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Hi!

I realise that this message-question is a bit late in the day, given that the last post was 2008, but maybe someone interested will pick it up... Here's hoping anyway.

I'm trying to find the burial grounds (or crematorium) of my grandfather.  He used to live on Dean Lane in Moston.  He died in Moston in 1959.  He wasn't Catholic which means he may not have been buried at Moston Cemetery because I believe that that is an RC burial ground.  I've visited the Manchester Burial Records site on and off since it went online (though I've not paid any money), but have yet to find him.

Where might he have been buried/cremated?  Does anyone out there have any clues as to where I might look?  (I live in the US, otherwise I'd scout around the cemeteries myself.) 

Like other people who've written in, I really don't understand why Manchester has decided to charge for details when nearby Local Authorities have provided them for free!  Oldham (a few of my family have turned up there, though not as yet my great-grandparents) and Warrington  (another couple there) are really good. 

Thank you all for reading! 

Regards,
Anne

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Hello everyone and Happy New Year 

I'm looking for any further information that someone might hold about my great-aunt's family.  She was Annie Morgan born 1886.  She married a William Harding, born 1879 Preston.  She had been a Cotton Weaver until she married in 1905 in Haslingden.  He worked as a Stationery Engineman for Oldham Corporation (from 1911 census).  They had one son for sure: John born about 1909.  There looks to have been a second son, Noel Douglas Harding, born in 1914 (I think I remember the year correctly).  In 1911 Annie, William and son John, plus Annie's brother James Morgan, were living at 318 Ashton Rd., East Failsworth. 

If anyone knows anything more about this small family, I should really love to have the chance to share it. 

Thank you all for reading. Here's hoping....

Anne.

Hi everyone 

On the 1911 census I found that my grandmother's older sister, Annie Morgan, had married a William Harding (1905) and that they had a son, John , born 1909. 

William Harding, born in Preston about 1879, was a Stationery Engineman for Oldham Corporation at the time.  Annie had been a Cotton Weaver but was not working at the time of the census.  They had Annie's youngest brother, James Morgan, living with them.  He was an apprentice at Ferranti's Iron Foundry in Hollinwood.  They were all living at 318 Ashton Road East Failsworth.

I believe that Annie later had a son called Noel Douglas Harding.

Does any of this sound familiar to anyone out there? 
I have been trying to trace my Morgan family members for ages with little success, so I'm hoping that this Harding connection may prove the trigger.   

Thank you all for reading.  I look forward to your response!

All the best,
Anne.

Hi everyone -

Could someone please check whether or not if my gg-grandfather John Rishworth born around 1818 to a William Rishworth and probably in the Pontefract area ever had a baptism ?  His sister Mary appears to have had one in 1814 and in Pontefract, but I cannot find John's anywhere.  John always gave Pontefract as his birthplace/place of origin to every enumeration except 1841 (of course) until he died.  I suspect that his father William (from John's marriage certificate) was related to the Thomas Rishworth of 1841 Steam Mill, Ackworth, fame where John was working (and so too was John's brother William - at least I think William was John's brother  ; not that many Rishworths around).

Thank you a bundle - whoever you are  .
Best Regards, Anne.