[Margaret Pilkington]

I may be wrong, but I think he is only able to trace his family back so far because they were rich landowners.

I have been looking for my ancestors for the last couple of years...and it is very interesting, but when the ancestors were labourers, cotton weavers and coal miners....poorly educated, you run into problems relating to the transcription of records...and the fact that these people often could not write their names, and if they could, different spelling of the names mean that for people like me there is much uncertainty.

I wish that when my grandparents were alive, I had asked more questions, that I had listened and taken more notice of the stories and the names of the people in their lives.