Lancashire Telegraph | Requests

Appeal for connections with Callis family tree

Thu, 14 May 2009 16:35:56 +0100

IF you walk on the pavement outside St John’s Church, in Blackburn, you step on two gravestones.

Can you solve Darwen picture puzzle?

Thu, 02 Apr 2009 16:03:31 +0100

80-year-old reader Irene Guy has found this photograph at her Darwen home and needs some answers about it.

Historian keen to find Blackburn address

Thu, 02 Apr 2009 16:02:18 +0100

FAMILY historian Stanley Cosgrove, of Blackburn, has asked readers for their help in tracing an address.

Darwen history group’s member appeal

Wed, 11 Mar 2009 16:13:18 +0000

DARWEN Civic Society is appealing for new members.

Salon web search

Tue, 10 Mar 2009 15:54:08 +0000

HAIR salon, Antony and Patricia, is using the social networking site Facebook to contact members of staff from the past 40 years.

Bowls club history project help

Tue, 10 Mar 2009 13:36:12 +0000

This year marks the centenery of Whitehall Bowling Green and Darwen Local History Society member.

Plea to seek pal Brian

Thu, 05 Mar 2009 11:41:48 +0000

AN old boy of Queen Elizabeth’s Grammar School, is seeking his best friend from his classroom days.

Looking for Simpsons

Thu, 05 Mar 2009 11:41:16 +0000

READER Peter Wrigley is trying to trace members of the Simpson family of Blackburn.

Blackburn author seeks photos

Thu, 05 Mar 2009 11:23:00 +0000

AN author, writing about her childhood in Blackburn, is seeking photographs from the 1940s and 50s.

Plea for memories of Gandhi’s visit to Darwen

Tue, 03 Mar 2009 14:50:39 +0000

AN appeal has been made for the local community to come forward with any artefacts they may have for a local history exhibition.

BILLY MARTIN

Mon, 19 Mar 2007 14:04:00 +0000

Looking for Glen Price or anyone who has information on him.

NICHOLAS KENYON, Foulridge

Mon, 19 Mar 2007 14:03:00 +0000

I am trying to trace my mother who I have not seen seince the age of 7 - I am 33 years old.

RUTH ASLETT, USA

Mon, 19 Mar 2007 13:53:00 +0000

Tuning in from Florida. I was born and bought up in Guernsey, but as a young child was evacuated to Burnley at the start of WWII.

FRANCES HOWARTH

Mon, 19 Mar 2007 13:52:00 +0000

I am looking for information on my great grandfather whose last name was Whittaker.

IAN BEARE, Blackburn

Mon, 19 Mar 2007 13:51:00 +0000

I am looking for anybody who knows the Beare family in Blackburn or Lancaster.

STEWART ODGERS, Australia

Mon, 19 Mar 2007 13:49:00 +0000

Anyone know my dad, born in Nelson around 1929?

WYN CALLARD, Carmarthenshire

Mon, 19 Mar 2007 13:47:00 +0000

I'm wanting to find out more about my ancestors Edward Rostron and his wife Betsy nee Waterhouse.

GAIL PIKE, Charleston, SC

Mon, 19 Mar 2007 13:46:00 +0000

I have been writing to Keith Digby of Accrington since 1974.

PAMELA SUE MARTIN, Trout Lake, USA

Mon, 19 Mar 2007 13:43:00 +0000

Looking for a pen-pal from 1964-1968.

JIM MURPHY, France

Mon, 19 Mar 2007 13:40:00 +0000

I am researching my family history.

ENZA DAVIES

Mon, 19 Mar 2007 13:39:00 +0000

I'm looking for any info about Sheila Willen.

MAUREEN BARTON, Freetown, USA

Mon, 19 Mar 2007 13:37:00 +0000

Looking to contact the family of John Walsh, died 12/25/89.

VAL COPE, Middlesbrough

Mon, 19 Mar 2007 13:33:00 +0000

I am still looking for relatives living in Colne / Nelson / Burnley area.

KIRSTY BEWICK

Mon, 04 Dec 2006 19:00:00 +0000

MY name is Kirsty, I was born on October 2, 1969 at Queen's Park Hospital, Blackburn.

MRS J BARRATT, Shrewsbury, Shropshire

Fri, 27 Oct 2006 14:55:00 +0100

I AM tracing the life of my uncle Sidney Harvey who worked in the Star Paper Mill, Feniscowles, Blackburn, as a wireworker from 1913 to 1916 when he was called up to the East Lancs Regiment, later to be transferred to the Loyal North Lancs Regiment.

CAROLE STOKOE

Thu, 26 Oct 2006 12:04:00 +0100

I AM researching my family tree and the name I am researching is Bleasdale.

VAMBO, Glasgow, Scotland

Tue, 17 Oct 2006 13:39:00 +0100

Looking for Julie Moran. Recently moved to Darwen.

RALPH, Devon

Tue, 17 Oct 2006 13:38:00 +0100

Looking to find Ellen Stabler - I believe she was a cotton factory worker in the late 1960s.

SUSAN SEARLE, Penzance, Cornwall

Tue, 17 Oct 2006 13:36:00 +0100

I'm looking for old friends in the burnley area -- I would love to meet up with some of you next time I'm home.

RON ECCLES, Ontario, Canada

Tue, 17 Oct 2006 13:33:00 +0100

Looking for anyone who worked for John Walton Electric, Great Harwood, 1962-1969.