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Greetings from Tabuk in Saudi Arabia.

Many thanks.

Can you confirm that Henry Henshaw was the son of William Henshaw, who married Ann Wilson around 1633? He may have been born around 1605 to a Henshaw family of eleven located at Tydnock Farm outside Marton?

Actually Chorley was the original name for Alderley Edge. I confirm that when the railway was constructed concern was raised about possible confusion with Chorley in Lancashire. So the decided to name the station Alderley Edge.

I have often wondered about that. A few years back I passed the modern premises of the Henshaw's Institute for the Blind on Eccles Old Road in Salford, and I noticed that the coat of arms on the gate was that of the Henshaw family (a shield with a black vertical chevron, with two left facing moorhens above it and one below). So he may be from the landed family resident in Siddington until the 18th Century.

Daniel Henshaw's property is now Alderley House on Congleton Road, Alderley Edge. Henry Henshaw's property in Heathbank Road van be seen on the 1844 Cheadle Hulme Tythe Map as Worthings Croft.

http://www.cheadlehulme.net/village/chmappic1844.htm

Can we correspond by e-mail? it is much easier. I can be found here:

https://independent.academia.edu/ColinHenshaw

Dear Birtle,

I would like to hear from you, and you can find me here.

http://vsnet.kusastro.kyoto-u.ac.jp/vsnet/Mail/vsnet-campaign-be/msg00033.html

Best wishes,

Colin.

I am a direct descendant of Daniel Henshaw (b1750) and married to Ann Ashton. His grandfather was John Henshaw (b c1670, married to Mary Heald), and keeper to the poor. Died c1755. His son, and Daniel’s father was Henry Henshaw. Daniel and his family were blacksmiths. Daniel’s son Henry moved to Chealde Hulme and ran a smithy there. Henry had quite a large family. His son James continued to run a smithy in Cheadle Hulme, while two of his other children, William, and my gg grandfather, Thomas moved to Heaton Norris in Stockport, where they established the Stockport Lurry Company. They manufactured wheels for commercial vehicles.

Debretts research shows that John’s father was Henry Henshaw, son of William Henshaw, married to Ane Wilson about 1634. However an alternative lineage for John is apparently held in the Cheshire Family History Society records. I would like to believe the Debretts lineage is the correct one. If so they may hail back to Henshaws living at Tydnock Farm, near Marton, Cheshire, in the second half of the 16th Century.

There are several extant lineages apart from mine that hail back to Daniel.

Colin Henshaw, Tabuk.