Ainscough Family History-Mawdesley

Nation of Storytellers Project

noreply@blogger.com (boobelle) — Fri, 04 May 2012 09:02:00 +0000

Hi all

Laura Bevan has been in touch about this exciting project. Do you have a short story to tell about your ancestors? Over the last few years lots of people have been in touch with me with snippets, tales and gossip - its all very colourful and wonderful to read. Why not take it to the next stage and enter a short (300 words) synopsis of your story on their website.

Hi Barbara,

Hope that you're well. I'm contacting on behalf of a company called Blurb who are running a family history-based campaign which I think may be of interest to you.

The Nation of Storytellers is a campaign which has been driven by the fact that so few of us record our family history – or indeed our own lives – and that if we don’t the memories, experiences and stories could be lost forever. It was spurred by some research which Blurb conducted which found that a third of children find their grandparents’ stories ‘boring’ and would rather play on the computer or talk to their friends than listen to their history – and as a result family stories and skills (what your grandparents, relatives and parents have done or witnessed in the past) are under threat of being lost forever.)

To get people talking, and to try and capture and celebrate the rich and fantastic stories that exist in households throughout Britain, Blurb are encouraging people to enter a short (300 words) synopsis of their story – or that of someone close to them – at the website

I appreciate that you and the people that read your blog already know the importance of passing on knowledge and memories, but I thought you might perhaps be interested in writing a blog post about the campaign - or, of course, we'd love to hear one of the Ainscough family stories on the site!

Best wishes,

Laura

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Alice(nee Cowley) married Edward Wright 1913

noreply@blogger.com (boobelle) — Sun, 25 Mar 2012 16:53:00 +0000

Thanks to Judy Whiddett for this lovely photograph. This is an excellent find for the Cowley - Wright side of the family. Many thanks Judy!

"You might like to see this wedding photo of Alice (nee Cowley) and Edward Wright's wedding in 1913. It took place in Dublin as Alice was Irish and Edward had been posted there with the regiment for which he was band master.

My GGG grandmother Ellen (Helen) Cowley -Ainscough was Alice Cowleys aunt.

Judy"

Francis Ainscough 1690 & Susanna Rogers 1692

noreply@blogger.com (boobelle) — Mon, 27 Feb 2012 19:01:00 +0000

Hi Barbara,

I Have been researching my husbands family tree and the name Ainscough came up, Francis Ainscough 1690 and Susanna Rogers 1692 - their daughter Elizabeth 1723. She married Thomas Panton and is a direct descendant of my husband. Is this the same Ainscough family as yours?

Best wishes

Anne Slade

Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2012 11:51:30 +0000

To: davidslade48@hotmail.co.uk

Hi Anne

Ive attached a simplified tree for you to look at - I cant see a Francis Ainscough in my tree around 1690 but that doesnt rule out the possibility that he wasnt related to Hugh Ainscough 1689 - before this my records are patchy. Any further evidence you have to support Francis A 1690 - place of birth etc would be really useful.

On 27 Feb 2012, at 15:41, David Slade wrote:

Hi Barbara,

All the information l have is from ancestry.co.uk and it goes back to William the Conqueror and the Kings of Scotland. Elizabeth was born in Fulletby in 1723 her sister Susanna was born in

1722, their father Francis died 1724, he was born on the 23rd of November 1690 & was married to Susanna Rogers born in 1692. His father was John Ayscough born in 1611 and his mother was Elizabeth Sherwood. Johns father was Thomas Ayscough 1587/1645 married to Mary Skipworth 1586. Thomas's father was Sir Edward Ayscough 1542 to 1612 he was married to Hester Crantham and his father was Sir Frances Ayscough 1509/1564 married to Elizabeth Hansard 1510/1558.

South Kelsey seems to be where most of them were born. I have not researched this myself it is all from Ancestry

Anne

On 27 Feb 2012, at 18:33, Barbara Ainscough wrote:

Ah! I see where you are coming from - this is the distinguished Ayscough line (through marriage) in Lincolnshire. Anne Askew (Ayscough) was one of them - many served Henry V111 in his courts.

See my blog for more info.

Weve all tried to link to this branch but cant find a connection - sorry to disappoint. Your branch may be connected though.

Matilda Cowley & John Wright

noreply@blogger.com (boobelle) — Sat, 25 Feb 2012 17:35:00 +0000

Barbara,

I would like to discuss the Wright tree with you. My mother-in-law's maiden name was Wright (she was the grand daughter of Matilda and John Wright).

My husband is the great grand son of Matilda Cowley. I am doing some family tree research and since Mike's mother (daughter of Edward Wright) died in January I have been looking at some of the few papers, photos etc that she left.

In a very small prayer book I found a list of all Matilda's (many!) brothers and sisters so this has helped me a great deal. Because of the marriage connections with the distinctive name Ainscough I have accessed the ainscoughfamily website and also wilcox and been able to spread the tree out wide but not further back than John 1700.

On Edward's list - dated 1902- it says copied from the Douai Bible in the possession of Father Ainscough. Do you know anything about this and Father Ainscough??

Am I right in concluding that both Ellen (Helen) and Thomas married members of the Ainscough family? And of course 3 sisters (Matilda, Alice & Jemima) married Wright brothers!! Edward Wright also makes my family tree design complicated because he married an Alice Cowley (in Ireland)!! I am sure that somewhere there must be a connection between the two Cowley's but as they were Irish I think that may take me years (and visits to Ireland!)!

If you are able to tell me anything more about the Cowley family I would be very interested. Equally if I can fill in some Wright / Cowley gaps in your tree I will willingly try!

Yours

Judy Whiddett

On 27 Feb 2012, at 13:44, JOHN COBHAM wrote:

Judy,

My Mothers (maiden name Wright) side of the family has a Wright Cowley Marriage. My G. Grandfather Richard Wright Married Alice Cowley in approx 1868, the Alice that you mentionTheir son, Thomas Richard Wright was my Grandfather. The Cowleys (still living in & around Mawdesley) were at that time in Bannister House, Bispham, Nr Mawdesley.Richard Cowley & his wife Alice (Swift)are buried at SS Peter & Pauls in Mawdesley. To add to your tree & further complicate matters my mothers sister Alice Wright married Wilf Ainscough (John & Theresa) & her other sister Ellen married Cecil Culshaw whos mother was Margaret Ainscough.

Keep in touch

Kind Regards

John Cobham

Preston organ builder, Henry Ainscough (c1850 - 1923)

noreply@blogger.com (boobelle) — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 12:25:00 +0000

Graham Jones has been in touch regarding a Henry Ainscough (c1850 - 1923) - Preston organ builder. If you have any information about Henry could you email Graham directly please.

best wishes

Barbara

On 23 Feb 2012, at 11:58, GRAHAM JONES wrote:

Hello Barbara,

I'm not a relative, but I hope you don't mind my sending you an email.

I'm researching the life and work of the Preston organ builder, Henry Ainscough (c1850 - 1923). Are you able to put me in touch with someone who could help me?

With all best wishes in your family researches - its so rewarding.

Graham Jones

Viking Wirral and the Battle of Brunanburh

noreply@blogger.com (boobelle) — Sat, 28 Jan 2012 18:13:00 +0000

Forthcoming seminar next Wednesday 1^st February at 7.30pm at St. Bridget's Church, Rectory Road, West Kirby and its in aid of the St. Bridget's Appeal, raising funds for the new Community Centre. The talk is Viking Wirral and the Battle of Brunanburh. St. Bridget's - founded by the Vikings, and which gives its name to West Kirby "The West Settlement of the Church" - one of very many names on Wirral with Viking origins - possesses one of the north west's greatest treasures, the Viking Hogback tombstone which will also be on display. 1st of February is also St. Bridget's Day.

Tickets (at the door) are £5.00 adults, £2.50 children. All proceeds go to the Appeal.
http://www.stbridgetsappeal.co.uk/diaryevents2011-.html

Hope to see you there!

