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ROOCROFT FAMILY TREE

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.1 William Roocroft (1870 Bolton, Lancashire, England–1943 Halliwell, .Bolton)

.[1901 25 Arkwright Street Bolton. Employer/commercial traveller]

.[1911 Heathfield Astley Bridge Bolton. Employer/commercial traveller .for a manufacturing confectioner)]

.= 30 Jun 1897  Halliwell Rd Chapel, Bolton, Lancaster, England- Clara .Talbot (Abt 1873  Little Lever, Lancashire, England-13 Nov 1957 Bolton)

.[Parents: Arthur George Talbot (1846–1906) and Elizabeth Ann Pearson .(1848–)]

..2 Edgar Talbot Roocroft (1 Jul 1898  Bolton, Lancashire, England-31 Jul .1939  Lancashire, ..England )

..= Sep 1923  Bolton, Lancashire - Helen Kenyon ((1898–)

..2 Wilfrid Talbot Roocroft (Abt 1900  Bolton, Lancashire, England- 28 .Aug 1956  Bolton)

..=Sep 1926  Bolton, Lancashire - Ivy Gwendoline Harfield ............. ... (1900–.1988)                                                                           ..2 Eric Talbot Roocroft (18 Aug 1908  Bolton, Lancashire, England- ..May 1987  Bolton, ..Greater Manchester, England )

..=Jun 1935  Bolton, Lancashire - Aileen Mary King (1906–)

…3 David E Roocroft [Sep 1936 Bolton 8c 440]

..2 Clara Mary Talbot Roocroft (1913–1998)

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ROTHWELL FAMILY TREE

.1 Edward Rothwell (1765–8 MAY 1819)

.= Mary (1748–6 Mar 1829)

..2 Thomas Rothwell (1786–)

..2 James Rothwell (Abt 1786 or 1783 Lancashire, England–1853)        ..[Baptism: 18 Jun 1786 Balderston, Lancashire, England

..= 5 Mar 1818 Stanwix Church, Carlisle, England - Jane Baty ....        .. (1791–.1852)

 …3. Isabel Baty Rothwell (5 Mar 1819 Carlisle, Cumberland, ...England-.3 Apr 1821 Carlisle, Cumberland, England)

…3 Edward Hardy Rothwell (06 Mar 1820 Carlisle-Oct 1845 Bolton, ...Lancashire, England)

…3 Richard Rothwell (3 Apr 1821  Carlisle,Cumberland, England- ...1895)                                                                                   …3 James Paley Rothwell (16 Oct 1822 Carlisle, Cumberland, ...England-1866)

…3 Isabel Baty Ann Rothwell (15 Dec 1823 Carlisle, Cumberland, ...England-1882)

…3 William Taylor Rothwell (19 Jul 1825 Carlisle, Cumberland, ...England-1909)

…3 Robert Robson Rothwell (Abt 1827 Warwick, Cumberland, ...England-.1873)

…3 Jane Rothwell (5 Mar 1830 Carlisle, Cumberland, England-1913)

…3 Thomas Rothwell (27 Dec 1831 Carlisle, Cumberland, ...England-.1883)

…3 Samuel Septimus Rothwell (6 Jul 1834 Carlisle, Cumberland, ...England-1910)

..2 Edward Rothwell

..2 Isobel Rothwell ( –1821)

..2 Richard Rothwell

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ROUTLEDGE FAMILY TREE

.1 William Routledge (1744–1822)

.= Sarah Bell (1745–1819),

..2 Joshua Routledge (27 Apr 1773 – 8 Feb 1829)                             ..[ engineer and  inventor of the late 18th and early 19th century during ..the Industrial  Revolution.]  [an engineer living in Bolton, designed the ..Engineer's Improved Slide Rule and patented improvements to the ..Rotary Steam Engine]

..= 5 Nov 1798 St Peter's Parish Church, Leeds - Mary King 

…3 Ann (1803-)                                                                          

..2 Elizabeth Routledge (28 Aug 1783 Elvington, Yorkshire, England- 18 .. Jun 1826 Bolton Le Moors, ..Lancashire, England)

..= 13 Apr 1811? /1814 St Peter's, Bolton le Moors- Benjamin Hick (1 ..Aug 1790 Huddersfield, Yorkshire, England-9 Sep 1842 Bolton Le Moors, Lancashire, England)

>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>SEE HICK FAMILY TREE>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

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SPENDER FAMILY TREE

.1 Harold Spender    (-1926)                                                           ..[a journalist and writer.]                                                                ..=Violet Schuster  (-1921)                                                               ..[ came from a German family who had emigrated to Britain in the 1870s.]                                                     

..2 Humphrey Spender (19 April 1910 – 11 March 2005)                  ..[ British photographer, painter, and designer.]

..=(a)  Margaret Low (-1945)                                                           .. with whom he adopted a son.                                                      ..=(b)  Pauline Wynn ( -2003)                                                          .. with whom he had a son                                                             ..=(c) Rachel Hewitt                                                                        ..Photographer: who was more than fifty years younger.

..2 Stephen Spender                                                                       [poet]                                                                                         ..2 Michael Spender                                                                      ..[scientist and explorer]                                                                  ..2 one sister, Christine Spender.

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SWIFT FAMILY TREE

.1 William Swift (1771 Walton On The Hill, Lancashire, England- Nov .1837  Acton Bridge)

.= 27 Oct 1793  Saint Peter, Bolton Le Moors, Lancashire, England -  .Betty Greenough (1773–)                                                           ..2 Ellen Swift (1795 Wibsey and Low Moor, Bradford, Yorkshire, England- 12 Feb 1870 Kersal, Lancashire, England)

..=28 Feb 1813 St Peter's Church, Bolton-Le-Moors, Lancashire, England- ..James Whitehead ( 1788  ..Little Bolton, Lancashire, England- 13 May 1870 Lower Broughton, Lancashire, England

  >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>SEE WHITEHEAD FAMILY TREE>>>>>>>>>

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THOMASSON FAMILY TREE

a family of well-known Bolton Quakers

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.1 Thomas Thomasson                                                                     .[industrialist, Liberal politician and Anti-Corn Law League activist]

..2 John Pennington Thomasson (1841 Bolton- )            

 ..'Master Cotton Spinner' i

..=1867  Katherine Lucas                                                             .. [a niece of Rochdale-born reformer John Bright.]                              ..They had three children, Lucas (born 1868), Beatrice (1870) and ..Franklin Thomasson (1873)

…3 Lucas Thomasson (1868-1898 aged 30)

…3 Beatrice Thomasson (1870-)

…= John Arthur Coe                                                                      ...[ son of Charles Clement Coe, a Bolton Unitarian Minister and ...naturalist friend of John …Thomasson].

….4 Joyce Coe (1896-1991)

…3 Franklin Thomasson (1873-1941)

…[served as Liberal MP for Leicester from 1906 to 1910.                      …During World War I he commanded the 2/5th Battalion. Loyal North ...Lancashire Regiment.}

…=Elizabeth Coffin

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