The latest information added to the website:
Updated: 08 August 2010
| 1: | The Weights Family pages. Updated 08 August 2010 (see note 20) |
| 2: | New "Contact Me" page added. Updated 18 May 2010 (see note 19) |
| 3: | The Boocock Family pages. Updated 18 May 2010 (see note 18) |
| 4: | The Swarbrick & Boocock Family pages. Updated 30 January 2010 (see note 17) |
| 5: | The Swarbrick Family pages. Updated 4 December 2009 (see note 16) |
| 6: | The Morton Family pages. Updated 11 October 2009 (see note 15) |
| 7: | Preston Cemetery Records. Further updates 22 September 2009 (see notes 11 & 14) |
| 8: | The Swarbrick Family pages. Updated 25 September 2009 (see note 13) |
| 9: | Preston Cemetery Records. Further updates 21 August 2009 (see note 11) |
| 10: | The Swarbrick Family pages. Updated 17 January 2009 (see note 12) |
Notes:
| 20: | Amendments and additions to the Weights family pages, including previously unknown children. |
| 19: | In order to make it easier for visitors to contact me I have added a dedicated Contact Me page. You can view the page and contact me HERE. |
| 18: | I have discovered that my great-uncle Robert Boocock may have been a bigamist! He emigrated to the USA in about 1894 and remarried. You can view the updated pages HERE. |
| 17: | At long last, I have found the birth and baptism information for my Great-Grandmother, Ellen Boocock, wife of George Swarbrick, who was born in Dublin. You can view the updated pages HERE. |
| 16: | Added burial dates for Harry Norris Swarbrick, his wife Mary Ann (Salthouse), and two of their children. You can view the updated pages HERE. |
| 15: | After being contacted by two Morton researchers, I decided it was time to update some of the Morton family pages. I am indebted
to Nick Owen for his assistance and photographs. You can view the updated pages HERE. |
| 14: | I've identified 3 more Swarbricks buried at Preston Cemetery. This was made difficult because 2 of the 3 were recorded in the burial registers with the wrong first names! You can view the updated pages HERE. |
| 13: | Continuing to update Swarbrick section, I have added a family page for James, son of John Swarbrick & Betty Higginson. You can view the new page HERE. More to follow. |
| 12: | With the release of the 1911 Census I have updated the pages concerning my grandfather's family. The biggest surprise to come from this new resource is that my great-grandparents had six children, having had a daughter who was born and died in Ramsbottom. You can view these updated pages HERE. |
| 11: | I have been working on trying to identify the other Swarbricks buried in the Catholic sections of Preston Cemetery. It is an on-going project and - to be honest - I'll probably never be able to identify everyone, but I will do as much as I can. You can view these updated pages HERE. |
| 10: | I have added family pages for two more children of Henry Swarbrick and Elizabeth Bamford, including one son that I'd only recently discovered. You can view these family pages HERE. |
| 9: | Although as yet unfinished, I have started to add a family page for William, son of Richard Swarbrick and Mary Goose, who died at the siege of Sebastopol in 1855. You can view his family page HERE. |
| 8: | I've finally started to add family pages for some of the other 18 children of George and Mary Swarbrick. You can view his family page HERE. |
| 7: | I have added brief marriage details for Margery and Alice, two of the daughters of John and Mary Morton of Claughton-on-Brock. You can view these new and updated pages from HERE. |
| 6: | For quite some time I have been exchanging information with my distant cousins David Swarbrick and Derek Sadler regarding the
Liverpool branch of our family. After being contacted by some other distant cousins, Marc Ball, Linda Young and Claire Vincent, I decided to update the
Liverpool branch and have added pages for Alfred, Robert and Elizabeth Swarbrick, three of the children of William and Martha. You can view these new and updated pages HERE. |
| 5: | One thing sometimes leads to another and after updating the Higson pages (see below) I decided to look at some of the other branches of the family and ended up adding quite a bit to the Dyson family pages. |
| 4: | I had all but given up on finding any information on Henry Boocock but my distant cousin Joy Seamons cracked this one. She first traced Henry and his family to Liverpool in 1851, but from there the trail went cold - until she decided to trace another member of the family, Catherine Susannah Higson. As it turns out, Catherine married one of the sons of Henry Boocock in Wales. After an extensive search of the Census - trying every imaginable variation in the spelling, she traced Henry to Monmouthshire in Wales. Joy was kind enough to share this information with me and I used that information to find a little more. I will continue to dig away at this branch of the family and add to this section of the website. |
| 3: | My distant cousin Frances Walsh has come to my rescue again. Mrs Walsh contacted me from the USA, where she is on holiday, to tell me that she had just been to lunch with Mrs Marion Jordan, who, despite the information on my website saying that she died in 1993, is very much alive. I sincerely apologize to Mrs Jordan and her family for this error and for any upset it may have caused. |
| 2: | After finding some further information, I decided to take a temporary break from working on the Norris family pages and update the pages concerning Mary (Swarbrick) Bamber and her children. These pages are still unfinished but add much more information than what was previously included. |
| 1: | I am currently working on the descendants of Robert Caunce Norris, son of Anne Norris, which follows the line of his only child, Ann "Nanny" Norris and her husband Thomas Rigbye, of Croston. |