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Post by Hen Locsin on Dec 31, 2006 14:51:18 GMT
This is directed towards our skilled and professional researchers;does anyone know the origin of the name, [glow=red,2,300]New [/glow][glow=red,2,300]Brighton[/glow], as although I grew up in the District of Minera, where I lived for a number of years, I often wondered why this hamlet was so called.
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Post by llosgi calch on Jan 16, 2007 20:00:10 GMT
This post has not been over looked... Just been really busy of late... Hope to turn attention to this post shortly. If anybody wants to have a 'stab' in the meantime... feel free!
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Post by annedw on Jan 17, 2007 15:59:04 GMT
I`ve had a look in AN Palmers History of the Townships on Wrexham today and New Brighton is`nt even mentioned. I found on the web somewhere that when people moved from their home towns to somewhere that was a `new` place, then they would often name it after their home - if it was similer, it was said that because the view over the Mersey reminded people from the South of their hometown , that they called it New Brighton, Could there have been a mine or quarry owner from Brighton who moved up here. I really don`t know if this has anything to do with it Will keep searching.
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Post by annedw on May 28, 2007 17:31:05 GMT
In Wern Chapel burials the first mention of New Brighton is in 1867. Elisabeth Hughes aged 1 year 3 months died 9 August and was buried 13 August.
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Post by Hen Locsin on May 28, 2007 22:41:02 GMT
Thanks Annette, Not that I've been idle, but like you seem to get nowhere. Thanks for the 1867 reference, maybe the local papers will yield something? Locsin
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Post by annedw on May 30, 2007 13:52:08 GMT
Fron one of JC Davies booklets - Owen Jones, a Chester butcher left property and land including land in Minera in 1659 to a charity for the poor of the City of Chester. This presumably is why it was called City Land.This land was thus named until New Brighton was developed on the site from 1865. So we still don`t know why it was called New Brighton, but at least have a rough year to go on.
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Post by annedw on Jun 12, 2007 12:49:11 GMT
This information has ben passed on to me from another member. Any one know of this pub ??
In the late J. Clifford Davies' book Pubs & Inquests, he suggested that the place name was adopted after the establishment of a pub of the same name. Probably the pub was named after New Brighton on the Wirral??
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