Re: Years Ago.

by Mickrick Wed Oct 04, 2023 3:03 pm

Plus ça change . . .
Wigan Star, 9th February 1894.

by Lolly Wed Oct 04, 2023 7:51 pm

LOL there's an Alice Gaskell in my family tree Very Happy

by Mickrick Wed Oct 04, 2023 7:59 pm

Lolly wrote:LOL there's an Alice Gaskell in my family tree

Plenty of Gaskells in mine, Lolly, connected with Pemberton, Shevington and Crooke, and with Turner and Finney families. Thumbs Up

by Lolly Wed Oct 04, 2023 8:06 pm

Marsh Green Gaskells in my tree. Buried at St Johns.

by Mickrick Wed Oct 04, 2023 8:17 pm

Some of mine in St John's.
Peter is either my 2x or 3x great grandfather.

by Lolly Wed Oct 04, 2023 8:18 pm

I had an Uncle Peter buried there in 1966 his wife I think was Jane. My tree is very confusing as there were a lot of ancestors who bore the
same names.

by gassey Wed Oct 04, 2023 8:51 pm

Mickrick this is ma Great garadparents and Grandparents grave

by Mickrick Wed Oct 04, 2023 9:08 pm

Hi Gassey, Alfred Turner was my great great uncle.
His older sister Ellen (1857-1909) was my great grandmother.
She took the surname of her common law husband John Gaskell, but never got round to wedding him.
They had seven kids, one of which was my paternal grandma.

by gassey Thu Oct 05, 2023 2:19 am

Small world Mickrick John William Gaskell and Annie Gertrude
Gaskell were my Grandparents, one of their seven children was
John Gaskell who was my Dad. They came from Woodhouse Lane
, Shevington area.

by Mickrick Thu Oct 05, 2023 7:38 am

Must have known my grandparents, Gassey.
They lived at Lower Ground, Martland Mill, and Springfield, at different times.

by Mickrick Thu Oct 05, 2023 4:02 pm

Has Ormskirk Road ever been free of roadworks?
Wigan Star, 10th March 1893.

by Lolly Thu Oct 05, 2023 8:24 pm

Fast forward to 2023. Very Happy

https://www.wigan.gov.uk/Docs/PDF/Resident/Parking-Roads-Travel/Roadworks-bulletin.pdf

by Mickrick Fri Oct 06, 2023 3:52 pm

Very nice too!
Wigan Star, 20th January 1893.

by Lolly Fri Oct 06, 2023 7:38 pm

I wonder if Tom Moorefield was any relation to the Moorefield family that owned farms on Bell Lane and City Rd.

by Mickrick Fri Oct 06, 2023 11:22 pm

Lolly wrote:I wonder if Tom Moorefield was any relation to the Moorefield family that owned farms on Bell Lane and City Rd.

Heck of a lot of Moorfields around Pemberton and the bottom end of Orrell Lolly, there will no doubt be a connection somewhere.
I think Sid Moorfield, the milkman, who lived in the white farmhouse at the bottom of City Road, and who died about twenty years ago was one of the farming Moorfields.
A lot of the Moorfields seemed to be in business locally. Two of my mates were married to two Moorfield sisters. Their dad was a builder.

by Lolly Fri Oct 06, 2023 11:36 pm

I remember well Sydney and Joan. I lived next door to the other sister[for the life of me cant remember her name] top of City Rd, 3 doors down from the farm house. Saw the cattle being walked up City Rd from the fields on Bell Lane, for milking. They had a huge white shire horse. I think Joan had the farmhouse at the top of Bell Lane. The other sister was Marian, married to Derek

by Mickrick Fri Oct 06, 2023 11:43 pm

Lolly wrote:I remember well Sydney and Joan.

I knew Sydney vaguely.
It used to be one of my jobs to go and visit him, whenever he wanted to make an alteration to, or renew his Firearms Certificate.

by **Admin** Sat Oct 07, 2023 12:34 am

There was an Olwyn Moorfield in my class at St John's in the fifties.

by Mickrick Sat Oct 07, 2023 12:45 am

Admin wrote:There was an Olwyn Moorfield in my class at St John's in the fifties.

Admin - she is one of the two sisters I mentioned above. Brenda is the other - three or four years older than Olwyn. Smile

by Mickrick Sat Oct 07, 2023 2:01 pm

A commentary on events.
Wigan Star, 3rd February 1893.

by Lolly Sat Oct 07, 2023 9:01 pm

Pemberton,

"some folk there are always seem to know everything, I dont; but I wish I knew more than I do.What d' you say?

I'd say they still do Very Happy