Other research finds of unconfirmed relevance
Order of filiation and maintenance
Whilst looking in the quarter session records for my Robinson family I discovered two possibilities for a ‘bastard’ child of Richard.
December 1777
Farington. Order of filiation and maintenance of Ellen, bastard child of Richard Robinson of Leyland, husbandman, and Sarah Fiddler, singlewoman.
Baptism: 9 Nov 1777 St Mary, Penwortham, Lancashire
Ellen Fidler – D of Richd. Robinson & Sarah Fidler
Abode: Mother of Farin. Father of Leyland
June 1780
Farington. Order of filiation and maintenance of bastard son of Richard Robinson alias Parker, husbandman, and Elizabeth Nelson, single woman
Sources & Recommended Further Reading
- Featured Image for post – Street Scene in Chorley, Lancashire, with a view of Chorley Hall. Date: 1790–1800 Credit: Yale Center for British Art Look & Learn
- Ancestry
- The Genealogist
- Find my Past
- Family Search
- Lancs Online Parish
- Lancashire Record Office
- General Record Office
- Lancs BMD
- British Newspaper Archive
- A place between the trees – THE STORY OF COTTON: PART 1: THE WEAVER
- Euxton-Burgh – A pictorial record of Bygone days, By Kenneth Hodgkinson
- Victoria History of the County of Lancaster Vol Vl
- The Village Labourer 1760-1832 – Barbara Hammond and John Lawrence Hammond
- The History of Farington Cotton Mill by Joan M Langford*
- The Skilled Labourer – By J.L Hammond & Barbara Hammond
- ludditebicentenary.blogspot.com – The historical context of Luddism in Lancashire & Cheshire
- The Costume of Great Britain / designed, engraved, and written by W. H. Pyne. 1808
- https://lancashirepast.com/2020/10/17/birkacre-mill-yarrow-valley-country-park-near-coppull-and-chorley/
- https://www.cottontown.org/The%20Cotton%20Industry/Mechanisation%20of%20the%20Mills/Pages/Factory-System.aspx
- http://www.chorleyhistorysociety.co.uk/articles_01/menu_01.htm
- http://www.chorleyhistorysociety.co.uk/j_harrison_em.htm
- https://www.parishmouse.co.uk/lancashire/euxton-lancashire-family-history-guide/
- https://www.archimaps.co.uk/victorian-old-map-ordnance-survey.html?map_location=&ngr=&search_location=Euxton,%20Lancashire,%20SD5518,%20SD%2055%2018&os_series=0&is_sub=&pwd=freesearch@freesearch.com&latitude=53.656782&longitude=-2.683762&placename=Euxton&TownName=Euxton&county=Lancashire&postcode=
- https://www5.open.ac.uk/research-centres/herc/blog/%E2%80%98alas-poor-weavers%E2%80%99-context-april-1826-weavers-uprising-east-lancashire-0