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Poring over maps of Bolton, Ordnance Survey old and new, I’m wondering why my great-grandfather John Tonge and his family moved house quite so often. To help, I’ve drawn up a list, in date order, of a

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Before the introduction of civil registration of births, marriages and deaths in England and Wales in 1837, it is the parochial registers recording the baptisms, marriages and burials of our ancestors