Sue Wilkes - Tracing Your Manchester & Salford Ancestors: A Guide for Family & Local Historians

TRACING YOUR MANCHESTER AND SALFORD ANCESTORS

FAMILY HISTORY FROM PEN & SWORD

Tracing Secret Service Ancestors

Tracing Your Air Force Ancestors

Tracing Your Ancestors

Tracing Your Ancestors from 1066 to 1837

Tracing Your Ancestors Through Death Records

Tracing Your Ancestors Through Family Photographs

Tracing Your Ancestors Using the Census

Tracing Your Ancestors Childhood

Tracing Your Ancestors Parish Records

Tracing Your Aristocratic Ancestors

Tracing Your Army Ancestors 2nd Edition

Tracing Your Birmingham Ancestors

Tracing Your Black Country Ancestors

Tracing Your British Indian Ancestors

Tracing Your Canal Ancestors

Tracing Your Channel Islands Ancestors

Tracing Your Coalmining Ancestors

Tracing Your Criminal Ancestors

Tracing Your East Anglian Ancestors

Tracing Your East End Ancestors

Tracing Your Edinburgh Ancestors

Tracing Your First World War Ancestors

Tracing Your Great War Ancestors: The Gallipoli Campaign

Tracing Your Great War Ancestors: The Somme

Tracing Your Great War Ancestors: Ypres

Tracing Your Huguenot Ancestors

Tracing Your Jewish Ancestors

Tracing Your Labour Movement Ancestors

Tracing Your Lancashire Ancestors

Tracing Your Leeds Ancestors

Tracing Your Legal Ancestors

Tracing Your Liverpool Ancestors

Tracing Your London Ancestors

Tracing Your Medical Ancestors

Tracing Your Merchant Navy Ancestors

Tracing Your Naval Ancestors

Tracing Your Northern Ancestors

Tracing Your Pauper Ancestors

Tracing Your Police Ancestors

Tracing Your Prisoner of War Ancestors: The First World War

Tracing Your Railway Ancestors

Tracing Your Royal Marine Ancestors

Tracing Your Rural Ancestors

Tracing Your Scottish Ancestors

Tracing Your Second World War Ancestors

Tracing Your Servant Ancestors

Tracing Your Service Women Ancestors

Tracing Your Shipbuilding Ancestors

Tracing Your Tank Ancestors

Tracing Your Textile Ancestors

Tracing Your Trade and Craftsmen Ancestors

Tracing Your Welsh Ancestors

Tracing Your West Country Ancestors

Tracing Your Yorkshire Ancestors

A Guide for Family and Local Historians

Sue Wilkes

For all my family

First published in Great Britain in 2017

PEN & SWORD FAMILY HISTORY

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Copyright Sue Wilkes, 2017

ISBN 978 1 47385 635 6

eISBN 978 1 47385 642 4

Mobi ISBN 978 1 47385 637 0

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As ever, I must express my gratitude to the many archivists and librarians who have patiently assisted with my enquiries, in particular David Govier of Manchester Libraries, Information and Archives, Duncan McCormick, Local History Librarian at Salford Local History Library, Marion Hewitt of the North West Film Archive, Michael Powell and Sue McLoughlin of Chethams Library, and staff at Lancashire Archives. Thanks are also owed to the Library of Congresss Head of Reference Section, Prints and Photographs Division, Barbara Natanson, for her help regarding illustrations.

Particular thanks are due to John Marsden of the Manchester & Lancashire Family History Society for his help and assistance. I would also like to thank authors Angela Buckley, Mark Crail, Michelle Higgs and Jane Odiwe for their encouragement and advice; Else Churchill of the Society of Genealogists; and Gerard Lodge.

I would also like to express my gratitude to Rupert Harding of Pen & Sword Books for his help and encouragement.

Any errors or omissions are the authors own. Every effort has been made to trace copyright holders for images used in this work. The publishers welcome information on any attributions which have been omitted.

Last but not least, thank you to my husband Nigel, and my children Elizabeth and Gareth, for their help and support.