The Littledale fortune came from the cotton trade with British Guyana, a business linked with the slave trade. see http://researcharchive.vuw.ac.nz/xmlui/bitstream/handle/10063/2952/thesis.pdf?sequence=1 . Mary Littledale was the daughter of Pudsey Dawson of Liverpool, Mary Dawson had married Anthony Littledale in Liverpool in 1809. She was the sister-in-law of Johnson Littledale and Elizabeth Bolton (nee Littledale). In 1851 Mary Littledale widow aged 71 landed proprietor born in Liverpool was living at Bolton Hall with her son Henry Anthony Littledale aged 41 and his family. She was buried at Bolton by Bowland 09/11/1855 aged 75.
Mary Littledale had reportedly bought Bolton Hall from John Bolton in 1832. Other sources show her as inheriting the estate, which had certainly previously been in her family, see https://www.ucl.ac.uk/lbs/person/view/2146630933 .
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Portrait of Mrs Littledale of Bolton Hall. She is in profile and wears a lace cap, and a lace collar over a checked dress.
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Littledale
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Mrs Littledale
K. A. Littledale
Churchgate
December 31
1844
This is Mrs Mary
Littledale of Bolton
Hall. H's mother
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