Wigan Album

I was interested in finding where my maternal great grandparents lived in 1881 - I knew they had married in 1873 at St Thomas’s Church, off Caroline Street.
I found them in 1881 living at Hilton’s Yard off Queen Street - they had no children. It was several years later before I found out that they’d already had 4 children by 1881, all of whom had died before they reached their first birthday.
They moved around a bit, Bretherton’s Row, the Wiend, Albert Street Hindley, Forge Street (Ince) and Harper Street. My maternal great grandfather was a Wigan tram driver and in total they had 14 children but only 6 survived into adulthood, it did make me wonder just how “healthy” these Wigan Yards might have been.
I’ve looked at part of the area of their first home near Queen Street and listed the number of Yards situated around that section bounded by part of Queen Street itself, Chapel Lane, Chapel Street and Princess Street. Here they are, but of course there were many more of these yards in Wigan in those days, I've also included a few of the pubs in that small section of town.
Yard Location
1 Enion's Yard 96, Chapel Lane
2 Hilton's Yard 92, Queen Street
3 Pump Yard 83, Queen Street
4 Riley's Yard 53, Queen Street
5 Lea’s Yard 4, Pitt Street?
6 Holts Yard Princess Street
7 Dobson's Yard 46, Princess Street
8 Hardy's Yard 80, Ironmonger Lane
9 German's Yard 28, Princess Street
10 Ranson's Yard 14, Princess Street
PUBLIC HOUSES IN THIS AREA
A Brown Cow
B Old Swan
C Painter’s Arms