We have received
several new microfiche to add to the library.
Bury 1891 census (4
fiche) surnames only. RG1/2127 - 3147.
Lytham St. Peter
R.C. Church 1837 - 1940. (marriage regs) (2 fiche)
index & full
transcripts including witnesses.
Marton (Blackpool)
St. Paul 1838 - 1900. (marriage regs) (2 fiche)
full transcript &
index.
Marton (Blackpool)
St. Paul 1806 - 1900. Burial registers and MIs. (2 fiche)
Rawtenstall War
Memorial
You may remember
that in March this year we had a talk from Bill Turner on
Rossendale’s War Memorials. Bill told us that the first WW1 memorial
to be erected in this country was in Rawtenstall cemetery and that
he was trying to get it listed as a historic monument. This memorial
was erected as early as September 1915 at the instigation of Carrie
Whitehead. It commemorates those who died in the early part of the
war. Bill has succeeded in his quest and the memorial newly cleaned
and repaired has received national recognition.
Finding military
information on the internet.
Military Medals and
Records.
www.mod.uk/forces.htm (contact addresses only)
Royal British
Legion. www.britishlegion.org.uk helps former soldiers who are
trying to contact comrades. Also helps relatives to find out about
loved ones,
Commonwealth War
Graves Commission. www.cwgc.org Records the Commonwealth soldiers
who died in both world wars.
World War One.
www.worldwar1.com Detailed
Website, recounting history of the Great War. Packed with maps,
documents, biographies and pictures.
(extracted from the
Daily Mail 19 October 1999)
Family
Tree Service on Teletext
(Channel
4 p489)
This new service
currently consists of 15 pages listing persons either seeking
ancestors or trying to make contact with living descendants. If you
wish to add your own message (about 50 words on a postcard) write to
Family Tree, PO Box 297, London SW6 1XT.
Coming Events.
Talks, Conferences, Exhibitions.
Saturday 13
November 1999 Local and Family History Day, Thorne’s Park Centre,
Wakefield. Activities, stalls, exhibitions, family trees etc. Open
10.30am - 4.00pm. Adults £1.50, Concessions 50p.
Bury Branch
Programme change
10 November
Transportation to Australia. Fred Holcroft
8 December
Christmas Festivities at Rochdale
12 January
Gallipoli. Mary Davison
Cissie Green’s
Famous Pies
From
Michael Hiluta....
There is a
confectioner’s shop in Deardengate, Haslingden, well known for its
pies. Cissie Green’s has never lost its name locally although the
famous lady died in January 1967. Barry Howarth who bought the shop
three years ago recently made an appeal for old photographs, printed
stories or mementoes to display. All he knew was that Cissie Green
had married a Mr. Ashworth. The front door of the shop has the words
"Ashworths Confectioners" etched into the glass and the original
phone number "Ross. 1099".
So, who was Cissie
Green? I was able to tell him that she was Sarah Elizabeth Green,
daughter of Arthur Billett Green and that she had married Ernest
Ashworth in May 1910, at Salem Methodist Church, Regent Street,
Haslingden. They lived at 80 Manchester Road, Haslingden, Ernest was
a master joiner before his retirement and had been a partner in the
firm of Grindrod and Co. joiners and funeral directors. He died in
February 1961 aged 75. "Cissie" died in January 1967 aged 80.
Mr Howarth says
that they are still making hand risen pies on the premises using the
original recipe. As soon as he took over the shop he had the name
"Cissie Green’s" added to the shop window. The above information as
obtained from the marriage record and obituaries. I passed them on
to Barry, whereupon, I was given two of the famous meat pies, 4
current teacakes and one small brown loaf.
From the burial
register at St. Nicholas, Newchurch
This could be
helpful to someone:
21 February 1879
John Kershaw Newchurch aged 72
24 February 1879
Edmund Ashworth Newchurch aged 69
27 February 1879
Henry Holt Mill End aged 55
The Clerk has
written in the margin " John Kershaw was brother in law to Edmund
Ashworth and Uncle to Henry Holt".
And finally:
"I can trace my
ancestors back to a protoplasmal primordeal atomic globule.
Consequently my family pride is something inconceivable...."
The Mikado 1885.
"You should study
the Peerage.....It is the best thing in fiction the English have
ever done."
Oscar Wilde. A
woman of no importance.
