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From: "Jim Riding" <>
Subject: Re: [ENG-LAN-BOLTON] Business Archives
Date: Sun, 3 May 2009 17:00:48 +0100
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Hi Trevor,

I can remember a Morris's tobacconist shop just around the corner on
Bradshawgate in my youth 1940's, used to get ciggy's there , remember Pasha
brand very well. I'm sure it was a well established business for many year's
before that


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From: "Trevor" <>
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Sent: Sunday, May 03, 2009 4:14 PM
Subject: Re: [ENG-LAN-BOLTON] Business Archives


> 2009/5/3 Jim Riding <>:
>>
>> Hi Trevor,
>> post office directory of Bolton 1876/77 might be of help, what was the
>> business named?
>
> Hello Jim,
>
> Unfortunately for me, the business was in other hands by the time of
> the 1876/1877 Post Office Directory. It seems to have been sold
> before the 1871 Census.
>
> I have a photocopy of an advertisement from page 1 of the 'Bolton
> Chronicle' for 28th April 1866 which gives the name of the business.
> It traded under the name of James Morris, Chemist, Family Grocer and
> Wine Merchant at 26 Deansgate.
>
> Morris died the following year - December 1867 - and I can find no
> reference to his very large family in the 1871 Census either in Bolton
> or anywhere else in England. (There are many people with likely
> names, but nothing convincing.) I can only account for the three sons
> known to have emigrated to Australia in 1852.
>
> It's something of a brick wall for me, to find where his widow and
> childrene were, although by the 1881 census I have found the widow,
> one son and a daugher in Bristol. The rest seem to have vanished!
>
> No clues in Morris's Will or Probate records either.
>
> I will have another search for directories.
>
> Thanks again, Jim
>
> Trevor
> (Melbourne)
>
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