Wigan Album
Fairhurst family
4 Comments
Photo: carole king
Item #: 11746
Did he happen to be a freemason by any chance?? Just noticed the badge/ medal on the chain. It's very similar to one my grt grandfather is wearing in a photo taken slightly earlier than this one. Will have to dig it up and post to compare.
Foggs LANE is a strange address. There is a Foggs STREET. It's off Walthew Lane, Platt Bridge - and most of it lay in Hindley. But the only Foggs LANE on the map refers to Foggs Lane Cottage, across the field on Millers Lane, leading to Foggs Fold. Perhaps Millers Lane supplanted Foggs Lane as the area was developed in the 1880s. At that time it was in the newly-created Parish of St Mary, Ince - Platt Bridge as an area seems to have come into existence when St Nathaniel's Parish was carved out of St Mary's and St Peter's Hindley Parishes in 1904.
Jenny i am not sure if edward was a freemason he worked as a coalminer most of his life . Carole
david looked at the original cencus 1891 some of the residents for foggs lane are down as foggs farm yard Ince in Makerfield St Marys Parish Part of . Carole