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Tatham History:
External Web Resources
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This page provides links to free information about Tatham history elsewhere on the web.
Please contact us if you know of others.
General
Vision of Britain
This includes some basic details of everywhere in Britain, organised by ‘administrative units’. Tatham is easy to find using the search engine, but you will need to type ‘Wray with Botton’ rather than Wray. The ‘Expert Search’ at the bottom of the page provides a fuller search.
British History Online
A treasure trove of historical sources, created by the Institute of Historical Research. This includes the full text for the parish of Tatham from the Victoria County History of Lancaster vol 8 (1914).
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The Built Environment
Listed Buildings in Tatham
The listed houses, barns and other structures (including Lowgill phone box) with full descriptions, maps, Google Street View, and air photos. Each also has a photo gallery; most galleries are empty at present, but the website has a simple facility for adding them. Botton Head appears in the section on Wray-with-Botton, and the Cross of Greet under Easington.
Images of England - Tatham
This is a "point in time" photographic library of England’s listed buildings. The Tatham photos were taken 2004-2007 - mostly on dull winter days - and are generally unflattering. A simple search on "Tatham" includes a number of "non-Tatham" items at the start and end; scroll down to get to the first genuine Tatham photo.
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19th Century Local Newspapers on-line
If you are a ticket holder for Lancashire Libraries, you can access the British Library Newspapers site which now contains the entire contents of the Lancaster Gazette from 1801-94, searchable by word. (Other newspapers of local interest are Liverpool Mercury, Preston Chronicle, Manchester Times and Leeds Mercury).
Click here for detailed instructions on using the facility.
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Genealogy
GENUKI
A genealogical website with details of where some relevant sources are held.
Ancestors of John Holme
A family tree compiled by the Holme family whose ancestors are commemorated in St James’s churchyard. They had connections with Raw Ridding and Mealbank. Like many families in the area, they also had West Indian links and Canadian links in the late 18th and early 19th centuries and many members died overseas.
Thornber family of Greenbank, Botton
This contains a lot of detail about the Thornbers and other local families they intermarried with.
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Holme family grave
in St. James-the-Less churchyard
(Click image to enlarge)
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Civil Registration Records (1837 onwards)
Lancashire BMD is a free searchable index of the statutory registers of births, marriages and deaths, transcribed from General Register Office (GRO) records. Transcription of data for Tatham and Botton is only partial as yet. Tatham was in Lancaster Registration District 1837-1869, and in Lunesdale Registration District 1869-1974.
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George Holden 1723-93 of Tatham Green
George Holden was curate at Tatham Fells in the late 18th century and lived at The Green. Based on information collected in Liverpool on the times and heights of tides in the 1760s he calculated and published accurate tide tables for the port from the early 1770s. The secret of how this was done remained within the family for three generations. These are excellent articles about him, his family and his work.
Woodworth, P.L. 2002. Three Georges and one Richard Holden: the Liverpool tide table makers. Transactions of the Historic Society of Lancashire and Cheshire, 151, 19-51.
Woodworth, P.L. 2003. Some further biographical details of the Holden tide table makers. Proudman Oceanographic Laboratory Report No. 58. 20pp.
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Page constructed 30th July 2009; last updated 4th August 2010
Authors: MW & RW
Photos by MW
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