Bradshaw Chapel
Bradshaw Chapel is a church in England and is located at latitude 53.578493, longitude -2.429953.
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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.
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- Parent Place: Bradshaw
- 1782 Individual: John Mather (bpt. Mar 31st, 1782 )
- 1782 Individual: Mary Holt (bpt. Apr 7th, 1782 )
- 1782 Individual: Mary Mather (bpt. Jun 30th, 1782 )
- 1782 Individual: John Holt (bpt. Oct 27th, 1782 )
- 1782 Individual: Joshua Crook (bpt. Dec 8th, 1782 )
- 1784 Individual: Elizabeth Bolton (bpt. Feb 8th, 1784 )
- 1785 Individual: Ann Bolton (bpt. Sep 18th, 1785 )
- 1786 Individual: John Bolton (bpt. Feb 5th, 1786 )
- 1786 Individual: Sarah Holt (bpt. Apr 30th, 1786 )
- 1787 Individual: Sarah Bolton (bpt. Jan 21st, 1787 )
- 1788 Individual: Alice Bolton (bpt. Dec 25th, 1788 )
- 1791 Individual: Dorothy Bolton (bpt. Feb 27th, 1791 )
- 1793 Individual: John Bolton (bpt. Jan 13th, 1793 )
- 1794 Individual: <male> Bolton (bpt. Oct 5th, 1794 )
- 1797 Individual: Alice Bolton (bpt. Feb 5th, 1797 )
- 1799 Individual: John Greenhalgh (bpt. Jan 6th, 1799 )
- 1800 Individual: Johanna Crook (bpt. Jan 26th, 1800 )
- 1800 Individual: (Ann) Mather (bpt. Jun 8th, 1800 )
- 1822 Individual: Nancy Bromiley (burial. Dec 6th, 1822)
- 1823 Individual: John Mather (burial. Aug 19th, 1823)
- 1824 Individual: Hannah Greenhalgh (bpt. Jan 4th, 1824 )
- 1841 Occupation: Color Maker James Cunliffe (1841 - 1843)
- 1853 Individual: John Greenhalgh (burial. Feb 3rd, 1853)
- 1892 Marriage / Union: Alfred Mather & Mary Ellen Wood (m. Jun 8th, 1892 )
- 1893 Marriage / Union: Joseph Edward Mather & Annie Davies (m. Nov 4th, 1893 )