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The Lancashire and Greater Manchester Team
Team Leader: W Robertson
Team Members: Corinne Morris | Glen Birchby | Lizzie Griffiths | Maddy Hardman | Geoff Riley | Fred Adamson | Elaine Mattsen | Sam Steel | Steve Whitfield | Loralee Hutton | Anna Strutt | Geoff Crew | Michael Swift | Irene Marlborough | W Robertson | Chris Hilder | Mackenzie Plank | Paul Dixon | Chris O'Connell
Our Goal
The Lancashire Team covers the county of Lancashire and the newer county of Greater Manchester. Our goal is to increase the number of profiles in our region, to develop them to a high standard and to connect them to the global tree.
A 'Lancashire' profile is a person whose birth, marriage or death has been entered in the data fields as taking place in Lancashire (so, a person who was born in Cheshire, married in Lancashire and died in Staffordshire, would appear in the figures for all three counties).
How are we doing?
Lancashire was the most populated county in the 19th Century. In 1881, 14% of the population of England lived there! We might expect that this would be reflected the number of Wikitree profiles but it is not. Lancashire only accounts for about 8% of the profiles that have been allocated to an English county. The more accurate and well-sourced profiles we can add, the better.
The statistics for England and all counties are here:
and a commentary is here:
For the latest statistics for Lancashire and Greater Manchester, please see:
2023 Summary
- Profile numbers increased by about 1,100 each week, both from profile creation and corrections of poorly formatted location fields.
- We have been actively identifying unsourced profiles, so our total unsourced has grown, but as a percentage of our total profiles it has declined.
- Our total unconnected profiles have increased, but they have dropped by about 1.5% of our total profiles
- We have managed to decrease our suggestions by about 900, despite the introduction of new suggestions.
- Our unknowns dropped by a third, a very impressive showing.
- Our numbers for Greater Manchester profiles are fairly static. The unconnected count remains higher than the England average at 21.02% (but this is a substantial drop from 26.73% at the start of the year).
| Profiles | Unsourced | Unconnected | Suggestions | Unknowns | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| w/e 30 Dec 2023 (% of total profiles) | 343,260 | 6,778 (1.97%) | 46,894 (13.66%) | 8,423 (2.45%) | 1,192 (0.35%) |
| 31 Dec 2022 Totals (% of total profiles) | 284,110 | 6,099 (2.15%) | 42,923 (15.11%) | 9,369 (3.30%) | 1,817 (0.64%) |
| Overall Net Movement 2023 | 59,150 | 679 | 3,971 | -946 | -625 |
Thanks to all for their efforts to improve the quality of our branch of the tree in Lancashire and Greater Manchester.
W & Steve
Team Member Specific Interests
Some team members are focusing on particular towns, areas, surnames and topics of interests connected to our region, developing and improving profiles to help us move towards our goal.
| Team member | Places | Main Lancashire surnames | Other interests and projects |
|---|---|---|---|
| Corinne Morris | St Helens, Manchester | Highcock, Eccleston, Morris, Parkinson, Williamson, Turner | One Place Study St Helens |
| Glen Birchby | Bolton, Euxton, Garstang, Preston | Birchby | |
| Lizzie Griffiths | Haworth, Grindrod | Unsourced profiles, cleaning up pre 1974 Greater Manchester database | |
| Maddy Hardman | Lancaster, Dalton in Furness | Hardman | Sourcing and connecting |
| Geoff Riley | Bolton and surrounding areas | Riley, Howarth | |
| Fred Adamson | Liverpool and surrounding area | Dumbell, Aspinall, Makin | Unsourced profiles, profile improvement, Gedcoms |
| Elaine Mattsen | Sourcing, Connecting, Fixing Suggestions and identifying Unknowns, profile improvements and challenges | ||
| Sam Steel | Lees, Ashton under Lyne, Wigan, Bardsley | Hall, Parkinson and Stead | Developing current profiles |
| Steve Whitfield | Warrington and surrounding area | Hatton, Roughley | Sourcing, Connecting, Fixing Suggestions and identifying Unknowns |
| Loralee Hutton | Eccleshill, Edgworth and Turton | Hutton, Walmsley | |
| Anna Strutt | |||
| Geoff Crew | |||
| Michael Swift | Ormskirk | Swift | Swifts of Lancashire One Name Study |
| Irene Marlborough | |||
| W Robertson | Camidge | Sourcing, Fixing suggestions, and other cleanup | |
| Chris Hilder | Clitheroe, Lytham | Whiteside, Metcalfe, Smith | Developing current profiles, bio building |
| Mackenzie Plank | |||
| Paul Dixon | Bolton, Blackburn and Warton | Dixon, Hodgson, Hayhurst, Shaw, Ainsworth and Lawson | |
| Chris O'Connell | Whalley Ancient Parish, Prescot Ancient Parish, Eccles Ancient Parish and Liverpool | Tattersall, Halsted, Derbyshire, Lamb, Farrar, Barcroft, Bancroft, Myers, Houghton, Smethurst and Turner | Unsourced and unconnected profiles, profile improvements |
How can you help?
