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9th May 2008 |
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Name:
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Sue Hutt (nee Hamer) |
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An excellent website, what a pity
there are not equivalent ones for other areas! Many thanks
for all your hard work, it is much appreciated. I am
currently researching my families, Hamer and Ainsworth, most
of whom lived in and around Summerseat and Ramsbottom in the
19th century. My great grandfather Benjamin Ainsworth was a
prominent member of the Wesleyan Chapel, so I would be very
interested in the grave stones. My paternal great
grandfather, Edwin Hamer, was manager at Lock Gate cotton
mill. If anyone has any information about either of them,
I'd love to hear from you.
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Surnames I am Researching: |
Hamer
Ainsworth |
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4th May 2008 |
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Name:
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Brenda Walsh |
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I stumbled
across your site looking for info on cotton crisis in 1860s.
My family
ancestors have connections with Rowlands, Wood Road and
Brooksbottom. I believe they lived, worked, met and married
etc in Summerseat, Holcombe, Twine Shuttleworth area.
Thank you
Excellent.
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Surnames I am Researching: |
Walsh -
Brooksbottom
Scholes - Lower
Summerseat |
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18th April
2008 |
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Name:
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Dennis Ross |
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It was
interesting to see the great changes that have taken place
since I left Summerseat 40 years ago. I was born and raised
there, went to Rowlands school, played cricket for Brox and
have nothing but happy memories living in Summerseat as a
child. I travelled every day on the train to Peel Brow
school in Ramsbottom.
We used to
live at various areas in the village, Plantation View, Hill
St, were just 2 of them.
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18th April
2008 |
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Tony Wilson |
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Lived at 15
Holly street during my childhood until 1970 and found the
site by chance after idly Googling the address.
Brilliant
site, extremely interesting and will certainly revisit to go
through it in greater detail.
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16th April
2008 |
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Name:
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Debra Stout Brouillette |
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Just came across your site when
looking for information about Ann Frank. Was she related to
many of the people in this cemetery.
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Surnames I am Researching: |
Stout
Stout
Brouillette
Mayeaux
Bielkiecz |
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45 |
3rd April
2008 |
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Name:
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Paul Shepherd |
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A truly wonderful
site!
I grew in up
Greenmount and even as a small child wondered at the potent
industrial archaeology of the place. We were always in awe of the
back 2 back houses and the derelict mills and the way that the
history of the Lancashire cotton industry was almost tangible here.
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31st March
2008 |
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Name:
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Christine Greenough |
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I use
Parishmouse website for their message board and it was a
member of that board that directed me to your site --
absolutely fascinating! --- well done
I worked as a
health visitor around Summerseat, Ramsbottom and Tottington
in the early 1970s so it was wonderful to reflect on those
superb places
thanks for
the experience!!!
Christine
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24th March
2008 |
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Sally Stothard |
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I moved to Summerseat from Sale 3
years ago and find myself on long and intriguing walks which
often leave me wondering, what was once here, I explore
every weekend and try to go to places that are unknown to me
and free from the hoards, meant in the best possible way.
But leaves me with more questions than when I set off.
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22nd March
2008 |
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Name:
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Kathryn Stout |
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I am a
researcher in family history who works in the Lancashire
area, I was given your web site by a client.
I used to
live in Summerseat C1970s our home was on Rowlands Road next
to the Methodist church/school my younger sisters used to go
to the school via the back gate into the school yard.
I have
enjoyed your site. Kath Stout
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28th February
2008 |
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Name:
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Angela Pearcy |
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Surnames I am Researching: |
Hawkins,
Hawkhurst, Kent
Mc Manus
Whitstable, Kent
Rutter,
Easington, Durham |
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15th February
2008 |
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Name:
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Catherine
Powell |
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Really
interesting. Inspired me to research family roots.
Now live
in Blackpool but born in Bury. I went to St Josephs RC
primary school and then to Bury Convent Grammar School.
Moved to Blackpool with my parents and brother.
Several
members of my family still live in Ramsbottom.
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I haven't yet
started to research.
However my
family surnames include Seymour and French.
My maternal
grandmothers name was Lomax. We lived in Ramsbottom. Some of my
cousins still live in Ramsbottom. Their surnames are French.
