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Just wondering about this Mel. Margaret Bolton is my Great Great Grandma. What relation does that make me to you? I'm running a bit low on rellies and need to make some more, only having a mother, father, grandma and uncle in total. No cousins around and no siblings now, oh I also have 2 children. I am intrigued though.

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If I have got it right, we are 5th cousins. I don't have much info coming forward from Henry Pollard though.

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If you're my 5th cousin, where are all the rest!!

The Pollards are an easy bunch to sort out post Henry Pollard.

William Pollard married Margaret Bolton and had 2 sons, Henry born 1 Dec 1870 and John born 1872. I haven't nailed anything onto John post 1901 and I may have to wait until 1911 to find out. My grandma never mentioned him so we do not know if he didn't make it to 1912. John Pollard is a fairly popular name to chase about on the death records for Burnley area, if he died at that time he would have died in Barrowford. I might have got such a death in 1908.

Henry is my maternal greatgrandfather. He married Dorothy Brown on 2 Dec 1903 at St Thomas' Barrowford. Witnesses were Janey Brown who married one of the Nutter family and John Pollard - so we know he was alive then.

Henry and Dorothy had two children, Margaret Ann Pollard born 1905 to 1995 (of the perm fame) and Mary Isabel Pollard born 1908 to 1987- my maternal grandma. Margaret Ann Pollard married Herbert Greenwood and they have living children. Mary Isabel Pollard married James Slater and they had a living daughter - my mum. Both Margaret Ann and Mary Isabel married in 1930 at St Thomas' Barrowford.

William Pollard was a stone Mason
Henry Pollard was a weaver
Mary Isabel Pollard was a weaver
Unsure about early occupation for Margaret Ann although later I think as Margaret Greenwood she had or ran a decoraters shop in Nelson.
Herbert Greenwood is a complete mystery to me.
James Slater was a tackler as was his father and his grandfather before him.

I'll put some information up soon like I promised and I can take you to a vicar in Old Hutton, to Yeoman farmers in Gargrave and beyond and also to Calico Printers in Habergham Eaves.

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Thanks Julie, I'll update my tree with this new information.

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Julie, you don't mention Edwin Bolton, son of Margaret. Are you aware of him?

I have a baptism for him somewhere and I'm almost certain it names Margaret as his mother.

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I've found the baptism, Mother is definitely Margaret Bolton, no father named (although I do have a marriage for an Edwin Bolton, it remains to be proved if it is this Edwin Bolton!)

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Sorry, I don't know how I missed these answers re the Pollards and Boltons. No, I didn't know Edwin was one of Margaret's. I wondered whose he was and was was going to get round to asking you eventually. I didn't have him down as one of hers as he wasn't living with Margaret and William so I hadn't made the connection.

Sorry if you thought I was ignoring this, just found it when I clicked on the wrong bit.

I'm off to amend the tree. Where did you find the christening for him??

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No problem Julie. I wasn't feeling ginored. some topics do sometimes slip under the radar. I had forgotten about this to be honest.

I think it was St Thomas - are you ready for the emails yet? All is revealed in them

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I did send you the gmail address did I?

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Don't think you did?

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Will pm it to you

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Thanks Julie
2 emails on way with fairly large attachements.
More later

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Thank you. will confirm when they arrive.

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Thanks Mel. It struck me that you knew and now I know that Henry and John Pollard had a half brother, but I wonder if they ever knew! It wouldn't surprise me to find out that they didn't; he was probably treated as a cousin with him living with the Boltons. I haven't found him in the 1891 census, not even by looking for his children's names. I bet that Ancestry have mis-spelt the surname (again).

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Ooo, I have a few more yet to send..if I can remember where I got to!

Gloria - don't say a word...it's more likely to be the beer than my age

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