Thanks and best wishes
Steve Harding

descendants -Elzabeth Ann Ainscough 1857

noreply@blogger.com (boobelle) — Sat, 07 Jan 2012 14:13:00 +0000

On 5 Jan 2012, at 11:52, Anita Smith wrote: (anita.smith4@virgin.net)

Hi Barbara,

Please find the marriage certificate of John Berry Smith - b. 18 dec 1850, Lancs &
Elizabeth Ann Ainscough b. 1857

Their children are:

1 William Edward Ainscough Smith, b. 16 Feb 1881 Chorley Lancs. d.1859 m. Sarah Berry 1846

2 Percival Ainscough Smith, b. 6 Sept 1882 Chorley Lancs, d. 1960 Fylde Lancs.

3 John Francis Ainscough Smith, b. 20 Sept 1884 Chorley Lancs , d, 19 May 1958,
North Wales Hospital Denbigh.

John is 1st right back row, Horace is next to him (the tall one!)

4 Dorothy Ainscough Smith, b. 1892 Fylde Lancs death 1968 Fylde Lancs, never married.

5 Horace Ainscough Smith, b. 14 May 1897 Fylde Lancs death 1969 Fylde Lancs, never married.

John Francis Ainscough Smith b. 1884 married 5 Sept 1921 Fylde Lancs to Anne Jane
b. 28 Feb 1892 Festiniog Merionethshire death 15 Aug 1973 Llandudno Junction,

North Wales.

Their children are:

1 Elizabeth Ann Smith - b. 29 Jan 1923 Fleetwood, d. 3 March 1964 Llandudno Junction,
North Wales.

2 James Berry Smith, b. 20 June 1924 Fleetwood.

3 David Leslie Smith, b. 1 May 1927 Fleetwood, d. 2004 Chelsea London, never married.

4 Mary Kathleen Smith, b. 9 March 1929 Fleetwood, never married.

James Berry Smith b. 1924 married 28 Nov 1945, PossilPark Glasgow to
Susan Clark Arthur b. 29 April 1921 Govan Glasgow d. 11 June 1985 Llandudno Junction
North Wales.

They had 7 children 1 died, 6 living.

1 John Francis Smith b. 11 October 1945 Possilpark Govan he married 5 October 1968,
Conway, Margaret Anita Smith nee Jakins b. 4 Feb 1949.

Hope you can follow what I have done, would you like some photos?

I have one of John Francis Ainscough Smith b. 1884 and one of Horace Ainscough Smith,
John Berry Smith, (father and mother) started the rubber company in Lancashire -
I have information on that as well if you would like it.

Regards Anita

Forthcoming Viking seminars:

noreply@blogger.com (boobelle) — Sat, 07 Jan 2012 10:16:00 +0000

On 7 Jan 2012, at 09:37, Stephen Harding wrote:

Dear friend/colleague,

Can I bring to your attention details of 2 forthcoming seminars:

1. Monday 9^th January, Liverpool Victoria Boat Club, Wallasey Docks, Wirral. Viking Wirral and the Draken Harald Fairhair Longship project, 2.30pm. To be attended by the Mayor of Wirral. About the largest ever longship reconstruction (35m long) coming to Wirral/Liverpool from Haugesund, Norway in 2013. We are also still accepting volunteers to help row the 35m vessel into harbour!.

No charge & hot drinks provided, - donations to RNLI welcome.

Contact Jim Bibby at the club to reserve a place: Jimbibbyanorak@aol.com tel: 0151 639 0352.http://www.wirralnews.co.uk/wirral-news/local-wirral-news/2012/01/04/viking-expert-and-rowing-club-to-reveal-volunteer-training-plans-for-project-to-sail-longship-reconstruction-to-wirral-80491-30053070/

2. Wednesday 1^st February 2012. Viking Wirral and the Battle of Brunanburh. St. Bridget’s Church West Kirby, 7pm. About the latest research and a new book about the Battle. Brunanburh is the old name for Bromborough. St. Bridget's - founded by the Vikings, and which gives its name to West Kirby - possesses one of the north west's greatest treasures, the Viking Hogback tombstone which will also be on display.

Contact Martin Harrison at the Church to reserve a place: martin@harrison5050.fsnet.co.uk

Best wishes and a happy new year!

Steve Harding

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Steve Harding, University of Nottingham Centre for the Study of the Viking Age, Nottingham NG7 2RD, UK; Tel: +44(0) 115 951 6148 (fax 6142); Mob +44(0) 78110 90635; http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/csva/people/steve.harding;http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/-sczsteve

Elizabeth Ann Ainscough birth 15 September 1857

noreply@blogger.com (boobelle) — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 07:52:00 +0000

Additional links to this family can be found on this blog here:

Elizabeth Anne Ainscough

Parents: Edward Ainscough and Dorothy Cowell

On 20 Dec 2011, at 16:51, Anita Smith (anita.smith4@virgin.net) wrote:

Hi Barbara,

Ive sent you the photo of Elizabeth Ann Ainscough birth 15 September 1857 Wigan,

death 17 June 1943 Fylde,

Her parents were: Father Edward Ainscough & Mother Dorothy Cowell.

Daughter Elizabeth Ann Ainscough birth 15 September 1857 Wigan, death 17 June 1943.

Elizabeth Ann's son John Francis Smith - birth 20 September 1884 and death 19 September 1958, North Wales

John Francis Smith married Anne Jane her birth is 28 Feb 1892 - death 18 Aug 1973, 99 Penrhos Avenue lLandudno Junction - married 5 Sept 1921 Fylde Lancashire, their son James Berry Smith is my father in law.

(I married his son John Francis Smith, a lot of information has come from my father in law
who is still with us).
Hope you can follow this information. You originally entered it on the blog on November 23 2010.

Regards Anita

The North of England Study

noreply@blogger.com (boobelle) — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 07:45:00 +0000

The North of England Study

Background to the study

This Leverhulme Trust/Wellcome Trust-funded study is being carried out by Dr Turi King in collaboration with Professor Mark Jobling at the University of Leicester as part of the Impact of Diasporas on the Making of Britain project.

Surnames are passed down from fathers to sons, and in Britain, this has been going on since heritable surnames were first established some 700 years ago. We have studied the link between DNA and surnames, focusing on the Y chromosome, part of our DNA that is, like the surname, passed down the paternal line.

In this project we want to learn about British history by studying the Y chromosomes of men with old local surnames, to provide us with a link to the DNA of people in the past. We are particularly interested in the history of the Vikings. We know that these people left a lasting legacy on our language, landscape and place-names. But did they leave any genetic trace in today's population?

To answer this question, we wish to obtain DNA samples from men with old local surnames from the north of England. Men carrying such names are very likely to have inherited them from ancestors who lived in the area only a few generations after the Vikings settled in the region.

We have nearly completed recruitment for this study, but still require participants bearing one of the eligible surnames listed below. DNA donation is simply via a saliva sample, and volunteers will receive a description of their own Y-chromosome type when the work is completed in 2013.

If you are a man carrying one of these surnames, your father's father was born in the north of England (Cheshire, Cumbria, Lancashire, Yorkshire, Durham or Northumberland) and you would like to take part in the study, please read on below.

How to take part in the study

Men interested in taking part are asked to register to attend one of the recruitment events listed below. Here participants (and anyone interested in the study) will be able to come along, listen to a talk, ask questions about the project and give a DNA sample on the day.

January 21st, 2012, York, New Earswick Folk Hall, Meeting Room at 10am-12 noon
January 21st, 2012, Harrogate, St Paul's Church Hall, Belford Road, off Victoria Avenue, at 3-5pm
January 22nd, 2012, Lancaster, St. John's Church, North Road, LA1 1PA at 9-11am
January 22nd, 2012, Keswick, Crosthwaite Parish Room, Main Street, at 3-5pm

To register to take part please fill in your details in the form here. In this study we require only one man per surname (including surname spelling variants). As representatives for each surname come forward, we will continue to list the remaining surnames for which we do not yet have participants on the drop-down list on the registration page. If you do not have one of the eligible surnames but would still like to attend one of the events, please click here.

What does taking part involve?

Aside from the talk, participating will take around 10 minutes of your time and enable you to find out more about your ancestry and the history of the Britain. We ask that you fill out a questionnaire about your ancestry, sign a consent form, and donate a saliva sample that provides us with the DNA that we need.

