Members
Boat Families
Families listed in the Tom Steel Genealogy Wiki
S.W. Lancashire
- Allin of Aughton & Radcliffe; Ashcroft of Bickerstaffe & Aughton; Aspinwall of Melling; Aspinwall of Scarisbrick & Toxteth Park
- Bickerstaffe of Bickerstaffe & Aughton; Bolton of Sefton; Bradley of Maghull; Brown of Aughton & Leyland; Buckley of Ormskirk; Butler of Aughton; Byrom of Byrom & Moore
- Culshaw of Scarisbrick & Ormskirk
- Ellison of Wavertree
- Formby of Formby; Forster of Prescot; Frearson of Leyland & Ulverston
- Garnett of Rainhill; Guy of Aughton
- Halsall of Huyton; Hartley of Ormskirk; Heaton of Rainford & Cuerdley; Hodgkinson of Warrington & Toxteth Park; Hodson of Pemberton; Hughes of N. Wales; Hurst of Upholland
- Jackson of Cuerden; Johnson of Ormskirk
- Kenwrick of Eccleston & Rainhill
- Latham of Aughton; Latham of Knowsley & Whiston; Lea of Rufford & Scarisbrick; Ledson of Melling; Lloyd of N. Wales & Altcar; Lyon of Eccleston; Lyon of Rainford & Melling
- Massam of Altcar & Formby; Mather of Billinge; Molyneux of Upholland & Aintree
- Norris of Aughton; Norris of Formby
- Ormshaw of Scarisbrick & Aughton
- Potter of Windle and Whiston; Pyke of Eccleston
- Range of Thornton; Rawlinson of Newton; Rice of Formby; Rimmer of Ainsdale; Rimmer of North Meols and Bickerstaffe; Roscowe of North Meols
- Sadler of Prescot; Savage of Cuerdley; Shaw of Downholland; Silcock of Orrell; Smyth of Ormskirk; Sparkes of St Helens; Spencer of Lathom; Sutton of Formby
- Westhead of Aughton; Woodward of Much Woolton; Woolfall of Wavertree
N. Cheshire
- Barton of Barton
- Dennis of Moore
- Gill of Birkenhead
- Latchford of Moore
Gloucestershire & Worcestershire
- Alcock of Forthampton
- Bloxham of Upton-on-Severn
- Hawkins of Sandhurst and Chaceley
- Lingham of Upton-on-Severn
- Maddocke of Upton-on-Severn & Maddoxe of Gloucestershire
- Powell of Bosbury
Kent
- (Berles of Stowting)
- Dove of Hackington
- Jarman
- (Keeler of Hythe)
- (Miller of Stowting)
- (Sharpe of Elham & Hythe)
- Saffery
- Taylor of Hackington
Wiltshire
- Chalk of Wilton
Yorkshire
- Gott of Silsden; Green of Farnhill
- Heaton of Carleton & Kildwick
- Jenkinson of Kildwick
- Laycock of Kildwick
- Mitchell of Cowling
- Scarborough of Cowling; Steel of Silsden & Merseyside
- Ward of Skipton; Whitaker of Kildwick; Wilsen of Kildwick
London
- Sowter of Middlesex
Cornwall, Kent, Norfolk, Lancashire
- Smith of Norwich
Potentially useful online resources (compiled by Richard Clare and Kate Hurst - October 2019)
North West Group of Family History Societies:
Lancashire Archives:
https://www.lancashire.gov.uk/libraries-and-archives/archives-and-record-office/
Lancs OPC :
http://www.lan-opc.org.uk/Search/indexp.html
Lancs BMD :
http://www.lancashirebmd.org.uk/
Free BMD :
https://www.freebmd.org.uk/search
Family Search :
https://www.familysearch.org/en/
British Newspaper Archive, searchpage
Search the index for free, When you have a big enough list of returns, pay your months fee and look them all up :
https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/search
Skem history:
http://www.skemheritage.org.uk/ackerley/bookcase.htm
LEEDS AND LIVERPOOL CANAL SITES :
Leeds & Liverpool Canal Society :
http://www.llcs.org.uk/html/genealogy.html
Register of Canal Boats, Wigan Urban Registration Authority, 1878-1907 :
Boat Examiners Reports, Wigan Urban Registration Authority, 1879-1914
http://www.wlct.org/wigan/museums-archives/images/Wigan%20Canal%20Boats%20Examiners%201879_1943.pdf
Leigh, Register of Canal Boats; 1878-1879 & 1879-1934 :
http://static.premiersite.co.uk/23415/docs/7035684_1.pdf
Leigh Canal Boats: Health Department Inspector’s Report Book, 1901-1960 :
SPELLWEAVER - Canal and River Boatmen
For anyone interested in their canal and river boat ancestors :
http://www.spellweaver-online.co.uk/index.php/10/
A FEW MORE :
Old Mersey Times (various newspaper extracts relating to Liverpool and surrounding areas):
http://www.old-merseytimes.co.uk/
1871 Worrall's Directory of Warrington :
http://cheshiredirectories.manuscripteye.com/book3.htm
Richard Houghton's site :
Scarisbrick family site :
http://scarisbrickfamily.homestead.com/membersML.html
Scarisbrick Family Tree:
Liverpool and SWL FHS website:
Liverpool and SWL facebook page :
https://www.facebook.com/groups/lswlfhs/
St Helens History This Week facebook page :
https://www.facebook.com/groups/sthelenshistorythisweekgroup/?ref=share
This is a page from a metal detecting site, which contains an extraordinary amount of the history of Halsall:
http://www.metaldetectingagency.co.uk/history-of-where-i-come-from.html
The St. Chad's Kirkby site:
https://qyqkkmdtdhptcwnyx1hweg-on.drv.tw/rosalindlloydspages/
Relevant to our meeting on the Norse heritage of West Lancashire, the Wirral & West Lancashire Viking Research Page:
https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/-sczsteve/
Wigan Archeological Society, includes a great history of Wigan:
http://www.wiganarchsoc.co.uk/index.php
Sutton Beauty; A fantastic site about the village of Sutton, just outside St.Helens:
https://www.suttonbeauty.org.uk/
The Ormskirk registers 1557 - 1626 from Archive.org :
https://archive.org/details/registersofparis01orms/page/n7
On the subject of Archive.org, here is the returns page you get simply by typing "Ormskirk" in the search box! :
https://archive.org/search.php?query=ormskirk
Lancashire Genealogy links:
http://www.genealogylinks.net/uk/england/lancashire/
MAPS:
Probably the most extensive collection of maps of U.K. available:
Another excellent U.K. map site:
http://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/
An excellent site of Liverpool maps:
https://liverpool1207blog.wordpress.com/old-liverpool-maps/
Another site of Liverpool maps:
http://historic-liverpool.co.uk/old-maps-of-liverpool/
ODFHS Members' Websites
Kathryn Baird's Memories of Aughton site:
https://aughtonmemories.wordpress.com/
Finally.....
A page of old occupations:
http://rmhh.co.uk/occup/index.html
A calendar, so you can work out the day of the week your ancestors were married:
