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MARGARET HOWLEY

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C Report 17 Sep 2008 09:11

Margaret was my gg grandmother born somewhere in Ireland c1840 but not sure where exactly. Before she was 11 she had moved to the UK living in Bolton Lancs. On the UK 1851 census she lived at Cross St, Bolton listed as a visitor age 11 working in the spinning room.
On the 1861 census she lodged with family of Kenny at 70 Soho St, Bolton, working as a piercer in the cotton mill age 20.

She met Thomas Unsworth and had an illegitimate child naming him, John Thomas Howley born c1867. Thomas and Margaret married in 1870, changed John Thomas surname to Unsworth and then had another child named James in 1871 Sept, both Margaret and James died at this same time.

Can anyone throw any light on these ancestors of mine please?