Participants will be provided with a summary of the results, designed for a layperson, at the end of the study in 2013. In addition we will provide a copy of each participant's Y chromosome genetic fingerprint and an explanation sheet designed for the layperson.

During this project we are looking at normal variation only, and no targeted tests of any medical consequence are done. However, while analyzing Y-chromosomal variation it can be found, in very rare cases, that a man has lost part of his Y chromosome which is related to fertility. Therefore, if potential participants are concerned about the risks of detecting infertility, we would suggest that they do not take part.

The surnames we are interested in

The only criteria for participating are that you are a man whose father's father was born in the north of England (Cheshire, Cumbria, Lancashire, Yorkshire, Durham or Northumberland) and that your surname is one of those listed below.

Exact spellings only, please. If you think that your surname is an unlisted variant of one of these names, please emailsurnames@le.ac.uk

ABSON	ACEY	ACKERS	ACKROYD	ACOMB	ADCROFT	ADDYMAN	ADSHEAD	AINDOW	AINSCOUGH
AINSCOW	AIRTON	AIZLEWOOD	AKEROYD	AKISTER	AKROYD	ALBISTON	ALDCROFT	ALDERSLEY	ALDREN
ALKER	ALLATT	ALLRED	ALSTEAD	ALTHAM	ALTOFT	ALTY	ANDERS	ANTCLIFFE	ARDERN
ARKLE	ARKLESS	ARKLEY	ARKSEY	ARMER	ARNFIELD	ARRAND	ARSTALL	ARTINGSTALL	ASCROFT
ASHALL	ASHBURNER	ASHCROFT	ASHURST	ASHWORTH	ASKAM	ASPDEN	ASPEN	ASPIN	ASPINWALL
ASQUITH	ASTIN	ASTLES	ATACK	ATHA	AUDSLEY	AUGHTON	AUTY	AVEYARD	AXON

BAILDON	BAIRSTOW	BALDWINSON	BALME	BALMFORTH	BALSHAW	BAMFORTH	BARCROFT	BARDSLEY	BARNISH
BARRACLOUGH	BARRAN	BARROTT	BASHALL	BASHFORTH	BASSNETT	BASTOW	BATTYE	BAUL	BAUME
BAXENDALE	BAYBUT	BAYBUTT	BAYLIFF	BEANLAND	BEARDSELL	BEARDSHAW	BEARDSWORTH	BEBINGTON	BEDSON
BEEVER	BEEVERS	BEEVORS	BELSHAW	BERTWISTLE	BESTFORD	BETHWAITE	BICKERDIKE	BICKERDYKE	BICKERSTAFFE
BILBROUGH	BILSBOROUGH	BILSBORROW	BILTCLIFFE	BIMPSON	BIMSON	BIRCHBY	BIRDSALL	BIRKBY	BIRTLEY
BIRTWELL	BIRTWHISTLE	BIRTWISTLE	BITHEL	BLACKLEDGE	BLACOE	BLACOW	BLAGBOROUGH	BLAGBROUGH	BLEACKLEY
BLEAKLEY	BLEARS	BLEASBY	BLEASDALE	BLEAZARD	BLENKIRON	BLEZARD	BLOMELEY	BLOMLEY	BOLAM
BOLDY	BOLGER	BOOCOCK	BOOTHROYD	BOOTLE	BOSSON	BOSTWICK	BOUSTEAD	BOYDELL	BRABBAN
BRABBS	BRABIN	BRACEGIRDLE	BRACEWELL	BRADE	BRAIME	BRAMFITT	BRAMHAM	BRAMMAH	BRAMMALL
BRANDWOOD	BRAYSHAW	BRAZENDALE	BREAKELL	BREAR	BREARE	BREAREY	BREARS	BRECKELL	BRECKIN
BRECKON	BRETHERICK	BRETHERTON	BREWIS	BRIDDICK	BRIER	BRIERCLIFFE	BRIMELOW	BRINDLE	BRITCH
BRITCLIFFE	BROADBELT	BROADY	BROMBY	BROMILEY	BROMILOW	BROWNBILL	BROWNBRIDGE	BROWNFOOT	BRUCKSHAW
BRUNDRETT	BUCKTROUT	BULCOCK	BULLOUGH	BURDIS	BURHOUSE	BURKEY	BURKHILL	BURKINSHAW	BURLINSON
BURNIP	BURNLEY	BURNYEAT	BURY	BUSFIELD	BUTTERILL	BYASS	BYRAM

CALDERBANK	CALLAND	CAMPEY	CARRACK	CARRAN	CARTMELL	CARUS	CATHERALL	CATTERAL	CATTERALL
CATTRALL	CAUNCE	CAVANNAGH	CAVANNAH	CAWTHRA	CAWTHRAY	CEARNS	CHADDERTON	CHAFER	CHANDLEY
CHARLSON	CHARLSTON	CHARNLEY	CHATBURN	CHEERS	CHEESBROUGH	CHIPPINDALE	CHISNALL	CHORLTON	CHRIMES
CLAFTON	CLAPPISON	CLASPER	CLAUGHTON	CLAYFORTH	CLEWORTH	CLISH	CLUBLEY	CLUDERAY	CLYNES
COAR	COCKBAIN	COCKCROFT	COCKERHAM	COCKERLINE	COCKROFT	COCKSHOOT	COCKSHUTT	COGGILL	COGLEY
COLLINGE	COLLISTER	CONDRON	CONNAH	CONSTERDINE	COOP	COOPS	COPPACK	COPPELL	COPPLE
CORKHILL	CORLESS	CORNES	CORRIN	COUCILL	COULDWELL	COULTHURST	COUNCIL	COUPS	COWAP
COWPE	COWTON	CRAINE	CRANKSHAW	CRANSHAW	CRAWFORTH	CREDLAND	CREER	CRELLING	CRIMES
CRINSON	CROASDALE	CROMACK	CROMBLEHOLME	CRONKSHAW	CRONSHAW	CROOKALL	CROSLAND	CROSSDALE	CROSTON
CROWCROFT	CROWNSHAW	CROWSHAW	CRUDDACE	CUERDEN	CULLINGWORTH	CULLUMBINE	CULPAN	CULSHAW	CUMPSTY
CUNCLIFFE	CUNDLIFFE	CUNLIFFE

DAGGERS	DAGNALL	DARBYSHIRE	DARNBROUGH	DARWELL	DARWEN	DARWENT	DAWBER	DEARNALEY	DEARNLEY
DEFTY	DEMAINE	DENBIGH	DENNELL	DEWHIRST	DEWHURST	DIBB	DIDSBURY	DIGGLE	DIGNAM
DINGSDALE	DISLEY	DODDING	DODGEON	DODWORTH	DONKERSLEY	DONLAN	DOODSON	DOOTSON	DORNING
DOWNEND	DRACUP	DRAKES	DRANSFIELD	DRONSFIELD	DUCKENFIELD	DUCKITT	DUCKWORTH	DUERDEN	DUFTON
DUMBELL	DUMBILL	DUNBAVIN	DUNCALF	DUNGWORTH	DUNKERLEY	DUNKERLY	DURRANS	DUXBURY	DWERRYHOUSE

EARLAM	EASTHAM	EATOCK	EATOUGH	ECKERSALL	ECKERSLEY	EDDISON	EDDLESTON	EDELSTON	EDLEY
EGDELL	ELDERS	ELSTUB	EMMOTT	EMSLEY	ENTWISLE	ENTWISTLE	ERLAM	ESCREET	ESCRITT
ESPIN	ETCHELLS	EVERATT	EXLEY

FAIREST	FAIRHURST	FAIRLAMB	FALDING	FALLAS	FARNWORTH	FARRIMOND	FAULDER	FAWTHROP	FAZACKERLEY
FAZACKERLY	FAZAKERLEY	FAZAKERLY	FEARNHEAD	FEARNSIDES	FEATHER	FEATONBY	FIELDEN	FILDES	FINDLOW
FITTON	FLATHER	FLATHERS	FLAXINGTON	FLESHER	FLIGG	FLITCROFT	FOERS	FORBER	FORMBY
FOULSTONE	FOWDEN	FOZARD	FOZZARD	FROBISHER	FRODSHAM	FRUDD	FUSSEY	FYLES

