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Birth 31/01/1866 🏛️ Transatlantic telegraph cable completed | Burnley, Lancashire 📍 ⓘ1881 Census 1871 Census 1939 NHS Register |
Lived (5) 1871 🏛️ Bank Holidays introduced | 16 Helena Street, Burnley, Lancashire 📍 📎 View |
Occupation (5) 1871 | School Boy |
Lived (15) 1881 | Ward Street, Kirkham, Lancashire 📍 ⓘ1881 Census 📎 View |
Occupation (15) 1881 | Warehouse Lad ⓘ1881 Census |
Marriage (22) 22/02/1888 🏛️ Jack the Ripper murders in Whitechapel | Sarah Alice WIGNALL St Michael Parish Church, Kirkham, Preston, Lancashire 📍 📎 View 1888 February 22nd (page 136) |
Occupation (22) 1888 🏛️ County Councils established | Weaver |
Lived (25) 1891 🏛️ Free elementary education | Billington Street East, Wesham, Lancashire 📍 with Sarah Alice WIGNALL ⓘ1891 Census 📎 View |
Lived (32) 1898 | 10 Buckley Fold, Radcliffe, Bury, Lancashire 📍 with Sarah Alice WIGNALL |
Lived (35) 1901 🏛️ Second Boer War | 42 Canning Street, Burnley, Lancashire 📍 with Sarah Alice WIGNALL ⓘ1901 Census 📎 View |
Occupation (35) 1901 🏛️ Death of Queen Victoria | Cotton Weaver ⓘ1901 Census |
Lived (45) 1911 🏛️ National Insurance Act | 2 Kimberley Street, Harle Skye, Burnley, Lancashire 📍 with Sarah Alice WIGNALL 📎 View |
Occupation (45) 1911 | Head Cloth Looker |
Lived (73) 1939 🏛️ Second World War | 6 Evelyn Street, Burnley, Lancashire 📍 ⓘ1939 NHS Register 📎 View |
Occupation (73) 1939 | Retired Cotton Mill Manager ⓘ1939 NHS Register |
Death (78) 1944 🏛️ D-Day | Burnley, Lancashire 📍 ⓘFree BMD Ancestry.co.uk |
Children with Sarah Alice WIGNALL
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b. 1884, Kirkham, Lancashire
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b. 1888, Kirkham, Lancashire · d. 1955, Blackpool, Lancashire · m. Mary Ellen NUTTALL
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b. 1890, Kirkham, Lancashire
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b. 1893, Bury, Lancashire · d. 1988, Blackpool, Lancashire · m. Harry TOMBLIN
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b. 1895, Bury, Lancashire · d. 1987, Blackpool, Lancashire · m. William STARKIE
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b. 1898, Radcliffe, Bury, Lancashire · d. 1979, Burnley, Lancashire · m. Elsie NORRIS
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b. 1899, Burnley, Lancashire · d. 1984, Fylde, Lancashire · m. Harry WOODS
Notes
No trace of burial in Burnley Cemetery or Kirkham
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