Aged 42 in 1851, Born Harwood.
Aged 43 in 1861, Born Harwood


Name:    Ruhard Mather [Richard Mather]
Birth Date:    7 May 1815
Event Type:    Baptism
Father:    Richard Mather
Mother:    Hannah Knowles
Baptism Date:    14 Jun 1815
Baptism Place:    Turton, Lancashire, England
Denomination:    Presbyterian
Piece Title:    Piece 1622: Turton, Walmsley Chapel (Presbyterian), 1762-1836

Abode: Rakes, Harwood, Bolton

Deaths Jun 1866   (>99%)
Mather     Richard    
Age 51
Bolton     8c, 223

Name:    Richard Mather
Birth Year:    abt 1815
Age:    51
Burial Date:    6 Jun 1866
Parish:    Astely Bridge, St Paul
Parish as it Appears:    Astley Bridge
Reference Number:    GB127.L83/1/3/1

Lancashire Death indexes for the years: 1866
MATHER    Richard    51    Little Bolton    LB/34/111

Wife, 38 in 1861

Lancashire Death indexes for the years: 1861
MATHER    Betsy    38    Little Bolton    LB/27/395

Name:    Betsy Mather
Registration Year:    1861
Registration Quarter:    Oct-Nov-Dec
Registration district:    Bolton, Lancashire
Volume:    8c
Page:    206

Lancashire Birth indexes for the years: 1851
MATHER    Elizabeth    CARR    Western Bolton    WB/23/208

MATHER, ELIZABETH        CARR 
GRO Reference: 1851  D Quarter in BOLTON UNION
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Only matching death for Elizabeth Mather is in Little Hulton, 1887, aged 36.

Elizabeth (Richard's daughter) was 8 in 1861.
(They also had his niece Elizabeth Mather aged 9 with them)

Lancashire Birth indexes for the years: 1853
LEE    Elizabeth    LEE    Little Bolton    LB/25/3675

LEE, ELIZABETH        - 
GRO Reference: 1853  D Quarter in BOLTON UNION 
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Name:    Elizabeth Mather
Baptism Date:    25 Feb 1855
Parish:    Bolton le Moors, St Peter
Father's name:    Richard Mather
Mother's name:    Betsy Mather
Reference Number:    GB127.L243/1/3/22

Abode: Little Bolton
Occupation: Carder

NOTE: There are also two Sarah Jane Mathers born in 1858

Lancashire Birth indexes for the years: 1856
MATHER    Sarah J    LEE    Edgworth,     Bolton    EDG/4/118

MATHER, SARAH  JANE      LEE 
GRO Reference: 1856  J Quarter in BOLTON 
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Sarah Jane probably had died by 1861 as not with family.  There is no Bolton death, but a death at Radcliffe, in 1857 Bury of the correct age. Is is quite likely her, as there was no corresponding Bury birth in 1856 for another child.

Lancashire Death indexes for the years: 1857
MATHER    Sarah Jane    1    Radcliffe, Bury    RAD/7/24

MATHER, SARAH  JANE      1 
GRO Reference: 1857  S Quarter in BURY
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