Profiles in our region needing further research are listed in the following links. Feel free to investigate and improve them!
Weekly reports
- Adding a source to one of the unsourced Lancashire profiles
- Connecting unconnected Lancashire profiles
- Tackling suggestions to improve Lancashire profiles
- Connecting unconnected Greater Manchester profiles
- Finding surnames for Lancashire profiles with unknown last names at birth
Maintenance Categories
- Lancashire, Needs Profiles Created category
- Lancashire, Needs Biography category
- Lancashire, Needs Birth Record category
- Lancashire, Needs Marriage Record category
- Lancashire, Needs Death Record category
- Lancashire, Needs More Records category
- Lancashire, Needs Gedcom Clean Up category
- Lancashire, Needs LNAB category
- Lancashire, Needs Post Merge Clean Up category
Notables
You could also develop profiles for Lancashire Notables. Don't forget to categorise them accordingly with either the categoryy
[[Category:Lancashire, Notables]]
or with the sticker
{{Notables|Lancashire, Notables}}
You also may wish to connect our unconnected notables.
There are quite a few orphan notables that were born, married, or died in Lancashire. Too many of them have only a Wikipedia link as a source. Many of these people's notability is not connected too Lancashire or even England, but it would be helpful to have the Lancashire and England portions of their life sourced, and have appropriate categories added to them.
If you are unfamiliar with Notables, please take a look at Requirements for Profiles of Notables
Merges
Review Approved merges
- Review Unmerged matches
Team Challenges
Members of the England Counties teams are encouraged to to participate from time to time in WikiTree challenges and to join The Mighty Oaks to represent England in the team challenges.
You may also enjoy the England Project Monthly Challenges.
Profiles Created by Year
This shows how many profiles have been created each year. The number change as we identify profiles that should be in Lancashire and correct the location (or shift profiles to a neighboring county because of border changes).
| Year Created | Total 2023-12-31 | Total 2024-03-31 |
|---|---|---|
| 2008 | 11 | 11 |
| 2009 | 29 | 37 |
| 2010 | 2,065 | 2,075 |
| 2011 | 13,609 | 13,735 |
| 2012 | 8,435 | 8,494 |
| 2013 | 11,944 | 12,130 |
| 2014 | 16,942 | 17,068 |
| 2015 | 13,274 | 13,394 |
| 2016 | 18,752 | 18,966 |
| 2017 | 26,760 | 26,987 |
| 2018 | 26,921 | 27,073 |
| 2019 | 26,955 | 27,002 |
| 2020 | 35,238 | 35,321 |
| 2021 | 43,281 | 43,348 |
| 2022 | 48,804 | 48,849 |
| 2023 | 50,240 | 50,491 |
| 2024 | 11,838 |
Lancashire Resources
Check out our Lancashire Resources Page here.
Statistics on places with immigration and emmigration to/from Lancashire, and counts of profiles by place can be found on: Lancashire Profiles Location Statistics.
Acknowledgments
A huge thank you to Steven Whitfield for leading this team from July 2022-February 2024
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And if you prefer working with existing locations that need attention as we did in March 2023, there are some additional searches like what we worked on then that you could help with.
I've cleaned up a few that came up on a specific Data Doctor suggestion I was working on but there are lots more. In many cases it's really easy to find the actual approx. birth year by looking at the FindAGrave source and seeing the age at death on the gravestone photo. They're unconnected orphans and it seems a shame for them to be sat there with such poor birth info as they're unlikely to be spotted for potential connections/ duplicates.
Many thanks, Helen.
Maddy
Thanks I've already done several unsourced profiles from 1800s
Nic PC Counties
Elaine Walling-681