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Lancashire Lookup Requests / Re: Frederick Hilton & Sarah Ellen Hilton
« on: Saturday 03 December 11 15:35 GMT (UK) »
Yes I believe it is the same srah Ellen Hilton d1886.
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Lancashire Lookup Requests / Re: Frederick Hilton & Sarah Ellen Hilton
« on: Saturday 03 December 11 15:33 GMT (UK) »
I've found a Sarah Ellen Bleakley christened Prestwich May 1859 (parents James & Sarah), but 1881 census says both Frederick and Sarah Ellen born Pilkington (a mile up the road?). The other option is Sarah Blakely born Pilkington 1859, but she appears to have died 1875 at the age of 16.
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Lancashire Lookup Requests / Re: Frederick Hilton & Sarah Ellen Hilton
« on: Saturday 03 December 11 15:07 GMT (UK) »
Thanks - I've sent for certificate. Tried Lancashire OPC site for the church records but they are missing for that period.
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Lancashire Lookup Requests / Frederick Hilton & Sarah Ellen Hilton
« on: Saturday 03 December 11 14:25 GMT (UK) »
I am trying to find out more about my great great grandfather Frederick Hilton born Pilkington c1858 and his wife Sarah Ellen, maiden name probably Blakeley Blakley Bleakley or Bleackley, born c1859 Pilkington. Quite a few Sarahs with one of those surnames born in pilkington & Prestwich at around that time. Marriage records for St Mary's Oldham have Frederick Hilton marrying Sarah Blakely on 23 Nov 1879, but no parent information. Grateful if anyone can help me find the right Sarah Ellen.
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Cheshire / Re: Churchills and Richards Engineering Cos. Broadheath, Altrincham.
« on: Friday 11 March 11 13:11 GMT (UK) »
My Uncle, Charles Trigg, worked as a designer at Geo Richards from the late 30's right up until they merged with H W Kearns in the late 1960's. I remember he had a couple of lathes in his garage at Raglan Drive, Timperley. Apparently he designed and built them himself as apprentice 'test pieces'. My grandfather, Ernest Collins, worked as a turner (later as a chargehand) at Kearns from before WW1 until the 1950's. He gave us a pack of playing cards which had a picture of a large horizontal boring machine on the backs. Around 1970, as a student, 
I worked briefly in the stores of the Manufacturing Systems Unit which was set up by Staveley Industries (Kearns Richards' parent company) to assemble some large vertical millimg machines for the Rolls Royce RB211 engine project. This was in the former Geo Richards 'high bay' with an entrance in Craven Road. The rest of the Richards factory had been taken over by Tilghmans (dust extraction engineers). The stores job was a bit of a 'cushy number' - I think the manager liked students so he let us do what we wanted really. It seems that most people who lived in Altrincham over these years knew at least one person who worked for these firms.
I worked briefly in the stores of the Manufacturing Systems Unit which was set up by Staveley Industries (Kearns Richards' parent company) to assemble some large vertical millimg machines for the Rolls Royce RB211 engine project. This was in the former Geo Richards 'high bay' with an entrance in Craven Road. The rest of the Richards factory had been taken over by Tilghmans (dust extraction engineers). The stores job was a bit of a 'cushy number' - I think the manager liked students so he let us do what we wanted really. It seems that most people who lived in Altrincham over these years knew at least one person who worked for these firms.
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