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Not yet back to 1066! The earliest is the Wood family of Ripon, Yks. The vital link of the Whitesides of Thurnham to their origins in Lytham and Marton in the south Fylde has not yet been proved, so their earlier history from the 16th century to the mid-18th (including the Gillow family) is not yet included. All the other families have been traced back to the early 19th century or earlier.
Information - on more than just genealogy - is grouped with related families and is collected under the following headings:-
| Frank's family |
Armour (Scotland, Londonderry & Lancs - Barrow & the Fylde), Whiteside,(Lytham, Thurnham & Lancaster), Kirkham,(Thornton), Gill,(Myerscough & Fleetwood), Myerscough,(Over Wyre), Shaw, Taylor, Swarbrick, Bradshaw, Gillow, Leckonby, Strickland, Porter, Singleton, Gerard, Ward,(Fylde), Bickerstaff(e),(Lytham), Ball, Cornthwaite, Townson, Russell (Lancaster & Lonsdale) |
| Lupton - Billington,(Woodplumpton), Brown,(Broughton), Cardwell, Goodear/Goodier/Goodere etc (or 'Diggles'), Tootle (Tootall, Tootal etc) ,(around Kirkham), Hull (Poulton-le-Fylde), Green, Hodgkinson (Over-Wyre), Shepherd (Salwick & Fylde) |
Barbara's family |
| Barnes, (Warwicks & Bucks), Cope (Surrey), Phipps (Berks), Hedges (Bucks), Stockwell (Bucks & Oxon), Oldham (Suffolk & Oxon), Searles (Suffolk), Wood, (Ripon Yks & London), Wood and Wood cousins (Melton Hall, Suffolk), Seedall (Preston Lancs), Arrowsmith - with Meager, Grant, Matson and March (Kent & London) |
| Jackson - (Hants), Jolley (Co.Carlow, Ireland), Ricketts, (Surrey & Brighton), Dyer, Cannon, Russell, Strudwick, Burgess (Surrey), Janes, Wood (Sussex) |
2008
*A new page on the Arrowsmiths (formerly under 'Cope') with related families of Meager, March, Matson and Grant. (Sorry, nothing new on the Aldersons, still a 'brick wall', but plenty otherwise!)
2005-2006
*The Oldham page has additions, included the related family of Lambert, and some corrections.
*The Wood family file has been corrected and revised (January 2006) with a lot of new information added.
* The Barth and Jordan page has been removed along with the associated names of Bulbrook, Sculfer, Ward, Borly & Sharpe as
they have been found to be incorrect. This family is now being replaced by the correct Searles family with their related family of Syers.2005
*Up to date photos of Malta and the military and naval hospital at Mtarfa have been added to the WW1 pages. A photo of the back of the postcard with its list of soldiers replaces the duplicate transcribed list. As it was written in pencil and is faded, the transcribed list - with name, rank and regiment - will remain available on the other page.
*Other fairly recent pages include Lupton family names - Cornthwaite, Cardwell, Hull, Shepherd and Strickland.
*There are 4 files on the Ball family, intro, early families, ancestors and wills
*'Cousins' and 'Strangers' are photo albums of other family members, the known and the unknown. (If the 'Strangers' can be identified they will of course be moved to the appropriate family files!) Lots more to come, including 'Growing up in 1900'
*Past Times' (linked above) is on our other site. Sources of particular interest for Catholic research are listed, together with details of problems arising from religious allegiance, many of which affected both Catholics and nonconformists.
Updated February 2008