I thank the
following for their help and support -
The Public Record Office, and for granting
permission to reproduce references from the
catalogue PROCAT.
The John Rylands University
Library of Manchester for granting permission to
reproduce references published in -
"Hand-list of Charters, Deeds and similar
Documents in the Possession of The John Rylands
Library", by Moses Tyson, M.A., Ph.D.
Published by Manchester University Press.
The British Library and for granting
permission to reproduce references from their
catalogue.
Cheshire and Chester Archives and
Local Studies Service
Derbyshire Record Office, and for granting
permission to reproduce references from from
their A2A Catalogue.
Lancashire Record Office, and for granting
permission to reproduce references from from
their A2A Catalogue.
Lichfield Record Office
Nottinghamshire Archives, and for granting
permission to reproduce references from from
their A2A Catalogue.
Warwickshire County Record
Office,
and for granting permission to reproduce
references from from their A2A Catalogue.
Jane Hamby for
searching Lancashire and Cheshire parish records.
David Taylor for
searching Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire parish
records.
Also Nigel Prince,
Claire and Gordon Stanley, and Margaret Weise for
their support; and my children, Jeremy and
Charlotte, and Pamela now my wife, for putting up
with my ancestral research.
A special thanks
to Frances Coakley of the University of Sussex
for her Manx pages on the Stanley family.
Also I would like
to thank the directors of the Cheshire Parish
Register Project, and staff and students of the
Universities of Liverpool and Manchester who
created and supported the Cheshire Parish Register Database
Project.
Finally I thank
the Cheshire Family History
Society
for making available on CD the Bertram Merrell
Marriage Index with the Hartley Jones Index of
the Wirral, and "The History of the County
Palatine and City of Chester" by George
Ormerod.