37:56 BST > To: Hope-L@rootsweb.com > Subject: Fwd: Background history to Blackrod circa.1830 and beyond. > > > > Begin forwarded message: > >> From: Brian Hope <bthopeone@waitrose.com> >> Date: 6 September 2005 08:11:36 BST >> To: LANCSGEN-L-request@rootsweb.com >> Subject: Background history to Blackrod circa.1830 and beyond. >> >> Although it hasn't been relevant to my own searches, I have been >> struck by the range of knowledge displayed by listers on the subject >> of Bury. In my research on the Hope family I have been struck by the >> fact that there were lots of Hopes after that approximate date in the >> Blackrod area, but few, if any, before that date. I tried the chap >> on Mining history but never heard back from him, perhaps he >> specialised in a different area, but something happened at Blackrod >> about then that drew the Hopes from Leigh and Atherton areas. Can >> anyone enlighten us on that subject? >> >> Brian Hope >>