Teddy Lowe, Lancashire Wrestling Champion, Whitworth

[RuslanPashayev]

GOT IT appreciate !!!!

[RuslanPashayev]

OK thanks I just purchased it online...hope to hear from St Nicholas or from Bacup or at least from smb on this subject.

[RuslanPashayev]

so looks like Ed and Alice didnt have any children together...did she marry anyone after his death?

[RuslanPashayev]

I wonder if any relatives exist...Ed had bunch of siblings...not sure if they cared that their uncle Teddy was best wrestler of England at his weight.

[keyboard86]

so looks like Ed and Alice didnt have any children together...did she marry anyone after his death?

Appears Alice did, in 1901 census:-

James Booth 66 b Bury
Alice 56
James 33
Henry Mercer 52 Widower
Simeon Mercer 29
Young G Mercer 27
All others shown as b Rochdale
Residing at Osborne Street, Heywood
Census ref RG13/3642/57/8

In 1911 shown as widowed Aunt with a Young  Holden Mercer
Keyboard86

[RuslanPashayev]

thanks for sharing....appreciate...but those people have last name Mercer, its her maiden last name...and they were born like in the 1870s...you think she divorced Ed and got married to smb else when Ed was here in USA? cant quite get it...

[RuslanPashayev]

I am just surprised how no one was ever interested in that character...Edmund Law, Teddy Lowe...I hope Newchurch Community will be interested to help me with this study. Hope to hear from the soon...also Bacup...I have no clue whom else to ask on that subject. Its almost comical but looks like those 1860's titles Copenhagen, Higginshaw, Snipe Inn, Royal Oak etc completely disappeared from all records...the funniest of it is that Pedestrianism was number one sport of Victorian England, and lets say Copenhagen grounds were considered as Mecca of pedestrians...among their champions were Siah Albison, William Lang, Edward Mills, James Nuttall, those men were idols of the whole entire country, not just Lancashire.

[heywood]

thanks for sharing....appreciate...but those people have last name Mercer, its her maiden last name...and they were born like in the 1870s...you think she divorced Ed and got married to smb else when Ed was here in USA? cant quite get it...

Reply #16 - 1891 shows Alice living with her brother Henry and his family.

March 29th 1893 Alice Law (Mercer) marries James Booth at St Mary's Birch.

This may affect your burial note for Alice.

[KGarrad]

I am just surprised how no one was ever interested in that character...Edmund Law, Teddy Lowe...I hope Newchurch Community will be interested to help me with this study. Hope to hear from the soon...also Bacup...I have no clue whom else to ask on that subject. Its almost comical but looks like those 1860's titles Copenhagen, Higginshaw, Snipe Inn, Royal Oak etc completely disappeared from all records...the funniest of it is that Pedestrianism was number one sport of Victorian England, and lets say Copenhagen grounds were considered as Mecca of pedestrians...among their champions were Siah Albison, William Lang, Edward Mills, James Nuttall, those men were idols of the whole entire country, not just Lancashire.

I think you have an unrealistic, idealised, view of the importance (or not) of wrestling?
For my part, I have no interest in wrestling either today or yesteryear

Ana I rather think that my sport (croquet) was far more popular in the day than wrestling.
And the names of such people as Walter Peel, Walter Jones Whitmore, John Dyer Cartwright should still be remembered today.