My favourite story comes from using Google. My grandma was born Norah Kenworthy Hilton. Kenworthy was her mother’s maiden name (Rebecca Kenworthy).Rebecca was born in Oldham but her parents had moved from Rishworth.
I was fortunate to have a wealth of information about them already; they'd been farmers for a long time and up until the early 1900s had occupied many farms including ‘Stott Hall Farm’ - the one that sits within the M62.
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| Nora and her father Thomas |
So one afternoon, a bit bored of census checking, I googled ‘Kenworthy Stott Hall Farm’ and found a terrible tragedy. On this website I scrolled down the page and discovered a transcript of an old diary which also records their deaths. Read it HERE
I've visited the graves in the churchyard and showed them to one of their great, great grandchildren, who I met through Genes Reunited another great resource for anyone trying to find out more about their past.
