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Hi Jacky, Good News!  My sister Stefka, has been in touch.  She has visited the graves in Heaton Cemetery.  They are in the Catholic Section amongst other Polish graves.  She has taken photographs and made a video of the surroundings.  Have you any suggestions on how she can upload this information to you? 

Hi Jayhen6, I was interested in reading your post on Thomas Hesketh.  I too researched this family particularly John Stones the second husband of Betty Hesketh.  There was quite an age gap, Betty was older by 20 years. I lived in Astley Bridge, Bolton as a child and Hesketh Mill dominated the landscape.  The family lived in Astley Bank and both John and Betty were buried in St Paul's Church Astley Bridge.  John was buried 23/02/1859 aged 55 and Betty 11/12/1858 aged 75.  If you look on the Bolton section of the Rootsweb site there are photographs of family members.

Looking at the Newspapers on the site Findmypast.  There are number of articles re: this case.  In The Sun (London) 11 May 1856 it mentions in the High Court of Chancery John Cast against Alicia Poyser and others on the real estate of Daniel Poyser late of Ponders-end.    The Solicitors requested that creditors and encumbrancers attend in person to the offices of the Vice Chancellor Sir John Stuart No. 12 Old Square Lincoln's Inn to prove their debts and encumbrances before 2/4/1856.  To be decided on 9/4/1856.

Hi, Perhaps Mychojs Iwaniw was in a similar situation to my father Iwan Iwanyk who was in his mid teens. He was from the  west of Ukraine in a small village which was under Poland. With the Russians coming, he and others from the village were taken to labour camps and worked for the Germans.  When liberated by the Americans he chose to settle in Great Britain and worked in forestry for a time in Scotland.  The workers lived in a camp.  He then moved to Bolton to work in the cotton mills.

I have found a marriage for Ellen Dawson and Robert Lomax 1886 on lan-opc.org.uk.  The father is John Dawson.  One of the witnesses is Mary Dawson.