Hello,
Just seen your message 12 years on - my maternal grandfather was James Eccles, born in Longridge about 1874. his father was called either James or John and my grandfather had a least one brother called William. There is a Mary Ann Eccles , born a few decades earlier, somewhere in the mix, and the family is Roman Catholic. My grandfather moved to Colne, Lancs around the turn of the century and married my grandmother Elizabeth Harrington there about 1906. Anything sound familiar?