GABBOTT	GAINFORD	GARDHAM	GARSDEN	GARSTANG	GARTSIDE	GASTALL	GATH	GATLEY	GAUKRODGER
GAUKROGER	GAULTER	GELLING	GIGGAL	GILBODY	GILDERDALE	GILLIBRAND	GLEDSON	GLEGHORN	GOBIN
GODBERT	GOFORTH	GOLIGHTLEY	GOMERSAL	GOMERSALL	GOODAIRE	GOODER	GOODIER	GOODINSON	GOSNAY
GOULBOURN	GOUNDRY	GRADWELL	GRANDAGE	GRASBY	GRASSBY	GRATRIX	GRAYSHON	GREALEY	GREENALGH
GREENALL	GREENHALGH	GREENHAULGH	GREENROYD	GRESTY	GRIEVSON	GRIME	GRINDROD	GRINROD	GROUNDWELL
GRUNWELL	GUITE

HABERGHAM	HACKING	HADCROFT	HADFIELD	HAGGAS	HAIGH	HAIGHTON	HAILS	HAILWOOD	HAINSWORTH
HALEWOOD	HALKYARD	HALLIMOND	HALLWELL	HALLWOOD	HALLWORTH	HALMSHAW	HALSALL	HAMBLET	HAMNETT
HAMPSHAW	HARBRON	HARDAKER	HARDIKER	HARDMAN	HARGATE	HARRAND	HARROCKS	HARROP	HARTER
HASELDEN	HASKAYNE	HAVERCROFT	HAWARTH	HAWCROFT	HAWKHEAD	HAWKYARD	HAWORTH	HAYDOCK	HAYHURST
HAYSTON	HECKINGBOTTOM	HEENEY	HEGINBOTHAM	HELLAWELL	HELLEWELL	HELLIWELL	HELLOWELL	HELMN	HELSBY
HEMINGWAY	HENTHORN	HEPPENSTALL	HEPPLE	HEPPLESTON	HEPPLEWHITE	HEPTINSTALL	HESFORD	HESLING	HESMONDHALGH
HESSELDEN	HESSION	HESSLEWOOD	HEYS	HEYWORTH	HIGGINBOTHAM	HIGHCOCK	HIGHLEY	HIGNETT	HILLAM
HILLAS	HINCHLIFF	HINCHLIFFE	HINCLIFFE	HINDHAUGH	HINDLE	HIRST	HITCHMOUGH	HITCHON	HOBKINSON
HOBMAN	HODGIN	HODKIN	HOGHTON	HOLDROYD	HOLKER	HOLLAS	HOLLING	HOLLINGHURST	HOLLINRAKE
HOLLINWORTH	HOLLOWS	HOLROYDE	HORRIDGE	HORROBIN	HORROCKS	HOSKER	HOTHERSALL	HOULGRAVE	HOULKER
HOWARTH	HOWGATE	HOWORTH	HOWROYD	HOYLAND	HUBBERSTY	HUDSPETH	HUDSPITH	HULLAH	HULMES
HULTON	HUSCROFT	HUSTLER

IBISON

ICETON

ILLINGWORTH

IRLAM

IRONFIELD

ISHERWOOD

ISLE

JAGGAR

JAGGER

JOINSON

JOULE

JOWETT

JUMP

KEHOE	KEIGHLEY	KENWORTHY	KENYON	KERMODE	KEWLEY	KIERNAN	KILCOURSE	KILLERBY	KILLIP
KILSHAW	KIRKBRIGHT	KIRKMAN	KIRTLEY	KNEALE

LAITHWAITE	LAMBTON	LANCELEY	LANGSHAW	LANGTREE	LATHOM	LAWRENSON	LAYTHAM	LEADBITTER	LEANING
LEAROYD	LEATHERBARROW	LEDGARD	LEDSHAM	LEWTAS	LIGHTBOURNE	LIGHTBOWN	LIGHTOWLER	LIGHTOWLERS	LINAKER
LIPTROT	LIPTROTT	LITHERLAND	LITHGOE	LITTLEMORE	LIVERSEDGE	LIVERSIDGE	LIVESEY	LIVSEY	LOMAX
LONGBOTTOM	LONGCAKE	LONGFELLOW	LONGMATE	LONGSON	LONGTON	LONGWORTH	LOUKES	LOVELADY	LOWERSON
LOXHAM	LOYND	LOYNDS	LUMB	LUMSDON	LYDIATE	LYTHAM	LYTHGOE

MACHEN	MACKERALL	MACKERETH	MADEN	MADIN	MAGNALL	MAKINSON	MALEHAM	MALLABAR	MALLALIEU
MALLINDER	MANDALE	MANGNALL	MANOCK	MARCHINGTON	MARCROFT	MARFLITT	MARGINSON	MARKLAND	MARLAND
MARLOR	MARPLES	MARRITT	MARSAY	MARSLAND	MASHEDER	MASHETER	MATLEY	MATTHEWMAN	MAWDESLEY
MAWDSLEY	MAYALL	MAYLOR	MAYOH	MCKEVITT	MEADOWCROFT	MEANOCK	MEDFORTH	MELLING	MELLODEW
MELLODY	METHLEY	METTRICK	MICKLETHWAITE	MIDDLEHURST	MILLION	MIRFIELD	MORDUE	MORT	MOSBY
MOSSLEY	MOSSOP	MOTTERSHEAD	MOWFORTH	MOYERS	MUFF	MUFFITT	MULCASTER	MULLINEAUX	MULLINEUX
MUMBERSON	MURGATROYD	MUSCROFT	MUSGREAVE	MUSKER	MYERSCOUGH

NABB	NAISBETT	NATTRASS	NEALY	NEEDLER	NETHERWOOD	NEWHILL	NEWSHOLME	NIELD	NOBLET
NORCLIFFE	NORMANTON	NORTCLIFFE	NORTHIN	NORTHROP	NOWILL	NUNWICK	NUSSEY	NUTTALL	NUTTON

OCCLESHAW	ODLIN	OGARA	OGLEY	OLDALE	OLDROYD	OLLERENSHAW	OLLERTON	OLLIER	OMEROD
OPENSHAW	ORMESHER	ORMONDROYD	ORMROD	ORRELL	ORRITT	OTHICK	OTTERBURN	OUTWIN	OVERSBY
OWSTON

PALFRAMAN	PASQUILL	PEIRSON	PENDLEBURY	PENISTONE	PENKETH	PENKETHMAN	PENSWICK	PHIZACKLEA	PICKAVANCE
PICKSLEY	PICKSTON	PICKSTONE	PICKVANCE	PIGHILLS	PILKINGTON	PIMBLETT	PIMLOTT	PINCOCK	PINNINGTON
PIXTON	PLEAVIN	PLINSTON	POLDING	POLLIT	POLLITT	POMFRET	POSTLES	POSTLEWAITE	POVALL
PRESCOT	PRESTWICH	PULLAN	PYRAH

QUARMBY

QUICKFALL

QUILLIAM

QUINE

RAINFORD	RALPHSON	RAMFORD	RAMSBOTTOM	RAMWELL	RANGE	RANGELEY	RANICAR	RANSHAW	RASTRICK
RATHMELL	RAWCLIFF	RAWCLIFFE	RAWLIN	RAWNSLEY	RAWSTHORN	RAWSTHORNE	RAWSTRON	READETT	READMAN
REAVEY	REDDIHOUGH	REDGWICK	RENNARD	RENNOLDSON	RENSHALL	REWCASTLE	RIBCHESTER	RICHLEY	RIDAL
RIDEHALGH	RIDINGS	RIDYARD	RISHTON	RISHWORTH	ROADHOUSE	ROBERTSHAW	ROBINSHAW	ROBSHAW	ROBY
RODLEY	ROOCROFT	ROSBOTTOM	ROSCOW	ROSKELL	ROSSALL	ROSTRON	ROTHERA	ROTHERAM	ROTHERAY
ROUGHSEDGE	ROUNDELL	ROWARTH	ROYDS	RUDDLESDEN	RUFFLEY	RUSBY	RYDING	RYDINGS	RYLANCE

