Mary Crossley, my paternal grandmother, married John [Jack] Pomfret in 1906 in Bury when he was 18 and she was older [?]. They had a daughter, also Mary, in 1907 and a son, John my father, in 1910.

Jack took off for Canada & eventually Detroit in 1910, before my father's birth, because he could not find work locally due to having tried to unionise the tram company where he was a conductor.

Mary was forced to raise the children alone by working in a spinning mill. She ended up unwillingly divorced in America in 1917 and died around 1948 or 9. I remember her as an angry old woman in clogs & a shawl...looking just like everyone else in the local mills. We did not bond.

Jack returned for a visit with his second wife, Jennie, in 1931 but the[ now grown] children refused to see him. Jack died a wealthy man, in Detroit, Xmas Eve, 1934,and is buried in White Chapel Memorial Park,Troy with Jennie - who died in 1963.

My father married Lucy Bainbridge, my mother,[ no sibs], in 1938 and my older brother, John, was born in 1939, I came along in 1940, Andrew in 1945 and Onagh in 1948.

John [now deceased] had 2 daughter, Karen & Alison.
Onagh [California] has 2 sons, Aaron & Amiel Myers.
Andrew [still in Bury] & I [Florida] are childless.

My mother's mother's maiden name was Ellen Ratcliffe and her parents were James & Mary Jane Ratcliffe, all from Bury.
Her siblings were Savel [died in France in 1917] and Clara & Elizabeth. All born in the late 1800s. No offspring.

Hopefully this information will be useful to someone in the future.I am not too sure it will bring anyone to me.