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From: Trevor <>
Subject: Re: [ENG-LAN-BOLTON] Business Archives
Date: Mon, 4 May 2009 19:18:18 +1000
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Thanks, Jim.

There might be a connection but the surname MORRIS occurs so
frequently in the records of the period it could be anyone I suppose.
I have even found a married couple with the same given names as the
couple I am looking for.

Pasha fags???? A mispent youth, Jim?? LOL

Trevor


2009/5/4 Jim Riding <>:
>
> 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
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> 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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