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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.


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This homepage is intended as an easy entry to the site and to the family names listed below. Use the search facility above if you are looking for a specific individual and you can use the links at the bottom of each page to navigate the site or to . You can use the 'cousin calculator' to work out exact relationships.

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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, DEWSNAP in Cheshire 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 Ashton-under-Lyne, Lancashire and Dukinfield, Cheshire. Associated families: STANLEY, HILAND, RYDER and WALKER
Crabtree Molesdale
Denton, Lancashire and Hyde and Stalybridge, Cheshire. Related families: STANSFIELD, ROWLAND and WARDLE Cadishead and Ashton-under-Lyne, Lancashire, Hyde, Cheshire and Dent County, Missouri. Associated families: CHATTERTON in New York, Derbyshire,
Ridgway Walker
Compstall Bridge and Hyde, Cheshire. Associated families: HIGGINBOTHAM in Denton and Hyde, LEES in Denton, HOWARD in Hyde and WARD in Salford. Gee Cross, Hyde, Cheshire and Bolton, Lancashire