J.T.
Thank you for all your help, data, and advice. I will see if it provides some leads for me. I do realize how hard it is to make progress back in trees of this era. Even if I do get back another generation or two it will probably too hard to go any further. Such must be the situation with all families who lived in those regions.
I will email Peter of Rothley, Leicestershire.
I wish continuing good fortune in your own studies!
~• Mike van Beuren, of Vermont
One last question: Do you have a public tree on ancestry? If so might you send me a link to a Hathornwaite of Kirby, Lonsdale hundred? .. of 1700?
Every little clue can often be of use in the future...
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The url for two of my early Hathornewaites that may interest you are:
Agnes Mary Croasdale Agnes née Hathornwaite is my 9th great grandmother.
The Ellen H. I mentioned before is at:
Ellen Wildman Her father is Lawrence (Laurentii) . Ellen may be my 10th great aunt.