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Anyone have access to info. re an address227 Briercliffe Rd, the occupant should be a Thistlethwaite and I don't know which year. sorry, not much to go on I know, Info.I have is a postcard of an old man and addressed to 227??

Hannah
Have you tried doing a census search just using Thistlethwaite and Burnley? I wouldn't have thought there would be too many to go through.
Course that depends how old the postcard is ....

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Maureen
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J Thistlethwaite Ltd – Coronation, 1937

http://www.briercliffesociety.co.uk/Pho ... %20Ltd.htm

Thanks for this new clue to the more recent lot. How on earth did you find this one. Not sure how we are connected yet, but, will find out which twig they are.

Professor Frank Thistlethwaite
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/commen ... 111477.ece

Professor Frank Thistlethwaite
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/obitu ... 30057.html

Frank Thistlethwaite was born in Burnley in 1915 into a cotton textile family tracing its origins back to the Industrial Revolution. His father was variously a weaving manager and cotton merchant while also a baritone with Beecham Opera Company and an oboist with the Hallé Orchestra. With rising prosperity Frank’s education progressed from Burnley Grammar School to the Quaker Bootham School in York, from which he gained an exhibition in history to St John’s College, Cambridge.

Thanks yet again, didn't know there was anybody like this on the tree. Will investigate who and how close to my bunch he was'
By the way, does the name Deanna Lever mean anything, not sure about the spelling but I remember my grandmother mentioning her, but that's all I can remember?

I found a Dena B. Leaver who was born at Burnley, 1946 but I have not been able to connect her to my tree….yet!


Births September 1915
Thistlethwaite, Frank (Mum’s maiden name is Thornber) – Burnley, 8e, 304

Marriages June 1914
Thistlethwaite, Lee (married Thornber) – Burnley, 8e, 717
Thornber, Florence N (married Thistlethwaite) – Burnley, 8e, 717

Births Sept 1885
Thistlethwaite, Le[eo] – Burnley, 8e, 217

Thanks yet again, Dena also sounds like the right age group, but I still havn't a clue how my Grandmother knew her or why she must have mentioned her a lot or the name would not have stuck in my memory.

Does anyone have free access to the 1911 census? I am interested in George Riley (b. 1873?) who was a tobacconist at Walk Mill, Cliviger.

Access to the 1911 isn't free Kris

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