BARBARA YOUDS website
CALVERT, CHIPPENDALE, CLAYTON, DOBSON, HEYS, HINDLE, KNOWLES, TAYLOR, WALMSLEY, YOUDS

Bill BARON's story - a descendant of Manasseh BARON of Great Harwood.

Flo Montgomery's BARON family website
ASTLEY, BARON, BARTLETT, BRADSHAW, BURKS, GILES, HARGREAVES, HOLKER, HUGHES, LOYND, MERCER, SMITH, PICKUP, WHALLEY, WHIT(T)AKER

Bob CALVERT
CALVERT, SHAW, HARGREAVES, HINDLE, BARON, MERCER, FIELDEN
Please also see a link to an interesting piece of reserch by Bob about Mary Calvert born 1815 Gt Harwood

Kelly's POLLARD AND NEALE website
KEMP, KITCHEN, LYON, NEALE, PATE, POLLARD, RYDEHEARD, STANDISH, SIMPSON, SMITH, SPEAK, WHIPP

Andy ROBINSON
Large database with over 2200 individuals and 500 marriages.
Names with Great Harwood links are:
ASPWALL, BAGSHAW, BARON, BIRTWHISTLE, CHEW, GRUNDY, HARRISON, HEAP, HODKINSON, KEMP, MARSHALL, ROBINSON, SMITH, WILKINSON.

Trevor SWAIN whose family have lived in Great Harwood since 1721

Craig THORNBER whose family are mostly in Lancashire and West Yorkshire.

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Great Harwood Names:

Richard BARON
BARON, BIRTWISTLE, BRADSHAW, CLARKE, COOKE,COOPER, DANSON, DUCKWORTH, GAY, HILL, HOGG, HOLDSWORTH, KENDALL, MERCER, MITCHEL, MURRAY, RIDING, TILDSLEY, TRIGG and many more.

Carol STOKOE's BLEASDALE and CHARNLEY line linking back to Gt Harwood and Tottleworth

CALVERT

Bridget FIELDING
BRIDGE, CALVERT, CLAYTON, FIELDEN, FIELDING, HARGREAVES, HORTON, JACKSON, MERCER, NUTTALL, SHARPLES, SHAW, TRIGG, WESTWELL, WADDINGTON

Mike GROSSKRUGER's Website:
BERTWISTLE ,CLAYTON, COTTHAM, DUCKWORTH, EASTHAM, EATON, EMBLEY,FEILDEN, FOSTER, HANSAN, HINDLE, ISHERWOOD, MERCER, MONK, PICKERING, SAGAR, SMITHIES, TAYLOR, WADDINGTON, WILLIAMS and WOLSTENHOLME, SWEENEY, POLLICINO

Linda Martin KEMP - an important family of Cotton Manufacturers in Great Harwood, Blackburn and Read

John KENT
ASPDEN in Great Harwood and other places.
You need to register at this site to search it.

MERCER

Mercers of Cowden Tree, by Barbara Youds
for more background and information on Cowden, click here

Mercers of Great Harwood Trees compiled by Bob Calvert from Abram's History of Blackburn.
No validation has been done on the data, so any errors in transcription, if any, come from the original source.

Robert Mercer Descendant Tree

Thomas Mercer b 1757 Lower Fold Family Tree compiled by Barbara Youds

The Mercers of Tanhouse Tree - this work is ongoing, so please inform us if you have any remarks

David POLLARD's Website:
ASHCROFT, ATHERTON, BARKER, BONSALL, BRIGGS, CLARKE, COCKSHUTT, CROSS, DAVIES, DEMAIN(E), DENNELEY, GRUNDY, HARWOOD, HOLDEN, INGHAM, LONSDALE, MARTIN, Mc GOVERN, PILLING, POLLARD, SMITH, SPEAK, WHITTAKER, WILSON

SMITH Families History Project
The Smith Project is strictly for researchers of Smiths of Lancs, West Riding Yorkshire & Isle of Man, as well as Boards for Smith and related surnames of these areas - the Forum also includes additional Boards for Smith & Related of other UK Counties.

Thankyou to Ian Fairclough, as some of these family trees are hosted by the Great Harwood website.

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