Bruce and Lesley Blanchard's Family History
Welcome to our Home Page

Detailed documentation of our family histories, including names, dates, occupations and photos.

An index of the family names which appear on our site plus a search engine to help you to search the whole site.

A link to Blanchards Lost and Found which is a venture to share data on the Blanchard families of London. There is a large collection of extracts from archives, trade directories and you can download an EXCEL file of all the Blanchards in the 1901 census.

A report on John WHITWORTH, the Peninsular War Hero, together with the research carried out to prove or disprove the family legend. Included is a large collection of data on Whitworth families in Hurst, Mossley and Ashton-under-Lyne

A collection of material which illustrates the family history. You'll find photos of the people and places, maps and copies of documents such as wills and census entries.

Some of the relatives, society members, librarians and archivists who have helped us during our research.

Details of the internet sites which we have found useful in our researches.

We hope you find this useful and we'd like to hear your views. Information, anecdotes, pictures or memorabilia are all welcome and even any mistakes you may have noticed!