Wigan Album
Herd family
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Photo: Paul Herd
Item #: 2256
They traded initially at 34 Market Street under the name Howard Oates and also at 20 Makinson Arcade as Matthew Herd.
I think they left Wigan about 1925 and moved to Fleetwood and Morecambe. The businesses were later taken over by their daughter Mary who married Clifford Martindale on the 5th of March 1930 at St Pauls Church.
I was born in Chorley and I am trying to establish when my grandparents moved from Sheffield and Leeds respectively where they both lived at the time of the 1901 census.
Paul,
I just noticed your photo. and remembered in a recent email from my cousin:
" My Mum talked about her school friend Maimie Herd whose parents had a shop in Wigan and lived in Stalmine Hall in Knot End near Fleetwood where she used to go with the family. Believe it is now a Hotel ".
It's a small world !
Hi william. Your mother would be talking about my mother. My grandmother had Herds fashion shop in market street and also at knot end and the family lived at Stalmine hall also I believe had Fluke hall at stalmine ,,
Name: Samuel Oates ( Saddler)
Age: 59
Estimated Birth Year: abt 1842
Relation to Head: Head
Gender: Male
Spouse: Sarah Oates
Birth Place: Leeds, Yorkshire, England wife Sarah Oates son Herd Oates Daughter Mary Oates Servant Elizabeth Bargin Living at 29 Lower Head Row ,Leeds ( i think thats what it says !!!)
sorry miss read your post i thought you were looking for them on the 1901 censers ignore my previous post !!
Lancashire Birth indexes for the years: 1904
Surname Forename(s) Mother's Maiden Name Year Sub-District Registers At Reference Add to Summary
HERD Stephen Harold Oates OATES 1904 Wigan Wigan & Leigh