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Old 05-04-2012, 09:02   #22
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Re: Unusual names

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Originally Posted by Bob Dobson View Post
Alexander may have been ill at ease with his names, as he named his children:-
Mary Emma, James, Maggie, Hary and Ethel. I wonder if this is the same family as the one which started the plumbers merchants (?) in King St under the viaduct?
There was a James Broughton, a solicitor, who died in 1914 aged 56yrs.
Were you expecting Tatiana, Olga, Anastasia, Nicholas and Alexei, Bob??

There was a James Broughton born in 1858 in Accrington, mother's maiden name Walker. That was possibly the solicitor. Thought Broughton was quite a common Accy name.
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