Susan North sent me the following photo of her grandmother with a request for information. I dug around and put the results on the Miscellaneous Photos page., and have copied it here as well.

This photo was sent to me by Susan North. It is of her paternal grandmother Emily Ryder nee Warburton b 1878, together with her eldest son Harry and and two others, yet to be identified.

Emily was born in Bury, one of 9 children of George Thomas (Thomas) Warburton and Dorothy nee Haslem of the Cardiff and Bury family. I believe this makes her the great great aunt of Sam Warburton the ex-Wales rugby captain.

She married Susan’s grandfather Richard/Harry Ryder around 1916.

My recent work on the Edenfield clan, which is still not finished, has resulted in a number of updates to my spreadsheets of the Haslingden parish records. Then recently Stephen Carr has brought a couple of things to my attention.…

I recently posted Pam Lofthouse’s plea for information on her great grandfather Samuel. I decided to do a bit more digging and came up with the following: The evidence we have of Samuel’s age is that he was 60 when…

At the beginning of July I received an email from Jason Warburton with a link to his father’s entry on the BSAP website concerning his time in the BSA Police Regiment. The link is here. Taking a look I realised he…

In October 2016 I posted a link to the story of Warburton Pike, a naturalist, author, adventurer, miner and philanthropist who lived on the island of Saturna in British Columbia in the late 19th century. I also explored his Warburton…

A recent email from Richard Tipping added his parents to the Tottington Clan, so I have added them, and made some other minor corrections in the process. Also as part of my discussions with Pam Lofthouse in relation to my…

I was contacted from Australia by Pam Lofthouse, who is searching for information on her great grandfather Samuel, who is pictured above. She also sent the following information:

Samuel Warburton (1821? – 1904)

The last few weeks have been rather full of holidays, gardening, and golf so the time spent on the Warburton project has been limited. However as I travel around, if I see a list of names, I can’t help scanning…

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I’ve updated the Thomas and Sarah Families paper yet again because looking more closely at the census entries for James, the eldest of the Walmersley children, I see he has a Sarah Jackson living with him in 1841. As a…