SACKFIELD	SAGAR	SAGER	SALTHOUSE	SALTS	SANDIFORD	SAXON	SAYLES	SAYNER	SAYNOR
SCARGILL	SCATCHARD	SCORAH	SCOTSON	SCOWCROFT	SCROWTHER	SEDDON	SEEL	SEPHTON	SEVILLE
SHACKLADY	SHACKLETON	SHANDLEY	SHARROCKS	SHATWELL	SHAWCROSS	SHEARD	SHEARSMITH	SHELMERDINE	SHEPLEY
SHERWEN	SHIMWELL	SHIPPERBOTTOM	SHIRTCLIFFE	SHORROCK	SHORROCKS	SHOVELTON	SHUFFLEBOTHAM	SIDEBOTHAM	SIDEBOTTOM
SIDLOW	SILSON	SIMISTER	SIMMONITE	SINNOTT	SISWICK	SIXSMITH	SKELHORN	SKELLAND	SKIPSEY
SKIRROW	SLADDIN	SMALLSHAW	SMETHURST	SOOTHILL	SORSBY	SOULSBY	SOURBUTTS	SOWERBUTTS	SOWRY
SPANN	SPEDDY	SPIBY	SPOOR	STAINCLIFFE	STAINROD	STANDEVEN	STANDRING	STANWORTH	STARKIE
STATHER	STATHERS	STATTER	STELFOX	STELL	STIRRUP	STIRZAKER	STOPFORD	STUDHOLME	STUTTARD
STYRING	SUDALL	SUDWORTH	SUGDEN	SUMMERSCALE	SUMMERSCALES	SURFLEET	SUTHERS	SUTHURST	SWADDLE
SWARBRICK	SWINDELLS	SWITHENBANK	SYDDALL

TABERN	TABERNER	TARBOTTOM	TATLOCK	TATTERSFIELD	TEMPERLEY	TEMPERTON	TENNISON	TETLEY	TETLOW
THACKRAH	THACKRAY	THACKWRAY	THEWLIS	THIRLAWAY	THIRLWELL	THOMASSON	THOMPSTONE	THORNBER	THREAPLETON
THREFALL	THRESH	THRIPPLETON	THROP	THROUP	TICKLE	TIDSWELL	TIERNAN	TIMPERLEY	TINMOUTH
TINNION	TINSDALE	TIPLING	TITHER	TITHERINGTON	TOMMIS	TONGE	TOOTELL	TOOTHILL	TOOTILL
TOOTLE	TORDOFF	TORKINGTON	TOWNHILL	TRAVERSE	TRELFALL	TREWICK	TULIP	TUNNACLIFFE	TUNSTILL
TWEDDELL	TWEEDALE	TYAS	TYLDESLEY	TYLDSLEY	TYREMAN

URMSON

URMSTON

UTTLEY

VEEVERS

VERRILL

VIRR

VOSE

WABY	WADDICAR	WADDICOR	WAGGOT	WAGGOTT	WAKENSHAW	WALBANK	WALGATE	WALKDEN	WALLWORK
WALLWORTH	WALMSLY	WANNOP	WARDROPPER	WAREING	WARHURST	WASTLE	WATMUFF	WAUDBY	WAYWELL
WEARDEN	WEARMOUTH	WEARS	WEAVILL	WEIGH	WELLBURN	WELLENS	WELSBY	WESTERDALE	WESTHEAD
WESTWELL	WESTWORTH	WHATMOUGH	WHEATER	WHEWELL	WHITELEGG	WHITEOAK	WHITESIDE	WHITTELL	WHITTLESTONE
WHITWAM	WHITWHAM	WHOWELL	WIDDALL	WIDDOP	WIDDUP	WIGFIELD	WIGFULL	WIGGANS	WILLACY
WILMAN	WIMPENNY	WINNARD	WINSTANLY	WINTERBOTTAM	WINTERBOTTOM	WINTERSGILL	WINWARD	WITHNELL	WITTER
WOAN	WOFFENDEN	WOFFINDEN	WOLFENDALE	WOLSTANHOLME	WOLSTENCROFT	WOLSTENHOLME	WOLSTENHULME	WOMERSLEY	WOOLFALL
WOOLFENDEN	WOOLLIN	WOOSEY	WORFOLK	WORSENCROFT	WORSMAN	WORSWICK	WOSTENHOLME	WRENNALL	WRIGLEY
WYCH	YEADON	YEARDLEY	YELLOWLEY	YEWDALL

Individuals who have one of the eligible surnames who wish to take part but are not able to attend one of the events are asked to emailsurnames@le.ac.uk

Further information

Individuals with queries are asked to email Turi King at surnames@le.ac.uk, or telephone 07957 725246.

Links to previous surnames studies:

http://www.le.ac.uk/genetics/maj4/surnames.html

Ainscough Legend- Scots or Lancs?

noreply@blogger.com (boobelle) — Thu, 17 Nov 2011 14:35:00 +0000

Hi Barbara
Can you help me with a family legend please?
I am the GGS of -
Sarah Ainscough b. abt. 1853 Orrell Lancashire m. abt. 1874 Pemberton Lancashire
John William Lancaster Fairhurst b. 09 Feb 1853 Lamberhead Green

Her Parents were - James Ainscough b. abt. 1825, Lancashire m.? Jane Fishwick b. abt. 1824, Lancashire
His Father was listed as James, and apparently his father was James too.
The legend states that - One of these James Ainscough's was a Scot, and apparently took part in the Jacobite rising of 1745, on the Jacobite side.
This has caused a bit of confusion as to the origin of the name - Scottish or Lancastrian? Can you help please?

Kind regards
Clive Molyneux

noreply@blogger.com (boobelle) — Fri, 22 Jul 2011 08:24:00 +0000

Hello Barbara, hope all is well.
Just a note to ask if you would like to join us on this years St. Olave's walk, this time on St. Olave's Day, Friday 29th July - should be great fun!
http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/-sczsteve/Olsok2011.htm
This year we will be joined by BBC Historian Michael Wood who is filming for a new series Story of a Nation, to appear before next years Olympic Games,
Thanks and best wishes
Steve
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Vincent Ainscough - Wrightington

noreply@blogger.com (boobelle) — Sun, 24 Apr 2011 15:39:00 +0000

Adrian Rigby writes the following:

Vincent John Ainscough (1901-1963) & Elizabeth Ann Ainscough (1901-1977)

Hi ,
I'm contacting you after finding your blog on Ainscough family history. My Grandad was Vincent Ainscough who is buried with my Grandma Elizabeth Ainscough in the Catholic church at Wrightington, the grave you could not identify. Very briefly it was Vincent who's brother Billy founded Ainscoughs' business empire from his scrap yard at Mosseylea. My granddad worked down the pit during the day and drove Billy's lorry (Billy could not drive) back from where ever he had been buying bomb damaged goods from.
Liverpool dock was a favourite from what I have been told.
I will be seeing my mum over Christmas and will tell her about this contact. Her name is Pauline Ainscough who was married to a Derek Rigby (my father).

Best Regards
Adrian Rigby: A B cartridges ltd

More information can be found here:
http://ainscough-familyhistory.blogspot.com/2007/08/ainscough-burials-wrightington.html

Alice Ainscough b.1833

noreply@blogger.com (boobelle) — Sun, 24 Apr 2011 15:05:00 +0000

On 3 Jun 2010, at 14:49, Valda Morgan (bignan6@hotmail.com) wrote:

Hi Barbara,

Just to let you know, Alice Ainscough born 1833 was my GGGGrandmother, She Married Swithin Greenough, who accidently died by falling of a Scaffold (he was a Stonemason) Alice Later came out to Australia about 1882/3, her two brothers Thomas and Richard came out to Australia around 1870 on the SS GREAT BRITAIN. Thomas was with Alice when she passed away in 1890 at Port Melbourne , Victoria, Australia. I have Alice's Death Certificate.

