“Barton Row”
19 Harrogate Street was the home of Thomas and Susannah Barton and their children, Henry and Edward, at the time of the 1871 census. They probably moved to this address from Pemberton in the summer of 1868 (son Henry was born in Pemberton in June 1868 and baptized six weeks later in Wigan). Ten years later Susannah was widowed and living nearby at 24 Harrogate Street.
20/22 Harrogate Street was the home of Edward Barton (b. 1839), Ann Barton (b. 1840) and their seven children (including Henry Harold Harrison Sr’s mother, Alice) at the time of the 1881 census. The family presumably moved here in the late 1870s when Edward ceased to be the proprietor of the Corporation Inn. Susannah Barton was living next door to Ann and Edward at 24 Harrogate Street
Harrogate, depicted here in an Ordinance Survey Map from 1907, was a short residential street running between Douglas Street and Darlington Street one block east of Chapel Lane. Today Harrogate is a short main thoroughfare in the centre of Wigan that bears the name and approximate location of its ancestor but has little else in common.