The name Lawson was in fact in Yorkshire at an earlier date. Records indicate that the first recording use of the Lawson name occurred in the 14th century in Upper Littondale, an area close to the present day villages of Litton and Arncliffe along the on the Skirfare river, a tributary ...
William Riddell prospered by investing in leases of Tyneside coal mines in the early 1600’s just at the time that the coal trade with London was undergoing an expansion. The family based themselves in Gateshead. But these Riddells were Catholic and, as the political climate changed, they had...
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Wales. It was the Welsh longbow archer who was instrumental in the English victories of Crecy and Agincourt and hence many fletchers at that time came from south Wales. There were references to Fletcher as a surname in Cardiff during the 16th century when surnames were beginning to take root ...
William Penn Walton was born in Virginia in 1819 of uncertain parentage. He was the forebear of Sam Walton, the man who started Walmart in Arkansas in 1962 and expanded it to the huge worldwide retail store that it is today.The Waltons was a fictional American TV series that ran from ...
“One evening Fred Fisher left his home in Campbelltown and was never seen again. Four months later a local farmer stumbled into a local hotel in a state of shock, claiming that he had seen the ghost of Fred Foster. The ghost had been sitting on the rail of a bridge and had pointed ...
while a later James Alston from North Berwick came south to Birmingham in 1783 to buy up a bankrupt chemical business. He and his son James and grandson William did well, so much so that William was able to purchase a country estate, Elmdon Hall, outside of Birmingham in the 1840’s. ...
Peter Chamberlen and his sons were “barber surgeons,” practitioners in midwifery. They attended the royalty of the time. Either Peter or one of his sons was the inventor of obstetric forceps, something that they kept as a closely guarded secret for over a hundred years.Their instruments, re...
The Barttelots of Stopham in Sussex. This Barttelot family has been one of the oldest gentry families in Sussux, dating back to 1376 in Stopham in West Sussex. They claim that their ancestor had arrived with William the Conqueror in 1066....
Spain.The Osborne name came to prominence in Spain in a curious way. In the 1950’s the Osborne sherry company erected large images of bulls, in black with the maker’s name, on roadside advertising hoardings around Spain. This image became so iconic that the Osborne bull (toro de Osborne...