Other cousins
surnames are Brady and Wiggam. |
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14th February
2008 |
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Name:
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Anita Healey
nee Williams |
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I lived in
Summerseat at six Hill Street in the seventies and early
eighties, then I moved to the US and my parents moved to
Cliff Avenue, the first house on the corner, I don't
remember the number.
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Surnames I am Researching: |
Turner -
Rochdale
Williams -
Rochdale and Leeds |
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38 |
9th January
2008 |
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Name:
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Jon Lawrence |
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My gggg
grandfather Edward Gosnell was lodging at Summerseat House
at the time of the eighteen forty one census. He was the son
of John Gosnell, who owned the perfume company John Gosnell
and co.
Edward was
born in London and was therefore a long way from home in
eighteen forty one.
Edward
married Eliza Jane Hamer in the second quarter of eighteen
forty five. She is therefore my gggg grandmother.
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Surnames I am Researching: |
Hamer
Gosnell
Marshall
Byron |
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37 |
9th January
2008 |
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Name:
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Lynn Lockton |
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This is such an excellent site. Thank
you.
Five generations of my family, the
Windles, worked at Brooksbottom mill from eighteen twenty to
nineteen sixty.
I regularly read your articles and
feel a real bond with the area through your research.
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Surnames I am Researching: |
Windle -
Quarry owner at Scout
Windle -
Mineral Factory owner at Waterfoot
Altham -
Brooksbottom
Heys -
Brooksbottom and Bury
Brooks -
Ramsbottom and Elton |
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23rd December 2007 |
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Name:
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Anna Cartman
Cannon |
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This
spectacular site helped me find relatives my family has been
searching for for half a century.
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Surnames I am Researching: |
Cartman,
Tattersall, Hopkinson, Shaw, Smethurst - Bury Lancashire
England. |
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17th December 2007 |
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Name:
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Arthur Petch &
Lynne Critchley |
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We are
searching Petch family tree, and my Grandparents and family
are buried in the old graveyard at Summerseat. I have been
to the churchyard before to look for their graves, when it
had been started to be tidied a few years back, but could
not find their grave, it was a double grave down near the
wall going up towards the school.
I would
love to see the graves tidied and made safe so that we could
go and show our own family where there ancestors are buried.
Keep up the good work.
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Surnames I am Researching: |
Petch Family |
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13th December 2007 |
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Name:
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James
Tattersall |
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For some years I have been very keen for the MI's to be
transcribed of the Rowland's Lower Graveyard.
When I first started visiting the graveyard in 2004 it was
just about possible to get round and look at most headstones.
On a trip a few weeks ago it is almost impossible to even
enter the graveyard, I did make a start in 2005 on the MI's
and some photos transcriptions, and plans are available at
www.churchrecords.co.uk which also has some old photos of
the church.
It is great to see that I am not alone in wanting to clean
up the graveyard and would ask you to email me if you can
help.
If matters are already in hand would those involved please
note my offer of help in person and financially.
Congratulations Peter and family, on a fantastic website. I
look forward to hearing from you and others regarding the
graveyard.
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TATTERSALL - BRIERLEY - CARTMAN |
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19th November 2007 |
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Name:
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Eddie Redfern |
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Possibly |
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The train
video reminded me of the days when I went from Helmshore to
Bury, or Manchester for a Saturday night out. |
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10th November 2007 |
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Name:
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Lewis Knight |
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Great site.
I am looking
for any Bonneys |
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Surnames I am Researching: |
Bonny
Bonney
Livesey
Marshall
Ashcroft |
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31 |
5th November 2007 |
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Name:
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Ann Ashworth |
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I visit Peters
pages quite often. My three times gt granparents all came from
Summerseat, I am particularly researching my Hilton ancestors
who lived here in the early nineteenth century. Samuel and Grace
Hilton are buried in the old Rowlands Cemetery, alas their
gravestones are not among the pictures that Peter has obtained.
My other ancestors are the Hargreaves family from Tottington.
I would like
to take the opportunity once again to thank Peter and his wife
for all the hard work they put into this website. |
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Surnames I am Researching: |
Hilton, Heargreaves, Wolstenholme - Summerseat, Tottington,
and Walmersley |
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5th July 2007 |
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Name:
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Jacquie
Haworth |
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I have
thoroughly enjoyed everything about the site as a lot of it
about my own family absolutely fascinating will definitely be
back on the site |
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Surnames I am Researching: |
Forrest,
Bonney |
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29 |
27th May
2007 |
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Name:
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Neil Cartman |
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I came to the
site almost by accident, my ancestors (Cartman) lived in the
area and I have been trying to find out more about their
environment. The site is extremely well put together, easy to
navigate around with a wealth of good information on it. I was
particularly impressed with the censuses finding a relation I
had never found before. The style of pages sweeping from the
left works very well.
