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Enjoyed the site learning how to talk proper again

tom boland how is the family

Am on a six month gulf deployment with the navy, just come across this site, really good to keep up with what is going on back home and to look at all the photos especially of bryn/ashton where i am from. Cant wait to get back!

To Ann Ball : Wow! I met my 3rd cousin who lives in Wigan about 2 yrs ago now. Both she and another cousin living in Canada had been working on our family tree and posted it on the internet and that's how I discovered both of them! Well Catherine Tabley was my great, great, great grandmother (her daughter being Margaret Atkinson who was Elizabeth Brogan's mother who was Margaret (Maggie)Horrocks' mother who was Doris (Dolly) MacLean's mother who was my mother's mother (Elizabeth). Elizabeth Brogan and her daughter Maggie Horrocks emmigrated to Canada either before or just after WW1 to the province where I grew up : Nova Scotia. My mother only discovered the names of her great grandmothers thanks to my cousins' efforts on our family tree but she remembered having a heard a story when she was a little girl (she knew her great grandmother Elizabeth Brogan as a small child) and there was some very vague story about this name "Tabley or De Tab" (at the time Mom never knew that was the surname of one of our ancestors). Anyway, there was some vague story about someone holding this little girl's hand as the carriage of Queen Victoria drove by them (in England I guess obviously) and the woman (probably and aunt of the little girl according to Mom) mentioned something to the effect that it should have been the little girl in the carriage. That sounds so hokey and I remember Mom thinking that as well but when we discovered that Catherine Tabley was our great (...)grandmother, wow. Who knows how the actual story went and what the significance of it was. Has anyone any information on it ?

Ann Ball : I guess we must be related somehow then as well! I hope you'll see this and contact me if possible!

Looking forward to hearing more information!
Kind regards,
Donalda Clements

I FINK ITS FER RUBBISH

very good site - found a few old mates, i lived at orrell post for a few years. going back to wigan next saturday - for a few weeks -- freddy

very interesting

very interesting

Had come to Wigan on a student exchange program and loved it. Was looking for a site about Wigan. This is a fabulous site and all the pics and info bring back so many wonderful memories. Thanks

Excellent site - lived in Wigan all my life moved to London 2 years ago and visit family/friends every couple of months there. Great to see all the pics especially of my home village (Standish). Well organised and informative site - well done!
Hello to anyone who remembers me from Standish High School (1988-1993) and Wigan College (1993-1995)
Neil

Great site, but there was no photo of Wexham Gardens in Platt Bridge. I keep telling everyone that where i live is a nice area, but no one believes me! P.S will the photo be taken on a sunny day. Many thanks

Superb site, especially the Fred Dibnah items. Although I am very proudly Salford born and bred I am a Lancashire Lad and enjoy reading about aspects of historical Lancashire. I will pass on your site to various family and friends throughout the world. Sithee

this site iz so kwl, i onli found out bout it wen i was talkin to yaz, n she told me, emz n nat bout it, brill site, luv it
Luv ya'll loads
Frankixxxxx

hi to all my friends hazel,emma,emma,gemma keen,gemma,nat,frankey and evrey one in school

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Hi gemma nicola steph n emma come on the site

its rele kool cos its de onley chat room dat u can use at skool

I was born in Wigan in 1966 and most of my extended family is in Wigan or nearby. It's great to find a site all about my hometown.

little belter cant wait to show the kids

Nice site, very well put together!!

but I can't see anything about Leigh!?!?, The people of Leigh pay their tax's to Wigan Council and yet there is nothing (that I have seen) about Leigh!?!

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