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ancestors, one of whom, Caleb Duckworth was the Uncle of Francis Duckworth. I have been told that Caleb Duckworth was the first tenant of Newby Mill,

Rimington, built by a Thomas Townson in about 1861/2 and, according to my

source, pulled down in 1903. I can't find any references to a mill at Newby

and neither can any Archive sources I've approached. Do you happen to know

if there was one at Rimington, or could it have been the one at Gisburn which

I read was a mill until 1903.

Many thanks

Clare Stride

Clarelstride@aol.com

Found "The Intriguing History of Paythorne's Ribble Stepping Stones" on the web page

http://www.gisburn.org.uk/paythorne/intriguing.history.of.paythorne.htm

Is an interesting and fascinating history which caught my eye because it speaks of a John Duxbury (1845-1916), a member of my own personal family tree which has been researched back to the late 1600s. Do you know if there Is there a way I can contact the author of the page, Owen B. Duxbury, or have him contact me? Will greatly appreciate any help you can provide in making contact with Owen B. Duxbury. If you are unable to help, please let me know who can.

Don Duxbury

e-mail: dduxbury@wisc.edu

Donald Duxbury

202 South Segoe Road

Madison, WI 53705-4939

USA

Dear Rev. Hall,

I found and visited your excellent website today. This revived my interest in the Family History of a friend who lives abroad, Bernard Naylor. He was told by his Paternal Grandmother that the family was descended, via the names of Armstrong and Myers, from an Eighteenth Century female member of the Thomas Lister family of Gisburn Hall. This young woman disgraced herself by running off with and

marrying a gamekeeper. The Grandmother's maiden name was Armstrong and I managed to trace the line back to a Robert Myers a prosperous Manchester pawnbroker. Robert Myers was baptised in 1804 at Manchester Cathedral the son of James and Mary Myers. The wife of Robert Myers was a Jemima Baxter who was baptised at Manchester Cathedral in 1819 the daughter of Joshua and Elizabeth Baxter. Strangely when Jemima Baxter was married she gave her father's name as Joshua Preston. Here the trail stopped. I wonder whether I could ask you to look at the Ribblesdale Family Bible to see whether there are any erased or scratched out entries among the Eighteenth century Baptisms. If there are any such entries the dates above and below would give me a hint where to look in the indexed copy of the Gisburn Parish Records which is in the Cambridge University Library.

I would be most grateful for your help. Thank you.

Yours sincerely

Tony Chaloner

(The Bible has been checked but there are no surviving references to any family members after 1699)

Your web page designer sent me your web pages, and I thoroughly enjoyed looking around. I especially liked the pictures of the church and the virtual tour of Gisburn. I would like to put a link on my web pages to your site. Please let me know if it would be OK.

Here's a little story

There is a legend in my family that my great great great grandfather, John Dugdale, was killed in an accident on Lord Ribblesdale's Estate, and that his son, Henry Dugdale, was then raised with the Ribblesdale children. John and Mary Dugdale lived at Shipton's Farm, Halliwell, near Bolton, Lancashire. They are both interred in St. Mary's Parish Churchyard, Gisburn, West Yorkshire.

Henry was born to John and Mary Dugdale on November 20, 1822, and he died on September 27, 1903. He is interred in the Blackburn OLD Cemetery. It has been said that he was a mathematician and liked astronomy. He was Schoolmaster at Slaidburn from 1851 to 1867, organist at the Parish Church, teacher of the Brass Band, Actuary of the Yorkshire Penny Bank, and repaired clocks and watches.

Henry was married on May 15, 1847 at The Parish Church, Colne, to Mary Ann Peploe. Mary Ann was born February 14, 1819, and she died on March 14, 1819. She is also interred in the Blackburn Old Cemetery. St. Paul's Parish Church records at Slaidburn Village near Gisburn, has christening records of some of Henry Dugdale's children.

That's all I know about them.

Regards,

Amy Tudor Dugdale

Hi

I maintain the web site for St Mary of the Incarnation, Metchosin, B.C.,

Canada and one of our pages is "St Mary's around the world". If you have no objection I should like to place a link to your site on that page. As a matter of interest is Gisburn in Lancs. or Yorks.? Although a Londoner by birth, I started school in Nelson, Lancs having moved there for a while as our home was destroyed by a bomb during WW2.

Blessings

Bob Chapman

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I enjoyed dialing into your St. Mary the Virgin Church WEB page. It is always interesting to get a glimpse into how other Anglican parishes are doing things. You are invited to check out our St. Simon's WEB page at http://www3.telus.net/st_simons/ which has had over 8,200 people dial in within the first 22 months.

Blessings,

Ed Hird+

Rector, St. Simons' Anglican Church,

North Vancouver, BC

ARM Canada Missioner

http://www.cyberus.ca/~arm

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