Also images show detail for Jane Ainscough nee Harrison and her husband John Ainscough (Wheelwright). Jane Ainscough nee Harrison and John Ainscough are Alice Greenough nee Ainscough's parents

Cheers Val Morgan. (Australia).

Stopforth family

noreply@blogger.com (boobelle) — Sun, 23 Jan 2011 14:30:00 +0000

On 23 Jan 2011, at 14:17, Wendy (wendy807@btinternet.com) wrote:

Hello Barbara,

I found your family history site on the web whilst searching for info about my 3rd Gt Grandmother Ann Stopforth b.1810 Newburgh

Although I have amassed a pile of info about the Stopforth family I cannot say for sure who Ann's parents were.
My best guess is Edward Stopforh and Catherine Hankin although I have no proof of this but her first born was Edward.

Have you come across her in your research? So far I haven't found any clues beyond the cenus records/parish clerk project etc.,
I wondered if she was born a Roman Catholic which may be why I haven't found a baptism record.

My next move is to look in Ormskirk Library and the Records office at Preston as nothing is turning up in the usual online searches.

Look forward to hearing from you

Wendy

Hi Wendy

You may have seen this post already? There are some trees here - you might also like to contact Andy Scarisbrick directly to see if he has any more info. or John Stopforth, Canada - email addresses on this page.
http://ainscough-familyhistory.blogspot.com/2008/11/stopforth-speakman-ainscough-links.html

regards
Barbara

Hi Barbara,

I saw your web site and the message from Wendy. I have just sent her the message below. If my calculations are correct, Anne Stopforth/Ainscough was my 4x great grandmother.

On 4 Apr 2011, at 16:11, JOHN STOPFORTH wrote:
JOHN STOPFORTH
Hi Wendy,
I saw your message on Barbara Ainscough's web site.

Catholicism was a strong belief in the Stopforth family and many of them were recusants. Edward Stopforth and Catherine Hankin were my 3xgreat grandparents who married on july 20th 1800 in Ormskirk at St.Peter & St. Paul's, the parish church. Their first child Thomas was baptised at St. Anne's RC Church on May 10th 1802, one of his sponsors being Anne Ainscough, but I believe that he died that same year. Thereafter are problems since I have found no further baptisms until 1820 in St. John's Burscough, also roman catholic. The problem lies in the fact that the records of St. John's are incomplete - the story goes that they were rescued as bits of paper by an anglican vicar around 1900.
To recap, their first child was Thomas, b.1802 who died the same year. As I understand it, my Thomas was born 1807 although I have yet to find the actual record but all the other facts fit. Both Thomas and William who was born in 1808 (and in 1832 married Susannah Mayor) were named as the "sons of my nephew Edward" and beneficiaries in Hugh Ainscough's Will.

The records of St John's show Edward in 1820, Jane and James, both in 1822 then Hannah in 1824. Somewhere inbetween there is Catherine and Anne, although Anne and Hannah could be the same person. There must have been other births or deaths during the missing years.

There is always the possibility that I have not got it right and that the post 1818 children belong to another Edward and Catherine but I find that hard to believe since St. John's records give Catherine's maiden name quite clearly as Hankin, or Ankin.

My Thomas married Ann Robinson in 1826 and remained as a grocer and beerseller at Spencer's Bridge for the next 40 years until they both died, possibly initially financed by Hugh's legacy. Spencer's bridge is only about a quarter of a mile from Tawdside farm where Edward and Catherine lived. As the oldest son it might have been expected that Thomas would take over the farm when Edward died but it would appear not to have been so. Edward continued to run the farm until at least the age of 77 in 1851.
If this has been of any help, please get in touch.

John Stopforth.

On 5 Apr 2011, at 11:07, JOHN STOPFORTH wrote:

Hi Barbara,

Thanks for your speedy reply.

I am fairly happy with my family tree going back to the second half of the seventeenth century but before that is very problematic - and may always be so. The date stone on the gable end of Tawdside Farm bears the initials E,A,S 1684, that I take to be Edward and Alice Stopforth (nee Dickett). Now a long shot. As far as I can make out, "our ancestors area" became settled in the late tudor times with the draining of the mosses - the straight drainage lines can be clearly seen on the OS map of today with farms and villages dotted around the outsides. A trawl through A2A gives lots of documents dating from the first half of the seventeenth century that concern property transfers that refer to "the inheritance of the late William Stopforth" This seems to have been the William who was secretary to Lord Derby on the IOM and who seems to have been somewhat aquisitive with regard to properties. (reference the Miles Standish dispute).

It looks like his properties were given out to various members of the Stopforth family after his death but how they were related to him, I have no idea. He must have made a will but I have been unable to find it. Do you have any ideas? I believe his widow married into the Heskeths.

Regards, JS

Harriet Parkinson (GG Grandmother)

noreply@blogger.com (boobelle) — Fri, 31 Dec 2010 19:51:00 +0000

Many thanks to David Wilson (david_wilson2@btconnect.com) for this information on my Parkinson ancestors - Harriet Parkinson b.1845-d.1936 was my GG grandmother, she married Joseph Meredith Foxley b. 1847 (GG grandfather).
Their daughter Elsie Foxley b.1882 (G grandmother) married Jim Faulkner b.1873 and were the parents of my gran Freda Faulkner.

Dear Barbara

I've just come across your website and see that you are related to Harriet Parkinson, born 1845 in Wrenbury. Harriet was the sister of my gg grandfather Thomas Parkinson.

You might be interested in my website below, which tracks the Parkinsons back 3 more generations.

http://www.wilsonfamilytree.net/parkinsonlineage.asp

The Parkinsons were tenant famers in Wrenbury. I'm still building my website so all the info I have is not on there but I do have quite a few more details including info on the exact fields they farmed -here's a link to e-maps of Cheshire which show the fields that were farmed by Thomas Parkinson in Wrenbury Heath.

http://www.wilsonfamilytree.net/parkinsonfamily.asp

I live quite close to Wrenbury and so I've had a chance to drive by the site. The farmhouse doesn't exist any more. Indeed, there are houses now on both sides of the road where Thomas farmed. The fields on the Wrenbury-Ravensmoor Road are still farmland though. If you type Parkinson in to the map search function you'll also find Thomas's sons Samuel and James were also living in Wrenbury Heath at that time. Samuel was renting a house and a couple of fields whilst James was living with another family a few hundred yards away from Thomas.

What I can tell you is that the Parkinsons as a family lived in Wrenbury until about 1900, by which time, for various reasons, they all moved out of the area. My g.g.grandfather Walter Parkinson (Harriet's nephew) left in the 1890s and ended up as a railway station master in Bangor, N.Wales. My grandfather, Bruce was born in N. Wales but eventually moved to Manchester, which is where I was born (the fact that I live in Crewe only 8 miles or so from Wrenbury is a coincidence).

My mother always used to tell me that the Parkinsons were "gentleman farmers"" (her words) and certainly the early generations were tenant farmers. However, the later censuses show them merely as agricultural labourers so I assume at some point the farm tenancy was lost. I guess that's why they all evetually left the area.
One story my mother always used to tell me was that one of the Parkinsons was known as "Mad" Parkinson - something about him riding round the neighbourhood on a horse threatening people. The story is very sketchy and my mum is unfortunately no longer with us. I'd be interested to know though, whether your father passed down any stories on how the Parkinsons lived or what they were like.

Kind regards

David Wilson

Old Tom Cowley

noreply@blogger.com (boobelle) — Sun, 19 Dec 2010 08:09:00 +0000

Many thanks to Sylvia for sharing this image of Old Tom Cowley with us...photo shows Tom with his family at the Willows in Mawdesley.

