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johnkane

Aughtons

My grandmother's family, the Tomlinsons, are related to a Mary Aughton of North Meols. Here's a pic of the linkage if you're interested: http://www.vertone.co.uk/web/Flo/images/Mary.gif

I was looking on Ancestry.com and found two trees:

http://tinyurl.com/ymy3yk

I was intrigued by the fact that one of the researchers, Carol King, managed to produce ten more generations than the other, Joyce Otterstrom.

I reproduce the letter I sent to Carol below:

Quote:
Dear Carol

Found your family history of the Aughtons on Ancestry/MyFamily.com.

Looks like we share a common ancestor in Mary Aughton (see my attached
graphic which links Mary to my grandmother Florence Tomlinson).

I'm intrigued by Mary's pedigree chart as shown on your pages. I have
not done my own original research but tapped into that done by Joyce
Otterstrom at the following page:

http://awt.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/i...db=park&id=I15720&ti=5519

Joyce, like you, traces Mary back to John Aughton d.1607 (your id:I51)
but I was excited to discover that you trace the line much further
back, a massive ten generations to Madoc De Hecton born in 1235.

I wondered if you would mind sharing the process by which you did this
because I didnt see any citations to historical records etc. I'd love
to be able to expound on this at family parties and hope you can give
me the ammunition.


I just wondered if any of you had delved into these trees and come to any conclusions about their reliability. Maybe you'll tell me I have to do my own research but I'm hopeful that you will take pity on this poor newcomer.

Regards

John

Bez

Most people refer to the trees printed in the back of the book by Peter Aughton (North Meols and Southport: a History).

There is a similar tree printed in another book (Aughton of Aughton and North Meols by Richard Ball Howard) but some of his work is questionable although he used the Peter Aughton book as one of his main sources.

Having said that, the Aughton tree published by Howard only differs from the other one by 2 generations in the 1500's.

They go back to Llewelyn of Wales.

Peter Aughton makes reference to the work byWilliam Farrer on North Meols and this is available online

http://www.british-history.ac.uk/...=41326&strquery=north%20meols

Good hunting.

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