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This is a very interesting and informative site for researching family history

http://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/types/index.jsp

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David
Genealogists do it in the library.

This was mentioned on the LFHHS forum and looks very interesting
http://todmordenandwalsden.co.uk/

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Gloria

I'd be dangerous with a brain.

I think some of Mels lot are from that neck of the woods Gloria.Mind her lot are everywhere

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David
Genealogists do it in the library.

Not that I am aware of David.
My Sutcliffe lot are Briercliffe and Barrowford, they moved into Burnley (like many families) for the work in the late 19th/early 20th century.

My none Lancs Sutcliffes are from Heptonstall.

My other interests are Amison, Dacey, Harley, Rodgers and Whitehead and they are all Staffordshire.
If I get onto his lot...Smith( ) and Payne, again Staffordshire/Midlands.

Edit: Ooops, better not miss his mothers lot - Cyples!!

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Mel

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I always think it handy to have access to records of nearby areas, you never know how far your rellies travelled to be baptised, married, buried.

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Gloria

I'd be dangerous with a brain.

Mel, in the marriages there are some Sutcliffes, and on one it says "certificate to Heptonstall"

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Gloria

I'd be dangerous with a brain.

Here on the site Gloria?

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Mel

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On the Todmorden site Mel.

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Gloria

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Oh right. I will have a closer look at that later on then.
Thanks Gloria.

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Mel

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Saw this mentioned on the Oneguy site, not had a good look yet
http://www.workhouses.org.uk/

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Gloria

I'd be dangerous with a brain.

It's quite an informative site. I have made use of it more than once.

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Mel

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This is really good
http://www.nationaltrustnames.org.uk/

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Gloria

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Typed in Smith expecting a map full of dark blue. Surprisingly it wasn't Devon and Cornwall had very few Smiths in 1881.

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Mel

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I was surprised how little my family names had moved between 1881 and 1998.
I was born in Burnley, and lived just outside Blackpool for a few years. In 1881 the Kippax name was obviously in Kippax Yorkshire, east Lancashire (Briercliffe?) and Blackpool !!!!!
I would have thought there would have been a bigger dilution of names around the country.

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Gloria

I'd be dangerous with a brain.

Thanks for posting this site, Gloria. I've just started reading a book, The Surnames of Lancashire, by Richard McKinley. He makes the point that a feature of Lancashire surnames is the manner in which some surnames have increased greatly in numbers within a limited district while remaining very rare or unknown elsewhere. This is generally not the case in most other areas of England. In some places in Lancashire one surname formed almost one third of the population of that particular place.

I haven't read further yet to quote examples, but could this point to a remoteness in Lancashire and lack of mobility in the past.

I checked out my very Lancashire Veevers and Pickup names on the site. They are almost exclusively within the county in 1881, but have spread by 1998.

Joan