Sylvia goes on to say that she checked his address on the census, "and it is our Tom Cowley, brother of Everilda." Many more images of old Mawdesley can be viewed here: click on "Local History" on the left, then on "Old Photographs"

daughter of Edward & Dortothy (Cowell) Ainscough

noreply@blogger.com (boobelle) — Tue, 23 Nov 2010 20:16:00 +0000

On 20 Nov 2010, at 18:06, Anita Smith wrote:

Hi Barbara,
I have enclosed a photo of Elizabeth Ann Ainscough daughter of Edward Ainscough and Dorothy Cowell,
Edward and Dorothy are the grt grt grt grandparents of my husband John Francis Smith we live in Conwy North Wales,
If you want any more information let me know,
Regards Anita Smith

Hi Anita
Thank you for the image, I have added it to the flickr Ainscough collection. It is great to build up a fuller picture of this family. More detail can be found on this blog at:
http://ainscough-familyhistory.blogspot.com/2007/03/edward-dorothy-ainscough-mawdesley.html
Edward is the grandson of James b.1756, who was brother to my ancestor John (who married Margaret Worthington) and Hugh (liqour merchant), of Ormskirk (d.1813).

If you have any census detail, trees or other researched information connected to this family that you feel might benefit others then please forward to me so that I can add it to the box. net facility on the blog.
regards
B

Wrightington - Speakman - Ainscough links

noreply@blogger.com (boobelle) — Mon, 25 Oct 2010 07:24:00 +0000

The PDF (guessed Speakman connections) of the tree above can be downloaded from box.net on the right.

On 16 Aug 2010, at 17:35, Tom Massam (tvmassam@yahoo.co.uk) wrote:

Dear Barbara,
Please could you help me or point me in the direction of someone who knows a lot about the Wrightington / Speakmans.
I am looking for the family of Esther Speakman. She married Henry Massam on 4th March 1810, in Scarisbrick with witnesses Henry Dobson, Mary Speakman and Helen Speakman. I know that Esther died in 1813, and her infant son James Massam was taken by an aunt to live with his grandfather (Speakman) in Wrightington. The source did not specify whether the aunt was married or was an aunt by marriage.
I speculate that Esther's parents were Thomas and Ann Speakman and that Esther had sisters Mary (born 1787 - 1791), Elizabeth (born 1782 - 1786) and Dorothy (born 1792 - 1796) so I am searching for birth records of Esther and these ladies - but in spite of scanning many church registers I have not found a record of their births.
Reasons for the speculation:

1. Thomas and Ann were active as godparents in the RC parish of Scarisbrick (1785 - 1787) at a time which would correspond to them being a young married couple at the guessed time of Esther' birth and in the years just before the births of Mary Elizabeth and Dorothy.

2. Mary Elizabeth and Dorothy Speakman were living together at Wrightington Coal Gate in the 1841 census.

3. On 26 Aug 1782, a Thomas Speakman of Dalton married Ann Bullen of Holland at Wigan All Saints (Maybe a repeat marriage following a private RC marriage?).

4. There was a large Bullen family in Scarisbrick.

Another possible connection: Esther's son James Massam became an RC priest and was the first parish priest of Longton near Stoke. Was his vocation influenced by a relative? The 1861 census records Ann Speakman, born in Wrightington 1796/7 as Prioress of St. Dominice priory at Hurst Green. The Dominican records say "Professed at Hartbury Court May 6 1829 Sister Ann Mary Luisa Speakman born 13 March 1797".
Thanks for any help you can give and I hope they fit in with your Speakmans.
Tom Massam, of Scarisbrick. (Cousin of Andrew Scarisbrick).

On 17 Aug 2010, at 11:22, Andrew Scarisbrick wrote:

Hi Barbara
Long time since we've spoken. I hope you are keeping ok.
And Hi Tom... talk about small world. I don't have anything definite to add, but the speculation does seem logical. Plus I maybe have another coincidence in this.
There was another marriage at Wigan All Saints, 1st Feb 1779, between James Speakman of Dalton and Margaret Bullen "of Rightington" (their spelling). Possibly two Speakman brothers marrying two Bullen sisters?
Regards for now,
Andrew

On 17 Aug 2010, at 13:33, Andrew Scarisbrick wrote:

Hi Barbara
Not to confuse you too much, Tom, but I have found another Bullen marriage at Wigan, All Saints, that may interest you. On the7th of March 1791, William Fairclough of Upholland married Mary Bullen of Lathom, witnesses Robt Bullen and John Holt. Their children were baptised at St. James RC, Upholland/Orrell. Their son, Hugh, married Catherine Speakman, daughter of Joseph Speakman and Susannah Ainscough, and Veronica may be interested in these Faircloughs!
Andrew

Harrock Hall - Rigby Link

noreply@blogger.com (boobelle) — Mon, 25 Oct 2010 06:48:00 +0000

On 25 Oct 2010, at 05:04, Stephen Pitman (stephen.pitman@gardline.com) wrote:

Dear Barbara
I stumbled upon your website about the Ainscoughs of Harrock Hall when I was doing my own research on my mother's side, the RIGBYES or now RIGBYS.
We have extensive references to afew of our family sirnames, namely Marsden, Rigby, Worthington, Dandye to Parbold, Douglas Chapel where they had pews. An exerpt from 'Transactions of the Historic Society of Lancashire and Cheshire Vol XLVII.' is copied below with reference to the Rigbys of Harrock. You can also search online for the book by googling it. Do you have any other information on the Rigbys of Harrock, Peter Rigbie de Lathom, or a Tomas Marsden? It seems they were there quite a long time ago. Do you also know how the Ainscoughs aquired Harrock? Would it have been from one of your ancestors marrying Eleanor Rigbye for example, who was left the estate?

I hope to hear from you soon, and hope the information below is helpful to yourself as well.
Kind regards
Stephen Pitman

Historical Notes on Douglas Chapel. 215
... There were a few old oak benches and pews in the chapel, having initials, and dates of the first half of the seventeenth century, notably one with the name ** Nicholas Rigbye" and a date carved upon it. This was in the south-east comer, and was always occupied by the family residing at Harrock Hall." The Parbold Hall pew adjoined this one. The chapel was absolutely devoid of any coats of arms, tablets, brasses, or monuments relating to the founders or any local families, and the inference is that at the time of the Reformation anything of this sort which may have existed was destroyed and ruthlessly swept away. The edifice, as it stood at the time of its demolition, consisted of a plain rectangular nave without M These galleries were built during the incumbenqr of the Rev. John Johnson. — Frivaii papers of Rev. John Price.
« Harrock Hall was in the possession of the Rigbye family anterior to the fifteenth century. The family continued in the male line until the death of Thomas Rigbye, Esq., who in 1775 <^evi8ed Harrock Hall and other estates to his sister Eleanor Rigbye for her life, with remainder to his nephew, the Rev. John Baldwin, M.A., Rector of North Meols, who, in compliance with bis uQC^'s wiUf^tfsumed the surname and arms of Rigbye.— GaslreU's HctUia. Wikipedia - Saint John Rigby - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Rigby_(martyr)

On 15 Oct 2010, at 09:40, Noeline Smith (noeline.smith@hotmail.co.uk) wrote:

Hello,
I stumbled across your 'Blogspot' whilst carrying out my own family research. I am not related to you - but found your site very interesting nonetheless!
I believe that I could be descended from the Rigbys of Harrock Hall and it was whilst lookng for information on that that your site cropped up. I have worked my way back to the mid 1600s and although I don't yet have positive proof it is looking very promising.

I have been trying to read the article entitled "Going back to their roots" but the resolution is not fine enough to read on line so I wondered if you would mind very much sending me a copy as it seems to say something about the Rigbys. Also, if you have any other information regarding the Hall (or possibly the Rigbys?!) would you be happy to share that with me or perhaps point me in the right directon. I live near Salisbury, Wiltshire so that makes things a little more tricky - something that's obvious to a 'local' is easily overlooked!
Many thanks,
Noeline Smith (nee Rigby)

On 29 Oct 2010, at 09:29, JOHN COBHAM wrote:

Stephen,
Regarding your enquiry re Harrock Hall & Ainscough/Rigby connection.
Bill Ainscough purchased Harrock Hall from Sir Peter Moores, who owns a lot of the land around Wrightington & Parbold several years ago & until Bill aquired it it was pretty much run down. PM himself never lived there, he lives at Parbold Hall. So there is no connection between the Ainscoughs & Rigbys. There is a connection with Harrock & St John Rigby, Martyred in the 16th century & each year a Mass is said in the barn at Harrock Hall to commemorate him. I think Eccleston parish church has some records of the old Rigbye family but I couldn't be sure.
Regards
John Cobham

St.Olav Wirral Viking Walk: Saturday July 31st

noreply@blogger.com (boobelle) — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 06:26:00 +0000

St. Olav, the “Viking Saint” is the Patron Saint of Scandinavia, and the walk celebrates St. Olav’s day. 13 miles. Good standard of fitness required.
Pilgrims/walkers are also welcome to join in for just part of the walk! – such as the first bit from Neston to Burton, or the last bit across Chester.

