Bradshaw
- Picture Notes
- 1844 map (published 1846) showing Harwood, including Great Harwood Lee, Little Harwood Lee and Bradshaw.
Bradshaw is in England and is located at latitude 53.578493, longitude -2.429953.
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Place Additional Information
Place Notes
Bolton or Great Bolton (see also Little Bolton)
In 1773, Bolton-le-Moors was an unenclosed Moor of about 250 acres. Great and Little Bolton were mainly rural areas with only 5,339 inhabitants living in 1,178 houses.
Little Bolton was separated from Great Bolton by the River Croal. Little Bolton consisted chiefly of Turton Street, Kay Street, Bark Street and Chorley Street with a few odd houses and folds. The town was ill paved, unlit and partly drained by open gutters. There was no water supply, but the cellars of houses would often contain a pump or well. The Old Dungeon stood on windy bank, now Bank Street. A house for the poor was erected in 1785.
The main industries were spinning and weaving – fustians and cotton velveteens. In 1768, of 143 Methodists. 100 were spinners, the others being warpers, crofters, carders, sizers and winders. People would often have a sideline such as cow-keeping or farming.
John Kay, of Bury, invented the fly shuttle in 1733 which prepared the way for James Hargreaves’s Spinning Jenny in 1767. In 1769, Richard Arkwright gave up wig making to develop the water spinning frame. Then, in 1769, James Watts used a condensing steam engine to drive the coming mills created by Samuel Crompton’s mule. This revolutionised spinning and laid the foundation for the growth of Bolton.
The roads in Lancashire in the middle of the eighteenth century were poor, with wheeled traffic was impossible and so everything was carried by packhorse. About 1780, a stagecoach was started between Bolton and Carlisle, which was probably transported the Mather families of Preston to Bolton at this time. Soon, coaches connected Bolton and Manchester, running several times a day. Also there were daily coaches to London and Edinburgh. The canal opened in 1791 sending goods and passengers to Oldfield Lane, Manchester.
- References (66)
- Parent Place: Bolton
- Place: Bradshaw Chapel
- Place: St. Maxentius
- 1725 Individual: John Holt (b. ~1725 )
- 1730 Individual: Rebekah Ramel (b. ~1730 )
- 1759 Individual: James Holt (b. 1759 )
- 1762 Individual: Ann Holt (b. 1762 )
- 1765 Individual: Alice Holt (b. 1765 )
- 1768 Individual: Fanny Holt (b. 1768 )
- 1773 Occupation: Butcher John Holt (1773 - )
- 1773 Individual: Ellen Holt (b. Dec 1773 )
- 1776 Individual: William Holt (b. 1776 )
- 1782 Individual: Mary Holt (b. 1782 )
- 1782 Individual: Christopher Crook (bpt. Dec 15th, 1782 )
- 1784 Individual: Thomas Holt (b. 1784 )
- 1791 Individual: Abraham Settle (b. 1791 )
- 1795 Individual: Hannah (Ann) Bridge (b. Jun 1795 )
- 1797 Individual: Thomas Smith (b. 1797 )
- 1803 Individual: Martha Haslam (b. 1803 )
- 1816 Occupation: Weaver Ralph Isherwood (1816 - )
- 1816 Individual: Henry Isherwood (b. Jan 1816 )
- 1820 Occupation: Bleacher John Greenhalgh (1820 - 1841)
- 1825 Individual: John Mather (d. Nov 1825 )
- 1828 Individual: Alice Entwistle (d. Apr 1828 )
- 1828 Individual: Alice Mather (b. May 19th, 1828 )
- 1829 Individual: Mary Ann Rosthorn (b. May 1829 )
- 1830 Individual: John Mather (b. Nov 20th, 1830 )
- 1831 Individual: William Ramsden (b. 1831 d. Jul 1831 )
- 1831 Individual: Samuel Rosthorn (b. 1831 )
- 1832 Occupation: Weaver Joseph Ramsden (1832 - 1835)
- 1833 Individual: Betty Smith (d. Jun 1833 )
- 1834 Individual: Rachel Rosthorn (b. 1834 )
- 1835 Individual: Christopher Isherwood (d. Jun 1835 )
- 1836 Individual: Elizabeth Rosthorn (b. 1836 )
- 1838 Individual: James Rosthorn (b. Sep 1838 )
- 1841 Occupation: Stone Mason John Nelson (1841 - >1851)
- 1842 Individual: Martha (Matty) Horrocks (burial. Dec 22nd, 1842)
- 1846 Individual: Arthur Bromiley (burial. Sep 10th, 1846)
- 1849 Individual: Reuben Mather (b. Dec 1849 )
- 1851 Occupation: White Liner William Ramsden (1851 - )
- 1852 Individual: Edmund Cocker (b. Sep 1852 )
- 1853 Individual: William Crawshaw (b. Sep 1853 )
- 1854 Individual: Elizabeth Allen (b. Sep 1854 )
- 1855 Individual: Mary Cocker (b. 1855 )
- 1855 Individual: Margaret Holt (b. 1855 )
- 1856 Individual: Richard Allen (b. Sep 1856 )
- 1860 Individual: John Allen (b. Jun 1860 )
- 1861 Individual: Samuel Bromiley (burial. Oct 30th, 1861)
- 1862 Individual: Clara Brooks (b. 1862 )
- 1862 Individual: (Mary) Hannah Mather (b. 1862 )
- 1862 Occupation: Engine Driver George Mather (1862 - )
- 1862 Individual: Charles Allen (b. Mar 1862 )
- 1863 Individual: Alice Allen (b. Jun 1863 )
- 1864 Individual: Margaret Ramsden (b. Apr 2nd, 1864 )
- 1864 Individual: Sarah Allen (b. Dec 1864 )
- 1867 Individual: John James Mather (b. Sep 1867 )
- 1868 Individual: Mary Alice Mather (b. Apr 1868 )
- 1870 Individual: Joseph Edward Mather (b. 1870 )
- 1870 Individual: James Allen (b. Sep 1870 )
- 1885 Occupation: Draper Richard Moyle (1885 - )
- 1887 Individual: Nancy Mather (d. Jul 1887 )
- 1893 Occupation: Finisher Albert Wilson (1893 - )
- 1912 Marriage / Union: Edgar Harold Windett & Annie Kay (m. Dec 4th, 1912 )
- 1935 Individual: Joseph Mather (d. Mar 10th, 1935 )
- 1951 Marriage / Union: James St. George Lewin & Edith Margaret Tomlinson (m. Mar 26th, 1951 )
- 1965 Individual: Richard Tomlinson (d. Jan 23rd, 1965 )