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Can we look back through the mists of time, to the far-gone days of the Medieval world, to unravel the mysteries of the Edwardson surname? Is there any evidence to find on our ancestors from the days; when life revolved around the harvest, longbowmen practiced their art at the butts of a Sunday and Chaucerian characters cavorted in taverns up and down the land? The short answer is – yes, there is some Edwardson evidence from the latter end of this period thanks to the Medieva

By Tanja Arbuthnot Tracing My Distant Edwardson Lineage  My Edwardson line is deeply rooted in the industrial heart of north-west England — in the small but historically rich towns of Prescot, Farnworth and Widnes, Lancashire. I can trace my family back through generations to early Edwardsons in the 1600s — a line spanning more than 300 years in the same region. Over two centuries, my family journeyed from skilled watchmakers to soda water manufacturers, hotel publicans, and

The Red Rose of Lancashire Edwardson is most common in Lancashire, and seems to have been since records began. We point this out several...

In the course of my Edwardson family tree research, I thought I had hit a dead-end. As detailed on the site, I had got my paternal line...

This is the blog of the Edwardson History Society. In this blog, we will keep you up to date with the latest research and exciting...