Personal Research
I have been researcing My Family Tree for many years now, approximatley 12 years. Over the years I have collected a great deal of information on Births, Marriages, Deaths, Census Returns, Parish Records, and other information relating to my family surnames. The majority of this information is relating to families from the Croston area of Lancashire. I will be adding all this information to the website in the near future, hopefully.
I will also be creating one page that relates to Croston only, and another page with information from other areas that I have been researching.
The surnames I have been researching, besides Cowell and Hornby, are listed below with the areas that they come from:-
| Surname | Area |
| Aspinall | Preston |
| Astley | Croston? |
| Binsley | |
| Box | Westmoreland |
| Bradshaw | Pinner, London |
| Bradshaw-Sexton | Holborn, London |
| Bramley | Sheffield, Clay Cross, South Wingfield, Derbyshire |
| Bretherton | Croston |
| Calladine | South Wingfield, Derbyshire |
| Clarkson | Westby |
| Cottam / Cotham | Croston? |
| Critchley / Chritchley / Crouchley | Croston, Bretherton, Leyland, Tarleton, Sollom, Leyland |
| Cross | Much Hoole |
| Dalton | Croston |
| Darbyshire / Derbyshire | Whittle le woods, Preston |
| Dawson | Lincolnshire |
| Dickinson | Alston, Longridge, Preston |
| Donnelly | Whittle le woods, Kings County Ireland |
| Eastham | |
| Ellison | |
| Entwistle | Standish |
| Everingham | Osbournby, Lincolnshire |
| Fisher | Lincolnshire |
| Fearne | London? |
| Gilbert | |
| Graves | Lincolnshire |
| Grove | Lincolnshire |
| Green | Ormskirk, Sandford, Oxfordshire |
| Greener | Croston, Newburgh, Ormskirk, Parbold, Eccleston |
| Gregson | Whittle le woods, Preston, Walton le Dale |
| Heaton | Croston |
| Hindle | |
| Hodson | Deane, Lancashire, Croston |
| Holding | Croston, Ormskirk, Preston |
| Hough | Croston |
| Jackson | Uffington, Lincolnshire |
| Lathom | |
| Livesey | Brindle |
| Kellet | |
| Marginson / Margason | Croston |
| Matthews | |
| Mawdsley | Longton, Euxton, Leyland |
| Mayor / Mair / Mare | Croston |
| McClellan | Whittle le woods, Leyland, Lostock Hall, Bolton le sands, Walton, Chorley |
| Meadow | Newburgh |
| Miller | Layton, Lancashire |
| Moss | Penwortham |
| Hindle | |
| Murphy | Whittle le woods, Turrone County, Ireland |
| Norris | Croston |
| Oxendale | |
| Peet | Lathom, Ormskirk, Newburgh |
| Ricketts | Burton Cogles, Lincolnshire |
| Riding / Ryding / Ridinge | Croston |
| Rushton | |
| Rutter | |
| Sellers | Long Benington, Lincolnshire |
| Sexton | Kingsbury, Warwickshire |
| Slater | Dorrington, Lincolnshire |
| Sleaford | Lincolnshire |
| Smalley | Penwortham, Hutton, Longton |
| Smith | Croston |
| Spencer | Longton, Penwortham |
| Swinton | Ruskington, Lincolnshire |
| Thornton | Croston |
| Tinkler | |
| Townson | Westmoreland? |
| Turner | Preston, Walton le Dale, Clayton le woods, Leyland |
| Tuson | Hutton, Penwortham, Longton, Walton le dale |
| Walch / Walsh | Leyland |
| Watkinson | Croston |
| Whitehead | Orton, Westmorelnd |
| Whittle | Croston, Tarleton, Whittle le woods |
| Wilkinson | Kirkby Stephen, Westmoreland |
| Willacy | |
| Wood | Dorrington, Lincolnshire |
| Wortley | Osgoudby, Burton Coggles, Lincolnshire, Warrington, Northants |
If anyone has any information that they would like to contribute to any area of the website, please send me an email with the details.