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Irish-Americans have St Paddy’s Day, African-Americans have Black History Month, Italian-Americans have Columbus Day. It’s time that Americans with Lancashire ancestry celebrated their historic links to the best county in the UK. Here are 10 notable Lancastrian exports (some saints, some sinners) to the US.
The sad death of actor Charles Durning on Christmas Eve brings into focus the wartime service of the ever dwindling ‘greatest generation’. Here is a list, by no means definitive, of 50 notable people who served (with varying degrees of distinction) in uniform in WW2.
The family historian’s favourite religionists, the Mormons, have sent 200 teams around the world to photograph vital genealogical documents to add to its vast, free-to-view, online archive.
An 8,000 year-old Mesolithic settlement has been discovered near my neck of the woods on the West Lancashire Coast.
Far more intrusive than the 1841 Census, the ‘impertinence’ of the 1851 Census was met by some with typical British humour. It also highlighted the remarkable story of 2 runaway slaves from the United States.
After centuries of absence, I am the first in my branch of the Rimmer family to be living back in Southport – the point of origin on the west Lancashire coast in England for anyone with the surname Rimmer.
One of the biggest English gripes about St Patrick’s Day is that it is celebrated more in England than their own patron saint’s day – St George’s Day.
The Georgian terrace in central Liverpool was owned by Edward Chambre Hardman, Liverpool’s most celebrated photographer. He and his wife lived there for 40 years, changing very little.
Should rectrictions on Liverpool’s new publicly funded cruise terminal be lifted? Is it unfair on Southampton, or should passengers be given a choice?
Our Viking origins were assumed in the family for years, but never proved. Did a Y-DNA test change that?
How I traced my family history in Lancashire back to 1657, using paid and free genealogy websites,…and a bit of luck.
