Lancashire and Greater Manchester Team

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The Lancashire and Greater Manchester Team

Team Leader: W Robertson

Team Members: Corinne Morris | Lizzie Griffiths | Maddy Hardman | Geoff Riley | Fred Adamson | Elaine Mattsen | Steve Whitfield | Loralee Hutton | Anna Strutt | Geoff Crew | Michael Swift | Irene Marlborough | W Robertson | Chris Hilder | 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:

England Regional and County Statistics

and a commentary is here:

England Statistics Commentary

For the latest statistics for Lancashire and Greater Manchester, please see:

Lancashire Statistics

Greater Manchester Statistics

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).

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.

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

An alternate method for finding unconnected Lancashire profiles:

• Search for post 1500 unconnected Lancashire profiles
• Scroll to the bottom of the table to "Group field:"
• Select "Connected"
• The "Count" column shows the number of Lancashire profiles in a cluster, so you can find not only the biggest clusters, but the clusters with the most Lancashire profiles in them

Maintenance Categories

England Project Maintenance Categories Explained

• 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. These are now sorted by "rank" which means the ones that need the most work are at the bottom of the list.

If you are unfamiliar with Notables, please take a look at Requirements for Profiles of Notables

Female notables

Women are under represented in wikipedia, only 20% of the profiles, and this percentages are even worse in Lancashire; only 14.7% of our notables are women. Starting with the women listed on Wikipedia's eople_from_Lancashire_(before_1974) (not categorized into a more specific place), these women below appear to be lacking from wikitree and it would be great to add a properly sourced profile for them. If you don't like writing biographies for notables, add a need biography category on them.

• Edith Allonby (1 December 1875 – 5 September 1905) was an English writer and teacher.
• Dame Joan Bartlett, S.S.I., O.B.E., D.S.G., (1 August 1911, Lancashire – 9 September 2002) was a prominent British convert to the Roman Catholic Church and the foundress of the Servite Secular Institute.
• Betty Beaumont (née, Bentley; 9 August 1828 – 6 September 1892) was a 19th-century British author, merchant, cotton factor and hotel owner.
• DONE! Eliza Marian Butler (1885-1959) an English linguist, academic, and scholar of German who successively held two prestigious endowed professorships.
• Sarah Cole (1805–1857) was an American landscape painter and the sister of American landscape painter Thomas Cole (1801-1848). (born in Lancashire)
• Gertrude Lilian Entwisle (12 June 1892 – 18 November 1961) was an electrical engineer.
• Mary Maxwell-Channell MBE (23 July 1914 - 18 Dec 2012) was an engineer and businesswoman.
• Dorothy Parkinson (c. 1855–1925) was an English woman who created the first example of Preesall salt in 1872.
• Elsie Eleanor Verity (14 August 1894 – 9 June 1971) was known as "The First Lady of the motor trade".

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.

The Lancashire Team also has occasional challenges/focuses of our own -- Lancashire Team Challenges. The current focus is to add birth locations when there are none

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).

Lancashire Resources

Check out our Lancashire Resources Page.

Some place names appear multiple times in Lancashire or are otherwise confusing. We have started a page about them. Please feel free to contribute to it! Lancashire Duplicate Place Names.

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