This site arose from my research into my immediate family tree - the Sherwen family of Arlecdon, Cumberland (Cumbria), England, but has taken in, along the way, many other Lakeland families. The information is nowhere near complete and I will, hopefully, keep adding to it as I find new facts.
As far as I know the information on these pages is accurate and has been verified in some way by documentation - census, birth, marriage and death certificates, family memory and local parish records. Please feel free to contact me if you feel there are inaccuracies - or if you have more information to add or if you have found the information useful for your own family history research.
This website is in the way of a notebook - items are added, deleted, changed as I discover more about the family tree. I felt that it would be an easier way to organise the information on a website rather than in the numerous notebooks and pieces of paper I have at present! So the webpage is not finished. Information and Links need to be added, and credit given to friends, contacts and other organisations that have contributed or helped me to put the information together.