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Tree: All Trees ATHERTON CARLTON, YORKS CHORLEY CO. DURHAM COLTON HEAPEY LEEDS LIVERPOOL N. YORKSHIRE PENNSYLVANIA USA RADCLIFFE STANDISH  

Welcome to the Scotson Family History website! 

2. RADCLIFFE TREE: This is the largest Scotson tree, originating in the early 17th-Century via John Scotson and Ann Heywood in Bury. It is thought that their son Edmund Scotson, born in Bamford, Rochdale in 1659, moved to the Radcliffe area, and it is assumed that this family and/or his children would have lived in the 18th century at SCOTSON FOLD FARM, in Radcliffe near Bury. This 16th century farmhouse still survives today. Edmund's descendants moved first to Abram before spreading to localities such as Hindley, Wigan, Lowton, Leigh, Warrington, Prescot, Rochdale and Stretford. Branches of this tree are also found in other parts of the world, such as Ireland, New Zealand, South Africa and Montana in the United States. 

3. ATHERTON TREE: These Scotsons are mainly in Atherton and Leigh, and easily confused with those in the Radcilffe tree who also settled in the Leigh area. They are descendants of a William Scotson and Mary Morgan who lived in Liverpool in the late-18th Century.

4. HEAPEY TREE:  This Scotson family has origins in the early 18th century in Heapey  and Wheelton, near Chorley. It features in the legend of James Scotson who married the blacksmith's daughter, Ellin Miller in 1761. Their seven sons played the violin in Heapey Church. Descendants mainly moved to Standish, Wales and Liverpool. A fairly large branch lives in Australia.  

5. CHORLEY TREE. This branch lived in Chorley from the 1780s starting with Samuel Scotson who was born in 1771. He married Mary Parkinson in 1788. These Scotsons mainly lived locally and in nearby Darwen where the Scottson spelling was frequently used.

6. STANDISH TREE: A small family descended from John Scotson and Margaret Wignal who married in St Wilfrid's Church, Standish in 1804. Their descendants mainly lived in the Standish, Upholland, Wigan and Warrington areas. Becuase Standish is situated between Wigan and Chorley, there is a big possibility that there will be a connection with the Heapey and Chorley trees.

7. LIVERPOOL TREE: A small family of Scotsons produced by William and Ann Scotson in the early-seventeenth century in the Kendal area of Westmorland. Their son Isaac married an Ellen Park in Liverpool in 1759. Children were born to Isaac in Liverpool and Radcliffe, but the Scotsons to have died out in 1953 with James Eustace Scotson who was unmarried. 

YORKSHIRE AND NORTH EAST ENGLAND

8. COUNTY DURHAM TREE:  This is the large of the north-eastern trees. These are descendants of a William and Elizabeth Scotson who had three grandsons in Yarm, Yorkshire between 1777 and 1788. Today we find large pockets of descendants through John (b.1777 in Yarm) in the Stockton-on-Tees and Middlesbrough areas. Other descendants spread to Birmingham, Leicester and Salford.  

9. LEEDS TREE:  Another tree with its roots in Yarm. The earliest known ancestors, Thomas Scotson, born there in 1785 could well be a brother or cousin of the three mentioned in the Co. Durham tree. This smallish tree was mainly concentrated in the Hunslet and Fewston areas. It seems that all male members of the family had died by the 1890s. Thomas Scotson and Mary Stead did have twelve children between 1853 and 1874, but only Louisa b. 1870 had a child.   

10. NORTH YORKSHIRE: The founder of this tree was George Scotson b. 1727 in Danby Wiske, North Yorkshire. His ten children were born in Kirklevington, but the family was mainly found in Hartlepool before the 1850s. A few descendants are known to live in Country Durham and London, but it would appear that the last Scotson male passed away in 1998  

11. CARLTON: A very small pocket of Scotsons, descending from George Scotson and Elizabeth Wilson of Bishopton, County Durham. This family mainly lived in Carlton-in-Cleveland until about 1885.

Accuracy has been sought at all times. Documentary evidence is fundamental, but because sometimes there is the danger of misinterpretation of evidence, typos or transcription errors, mistakes are always likely. Please forward corrections, omissions, extra information of people, places, events and dates via the website link or email address below. 

Scotson Surname DNA Project

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Allan

Allan Scotson

European Representative of the Guild of One Name Studies, member no. 3869

Suggested links: 

Scotsons in the North East of England: www.scotsonfamilyhistory.webeden.co.uk

Facebook pages:  Scotson clan              https://www.facebook.com/groups/116749205751/

Guild of One Name Studies:                    http://one-name.org/

Contact email address:                            scotson@one-name.org

Photos

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	Frank Green b.17.3.1920 and Emily Scotson marriage at St Peter's Church, Westleigh, Lancashire on 15 Feb 1941 Left to right: Unknown bridesmaid, John Green, Frank Green b.17.3.1920, Emily Scotson b.19.5.1919, George Scotson and Ernest Beswick Scotson	GREEN Frank SCOTSON Emily SCOTSON Ernest Beswick SCOTSON George	24 Sep 2018

Documents

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	Heather Marie Hotchkiss Scotson grave.jpg	HOTCHKISS Heather Marie	28 Sep 2018

Individuals

ID	Last Name, Given Name(s)	Born/Christened		Tree	Last Modified
I10417	COSTELLO Catherine	b. 1842	Ireland	RADCLIFFE	28 Sep 2018
I6823	GREEN John	b. 1905	Tyldesley, Lancashire	RADCLIFFE	28 Sep 2018
I6826	GREEN Thomas Roach	b. 9 Jan 1911	Tyldesley, Lancashire	RADCLIFFE	28 Sep 2018
I10426	LANGFORD John	b. 1895	Tyldesley, Lancashire	RADCLIFFE	28 Sep 2018
I10425	LANGFORD Joseph	b. 1868	Darefield, Yorkshire	RADCLIFFE	28 Sep 2018
I10427	LANGFORD Margaret	b. 1896	Tyldesley, Lancashire	RADCLIFFE	28 Sep 2018
I10428	LANGFORD Thomas Wilfred	b. 1898	Tyldesley, Lancashire	RADCLIFFE	28 Sep 2018
I10423	ROACH David	b. 23 Mar 1869	Tyldesley, Lancashire	RADCLIFFE	28 Sep 2018
I10419	ROACH Joseph	b. 19 Mar 1871	Tyldesley, Lancashire	RADCLIFFE	28 Sep 2018
I10420	ROACH Margaret	b. 14 Aug 1873	Tyldesley, Lancashire	RADCLIFFE	28 Sep 2018