Re: Surname interests originating from Briercliffe, Haggate, Harle Syke. My late Dad Winston Stanworth so loved Blackpool that he promised himself if he survived the W>W2 he would go and live there. He did both. Smokey old Harle Syke did not appeal to him once he returned from his travels due to War duty in Dunkirk, South Africa and Egypt, Libya . The tales we had as his children growing up were legendary..pity he never recorded them like they do today -
Oddly enough Stanworth origins start in the Anglo-Saxon times but it is spelt STEINWIRTH so we are of good, strong Danish/German stock. Attleborough near Norwich has apparently the first recorded Stanworth....in about the 15th or 16th century....I think wars, famine and unemployment drove people to move about the country even to the wilds of North America,Canada, Australia etc...etc..
Just one last thing a Stanworth has even been listed in DEBRETTS PEERAGE!!! so, we seem to be getting just a little bit posh, eh???
Carol...