Lancashire - Family History & Genealogy Message Board

thomas lancashire

jlancashire_1 — 12 Sep 2008 12:36:38 GMT

looking for the mother of thomas lancashire..born 1851 in marylebone london.
john

lancashire

jlancashire_1 — 12 Sep 2008 12:34:46 GMT

does anyone have info on robert lancashire,father of thomas who was born in 1851 in marylebone london.
john

Have you researched Lancashires from before about 1750?

andreweninge — 25 May 2008 12:59:48 GMT

Hello Lancashire Researchers!

I am looking for any genealogists who've researched Lancasters or Lancashires (the two surnames were once equivalent) successfully going back to times before about 1750.

What I would like to call for are written descriptions of this work, with some mention of the evidence, the conclusions, the possibilities, and what further research might be undertaken. These can be short or long.

My aim is to work with others to add to the collection of such stories which I have myself been building up on my Lancaster webpage: http://users.skynet.be/lancaster/Lancaster%20Index.html

I'd be helping people publish on to the internet, for the greater good of all Lancaster genealogy.

Why do I think that this sort of work is so critical?

Because before 1750 or so is where most of us get stuck even when we do know all the available resources fairly well.

Consider what this idea is NOT...

1. Forums like this one, are excellent places for swapping ideas about how to trace a family in the 1800s for example, and there are many resources on the internet. So genealogists from many families are working away well on this all the time. If you are stuck in the late 1700s or after that time, post a clear question on this message board!

...But eventually most of us, including me personally, get stuck in the 1700s, because this is a time when English speaking populations were already growing and moving very fast, but good records had NOT yet become reliable all around the English speaking world.

We want to be able to jump back to the earlier times when populations were small and stayed in the same parishes for a long time, but it is very difficult.

...and it is precisely at that point that we begin to search around to see what earlier families we MIGHT be related to, and who has written about them.

2. While I have nothing against some of the family trees posted around the internet, many of them are copied from each other for the early parts of their trees, and the guesses in them are often no longer known to be guesses. Indeed, even many pre-internet publications suffer from the same problem.

(All family tree work needs guessing. I am not against guessing when people say that they are guessing, or that their source was guessing.)

The hypothetical genealogist I described above, who has worked hard to get back to the 1700s and now looks around the internet for good material to work with, unfortunately spends a lot of time on false leads because of this.

What I am looking for are people who can explain the sources of proof for the family trees of Lancasters this far back.

Is there anybody out there interested in participating in this effort?

My normal e-mail address is andrew.lancaster@skynet.be

Best Regards
Andrew Lancaster

Richard & Rachael LANCASHIRE, early 1800s, Lancashire county, England

JoMac53 — 27 Jan 2008 10:05:01 GMT

On the assumption that my LARCASHIRE/LIRCASHIRE ancestor could be a mistranscription of LANCASHIRE, I would like to know if anyone is familiar with Richard and Rachael (BRADFORD) LANCASHIRE?

They had a daughter named Charlotte who was born about 1813 in Lancashire co. She married James HARRISON, born about 1811. Charlotte & James, with children Thomas, Ellen, Sarah and Nancy, left for the US in 1850 from Liverpool.

I believe they are in the 1841 census for Bede St., St. Martin, Liverpool, Lancashire.

Thanks.
Jo

Time to get started with DNA study of the Lancashire surname

andreweninge — 26 Jan 2008 9:45:54 GMT

Update from the Lancaster/Lancashire etc DNA project.

We do not yet have any Lancashires as such but we now have results for a very large Lancaster family who descend from one Robert Lancaster or Lancashire (Lanquishear) who was in Virginia in the 1600s. It seems he may be connected to the Lancashire family from the London region.

It would be fascinating if we could now finally have some Lancashire participation in this project. It is certain that Lancashire and Lancaster have occasionally been used by the same people, and so there should be fascinating connections and disconnections between the two surnames.

Best Regards
Andrew Lancaster
The project: http://users.skynet.be/lancaster/Lancaster.htm

Lancashire''s worldwide

Stella — 30 Sep 1999 4:59:46 GMT

has any one started a one name search?

