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Offline DeeCT

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Lawton, Lancashire Where is it located?
« on: Monday 28 August 06 16:19 BST (UK) »
Have this listed as a location of birth on both the 1881 and 1891 census. Need a clue as to where this is. What town is it a part of or nearby. Where would a birth in this location be recorded. --- Dee
Wiltshire - KNOTT, FIDO, POWELL, SHEPPARD, GREEN,

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Re: Lawton, Lancashire Where is it located?
« Reply #1 on: Monday 28 August 06 16:39 BST (UK) »
Hi Dee,

I do not know of any Lawton in Lancashire - there is one in Cheshire.  However, there is a LOWTON near Ashton in Makerfield.  The register office would be Leigh or Wigan. See:

http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/LAN/Lowton/

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Mo
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Lancs: Harrison, Entwistle, Devine, Grundy, Ashworth, Freeman, Jackson, Rushton
Cornwall: Rich, Binney, Peak(e)
Devon: Martin, Walter(s)

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Re: Lawton, Lancashire Where is it located?
« Reply #2 on: Monday 28 August 06 17:40 BST (UK) »
Thank you for your quick response.
One census image  does look more like Lowton than Lawton.
The other --- well maybe the enumerator was hard of hearing along with having lousy handwriting.
Interesting that the surname I am looking at is LEIGH. Unfortunately the given name is Mary and that means far too many possibilities without narrowing the parameters.

Dee
Wiltshire - KNOTT, FIDO, POWELL, SHEPPARD, GREEN,

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Re: Lawton, Lancashire Where is it located?
« Reply #3 on: Tuesday 29 August 06 23:17 BST (UK) »

Lowton is near Leigh

Try the link below, don't think records are extracted for that parish but an e mail to the on=line parish clerk might help

http://www.lan-opc.org.uk/indexp.html

Good luck with it

Audrey H
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Harrison; Iddon; Jolly; Laithwaite; Livesey; Pilkington; Robinson; Shorrock ; Smith - Lancashire;  Boden; Morgan ;   - Shropshire/Montgomeryshire; Cragg ; Shepherd - Westmorland


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Re: Lawton, Lancashire Where is it located?
« Reply #4 on: Sunday 27 August 17 02:22 BST (UK) »
I know this is an old post however I too have ancestors on an 1851 census giving place of birth as Lawton, Lancashire, England.