Bollington's ancient families
Bollington has many old families and they have heavily inter-married over the past centuries. Hence the well known saying 'Kick one and we all limp!' - it sometimes seems that everyone is related! This page has been set up to record these old families and to show the connections between the families.
Here are some of the most well known of the old
names of Bollington - Heathcote, Sherratt, King, Chadwick, Shatwell,
Mayers - and there are very many more! Use the links above or those
at the bottom of the page to get into the trees.
How will we build the information?
This is how we'll do it - the webmaster will collect family tree information from any of the old families in the town willing to share it and I will add it to a database. This database will then be converted into web pages and these will be added to the Happy Valley web site with family links provided from this page. These links will make it easier for surfers to find the families that interest them.
So, if you are a member of one of the long established families of Bollington email the webmaster, Tim Boddington, and I will give you guidance on what is needed. I already maintain two family web sites for my own families so if you would like to see what one looks like, and find out how interesting it can be, have a look at the Boddington family tree - you won't be surprised to find some historically interesting brewers on that one! I should point out that my family have only lived in Bollington for 30+ years so we do not rate as an old Bollington family - not yet anyway!
Please note that for security reasons I will not include detailed birth or marriage dates and places of anyone still living. Only for those deceased will I include full birth marriage and death data and other interesting details about their lives. Any of this will be omitted if requested to do so by the family.
So, come on Bolly, contact me right now - send me an email!
The fascination of family history
If you have never delved into your family history then you don't know what fun you are missing! As webmaster for two family trees - the Boddington family and the Adkins family - I get information sent to me from all over the world; hardly a day goes by when I don't get an email from someone with an interest. All the information sent to me is put into a database and made into web pages. Over the past few years I have put together 20 to 30 sets of cousins who didn't know each other even existed! And on one great occasion I found the mother of an adopted person - they met up for the first time in 35 years!
The tree so far ...
The first family was sent in by Anthony
Holland. He is a descendant of the oldest known family in the district
- the Shatwell or Shatwall family. Further information has been
obtained relating to the Perkin family and then the Wainwrights,
Vares and Bradleys, which group are related to many other well
known names. The Mottershead families, there are two at least,
are interesting because we have a 19thC picture of mother and
daughter. We even have a remote connection the Boddington brewery
family of Manchester! Follow John Joule of Bollington through his
daughter and her husband. Use the links below ...
Surnames | Index | Sources |
Shatwell
family page | Shatwell/Shatwall
tree | Swindells | Brooke |
Bradley | Henry
Mottershead | George
Mottershead | Perkin | Vare |
Vickers | Wainwright |
Joule |
