Duckworth's in Lancashire??

Question

Hello.

I'm trying to find out some things about my family they lived in St Helens and my grandfather was John Duckworth and he was a Boxer, apparently his trophies are in a pub in St Helens,

my father died when i was 8years old and i want to know something about my family, i can ask but i dont want to upset them.. im planning to go to england to be a nanny for 12 months i would like to go see where my family came from.. if anyone knows my family the info would be amazing,

thankyou

karen

Answer 1

I live in California. I'm answering you in a general way. I went to

http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/...

I put "Duckworth" in for surname and "Lan*" for birthplace. The "*" means "any characters", so "Lan.", "Lanc", "Lancs." "Lancashire" and "Lancaster" all count. I got 759 hits. You should repeat the exercise. Try it for marriage place and death place, too.

You'll probably have to find your grandfather's parents on your own, off the Internet, somehow, before any of the entries on RWWC (above) connect. It would be fun to go to that pub on a Saturday night, stand the oldest man in the place a pint and ask him if he knew your grandfather. You might get lucky.

On

http://www.familysearch.org/Eng/Search/f...

set

census = 1881 British

Surname = Duckworth

Country = England

County = Lancashire

City/Town = All

You get 200 per page with "Next Page" at the bottom. There are

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FLOCKS of them. (ho ho ho)