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• Re: tracing Roger by Annette (Member 10189839) on 24-Jul-2006
  test test test

• Re: Holiday Breaks in Blackpool by KEITH NODDINGS (Member 10006943) on 9-Dec-2006
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• Re: sheila ian kelly jade and ashleigh by finger_me_quick (Member 10112214) on 4-Oct-2004
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• Re: local news by Peter Taylor (Member 10088957) on 9-Feb-2003
  Try here:
  
  http://www.newspapersoc.org.uk/links/a2z.html#c
  
  The Clitheroe Advertiser & Times uses the
  website
  
  www.eastlancashireonline.co.uk
  
  but at the time of posting this, the site was unavailable.
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• Re: local news by grumpybum (Member 10123043) on 23-Apr-2004
  Hi, it is http://clitheroetoday.co.uk/
  happy reading.

• Re: Steve Ragnall by Steve Ragnall (Member 10081990) on 12-Feb-2003
  Think so. You lived in Waddington - bungalow with Art Deco stained glass in a Clarice Cliffe style?
  Kept a brick in your desk at CRGS to sharpen pencils on (so you said)?
  After 25 years away I moved back to Clitheroe about 5 years ago and nothing has changed. Its still 1970 here.
  Where you living?

• Re: Steve Ragnall by Peter Taylor (Member 10088957) on 13-Feb-2003
  Heehee I'd forgotten The Brick. Insanity doesn't run in my family. It gallops.
  
  I now live in Bramley, Leeds and I'm on the staff at Leeds College of Technology. My father still lives in the stained glass bungalow and I visit regularly.
  
  I gather you are involved with the Clitheroe 'Great Days' Festival from June 7th to 9th (isn't the Internet wonderful?) so hopefully I will have the opportun
  ity to meet you again then if not before.
  
  You can track my sordid past on Friends Reunited (www.friendsreunited.co.uk) if you wish.
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• Re: Ernest Clitheroe by Margaret Maciver (Member 10165596) on 4-Oct-2005
  Ernest Clitheroe was my great grandfather! When he visited South Africa with his travelling pupper show, he was with his wife and two children, Victor and Norah and Beatrice. He put Victor and Norah in an orphanage, and continued on to Asia. Norah was my grandmother. She never knew she had a family until the 2nd world war, when a man called Austin Anderson visited her and said he was her siste
  r, Beatrice's husband. Apparently Ernests first wife died and he remarried in Australia, he visited Cape Town again, but never contacted his two children. Since then my aunt Norah Mann visited Australia and traced the Australian side of the family and I'm wondering if you are part of that family?
  
  Margaret Maciver, Cape Town, South Africa
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• Re: Earl of Clitheroe by Margaret Maciver (Member 10165596) on 16-Oct-2005
  I have found out more. The Earl you are interested in was named William, and his son's birth certificate lists him also as an actor! He married Bessie Tyson. His son, Ernest, the puppeteer, who was my great grandfather, had Colebank as his second name.

• Re: Earl of Clitheroe - William Clitherow by Ray Clitheroe (Member 10232251) on 28-Sep-2008
  Well, Nicola Reilly, after nearly 6 years, I hope you are still out there. I just do not know how I have missed your posting until now!
  
  They say all things come to those who wait. . . but "The Earl of Clitheroe", nonetheless!
  
  Well I am the great grandson of one William CLITHEROW - yes, there was a spelling name change somewhere between 1911 & 1914 - born 25 October, 1838, son of William (occ
  up. "Dyer") & Jane Bartlett Kerry who were married 23 Aug 1835. Witnesses were James Kerry and Mary Clitherow (by her mark).
  
  William Clitherow (Jnr), then a 25yo tobacconist, married 20yo Elizabeth Ann Colebank, daughter of James Colebank, Tailor. Later information notes that the both become Actors. They have 4 children, Ernest William Colebank Clitherow, Flora Bessie C Clitherow, Lilian Jane Clitherow and Maud A M Clitherow who all at one time or another become actor/actresses, but notably, Ernest becomes the Press Agent for Fillis's Circus tour of New Zealand in 1893 and business manager of Stanley's Opera Company in Australia in 1895. I have not yet come across evidence of him being a "Puppeteer".
  
  William (Jnr) meets Rosina Adams, London born Actress, c.1881 and has 4 children, Minnie, who is deceased before 1888, Graham William Clitherow b.1883 Grahamstown Sth Africa, Cecil Alfred Leonard Clitherow (my grandfather b.1886 Durbin Sth Africa) and Enid Grace Clitherow (later Hook) b.1888, Collingwood, Melbourne, Australia...none of whom become actors!
  
  William states in 1888, he and Rosina were married in London in 1881, but no such record exists and he uses the stage name W F Clitherow.
  
  As near as I can make out the whole Family end up back in London (Surrey) by 1901 when William is an "Elecution teacher".
  
  There is no known Earldom of Clitheroe, however Lord Clitheroe, who is a Baronet and politician was a directors of Yorkshire Bank PLC but does not bear the name Clitheroe/Clitherow.
  
  I am happy to show you all evidence I have found to date and would excitedly look forward to seeing what evidence / documentation you and Margaret McIvor and her aunt Norah Mann have in your posession.
  
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