and in 1748, a Captain Edmund Ogden, of Welley-hole. The Ogdens, of Trub-smithy, of whom was John Ogden, Esq., barrister, are alleged to be descended from those of Greenacres. In 1702, a Mr. Rainshaw possessed much property here, which, in 1725, was in the hands of Mr. Rothwell, and in 1752 of the Rev. James Rothwell, Vicar of Dean. The Booths were amongst the most ancient yeomanry families of the hamlet. George Booth was a holder of land in Oldham in 1735. The late John and Joseph Booth, of Greenacres, yeomen, the former of whom died in 1812, and the latter in 1835, were partners with Messrs. Lees, Jones, and Co., the extensive colliery proprietors. Mr. John Booth, of Southport and Greenacres, is the present representative of the family.

Sholver is a small village of remote antiquity, situated nearly at the north eastern extremity of the township. As early as 1291 Roger de Pilkinton received from King Edward the First, on the 10th of June, in the nineteenth year of his reign, a charter granting to him and his heirs for ever, free warren in all his demesne lands, in Sholgher (Sholver) and other places, so far, however, as these lands were not within the King's Forest. (See Crompton.) The roll of the tenants of the honour of Lancaster, records Gilbert de Hulme to have possessed land in Choller (Sholver), in 1311, of which thirty-six acres were held by Rogerus de Ashton, in fee. Radulphus de Prestwich, living 1434-1455, married an heiress of the name of Elizabeth, whose family name is not stated (it was probably Hulme), in whose right he succeeded to messuages and lands in Sholler, &c. John Holdcroft, Thomas Tyldesley, and others, were trustees of the possessions of this heiress in 1455. Edmund Prestwich. Esq., of Hulme, near Manchester, grandson of Ellis, cousin of the above Radulphus, paid a chief rent of 3s. 2d. to Queen Elizabeth, in right of the Duchy of Lancaster, for lands at Sholer. His grandson, Thomas Prestwich,

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