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Thursday, October 9, 2025

The Life of Henry Hiley Part 14 - Littleborough Central School

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Today's post returns to the memoirs of Henry Hiley. It’s time that I went back to school. That school, it had the baby class, that was c...
Saturday, September 27, 2025

John and Mary Ann Bray Highley (Part 11 - John and Mary)

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This is the final post in this series about John and Mary Highley and their family. John died in 1929 at the age of 76. He had worked as a C...
Wednesday, September 24, 2025

John and Mary Ann Bray Highley (Part 10 - Thomas Arthur and Richard)

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Thomas Arthur’s first wife Ann Selina died in 1923 and he remarried two years later Elizabeth Ann Threlfall. He worked as a Cotton Weaver fo...
Thursday, September 18, 2025

John and Mary Ann Bray Highley and their family (Part 9 - after the War)

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In this post we look at the the fortunes of the families of John Henry, Ernest Jackson and Charles William after the War. Grace On 13 May 19...
Thursday, August 28, 2025

The Hiley Y-DNA surname project newsletter

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Today's post features the latest edition of the Hiley Y-DNA surname project newsletter. If you have any queries, comments or suggestio...
Wednesday, August 20, 2025

John and Mary Ann Bray Highley and their family (Part 8 - Mary Hannah and Beatrice Annie)

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Two girls in the family, Mary Hannah and Beatrice Annie, lived into adulthood. They both outlived all their brothers. They each married loca...
Monday, August 18, 2025

John and Mary Ann Bray Highley and their family (Part 7 - Thomas Arthur)

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Thomas Arthur was the oldest of the 12 children. He married Ann Selina Lobb in 1899 and the couple lived next door to his parents John and M...