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Thank you both Isy & Priscilla. It's funny the medals where what started me off on another new thread Priscilla. I was reading in the Daily Mail about a man who was selling his medals & happened to look at the auctioneers site where I found Williams medals. Pity I was 4 years out of date as I would  have bid on them. But it was a bit more information that I didn't know. As for Isy's info the bit about Cornwall was also new.
William Ewart his brother Harold Bradley & their father John Gladstone were all Dr's. They were named by their father after the Prime Minister William Ewart Gladstone after their father very likely met him as he opened the public park in Farnworth, Lancs when chancellor of the exchequer. Their father was the mill manager for Thomas Barnes who was a personal friend of Gladstone. Thomas Barnes donated the land for the park.

Hi Chamonix , there is still a small amount of graves at New Jerusalem. A lot of the graveyard went when the A666 roundabout  was being built . A lot of the bodies were dis-interred & removed but some graves are still there.

Hi Cathy, there is a wonderful book of Archive images of Farnworth compiled by Ken Beevers. You can find the website here although it is not the only place you can get it:- http://homepage.ntlworld.com/kenneth.beevers/Farnworth.htm
My copy is falling apart as I use it such a lot to refer back to things when things fall into place when doing family history.
This is also a good website if you haven't seen it:- http://www.boltonrevisited.org.uk/default.html

Shirley

Hi Cathy ,that is really good news I was quite dreading it not being her. It turned out well after all of us chucked loads of facts in. Just shows you the power of the internet. I will be interested to know where the grave is & will take a pic of it for you. I hope it's not one of those pushed over where midmum indicated it might be as that would be disappointing but I fear that it might be if the grave that she saw mentioned Canada. I will try the library for inscriptions as they might have all the cemetery. I know they have Halshaw Moor Independant Chapel where a lot of mine where buried.
Incidentally ,I was wrong when I said my dad was born at no 11 , that was his father my dad was born at no 37. I have been told that one of my relatives living on Ash St had one of the only houses with carpet in it as my Gt Grandfather worked at Kendal Milne a large department store in Manchester & when they were refurbishing it he ended up with some of their carpet. Sorry going off point  a bit.
I rang my Aunt Doris was born in 1923 , she was born at no 37 & I asked her if she knew your  Emily Davies. She couldn't recall her but she did remember Annie Hurst.
Bearing in mind that usually odd numbered houses are on the same side & evens numbers opposite. At 37 she would have been on the same side as Annie at 27 & only 5 doors away.
Now consider that she is 87 her memory could be a bit mixed up but I will tell you what she said: She was telling me that there were 2/3 Jimmy's in the street. (but that could be a confusion)
On her side of the street was a  Hurst  who had children named Jimmy, Agnes, Alice, Edna & an older brother. Both brothers had sandy hair.
Then she talked about Jimmy Hurst across the road he was older , she thought he was married to Annie & that they had a daughter called Martha  & a son called Jimmy. Martha went in service as a maid to the then headmaster of the old grammar school on Albert Rd. (still there) She thought the headmaster was called McCarthy she went with them when they moved to Oswestry which was then in Wales & sometimes after in Shropshire as County boundaries moved. However Martha married the headmaster's son. The son Jimmy married a girl called Ruth Higham (I have an interesting boook about Highams of Farnworth who made paper bags if she is related to that family) Ruth lived on Longcauseway (which is a road in FW). They had no children. My aunt worked at the hospital & once saw Jimmy jnr there & he couldn't walk & it turned out he had a brain tumour.
She was 14yrs old when she knew the older Jimmy (opposite) & he once worked as an ice cream salesman for Walls ice cream with a 3 wheeled bike & he once spoke to her about spending money . She recalls that they were nice people.
Now whether John Alfred was known as 'Jimmy' or she was getting a bit confused or not  I can't say, but I would have thought that the one married to Annie was on her side of the street. If you have done any research on Annie's children only you will be able to tell which is which.

Been to Bolton History Centre the Emily Davies in 1932 was buried on 2nd February 1932 in Farnworth Cemetery. The mircofilm stated that she is in grave 2139 or due to writing it could be 2189/2159. We are more or less sure that 2139 is the correct one. I did state that she was buried in consecrated ground ie  ' Episcopal'. She lived & was taken for burial directly from 27 Ash Street, Farnworth which is a comforting thought. Once you get the death cert it should tell you who registered the death which will be interesting. If it turns out that this is definately your Emily Davies then your next step will be to write to Overdale Crematorium Office , Overdale Drive, Bolton , Lancashire BL1 5BU. with the grave number, date of burial , name etc with a money order for £5 sterling & they will send you a map indicating the grave. I did not have time to look at the poorhouse records but might in time  if you think that you really want to know when she went in. They were on microfilm but the years that might be of interest were in a different part of the building as we think that they are on paper.
If you do get chance to come to Farnworth  sometime in the future myself & my husband would be more than willing to act as your guide as I live 2km out of Farnworth. I did this a few years ago for a guy from OZ as he was visiting & he is on my family tree, we had a great day & I gained 1 parking ticket in Bolton for being late at my paring place due to leaving my purse in the public house where we had lunch.
I am endeavouring to attach 2 pics :- Ash street shown in 1972 before it was demolished (from Ken Beevers book on Farnworth) & a pic of Farnworth Cemetery from an Alan Godrey map dated 1908 freely available for purchase on the internet. Hope I can manage it. Incidentally Ash Street is  poignant for me , my dad was born at number 11 Ash St in 1925 so my grandmother & grandfather & gt grandmother who lived with them may have known  Emily Davies.