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Flintshire / Re: Higginsons of Hopes Place, Bretton, Hawarden
« on: Monday 06 February 17 21:39 GMT (UK) »
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Flintshire / Re: Higginsons of Hopes Place, Bretton, Hawarden
« on: Monday 06 February 17 16:32 GMT (UK) »
Thank you Jo. You know, I have seen those pages via google search before, including the picture of the Hope's Place bus stop ! and I am reminded that the gentleman who compiled the wikipedia page for Bretton had been in touch with us here, I think on this very thread. I am sad to learn that commercial development has spoiled the look of the town. That is also destroying the aspect of the tiny town I am living in in France.
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Flintshire / Re: Higginsons of Hopes Place, Bretton, Hawarden
« on: Monday 06 February 17 10:15 GMT (UK) »
Oh YAY !!! Jill, you found them ! Yes the ages match, and of course "Hope's Place" - I am so delighted to discover that they lived out their lives at Hope's Place. Thank you ever so much !
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Flintshire / Re: Higginsons of Hopes Place, Bretton, Hawarden
« on: Monday 06 February 17 00:10 GMT (UK) »
Wow, Jill that is a stupendous site ! what a lot of painstaking work went into that ! What a treasure mine. Thank you for sharing this amazing resource. Now I am combing it trying to find a burial and death date for Elizabeth (Higginson) Jones, wife of Samuel Jones (of Hopes Place). She and her husband are still living in the 1881 census (still and Hope's Place) - after that I lose them.
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Flintshire / Re: Higginsons of Hopes Place, Bretton, Hawarden
« on: Saturday 04 February 17 20:59 GMT (UK) »
Hello Jill, I would love to take a look at your website. Thank you for that. Yes I do have the Higginson-Mitchell marriage. I figure that the Richard Higginson - farmer -who married Hannah Mitchell is an uncle to Richard Higginson- Engine Driver who married Mary Price. I believe R.H farmer is a younger brother of the Joseph Higginson, farmer of Eaton who married Ann Leyfield of Eccleston in Eccleston in 1806 and lived and died at Hopes Place.
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Flintshire / Re: Higginsons of Hopes Place, Bretton, Hawarden
« on: Saturday 28 January 17 10:27 GMT (UK) »
P.S. My grandmother's youngest brother (Norman Cowdell) remained in Vancouver, and his daughter tells me that she remembers her father talking about “Aunt Lou”, she has a childhood memory of meeting her, and vaguely remembers some mention of Irene. She also thinks her Dad kept in touch with Aunt Lou until she died.
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Flintshire / Re: Higginsons of Hopes Place, Bretton, Hawarden
« on: Friday 27 January 17 12:56 GMT (UK) »
Hi Nozzy, I have not been to ANY of these places. I have spent years looking at documents concerning Liverpool on line, and have pictures of my grandmother in Liverpool, but I have never been there. On the other hand I did live in London for one year when I was eleven years old, because my father took a sabatical year, and I went to a stage school in Wimbledon (Associated Arts School) run by Letty Littlewood. I have a great desire to see Liverpool, and all those places. I would also love to see Chester, and Bretton, and Hope's Place, etc !
P.S. I sent you a personal message.
P.S. I sent you a personal message.
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Flintshire / Re: Higginsons of Hopes Place, Bretton, Hawarden
« on: Wednesday 25 January 17 11:58 GMT (UK) »
PS I am living in France because I married a Frenchman ! Seven years of wedded bliss 
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Flintshire / Re: Higginsons of Hopes Place, Bretton, Hawarden
« on: Wednesday 25 January 17 11:57 GMT (UK) »
I knew about Louisa Bamber ! I traced her to Vancouver through documents. There are also descendants of Rachel-Boote Higginson still living in Vancouver - I had asked them if they had been aware of Louisa and her family - and did not get a straight answer. I would love to see a picture of Kate if you have it. I have no pictures of Samuel Higginson. I have found newspaper articles described the horrible death of Richard Higginson - November 1860.