Samuel Hiley - soap agent for Lancashire

Samuel Hiley, a great grandfather, has appeared in a number of posts already. Type 'Samuel Hiley' into the Search This Blog box to read them.

The advert below appeared in The Todmorden & Hebden Bridge Historical Almanack for 1876. 

Samuel married Elizabeth Taylor in 1874, two years before this advert appeared. He was a Cotton Weaver living at 9 Alma Street in Walsden. At the time of the 1881 census he was living at 32 Hollins Mount with Elizabeth and children Frank, Annie and Agnes. By 1891 the family (now joined by Harold) were living at 54 Lord Street and Samuel was the Manager of the Walsden Co-operative Store. In 1891 they were living at 172 Hollins Mount.

All these addresses are within a stone's throw of each other. The road names Hollins Mount and the Hollins Terrace in the advert no longer exist. Hollins Mount was the old name for part of Hollins Road. Hollins Terrace may have been what is now called Wharf Street (connecting Hollins Road to Alma Street).

Hollins Mill was situated between Hollins Road, Rochdale Road and the Rochdale Canal. This may have been the mill where Samuel worked as a Cotton Weaver. His venture as agent for Rawson & Bartle's soap could have been a part-time job before he moved on to become the Co-op Store manager.

Samuel Hiley