When Eleanor Wolstenholme was born in 1861, in Chorlton, Lancashire, England, United Kingdom, her father, James Wholstenholme, was 27 and her mother, Fanny Turner, was 27. She lived in Blackburn, Lancashire, England, United Kingdom in 1901 and Manchester, Lancashire, England, United Kingdom in 1911.
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William Allen, Michael Larkin, and Michael O’Brien were from Ireland but moved to Manchester and were active Fenians. They were part of an ambush to help two Fenians escape prison. These three men were executed and are now referred to as the Manchester Martyrs. The Irish community in Manchester go to the spot where they were executed to commemorate their sacrifice.
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The East Lancashire Royal Engineers was a group of volunteers in a unit of Britian's Royal Engineers. They were started in Manchester in 1901. They fought on the western front during WWI and were part of the Dunkirk Evacuation during WWII.
English: habitational name from Wolstenholme, a place in Lancashire named from the Old English personal name Wulfstān (see Woolston 1) + Old Norse holmr ‘island, dry land in a fen’.
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