HILL of Leigh, Lancashire

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plimmerian
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HILL of Leigh, Lancashire

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Just wondered if this William is the same as the one in the picture link below?
thank you!

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(not yet found Anne Plimmer or William Hill baptism records)
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1841, Harrison Fold, Bedford, Lancashire
Edward Plimmer 40 coal miner
Ann Plimmer 50
#Ann Plimmer 15 silk weaver
Edward Plimmer 10
Ann Lythgoe 20 silk weaver
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1841, Bury Lane, Culcheth (next to Hurst Hall entry)
William Hill 50 farmer
Margaret Hill 50 do
#William Hill 20 silk weaver
Henry Hill 20 do
John Hill 15
Joseph Hill 15
Margaret Hill 15
Peter Hill 12 farmer
Jane Hill 10 do
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Marriage: 26 Dec 1841 St Peter, Bolton, Lancashire, England
#William Hill - Full, Weaver, Bachelor, Cross Street
#Anne Plimmer - (X), Minor, Spinster, Bradshawgate
Groom's Father: William Hill, Farmer
Bride's Father: Edward Plimmer, Collier
Witness: James Plimmer; James Liptrot
Married by Banns by: E.F. Manby Curate
Register: Marriages 1841 - 1842, Page 170, Entry 339
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1851, (no number specified) Chapel Street, Bedford, Lancashire (he a book keeper in a cotton mill)
1861, (no number specified) Chapel Street, Bedford, Lancashire (he a book keeper in a cotton mill)
1871, 64 Bond Street, Pennington, Lancashire (he a secretary? to a co-operative society)
1881, Hooton Cottage, Bedford, Lancashire (he a cashier)
1891, Ivy Cottage, Bedford, Lancashire (he a mill clerk)
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Death of Anne HILL on 10 Aug 1895 at 5 Buchanan Street, Leigh, Lancashire (wife of a clerk in a cotton mill)
Death of William HILL on 08 Feb 1896 at 5 Buchanan Street Leigh, Lancashire (a clerk in a cotton mill)
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(Just need to find their burials now)
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https://leigh.life/index.php?PHPSESSID= ... m;in=25440
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Bertieone
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Re: HILL of Leigh, Lancashire

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A snippet from the Liverpool Mercury, Feb 10, 1882.

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plimmerian
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Re: HILL of Leigh, Lancashire

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oo-er!

his bosses must have made him do it!

eek!

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Re: HILL of Leigh, Lancashire

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There's a few snippets in the papers, he never made a penny for himself.

Manchester Times, Feb 4, 1882.

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Re: HILL of Leigh, Lancashire

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thanks for posting the pics - what a sad tale but on the positive side it's my first Victorian picture of an ancestral relation, it feels like a miracle! ;-)

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