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See also:ATHERTON, or CHOWBENT , an See also:urban See also:district in the See also:Leigh See also:parliamentary See also:division of See also:Lancashire, See also:England, 13 M. W.N.W. of See also:Manchester on the See also:London & See also:North-Western and Lancashire & See also:Yorkshire See also:railways. Pop. (1901) 16,211. The See also:cotton factories are the See also:principal source of See also:industry; there are also ironworks and collieries. The See also:manor was held by the See also:local See also:family of Atherton from See also:John's reign to 1738, when it passed by See also:marriage to See also:Robert Gwillym, who assumed that name. In 1797 his eldest daughter and co-heiress married See also:- THOMAS
- THOMAS (c. 1654-1720)
- THOMAS (d. 110o)
- THOMAS, ARTHUR GORING (1850-1892)
- THOMAS, CHARLES LOUIS AMBROISE (1811-1896)
- THOMAS, GEORGE (c. 1756-1802)
- THOMAS, GEORGE HENRY (1816-187o)
- THOMAS, ISAIAH (1749-1831)
- THOMAS, PIERRE (1634-1698)
- THOMAS, SIDNEY GILCHRIST (1850-1885)
- THOMAS, ST
- THOMAS, THEODORE (1835-1905)
- THOMAS, WILLIAM (d. 1554)
Thomas Powys, after-wards the second See also:Lord Lilford. Up to 1891 the lord of the manor held a See also:court-leet and court-See also:baron annually in See also:November, but in that See also:year Lord Lilford sold to the local See also:board the See also:market tolls, stallages and pickages, and since this See also:sale the courts have lapsed. The earliest manufactures were See also:iron and cotton. See also:Silk-See also:weaving, formerly an extensive industry, has now almost entirely decayed. The first See also:chapel or See also:- CHURCH
- CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
- CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
- CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
- CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
- CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)
church was built in 1645. See also:- JAMES
- JAMES (Gr. 'IlrKw,l3or, the Heb. Ya`akob or Jacob)
- JAMES (JAMES FRANCIS EDWARD STUART) (1688-1766)
- JAMES, 2ND EARL OF DOUGLAS AND MAR(c. 1358–1388)
- JAMES, DAVID (1839-1893)
- JAMES, EPISTLE OF
- JAMES, GEORGE PAYNE RAINSFOP
- JAMES, HENRY (1843— )
- JAMES, JOHN ANGELL (1785-1859)
- JAMES, THOMAS (c. 1573–1629)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (1842–1910)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (d. 1827)
James See also:Wood, who became See also:Nonconformist See also:minister in the chapel at Atherton in 1691, earned fame and the See also:familiar See also:title of " See also:General " by raising a force from his See also:congregation, uncouthly armed, to fight against the troops of the Pretender (1715).
End of Article: ATHERTON, or CHOWBENT
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