I left the
site feeling that I was leaving an old friend which I will be
returning to, it has been produced with a lot of time but also
has the feeling that a lot of love has gone into it. |
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Surnames I am Researching: |
Cartman,
Tattersall, Brooks, Hoyle - Rowlands, Tottington |
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28 |
11th May
2007 |
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Name:
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Richard Hamer |
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In late April
2007 I had the pleasure of visiting Summerseat, and was taken
around by Peter Ward and his wife Christine.
I am a direct
descendant of Richard Hamer (5th generation), the builder of
Summerseat house and in whose honour the Hamers Arms pub was
named in the late 1840s.
This is a
beautiful area of Lancashire and I hope to return some day to
show it to my children. |
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11th May
2007 |
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Name:
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David Hoyle |
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Being a Hoyle
the attraction to Summerseat and the surrounding area is very
strong. Thanks for all your hard work in putting this most
informative web site together.
Best wishes, David Hoyle |
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Surnames I am Researching: |
Hoyle |
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10th May
2007 |
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Name:
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Enid Dolphin
Allman |
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THANK YOU TO
THE PERSON WHO TOOK THE PHOTOS OF THE GRAVESTONES IN ROWLAND'S,
NEVER THOUGHT I WOULD EVER SEE THE GRAVES OF MY DOLPHIN
ANCESTORS.
I LOOK FORWARD
TO WALKING THROUGH THE AREA AND TO PLACE SOME FLOWERS ON
MARMADUKE AND SAULS RESTING PLACE.
THIS GRAVEYARD
NEEDS TO BE VISITED BY ALL.
THE STONES
MUST BE LOOKED AFTER.
THEY ARE PART
OF SUMMERSEATS HERITAGE.
THANK YOU
PETER WARD AND FAMILY. |
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6th May
2007 |
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Name:
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Ruth Farnworth |
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I was
particularly interested in the Old Rowlands Churchyard as both
my Grandparents are buried there. Mary McInnes in 1910 and
Archibald in 1921. A Mrs. Mills was kind enough to give me the
grave number (195) about 10 years ago, she was living at that
time on Queens Place. Mrs. Mills was a delightful person and had
been connected with Rowlands Church all her life as had her
husband and family. Regrettably she died about 2 years ago. I do
not know who will now hold the records. I will try to find out . |
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My McInnes
family lived firstly in Ramsbottom, then at the Half Mile House
on Summerseat Lane. They moved to Manchester about 1908 and then
retured to Summerseat about one year later. They then lived at
various addresses, Thorn Street, Higher Summerseat, Kay St. My
mother Ruth McInnes and some of her sisters, Helen, Ethel and
Margaret attended Rowlands Methodist School, day school records
can be seen at the Bury Archives. My youngest son now lives on
Railway Street in Summerseat and has been trying to find out
when the cottages were built. Before the Railway came it seemed
to be named Higher Row but not too sure if this is correct. |
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12th April
2007 |
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Name:
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Ronnie
Robinson |
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Your web site
is a marvellous piece of work.
What can I do
to help the renovation of the Churchyard? At least four of my
ancestors are buried there. Best wishes and thanks |
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Surnames I am Researching: |
Warburton 1816
onwards.
Robinson 1851.
Pilling 1850
Chadwick 1852
Bridge 1840
Smith 1848. |
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13th March
2007 |
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Name:
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Neil
Stansfield |
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I have been
researching my family history for a few years now, and my
Grandfather and his mother and Grandparents all lived in
Summerseat. After visiting the Church at Rowlands on a few
occasions my search for their resting place was fruitless.
Luckily I came across this web site and found out that there is
an Old Graveyard that is unfortunately closed due to disrepair.
I am confident
that my ancestors rest in this Graveyard and I would like it
re-opened so their graves could be viewed as intended. |
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Surnames I am Researching: |
Easey (Easy)
of Summerseat
Reardon of
Tottington/Elton |
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22 |
10th March
2007 |
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Name:
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Frederike |
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I like your
site very much Please keep up the good work.
