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People Connected to Lancashire
People connected to Lancashire can be placed in the following groups.
Historical and Political people
- accommodated by the project Historic Lancashire Link to follow which covers the History of Lancashire and historical/political people. Some of these are also listed in the Famous people category.
Families with their roots in Lancashire.
Please add the earliest head of the family to the list of Lancastrian Families on Geni below and link their profiles to the project. These should be male! Adding anyone with a Lancastrian birthplace to the project would cause the project to be a little cluttered, so please restrict this to the earliest head of family!
Famous or Notable People
Those people of note with connections to the county are listed below. Some of these connections are a little tenuous - counties like to lay claim to people of renown! Please visit Lancashire - Famous People and add them to the listing there.
Emigrants
People from Lancashire who went to the "New world" and were early progenitors in those countries. Where the earliest ancestor is known please add them to the list of "Lancashire families on Geni" below if that was their roots, or to the appropriate county project.
Where the earliest known ancestor is the emigrant add them to the list below. In some cases if there is a project that covers them in detail please link the project - there is no point in duplicating the list.
Names with Bold links are to Geni profiles. Non-bold links take you to other biographical web pages.
Lancashire Genealogical Resources
- Genuki Lancashire Page
- OnLine Parish Clerks for the County of Lancashire The site aims to extract and preserve the records from the various parishes and to provide online access to that data, FREE of charge, along with other data of value to family and local historians conducting research in the County of Lancashire. An OnLine Parish Clerk should not be confused with Parish Clerks, who work for parish or town councils.
- Lancashire Births, Marriages and Deaths
- Manchester and Lancashire Family History Society
- [Liverpool and Southwest Lancashire Family History Society]
Names with Bold links are to Geni profiles. Non-bold links take you to other biographical web pages.
Lancastrian Families on Geni
How to add a link is explained in the attached document - Adding links to Geni profiles in projects.
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- James Atherton (1524 - 1559)
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- John Bocock (c1781-1847) Bolton
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- Andrew Christy (1799-1865) Although born in Shropshire the family established themselves in Lancashire
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The Tinnes were Dutch sugar merchants and ship owners, who went to Liverpool from Demarara in what was then Dutch Guiana, later to be re-named British Guiana (and finally, following independence in 1966, Guyana) on the North East coast of South America. During the 19th century, as part of the firm of Sandbach, Tinne & Co, the family made a great fortune importing sugar, molasses, coffee and tropical hardwoods from their plantations.
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- Thomas Wallwork (c 1809 - bef 1861) Dead end - sometimes Wallworth
- Samuel Worroll (c 1795-1861)
Emigrants from Lancashire
Please add the names of people from Lancashire who settled in the "New World"
America
- James Atherton (c. 1624 - 1710)