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Thanks 'Cheeky Chops'; it didn't occur to me to search without any surname at all, good thinking there!
It seems that there is something of a problem with ANN MANN. Have done a fair bit of checking and found that the family living at 88 Harpers Lane Chorley on the 1891 census were called Morrison. I've checked right back from 1841 through to 1901 and the family ties up including an Ann born 1865 in Bolton. I am coming to the conclusion, having cross checked everything, that Ann 'Mann' was possibly the offspring of a female Mann and Robert Fishwick. Maybe neither could keep the child so she was adopted by Isaac and Ann Morrison. There is a birth record for Ann Mann, 1965, Bolton, but there is no record for an Ann Morrison at that time. She appears on the census records for 71, 81 and 91 as Ann Morrison, (possibly by then, 1871, having changed from a Mann to a Morrison), along with her 'mum', but by 1901 she's gone. All of which adds up as she was married to william Halliwell in 1893. He was a caretaker at St.Peters Church.
Have sent for the birth cert so shall see!! Very exciting!
Dot Hawkes, thank you for being so helpful and offering to have a look for number 88 for me. The extra bit of history about the mills and the houses was really interesting too. I have never been to the Chorley area although living only 30 miles away, at one time I worked in Preston just a stones throw away. Perhaps a trip might be called for this Easter holiday!
Thank you both for your help; enjoy your weekends! :o)