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Looking for information about this family, starting with Frederick Augustus HAVILAND (b.abt.1822, Lanarkshire) who married Margaret Nightingale, 1844 Liverpool. All their children b in Dollar. One of their sons is called GEORGE WOODNORTH HAVILAND, and I am wondering how the name Woodnorth got into the family.  The Woodnorths were a Shropshire/Cheshire family.  There is a rather obscure connection in that George was a lithographer, & partner in the firm of Aitken & Farie in Glasgow, & in South Shields, Durham, a John WOODNOT(H) =m= Mary Farie in 1692: they had a son, Farie Woodnot/noth, 1692.  Nothing more known.
   Can anybody help?   Nowecious.

I am trying to find information about the family of Peter  Woodnorth who was in a partnership running the Whitehaven Pottery from abt 1800-1824.  Some sources say he 'built' the pottery (but he would have been only abt 20 at the time), others say he was in a partnership.  Jollies has him working in Gale Square with Cockburn in 1811, and later with a number of other men.  He was also involved with a Paper Mill at Egremont .  The family story is that he was a potter, but  he seems to have been the sales rep - a commission agent, but would have had to know plenty about pottery, so maybe he did an apprenticeship at some time.
  Peter II (his father, Peter I) came from Weston-in-Cheshire: first marriage (?to Sarah - possibly Timmis). His 2nd marriage was to Susanna Robina Nightingale (née Carr - father a soap manufacturer) in 1838, Liverpool, where he took over the running of her businesses as well as continuing his sales for the pottery for some time.  He was also very involved with Methodism, and was later one of the founders of the Church of Christ in England.  Plenty about them in the Liverpool Mercury.

   His son Peter III (marr.Hannah Johnson in St.Bees, 1834) was also a potter - only  siblings known definitely, were Thomas, and Robert, who became a ships' captain (marr. in Edinburgh 1852 to Catherine Mary Hadley) & who died in Calcutta, 1866.
There seems to be a William & possibly a Joseph, connected with the Pottery.  There is also the story that Peter II's daughter died suddenly at age 17, and this caused him to give up the pottery in 1824, but I can find no information about her or the event, and he certainly seems to have kept contact with the Pottery, until he went to Glasgow (Verreville, 1830-33).
Peter III's son - you got it! - Peter IV, married Hannah Copeland 1855, and they moved around England & Wales working in the "clay" areas; emigrated to NZ in 1874-5. Peter IV had a younger brother   Robert who remained in Whitehaven working as a house painter. The memorial stone in Whitehaven also mentions a Peter V,(son of Robert the housepainter).
 
I would be grateful for any help I can get sorting out  this family.