Meat and Drink - Butchers, Publicans and Yeomen of the Fells
Pam Griffiths
'Meat and Drink' follows the largely Catholic part of the ancestry of Richard Park of Liverpool, and owes its title to the fact that so many of this family worked either as butchers or publicans. The Parks, Swarbricks and Walkers were mainly Roman Catholic in this period although there were several mixed marriages and some changes of allegiance. The earliest Parks found lived in Bleasdale and Chipping but migrated to Liverpool via Broughton near Preston. The Swarbricks moved from Kirkham to Ribchester and Longridge while the Walkers hailed from Leagram and Chipping. Frustratingly, the record of very few of the wives' names has survived, though there is a little information on the Rishtons in Ribchester. The family of Miriam Coulthurst, Richard's Protestant grandmother, will be followed in another volume.
Meat and Drink - part 1 covers the Parks in Liverpool and Broughton and the Swarbrick family. Meat and Drink - part 2 tells the story of the earlier Parks and the Walkers, as well as the lives of Richard Park's children.
Three trees in pdf are also available. Ancestors of Richard Park includes both halves of Richard Park's ancestry while Children and Grandchildren of Richard and Harriet Park shows this family in more detail than is possible in the A4 format in the text. In addition Some descendants of James and Ann Park of Bleasdale helps to sort out this large extended family.
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