Thank you.
volker kuenne |
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24th February
2007 |
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Mary and Pete Corbishley |
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Enjoyed the site very much |
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20 |
9th February
2007 |
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Name:
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Gwen
Hodgkinson |
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The site is so
interesting as I am researching my family roots. Both my parents
and grandparents lived in Summerseat, their surnames were Bird
and Clegg, they both lived near the church at the Rowlands. I
visited Summerseat many times as a child, but after going to
Bury Grammar School have spent the last almost 30 years in
Cambridge with my family.
Please keep
the good work up, it is fascinating.
Researching
Surnames:
Bird
Summerseat and Bury
Clegg
Summerseat
Hoyle
Birdholes and Bury
Crapper Bury
and Bacup |
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9th February
2007 |
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Jane Landymore |
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A wonderful
site.
I am
researching Cartman, Tattersall, Ashworth, and Kay, and will be
visiting Summerseat next week!
Thank you for
all the fantastic information. |
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6th February
2007 |
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Name:
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Carol White
(nee Walmsley) |
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I'm looking
for any information regarding the Walmsley family.
Many thanks
Carol. |
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3rd February
2007 |
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Name:
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Steven Pycroft |
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I was
interested to read Geof Pycrofts article, my father,
grandfather, and great grandfather, were born in nearby Nuttall
village I wonder what relation Geof is to me. |
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28th January
2007 |
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Name:
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Enid |
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Thank you for
a wonderful site. I was in tears when I saw the photos of the
old graveyard. For sometime I have been hoping to visit this
place to leave flowers.
I look forward
to the day I can do that. |
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Surnames I am Researching:
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Pass, Dolphin,
Lomax, Kay - Tottington, Summerseat and Roughlee. |
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15 |
27th January
2007 |
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Name:
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Paul Anderson |
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A very
interesting site with plenty of historical information that I
have been looking for.
Fascinating
thank you. |
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28th December
2006 |
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Name:
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John |
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Well done,
very informative and good layout. |
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Surnames I am Researching:
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Harriet Mercer
my great grandmother (known as granny to me) b Bury 1881. Lived
at 23 Kent St Lower Summerseat from about 1925 to 1939 when she
moved to 8 Hazel Ave Higher Summerseat until her decease in
1963. |
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18th November
2006 |
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Name:
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Alan Ward |
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Yes |
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Very good
website for Summerseat, have lived here for years |
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12 |
16th November
2006 |
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Name:
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Ann Mellon |
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It made my day
when I found records of my 2x great-uncle Richard Hargreaves who
is listed both in the 1871 and 1881 census. I had got records of
my great-grandfather and 2 X great-grandfather (also both listed
in your transcriptions) but nothing of Uncle Dick.
Summerseat is
indeed a lovely village in a lovely part of the world. Hard for
us today to imagine the hundreds of people working hard in the
mills and the noise, dirt and grime of their conditions.
Thank you so
much for your census transcriptions - they got all my boxes
ticked. |
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Surnames I am Researching:
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Hargreaves -
Summerseat
Ramsbottom -
in Ramsbottom - yes really.
Shepherd - in
Ramsbottom |
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11 |
2nd November
2006 |
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Name:
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Neil Adamson |
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Have
discovered three generations of my family lived in Old Mills,
Summerseat in 1841 |
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Any
information on the three James Adamson that lived in Summerseat
in 1841 would be gratefully received |
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26th September
2006 |
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Name:
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Amanda Healey |
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I have
recently moved in to Summerseat and found the website to be very
interesting |
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25th September
2006 |
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Name:
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Enid Allman
nee Dolphin |
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This is a
wonderful site, gets all my praise.
How I wish I
could find my ancestors grave at Rowlands. Sad to say it is so
over grown. So what a joy to see that some of the churchyard and
graves look beautiful.
Thank you for
the lovely photographs of the new church.
Will continue
to visit this web site. |
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Surnames I am Researching:
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Dolphin - Heap
- Pass - Kay.
Photo of coop
Hill St, Summerseat.
Photo of
Weavers Arms Summerseat |
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22nd September
2006 |
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Name:
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Diane de Waal |
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I found a
photo of Cragg farm cottages where my grandfather lived and
worked. Great site keep the photos and gravestone inscriptions
coming.
