Liverpool & South West Lancashire FHS - Forum

Thank you, Mary and Bert. The information I had was that William Sr and William Jr (the one that married Maria Simpson) farmed Oven Back and later Rough farm. Tenant farmers makes sense as I imagine that in those days one had to be pretty wealthy (or titled) to own land. I'll approach the Manchester...

Hello from a sunny South Africa I am not sure if this is the right forum but I am trying to find out how I can get title deeds for Oven Back and Rough farms in Croft. I think my 2g great grandfather, William Sumner, owned one or both of these farms in 1841 and I suspect that his father, also William...