Sheila's information.

I have typed up the information as passed on by Sheila. The first part has words missing from the copy but does not directly refer to the Remingtons but have tried to include it as it relates to Broughs and also refers to Wheelton.

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The Billinges were therefore connected.................to Broughs for over fifty years. There were other members of the family ............................Wildboarclough. To summarise.

William Billinge was...................................He married the girl next door.................farmed Broughs and Wilsher with some land from...........probably from the date of his marriage. The couple had eight children, who may all have been born at Broughs. William died in 1840. His widow remained at Broughs, but Wilsher and the land from Cuckoo Rocks passed to her husband's brothers. About 1847 Alice remarried, to John Boothby, by whom she had one daughter. The couple continued to farm Broughs until the death of Alice's father, John Barlow, some time between 1851 and 1861; they then moved to the larger Dry Knowl and handed Broughs over to Alice's son Thomas and his wife Sarah Hannah formerly Wheelton. Thomas also farmed the lands of Wilsher, the house of which was empty from at least 1861. Thomas remained at Broughs until at least 1871, but by 1881 he had been replaced by his brother William, who farmed there until he died in 1890. His wife Maria died in 1892.

Remington.
The next record found relating to Broughs is in the Township Minutes, which record that Henry Leech Remington, of Broughs Place, was elected Overseer in 1907. His name recurs in this connection in 1908, 1909 and 1910. There is no other mention of Broughs between 1890 and 1907; but Henry Leech Remington can be placed in Wildboarclough (and therefore presumably at Broughs) in the Wildboarclough Register. Baptisms are recorded of children of Henry Leech and Esther Wilcockson Remington as follows: Henry Leech in 1901, Thomas in 1904, Richard Slinger in 1907 (who only lived 5 days), and finally Richard in 1909. This Richard had the distinction of being the first child to be baptised in the new church of St. Saviours.

A William Remington is listed in Kelly's Directory for 1902 as farmer at Dry Knowl. By 1906 William was listed at The Cottage, gamekeeper to the Earl of Derby. He is also listed at the Cottage in 1910, and Harry at Broughs.

In 1914 Kelly's Directory listed John Trelfa at Broughs.

The information also included two maps :- Tenancies at 1844 Sale and Tenancies at 1848 Tithe Apportionment. These show the fields of Broughsplace.

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Other information passed on through Margaret.

Henry Leech Remington, gamekeeper, lived at Broughsplace. He had a sale on 24th March 1911 contents were:
1 sheep, 13 cattle, 3 horses, 28 poultry, 3.5 in wheel cart, mowing machine, horse rake, spring trap, cart gears, cake crusher, chaff cutter, churn, usual farm tools.

William Robert Remington, gamekeeper, lived at Crag Cottage in 1908 but previously lived at Bleak Knowl and Dry Knowl where he had a sale on 24th March 1904. He sold:
2 sheep, 30 cattle, horse, 40 poultry, 2.5 in wheel cart, 1 horse mower, horse rake, gears, cheese presses, vats and tins.