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Nicholas’ brother Robert who inherited, married Anne Warde on the 10 October 1681. Some
historians call her Anne Worell, but this may be wrong. The Warde family were also another prominent
Lancashire family but unfortunately, next to nothing is currently known about them. Anne’s father
may be a Henry Warde

By this time, the Peele family were moving up in the world and Hole House was insufficient for
their needs. As such, a new home in Oswaldtwistle was acquired. This was “Oldham’s Crosse”.
The growing family must have travelled between the two homes, although all the subsequent
children were born in the new home re-named Peel Fold.

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Robert and Anne had a large family (including this writer’s ancestor, Margaret Peele, my 6 great
grandmother, who was born in April 1688). The eldest was William, followed by Nicholas, John,
Joseph, Alice, Elizabeth, Ann, Esther, Mary and Susannah. Anne Peele (nee Warde) died in 1721.
Robert died in 1733-4.

Peel Fold still exists but is in a sate of disrepair. As for
Hole House, nothing is left, with buildings eventually
erected over the farm. The house however is known to
be situated nearly Burnley Old Road.

William, Robert’s heir inherited Peel Fold as a freehold
property according to a deed of settlement made by his
father. By this time, he is styled as a gentleman, something
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in the 18 century which had a specific meaning. In short, Peel Fold, Oswaldtwistle, near
William had become part of the English Gentry. The
following generations saw a rapid rise the family’s fortunes. Blackburn, Lancashire

INTERNET GENEALOGY

With the ongoing Corona Virus crisis, with people restricted as to what they can do, plus record
offices and libraries closed, Internet genealogy has in all likelihood grown substantially. But
genealogists from the very earliest days of the world wide web took advantage of this new tool for
research. As such, if you aren’t using the wide variety of potential resources on the Internet, you are
missing out on a treat. With that in mind, this series of articles will focus on different websites some
of which you may not have heard of or have not needed yet. Many of these sites will inevitably be
pay-to-use services, but there are many that are not. Please note the articles will simply look at what
is available and how to use the site. It won’t be a review of whether the website is useful or not. Only
you, the reader, can decide that. While reviews can be very useful, they often have an element of
bias built in. Personally, it is better to make one’s mind up by accessing the information oneself.

To enable beginner’s to get something out of this, the first article will look at Find My Past. This site
has been around a number of years now. It is a pay to use service but there is a 14 day free trial.

Using the Search Facility

When you login to Find My Past you will see a welcome page with a search facility on the left. This
consists of just basic items - Name; Date eg when born (there are 3 choices) and ‘Where’ box. So,
if you are looking for someone call Stephen Smith born in 1890 (plus or minus 10 years) in London,
you will be offered a list of potential Stephen Smiths covering a very wide range of records - in this
example, 14,234 to be precise. This is a clearly a lot but Find My Past has a filtering system which
you will see on the left hand side of the results page. You will need to scroll down to see it.

This is a useful system that saves you time trawling through all the millions of records potentially