Diane |
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Surnames I am Researching:
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Isherwood -
Tottington Holcombe Bury Lancashire
Bradley -
Walmersley Lancashire
Durrant -
Holcombe Bury Lancashire
Hulme -
Summerseat Bury Lancashire |
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27th August 2006 |
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Hannah Martin |
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I found it so
interesting and recognised many of the surnames from my
childhood. Some very good friends took me to visit 4 years ago
and I found so little changed since I left the village at age 15
in 1924 to go to Bury High. Maybe one day we will return to see
the new church. We enjoyed seeing the children playing in my old
schoolyard. Thank you for an hour of happy memories. |
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4th August 2006 |
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Gary Rowland |
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Brought back
many happy memories of my childhood in Summerseat |
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28th June 2006 |
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Geoff Pycroft |
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Came upon this
site by chance. Excellent, still working my way through it. I
was born and raised in Higher Summerseat and as a schoolboy I
used to deliver newspapers all over Summerseat. All the place
names and photos have brought back many memories of my childhood
in the 1950s. I still recall what was then known as Dolly Tub
Row on Railway Street and all the houses around Hall Street,
sadly all now gone. Dolly Tub Row actually had to be demolished
because the Irwell River that ran along the back had undercut
the foundations. The same thing happened to the COOP and the
Church that stood at the end of Railway Street opposite the
entrance to Robin Road. I recall taking papers to Lammy Bank at
the end of Robin Road, once owned by the actress from Coronation
Street who placed Lucille Hewitt. My Grandparents lived just
over Nutter Brew near to the mill that once stood at the very
end of Nuttal Lane, next to the farm. My parents when first
married lived in a cottage in Wood Road and later moved to the
new Heath Avenue Estate that was built in the late 40s,50s. I
also delivered milk to Hoyles Mill when it was still a going
concern and well remember the weaving and spinning sheds. As a
toddler I was often left in the creche as they are now called,
in the works Canteen, now the Waterside Pub, by my mother who
worked in the mill. I can still recall the 7am Mill Hooter and
again at 5pm when shortly afterwards the Charabanc full of
workers would make its way up the very narrow twisting road past
Peel Hall and up to Newcombe Road and beyond.
As you can
tell from my posting, the site has brought back many memories.
Who can recall
St Winifreds Tin Church. The shop in the Brick Houses and the
Post Office on Railway Street not far from the butchers shop
that stood at what is now the entrance to the Garden Center.
Catching the train up to Rawtenstall to visit the Astoria on
Saturday night to watch the Four Pennies and others......the 21
Steps next to Peel Hall, wonderful memories, many thanks for
triggering them.
Regards
Geoff P. |
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31st May 2006 |
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Name:
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Anne Rand |
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Brought a tear
to my eyes. My father was born at Brickhouses in Summerseat
nineteen twenty and his sisters employed at Hoyles. My mother
states that one of his sisters worked on a farm owned by a Ward
obviously not one of yours checking eggs in the sixties You
describe the village as I remember it as a child visiting my
Aunties Many of their homes have been demolished. I too used to
go up Holcombe Hill winberry picking with my parents happy
times.
Thank you for
the memories |
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Surnames I am Researching:
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Hulme - Buckby
- Settle & Hilton |
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21st May 2006 |
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Name:
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Rose Lehan |
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I am
interested in local history. I live in Brandlesholme and come
from Cheshire originally. The industrial history around here is
interesting as I used to live in the mill town of Macclesfield.
Now I want to find out all about the growth of the towns and
villages in this area. Your web-site is fascinating, thank you
so much. The engraving of the mills at Summerseat is
particularly interesting to see. |
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25th April 2006 |
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Name:
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David Hinde |
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Wonderful
Site. I lived off Newcombe Road at Fernview Drive for six years
in the eighties, and saw the old chapel with crucifix at the
rear of Peel Hall before it was vandalised.
I have always liked Summerseat and its surrounding Moors,
and I played a part in saving Holcombe Moor from military
expansion in the nineteen eighties, as Chairman Of The
Greenmount Civic Society. Also involved with the East Lancs
Railway Project.
Your Photos on the Site are superb, Well done to you.
A World Class Site indeed. |
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21st April 2006 |
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Name:
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Dominic
Martinez |
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Yes |
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Comments:
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I live in
Summerseat and its a great place to live.
Thanks for
putting your site up for us all to enjoy. |
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