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 Post subject: Dilworth and Forster
PostPosted: Tue Nov 03, 2009 10:58 pm 
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1901 Census - RG13; Piece: 3873; Folio: 135; Page: 47
13 Lower Rosegrove Lane, Habergham Eaves, Burnley
George M. Dilworth, Head, Mar, 32yrs, Railway Goods Agent, Worker, b. Bacup
Bertha Dilworth, Wife, Mar, 32yrs, b. Darwen
Joseph Forster, Father in Law, Widow, 73yrs, Painter, Worker, b. Yorks, Rainton
Charles H. Horsfall, Boarder, Single, 27yrs, ? Merchant, Employer, b. Lanc, Hapton

Marriages Dec 1900
DILWORTH, George Marsden – Blackburn, 8e, 767
FORSTER, Bertha – Blackburn, 8e, 767


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PostPosted: Tue Nov 03, 2009 11:01 pm 
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Hi, would anyone be willing to take a photograph of 13 Lower Rosegrove Lane for me please?


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PostPosted: Tue Nov 03, 2009 11:19 pm 

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I would have done, as I live on Gannow Lane, but unfortunately it's no longer there. Sorry


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PostPosted: Wed Nov 04, 2009 4:00 am 
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Oh, that’s a shame. I have a real photo postcard of this house from 1906, and I wanted to see how it looked today.

Thanks anyhow.


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This weeks Peek into the Past is Rosegrove. For some reason there is no image but an advert instead :(

http://www.burnleyexpress.net/peek-into ... 5762132.jp

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PostPosted: Sat Nov 14, 2009 5:48 pm 
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1901 Census - RG13; Piece: 3873; Folio: 135; Page: 47
13 Lower Rosegrove Lane, Habergham Eaves, Burnley
George M. Dilworth, Head, Mar, 32yrs, Railway Goods Agent, Worker, b. Bacup
Bertha Dilworth, Wife, Mar, 32yrs, b. Darwen
Joseph Forster, Father in Law, Widow, 73yrs, Painter, Worker, b. Yorks, Rainton
Charles H. Horsfall, Boarder, Single, 27yrs, ? Merchant, Employer, b. Lanc, Hapton

Marriages Dec 1900
DILWORTH, George Marsden – Blackburn, 8e, 767
FORSTER, Bertha – Blackburn, 8e, 767


http://www.briercliffesociety.co.uk/Pho ... 20Lane.htm

Postmark: Burnley, 8:45pm, 13 July 1906

To: Mrs Knowles, No 1 Joseph Street, Darwen, Lancashire

Message (as is): Dear Sister, I think it is almost to late to thank you for the pretty album you sent but I thought of coming to see you before now but has not had time so I have sent the house & Maud* were are you going for your holidays. Sis Bertha. Deepest fall? busy getting ready for then.

*Maud is the daughter of George Marsden Dilworth and Bertha Forster. She is 9 years old on the 1911 census.


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