« Reply #9 on: Monday 20 October 08 18:14 BST (UK) »
Great sleuthing - thanks wozzle!
I'll take a good look at these Farnsworths later, but they're certainly looking likely. It still leaves the mystery of why their early children were born out of county... and which county that might be. Longdon is pretty much slap-bang in the middle of staffs - I maybe need to look into what might have taken Joseph Barlow out to Lichfield in the first place, I know he was a Mason (and must have been a pretty good one as he worked for the Earl of Shrewsbury on his rebuilding work at Alton Towers in the early 1800's) - maybe I should be looking for where else the Earl might have been building at the time...
Many thanks again for your thoughts and look-ups
- Aitch
RATCLIFFE, BARLOW, BERESFORD, BLOOR, BYATT, DAKIN, KENT, LEES, MORTON, NORCLIFFE, OAKS, OSBORNE, PARKS, RICHARDSON, ROBINSON, SORTON, WETTON, WARRINGTON, WATTS, WOOD, WOLVERSCROFT (all from the Staffordshire Moorlands) - and specific interest in anyone who at any time lived in or around the village of ALTON
