Special Edition a brand new page outlining the events in May 1868 in Ashton-under-Lyne and Stalybridge: The Murphy Riots. Compiled from records held at the Home Office and some local sources. click here

**New Book about Extraordinary Women from Tameside, now free to Download**

Early Slavery and the Duckenfield Family
Copy of my presentation recently given, with annotated sources, at
Tameside Local Studies and Archives Centre
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MR DUCKENFIELD COMES TO DUKINFIELD

A summation of my research into the Dukinfield Family and their links to Slavery in Jamaica and North Carolina and the Duckenfield family's visit in July 2019. An exciting story involving pirates, slaves, the lost colony of Roanoke Island, and the Eaton Family's foundation of New Haven, Connecticut. Plus the links to the Friends of Old Hall Chapel in Dukinfield and their aim to preserve the Chapel as a Preserved Ruin. CLICK HERE OR ON THE TITLE

Mostly concentrating on EARLY material not available anywhere else on-line. Just a small sample of some of the original sources held at
TAMESIDE LOCAL STUDIES LIBRARY


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