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Offline aggiebagwash

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Where is Houghswood?
« on: Monday 23 March 15 13:14 GMT (UK) »

I'm helping a friend with her family tree circa 1760, Baptismal records for St Leonard's Middleton give the residence place of the parents as Houghswood. Does anyone know roughly where it was so I can either add it or eliminate the records from her tree?

Thanks Margaret

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Re: Where is Houghswood?
« Reply #1 on: Monday 23 March 15 13:38 GMT (UK) »
There is a Hough Farm just over 2 miles north-east of Middleton. A little further out from that, heading towards the Royton area,  is 'Ooze Wood'  Could Houghswood be a variant of Ooze Wood? 

Ooze Wood and Hough Farm are both on an 1848 map on the Old Maps site, but they don't have anything earlier than that.

 :) Barbara
LANCS:  Greenwood, Greenhalgh, Fishwick, Berry,
CHES/DERBYS:  Vernon
YORKS/LINCS: Watson, Stamford, Bartholomew,
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Re: Where is Houghswood?
« Reply #2 on: Monday 23 March 15 13:46 GMT (UK) »

Thanks Barbara you could be right. I needed to link it to Thornham and it does. I spotted that map but I was looking more around Thornham Old Lane and the plantations not further down towards Royton.

Thanks once again I really appreciate it.

Margaret  :)
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