Ignatius Holloran
Ignatius Holloran was born on 1st February 1892, the eldest son of George and Margaret Holloran who lived at Springfield View, Clowbridge (the row of [...]
gary2016-07-11T12:02:09+00:00March 12th, 1918|Dublin Fusiliers, Soldiers Stories|0 Comments
Ignatius Holloran was born on 1st February 1892, the eldest son of George and Margaret Holloran who lived at Springfield View, Clowbridge (the row of [...]
gary2016-07-11T12:02:34+00:00July 25th, 1918|East Lancashire Regiment, Soldiers Stories|0 Comments
John Robert Larner was born on 31st January 1890, the second child of Robert and Francis Larner. He was baptised soon after birth, at St [...]
gary2016-07-08T11:15:44+00:00July 31st, 1917|East Lancashire Regiment, Soldiers Stories|0 Comments
In the 25th August 1917 edition of the Rossendale Free Press, John and Mary Lord, of 41, York Street, Crawshawbooth, wrote a short poem to [...]
gary2016-07-11T12:06:34+00:00July 31st, 1917|East Lancashire Regiment, Soldiers Stories|0 Comments
William Manning was born on 13th January 1896, one of seventeen children to Michael and Annie, both of whom had settled in the town from [...]
gary2016-07-11T12:09:17+00:00October 9th, 1917|East Lancashire Regiment, Lancashire Fusiliers, Soldiers Stories|0 Comments
On 5th September 1897, within four weeks of his birth, James Nerney was baptised into St James the Less church by the parish priest, Fr [...]
gary2016-07-14T09:43:37+00:00September 20th, 1915|Border Regiment, Soldiers Stories|0 Comments
Thomas William O’Brien, uncle of Tom Smith, currently St James the Less church’s oldest parishioner and himself a veteran of the Second World War, was [...]
gary2016-07-12T13:33:55+00:00September 6th, 1917|Lancashire Fusiliers, Soldiers Stories|0 Comments
Albert Hunt, the grand-father of our parishioner David Pilling, was a ‘Bury lad’. One of four children, after leaving school Albert quickly progressed from being [...]
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