01 Preston Lancashire/John/William/Ellen
Ellen Moulding nee Thornley wife of William daughter of Thomas and Ann Thornley. My great great grandmother

Born - 25 June 1824 in Leyland. Baptised at St Augustine's Preston 15 March 1872 (see below)
Wed - 3 February 1845 at St Wilfrid's, Preston.
Died - 9 May 1893 aged 68.
Grave in Preston Cemetery B194RC
1841 - Bank Top, Penwortham. Weaver.
1846 - Penwortham
1851 - 9 Grosvenor Street, Preston. Cotton Weaver.
1861 - 32 Grosvenor Street. No occupation. Born Penwortham.
1871 - 9 Albyn Street East. No occupation. Born Leyland.
1881 - 26 Albyn Bank Road.
1891 - 53 Albyn Bank Road.

IMAGES

Winding room
Weaving shed
Card room

BAPTISM

Die 25 Junii 1822 nata et die 15 Martii 1872 est Sub conditione
Ellena Moulding filia Thoma & Anne Thornley
(olim Boulton) conjugum:
a me Joanne Hawksworth Miss: Coxd
Patrinus fuit ______ Matrina fuit _______

This means Ellen was the daughter of Thomas and Ann Thornley (nee Boulton). She was baptised when nearly 50 and so had no godparents. To have got married at St Wilfrid's RC Church she would have had to make an oath that she would not prevent her family from practising the RC religion. However, at the time she would not have had to be converted to Catholicism. Something changed her mind in 1872.