[Atarah]

So many of us Accringtonians will also have "family" - maybe even family they have no contact with (because they dont know of their existence!) - who are living abroad, all because of connections with Howard and Bulloughs. Take my family, my grans eldest sister, a Pilkington, ended up living in Rio de Janeiro with her family. This was because her hubby - a Mr. Jack Widdup from Accrington, was an outfitter for H and B, and was asked to go to South America as an outfitter for the textile machinery. He went, so I am told, for approx. a year, on the understanding that if he decided he liked the lifestyle over there, he could move his wife and children over there to live permanently. One daughter married a S. American gentleman, and became Mrs de Wouter, and the other daughter never married, and so there will still be a Miss Widdup in the South American telephone directory (if she is still alive of course) - all because of H and B in Accrington!