Lancashires from Manchester

Antonia — 11 Sep 2005 4:32:29 GMT

Does anyone have any info on Lancashires of Manchester/Manchester area? What about Lanchashires of Lancashire? I have very little info. Also, is Lancashire a district? How does it relate to Manchester? Thank you in advance for any help.

Lancashire family

Antonia — 23 Dec 2005 11:14:38 GMT

I am trying to locate Jessie Lancashire. Possibly lived in
Prestwich in 1960's and 1970's. Any help greatly appreciated.

Uriah Lancashire

Donna Anne Moakes — 10 Jun 2001 9:10:00 GMT

Hello,I am really keen to find out anything about my family tree.My great grandad was called Uriah Lancashire, he lived in Sutton in Ashfield,Notts.He was married.One of his daughters was called Mary(Married Alfred Moakes) and moved to Kirkby in Ashfield, Notts. Any help would be very wonderful and exciting I understand that he came from a large family.Donna

lancashire family

jlancshire — 2 Jun 2005 4:43:47 GMT

searching for birth and marriage of Frederick Lancashire. Birth some time around 1850 and marriage about 1872.Wife was named Bridget

Lancashire DNA

andreweninge — 11 Jun 2005 9:39:58 GMT

I am the adminstrator (a volunteer by the way) of the Lancaster DNA surname project.

As it seems Lancashire and Lancaster may have sometimes been interchangeable names, and there is not a Lancashire DNA project, I have set the project up with the lab we work with so that Lancashires may join the project. See:

http://users.skynet.be/lancaster/Lancaster.htm

Best Regards
Andrew Lancaster

lancashire

jlancshire — 25 Apr 2005 4:43:34 GMT

looking for Edward, Billy and Tommy Lancashire or their decendants.Originally from London.

Georgiana Lancashire / Joseph Hodgkins

merrygoblin — 25 Jan 2004 11:57:22 GMT

I'm looking for information on Georgiana Lancashire who probably lived in the Staffordshire area (England). She was (probably) born about 1841, and I know she married Joseph Hodgkins in 1862. Her father was John Lancashire, and she had children Henry, Maria, Authur and William. Any help appreciated.

lancashire surname

jlancshire — 25 Apr 2005 4:43:34 GMT

looking for sons of Tommy and Rose Lancashire.....Billy ...Tommy...Eddy...formally of London

LANCASHIRE of Nottingham.

edgley97 — 21 Mar 2006 8:27:47 GMT

I am looking for descendants of Francis Samuel Lancashire and Elizabeth Ann Smith Shakespeare who were married in Nottingham in 1897.

Lancashire family from Wilnecote, Warwick and Glascote

Kate — 6 Feb 2003 10:20:45 GMT

Looking for anybody researching the lancashire family from Wilnecote, Warwick and Glascote. Have traced my Great, Great, Great parents as William and Maria Lancashire (nee Brown).

lancashire

jlancshire — 25 Apr 2005 4:43:34 GMT

looking for decendants of Tommy and Rose Lancashire of London

lancashire

jlancshire — 25 Apr 2005 4:43:34 GMT

looking for decendants of Tommy and Rose Lancashire who were from London

Lancashire

jlancshire — 25 Apr 2005 4:43:34 GMT

looking for decendants of Tommy and Rose Lancashire..originally from London

ancestors: LANCASHIRE in Devon?

jlancshire — 23 Jul 2008 2:34:52 GMT

Any Lancashires in Devon

Lancashire Family

vicki — 13 Feb 2001 1:17:10 GMT

I am researching the Lancashire family who live and lived in London. I am back to the early 1800's. If you have any info on Lancashire in London, please contact me.

Robert William Lancashire from England who married Sarah Winstanley

mitca2 — 27 Nov 2005 4:01:25 GMT

Hi
My husband's g-g-grandfather, was Robert William Lancashire from England who married Sarah Winstanley. They had a daughter, Eliza Winstanley who was born in England December 3, 1857. That is as far back as I go right now unfortunatly.