In 1999, I started to trace the family histories of my grandparents and those of my wife, Pat CRABTREE. I made progress quite quickly, mainly due to the information and many helpful people available on the web, but also through many hours patient research. There is more background information available elsewhere if you are interested.

This homepage is intended as an easy entry to the site and to the family names listed below which now number some 5,000+ pages. The family names highlighted in bold link to an accompanying narrative. You can use the excellent Atomz search facility above if you are looking for a specific individual. There is also a 'cousin calculator' to help you work out exact relationships.

Please enjoy what these pages have to offer.

Rhodes	Harrop
Flockton, West Yorkshire, and Mottram and Dukinfield, Cheshire. Associated families: BRADDOCK, GODDARD, HARRISON, RAMSBOTTOM, (in Mottram) and RATCLIFFE , SHEPLEY and WHITE (in Mottram and Denby and Royston, Yorkshire) and YELLOTT in Ecclesfield, Sheffield	Hayfield and Glossop in Derbyshire and Mottram, Cheshire. Associated families: THORPE in Yorkshire, Lancashire, Cheshire and Derbyshire, RIDGWAY in Cheshire, WALSH of Darwen and Hadfield and BOOTH and TURNER in West Yorkshire.
Binnie	Prestwich
Falkirk, Scotland and Dukinfield, Cheshire Associated families: BELL, FORGIE, SMITH, and NICHOL in Scotland and SHORROCKS and CALDWELL in England, plus VOCE illegitimately	Ashton-under-Lyne, Lancashire and Dukinfield, Cheshire. Associated families: CARTWRIGHT, STANLEY, HILAND, RYDER and WALKER
Crabtree	Molesdale
Denton, Lancashire and Hyde and Stalybridge, Cheshire. Related families: STANSFIELD, in Manchester, Denton and Hyde; ROWLAND and WARDLE	Cadishead and Ashton-under-Lyne, Lancashire, Hyde, Cheshire and Dent County, Missouri. Associated families: CHATTERTON in New York, Derbyshire; CRAMOND in Berwick, Derbyshire, Nottinghamshire, Sheffield and South Africa; and PEARCE in Nottinghamshire.
Ridgway	Walker
Compstall Bridge and Hyde, Cheshire. Associated families: HIGGINBOTHAM in Denton and Hyde, LEES in Denton, HOWARD in Compstall and Hyde and WARD in Manchester.	Gee Cross and Newton in Hyde, Cheshire and Bolton, Lancashire. Associated family: HOWARTH in Bolton and Hyde; and COOKE in Denton and Hyde.