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Pigot & Son's 1832 Directory for Manchester & Salford
« on: Thursday 09 August 18 08:23 BST (UK) »
Not entirely sure I'm on the right board, but ... if anyone has access to the 1832 Directory for Manchester & Salford (Pigot & Son), can you please check if there is an entry for James Boyle, likely a cork-cutter, and possibly living at Hanging Ditch.

I know he was there by 1835, and am trying to narrow down when he arrived in Manchester from Yorkshire.

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Tim
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Re: Pigot & Son's 1832 Directory for Manchester & Salford
« Reply #1 on: Thursday 09 August 18 08:28 BST (UK) »
I can't help directly I'm afraid but this site may be of use if you haven't come across it before
http://specialcollections.le.ac.uk/cdm/search/collection/p16445coll4
The directories are all searchable and downloadable
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Re: Pigot & Son's 1832 Directory for Manchester & Salford
« Reply #2 on: Thursday 09 August 18 09:02 BST (UK) »
Thanks Cristeen ... no, it does not appear to be on that site.
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Re: Pigot & Son's 1832 Directory for Manchester & Salford
« Reply #3 on: Thursday 09 August 18 10:11 BST (UK) »
He's listed in the Manchester Times of 2 November 1833 (page 1) as one of 80  newly elected commissioners for "cleansing, lighting, watching, and regulating the town of Manchester": James Boyle, Hanging Ditch.   
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Re: Pigot & Son's 1832 Directory for Manchester & Salford
« Reply #4 on: Thursday 09 August 18 10:41 BST (UK) »
Thanks Shaun ... that's interesting ... he was only 30 at the time, and being a cork-cutter, not particularly high in society.  He was very focused on social issues, though - his brother, Humphrey, was a leading Chartist, and James himself a committed Unitarian, so very concerned about individuals seeking to improve themselves.  His obituary in 1845 made mention of this trait, so I can quite see him as a commissioner.  He was also a poet - I have collected several of his poems.
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Re: Pigot & Son's 1832 Directory for Manchester & Salford
« Reply #5 on: Thursday 09 August 18 11:00 BST (UK) »
I wondered if he was a Chartist. The name James Boyle appears on a petition published in the Manchester Times of 17 September 1831 calling for a public meeting in support of the Reform Bill.

In his wife's 1843 death announcement he is a cork manufacturer.
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Re: Pigot & Son's 1832 Directory for Manchester & Salford
« Reply #6 on: Thursday 09 August 18 11:33 BST (UK) »
OK ... I'm sure it's the same fellow, so that pushes back his arrival in Manchester another 2 years.

His oldest sister had married Charles Marston, of a long-standing cork-cutting family in Leeds.  There was a cork-cutting Marston (William) located in Hanging Ditch, Manchester by the late 1820's, so my running theory is that James was sent, possibly as an apprentice, with a brother-in-law to extend the cork-cutting empire into Lancashire :)

His Chartist brother, Humphrey, was of such standing in the movement that he ran Richard Carlile's publishing company when during Carlile's imprisonment (for which I believe Humphrey himself was also imprisoned).
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Re: Pigot & Son's 1832 Directory for Manchester & Salford
« Reply #7 on: Friday 10 August 18 08:26 BST (UK) »
1834 entry

Baptism: 28 Jul 1834 Collegiate, Manchester, Lancashire, England
 Emma Boyle - Daughter of James Boyle & Harriet
     Abode: Manch.
     Occupation: Cork Cutter
     Baptised by: R. Remington
     Register: Baptisms 1834, Page 421, Entry 3361
     Source: LDS Film 2357018

Baptism: 7 Dec 1835 Collegiate, Manchester, Lancashire, England
 William Massey Boyle - Son of James Boyle & Harriet
     Abode: Manch.
     Occupation: Cork Cutter
     Baptised by: H. Fielding
     Register: Baptisms 1835 - 1836, Page 693, Entry 5542
     Source: LDS Film 2357018

so - do we presume by Williams baptism that Harriet maiden name was Massey ?...do you know where James Boyle and Harriet married - was it Yorkshire or Lancashire ?
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Re: Pigot & Son's 1832 Directory for Manchester & Salford
« Reply #8 on: Friday 10 August 18 08:49 BST (UK) »
BT's on ancestry
James Keer/Kerr Boyle, cork cutter married Harriet Walker, spinster, at St John Church Manchester
26 December 1831

Witness Frederick Woodcock, Elizabeth MASSEY
The Massey name has a family connection via the witness.

another transcription has his name as James Kees Boyle