Mary Alice Pennance (1912-1941)

Mary Alice Pennance and her daughter were killed when a bomb exploded on the night of 12th October 1941 destroying their home at No.29 Punch street. Her husband Moses was badly injured. Mrs Ellen Hall and her daughter Edna, who lived next door at No. 31 Punch Street, were also killed.









There are six Pennance's in the graveyard at All Saints church, Bolton

See Records from parish clerk project for burial records.

"Little Bolton was a township of the civil and ecclesiastical parish of Bolton le Moors in the Salford hundred of Lancashire, England. Besides the main part of Little Bolton, it had three detached parts which were separated by areas of Lower Sharples and Higher Sharples.Despite its name, Little Bolton had a larger acreage than its southern neighbour Great Bolton, from which it was separated by the River Croal."

"A sizeable Chartist riot in 1839, which led to the burning of Little Bolton Town Hall, aggravated the situation. Thus Bolton requested the government to include them in the Manchester Police Bill, and Lieutenant-Colonel Angelo was made Commissioner. he quickly resigned his post, for he felt the smallness of the force to be insulting and "a complete robbery on the inhabitants of Bolton."