Route: Start Church of St. Mary and St. Helen, Neston 9.30am
Via: Burton, Puddington, Shotwick, Welsh Border, Blacon, Chester Canal
End: St. Olave’s Church, Lower Bridge Street, Chester
All walkers/pilgrims come at their own risk and MUST register (free) with the Grosvenor Museum Chester: 01244 402005 or email steve.harding@nottingham.ac.uk

The walk will be led by Norway’s St. Olav Pilgrim Priest

Click here for more information:

Anecdotes from Fairhurst Hall, Parbold

noreply@blogger.com (boobelle) — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 16:46:00 +0000

Anthony Travis (ant.travis@gmail.com) shares this amusing anecdote to the Fairhurst Hall story.......
When my father, George Travis, retired in about 1977 he handed all his business suits to his full time gardener. By coincidence it happened that the gardener, a retired coal miner and local Parbold man, was called Matthew Fairhurst. He was known by us as Matt.
Matt took to wearing my father's old suits when working in the grounds at Fairhurst and was often joined by my father, who wore very old and well worn outdoor clothes when they were clearing the leaves, mowing the lawns and generally keeping things in good trim.
Visitors who were unfamiliar with the Hall, which is only visible when one is already well down the drive, would sometimes stop and ask Matt, who was of course the better dressed of the two gardeners, the way to Fairhurst and where to park their car. Matt would reply that he was Mr Fairhurst and point them in the right direction. Naturally the visitors assumed that Matt was the owner.
This confusion was a source of great amusement particularly when the visitors, on meeting my father in the Hall to discuss the purpose of their visit would insist on meeting the owner rather than the gardener.

By the way, when Dr and Mrs Tom Rigg sold Fairhurst Hall they built the house on the land just behind the large stone built barn that is to be found at the southern end of the estate and at the bottom of the main drive.
Tom was a well known and successful pigeon fancier and kept his flock of pigeons in the barn next door to their house. On many occasions he could be seen with a tennis racquet hitting tennis balls high into the sky at the pigeons as they wheeled in circles above the barn. He explained that this technique was to train the pigeons to fly at a good height.
Such was country life!

Being a doctor Tom Rigg was able to treat and sew up wounds suffered by his racing pigeons when they returned from their long flights home. I would sometimes join him and hold the pigeons while he operated on them. They were wonderful creatures. Tom and his wife were the most genial and interesting neighbours one could wish for and helped make Fairhurst a fascinating place to live.
One final point. Did you know that the Hall is haunted? That of course is another story for another time but I can say that I and others were sometimes woken by the sound of strange and unexplained footsteps in the night!
Kindest regards
Anthony

More about Fairhurst Hall, Parbold

noreply@blogger.com (boobelle) — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 18:29:00 +0000

Images show Fairhurst Hall prior to when the part of the right was demolished by Tom Rigg in the early Fifties.
The 3 pg article appeared in the latter part of the 1960's when the Maiden's lived at Fairhurst and not long before the Travis family acquired it in 1967.
The Maidens moved to Birkdale, Southport.
The south facing side of Fairhurst Hall in all its glory during a cold but sunny winter afternoon sometime in the 1980's. Going clockwise from the lower two left hand windows was the dining room, the next two windows to the right with the front door between them was the hall. That front door used to be a window before the Fifties, but before the later 19th century addition to the house was built and subsequently demolished by Tom Rigg, it was the old front door of the Queen Anne house that still remains and was the original Hall. The upper two right hand windows were the spare bedroom, the single window to their left was my bedroom and the two windows to the left were my father-s dressing room and the two upper windows on the left were my parents- bedroom.
And one from the air at around noon on a hot summer's day sometime in the 1980's.
Until the mid 1980's there was a large rose bed where the lawn is before the front door. This was removed when the house flooded in 1982 following a sudden downpour when the stream running through the woods above the house and below Parbold Hill overflowed and swept through the garden and covered the Hall's ground floor with mud!

On 13 Jul 2010, at 11:00, ant.travis@gmail.com wrote:

Dear Boobelle
I enjoyed seeing the old Ainscough family photographs on your blog. I knew some of your family back in the 1960's when I lived at Fairhurst Hall.

Martin and May Ainscough and John and Margie Ainscough each lived just up the road from us and John and Margie Ainscough's kids and I were great friends playing tennis at their house on Sunday afternoons and frequently gathering at the Windmill Arms to play tippit and other pub games on Friday evenings with the locals and gang of close friends. I also knew Ossie Ainscough at Casterton Hall. I recall him as a rather fearsome character unlike Martin and John who were the most charming, friendly and welcoming old fellows. Ossie had a daughter (who's name a cannot remember for the time-being). She was quite a character! I particularly remember with great affection Tony, Ruth and Chrissie Ainscough (three of John and Margie's many kids). Please feel free to remember them to me if you are in touch with any of them.
Fairhurst Hall was a wonderful family home.

I don't have any old photos of the Ainscough family but I know who probably does. He's called Richard Lewis who to lived in Parbold in the Sixties and now lives in Shropshire. I think he bumped into Tony Ainscough in Burscough some time ago so may have passed on some memorabilia of the large get togethers we had on long summer Sunday afternoons to play tennis at John and Margie's house. We also used to play croquet on the lawn at Fairhurst.
I probably do have some old photos of Fairhurst somewhere and will try to dig them out and send them to you. The photo you have on your blog was made prior to the extensive changes made by Dr Tom Rigg in the early Fifties where the "newer" part of the house to the right of the photo (where the front door was) was demolished leaving the older part to the left intact. My parents, George and Diana Travis, bought the house in 1967 and renovated it making substantial changes to the interior.
Well beforehand my mother used to play bridge at Fairhurst when May Ainscough was living there. This would have been in the late Thirties and early Forties.
My parents acquired Fairhurst from Ian Maiden (of Maiden Displays) who had bought it from Tom Rigg some years earlier.
Martha Rigg, daughter of Dr and Mrs Tom Rigg married a Parbold resident Ainscough being Peter son of Martin and May Ainscough. Martha also grew up at Fairhurst so there are many more Ainscough family connections with the house than one might think.
Kindest regards
Anthony Travis

e mail: ant.travis@gmail.com

Louisa Earnshaw-Whalley

noreply@blogger.com (boobelle) — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 09:55:00 +0000

Hi Barbara
Hope you are well, apologies for not keeping in touch lately, but been a bit busy, as we all seem to be these days. I thought I'd send you a photo of my grandmother to add to your collection - Louisa Gertrude Earnshaw. I think you have her records - born in 1883 in Longridge, Lancashire, daughter of Ann Ainscough and Henry Earnshaw. She was later adopted by her older sister, Helen (b 1871) who was married to John Whalley, hence she became an Earnshaw-Whalley until she married my grandfather William Walsh. An
interesting snippet - Louisa and William were in the same junior school class together aged about 10 in Colne but didn't get together till a lot later - I've got another photo of them as classmates I can send you.
This attached photo was taken about 1900 I think, but that's a guess - she looks to be in her late teens. She had blonde hair, as did my mum and as did I till it got grey - maybe inherited from our Viking past on the Ainscough side?
Anyway, please let me know how you're going, and keep in touch.
Cheers, Richard
Richard Harris
harrisrichard@westnet.com.au

Recollection - exhibition 24 April-5 June 2010

noreply@blogger.com (boobelle) — Mon, 19 Apr 2010 17:24:00 +0000