Gathering the threads


This is our family history web site

Gathering the Threads Families

contains families related to our grand-parents in some way.
Direct links to charts about our 8 grand-parent's families are:-
Burton,   Grimshaw,   Leech,   Pearson,   Rodger,   Roose,   Shackleton,    and  Webster.

See the Changes page for information about our most recent updates.

Other people

This is a separate site of interesting people we have researched, but cannot currently connect to our families.
Direct links to some of these families are :-
Leech of Urmston, Leech of Woodford, Leech of Heaton Norris, Richard Leech of Chorlton
Burton-Arwen, Burton-Toft, Dawson-Summers
Shackletons, including the polar explorer
Gee Family of Disley & Lyme Handley
Ledgard & Milnes
Higson
Grimshaw
Others

Bancks

This is a web sub-site of people possibly connected to the Bancks family of Wigan .


NOTES
Any place on this site which has no COUNTRY specified is in England.
Other places should have a country included, e.g. Scotland, Eygpt, U.S.A.
Some place names use archaic terms, which were correct AT THAT TIME, e.g. Western Canada.

The genealogical conclusions presented here are ours, or have been gleaned from the sources we've used.
We do not claim there are no errors on these pages.
Your reliance on those conclusions is, quite simply, at your own risk - they are provided without warranty or recourse.
Reliance on our work, or any published source, whether electronic or in print, can be hazardous to your pedigree if you do not make the effort to verify what you find.
When you do find an error, or if you think that we may have violated someone else's copyright or committed plagiarism, please send a note.
Don't be shy; we find mistakes, by us and by others, all the time.

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