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From: "Mike Morris" <>
Subject: Re: [ENG-LAN-MIDDLETON-L] Wood Street
Date: Wed, 15 Dec 1999 16:42:43 -0500


Suffield Street is alongside the Sports Hall in the centre of Middleton
based on a Map book of Manchester.

Could your relative have been a groom for the carriage trade..something else
for you to think about.

Mike Toronto Canada



----- Original Message -----
From: Jean Sanders <>
To: <>
Sent: Wednesday, December 15, 1999 2:54 PM
Subject: [ENG-LAN-MIDDLETON-L] Wood Street


> Hello Doreen and Mike
> Please keep the reminiscing going! Your memories of Middleton are
> fascinating. Is the Wood Street Chapel/cinema building still there?
>
> I am confused Doreen that William's marriage certificate of 1874 states
> it took place at Wood Street Wesleyan Chapel and your marriage index
> has it at Long Street, which you say opened in 1901. Did the two
> registers merge at an earlier date?
>
> Josiah Sanders was in Middleton in 1852 when William was born and he was
> a Silk weaver. By the 1861 census he was a Groom and also in 1871.
> Would there be any large houses of easy reach of Suffield Street in this
> period?
> I assume he would walk both to work and to Wood Street, though I can't
> find Suffield Street on a modern map I think it must have been near the
> centre of Middleton.
> You also say that St Leonards could have been used for the burials. Are
> these records also at Manchester?
>
> Thanks again
> Jean
>
>
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