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Re: Looking for interpretation of text in parish register please
« Reply #27 on: Thursday 15 November 18 20:38 GMT (UK) »

Is it the marriage to Elizabeth Rothwell in 1712 that you think is a possibility?


Elizabeth's abode was Graine. There was no abode for Christopher.
There was a baptism of a Christopher Horabin at St. James, Haslingden in 1692.
Son of John Horrabin.
Abode; Priestentakes.
Notes: BTs has Christopher son of John Horrabin of Grayne
Register: Baptisms 1683-1711; page 15.
Grane is in the west of Haslingden, between 2 and 5 miles from Constable Lee which is on the east side of Haslingden. Grane is bleak moorland.
 Priestentakes isn't a place I recognise.

Priestentakes is I assume Priestentax which was above Heap Clough just of Grane Road - there is a quarry up that way.

http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/479679

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Meehan - Sligo and Manchester
Currell - Princes Risborough and Manchester
Gee - Congleton, Salford and Manchester
Withers - Hornby, Manchester and Salford
Dodd - Congleton, Salford and Manchester

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Re: Looking for interpretation of text in parish register please
« Reply #28 on: Friday 16 November 18 17:09 GMT (UK) »

Priestentakes is I assume Priestentax which was above Heap Clough just of Grane Road - there is a quarry up that way.

http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/479679

Barbara

Priestentax and Far Priestentax are on the map Lancashire LXXI (includes Haslingden; Oswaldtwistle) surveyed 1844-5.
 National Library of Scotland Maps
https://maps.nls.uk/view/102343976
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