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of 1642–51 when Adam summoned his tenants to
Parliament's cause and may have taken an active role in the conflict. A letter addressed to George Rigby of Peel, Clerk of the Peace for Lancashire in January 1643 relates that Rigby's brother-in-law, 'Captaine Hilton', was kept prisoner in Chester Castle
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in partnership with
Harwood Walcot Banner. Their partnership was dissolved ten years later and from 1868 onwards the company traded under the Hulton name. The Hultons gave up control of the coal mines in 1886 after the Hulton Colliery Company was founded. In December 1910 a defective safety lamp
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killing 344 men and boys. It was the worst coal mining disaster in
Lancashire, and the third worst in Britain. By 1947, the Hulton coal empire could claim to be the largest in Lancashire, but it gradually diminished in the second half of the 20th century due to a nationwide fall in demand.
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Lancashire. The second baronet, Sir William Rothwell Hulton, was the last patriarch to live in Hulton Hall before moving into an estate cottage towards the end of the First World War. Hulton Hall fell into a state of disrepair before being demolished in 1958.
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and some are buried in its Hulton Chapel. They were devout
Catholics, and, in common with many Lancastrians, kept the old faith during the Reformation but remained allied to the sovereign. William Hulton joined the association of Lancashire magistrates committed to defending
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in 1812, Hulton ordered the execution of four of the suspects, one of them reported to be twelve years old. Hulton was a magistrate who dealt harshly with the working-class crime and social unrest. On 16 August 1819. 60,000 pro-democracy reformers gathered in
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Hultons regained and expanded their estate spent during the 15th and 16th centuries often through marriage. In 1485 a marriage was arranged between the infants, Adam Hulton and Alice Hulton, daughter of John Hulton of Farnworth. In 1521,
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Descendants of the Hulton dynasty can be found throughout the world. Some remain in the United
Kingdom while other, by way of migration have resettled throughout the commonwealth, most prominently in Australia and New Zealand.
302:. He was held prisoner by the Japanese for three and a half years, during which he 'lived in the depths of squalor'. Geoffrey Hulton's death without heir in 1993 signalled the end of the Hulton dynasty.
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and responsible for collecting taxes levied on the
American population which they denounced as 'taxation without representation'. Hulton was reviled and attacked and at the onset of the
244:, who inherited the family estate in 1800, was responsible for the major developments that exploited the coal reserves in Hulton Park. He was a principal supporter of the
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in 1585. His successor and grandson, Adam Hulton converted to
Protestantism, and developed connections with Puritan families in the area. The family was involved in the
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for more than eight hundred years from the late-12th to the late-20th centuries. The family took its name from the three townships surrounding their Hulton Park Estate,
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