WhatWasLostIsFoundToday's prompt for #GenealogyPhotoADay is "map".
This last few weeks has seen me doing a lot of research around one man - Alfred Broughton, 1860-1924.
He was my Great Great Grandmother's second husband whom she married following the death of my Great Great Grandfather Edward Edwards, and has been a devil to research.
I have had to be so careful with him and purchase quite a few certificates to ensure I was tracing the right man as there were a couple of Broughton families who did that common thing of giving all their children the same names so it was really easy to confuse.
He lived and died at 13 Hill Street in Ashton-under-Lyne which is highlighted on the map in the image.
A surprising discovery came this week in that he had married for a third time after my Great Great Grandma had passed away when he was 60 and fathered a child for the first time before passing away himself at age 63.
Hill Street was central to his life in an interesting way.
He was living at 9 Hill Street when his first wife died before marrying my Great Great Grandmother and moving to No. 13.
His third wife prior to marriage was living at his former home, No. 9 and more than likely had moved in there when he moved out!
The old map shows there were lots of residential homes in the area at one time but interestingly now I live a stone's throw away in an area just off this map and all the old houses are gone and have been replaced by industrial units or more modern housing and I regularly walk past the "ghost" of their house to do my shopping.
The image has come courtesy of old-maps.co.uk at https://u.whatwaslostisfound.co.uk/8 and shows Ashton-under-Lyne in 1910 before the street layout was changed.
#familyhistory #genealogy #troublesomeancestors #worththeeffort
This last few weeks has seen me doing a lot of research around one man - Alfred Broughton, 1860-1924.
He was my Great Great Grandmother's second husband whom she married following the death of my Great Great Grandfather Edward Edwards, and has been a devil to research.
I have had to be so careful with him and purchase quite a few certificates to ensure I was tracing the right man as there were a couple of Broughton families who did that common thing of giving all their children the same names so it was really easy to confuse.
He lived and died at 13 Hill Street in Ashton-under-Lyne which is highlighted on the map in the image.
A surprising discovery came this week in that he had married for a third time after my Great Great Grandma had passed away when he was 60 and fathered a child for the first time before passing away himself at age 63.
Hill Street was central to his life in an interesting way.
He was living at 9 Hill Street when his first wife died before marrying my Great Great Grandmother and moving to No. 13.
His third wife prior to marriage was living at his former home, No. 9 and more than likely had moved in there when he moved out!
The old map shows there were lots of residential homes in the area at one time but interestingly now I live a stone's throw away in an area just off this map and all the old houses are gone and have been replaced by industrial units or more modern housing and I regularly walk past the "ghost" of their house to do my shopping.
The image has come courtesy of old-maps.co.uk at https://u.whatwaslostisfound.co.uk/8 and shows Ashton-under-Lyne in 1910 before the street layout was changed.
#familyhistory #genealogy #troublesomeancestors #worththeeffort