We received a comment on the feature last quarter on the Farnell Family from John Davison – I was intrigued to read the tragic story of the Farnell family especially as I believe they lived at the same house as my g.g.grandfather William Russell and his wife Eliza (nee Stoker). The 1881 Censes has them living at 27 Red Lane with their 9 children! I believe Red Lane became Low Street. The Russells headed north to Wakefield in the 1880′s to work in the pits there Legend has it they walked.

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