Catalogue description Diary of Roger Lowe of Ashton-in-Makerfield

This record is held by Archives: Wigan & Leigh

Details of D/DZ A58
Reference: D/DZ A58
Title: Diary of Roger Lowe of Ashton-in-Makerfield
Description:

Diary
Held by: Archives: Wigan & Leigh, not available at The National Archives
Language: English
Creator:

Lowe, Roger, b 1642, of Ashton in Makerfield
Physical description: 1 File
Custodial history:

Acc. 2112
Publication note:

The diary has been published in full: W.L. Sachse, ed., The Diary of Roger Lowe (Longman 1938).

 

A MS. transcript is also available: see Acc. 1972
Administrative / biographical background:

Roger Lowe was born in 1642 and was indentured as an apprentice to an unknown mercer of Leigh, working in the latter's shop in Ashton. After nine years Lowe took over the business from his master, but in 1667 sold the shop and went back into service with a Warrington bookseller. He married Emma Potter in 1668.

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