Looking for ANY info on Samuel Barlow

[garstonite]

Thanks Barabara...so now we know what happened to Samuel...a very successful business man......allan

[Blue-Sten]

Thank you to all of you! This is fabulous!

Barbara - do you know if I can get copies of the newspaper extracts or will or just the wording?
Does the will mention his wife, Hannah, or could she have already died?

Next step - finding where they are buried!

[Gibel]

The National Probate Index is on Ancestry and there is an entry for Samuel Barlow in 1894

The entry mentions Hannah Barlow widow


You can obtain a copy of the will for £5 see below for further information

www.hmcourts-service.gov.uk/cms/1226.htm

[Barbara.H]

Barbara - do you know if I can get copies of the newspaper extracts or will or just the wording?
Does the will mention his wife, Hannah, or could she have already died?

I got this from the British Library/Gale newspaper archive which I can access online as a Lancashire library member.  Ask at your own library if they can give you access, or send me a PM with your email address and I'll send you more of the extract.
Widow Hannah was the executor and main beneficiary of the will, so she did outlive Samuel.

[Blue-Sten]

Thank you everyone!

Barbara, I've sent you a PM.

[Barbara.H]

I was following up some of the newspaper reports for you - mostly about his tulip-breeding successes, but then I came across this link describing him as a very significant art collector :
http://www.jstor.org/pss/874871

I'm an art-lover, practically weeping here at the thought of him buying a Pissarro for 30 guineas!
Here is one of them, now in the Manchester Art Gallery:
http://www.rootschat.com/links/0c8v/

  Barbara

[Blue-Sten]

Crumbs! I might just pay a visit to go and see that.

Must have been a very wealthy man!

[cgyule]

Hi,
I've just come across this thread from 13 years ago. It has some very interesting information that I didn't know about.
Samuel Barlow was my great great great uncle on my mother's side of the family.
Interestingly, his nephew, James William Bentley, was also a mayor of Middleton.