Old Historic Families of Lancashire, Cheshire & North Western England

Many of the old families of Greater Manchester, Lancashire and Cheshire can trace their ancestries back to the Norman Conquest of 1066 or earlier.
Their names effectively echo the long history of the region and are remembered today in districts and townships whose streets and placenames record their passing.

Acker - (Congleton)
Ainsworth - (Halliwell)
Anderton - (Lostock)
Antrobus - (Eaton & Congleton)
Arden - (Bredbury)
Assheton - (Preston)
Baguley - (Wythenshawe & Worsley)
Barlow - (Barlow - Chorlton)
Barton - (Smithills)
Baskervyle - (or Baskerville - Chelford & Goostry)
Birch - (Rusholme)
Bold - (Bold, Lancashire)
Booth - (Dunham Massey)
Bostock - (Cheshire)
Bradshaw - (Wigan)
Brereton - (Cheshire)
Bulkeley - (Cheadle & Beaumaris)
Byrom - (Kersal)
Byron - (Droylsden)
Chadderton - (Chadderton)
Charnock - (Chorley)
Cheetham - (Stalybridge)
Chorlton - (Chorlton)
Clayton - (Clayton-le-Moor)
Clowes - (Broughton Park)
Davenport - (Bramhall)
De la Warre - (Manchester)
Downes - (Shrigley & Worth)
Duckenfield - (Tameside)
Dutton - (Tabley)
Duxbury - (Standish)
Eaton (de Eaton) - (Cheshire)
Egerton - (Tatton)
Ellesmere - (Worsley)
Entwistle - (Entwistle)
Fazakerley - (Kirby)
Feilden - (Blackburn)
Fells - (Swarthmoor)
Foden - (Sandbach & Prestbury)
Gee - (Gee Cross)
Gerrard - (Brynne/Wigan)
Glassbrook - (Glazebrook)
Grelley - (Manchester)
Grimshaw - (Crowtree & Sabden)
Grosvenor - (Eaton Hall)
Halsall - (Halsall)
Harrison - (Warrington)
Hatton - (Tabley)
Heaton - (Deane)
Henshaw - (Siddington)
Hesketh - (Rufford)
Heywood - (Heywood)
Heywood - (Little Lever & Manchester)
Hibberd - (Over Alderley & Birtles, Cheshire)
Hoghton - (Hoghton Tower)
Holden - (Rossendale)
Holland - (Clifton, Prestwich)
Hollingworth - (Hollingworth)
Hulton - (Westhoughton)