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Lancashire / Re: Kay Street in (Little) Bolton - any pics in 1860, 70?
« on: Friday 21 May 21 21:37 BST (UK)  »
Having got caught up browsing the lost pubs site, there is also this image which gives a better view of Kay Street:
http://lostpubsofbolton.blogspot.com/2015/08/black-horse-91-kay-street.html

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Lancashire / Re: Kay Street in (Little) Bolton - any pics in 1860, 70?
« on: Friday 21 May 21 20:44 BST (UK)  »
Maybe of use —

Co-op bakery on Kay Street. 1909 Co-op booklet about the Co-op in Bolton:
https://archive.org/details/cu31924091519508/page/n137/mode/2up?q=kay

Dobson and Barlow Works on Kay Street. c1900 photo:
https://www.boltonlams.co.uk/boltonlams/homepage/20/details?entry_id=14280

Dobson and Barlow: drawings of works here:
https://www.gracesguide.co.uk/Dobson_and_Barlow

Three pubs:
https://lostpubsofbolton.blogspot.com/2015/01/bank-of-england-36-kay-street.html
https://lostpubsofbolton.blogspot.com/2015/12/shepherds-arms-44-kay-street-bolton.html
http://lostpubsofbolton.blogspot.com/2014/03/falcon-kay-street.html

Cheers!

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World War One / Re: Pension record and death certificate / inquest advice please
« on: Saturday 08 May 21 23:18 BST (UK)  »
There is this 472 page book, published 1918, on War Pensions and Allowances (I've used it once or twice for ancestors' war pension research - not an easy read!), but it might provide some useful information:

https://archive.org/details/thewarpensionsallow00hoggrich/mode/2up

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Cheshire / Re: Cow Hay Wood, Poynton.
« on: Saturday 01 May 21 16:23 BST (UK)  »
Maybe of interest ... another view of the same area, but in 1819. (Greenwood's map of Cheshire.)

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Cheshire / Re: Cow Hay Wood, Poynton.
« on: Friday 30 April 21 21:41 BST (UK)  »
Hello all

The map below is from Bryant's 1831 map of Cheshire and shows Cow Hay Wood.

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The Common Room / Re: "Running away to Spain" late 1920s - passports ?
« on: Sunday 06 December 20 21:54 GMT (UK)  »
If your grandfather's sister did have a UK passport, then the National Archives at Kew have a register of passports issued:
http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C7911

Unfortunately, the registers for the years you are researching are not online and the only way you can search for a name is by going there.

Just to add a little to Elwyn’s point above about getting to France without a passport:
During the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939), many British volunteers without passports bought weekend return tickets from London Victoria to Paris (for which no passport was needed) and then met up with a Communist Party representative in Paris who would arrange the next part of their journey to Spain.

It appears that the real problem was getting back into the UK without a passport.

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Cheshire / Re: 22nd Regiment of Foot in County Cork
« on: Wednesday 13 May 20 21:51 BST (UK)  »
The 22nd regiment left for Ireland in October 1821.

In January 1822 it was sorting out a looming riot involving 3,000 (so claims the book below) in Newmarket, Cork.

This is a history of the regiment to 1849 with a few more details of the regiment's time in Ireland:

https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015056709887&view=1up&seq=1

See book pages xiv, 134 and 135.

Regards

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Cheshire / Re: Stockport Sunday School Register Entry
« on: Monday 09 March 20 22:07 GMT (UK)  »
My ancestor’s entries are for 1847 and 1853.

The records I was looking at on Family Search are for Stockport Sunday School 1825-1859, but it looks as though other year ranges don’t have images available.

In terms of Ray’s years, there is are entries in the 1825-1859 records which have later dates. Attached are two – one from 1860 and another from 1864, both of which use the same phrase of ‘none attendance’ as earlier records.

I don't know how far you got, Ray, with your research on the Owens. You mention in your first post you didn't know what happened to the parents. I wonder if parent James Owen is the person in the attachments below?

Regards

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Cheshire / Re: Stockport Sunday School Register Entry
« on: Monday 09 March 20 18:26 GMT (UK)  »
Just resurrecting a thread!

To Ray:

I don't know if 'home attendance' is still a puzzle.

I was looking at the original - and not transcribed records - for an ancestor who attended SSS. My ancestor too had 'home' attendance against his name ... except I read the phrase as 'none attendance.' Since he had been 'discharged' from the school, I took 'none attendance' as the reason why.  See attached for two examples - one is for my ancestor and the other is a random other.

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