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History and Description of the Towns and Parishes of Stockport, Ashton-under-Lyne, Mottram-Long-Den-Dale, and Glossop, with some memorials of the late F. D. Astley, Esq., of Dukinfield, and extracts from his poems, with an elegy to his
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Despite expressing some early frustration with publishers, James Butterworth produced a series of books and pamphlets on local history, including his personal observations. His writings were:
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Butterworth attained some skill in ornamental penmanship. After many years spent in tuition, he acted for some years as postmaster of
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Some of Burton's manuscripts went, with those of his son Edwin, to the Oldham Lyceum. He is said also to have published
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A Dish of Hodge Podge, or a Collection of Poems by Paul Bobbin, Esq., of Alt, near Oldham, printed for the author, 1800
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A Sequel to the Lancashire Dialect, by Paul Bobbin, Couzin German of the famous Tim Bobbin of merry memory
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History and Description of the Town and Parish of Ashton-under-Lyne and the Village of Dukinfield
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The youngest of 11 children, Butterworth was born on 28 August 1771 in the parish of
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Burton married in 1792 Hannah Boyton, with whom he had ten children. The youngest,
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An Historical and Descriptive Account of the Town and Parochial Chapelry of Oldham
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A Complete History of the Cotton Trade, &c., by a person concerned in trade
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The Antiquities of the Town, and a Complete History of the Trade of Manchester
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An Historical and Topographical Account of the Town and Parish of Rochdale
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Tabula Mancuniensis, chronological table of the history of Manchester
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A History and Description of the Parochial Chapelry of Saddleworth
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and there he took on some instruction of the lower classes.
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James E. Buttersworth
Ashton-under-Lyne
Lancashire
Oldham
Lancashire
British
Edwin Butterworth
Manchester
Ashton-under-Lyne
Lancashire
handloom
Alt
Oldham
An Historical and Descriptive Account of the Town and Parochial Chapelry of Oldham
The Antiquities of the Town, and a Complete History of the Trade of Manchester
History and Description of the Town and Parish of Ashton-under-Lyne and the Village of Dukinfield
An Historical and Topographical Account of the Town and Parish of Rochdale
Charles Henry Timperley
Edwin





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