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MONICA O'HARA-KEETON c/o Robert Hale Ltd, Clerkenwell House, Clerkenwell Green, London, EC1R 0HT

8:17am Friday 14th March 2008

Like pretty well everyone else in the country, I'm deeply into family research, and one half of my family has roots in Bolton.

JOHN BATTYE of 32 Rhodes Street, Hightown, Castleford, West Yorkshire, WF10 5LL

8:53am Friday 25th January 2008

Each year the Lancs and Yorks Historical Society organise pilgrimages to the Battlefields of the First World War.

CHRISTINE VAN TUIL (nee FINCH), of Losweg 21, 5663 AR Geldrop, Holland

11:05am Thursday 17th January 2008

I used to live in Warwick Road, Atherton, and attended Hesketh Fletcher School from 1974-1976 or 1977, where my nickname was Fudge.

MALCOLM BEECH of 14 Abbey Park, Burghfield Common, Reading, Berkshire, RG7 3HQ

2:20pm Friday 5th October 2007

I am trying to trace my only cousin Douglas Beech, who lives in Atherton.

IRENE BURGUM (nee HOLLIDAY and GARNER) of Jaggersdreef 44, 2950, Kapellen, Belgium

9:33am Friday 28th September 2007

My family still live in Bolton but there are many friends I have lost touch with - James Hamer, Benny Benidetto, Jean Greenhalgh, Marie Burgess, John Reason, Arleen Reason, Ivy Gardner, June Thornley etc.

ROBERT SCOTT of 40 Priorsfield, Marlborough, Wilts, SN8 4AQ

2:18pm Friday 7th September 2007

I am looking for any information about my grandfather John William Speakman.

A WILLIAMS of Caernarfon, North Wales

8:40am Friday 13th July 2007

I'm searching for information or descendants of a Robert Lord, boilermaker of Bury 1856-1930 who on his death lived in Walmseley Road, Bury.

KATH GREEN of Whitefield

8:38am Friday 13th July 2007

I have been researching my dad's ancestry and have found that his grandparents lived in Leicester Square in Prestwich in the 1870s.

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