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Joseph Longworth

 Joseph Longworth (b. 1843)

​By Peter Park
 
Joseph Clare Longworth was born in 1843, his birth was registered the first quarter of the year in the Farnworth sub-district of Bolton in Lancashire and he was christened 13 February at St Saviour, Ringley. He was the fourth child of Wright Longworth, a carter, and Mary (formerly Clare), who had married 16 September 1838 at St John the Evangelist, Farnworth. Wright, aged 21, was then described as a collier, of Dial Post, Farnworth, Mary, aged 20 was of Kearsley; both were unmarried.
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